12.19.2011
Sneak Peak
Ok, I changed my mind. I decided to put up a few pics of the kids that AREN'T included in the Christmas card. So, keep in mind that these aren't even the really good ones that made the card!! :)
Dang It!
Well I'm already a week behind on my goal of blogging once a week!! The time just gets away from me!
But, get ready for some Grady & Brynlee picture awesomeness!!! Very soon. We had their pictures taken a couple weeks ago and they turned out AWESOME!! I was very worried about how it would go. Especially at 3:00 in the afternoon, which is normally when G would be napping....for 4 hours. But, we had Kellan put him down early that day so he would at least get a somewhat good nap in before pictures. And, Brynlee had also taken a pretty good nap, so that worked in our favor!! They both did awesome!
Grady, of course, had to be the comedian and think he was hilarious to get out of the poses she had him in, as soon as she walked away. Oh he thought he was SO funny! Which, was annoying to mom and dad...
Brynlee was sweet and smiley like usual! My only dislike of her is that her hair is at such a hard length right now! It is too long for a headband to look good without hairs sticking out everywhere or bunching up. But, it is too thin for clips or barettes to stay in. So, her hair looks funny in many pics, but everything else looked good!
I'm going to wait to post them until after Christmas and all of our Christmas cards are out! Sorry, no sneak peaks! :)
I am WAY behind this year. I normally have everything done and out by the first week in December, but we couldn't get in to do our pictures until Dec. 8, so I'm doing them as fast as I can! I don't like this feeling though! I tend to do everything WAY in advance as fast as possible and this is killing me! We keep getting such cute pictures and letters in the mail and I LOVE getting them! It is a race to the mailbox every day!! :)
What else we've been up to:
Last weekend we were at home all weekend. It was so nice! We went to the Zoo to the Winter Zoobilee event they had. We met our friends Tyler, Anslee & Harper. Grady loved it, as usual! We got to ride the train, 2 times! And the camels were back out!! No penguins though....he made sure to tell everyone that...
Then on Sunday I went to the Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the Community Playhouse with Doris and my Aunt Lori & Aunt Shari. It was SUPER good! Such a fun Christmasy thing to do too!!
This last weekend we had Paul's work Christmas party on Friday night. Then on Saturday we had the Houtwed Christmas party in Grand Island. It was a really fun time! Lots of great food, funny stuff during present opening, and my Grandma Marlene got the new car she has ordered from Arizona.
Yesterday we discovered our new hobby. Well, our once a month awesome routine we are going to do! Paul's parents have a Sams Club business owner membership and they added us to their account. (Which I'm super bummed that we didn't think of doing when we first moved to Lincoln.) So, we went to Sams! I love it there! I know, it is weird. But, I always find such good things that you can't get other places! I'm not a huge fan of buying in bulk b/c typically we don't have the room to store it and I am a person who can't handle a lot of clutter/stuff. My fridge/cupboards need to be orderly and in place.... So, I don't necessarily buy a lot of bulk items (except diapers, wipes, baby food) but I just love a lot of the different food items they have. So, it was really fun! We had both the kids with us and it was lunch time, so the trip got cut shorter than I wanted, but we still couldn't get out of there spending less thatn $300! It is crazy! But, I guess we shouldn't need more of the things we got for quite awhile!!!
Then, after our trip to Sams (which is on the opposite side of town from our house) we went to CiCi's pizza. Paul loves that place. I love that G eats free. And, I love their brownies and breadsticks! The pizza is just good enough to make it a good place! :) So, we decided our once a month Sams trip will also be followed by eating at Cici's Pizza! There isn't one on our side of town, so we have to live it up while we can. haha!
We are getting super excited about Christmas and the upcoming weekend of celebrating with LOTS of family! We have 4 different parties we are going to on Sat/Sun so it will be great to get to see everyone! Everything is done and ready, except for 1 Pinterest project I need to finish up, which actually doesn't need to be done until January 7th, when my family meets for Christmas....So I have time! :)
This is a picture of Gradyn & Brynlee with my Grandma Marlene from our Houtwed Christmas on Saturday. I thought it turned out SUPER good!!
