Sunday, January 29, 2012

What a busy weekend!  I had my first experience as a coach in the Mid America Classic Tournament in the McPherson High School Roundhouse.  I have had many amazing experiences in there as a player....as a coach it is still exciting and rewarding a different way.  We set individual and team records but best of all, we brought the trophy back to the Roundhouse!  We beat Hays High for the championship!  Because I am tired and ready for bed...I won't go into a lot of detail, unfortunately.

Tonight as we were getting ready for bed, I told Graham that he needed to put ME to bed tonight.  He said, "OK!!"  All excited he said he wanted to read me a book.  We both got our pj's on and he picked out a book.  He told me that I needed to come lay down in my bed.  So...I got under the covers but wasn't laying down and he said, (while pointing and shaking his finger at me) "Now this is your last chance!  I am going to read you this story!"  Laughing out loud, I said ok, but have I been bad?  I don't remember what he said to that but I thought it was a funny little scene.  When I told Gabe he started laughing and pointing to himself.  Apparently, Graham has heard that line a time or two, huh?!?

Kamryn is officially 7 months old as of yesterday!  I can hardly believe it!  She is army crawling like a champ.  It will only be a matter of time before she figures out how to use her knees.  Kamryn is such a happy baby!  She thinks Graham is hilarious.  Listening to the two of them giggle together is the best sound in the world!

Time for bed..........God willing...the journey continues tomorrow :)

Monday, January 23, 2012

"Fruit Ropes"

Last week when I went to Dillons, I decided to try the "CLIF Organic Fruit Ropes" for kids and then an Organic Fruit leather for myself.  Graham LOVED them!  Well I only bought 2 so they did not last long.  He has been asking for more on a daily basis.  I had told Graham on Friday that we would go to Dillons to get some more....we made it to Walmart but not to Dillons.  So yesterday (I really am getting to the story here!) I got my list together and went shopping on my own.  It was 8:45pm or so when I got home...I got out of the car to bring the groceries in the house.  I heard the big wooden door to the garage start jiggling...and it was Graham...he got it open....pushed and held the screen door out with one hand....standing there in his pj's...he hollers out:
"HEY!...Did you go to Dillons?"
Laughing, I said  "Yes I did."  He replied,
"Did you get some FRUIT ROPES?!!"
Again, laughing I said, "Yes I did." 
He shut the screen door and cheered...
Yay, she got fruit ropes!!!!! 
After his celebration, he pushed the screen door open again and said,
"Come on in!!"
and he held the door open for me.

Maybe you had to be there and I do wish I had him video taped at that moment...it made my day!  And the journey continues...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Sat down on Graham's bed to read a book to him and Kamryn.  I noticed Kamryn must have dropped her pacifier....I saw it in the middle of the room so I asked Graham if he would please go and get it for me.

Graham says:  "I will look for it."

Then he chucks it at  me...it hits the bed...not even close to my hand and then he says "Nice Catch!"

He must get his smart bottom comments from his daddy!

Friday, January 20, 2012

trash man

The hurried scene at our house after we arrived home from the YMCA....

Me: Oh we gotta hurry!  The trash man is coming and I need to get the trash can set out.  I unbuckled Graham and got him out of the car.  Then I ran and got the trash can and got it to the curb in time as the trash truck was 3 houses away.

Graham:  Woo, that was close one mommy!
Me: Yes it was!
Graham:  Is trash truck taking our stinky diapers?  He picked them up and "frew" em in the garbage truck!
Me:  laughing, yep he took your stinky diapers!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

more convo from today...

We had a home game tonight versus Newton.  The freshman played at 4pm, JV at 6pm, and the Varsity followed at 7:30pm.  That makes for a long afternoon but we won all three games!  Anyways, I was drinking a ton of water because I was hungry!  With back-to-back-to-back games it is tough to eat much in between and you go to the bathroom when you can if needed.  Well I was really needing to potty when I got home :)  If this is too much info for you....I don't know, stop reading I guess but anywhoo....I had to go really bad and Graham ran into the bathroom and then he came back out and said,
"there ya go mommy!...I got it ready for you!" 
 He pointed to the toilet in his bathroom...so proud of himself...he had lifted the lid for me :) 

I started laughing and told him thank you.  I sat down to go potty and he came in with me...sat down on the bathroom rug and struck up a conversation with me.  He goes,
"hmmm what did I do today?"  he tapped his chin and cheek with his little pointer finger on his right hand and said, "let me think...hmmm." 
 I couldn't help but laugh again.  He cracks me up!  Almost every night before bed, we have our routine that we do....brush teeth, read stories, get a drink if needed, say prayers, and then lay in bed and talk about our day.  He was anxious to talk about his day :)

Little miss Kamryn Louise is learning to army crawl!  It is neat and fun to watch her because she is so proud of herself.  She laughs while she is trying to crawl or figure out how to get from point A to point B.  Tonight she actually got up on her hands and knees and rocked back and forth but then went back to army crawling.  My hands are now incredibly full instead of just full :)  Every morning, I look forward to walking into the kids' bedroom to see their smiling faces!  They are so full of energy!  I absolutely love it!  God has truly blessed Gabe and I with two wonderfully healthy kids....may the journey continue...

dialogue from this morning

Obviously, I have not been able to keep up around here let alone post all that has been going on at the Prescott Palace.  This morning there was alot of good dialogue going on so I posted a few of the conversations that I could recall.


