Quiet Books for Church

I Have been wanting to make a Quiet Book for my kids for some time now, nearly a year ago I started collect supplies and researching it online, the more I researched the more terrified I became. Quiet Books are a HUGE project there was now way I was going to be able to make one. There are so many options for pages and different ideas on how to create them I was completely overwhelmed. Which is why it took a year and a church calling for me to start and finish my first Quiet Book ever. I personally am thrilled with the results mostly because no lie it only took me a week to make. just a couple hours here and there and badda-bing-badda-bang DONE! If you have researched quiet books then some of the ideas will look familiar to you I got a lot of the pages and templets from http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3752&Itemid=200008 other templets are from google images. The hardest part of making a Quiet Book is organizing supplies. I will try to break it down for you. First things first you need fabric. I used fat quarters from Walmart you only need 3, iron them and cut in half hamburger style. (I hope you all remember hamburger/hotdog style from kindergarten) You also need batting I used pellon firm or extra firm about a yard is all you need cut into 6 equal pieces roughly 8' square. I am going to list the overall instructions first and under each picture will have list of supplies and step by step instructions. Instructions Layout Quiet book pages before beginning. You need to pin 6 pieces of pellon insert to 3 of the fabric rectangles. When sewing pages make sure to sew thru pellon as well to hold it in place. Once pages are created layout quiet book again you have 6 pieces of rectangle fabric, the order of the book is up to you as long as front and back cover are on the same piece of fabric. 1-Front and back cover 2-faith in every footstep/Count your tithing 3-Future Missionary/10 tribes 4-etc 5 6 Turn over pages 2, 4, 6 Place page 1 on page 2, 3 on 4, and 5 on 6 Double Sew around the edges of double rectangles leaving ½ in seam You should now have 3 movable fabrics with 4 pages each Cut little lines around seam to create a frayed look With front and back cover face down Places fabrics onto of each other Sew zig-zag line down center of book to create fold.

Faith in Every Footstep Supplies: Shoe template 6 eyelets/grommets 1 shoelace Step one: Make sure you have slits for the opening of the eyelets. Step 2: You need 6 eyelets, using the machine attach eyelets Step 3: Position shoe on Fabric, pin in place and sew around Step 4: String shoe lace through

10 Tribes Supplies: String/yarn 55 beads Step 1: Cut 10 pieces of string equal lengths, Step 2: tie one end slid 1 on one string 2 onto another and so forth until every string has beads the last having a full 10. Tie the other end Step 3: Pin string onto fabric with ½-1 inch gap in between, sew

Future Missionary Supplies: White button up with at least two buttons small rectangle of black felt Step One: Sew small black fabric onto panel of white shirt, zig-zaf stitch 2 lines of different lengths horizontally to appear as writing on name tag. Step 2: Leave shirt buttoned, position on fabric, pin in place, sew along the outside panels.

Church Notes Supplies: laminated index card or small notepad rectangle felt 4x5 draw line to indicate 1' pocket for marker Writing utensil Step 1: Position rectangle onto fabric sew along 3 sides with opening at top, sew down fabric on line to create a side pocket for markers. Insert laminated card.

I Love to see the Temple Supplies: 5 felt flowers 5 felt circles 5 velcro, snaps or buttons if using snaps you need handheld machine (same one used for eyelets) your choice of Temple Step 1: Cut out temple of Choice, sew on fabric Step 2: sew on 5 buttons Step 3: For buttons make slit in flower, for Velcro glue on Velcro FLOWERS: Attach center circle with glue around edges or sew into place.

Noah’s Ark Supplies: felt boat felt water felt for finger puppets Template from http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/07/quiet-book-templates.html Step 1: Make Finger puppets Step 2: Sew top of water onto boat Step 3; Sew boat onto fabric leave opening at top To Make finger puppets: Sew body together leaving opening on bottom for finger insert. Glue attachments onto appropriate animal. Note: for cow and pig you can place ears and horns onto bottom fabric before sewing to hide appear on back of animal

Sunday Best Supplies: yarn for girl hair 1 felt body felt dress felt shirt felt pants felt boy hair velcro to attach Step 1: Attach Velcro to Hair and clothing pieces. Attach opposite Velcro to Body and 2 pieces to be sewn on fabric. Step 2: Sew body onto fabric Step 3: Sew Velcro pieces onto fabric, attach clothing pieces to hold in place.