But, get ready for some Grady & Brynlee picture awesomeness!!! Very soon. We had their pictures taken a couple weeks ago and they turned out AWESOME!! I was very worried about how it would go. Especially at 3:00 in the afternoon, which is normally when G would be napping....for 4 hours. But, we had Kellan put him down early that day so he would at least get a somewhat good nap in before pictures. And, Brynlee had also taken a pretty good nap, so that worked in our favor!! They both did awesome!
Grady, of course, had to be the comedian and think he was hilarious to get out of the poses she had him in, as soon as she walked away. Oh he thought he was SO funny! Which, was annoying to mom and dad...
Brynlee was sweet and smiley like usual! My only dislike of her is that her hair is at such a hard length right now! It is too long for a headband to look good without hairs sticking out everywhere or bunching up. But, it is too thin for clips or barettes to stay in. So, her hair looks funny in many pics, but everything else looked good!
I'm going to wait to post them until after Christmas and all of our Christmas cards are out! Sorry, no sneak peaks! :)
I am WAY behind this year. I normally have everything done and out by the first week in December, but we couldn't get in to do our pictures until Dec. 8, so I'm doing them as fast as I can! I don't like this feeling though! I tend to do everything WAY in advance as fast as possible and this is killing me! We keep getting such cute pictures and letters in the mail and I LOVE getting them! It is a race to the mailbox every day!! :)
What else we've been up to:
Last weekend we were at home all weekend. It was so nice! We went to the Zoo to the Winter Zoobilee event they had. We met our friends Tyler, Anslee & Harper. Grady loved it, as usual! We got to ride the train, 2 times! And the camels were back out!! No penguins though....he made sure to tell everyone that...
Then on Sunday I went to the Best Christmas Pageant Ever at the Community Playhouse with Doris and my Aunt Lori & Aunt Shari. It was SUPER good! Such a fun Christmasy thing to do too!!
This last weekend we had Paul's work Christmas party on Friday night. Then on Saturday we had the Houtwed Christmas party in Grand Island. It was a really fun time! Lots of great food, funny stuff during present opening, and my Grandma Marlene got the new car she has ordered from Arizona.
Yesterday we discovered our new hobby. Well, our once a month awesome routine we are going to do! Paul's parents have a Sams Club business owner membership and they added us to their account. (Which I'm super bummed that we didn't think of doing when we first moved to Lincoln.) So, we went to Sams! I love it there! I know, it is weird. But, I always find such good things that you can't get other places! I'm not a huge fan of buying in bulk b/c typically we don't have the room to store it and I am a person who can't handle a lot of clutter/stuff. My fridge/cupboards need to be orderly and in place.... So, I don't necessarily buy a lot of bulk items (except diapers, wipes, baby food) but I just love a lot of the different food items they have. So, it was really fun! We had both the kids with us and it was lunch time, so the trip got cut shorter than I wanted, but we still couldn't get out of there spending less thatn $300! It is crazy! But, I guess we shouldn't need more of the things we got for quite awhile!!!
Then, after our trip to Sams (which is on the opposite side of town from our house) we went to CiCi's pizza. Paul loves that place. I love that G eats free. And, I love their brownies and breadsticks! The pizza is just good enough to make it a good place! :) So, we decided our once a month Sams trip will also be followed by eating at Cici's Pizza! There isn't one on our side of town, so we have to live it up while we can. haha!
We are getting super excited about Christmas and the upcoming weekend of celebrating with LOTS of family! We have 4 different parties we are going to on Sat/Sun so it will be great to get to see everyone! Everything is done and ready, except for 1 Pinterest project I need to finish up, which actually doesn't need to be done until January 7th, when my family meets for Christmas....So I have time! :)
This is a picture of Gradyn & Brynlee with my Grandma Marlene from our Houtwed Christmas on Saturday. I thought it turned out SUPER good!!
