Braden came home with information from Eagle Rock Junior High this week. I am trying to reconcile myself with the fact that our oldest will be in junior high. I HATED junior high. (As those of you who went to school with me can attest.) Braden is REALLY excited to be going, though. He has a lot of friends from other schools that he has gotten to know through PACE and orchestra. This week we get to deal with registering him for classes and he got to go on a tour of the juinor high on Tuesday. When I asked him what he thought of the tour his comment, he responded, "Well, they told us if we went we would get cookies afterwards and then they just gave us pencils." :-) Some of the kids apparently only agreed to go when their teachers said there would be cookies and were not happy afterwards when there weren't any. I thought the tour would be fun for me, though, as I've never been around the school. Apparently this parent found that idea more exciting than the actual kids going there.
While I'm not too excited to have him going he is so that is good. He's definitely looking big enough to go unlike some of his other classmates. Karina's is almost as big as a few of them. And big he is. He's almost as tall as I am and has bigger feet than I do. He'll be outgrowing his dad's shoes in not too long. Braden's eagerly anticipating when he'll be taller than me - in another 2 inches. He just keeps growing up and while it's fun to watch I'd love to keep him little forever.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Every family has to have it happen once, right?
I really thought I might get off with this never happening but apparently not. My visiting teachers came over last night and Kayli came to cheerfully visit us streaking through BUCK NAKED and dripping wet to dance for them! She'd escaped from the bathtub while Barry was engrossed reading the paper while sitting on the bed "supervising". The kid went right past him and he didn't even notice. Hahaha. I did just laugh and take her back to her daddy who then felt quite sheepish that she'd gotten away from him. :-) Ah, you got to love kids!
All of yesterday, and half of Tuesday, Kayli has been stripping off her diaper and clothes every time her diaper is wet. We keep finding her running around naked with a huge grin on her face. The past two nights I'd gone in to check on her when sleeping and found she was naked with no diaper. So, obviously she doesn't want to be wearing wet diapers. We tried some training underpants on her after the streaking incident and she was SO excited. Hence, I went shopping last night and got all the stuff we need to potty training and tomorrow is the day. I'm hoping that she'll quite streaking once she gets rid of the diapers so wish me luck!
All of yesterday, and half of Tuesday, Kayli has been stripping off her diaper and clothes every time her diaper is wet. We keep finding her running around naked with a huge grin on her face. The past two nights I'd gone in to check on her when sleeping and found she was naked with no diaper. So, obviously she doesn't want to be wearing wet diapers. We tried some training underpants on her after the streaking incident and she was SO excited. Hence, I went shopping last night and got all the stuff we need to potty training and tomorrow is the day. I'm hoping that she'll quite streaking once she gets rid of the diapers so wish me luck!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Grammie-Great and Audrey
I love this photo of my Grandma Scott holding Audrey, my sister Camille's new baby. What sweet loving!
Kayli's First Haircut Photos
Here's our little princess with her first butch - oh, I mean haircut - that he daddy took her to get. :-) Her bangs were down to her nose before her haircut as I could decide whether to grow them out or cut them. Obviously her daddy decided to cut them.
I have my camera back! Yippee!!!
I accidentally left my camera at mom and dad's in February. It took until yesterday to get it back. I've noticed that if I don't have pictures, I don't blog usually. (See, no pictures and no blogging since then!) Now I can get back to sharing pictures which say a thousand words, right? Which means I don't have to type a thousand words. :-)
The one thing I did miss having it for was the kids' ice skating lessons. Karina and Tyler took lessons from January - March and Braden did just March. For spring break, we all went ice skating for the first time together as a family. Happily we found a babysitter for Kayli both days and we ended up having a blast. She wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much we did. Barry went with us the second day, his first time ever, and he only crashed once that I recall. I, on the other hand, was using hockey skates and kept forgetting I didn't have toe picks so took more tumbles than he did, as my very bruised knees can attest. I'd love to have had the camera to take pictures that day.
