whoa......

i love this picture...my little cowgirl and doughnut fanatic (she had three doughnuts in a matter of minutes at the Louisburg Cider Mill.....mmmmm good lunch!)



i can't believe that this little girl is already six months old. fifteen pounds of pure sweetness. and it has only taken us these six months to figure out what is possibly causing her spitting up. she may have a milk allergy. poor thing! yeah for me, that means i have to stop drinking and eating dairy and start drinking soy! can i just say yuck, yuck, yuck! alaina, i love you so dearly, but i don't know how long i will be able to drink that nasty stuff. at least it's not going to waste....kylee loves the vanilla soy that i bought. alaina is on the verge of crawling before sitting and she is getting her first tooth......i just love when they get those first two teeth on the bottom, except for when you are a nursing mommy, and they decide to take a bite! she is growing so fast.

sweet alaina, you make me so happy! i never could have imagined loving another little person so much. you have added a new dimension of love to my life.

the boss

kylee's phrase of the day........

kylee and i were having breakfast yesterday morning when i randomly asked her if she wanted to be a "mommy" one day. her response....."yeah, i wanna be the boss!" you can't get more honest than that. i'll be sure and inform her future husband of that fact. (you kinda had to be here to really hear her matter of fact response.....it was pretty funny.)

(i got kylee to say, "i wanna be the boss," again, while playing little mommy....listen carefully.)

picnic in the park

okay, so i thought i would take the girls for a picnic in the park before kylee went to school the other day, i never knew it would be so fun (well, funny!) it was a beautiful day, cool breeze, warm sunshine, two fussy kids, what better way to cheer them up than a picnic lunch in the park. we get there and lay out the blanket, kylee unpacks the lunch and alaina lays there soaking in the scenery and i just relish in the beauty of my family. as soon as everything is unpacked and we start eating kylee pipes up, "mommy, i have to pee."

me: "are you serious? you just went before we left the house."
kylee: her legs bouncing nervously..."yeah, i have to pee."
me: "really? can you hold it?" i am looking in every direction hoping that a bathroom will
magically appear....no luck. then look at my watch and realize that school doesn't start for
another hour and we were planning on staying at the park until then. i don't want to
repack everything back up and drive to a gas station and then unload again.
kylee: "i can hold it, i don't have to pee.....(long pause)....i have to pee."
me: i am now frantically looking around checking out our surroundings....big trees, bushes...no
one in site (you know where i am going.) "kylee, do you think you could pee on the
ground?"
kylee: excitedly asks "like a rabbit?" (not like a dog, or cat, but a rabbit....what?)
me: laughing "yeah, like a rabbit."
kylee: "yeah i can."
me: while turning around to get a baby wipe, "we have to go over there by the bush and do
it really, really fast."
kylee: standing there with her pants already down around her ankles.
me: "not yet, pull up your pants."
so we run over to the bush....aliana is just lying there on the blanket oblivious that she is by herself on the blanket (we were only a few feet away.) i pull down kylee's pants, hold her hands and tell her to squat. she does a great job. we go back to the blanket wipe our hands and start to have lunch. kylee is so proud of herself, she sits there with a big smile on her face.
kylee: "i peed in a bush!"
me: "yeah, lets not tell anyone okay? we're not really supposed to be doing that."
kylee: "why?"
me: "because we could get into trouble, you aren't supposed to pee in the park."
kylee: "oh!"

so what does kylee do, the first person she tells is her school teacher when she was putting her in the car. great! what was i supposed to do. i can't be the only mother who has made there kid pee in a bush. (it sure would have been easier if she was a boy!) some may think this was terrible, but i think it was just too funny not to share. the "like a rabbit" part just kills me.

what better way to spend quality time with your kids....teaching them how to pee in bushes, followed by lunch and a fun game of hide and seek. we really did have a great time, and i really had a great laugh.

picasso

beautiful art!!! i love seeing how kylee's creativity is developing. it's been recently that she's becoming quite the artist.....actually drawing things that are supposed to resemble something or in this case someone...our family (however, alan didn't come out too clear). as you'll see below i labeled who everyone is. do you like how she drew us all upside down?...our legs are on our head and our hair is on our butt (our eyes too)! picasso in the making i think. it really is neat to see things through her eyes.

more and more

....just adding a few new pictures of the girls. i love that they (Kylee) is willing to be bribed (with some sort of junk food) to be my practice models all the time. i'll have more of alaina next month seeing as she will be six months old....wow. hopefully she'll be sitting up! kylee looks a little sad in her picture ("mom, again...do i really have to do this again?"), but i thought it was precious.

