I Didn't Believe It

Dear Keira, you are growing waaaay to fast!  The other day Dad said you had pulled yourself up and were standing in the crib.  I didn't believe him until I saw you doing that very thing last night.  I snapped a bunch of pics because you were so happy/excited!  Big Girl!

Crowded

Dear Joey, Keira, Sammo, Ling and Jorge! When you are ALL piled into my bed, if you wouldn't mind distributing yourselves evenly over the bed instead of everyone on my side that would be great. One of these days I'll be able to capture a pic.

Fuzzy Stuff on Fire

Dear Joey, tonight you ran into the house twice yelling, "MOM! You gotta see this!" The third time you came into the room and saw me feeding Keira so you started telling me how cool it was that this black thing dad had was making sparks really fast and lighting the fuzzy stuff on FIRE! You were so excited that I had to come and watch. You and dad were sitting on the front porch lighting dryer lint on fire, it's 35 degrees out and all you had on was underwear. Brrrr and cool.

Our Next Christmas Card?

Miss K, how can I not post these pics?  You crack me up! I let you walk around the house playing with our new wreath for quite awhile, but I had to take it away after you tied it to you to use as a tail and then somehow squeezed it around your waist as a hoola hoop/skirt, I'm not sure what you had in mind??

If I were to use this as our next Christmas card photo I think I would definitely choose the "Lion" one.

Reminders

Dear Kayla, every once in awhile you like to remind of that time that I got so mad at you! This is how it went down today.

"Mom, remember when you got SO mad at me and yelled and yelled? You were helping me with my homework and I kept asking you the same question over and over and over and then you got so mad and went cuckoo coconut crazy mad (picture arms flailing in the air)! And Dad, he stayed down there and helped me and I asked him the same question over and over... and he did nothing!"

This probably happened about the second week of school, who knew it would make such an impact.  Thank you for reminding me that I always need to work on my patience.

Kylan & Croup

Dear Kylan, Thanksgiving eve you got the croup. :(  You were so sick and we almost took you to the ER. Dad wrapped you up and took you outside for a bit and we were able to make it through the night at G&G's. The next day I was holding you on the couch. You were sooo sick but all of a sudden you burst out in a raspy voice, "Hey, this crazy! Here's mah numba!" Oh, too funny! You and Joey sing the girls' clogging song nonstop, even when you're sick.

Friday night I took you and Joey to get an ice cream cone because you had to miss Zhoni's birthday party. I asked if you wanted an ice cream cone and you said no but that you wanted to see the Dr.  That was weird, I've never had any of my kids ask for that instead of ice cream.

To get you to eat and drink more I bought you yogurt, jello, popsicles, chocolate milk and orange juice - talk about a splurge, Joey is having a ball. You on the other hand only want water! However I made meatballs for dinner and you had two helpings.  Sensible child...

Peace Jaida

Dear Jaida, for some reason you are the cause for a lot of contention and chaos in the family. Misty took you to see Grandpa Fielding in the hospital in Orem and it was nice and quiet and peaceful... Tonight you were teasing Kayla and making her scream and cry, then you were making weird, loud noises for no reason. Then you started teasing Kylan - copying the way he cried and he started crying even harder. To be fair we were all baaaing like a sheep and making fun of Kylan's cry but you wouldn't stop. At dinner time you were almost crying trying to explain what your lunchroom job for the day was??

You also have your sweet moments. The other day I was walking up the stairs holding both Keira and Kylan, you turned around and said, "Here I'll take Keira." You held her, talked to her and played with her for quite awhile. It will be a long time before I forget that.

Now that I write and read this I think that Joey is growing up to be just like his "twin", watch out!

My Beautiful Cloggers

Just look at my beautiful cloggers that don't look anything at all like sisters. ;)  You two did great today at your first performance of the season!

6 Month Crawler

Dear Keira, you decided that at six months old you wanted to crawl. Happy Six Months Old! You are crawling and it is so fun to watch! You'll have to excuse all my loud talking in the video and you don't actually start your crawling 'til almost the end. :)  You have been practicing ALL day so really this video is old news and you're way better 12 hours later.

You can also sit up by yourself for a few seconds, you should start practicing that now. In the pic below I couldn't get a good steady shot because you kept moving around so much, but you were watching everyone run around the house in this pose - you stayed this way for quite awhile too, cute little thing!

