No, I Did That Yesterday

Megan has absolutely no concept of time. It's hilarious actually.

Me: Do you want to wear these jammies?

Megan: No, I wore those last night!

Me: Do you want to wear these?

Megan: No, I wore THOSE last night!

Me: You couldn't have worn both of these last night...

Megan: Yeah, I did.

Me: Megan do you need to go potty?

Megan: No, I went at Brock's house.

Me: Yeah, 4 DAYS AGO! Just go try.

Megan: No, I went yesterday.

It's quite funny that every event in her life happened yesterday, whether it did or not. Somehow she managed to wear 3 pairs of shoes, 2 shirts, 4 different pairs of underwear and played with all her toys just yesterday. She's amazing I tell ya, manages to fill those yesterdays with a lot. Busy, busy girl. I don't know how she learned that "I did/wore/ate/played with that yesterday" is an answer to my every question, but it is pretty funny.

Denim Dolls

The girls got dressed for church and as we were leaving I realized the older two were in denim jumpers and Kendra in a denim dress that both the older girls wore when they were babies. It was too cute not to get a picture of them together in their denim and cowgirl boots.

Hey There Little Lady!

Kendra has discovered mirrors and loves looking at herself in them. She looks, notices herself, and then grins from ear to ear!

I love this little chunkster!

My view of this little girl for much of the day. She loves being held in my arms after being fed and sometimes dozes off. She is so snuggly and sweet and loves sleeping in my arms.

During tummy time Kendra likes to find herself in her other mirror and has fun staring herself down. She's growing so fast, rolling both ways, scooting across her crib on her back, becoming much more social and smiley...I just don't want to miss a moment of this sweet little thing's life!

Her shirt says, "Mommy's Little Lovebug," and it couldn't be more true!

I Love Funny Sleeping Pictures

and here's another great example! Mikayla's been doing a great job learning to read and she loves being read to as well. The other night she listened to a book on cd and then wanted to keep reading it. I came in to check on them later on that night and found her asleep still clutching the book in her hands. Love it!

Month by Month

We got each of the girls a big stuffed animal and take their picture with the animal each month for the first year of their life to see their growth and how they change. Here's Kendra with her pink hippo at 1 month.

2 months, still not really smiling

3 months, getting more expressive with those baby blues

4 months, the little chunkster just hit 13 lbs. and is a bundle of fun, laughing and smiling every chance she gets. I can't believe my baby is getting so big and is a couple weeks from being 5 months old.

Just Another Day in Paradise

So I started making dinner for us, Josh, Chloe, and Dusty. I look outside and see the torrents of rain coming down. Rain's not so bad, unless it comes in the garage. So I look in the garage and whaddya know? It's trickling in!

Ran around like a madwoman gathering towels to sop up the mess while Trent uses buckets to empty the patio area. Sent Josh to Home Depot to get sump pump to pump out all the water because the ground is so saturated that it's all just running into the garage. I got a bucket and started helping Trent. So did Mikayla. Unfortunately, Mikayla's bucket of muddy, nasty water ended up in mom's face. An unhappy mom tells(okay, yells at) the girls to get inside when Megan slides head-first across the soggy grass getting mud all over her clothes, face, hair, everything. Meanwhile, Kendra is inside screaming her sweet head off for milk that I am currently unable to give.

Alas, the water got pumped out, Megan got a bath, I apologized to Mikayla for yelling at her, fed the starving 4-month old and managed to get dinner on the table for us all.

Yeah, I know. You're jealous. You probably had a very pleasant stress-free Tuesday night at home, when in reality you wish you were me. At the end of the day, dealing with the muddy, screaming, bucket 'o water throwing, tiring children is actually my paradise. My life may be crazy, but I love it.
...most of the time...lol...

Daddy Daughter Dance

Mikayla and Trent went to a Daddy-Daughter Dance at her school. It was for all girls K-6 and was so well attended there was hardly room for dancing! They had fun and looked great!


And yes, the 5 yr. old asked me to put a Bump-It in her hair, gotta love big hair! I made them a corsage and boutonneire off of a mini-rose bush we had and Mikayla picked out her dress and matched with Dad.
They double-dated with Dusty and Nicole and went to dinner first at Applebee's, then headed over for the fun. I'm glad they get opportunities like this to spend time together just the two of them.

