Fun with family

Wowzers!! We have been really busy but we have been having fun! My brother Mike has been in town for awhile and tomorrow he is moving to Florida! We know it will be a GREAT move for him but it doesn't mean we won't miss him!! We have been so blessed to be hanging out with him for about a month!!




Owen was being goofy...they love to look out the sides of their eyes like this ALL the time!


cuddle time reading a book


Kennedy's Valentine's Day balloon got caught in the fan this afternoon :( When daddy got home from work he got the ladder out to get it down. The kids were so intrigued. I don't dress them in baby legs very often but today I asked Kennedy to go get a pair of socks out of her drawer. She came back with her baby legs. She insisted she wear them over here jeans:) Owen of course wanted them as well....so there ya have it! I must admit they were very easy to work around big girl and big boy underwear! We are trying to potty train again after taking about a month off. However, I am thinking they are still not quite into it enough. They still have accidents often even if I make them go every hour( and most of the time that is a struggle).

Owen wants to do anything that daddy does. He was pretty proud of himself for climbing the ladder!

This picture is just because I think he looks to cute with his hands in his pockets! ha!


Tonight we went to Craig's Cruisers with Uncle Mike and my parents. We kept telling the kids they would get to go on race cars (go carts) with mommy and daddy. Unfortunately, they were not able to go because they were not 3. My parents played other games with them while Jeremiah, Mike and I went on the go carts! What FUN!!! Seriously, I forgot how fun go carts are:) I even kicked their butts!! Well, Kennedy saw that we were on the go carts after we told her she couldn't ride and threw a fit!! I could hear her screaming over all the noise of the race. When we got done she said to me "mommy, I so sad, no go on race car" I felt so terrible!! Soo we felt bad and let them try and ride this frog jumping ride. She was so excited to go on it. Once it started moving she was SCREAMING she was so scared. Owen on the other hand was in all his glory....until he saw that Kennedy got off (yes, the guy had to stop the ride for her).

We had a great time with the family (we missed you Brandon!!!). We wish the best for Mike and his new life in Florida!!!

February

We started out the month by going to Chuck E Cheese for the first time with the kids. They had a great time!

My GREAT friend Beth watched the kids for me last week since my mom was out of town helping my brother move from Denver. Thank you BETH!! Here is a pic she took of the kids playing together:)

Happy Valentines from my sweethearts:)

Also, for whatever reason I can't get this video to post to the blog but you can check out the kids singing Away in a manger (Owen's favorite song...or the only one he will let us sing without yelling no). They were singing during dinner time of course once I get out the video camera they stop so it took a little bribbing as you can see. I think Owen is a bit too smart....what a stinker!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPcny6x1IWg

They are not babies anymore!!!

Last night when I got home from work I had the itch to start rearranging Kennedy's room. After I moved her bed I thought maybe we should just make it a big girl bed so we did. Although we didn't talk with her about it before hand she seemed very excited. Owen and Kennedy loved jumping on the bed that they could get in and out of on their own. Since she had a convertible bed it just looks like a day bed now. I know the picture is not the greatest but I really didn't want to wake her up!!!

Today after nap time I had both kids go potty on the potty. After Owen had his diaper back on and I was putting Kennedy's pants on Owen said he wanted to go potty again. He was very persistent so I thought I would just take off his diaper and make him happy. I left the bathroom and when I came back in to get him off the potty there was poopie in the potty!!!

Kennedy riding the horse

Different kinds of poopie

Whew! What a week!! My brother Michael is in town for a bit before heading to Denver and packing up his place to move to Florida. It has been great to have him in town and we are so happy we are able to spend quality time together. My brother Brandon was in town for a day too. We had a great time all together for a while. Owen and Kennedy LOVE their uncles.

In other big news......Kennedy took her first poopie on the potty!!! I know, I know...its crazy to talk about bodily functions but it was a pretty big deal. I caught her in the act and she was not thrilled about going on the potty. Once I put on though she said "leave alone mommy" so walked away for a minute and when I came back she had gone! We made a very big deal about it and hopefully she will want to ask to go sometime.

Speaking of poopie...our computer took a poopie too! Unfortunately I think we lost a lot of our pictures and other things. Thankfully my uncle is so tech savy and has helped us out a ton so we hope he was able to recover some pictures and things. Hence, I have no pictures for this post but will hopefully will find a computer soon that we can upload pictures from.

She's a big girl!

Well, this post is a little overdue but Kennedy is completely paci free! It took her a few nights of screaming but she did it:) The first nap she took without her paci she asked me to leave the light on. After screaming for a few minutes I went in there and told her that if I had to come in again I would have to turn the light out. She didn't stop screaming so I went in and turned the light out. She obviously was not very happy and neither was I! It was very difficult but it worked because that night all I/we had to do was tell her if she didn't stop screaming I would turn the light out. Each night it got a little easier and now she has been paci free without any problems!!

On Tuesday while I was at work I got a phone call from Sandy (our day care lady). She told me the kids were fine but wondered if I could come home for a few minutes because Kennedy stuck a pretzel up her nose and she couldn't get it out!! I knew this would happen someday because she is obsessed with her nose! She likes to blow her nose, pick her nose, and put things up her nose!! Last week she put a piece of brown rice up her nose, luckily it came out quite easily. This time, not so easy! When I got home Sandi and I tried to work together....one of us to hold her and one of us to work on her nose. She completely FREAKED out and screamed and cried and didn't want the tweezers near her nose! I think all that crying helped because I was able to get it out without a problem after I told her I saw a booger:)

Tonight we got together with the Kidds and the Staals. There are now, with the addition of baby Mia more kids than the adults!! We had a great time hanging out and the kids LOVE playing. Owen loves baby Mia and was very excited to help feed her her bottle.

As you may remember from last time, Kennedy didn't want to hold baby Mia but this time she did! She had lots of kisses for her and loved looking at her tiny fingers.

Good times with friends

On Thursday morning we had a play date with Sadie and Mia. Lily was at school for most of the time but we were able to see her at lunch. Sadie, Owen and Kennedy thought ti was fun to hold hand and jump in the air. At first Lis and I had to participate but we quickly made the circle smaller :) This was the first time that Kennedy and Owen met baby Mia. We have talked about her for a couple months now and for the past week or so I have been telling Kennedy that we are going to bring her paci's to baby Mia. Every time we talked about it Kennedy said..me hold her. However, when we got there she had no interest in holding her, in fact she started crying :( Owen was very excited to hold her and gave her lots of kisses!

On Saturday night we had our friends Jackson and Brady over....with their parents of course:) We had a great time and we finished the night off in the bath tub. The kids had lots of fun and so did we!



Sadie, Owen and Kennedy....jumping in a circle


Owen holding baby Mia


Owen, Kennedy, Jackson and Brady