steam roller

yes, only five months old and the steam roller is in motion. this is a new thing for us because kylee didn't start rolling over like that until she started crawling. this video doesn't show her going very fast, but she really can move. the only down side is that i can no longer contain the spit-up (not like i was really able to contain it anyway, just in a smaller area.) i can't keep her on the blanket anymore, so there is vomit everywhere....gross! praise the lord for oxi-clean!!!!!

first day of school treat!

mmmmmm......chocolate cream filled cupcakes. i have always wanted to, but never took the time to actually make them. what a mess. alan came home and was like "what the heck happened in the kitchen?" it literally looked like it exploded...but well worth the effort. i'll make up any kind of excuse to make something chocolate and i was thinking that since kylee is starting school tomorrow i thought she needed a "first day of school" treat. she loved it, can you tell. she says that they'll make her strong....i say they make me weak (and a little thicker around the middle.) hey sarah, don't tell kylee that i sent some to your house...she doesn't like to share her sweets....hmmmmm, i wonder where she gets that.










as for alaina, this picture was too funny. alan took it when i was at work last week. we have a picture of of kylee just like this, sometimes they really do look alike...but most times not. i just love my blue and brown eyed sweets!

another new favorite

how precious is this, seriously? so relaxed in papooh's arms, what better way to spend a few moments.....especially after puking all over mom. yep, the poor thing is still at it. we are hoping that this spitting up thing will die down soon, in the next month maybe? i think that's just more wishful thinking on my part. our washing machine is getting a serious workout, so am i! it's a good thing she is so darn precious, it's all worth it. thanks dad for hanging out with us, always a good time. i learn something new everytime, why didn't i listen more when i was younger?

lurkers and looky-loo's

hey all you "looky-loo's," yes, you know who you are.....you come to look, but never comment. so sad for me. part of the fun in having the blog is to read what others have to say about it (to see who is checking it out). you don't have to say much, you can just tell me how weird i am. i promise it doesn't take long and it isn't hard. so if you have a minute after checking out what's new with us leave a little something.

"a date"....what's that?!?

you know those nights when a boy and girl would go out to dinner and movie (something fun), getting to know the other person a little better....trying to make a good impression. yeah, that is called a date, those don't happen aroun' these parts much, but thanks to my dad and donna, alan and i were able to have a "date night" (only happens 2 or 3 times a year) at the royals game. dad had two tickets to the royals vs. red sox game and thought of us (big red sox fans).....dad you are a big sweetie, thank you for thinking of us. donna, thanks for being available to watch the girls, i'm so glad they were good for you. we had a great time. baseball games are always entertaining, especially when you have a loud drunk family sitting next to you....it was amazingly quiet when they left during the 4th inning. no, i really do enjoy going to baseball games. it's nice to sit back and relax, drink a really "expensive" beer, chat, watch the game....even have time to think (love that.) so much fun!


the feet....mmmmmm good! i love this picture of the two girls, kylee loves to entertain and alaina loves to be entertained.....loves her big sister so much.

what's new for now......nothing

absolutely nothing new around these parts.....probably why i haven't added anything to the blog recently. this is our first family portrait (with alaina), i am so amazed that everyone cooperated so well, especially with me running into the picture after setting the timer. i was laughing at the whole thing before we did this because we were all getting "dolled up," upstairs just to go downstairs to our basement. i stopped feeling so ridiculous after seeing the pictures....not to bad with the self timer. my two little models below, getting so big. i am not kidding, kylee is getting huge. is it possible for them to grow like three inches over night, because that is what it seems like. i was watching a video of kylee yesterday from march....wow, she has changed soooooo much. alaina has recently found her feet. fun new entertainment.....we are grateful, maybe now we won't develop carpel tunnel in our wrists from shaking the darn rattle all the time (especially alan.) "the feet"....next post. for now that's all.

tattoo

i love this picture. however i am still trying to get used to the tattoo (it's getting a little easier each day.) last week it was decided that friday was going to be the day.....well, friday was the official day that alan was inked! yep, that aint' no fake tattoo, that's the real deal. look at those cute little butt cheeks :)
what can i say, we were all down stairs... i had my camera....it automatically focuses on them. i cannot resist these cute as can be moments. awesome, awesome and awesome!!! kylee, alaina....you make mommy smile.
sweet potatoes anyone? we've moved on to sweet potatoes today. this picture is a little scary, but it's too funny. you think she likes them? "more mommy, more! i love getting them all over my face!" stay tuned for green beans....that'll be interesting.

slacker or busy mom?

