Miller Time: December 2009

Eliza's 4th birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese

She was more excited about the jungle gym on the ceiling than the rides.

Hyrum had a great time, we really had to keep our eyes on him!

Birthday Spankings

I have decided not to continue taking Eliza to preschool and will work with her at home, so she got some 'educational' birthday presents and Christmas presents. She is currently going to the preschool done by the High School. It is the most inexpensive preschool I have found - $20/mo. However, it does take some time to drive her there and I have wondered about how much she is really learning. I haven't really seen much improvement. I also am concerned about the students teaching her. Many of the girls have multiple piercings and wear imodest clothes. That bothers me.

Bubble bath!

Christmas Eve at the Millers. Each year we have a shrimp dinner and then we read segments of the Christmas story with a song inbetween each segment. Afterward we dress the kids up and narate the Christmas story while the kids act it out. What fun to watch them!

I accidently left my camera at the William's parents home on Christmas eve. We went home and had Christmas morning with just our family. It was soooooooooo nice! But unfortunately I don't have any pictures. I with everyone could see the light in Aaramie's eyes when we got home and I told her to put the reindeer food on the lawn so Santa could find our home. Christmas morning I woke up to Ricky telling Aaramie and Eliza to be quiet and wait by the fireplace until we came to get them. We came and got them and then we found out that Santa had hidden all the stockings and we had to find them.

Notice Ricky's pop-gun. That was and is his favorite Christmas toy but easily gets on the adults nerves. Marietta is holding the church vests that Rosina sewed for the boys. She also sewed skirts for the girls.

Verina painted us a growth board! It is meant to be hung vertically 3 ft above the ground and you can write the childs name and height in the leafs!

Arletta has given each of the kids all the state quarters and a folder to push them into. Someday we hope to get millions for these collections :)

Hyrum and baby William playing. Baby William is 9 mo and weighs about the same as Hyrum at 18 mo.

Ross and Rosina gave Ricky a bouncy ball maker and Rosina took the time to help him make them.

Some investigators who come to buritto night gave us a gingerbread train. I finally let the kids decorate in on Christmas day.

It is always nice to document some of the gifts. This is not all the gifts since some had been left at Grandma's house and some were dispersed throughout the house. Ricky's pop- gun is missing from this picture because it was put in time out at grandma's house by Arletta.

Hyrum was most excited about his balls which I couldn't find for this picture.

Aaramie got a lap harp from Grandma Wilding that is not in this picture. All my kids have sat down and played with it . It is so easy and so neat to hear them play "I am a Child of God" without any previous practice, and the harp sounds so pretty and soothing. William says he'll take it over the piano anyday.

I do feel kinda bad - We gave Aaramie a remote control car and nerf gun to play with Ricky and she said "I'm getting a lot of boy stuff, but that is OK". She didn't even touch them the rest of the day and spent the whole day coloring her princess pages.

Notice the crocheted slippers from Grandma Rowley. The kids love them!
Eliza got a microphone that is not in this picture. She walks around the house singing her made up songs. I'll have to write the lyrics down one of these days.

These are the T-shirts from grandma Wilding. They fit William and I perfectly.

This was the best I could do for our Christmas. Most of it is packed away in the shed or the storage room. The highlight for me was getting a hand washing machine and wringer.

Grandma Miller's blackberry jam . . . YUM!

Miller tradition - decorating Chocolate houses. More candy than my kids have seen and eaten for 12 months.

Chelsea is Edwin's girlfriend in the green. We are hoping for some exciting news in the next couple months!

Of course William and I had to get a couple crazy pictures. The normal ones got on the other cameras. Great grandparents and grandparents are so normal, what happened to the kids?

This is Ricky's Science Project, or should I say Mommy's science project that I convinced Ricky to participate in every once in a while. This first one didn't work. I tried to light the christmas bulb (2.5 volt) with 100 ft of 24 guage copper wire and two strong magnets. It was a complete failure! So I researched more and . . .

Found that I needed a LED light (0.5 volts) with 250 ft of 30 guage magnetic sensitive wire and 4 strong magnets and IT WORKS! All we have to do is spin the magnets using the nail and it pumps the electric charge through the wire and lights the bulb!