Why?

"Mom, why is there a moon, since it doesn't really give us much light?"

"Mom, when dogs get sad do they cry tears?"

"Mom, why don't scars ever go away?"

"Mom, why do you have two boobies when all Kendra needs is one to drink milk from?"

These are a few of the questions I've been asked from Mikayla in the past few weeks. She is really inquisitive and sometimes I know the answer (most often I don't!), and other times I just say, "Well, um, uh..... why do you think, honey?" It leads us to interesting conversations, but makes me feel like I just don't know enough to be a mom yet!

--Blog Help--

Okay techie friends, anyone know how to fix my blog? I left the account open the other day and sweet little Megan had fun working the mouse and changing around the family blog. I have no idea how she got the blog posts, blog list, etc. down at the bottom of the page under all my posts. ANYone know how to fix this???? I don't know what the 2yr old did to permanently alter the look of the blog, but I want my old one back, with the family pic and blog list on the right of the screen. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. :)

***thank you Jackie and Ashley! I have done both of the suggestions. I changed the template altogether now to something different, but everytime I go back to Minima it drops the pic and everything else down below the posts again. So, for some reason, the Minima layout is not working for me... grrr... ***

5 1/2!

Mikayla was very excited for her 1/2 birthday and had been looking forward to the day for some reason. For her half birthday I made her half a breakfast. She got half pancakes, half a banana, and half a glass of apple juice. She thought it was great and it really wasn't "half" a breakfast--I wasn't starving my child, but for some reason the girls thought the idea was really fun. I think we may now have a new half-birthday tradition!

The Mini-Moms

Megan likes to hold Kendra and sing her sweet songs and make her smile.
She's such a happy baby! The mini-moms are good at making her laugh.
She's become quite the finger-sucker lately! She tries to mash her hands into her mouth and after sucking on these fingers for quite some time she left red marks on her cheeks!
Mikayla loves to play with Kendra and hold her and burp her. She's a big help and she can't get enough of her baby sister.
Miss Kendra even gets her hair styled after baths by her mini-moms. What a lucky little girl!

Uh Oh...

Dear Miss Kendra: When I place you in the middle of the blanket for tummy time and go into the kitchen to grab some water and finish loading the dishwasher, I do not expect to return to this...

Yeah, my 3 month old movin' machine, I'm talkin' to you. You are supposed to be my baby. Stay little. Stop rolling over both ways and rocking and rolling and scooting several feet off the blanket. Please stay little longer. Thank you. Love, Mom

P.S. I'm scared for what's to come strong little girl...

Our Paci Party!

When I was in the hospital with Kendra last month, Magaw helped Megan break her pacifier habit. She only used it to fall asleep and then we'd take it out of her mouth at night, but at 2 1/2, it's time to ditch the habit. And she did it. Cold turkey. So, we had a paci party for her! The girls made their own crowns, they made a cake and frosted it. Then came the fun part: we gave the girls two forks and said, "Dig in!" They couldn't believe it! A whole cake to devour and not have to cut into pieces! They made quite a mess and ate more cake than we thought possible, but it was worth it for our celebration! Megan has now been paci-free for one month and has not mentioned it or asked about one since.

Watch Out

for when Mikayla gets ahold of the camera, you're never safe! (Her impressive self-portrait)

Kendra got her mug snapped while I was working on the computer...

and poor Megan was trying to have some peace and quiet on the potty. Ah, my future paparazzo...

100 days of school

That's right! Mikayla has now been to over 100 days of school! She had a fun day of eating 100 different snacks, reading 100 different words, making these cool glasses and the awesomely funky hat! The hat has 10 strips of paper stapled around the band; each band being stamped 10 times for a total of 100 stamps on the hat.

To convey the span of time of 100 yrs to the children, the teacher had a 100 yr. old person (close to 100...), 100-month old student, and a 100-day old baby come in. They were able to compare and contrast the difference in ages of the 3 people and get an idea of how different 100 days is to 100 years. Kendra was 103 days old on the day we came into the class--can't get much closer than that! We were happy to help out and Mikayla was more than happy to show off her sister to her friends and answer their questions.

Here's to a couple thousand more days of school!