 

Nuggle

Dear Kylan, we've figured out that you don't say 'sn' words - you just leave off the 's'.  Sometimes I think you do it on purpose to get a laugh out of us.  The other day I wrapped you in your "nigh, night" and told you I wanted to snuggle. You kept saying, "No, I nuggle you." It's not as cute reading it as hearing you say it.
nuggle = snuggle
no = snow
neak = sneak ("I'm neaking", as he tip toes around)
nake = snake

Lost Vegas?

Dear Joey, you can't stop thinking about Las Vegas.  Yesterday I asked what the funnest thing you've ever done was and you said, "Go to Las Vegas." Then you said, "Go to the museum at Las Vegas."  Yesterday morning you said to me out of the blue, "Mom, why do they call it Las Vegas?  Its just sounds lost...
Maybe some people don't know where Las Vegas is so maybe that's why its called Las Vegas." Funny boy!

Crawl, Sit, Pull

Dear Keira, all you want to do is get up and start playing with everyone else.  You are trying so hard to crawl and could care less about sitting up - that just means you're sitting there instead of laying there and you want to MOVE!  Oh, and you looove to pull hair. :)

Hiding?

Dear Jaida, did you know that we can all still see you in this picture? ;)

Power Outage

Dear Joey, this morning the power went out from 6-11am. I think you were awake for ALL of it!  It was fun at first and all of you were running through the house with flashlights. But for the last two hours all you did was cry because you wanted to watch a cartoon, you wanted a cooked waffle or hot this or cooked that...ulg!  I cannot imagine having the power out any longer than that. How are the people on the East coast even coping?

Jaida's Got a Big 'Ole Heart

Dear Jaida, yesterday Kayla told us about some boys at school that were calling her 'baby, baby lion.'  Kayla was extremely upset and crying and you were furious and upset too! Your mind was going a million miles an hour trying to think of a way to go to her playground during one of Kayla's breaks (but then you mentioned something about not being very intimidating). After awhile you started crying and I thought it was because you didn't want to do your homework but really it was because you felt so bad for Kayla. You pretty much cried yourself to sleep. I love you for being so protective of Kayla and having such a big heart!

Pig Snorter

Dear Joey, Misty took you to take pictures and you love telling us that she took you to some train tracks where no trains go.  Just look how cute you are! I just might post all the pics they are so cute.  Some of the funny things you do now: Always ask for water with ice in it, love being only in your underwear because your clothes are too hot, you are about the only one that can make Keira laugh, you love playing cars with Kylan, you love teasing Kylan, you always have to have me fall asleep by you, you want us to get a CTR van (from a story we read), are always looking for Honda's, Chrysler's and Trailblazers because that's what we have, you always have a nervous habit going on - clicking your tongue, chewing on your shirt, snorting like a pig.  I just love my big cuppa Joe (unless you are snorting like a pig).

Legpits

Dear Kayla, some of the stuff that comes out of your little mouth could make me laugh for months.  This morning you were talking about putting lotion on or something and you said you got it in your leg pits. Hahaha, I had to think about that for a minute but now I just can't stop laughing about it. Leg pits, hahaha, did you know you had leg pits?  I have leg pits. LOL! Is LegPits two words or one?

Kayla's Baptism

Dear Kayla, you had the most special day Saturday. You were so excited! We wrote down all your thoughts about Saturday and as you were going down in to the water you said it was warm and cozy and you wanted to dance and bounce off the walls - I'm glad you held back. :)  I missed your confirmation because Kylan was making so much noise, and no one could tell me what Dad said because they couldn't hear. I'm sure it was great. You are getting so big, responsible and smart, can't wait to see what the future holds for you!

School Please

Dear Jaida, yesterday the school nurse called saying that you had a fever of 100 degrees and that you had a sore throat. When talking to you I could tell you were feeling okay and you even said you didn't want to come home.  Dad brought you some Tylenol and I never heard another complaint.  I'm so glad that you love school!

Miss Jaida

Dear Miss J, you have been quite impressive lately. For Halloween you pretty much made your bat costume. You sewed the bat ears and then sewed up Kylan's Pirate costume. For your school's Reflections contest you crocheted a small bowl with flowers in it. You brought home your report card the other day and you have 93% and above in all your subjects, 101% in spelling! In your Primary class you were the only one that knew the name of "the brother of Jared." (thanks to Scripture Scouts) I said Monty, ha!  In the picture above, you raked a track through the leaves that everyone went racing around on and in Vegas you made sure to watch out for Joey and Kylan. I've said it before but I love that you're getting older, more responsible and are so creative!!  You even started giving me crochet lessons!  Love ya Miss J!