12.09.2011
First Words!
'Bye-Bye'
Yes, Brynlee has said her first words at 8 Months! And Yes, I am counting them as 'words'. She says 'bye-bye' IN CONTEXT, every single time! Now, in all honesty, it does sound more like 'EYE-BYE', but SHE knows what she is saying and I know what she is saying. Every time I wave and say bye-bye, she repeats it back to me! And, she also gets really excited (possibly b/c of how excited I get (and Kellan gets) about it) and she also waves back! But, the wave is not every time and it is a wave towards herself, which is so adorable!
Yes, Brynlee has said her first words at 8 Months! And Yes, I am counting them as 'words'. She says 'bye-bye' IN CONTEXT, every single time! Now, in all honesty, it does sound more like 'EYE-BYE', but SHE knows what she is saying and I know what she is saying. Every time I wave and say bye-bye, she repeats it back to me! And, she also gets really excited (possibly b/c of how excited I get (and Kellan gets) about it) and she also waves back! But, the wave is not every time and it is a wave towards herself, which is so adorable!
12.07.2011
Crazy Memory!
Blogging 2 days in a row!! Woot Woot!!
Just had to share a Grady story I just remembered:
Last week when Grady and I were eating dinner, (Brynlee was still taking her evening nap and Paul was gone out of town for work.), he picked up his cup and said, "Let's do cheers Mommy!" So, I did "cheers" with my cup to his. I thought it was really cute and funny and just thought to myself that he must do that at Kellan's so that is where he learned it.
Then he says, "We do cheers at Grandpa Dan's house."
My jaw dropped.
We did that at Gpa Dan's house LAST THANKSGIVING! As in, over a year ago. How does he remember that?!?!
He seriously has a crazy good memory. So good it's scary. :) We have to remember to always be on our best behavior!!
Which leads me into another story:
Last night when Paul was trying to give Brynlee bites of banana baby food (he had also given her some corn bread so he was sneaking in banana bites) she got upset that it was a bite of banana instead of the corn bread that she loved. Paul says to me, "Oh she was pissed about that bite, she wanted corn bread.". Grady starts yelling, "Pissed, Pissed, She's Pissed Daddy!"
Even funnier, Paul didn't even realize that he had said "pissed" and then he didn't realize that Grady was repeating it until I pointed it out. Then he quickly tried to tell Grady he had said something else, but Grady didn't believe him. :)
Just had to share a Grady story I just remembered:
Last week when Grady and I were eating dinner, (Brynlee was still taking her evening nap and Paul was gone out of town for work.), he picked up his cup and said, "Let's do cheers Mommy!" So, I did "cheers" with my cup to his. I thought it was really cute and funny and just thought to myself that he must do that at Kellan's so that is where he learned it.
Then he says, "We do cheers at Grandpa Dan's house."
My jaw dropped.
We did that at Gpa Dan's house LAST THANKSGIVING! As in, over a year ago. How does he remember that?!?!
He seriously has a crazy good memory. So good it's scary. :) We have to remember to always be on our best behavior!!
Which leads me into another story:
Last night when Paul was trying to give Brynlee bites of banana baby food (he had also given her some corn bread so he was sneaking in banana bites) she got upset that it was a bite of banana instead of the corn bread that she loved. Paul says to me, "Oh she was pissed about that bite, she wanted corn bread.". Grady starts yelling, "Pissed, Pissed, She's Pissed Daddy!"
Even funnier, Paul didn't even realize that he had said "pissed" and then he didn't realize that Grady was repeating it until I pointed it out. Then he quickly tried to tell Grady he had said something else, but Grady didn't believe him. :)
12.06.2011
We've Been Busy
So my blog gets pretty neglected these days. I NEED to make sure to put it on my to-do list once a week so I can write about what we have been up to! If nothing else, than for a journal for myself to go back to and remember what we have done with our lives. As I was trying to come up with a recap of our year for a Christmas letter, I was thinking about how easy it would be if I could just go back to my blog to remenisce. Now, I just need to remember to actually post things that I can go back and read!! I guess I will add that to my list of New Years Resolutions. I never make resolutions, but I actually have 3 things on it already!