The newest activity the kids are in is jump rope for heart activity at school. They go once a week for 6 weeks and have a competition the last day. Since Braden is in 6th grade, he is a student helper/teacher this year instead.
Kayli just keeps on growing and keeps us laughing. I substituted in the nursery a few weeks ago and we found out who the real ring leader of trouble is in there - Kayli! Everyone was laughing pretty hard when I told them her antics. I saw Kayli and one other girl, who are the only ones with big brothers, were the only two girls playing trucks with the boys. Gee, imagine that.
Then when snack time came, I found out Kayli is the big eater of the group. I was informed that when they have sandwiches, she'll have eaten four quarters in the amount of time the rest of the kids will eat one. She also pounded the goldfish crackers when I was there. You'd think we never fed the kid. I thought about and asked if she was the kid that had the most older siblings and sure enough she was. In other words, her mentality could be "if you don't eat now somebody else is going to and you might be out of luck" where the rest of the kids don't have quite so much competition for goodies at their houses.
My favorite, though, was the wild rampage. Some of the kids started running around being wild. Kayli was sitting on my lap pouting (because she wanted Dad) when this started. She promptly cheered up, got her mischevious look on her face, got the hands up in pounce mode and said "I'mmmmm gonnna get you!" and started chasing all of the kids. Obviously this happens a lot because all of them instantly when into group mode and started running while she chased them stating she was going to "get them". I laughed really hard and don't think I can adequately describe how funny it is, mostly because Tyler plays that game with her all the time. It is their favorite but since he wasn't there, she turned the tables and took his normal position, chasing all the rest of the kids and getting them really wild.
That's about all that has been up in our lives since we last posted. We've been sick, gotten better, done activities and normal life. We hope everyone else is doing well and Happy Spring!
The one thing I did miss having it for was the kids' ice skating lessons. Karina and Tyler took lessons from January - March and Braden did just March. For spring break, we all went ice skating for the first time together as a family. Happily we found a babysitter for Kayli both days and we ended up having a blast. She wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much we did. Barry went with us the second day, his first time ever, and he only crashed once that I recall. I, on the other hand, was using hockey skates and kept forgetting I didn't have toe picks so took more tumbles than he did, as my very bruised knees can attest. I'd love to have had the camera to take pictures that day.
The newest activity the kids are in is jump rope for heart activity at school. They go once a week for 6 weeks and have a competition the last day. Since Braden is in 6th grade, he is a student helper/teacher this year instead.
Kayli just keeps on growing and keeps us laughing. I substituted in the nursery a few weeks ago and we found out who the real ring leader of trouble is in there - Kayli! Everyone was laughing pretty hard when I told them her antics. I saw Kayli and one other girl, who are the only ones with big brothers, were the only two girls playing trucks with the boys. Gee, imagine that.
Then when snack time came, I found out Kayli is the big eater of the group. I was informed that when they have sandwiches, she'll have eaten four quarters in the amount of time the rest of the kids will eat one. She also pounded the goldfish crackers when I was there. You'd think we never fed the kid. I thought about and asked if she was the kid that had the most older siblings and sure enough she was. In other words, her mentality could be "if you don't eat now somebody else is going to and you might be out of luck" where the rest of the kids don't have quite so much competition for goodies at their houses.
My favorite, though, was the wild rampage. Some of the kids started running around being wild. Kayli was sitting on my lap pouting (because she wanted Dad) when this started. She promptly cheered up, got her mischevious look on her face, got the hands up in pounce mode and said "I'mmmmm gonnna get you!" and started chasing all of the kids. Obviously this happens a lot because all of them instantly when into group mode and started running while she chased them stating she was going to "get them". I laughed really hard and don't think I can adequately describe how funny it is, mostly because Tyler plays that game with her all the time. It is their favorite but since he wasn't there, she turned the tables and took his normal position, chasing all the rest of the kids and getting them really wild.
That's about all that has been up in our lives since we last posted. We've been sick, gotten better, done activities and normal life. We hope everyone else is doing well and Happy Spring!
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