Here we go again...

Once again I have let too much time slip by without making an entry.  It has been very busy at our house.  Basketball season is flying by....for ME, but I know Gabe is ready for it to be over.  Our final regular season is tonight versus Ark City.  It is our senior night and Think Pink night so it should be fun!

Graham is still fluctuating between sweetheart and pistol pete!  Some of the things he is doing right now will hopefully just be a small two year old phase. 

The other night while we were getting ready to eat supper Graham was wound for sound and did something to upset Gabe.  Gabe asked him if he needed to go to timeout.  I told Gabe to chill and that maybe he needed to take a time out.  Graham chimed in with:  "Yeah Daddy!  Stop acting that way.  Now I'm gonna give you last chance Daddy or you go to time out!"

I was laughing my pants off and had to turn around!  Obviously, he has heard those words a few times before!

We have all battled colds the last few weeks but last week, when Kamryn started coughing really deep...sounded like it was really settled into her chest, I called and got her a Dr appt.  When we got there, we had to weigh Kamryn before going into the Dr.'s room.  She weighed 16lbs 14oz!  That was with all her clothes on though.  She was all dressed up in her hot pink and purple tights, jean skirt, and nice shirt.  Anyways, as I took her off the scale, a secretary next door standing at her counter, saw Kamryn and said (in a high voice)  "Hey sweetie, how are you?!"  Kamryn looked at her and went, "grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!."  She totally growled at the lady!  The secretary's co-workers asked what that noise was and I heard her say, "It was that little girl!"  Needless to say, I was a little bit embarrassed and apologized which the workers didn't care.  As soon as we walked down the hall and entered the room, Kamryn belched like man!!!!!!  I was like, Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!  That's my girl!

Kamryn is pretty fascinated with her hands.  She loves to clap and just learned how to wave.  We still can't get her to eat baby food.  She looks at me like I am nuts when I try sticking the spoon in her mouth but we are going to continue to work on that.  Her laugh is so contagious...better yet, I love it when Graham gets her to laughing b/c then they both laugh.  Children's laughter is the best sound ever!

Last night, Kamryn was in her walk around toy and I was in our bedroom...I all of a sudden heard her cry so I hollered out to Graham and asked him what happened.  I came out in the living room and he was laying ON TOP of the back of the couch, which he knows is a no no.....

Me:  "Graham Wesley!  What did you do?"
Graham:  Smiling yet trying to hide his face, "I pinched her!"
Me:  "Ok, lets go to time out."

A couple minutes later when I went to get Graham out of timeout, I asked him to tell me why he was in time out and he said, "Kamryn."

Me: "What did you do to Kamryn?"
Graham: "Pinching"
Me:  "Are you going to pinch her anymore?"
Graham: "No, not yet!"

And the journey continues.........

Well Kamryn decided to wake up at 345am so I thought I would sneak in and give her a pacifier then jet out...uhm no, she was wide eyed and bushy tailed. I picked her up...started out the door and here comes Graham "Wait for me!" and he sprints out the darn door. I set Kamryn down in the living room and she started "rippin' em" like an 80 year old man, so I was like awesome, she just totally shit her pants...I changed her...she was just gassy and wet. Gabe gets up and helps me by changing Graham....meanwhile I brought Kamryn back to the LR and was making her a bottle...I came out to a lovely stinch...definitely loaded her pants this time. I take her back to the bedroom...Gabe is fighting with Graham to lay still to change his diaper...he gets it changed...leaves the room to take the diapers out to the trash, comes back and Graham had stripped down, took his diaper off and all...that's how it all started. Gabe went back to bed. Graham finally fell asleep at 545 and Kamryn went to sleep at 615.

A few hours later, after our power naps in the early morning, I was changing Kamryn and needed to get something off the dresser shelf so I turn around to get it and Kamryn and flipped over and was doing the worm across the room....looked like a fish out of water moving along at 30mph.  She suddenly stopped and yep....she started peeing on the carpet.  Awesome.  Get that cleaned up...get her going again.  At this point the whole day is running together so this sequence of events may not be perfectly in order.

Graham had a descent day after the chaotic morning.  He wanted to help me make chicken and cheese quesadillas for lunch so I thought that was great.  He pulled a chair over to the counter from the kitchen table and said, "I want to help you!"  I figured it was easy enough so why not.  He grabbed 1 tortilla out of the bag and put it on his plate.  I told him to grab some cheese and sprinkle it on.  He was taking tiny bits of cheese out of the bag and was sprinkling the cheese on so I thought he was doing good....I will go ahead a go to the fridge and get something real quick...come back over and he had dumped the entire bag of shredded cheese on his tortilla.  Looked like a mountain...who wouldn't like 2 cups of cheese in one quesadilla?!?!  No big deal...cleaned it up...reduced his cheese mound and then he put some chicken on and whoala...we had lunch. 

Back to Kamryn and her diaper adventures...she had another stink bomb so I was changing her and she decided to practice her karate kicks and kicked out of my hands while I was holding her legs up and there ya have it folks...pooh on the carpet!  For the love!  All I could do at this point was laugh....it was like a stinkin circus today.  Speaking of "stinkin".....

Yesterday, Graham was in the kitchen trying to move a folding chair that was against the wall and Gabe asked him what he was doing....Graham said, "I am trying to move the chair.  I am trying to move this STINKIN' CHAIR!"  Looks like I overuse the word stinkin' but at least I am not dropping F-bombs!

At lunch yesterday, Graham and I were eating and visiting and I was thirsty so I grabbed my cup of water with my left hand and took a drink.  Graham said, "Hey!  you need to be careful!  Hold your cup with two hands mommy!"  I am telling you what, this kid better pay attention this much in school!  I have a hundred other stories from this week already but I am about to pass out from exhaustion.  Until next time...the journey continues.....

Brief update...

This will be a brief update:

Sunday, February 5th, Kamryn started saying "ma ma ma ma!"  Needless to say, mommy was/is thrilled!  She is a super speedy army crawler right now.  It actually looks like a very skilled version of "the worm" dance move but it works for her.  She cut two bottom teeth at once right as she turned 7 months.  We are having a heck of a time trying to get her to eat rice cereal.  I have mixed it with bananas....tried it with green beans....tried it so that it was the same consistancy as her formula.  She is not buyin' what I am sellin' so to speak.  For now, I am putting the cereal in her bottle.  I know she will come around....little stinker!

Graham is still his onery/sweet self.  Yesterday when he woke up, I went into the kids' bedroom...he was all smiles sitting on his bed.  I walked over and gave him a hug and told him that I loved him and he said, "I love you to pieces!"  That just melts my heart :)  I went out to the kitchen to get some cereal for him....got him in his seat...gave him his bowl of cheerios...and walked across the kitchen to make my breakfast and he said, "come join me!"  If I remember right (I think that it was in the same conversation....my days are running together) I told him that I would join him after I got my cereal ready he said, "that sounds like a plan!"

Well, that is a brief update from the Prescott Palace....the kids are waking up so I better go get them....and the journey continues!