1. Blog more (goal of once a week)
2. Take more videos and pictures
3. Get on a consistent routine at the Y
Anyway, this is what we've been up to lately (and a few kiddo updates!). I know I posted about our Halloween fun, but I don't think I had even put much before that about our fall. So, I think I will go back and recap our entire fall (more for my future benefit!). :)
September: Had all of our college friends come for a Husker party, Went to Wichita for my cousin Holly's wedding to Jeremy, Went to West Point for a weekend with Paul's family, took all of the grandkids to Omaha for pictures, Paul helped shingle Gma Bert & Gpa Ben's roof, started Toddler Team-up at the Children's Museum (a once a week play group).
October: The Deaver's came to visit for a weekend, went to the Roca Berry Farm to the pumpkin patch, went to Vala's pumpkin patch, went to the Omaha Zoo (Gradyn's favorite place ever, the zoo!), Went to Fairbury for my Gma Marlene's 80th birthday party, all of us were sick (Paul the worse) and we got everyone who came to our house that weekend sick too!, Went to Boo at the Zoo, Went to the Children's Museum's trick or treating, went trick or treating to our family in Lincoln.
November: Went to Holdrege to visit the Deaver's for a weekend! Also got to meet up with some NP friends in Kearney, which was awesome!, cleaned out our storage room (took a whole weekend), decorated for Christmas!, went to Lawrence to visit Paul's brother Mike with the whole family, went to Fairbury to my Gma Marlene's on Thanksgiving noon, went to my Aunt Lori's in Lincoln for Thanksgiving night, went Black Friday shopping with Ashley for 16 hours (3 hours sleep...), went to West Point for the weekend for Isaac's 4th birthday party!
The first weekend in December: Ashley and her friend Amanda came to stay with the kids and Paul and I had a "weekend away" in Omaha! It was so awesome to just have time to relax, eat out, sleep in, go to a movie, have no responsibilities!! I haven't even been away from Brynlee until then, and it had been probably about a year, or more, since I had been away from Gradyn (except for when Brynlee was born) so it was well past due to have some kid-less time! Of course I missed them like crazy and couldn't wait to get back to see them, but it just makes everything better when you can have a break. We need to do it more often. I am just SO not used to having help so I have a hard time asking for it. And, I need to let go a little more I decided.... Maybe that should be my 4th resolution..... hmm...
Brynlee Update:
*She turned 8 Months on December 1st.
*She is quite the little mover! Always up jumping, bouncing, cruising around furniture, walking while we hold her hands, starting to push the push-toys, always moving. She crawls around very fast now and will follow all 3 of us around the house until we stop and she can pull herself up on our legs. Even Grady! He, of course, doesn't stand still long enough for her to get up, so then she falls to the ground. It doesn't even phase her, she just keeps on going, following him wherever he goes next! We are looking for her to start walking in the very near future! Crazy! She is only 8 months old!
*She LOVES puffs. The Gerber kind, any flavor. She gets super excited when she sees the can! She also loves most any cracker. She is STILL a stubborn little turkey about eating her baby food. We are STILL mixing it with oatmeal cereal to get her to eat it. Although last night I did get her to eat some squash/pear mix by itself!! It was a stage 2 food, which I think she will eat better since it is thicker. Hopefully we can continue on that path b/c it is a pain in the butt to make cereal to mix with food at every meal! She does awesome with any table food we give her too and LOVES meal time!
*She is still an awesome sleeper! 11-12 hours a night, straight!! Naps at home are awesome. Naps at daycare are hit or miss. She is a very light sleeper, so sometimes she won't nap very long at daycare.