Eliza-isms

7-9-12 I often find things in Rick's wash that shouldn't be there. Last week it was his mp3 player. This week I was chaning the wash and found a cigarette lighter in the dryer. I grabbed it and ran to Ricky yelling "What is a lighter doing in the wash?!" He said "I don't know" I yelled again "what is a lighter doing in the wash" he said again "I don't know" Then I realized it was my wash that I had just taken out of the wash!
7-9-12 Aaramie was watching Vienna outside but needed to go to the restroom. Getting her words mixed up she said "Rick, go to the bathroom." Rick said "What?" Then she realized and said "Rick, watch vienna I need to go to the bathroom"
5-1-12 My girls told the babysitter that it is important to eat healthy so you can do the splits!
10-10-11 I was talking to Rosina and said "Do you know when I first realized I liked green peppers?" and Aaramie cut it "Let me guess, when you found out it was healthy." When did she figure out mom likes anything healthy?
4-6-11 At dinner Eliza says "Ask me if I'm a truck" I say "Are you a truck" Eliza says "Nooooo" then laughs and says "isn't that a funny joke"
11-2-2010 Rosina was cutting Gingerbread girls out of the gingerbread dough and Eliza came up and said "What are you doing?" Rosina said "What does it look like I'm doing?" Eliza replied "Ummm, smashing angels"
7-20-10 Ricky ism . The other day Grandma Wilding asked Ricky to take care of Hyrum. Ricky said "Why don't you ask Aaramie?" Grandma said "Because I trust you more." Ricky gave her a funny look and said "Oh. . . that's weird"
4-30-10 You may or may not know that Ricky has inherited William's coarse hair. I cut his hair yesterday and that evening my toe started hurting. I couldn't figure out what it was. Finally I sat down and looked really close and saw that I had a hair stuck in my toe. I pulled it out and my toe started bleeding! Not to long after my toe started hurting again. I sat down and looked . . . another hair! Watch out for that Miller hair!
4-30-10 We went on a trip to Portland and stopped at a gas station. I took the kids to the potty and my girls were getting the biggest kick out of the automatic soap dispensers and the Turbo automatic hand blowdryer. Eliza would do a really loud cackle each time the blowdryer went on. She was so loud that when we walked out of the bathroom all the people in the gas station were laughing.
11-2-09 We were eating lunch and Eliza was talking to herself as she ate "I eat the beans and they go down the drain of my throat."
11-2-09 Just a funny thing about Ricky, EVERYTIME I do his laundry he has toys in his basket. Doesn't matter how many times I tell him, there is always a handful or two of toys.
9-13-09 I overheard Eliza talking to herself in the back seat of our van. "Our van is almost a limo"
9-13-2009 A little girl in the ward saw Aaramie walk by and said "look mom Eliza" Then Eliza walked by "Look mom, 2 Eliza's"
4-10-09 Eliza has to interpret Hyrum's babbles. Hyrum will say "dadadada" and Eliza says "Hyrum is talking about fish!" or "Hyrum just said blow dryer" or "Hyrum wants to go swimming"
My first Aaramie-ism. She was writing her name and then growled for about 10 seconds and slammed down her marker. I asked what was wrong. She said "Look, the 'r' is crooked". Oh, dear, I think we have another perfectionist.
2-22-09 Another Ricky-ism. He was looking at the church's kid scriptures with pictures and suddenly gasped and looked up at me. "Mom! Heavenly Father and Jesus live in the clouds!" I didn't quite know what to say so I hesitated. He said "Look, it's right here in this picture. If it's in the picture that is what it is." He didn't wait for any response from me. He was determined the picture was right. He looked back at the picture and muttered to himself "look, they have trumpets. I wonder why we don't hear them. Hum." I could help but laugh.
2-22-09 This was actually a Ricky-ism. He is always asking me questions about Heaven like "Will we eat in Heaven?" "What do angels eat?" "Do they eat healthy food in Heaven? I think they do. Huh Mom." I always tell him that I don't know. We were studying Lehi's dream and I said "Only the people who get to heaven get to eat the fruit of the tree of life." Ricky perked up. "That's what they eat in heaven!"
2-19-09 Eliza was saying that her baby had to go to jail. I told her I didn't think so and that jail was a place where people went who broke the law. Eliza replied "But she did break the alarm!"
2-8-09 At a baptism Eliza turns to William with a Booger on her finger and says "I need a tissue". William, not being used to carrying 'kid supplies' around was frantically looking around for something. As he is looking, Eliza figures out what to do. No, she did not eat it. She put it back in her nose.
While eating our family night treat William and I were talking and out of the blue Eliza says "Tomato's can't talk." We laughed at how random that was but about 20 min later I overheard her singing the theme song from veggie tales "If you like to talk to tomatoes . . ."
We were having a medical exam for life insurance and when William walked in the door Eliza said "Daddy! You get to watch a moooovie because the lady is going to take your skin off." (I had previously told her that the lady was going to take some blood out and I guess she figured that meant we had to take the skin off. (William can't stand needles, that's why we had a movie for him to watch)
Eliza was helping Marietta make dinner and Arletta walked in. Eliza gasped "Look, two letta's!"
Durring dinner Hyrum was gabbing and Eliza perked up and announced "Mommy, Hyrum is talking about computers!"
"I have 4 thumbs!" (she says to me as she shows me her big toes and her thumbs)
If you give Eliza attention and talk to her, you are sure to hear her say "You are my best friend" over an over.
While I was doing her hair Eliza said to me "Bad guys can't get pretty people, right mom?"
Today I said to Eliza "What is this one strand of hair doing out of place?' and she said "It's just a monkey hair"

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