Time for Church Supplies: 1 button felt clock body felt hands of clock felt clock face Step 1: Sew or glue clock face to clock body Step 2: Sew clock body onto fabric, write #’s on clock face Step 3: Attach button to center of clock face Step 4: make slit in clock hands and attach to button

Lehi’s Dream Supplies: felt tree top felt tree trunk velcro fruit felt iron rod Step 1: Position leaves on fabric, sew. Step 2: Place tree over leaves, sew into place Step 3: Sew small squares of Velcro onto leaves Step4: using opposite Velcro cut out fruit shapes attach to velcro on tree. Step 5: Position on Iron Rod, sew

Front Cover: My Quiet Book Supplies: your choice of decorations Step 1: Print out quiet book poem sew onto page Step 2: add embellishments. “My Quiet Book. We’ll have such fun together, My quiet book and I, I’ll look at it and not disturb The people with my cry I won’t make a bit of noise I’ll be quiet as a mouse, For we want the Lord near While we are in His house.”

Back Cover: Stars for Being Busy Supplies: 6 felt stars 6 buttons Step 1: Sew on 6 Buttons to fabric Step 2: Sew on pocket for stars Well there you have it!

Family Fun

The weather is just so great out here that we thought we'd show the kids how to fly a kite. We should have gotten a kite that actually works, we spent more time trying to get the kite to fly above 2 feet then we did playing with the kids. They had fun anyways thanks to all the spare bikes around TVA. Asa has staked claim to a certain little trike, he and Alice fight over it all the time, I have a stinking cute picture of her standing on one of the back wheels trying to climb into the seat, too bad I can't post it.
We also went to the Aloha center and took some family pictures next to the Christmas trees. Nannie did a pretty good job for point and shoot.
Recently we've just been making friends and playing at the park. It seems like when the kids are not napping we are outside playing, its great fun.
Asa is getting the hang of going sheshe in the toilet he knows how to go by himself and often tells me to stay on the couch so he can do it alone. He also knows how to put on his own clothes he doesnt do it very often it take about 20 minutes if I force him to do it so I often just do it for him.
Alice loves to attack Asa. She does it on purpose she kills me. She's walking now, she started about a month ago she's pretty good she looks really goofy and cute though she holds her arms out to balance her and she pushes out her belly.

A Time to Give Thanks

Thank you for Thanksgiving!! What a wonderful time; a time to give thanks for the many things that we sometimes take for granted like baby wipes, a time to think of others before our selves, and a time to feast.
What a feast we had. We made enough food to feed our building. We started the day before making pies and rolls. The next day we finished the feast with sides and the turkey. It was a small gathering us and Nannie, Kaleo came later and helped "clean up." Aunty Mo and Uncle Matt and a few others came by later and visited.

I would love to add pictures but apparently I have exceeded my upload quota I am now accepting donates to upgrade my storage space!
will take cash and money order

Team work

Asa is being lifted by Ariihau and Kalama over the couch. We didn't get to see it actually happen because Kapono and I were celebrating our 3rd wedding anniversary.

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I have complete faith that my brother knows what he's talking about so this should be a video of Alice pretending to crawl.

Alice Crawling

Sadly our external ports are still not what they should be so I have no way of posting video but we do have some on our phone...*thought* Steven can I text from phone to email and publish on blogger? Alice is crawling okay so its really a slither like an army crawl but she gets around so fast. Every time she gets on her knees to go she does a face plant so she still working on it. She's at that stage where she has to be with a parent at ALL times and usually that parent is me. I'm not complaining I love that she wants me because Asa never did and when she was a newborn she refused to be my friend she loved all the girls in Sessions. It gets challenging when I am trying to make dinner so Ashley or Vaina has her and she screams the entire time. Mostly though she's stinky adorable.