*She is usually very very happy and smiley! She has a low-key temperment and is just SUCH a good baby! We always say how we were owed her after her brother.....
*She is starting to wave bye-bye and will mimic bye-bye when we say it. I'm trying REALLY hard to get her to say Ma Ma, but no luck so far! She does babble back at me, but no luck on the 'm' sound.
*She is entering a little bit of a stranger danger phase. She LOVES her daddy and lights up, yelling, kicking like crazy when she sees him. She does get excited for me too and wants to be right at my side a lot, but she especially gets excited for Paul! We are really noticing lately when we are in a big group she wants to be at our side and won't leave, which is strange for her since usually she will crawl all over. At Isaac's birthday party I had to put her down to play a game and then went back to sit down when my turn was up. She saw me go sit down and immediately took off to come over to me again.
*She LOVES her brother! Seriously, still too much. She needs to cry or learn to push him off of her! She loves to be tackled, tickeled, whatever he does to her....
*She is really starting to respond to music, will dance and sing along with it.
*Her hair is really starting to grow in thicker. It is lighter than it was when she was born, but still a dark brown. The new growth even looks darker. We need to put it behind her ears quite a bit!
*She is wearing pretty much 9 month or 12 month clothes. Some 6 month things still fit her, but most are too snug. I would say she is about average height/weight, but it's hard to tell b/c we know a lot of babies who are bigger than her that are younger, so that makes me think that she might be a little smaller than average. I think her constant movement really make her burn so many calories! :) I wish I had that happen to me!!
*We will go for her next check-up at 9 months so I'm excited to see what her 'stats' are!
Grady update:
*He will be 3 on January 27th! He has known his birthday since the summer, and always said it the right way, but now he always says "January 27th Gradyn Joseph Guenther". I guess he thinks they all need to go together..... But, at least he knows it I guess!
*He is still such a little ball of fire! So dramatic! So manipulative! So challenging! But also, SO loving! He is the light of our lives. He is so funny, smart, and talking so much that we are constantly telling him to talk quieter or slow down or just be quiet for a minute.
*He is now working on mastering all of the letters of the alphabet. I would say he only has about 10 to go. And most of those are letters that 'could' be mistaken for something else or that are close to others. He is also getting some of the letter sounds! The kindergarten teacher in me is SO proud! He still doesn't really want to sit down to practice writing them though. Mostly b/c he can't sit still for more than 5 seconds... But, he will sit still for learning activities like his letters, which is weird. He knows all of the shapes, most numbers and he does love to sit and tell us them.
*He loves to play on my iPad, and honestly that is where he has learned the most! There are so many awesome apps that he uses all the time that teach him so many things!
*He LOVES Nick Jr. He would watch it 24-7 if we let him. He knows what the order of the shows that come on at night are. He gets super mad if we shut it off. His punishment when he gets in trouble at daycare is that he can't watch TV that night. He HATES that. So, usually he only has 1 bad day at daycare a week (if that) because he definately learns his lesson when he can't watch TV. It has become a problem with how much TV he wants to watch. So, we have made it a rule that he can go in our bedroom and watch TV when Brynlee goes to bed. That has been a nice little routine for him in the evenings. Especially b/c that is the ONLY downtime we get at all.
*He is still a super picky eater, which is annoying, but I try to not be annoyed since I am also a super picky eater... :) He loves his staples of pancakes, mac & cheese, roast beef, turkey, peas, green beans, CORN(still loves!), sausage (patties with pancakes), mini-corn dogs, some noodles, spaghetti (sometimes), applesauce, and cereal.
*He LOVES the farm and going to help Gpa Ron feed the cows. He talks about it all the time and is always telling us he wants to go there. He loves to ride in the tractor with Gpa and help him. He does love to play cows/tractor/farm at home too.
*He loves trains, and will play with them sometimes at home, but mostly loves to ride on the train at the zoo and watch them in real life.
*He has also recently started loving dinosaurs and can name them all. We had no idea he could do that! Again, from TV. Dino Dan.
