Bed vs. Dresser

Have you ever had one of those heart stopping moments as a mom?

I had one of those moments last night!
My daughter (who will be 2 on Saturday) has just started sleeping in her "big girl bed"...which for now is a matress on the floor.
She has done GREAT...no problems putting her down, doesn't come out of her room, etc.

Last night she did something I haven't even seen one of my boys do yet!
We put her to bed...she cried and cried and cried...much longer than normal for her.
I went in to check on her and she was standing on top of her toy chest by her dresser (this is not the scary part!)
I think she got up there and couldn't get down...so I got her up, calmed her down, cuddled...everything was all good after that.
About 30 minutes later my husband put her back down to bed. She cried for about 1 minute (which is normal) and then stopped...we figured she was one tired girl!

We had my sister-in-law and her family over visiting last night, and when they went home they were missing my nephew's flip flops. My husband checked in Sarah's room.
He didn't find the flip flops...he found this...

...where my heart did a little flip flop when I saw her!

She had climbed up on her toy chest, up onto her dresser and FALLEN ASLEEP!!! It looked like she was lying there with God's hands holding her. It was a very precious picture, but a heart stopping one also! How easily should could have fallen, but she didn't! God holds little ones in his hands!

However, the toy chest was moved last night before we went to bed! :)

For some more cute pictures of her check out my sister in law's blog here.

What is that?

The other day I opened my new tub of butter...supposedly never used before.

What I found, instead of the nice smooth top I am accustomed to with new tubs, was this...
















It doesn't look so new to me!

Upon further inspection I realized they were fingerprints! One of my kids (who will remain nameless but has given us countless stories to tell so far) was hungry for butter?!

When we asked him why he ate the butter...WITH HIS FINGERS...he replied, he wanted to see what it tasted like...over and over and over. :)

Crazy Kid! Butter is good on popcorn, potatoes, toast, but on FINGERS?

Happy Birthday to Joy!

It has been so long since I blogged, I almost couldn't remember how...but it is all coming back now... :)

Today is my sister's birthday. Joy is 24! Wow! She is the baby of our family, and I love her to pieces! Her and her husband and their little girl Arika (the cutest neice ever!), live in Canada right now while they do some missionary training. Phoenix and Canada are not very close to each other, so we don't get to see them very often. :(

But on our trip home from North Carolina (when we traveled 3921 miles with 4 small kids in the car over 11 days...that is another whole blog in itself...or two or three...!) we were able to meet them on the border of Michgan and Canada to spend the day with them. It was so great to see her and her family!

Joy, I miss talking to you my dear, I love you and am so proud of you for what you are doing! You are such a good mom and I am so thankful for your friendship and love!
Hope your day was wonderful...at least you have running water for it, right?? :)
Happy Birthday Joy! :)