Asa learning to share

Last night Aunty Vaina gave Asa a brand new coloring book with tree-bark colored pencils. It was too late for Asa to play with it so we took them to the room so when he awoke the next morning he would have some entertainment. He didn't notice the book until it was almost time to leave for breakfast, when he did find it though he was very excited. After 10 or so minutes of drawing he said he was done and put the coloring book and the pencils away on the shelf. When we told him it was time to go to the main house he wanted to take the book with him. Kapono tried to convince him to leave it but that just caused Asa to grab 1 coloring pencil. On the way out the door I told Asa that if he took it than the other boys will color in it. He looked at the coloring pencils and said "Kalama!" and promptly went back to grab a pencil for him once he got back to the door with 2 pencils in hand he remembered something "Ariihau" he screamed and ran back to grab one more pencil. So instead of us convincing Asa to leave the coloring book and pencils behind so they don't get ruined he brought the book and 1 pencil for each of his cousins.

being out here has been really good for him. He didn't have anyone his age to play with so I thought he was a perfect child cause he would always share with his Aunties in Utah. With cousins close to his age though its been interesting seeing my son the youngest of the 5 boys be such a bully. We've had to take toys away and put him in time out many times. Its hard to teach him "don't hit" while your giving him a spanking. They have their good days and bad days though, like this morning its a very good start. He's learning a lot more than just sharing too. He now knows the sounds of vehicles; motorcycle, truck and car. He knows what an airplane is and gets so excited he probably pees himself when he sees one. on the sheshe (pee) note he knows what he's doing and most of the time tells us right after he evacuated his bowels that he wants to go to the toilet. He can answer questions with; yes, no, I'm done and so on. We can ask him a series of questions and he isn't just saying a word he knows what he wants.

There are a lot of us in the house so a quick family tree. Kaumana (oldest son) married to Vaina 2 kids Ariihau (4) Kalama (2), Kapono (2nd oldest) married to Rouie 2 kids Asa (1) and Alice (6 months) Lanakila (kapono's Twin, lives with his in-laws) married to Laryssa 2 kids Logan (2) and Thomas (6 weeks) Kaleo (22 for one more week) single, Koa (living with his in-laws) married to Ashley sorry for not adding the rest of the fam but they are not included in the story..however that doesn't mean we don't love you. Asa can say everyone's name including mine a little something he picked up from his cousins. Every time one of the boys says Aunty Rouie Asa says ouie! Ouie! Aunty Vaina unless I say Vaina is mammo (french mommy). The other night all the brothers went to see the last airbender as they got out of the car Asa scream out Daddy! Koa! Tutu (tutuman) Papa (Kaumana, another something he picked up from his cousins) and kleo!
btw if you ever want to make Asa happy just feed him chicken, however he is not a fan of chicken nuggets.
on a side not both mine and Vaina kids were born in sept and dec and some of us may or may not be trying to get prego what if our # 3's are born in the same month too..weird

Alice in one thousand pictures

here is an insane amount of pictures of Alice and Asa i'm sure there are pictures of kapono and I as well with some other people but mainly this is Alice...isnt she so cute!

Alice and the family

okay so really this is just a continuation of the first set they just didn't all make it into the same album.

Big Island

We finally made it to Hawaii and it is B-E-A-utiful! and hot... We've been very busy trying to get things in order today Kapono is job hunting and figuring out what to do about a vehicle. Asa and Alice are loving it, well Alice doesn't have much of an opinion she sleeps a lot. But Asa is having a blast running around with his cousins and being outside without a jacket. Today out of habit he asked for his jacket before going out side, he put it on went out and after 30 sec came back in and threw it on the living room floor. Great News! the Bartons are set up on a network here and no other computers can be added which means we can not use our computer to update our blog and since our usb drive is broken we can not add pictures, so once again only a text blog nothing else. Not to brag but it really is great being back here, my skin instantly felt better. I had chapped lips when we boarded the plane in Utah and not even a week later its completely better without using moisturizer. the best part is that there are 5 cooks in the house, its not like I did a lot of cooking in Utah but now I dont even have to make dessert, my sister in law, the oldest barton boy Kaumana's wife Viana's mom owned a bakery so she picked up on her skills.

