Put Your Clothes Away!

Dear Jaida and Kayla, you two have been in your room tonight since about 5:30 or 6pm - it is now bedtime, 9pm.  You refuse to put away your clothes, a chore that would take you 10 minutes tops.  All you had to do was put your clothes away and you could come out of your room and do whatever you want.  The lesson I am trying to teach I'm sure has never even crossed your minds.

 I have had quite a peaceful time upstairs with just Kylan (Joey fell asleep), so thank you for that.

Dear Joey, today you and Kylan were running all over the house trying to keep your cheese away from the dogs.  You kept saying, "Kylan, come in mom's room I'll retect your cheese."  I said, Joey, what are you going to do?  I'm going to retect Kylan's cheese. Oh! Protect his cheese... good for you! :)

Pre-Kids

Dear Monty, now I know what we did before we had any kids - shopping, eating out and movies.  Definitely more fun when not pregnant, but still a great time!  We didn't even buy anything for the kids! :)

Dear Kylan, Sunday you spoke two complete sentences - the first time I've heard this from you:
"Joey has it." and of course I can't remember the other sentence!  You also look like you grew a couple of inches while you were you gone AND got older.  Even Misty said you looked older when she saw you.  Grandpa says your good for a few minutes a day and the rest of the time you are whining and crying (so you're no different away from home). He also said you have a memory like an elephant and you don't forget what you want (yup!).

Dear Kayla, you're the only one I didn't hear anything about this week - wow, that's a first!

Dear Joey, you cut your finger on the broken glass that Grandpa had just told you not to touch. Hopefully you learned your lesson! Kylan was WALKING on the glass - one day you two will learn...

Dear Jaida, your story and Grandpa's story of what happened at the ball game were completely opposite.  He said he finally left at half time because he couldn't stand it anymore.  You said you "made him take you home."  So I guess in a way your behavior made him take you home.  You should feel bad that you made grandpa leave something he loves watching.

Happy Spa Birthday Jaida

Dear Jaida, your birthday party was the funnest one yet. It was so much work but worth it!

The girls getting manicures and pedicures.

Jaida and Sidney getting their facials.

Facials for Hannah and Kayla

Kayla getting a manicure

Finished manicures!

Finished pedicures!

Cake time!

Kylan's Broken Arm Update

Suzanne reminded me that I didn't tell you what happened with Kylan's arm.  Here is the story and an update.

Kylan and Joey tipped the rocking chair on its back and got up on top where the foot of the rocking chair is.  Joey started to fall, grabbed Kylan, and made Kylan fall.  He did cry pretty hard but soon was up and running around and climbing as usual.  He would complain a couple of times a day and show me his hand - I thought it was the sliver that was hurting so we got that out. A week of complaints one or two times a day made us finally take him to be checked out. Turns out he had a fracture in each of the bones up by the wrist.

He got a cast put on on Monday and had it off by Friday. Sunday night we lost the cast (he'd taken it off in Misty's room where we never go so never thought to look. She found it when she got home from her trip). Wednesday we took him back to the dr. he put just a splint on it and about 3 hours later that was off too.

So that's where we're at with Kylan's arm - good thing he's so young that it should heal correctly with normal growth and movement.

Jingle Bells

Dear Kylan,you are at that age where everything you do is cute and I wish I could keep a camera on you 24/7. Yesterday morning at breakfast while eating our pink Valentine pancakes we started singing Jingle Bells - must be all the snow we've been getting. I had to record you singing because it was so funny. Ha HEY!

Roses Are Red

Dear Monty, when I got into the kitchen this morning the girls were just staring at the roses you gave them for Valentine's Day. They LOVED them and I know they felt pretty special right then.  Kayla even got dressed for school in the kitchen and at one point said, "My rose is so much prettier than your rose." Shockingly, Jaida did not reply but a little while later said, "My rose is bigger than your rose." My dozen roses were definitely the prettiest, especially with the little white rose for the new baby!  Thank you for making us all feel special on Valentine's, we love you!

All of our Roses with a picture of Misty's "Birthday Cake"

Broken Arm

Dear Kylan, you are the first one to break a bone in the family. We thought it was a lot more serious than it turned out thank goodness, but you still have two breaks/fractures in your wrist.  You must have a really high pain tolerance because it took us about 10 days to decide to take you to the doctor.  Hopefully you will be able to leave this cast on for two weeks. Daily you ask, "Mom?  Off, mom?"

Washing The "Na Night"

Dear Kylan, today while you were watching a movie I took your blanket without you knowing and put it in the wash.  I think its been at least a month since it's been cleaned.  You had no idea it was gone until you got out of the bathtub and instead of wanting a towel you wanted your "na night."  I was on the phone with grandma and was trying to ignore you, but when you want to be heard you will be heard.  "MOM!" you kept yelling over and over, "NA NIGHT!"  I thought it was pretty funny.  I took you downstairs to show you that it was now in the dryer and that it was wet - 20 more minutes. "NOOO!" You kept yell-growling.  Well 20 minutes later you were the happiest little kid ever snuggled in a clean, warm na-night.

L.A.Z.Y

Dear Jaida, tonight I asked where your salad bowl was and you told me that you put it behind the wet wipes.  I said, "You can't even get up to take it to the sink?"  And your reply, "Well you didn't see it so it works for me." 
Now picture my blood starting to boil...

Nylon Bandits

I don't think I have laughed at anything so hard in my life - and being pregnant made it hurt too. hahaha!  Kylan brought me my nylon and wanted it on his head - I just pulled it down a bit further and busted out laughing!  I'm surprised ANY of my pictures turned out. If you are not laughing when you look at these pics, you'll have to do this to someone you know!

Lego Towers

Dear kids, I love that you can play with legos forever and build really cool stuff!

Happy 2nd Birthday Kylan

Kylan's birthday cake

Dear Kylan, luckily you were feeling great for your birthday party yesterday (you even did the arm run and we haven't seen that in a week).  Parties sure are a lot funner with just the family.  You were so excited to open your presents and loved what everyone got for you - even the socks which you wanted on both your feet and hands.  You decided on a great cake which no one ate, and the pizza and milk shakes we made were the best.  Hope you had a great birthday! Love you!
p.s. when dad sends me his pics I will post some more.