Our Busy Little Mouse

Our front door mouse house I made for Anadel, with a tiny welcome flag banner and door mat.

Our laundry room mouse house. Looks like this little mouse has been doing a bit of laundry today.  Makes Ben giggle each time he goes in the Laundry room.

Our beautiful laundry cabinets Ben put together for me for Christmas. Love doing laundry now and having extra storage/pantry space. 

We are so thrilled that Anadel has enough long locks to put up in pig tails and barrettes. 

Caught my little Anadel mouse eating sugar cookie gingerbread men off of the Christmas tree again. Looks like it is time to decorate the tree with hearts and Valentine cookies for my little mouse to munch! Our first Christmas in our house, we had a real little mouse visitor in our house who helped themselves to two of the cookies on the tree. Thankfully Ben has sealed up all the open holes and fixed the door frames so that the only cookie eating mouse in the house is our Anadel.

Yay We Did It!!!! Yay for Sunday Miracles!

                        (Anadel all dolled up before her cousin Aiden's Baptism this last Saturday.)
At the close of a quiet but busy Sacrament meeting for Anadel yesterday, she yelled out, "YAY... WE DID IT!" It was a Sunday miracle!!! This was the first Sunday in years that Ben and I didn't have to take Anadel out into the hall screaming. Anadel is a Sunbeam now and sings louder than any other child in primary. One of 15 Sunbeams, she is quite the dramatic performer. Each week when church ends, she rushes to the nearest piano and begins playing and singing as loud as she can.

Ben has been asked to teach a little boy in our ward to play the piano. I am sure Anadel's love for the piano will increase as she watches her daddy teach this little boy. Ben tries to play primary songs each night for Anadel. We dance around the room and sing them together which is turning into a fun family bedtime tradition.

Anadel has mastered mommy and daddy's iphones. She can navigate all her kid apps. and movies without help. She calls them her "gimme games."

Anadel focusing on the perfect dive into her little pool. The other thing she loves more than her "gimme games," singing and playing piano, is swimming.