My Bad

I know I said that I would be updating this on a regular basis and then didn't post anything for awhile, well let me explain. You know how I mentioned everything was happening too fast well.. We took a trip to Grand Junction recently (that will get its own post with pictures) and then the next day left for Wolf Creek (which will also get its own post with a lot of pictures) and now we are back home with 3 days to pack before all the commotion starts again. Right now I am waiting for my pictures to download on to another computer and then copy to a jump drive so I can add them to our picasa so they can go on here. When I say those above activities will have their own posts I mean it I just am unsure as to whether they will get written in Utah or Hawaii.

Day with Mema

Alice blessing

To Fast

Everything is happening tooo fast. Kapono only has like 6 days of work left and we have his graduation tomorrow, vaction from the 7-14, luau for life on the 14 girls day on the 15 Nannie's semenary grad on 16, Bubba comes on the 17th, that thursday is nannies hs graduation then the family reunion and on Tuesday the 25th we leave..
I've been trying to pack things up cause I know I wont have time later, its harder than it used tobe. Every time I start on Asa things he comes behind me and grabs it out of the box. Yesterday I tried packing his books and he had to read every single one one more time, which is cute but it took 3 hours to pack a box. sadly the only book left out is "my first thousand words in polish" thats a hard language and ever since I tried to pronounce things Asa has started talking gibberish again.

Sessions Hike

We intended to end the year with a hike out to the waterfall, roast some hot dogs make smores and just have a good time. We got about 9 people out so we loaded up the cars and took off. when we got out there though it was freezing, we're talking 44 degrees with a wind chill of, I don't know what wind chill is measured in but it was so cold that after 30 secs my ears hurt and I had to jump up and down to stay warm. Luckily the Institute was putting on dinners all this week for finals so we rushed back to campus. We were able to find a hibachi so the night wasnt a total waste. In fact it turned out even better because when we go it to the hall we had even more people there and even some of the Koreans came down for a bite. I love the kids here at Sessions, they've made being Head Residents so fun, if most of them weren't leaving too then it would be harder to go. The moral of the story is if it doesnt work out because the winds wants to eat you try try again in a building surrounded by people you love, oh but make sure the building doesnt catch on fire.

Asa and Alice

So they say not to compare your kids and Janet always yells at me if I tell Asa "why can't you behave like your sister" But I cant help it, its amazing how different they already are but the same also so this next blog will be all about their difference and alikeness. Asa was sitting up unassisted and not falling over 3 days after he turned for months. I remember this so clearly because it was 2 days after we left Hawaii and I was disappointed that Tutu and Tutuman didnt get to see. Alice is still working on it but basically has it down at four and a half months. Asa started eating mush at 3 months exactly and eat it for dinner and breakfast everyday along with breast feeding clear till 10 months. He ate mush at least once a meal everyday till he was a year old. He tried to eat babyfood but he hated the meat and Kapono ate the fruit. Alice Loves babyfood except the meat of course, who could like that..gross, she eats it nearly 3 times a day. Asa has basically never slept through the night off and on when he was little little he would get in a pattern and sleep about 4 days out of 7 but then we would take a trip or he wouldnt go to bed at bed time and he would inevitably end up in our bed. He still to this day makes his way to Kapono's side of the bed to join us about 2 am everyday. Alice on the other hand sleeps through the night about 6 out of 7 nights and stays asleep anywhere from 7:30-10:30. When she falls asleep I am able to put her in her crib and walk away. I dont worry that she'll wake up becuase she puts herself back to sleep. Asa has to be held in cradle position on the couch by kapono with the tv on we have to keep him like that till his thumb falls out of his mouth and then its safe to move him, otherwise we get to start the whole thing again. Alice found her thumb when she was a couple days old and has enjoyed it ever since, Asa didnt find it till 6 months and gave himself so nasty looking sores from sucking to hard.Asa could reach for and grab things with his index finger and thumb and 3 months, I never worried about him putting something in his mouth because to this day if he eats something he tells me about it. Alice has no desire to pick something off the ground she is only interested in it if it looks like it will fit in her mouth and gets very upset if it doesnt make it there soon. Asa shed twice when he was a newborn it was basically disgusting. Alice didnt shed at all. Nick my brother in law was saying that smelly lotions and oils cause shedding this might be true because with Asa we lotioned and oiled him everyday and with Alice I sort of forgot to. Alice talks all the time, and she needs to be the center of attention. If she is in a crowd of people and we dont speak to her she will get upset and return all the focus to her. Asa talks all the time too however he didnt start talking till her was closer to 9 months. Asa being older understand a great deal however he only chooses to listen when it benefits him.