i can't decide whether i am just a slacker when if comes to this blog thing, or i'm just a typical mom.....busy! i'll go with busy. alaina just turned 4 months last week. she is a little over 12 1/2 lbs and 25 1/4 inches long (her feet are already at the end of her carseat.) she just started eating carrots a few days ago....loves them. however, i don't understand how she is getting any nutrients from them seeing as how they come out the other end looking like they did when they went it. gross!!! oh, she is finally getting hair, you probably can't tell from the picture, but she really does have a lot of fuzz up there.

kylee can't stop talking about chuck e cheese and what costume she wants for halloween. (halloween, isn't that like three or four months away?) for now she is planning on going to chuck e cheese "all by my self when i'm four," and she is going to be batman for halloween. i wonder how long that will last? she really is getting too big, too fast.

oh boy! the lake

it's only the beginning....our first of many trips to papa and ohie's lakehouse. so much fun i must say. it was so incredibly hot out....we had to be extra careful with the girls, but they did great. kylee had a blast, especially floating on the raft with me (her personal boat with oars.) it's amazing how only a few hours out there could wear you out so fast. we were exhausted and a little sun burned. i can't wait for more weekends like it. thanks mom and dad.

busy, busy, busy

i must say that i have been negligent in blogging. so much going on....trying to get this business thing going, keeping up with the kiddos, and many other odds and ends projects around the house. yeah, alan and i spent our entire evening moving furniture around the house. we moved things upstairs and downstairs and from room to room. we felt we needed a little more running room in the living room. with all the toys, bouncy seat and whatever else walks in, it was feeling a bit cramped. so....our dining room is no longer a dining room, it's another sitting area, with a loveseat and everything. know i am in the process of decorating it. i have about a thousand projects all going at the same time and none of them ever seem to get finished....wonder why??? yeah, if you wouldn't mind praying for me i have been feeling a little under the weather lately. i have been having these nasty stomach aches on a daily basis and they are not in the least bit fun, especially when you have two of the cutest girls wanting your attention and i can't give it completely because i feel like total crap! anyway, more complaining. all, truely is well!

my "gummy bear"

it seems as though she has changed so much in just a few weeks. three and a half months old....wow! i am so in love. just as kylee will always be my "kylee bug" (she's made it a point to remind me lately that she's "my bug") alaina will be my "gummy bear." they are both so darn cute.

as i sit here right now kylee keeps running back and forth to the door in excitement every time she hears the "fire-pops." this year we decided to stay at home for the forth of july considering that alaina is so sensitive to noise....we figured fireworks would be a bad idea. but we didn't want kylee to completely miss out so here in a little bit we are going to light off a few of our own...oh, that's illegal isn't it....oops! she is so excited, been waiting all darn day. it's probably been one long day....among many others i'm sure.

by mercer mayer

every day we read one of these mercer mayer books. kylee loves them (i do too.) we obviously read them a lot because today as i was reading kylee started reading it word for word....well, she was just reciting it, but none the less she had memorized the whole entire thing. amazing! i was so blown away by what i was hearing. it was so fun. all i had to do is say the first word and then she took off with the rest. i think she really was enjoying the fact that i was so taken back because later in the evening she brought it to me again and started reading it with a big grin on her face, doing this silly little dance....like, "aren't you proud of me." yes my little darling, i am so very proud of you.

mmmm...popsicles

sweets for the sweet. popsicles in the summer time are so good. they drip all over the place and make things extra sticky, what fun! it was such a beautiful day i just had to be outside (no sense in sleeping it away, even if i was up all night working), i had to bribe kylee with a popsicle in order to get her to stay out there with me. i just love sharing these times with her. she doesn't get a whole lot of just mommy and me time anymore. and the typical response in our house right now is, "in a minute," or "you'll have to wait." not in this moment, just you and me kid!

okay.... most of you out there have heard me say that "i would one day like to start my own photography business." well, i think that day is coming soon. can i just tell you how excited and nervous i am. a year ago i didn't have the confidence to even think this could be possible, nor was i good enough to do it. God has really worked in me and has paved the way for this to happen and i am going to seize it. i believe he has given me this gift and desire for a reason. so, that brings me to the picture above....i need feedback. i need to get my name out there and i was thinking that this would be a good way to start....via business card. this is the layout i have put together and i am wanting everyone's opinion. i still have a while before things are officially started, but this is just one of the things that needs to get done. so, please let me know what you think.

"gaggles"

we got the "gaggles." (but now they are "goggles") she actually looks like a little fish. alaina liked them so much she thought she would try them out to.....well, when i making dinner i turned around and saw that kylee had laid them over her eyes (then alan came in and really put them on her). i can't believe she didn't mind. i just love my little fishes:)