*He really wants to go to a Royals baseball game, the Zoo, and the park. We keep telling him that after Brynlee's birthday he can go do all of those things again. He knows that her Birthday is April 1st, so he will say aftter April 1st he can go. :)
*I know there are about a million other things I could say about him and tons of stories! Hopefully I will have time another day to post some of his funny stories!
1. Blog more (goal of once a week)
2. Take more videos and pictures
3. Get on a consistent routine at the Y
Anyway, this is what we've been up to lately (and a few kiddo updates!). I know I posted about our Halloween fun, but I don't think I had even put much before that about our fall. So, I think I will go back and recap our entire fall (more for my future benefit!). :)
September: Had all of our college friends come for a Husker party, Went to Wichita for my cousin Holly's wedding to Jeremy, Went to West Point for a weekend with Paul's family, took all of the grandkids to Omaha for pictures, Paul helped shingle Gma Bert & Gpa Ben's roof, started Toddler Team-up at the Children's Museum (a once a week play group).
October: The Deaver's came to visit for a weekend, went to the Roca Berry Farm to the pumpkin patch, went to Vala's pumpkin patch, went to the Omaha Zoo (Gradyn's favorite place ever, the zoo!), Went to Fairbury for my Gma Marlene's 80th birthday party, all of us were sick (Paul the worse) and we got everyone who came to our house that weekend sick too!, Went to Boo at the Zoo, Went to the Children's Museum's trick or treating, went trick or treating to our family in Lincoln.
November: Went to Holdrege to visit the Deaver's for a weekend! Also got to meet up with some NP friends in Kearney, which was awesome!, cleaned out our storage room (took a whole weekend), decorated for Christmas!, went to Lawrence to visit Paul's brother Mike with the whole family, went to Fairbury to my Gma Marlene's on Thanksgiving noon, went to my Aunt Lori's in Lincoln for Thanksgiving night, went Black Friday shopping with Ashley for 16 hours (3 hours sleep...), went to West Point for the weekend for Isaac's 4th birthday party!
The first weekend in December: Ashley and her friend Amanda came to stay with the kids and Paul and I had a "weekend away" in Omaha! It was so awesome to just have time to relax, eat out, sleep in, go to a movie, have no responsibilities!! I haven't even been away from Brynlee until then, and it had been probably about a year, or more, since I had been away from Gradyn (except for when Brynlee was born) so it was well past due to have some kid-less time! Of course I missed them like crazy and couldn't wait to get back to see them, but it just makes everything better when you can have a break. We need to do it more often. I am just SO not used to having help so I have a hard time asking for it. And, I need to let go a little more I decided.... Maybe that should be my 4th resolution..... hmm...
Brynlee Update:
*She turned 8 Months on December 1st.
*She is quite the little mover! Always up jumping, bouncing, cruising around furniture, walking while we hold her hands, starting to push the push-toys, always moving. She crawls around very fast now and will follow all 3 of us around the house until we stop and she can pull herself up on our legs. Even Grady! He, of course, doesn't stand still long enough for her to get up, so then she falls to the ground. It doesn't even phase her, she just keeps on going, following him wherever he goes next! We are looking for her to start walking in the very near future! Crazy! She is only 8 months old!
*She LOVES puffs. The Gerber kind, any flavor. She gets super excited when she sees the can! She also loves most any cracker. She is STILL a stubborn little turkey about eating her baby food. We are STILL mixing it with oatmeal cereal to get her to eat it. Although last night I did get her to eat some squash/pear mix by itself!! It was a stage 2 food, which I think she will eat better since it is thicker. Hopefully we can continue on that path b/c it is a pain in the butt to make cereal to mix with food at every meal! She does awesome with any table food we give her too and LOVES meal time!
*She is still an awesome sleeper! 11-12 hours a night, straight!! Naps at home are awesome. Naps at daycare are hit or miss. She is a very light sleeper, so sometimes she won't nap very long at daycare.
