Lord I Would Follow Thee

Here's the Stucki boys singing an arrangement by Brian (my musical genius brother) of one of our family favorite hymns. Enjoy!
If you view it on YouTube, the picture is a little better.

Snow Day

This was Grace's first real experience with snow, and she wasn't sure what to think of it. She loves to look at it from inside, but outside she tried to stick to the sidewalks while they were still visible.

This morning they called, at 6 am, to let me know there was no school. The boys were excited and ran out to play as soon as I would let them.

Lucky we bought him new gloves and boots yesterday (size 2, he has huge feet).

I'm not sure why, but Kyle seemed to think this was the best way to walk in the snow. Perhaps this is how his new boots work best.

Still walking funny. It was too frozen to make a snowman so they were just stomping in it.

Finally the funny march stopped. I love how his eyes squint shut when he smiles.

Evan decided a snow angel was in order before coming in. All in all a fun snow day, but if it could melt off of the roads quickly I would appreciate it. We live too far out for the plows to care about our hills.

Lip Update

I don't want everyone still thinking Grace's lip looks disgusting, because it is actually healing really well. We've been amazed how little anybody even notices it. We're hoping that means it will disappear even more as time goes on, and she won't be self-conscious about it forever.The little glob under her lip there is the last of the stitches. It looks like it will come out soon. The rest of the globs are what is left of her dinner.

Much improved from 10 days ago.

Stitches

Tonight at dinner Grace somehow managed to knock the front off of her high chair and take a dive. We are bad parents and never buckle her in because it has a bar so she can't slip out the bottom. We learned our lesson. We think her face hit the tray as she hit the ground....resulting in this.This is her awesome fat lip. It hides the big gash under her lip pretty well, and I think it probably helped slow the bleeding.

Here she is with the gauze soaked in numbing stuff strapped to her face. She hated this at first, but once it numbed up she was good to go (I'm glad I thought to bring the camera with us while I was running around grabbing things).

Wandering the room while she waited for the doctor to come do the stitches. The stitches were less than fun. She screamed the whole time, but as soon as he was done she was out cold.

Here is our sweet girl with her 5 lovely stitches. The doctor seemed to think she would have a scar for a few years but she should out grow it. We're praying for that.