Then and Now

(march 2010)

(March 2011)

12 months

(a few hours old)

One year ago or 12 months ago you were born into our family...
we can't imagine our family without you.

12 fun facts about you:

1. You love to be tickled and have the best laugh!
2. At night you go from extreme giggling to gumpy withing about 10 minutes. When this occurs we know its time for you to go to bed! As soon as you hear your music you know its time for bed!
3. You love cars and any kind of ball!
4. You love going outside!
5. You love going up and down the stairs!
6. You love food..you will eat everything! You decided to stop nursing 2 weeks ago, Mommy wasn't quite ready....what can you do.
7. You figured out how to drink out of a sippy cup back in January and you love it now!
8. You love any toy that plays music, you dance to the music every time!
9. You squint your eyes when you are being bashful...its so stinkin' cute but hard to get a picture of!
10. You love your brother and sister and smile when you see them
11. You have separation anxiety...You love being with your mom and dad
12. As of today you crawl and walk along furniture!

Happy Birthday Mister!
We love you!

The last 2 weeks!

The last weekend in January we headed down to our 'winter home' aka our Newburgh home!
The main reason was our little girl wanted to have her birthday party with her friends
and that is exactly what we planned and did. She had a great party that was held at chik-fil-a.
Seriously the best way to host a party...they provide the ice cream and the cow comes out to visit and the kids get to play! Thank you to all those that came and graciously gave her presents (she loves them all)

Unfortunately, J came down with a fever the night before and wasn't able to attend the party. Daddy and J stayed at the Newburgh house and packed.



As a side note: we got an offer on our Newburgh home and since we were there we packed up the rest of that house.

When we returned, we got hit with an ice and snow storm that kept us home for a week...Tom was even home for 2 days and Church was canceled. What did we do for the week: Played on the ice, went sledding, and unpacked a lot of boxes (One of vehicles finally has a spot in the garage)

While we unpacked the kids played and played with their toys....the baby discovered a new toy which is crawling in and out of one of the toy bins, crawling up the stairs, waving to everyone, looking out the window and finding anything and everything to put in his mouth.

Notice the teeth (yeah he has 4 teeth now!) Our baby boy is growing up way too fast.....someone tells us how to slow it down.

Will you be my Valentine?

Hole in the Wall

Story: We were sitting at the table. Generally, ignoring the 5 year old, playing with a large Tupperware. When suddenly... BANG, BANG, BANG, CRASH... .soft whine. Visualize, us looking up and seeing J crumpled in a heap at the bottom of the stairs with a hole shaped like his head in the wall. Being a medically inclined family, we jumped to his side ready to carry our broken boy off to the ER. He's crying and we ask what hurts. (Noting the hole in the wall from his head.) J says, "My toe!" Yeah, he's fine.

Apparently our kids are making it a tradition of putting a hole at the bottom of the stairs in the month of January-this was last year.

Cute, spunky, sweet, outgoing, silly girl

Random facts & pictures of our little girl

Loves princesses-not so much the movies but the doll figures.

Loves pretties in her hair! Loves having her fingers painted purple.

Enjoys being silly/doing silly tricks and telling us that "this is easy"

Funny sayings she says lately: need sticky tape, that's so amazing and oh my goodness!

She tells her momma often "your my best friend"

I love you, girl :)

Soccer Season

The soccer season came to an end on October 24, 2009.

We had a lot of fun coming to watch J play soccer this year.

J enjoyed playing soccer this year and looks forward to playing next year.

In his own words, this is what he liked best: Kicking the ball, Playing Sharks and Ninos and getting his trophy.

family pictures

We love our most recent family pictures!

Baby BOY to arrive March of 2010

Check

3 Birthday requests

Go to the beach - Check

Go to McDonald's - Check

Have Diego cupcakes - Check

Like Daddy, Like Daughter

Lately, we have been wondering....

where our K-girl got this thing of putting her hands in front of her mouth.

The wondering ended when we found this picture of her daddy during the same thing!

sugar cookies & Garvin Park

Sam + Mat=Reading

Reading his first book all by himself

See how she grows

On Tuesday, K had her 2 year old check up at the doctors. She was such a big girl. She stood up on the scale all by herself to get weighed and measured, She weighed in at 27 lbs (which is in the 53rd percentile) and she is 34 inches tall (51st percentile). She let the doctor check everything out as long as he continued to let her 'blow out' his little light. The only time she cried was when the nurse at the end gave her the lovely Hepatitis A shot.

Here are some of the things she can do:

*runs and climbs
*tiptoes
*enjoys building towers with blocks
*enjoys coloring, on any surface she can find not just paper (ex: the wall was her canvas today)
*Her favorite color is purple (she will find all of the purple crayons and only use those)
*enjoys flushing the toilet after anyone uses it.
*she becomes frustrated when we don't understand what she wants which will result in crying, spitting, a melt down on the floor, etc...
*loves playing with her brother aka: bubba
*she is starting to use 3 word phases such as "I don't know" and "what's that"
*she understands a ton of what we say
*Loves everything dealing with Dora and Babies
*won't eat any veggies to save her life (believe me I have even shredded carrots into the pasta sauce) On the positive note she will eat fruits & pasta, every type of breakfast food and man does she like milk.
*loves brushing her teeth
*sleeps wonderfully in her crib (thankfully she hasn't figured out our to climb out)

No more Pappy

We have reached a milestone this week, our little K no longer has a pacifer aka pappy as she has called it for the past 6 months.  (she has been a very slow teether and thought she could still need it - she still only has 10 teeth!) 

Wednesday for her nap was the last time she has seen it or used it! We have been slowly not have it available for her to use.  We have been down to 3 times when she could use it for quite awhile (bed, car, and during sacrement meeting at church)  We first took away the car, then sacrement meeting and then on wednesday she couldn't find her pappy but of course I knew where it was but thought maybe I could use this for my benfit(wasn't planned but hey whatever happens, happens, right!)  and it worked. 

I did the normal bed time routine (jammies, books, songs, pray)  and put her to bed in which she was still asking for pappy.  I told her if I found it I would bring it to her.  (In which gave me a little buffer if she sceamed forever for it)  Then I said goodnight and closed the door.  5 minutes of crying occured - I went back in her room rubbed her back said good night again and walked back out - another 5 to 8 minutes of crying occured but by 10 minutes nothing and she slept all night.  It has gotten better and better each night.  However, for naps she has been crying, and it takes her a good 20 to 30 minutes to calm down and fall asleep but when she finally does go to sleep, its a good 1.5 hour nap.  Hopefully this continues and we don't lose naps all together.  The whole family needs that nap time still :) 

My goal was to have that pappy gone by the time she was 2 and we have done it :)  YEAH! 

4 years ago today

After 24 hours of labor
our BIG boy
came into our lives
and our hearts

Sleep Eating

One minute she's eating her lunch the next she is sound asleep

A box or a toy?

Remind me again why we have so many toys when a box will do the trick!

Super Hero

Wonderpets, Superman, Higgletown Heros all wrapped into one!

And yes he picked the fabrics, sat next to me while making it, he couldn't wait to put it on and still loves it 2 weeks later!

Spring Break 2008

This week was spring break...no preschool. We played, went swimming at the Y, had a picnic at the park with friends, dinner with friends and went to the children's museum! Fun Times!

Another milestone accomplished: curling the tongue on demand-

Seeing double at CMOE's Children's Museum