Dinah – Andelin Adventures

Dinah’s Baptism

Dinah was baptized this morning! She was so excited. We even got to the church a bit early.

Dinah was excited to get to share her baptism with her friend Lindsey.

During the program one of Lindsey’s family members gave the talk on baptism and it felt like they were talking directly to Lindsey and only Lindsey. After the baptism itself, Grandpa gave the talk on the Holy Ghost and he brought both Dinah and Lindsey up to the front and talked to both of them, as well as for everyone else. We finished the program with Wendy giving the prayer.

After the baptism was over and we were done taking pictures at the church we went out to the cars to come home. But some of the kids got distracted by the car that Grandpa was driving.

When we did get them all home we celebrated Dinah’s birthday with a cake.

And we took some more pictures. 🙂

Fire Station Open house

Ethan started working on the Fire Safety merit badge at a merit badge pow wow last month, and we have been working on finishing up the requirements so we could get it signed off. The only problem is that there were two counselors that taught the class, one each week, and neither one of them signed off on a blue card the things that they worked on with Ethan at the pow wow. So we made contact with the first counselor to make an appointment for him to sign off the things he did with Ethan. He happens to be a firefighter that works at the Spanish Fork fire station and he asked Ethan to meet him at an open house that the fire station was putting on.

We decided to take the whole family to the open house. While Ethan talked to the counselor, we took the kids to follow another firefighter around so all the other kids could see the different fire trucks.

I’m sure every little boy dreams of driving a big fire truck. Adam was SO excited.

Here Adam is trying to tell us the sound that the fire truck was making, with his hands…

Dinah in the driver’s seat:

Kyle put Adam on this little shelf on the outside of the firetruck. Adam thought it was pretty funny.

When Ethan met back up with us, he announced that the counselor signed off on the merit badge for him! 🙂

Pictures

Dinah’s baptism is right around the corner so we took some pictures in her baptism dress so we could put one on the program. We tried a couple of poses at home first.

We decided to try to get some shots outdoors today after church and we started to go to the temple. The temple grounds looked quite crowded so we decided to explore the park across the street from the temple.

Dinah’s Eighth Birthday

Before we left the fair last night we picked up a funnel cake for Dinah’s birthday cake. I had a candle in my purse at the fair, because we had planned on doing funnel cake for her birthday cake all along, but I had forgotten to bring a lighter to light the candle. Also with the kids being so grumpy, we ended up just bringing the funnel cake home. Everyone was asleep when we got home last night so we did the funnel cake tonight.

For her birthday present, Kyle bought her a Hello Kitty hat with attached mittens at the fair.

Dinah’s Lost Tooth

Towards the end of February, Dinah had a loose tooth. We were watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” with Danny Kaye, and her tooth was wiggly, and she just couldn’t leave it alone. We told her to wait until the movie was over to pull it out, but she didn’t listen. The prospect of getting a dollar from the tooth fairy was just too much for her to resist and so she plucked it.

Sometime before the movie was over, the tooth went missing. We searched all over after the movie was over. We cleaned up the family room and ran our hands over the carpet, but there was no sign of her tooth. She had been to the bathroom to look at her mouth in the mirror, and she had gone into the laundry room to throw away the washcloth that she bit on to stop the bleeding and so we searched the hallway and laundry room and bathroom as well but no tooth. This tooth was literally LOST. It just seemed to have vanished. And since she didn’t have a tooth to leave for the tooth fairy, the tooth fairy didn’t leave her a dollar.

By the end of March we still hadn’t found the tooth and Dinah had a nice little freak out because I went down there to vacuum.

This afternoon, Dinah found an envelope with a dollar and a note under her pillow. The note was from the tooth fairy, letting Dinah know that she found her tooth last night. The tooth fairy said that she has been checking for the lost tooth every time she has been in the area and she finally found it. Apparently it hid really well in our newer, fluffy carpet downstairs.