G: Uh oh, what just happened?
Mom:  I don't know, what happened?
G: My tummy growled!

Mom:  Darlene is coming this morning!  What are you going to do with  her?  Are you going to show her the train track you and daddy built last night?  It's pretty cool!

G:  (with a very serious look and response-normal tone)  No, it's not pretty.  The train track is not PRETTY.

Mom: OH...Ok, my bad.


Kamryn was playing on her tummy near Graham's puzzle.  She is very interested in everything right now and as you would guess, almost everything goes from her hand to her mouth.
She was so excited that she army crawled over to Graham's puzzle...she picked up a piece...a big discovery ya know!

Graham:  No Sis!  Lets move this out of your way. 

Thursday, January 5, 2012

what else......

One of these days, someone that is really desperate for money, will install a hidden camera in my household and watch the circus act that seems to routinely happen......it could probably make some sort of tv show.

This afternoon, since it was absolutely gorgeous outside, I got this bright idea that I was going to take the kids for a walk right around their nap time...you know help get them to sleep so I could carry them in to their cozy little beds when we returned and then I would have some time to myself to get caught up...well Kamryn fell into my trap but Graham, not so much...he was wide eyed and bushy tailed the whole time.  I told him that he needed to try to take a nap so I put him in his room, shut the door, and the door to his closet....so I thought.  Kamryn and I chilled on the couch for an hour and I figured Graham would eventually sleep...when I went in there to check on him, he was sitting behind his bedroom door, (so I had to work to open the door) wearing his new "monkey boots/rain boots" with the closet door wide open and things piled everywhere....the room REEKED (how do you spell that word?).  While I was changing his pants, Kamryn was patiently awaiting her turn.  I finished with Graham and started changing Kamryn's wet diaper, when Graham says, "I gotta go potty mommy!  I go sit on the big boy potty, right"  So I'm like, ok be patient!  and am also thinking...holy balls when is the confetti going to fall from the ceiling b/c I have been waiting for him to have the motivation to do this!  I get Kamryn finished and take Graham to the bathroom.  He strips down completely...I'm like whatever trips your trigger there kiddo!  He sits on his potty, then stands up next to his potty, takes the foam ring off the potty, starts straddling the potty, puts the foam ring back on the potty, sits down, stands up...hear's Mickey Mouse on the fricken tv and says, I'm done!  He didn't do squat!  We get him dressed again and he decides he wants to go outside.  Meanwhile, Kamryn is happy as a lark in the living room, sitting up like a big girl, playing with her toys..........I get Graham outside and have the screen door open so that I can see and hear him....I get Kamryn a bottle ready b/c she is about to knaw off  her arm...I go to pick her up in her cute little Iowa Hawkeye dress and her tights...her back was wet.  REALLY?!!  I take her to the room, take off her tights, and she had a surprise for me...all up her back...by the time I got her dress off, she had pooh on her arms, up to her shoulder blades, she had put her foot in the diaper,........for the love!  As I start to clean her up, I remembered I had Graham outside........I hurried to the kitchen door to check on him and he was playing fine outside...visiting with our neighbor...I run back to the bedroom- get Kamryn out of her diaper and decide that she needs a bath.  I let her sit on her changing pad (which was on the floor) and I went across the hall to start her bath and get it ready...and I walk back into the room...at first glance, I was like 'what the heck?!' she wasn't on her changing pad....I got into the room and see that she had potentially leaned a little to far forward and rolled onto her belly and some how scooted over to her dresser and found a tag on the floor...there she was...chillin' on her belly, chewin on the tag, and there she was in a puddle on the carpet!!!!!!  She whizzed all over the floor!  UNBELIEVEABLE!  I got a towel, cleaned that mess up, checked on Graham, life was good, got Kamryn in the tub and cleaned her up, then finally I fed her a bottle......somewhere in this mess I had forgotten about the damn chicken breast that I thrown on the George Foreman for a cassarole I was gonna make for supper b/c I am such a Betty Crocker...I put Kamryn in the high chair and decided she could practice holding her own bottle while I diced up the boob on the grill!  thank God I didn't burn the dag gum thing...I finally got the cassarole finished and in the oven so I could eat with the fam before heading to basketball practice.  Graham came inside...Gabe came home shortly after that...we ate and I headed out the door to the garage only to miss a step and pert near fell on Gertie the Grand Am but caught myself!  At that point, I had to laugh so I poked my head in the door and said (just like Graham would) "I'm OK!"  
I came home from practice and Graham and I were having a conversation and he goes, "what happened in the garage mommy?"
I said, I slipped on the step.
He started laughing his 2 year old butt off and then sweetly said, "I'm sorry."
That little stinker!
I don't know...ya'll probably had to be here to see the humor in this but it was literally one thing right after another....and the journey continues!