Alice

Alice can pretty much sit up on her own now, I still barricade her with pillows because when she decides she's done she throws herself backwards. Most of the time she just hunches forward and looks like half and Alice but recently she has been sitting up with out help while she attacks a toy. I'm pretty sure she's teething with all the drooling and the fever and the attacking of any body part that gets put in her mouth but as of yet she doesnt have anything to show for it. We took pictures of her and her new cousin and Alice looks gigantic. She really isn't at the last appointment she weighed 14lbs I think and she's 23" tall, you know what I didnt go tot the last appointment so I could be really wrong on that one. She rolled over the other day from her belly to her back, she's not a fan of belly time. it was so cute we had her out in the living room and Janet put toys within her reach, after a couple minutes which were probably only seconds that felt like minutes she decided she had enough on her tummy and rolled over to her back,she was so happy about it she started giggling just from us grinning at her. Alice is basically the cutest baby in the world and everyone that doesnt have their own kids or nieces and nephews agree with me. Her hair is getting fairly long in the back we can put a band on her and her hair will cover it. She is 4 and 1/2 months, she eats baby food regularly and sleeps through the night mosts nights.

Say Cheese

The other Day Nannie and I went to Smiths to get a very specific shopping list. Nannie let Asa push the little kid cart since he can kind of see over it and Alice was in her car seat taking up the whole cart so the food had to slide under her to sit. We were looking at the tortillas near the meat isle when I lost Asa. He was there one minute looking at the tortillas with me and the next gone. And then we hear him. It was like a slow motion movie here comes Asa hands raised high holding a 2lbs block of cheese running as fast as his little feetzies will go yelling CHEESE, CHEESE. When he got to the cart he lifts Alices seat and slides it in. Now I'm not a cheese fan like the rest of my family and apparently my kids are so I take it out. Asa decided that that meant "mom doesnt like colby lets try mozzarella" so off he went and back he came with another 2 lbs block of cheese, mozzarella this time yelling CHEESE CHEESE. Nannie took that one out and we let him pick a 1 lb block because it was evident we were not leaving that store with out some CHEESE.

Lost Journal

I lost my journal. I was hoping to find in while we started packing to move but so far its a no go. Asa and Alice are being way stinking cute and I'm starting to forget what they're doing because I don't have a journal to write it down in and then Kapono reminded me of our blog. It made so much sense, I'm the one that begged Steven and Vanessa to create this thing and then told everyone that they had to get one Steven even made a homepage so if we forget someones link we can go there and I dont even use it. But with Steven and Vanessa gone I should post things since they actually read blogs and I dont call as often as I should. So Steven and Vanessa this is for you. Miss you guys!

Asa is now a year old!!!!

We would like to thank everyone that has played a role in Asa's life so far. It really does take a village to raise a child. Here are some pictures of his life, well the first year of his life.