*She is usually very very happy and smiley! She has a low-key temperment and is just SUCH a good baby! We always say how we were owed her after her brother.....
*She is starting to wave bye-bye and will mimic bye-bye when we say it. I'm trying REALLY hard to get her to say Ma Ma, but no luck so far! She does babble back at me, but no luck on the 'm' sound.
*She is entering a little bit of a stranger danger phase. She LOVES her daddy and lights up, yelling, kicking like crazy when she sees him. She does get excited for me too and wants to be right at my side a lot, but she especially gets excited for Paul! We are really noticing lately when we are in a big group she wants to be at our side and won't leave, which is strange for her since usually she will crawl all over. At Isaac's birthday party I had to put her down to play a game and then went back to sit down when my turn was up. She saw me go sit down and immediately took off to come over to me again.
*She LOVES her brother! Seriously, still too much. She needs to cry or learn to push him off of her! She loves to be tackled, tickeled, whatever he does to her....
*She is really starting to respond to music, will dance and sing along with it.
*Her hair is really starting to grow in thicker. It is lighter than it was when she was born, but still a dark brown. The new growth even looks darker. We need to put it behind her ears quite a bit!
*She is wearing pretty much 9 month or 12 month clothes. Some 6 month things still fit her, but most are too snug. I would say she is about average height/weight, but it's hard to tell b/c we know a lot of babies who are bigger than her that are younger, so that makes me think that she might be a little smaller than average. I think her constant movement really make her burn so many calories! :) I wish I had that happen to me!!
*We will go for her next check-up at 9 months so I'm excited to see what her 'stats' are!
Grady update:
*He will be 3 on January 27th! He has known his birthday since the summer, and always said it the right way, but now he always says "January 27th Gradyn Joseph Guenther". I guess he thinks they all need to go together..... But, at least he knows it I guess!
*He is still such a little ball of fire! So dramatic! So manipulative! So challenging! But also, SO loving! He is the light of our lives. He is so funny, smart, and talking so much that we are constantly telling him to talk quieter or slow down or just be quiet for a minute.
*He is now working on mastering all of the letters of the alphabet. I would say he only has about 10 to go. And most of those are letters that 'could' be mistaken for something else or that are close to others. He is also getting some of the letter sounds! The kindergarten teacher in me is SO proud! He still doesn't really want to sit down to practice writing them though. Mostly b/c he can't sit still for more than 5 seconds... But, he will sit still for learning activities like his letters, which is weird. He knows all of the shapes, most numbers and he does love to sit and tell us them.
*He loves to play on my iPad, and honestly that is where he has learned the most! There are so many awesome apps that he uses all the time that teach him so many things!
*He LOVES Nick Jr. He would watch it 24-7 if we let him. He knows what the order of the shows that come on at night are. He gets super mad if we shut it off. His punishment when he gets in trouble at daycare is that he can't watch TV that night. He HATES that. So, usually he only has 1 bad day at daycare a week (if that) because he definately learns his lesson when he can't watch TV. It has become a problem with how much TV he wants to watch. So, we have made it a rule that he can go in our bedroom and watch TV when Brynlee goes to bed. That has been a nice little routine for him in the evenings. Especially b/c that is the ONLY downtime we get at all.
*He is still a super picky eater, which is annoying, but I try to not be annoyed since I am also a super picky eater... :) He loves his staples of pancakes, mac & cheese, roast beef, turkey, peas, green beans, CORN(still loves!), sausage (patties with pancakes), mini-corn dogs, some noodles, spaghetti (sometimes), applesauce, and cereal.
*He LOVES the farm and going to help Gpa Ron feed the cows. He talks about it all the time and is always telling us he wants to go there. He loves to ride in the tractor with Gpa and help him. He does love to play cows/tractor/farm at home too.
*He loves trains, and will play with them sometimes at home, but mostly loves to ride on the train at the zoo and watch them in real life.
*He has also recently started loving dinosaurs and can name them all. We had no idea he could do that! Again, from TV. Dino Dan.
*He really wants to go to a Royals baseball game, the Zoo, and the park. We keep telling him that after Brynlee's birthday he can go do all of those things again. He knows that her Birthday is April 1st, so he will say aftter April 1st he can go. :)
*I know there are about a million other things I could say about him and tons of stories! Hopefully I will have time another day to post some of his funny stories!
11.07.2011
Chicken and a Chick
A few pics of our Halloween fun as a Chicken and a Chick.
It was adorable.
We went to Halloween Hurrah at the Children's Museum!
We went to Boo at the Zoo!
We met Madison there!
We went Trick or Treating at Aunt Shari's!
we.have.so.much.candy.
seriously.
3 huge bowls full.
yum.
11.03.2011
TEETH! And No Paci!
Brynlee finally has 2 teeth! Both at the same time, bottom middle. She has been showing signs of teething for several weeks so we are so happy that 2 have finally popped up! And, we are very glad we can blame her "off" behavior on the 2 teeth! She is still not quite back to sleeping through the full night every night. But she is much better. She is eating like a horse! I think she is just so hungry at night b/c she has been eating so much! She goes right back to bed after eating, but we were so loving not having to get up at all! Well, I should say Paul was so loving it because he is usually the one who gets up to feed her. Although it does still wake me up... :) haha! He hates when I say that when he was the one who actually got up with her! I have a problem with being able to get back to sleep after I am up (since it is usually around 5:00 to 6:00 am) so Paul gets up with her since he can go right back to sleep always. She definately loves her daddy too, maybe that is why! hmmm... :)
In other news: Brynlee doesn't take a Pacifier anymore!!! She will not take it at all any more. If you try to give it to her, she gets even more mad! So, she is paci free, at 6.5 months. We are happy about this because it means not having to get rid of it later when she is older and it is harder to do (although it was pretty easy with Gradyn). But, the down side is that now we pretty much can't get her to sleep anywhere besides putting her down in her crib. She was never a baby who let herself fall asleep in your arms (neither of our kids are!), we can't rock her, she won't cuddle, etc. But, at least the paci would provide a little calmness to let her relax in your arms. Now she won't at all. So, when we are out and about, we pretty much can never expect her to sleep.
She does suck on her bottom lip in place of the paci. She also does that when she is hungry. If she sees the bottle she starts sucking on that bottom lip.
I'm wondering if the paci was hurting her when she was first starting to teeth and that why she refused it???? who knows, but she will not take it! We have tried several times when she is hysterical or when we are trying to get her to sleep, but it just makes her freak out more. So, I guess no paci for us anymore!
She officially turned 7 months old on Tuesday. Getting so much more mobile (as if that was possible), acting older, and growing so fast!
Halloween pics coming soon!!
In other news: Brynlee doesn't take a Pacifier anymore!!! She will not take it at all any more. If you try to give it to her, she gets even more mad! So, she is paci free, at 6.5 months. We are happy about this because it means not having to get rid of it later when she is older and it is harder to do (although it was pretty easy with Gradyn). But, the down side is that now we pretty much can't get her to sleep anywhere besides putting her down in her crib. She was never a baby who let herself fall asleep in your arms (neither of our kids are!), we can't rock her, she won't cuddle, etc. But, at least the paci would provide a little calmness to let her relax in your arms. Now she won't at all. So, when we are out and about, we pretty much can never expect her to sleep.
She does suck on her bottom lip in place of the paci. She also does that when she is hungry. If she sees the bottle she starts sucking on that bottom lip.
I'm wondering if the paci was hurting her when she was first starting to teeth and that why she refused it???? who knows, but she will not take it! We have tried several times when she is hysterical or when we are trying to get her to sleep, but it just makes her freak out more. So, I guess no paci for us anymore!
She officially turned 7 months old on Tuesday. Getting so much more mobile (as if that was possible), acting older, and growing so fast!
Halloween pics coming soon!!
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