When do we slow down?

Well, life is quickly passing by here at our home. I am still trying to get used to the addition of Lydia, even though she is 6 weeks old now and the "routine" is there. But top that with a new experience of kindergarten and another child in preschool and the "routine" isn't so routine anymore. Life has just passed by this month-we have done a LOT of things, but I haven't had time to record them because life hasn't stopped long enough for me to get the chance to even reflect.
I still need to post about Sarah's birthday party, our AWESOME family reunion, first day of school (at least share pictures) and all the little fun times we've had this month! Whoa!
Stay tuned because I just may have a day where I post everything at once...don't worry I'll let you know if that's the case.
We will be headed to Lava Hot Springs tomorrow to enjoy probably the last "hot" day of 2008, I am so excited! There's something else I will be posting about...hehe...

Sarah is TWO!

My baby-I still call her that, I know Lydia is the baby now, but Sarah still has that special place in my heart that still makes her my baby, at least for now-is two today!

She is such a bright, caring, bossy, happy, helpful toddler. She says the funniest things and is ready to help anytime I ask for help. She really enjoys helping with Lydia the most. Birthdays have always made me so excited for the next phase for my children, but for some reason I feel extra emotional today for Sarah to be turning two. She is such a delight and I don't ever want to forget or lose that from her...her personality is just so bright-I love it!

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I hope you never hide your wonderful personality!

Sarah, I love you! Keep growing and learning and teaching!
HAPPY #2!!!!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Bryant started his first day of KINDERGARTEN and Kayelynn started her first day of PRESCHOOL!
It was such a calm day for how the schedules overlapped. Kayelynn was dropped off at preschool at 10:45am and LOVED every minute of it! She came home happy and beaming from ear to ear-could it have been the sucker in her hand that she so desperately wanted to open? No, she loved her teacher and her class!
Bryant wanted to ride the bus and since ALL kindergarteners get this opportunity I figured, why not? We were told to wait at the bus stop at 11:30 and the bus would be there shortly since school starts at 11:45...at 11:50 we realize the bus is just not coming, so we run to the car to drive and pray we didn't miss too much of the first day. Well, apparantly the bus was running late and did not forget about us-whew! I was about to cry, knowing how important it was for Bryant to ride the bus to school and prove that he was a big kid. Well, in all my rush I forgot to remind him what his bus number was to ride home. Good thing the teachers asked or I would have been picking him up. However, the bus department did not tell me when to expect Bryant home and since I knew I had to be standing out there in order for them to drop him off (no parent=no drop off) I was standing at the bus stop at 2:30 (school gets out at 2:25pm, I figured he was the first one off) and waited until 3:10pm for him to get home! I was a mess...I just prayed that he actually got onto a bus in the first place, but come to find out they were 15minutes late leaving the school! Bryant pleaded that he be allowed to ride the bus to school tomorrow-I just laughed, OF COURSE! Now that I have first day of school-mom-jitters out of my system I will be okay with this whole school idea.
I am so excited that Bryant and Kayelynn want to learn and that they want to listen to their teachers. I had a major reflection moment today and I think that I did all right raising them to have some basic knowledge of vocabulary, numbers, letters, and over all "common sense". I guess kindergarten will really prove that, since preschool teachers usually try to make the parents feel good about themselves no matter what ;)
I will be posting pictures later this week-the kids were so excited to get "dressed up" for school! Oh the memories we have of the first day!

Kids Say the darndest things...

The kids have been so funny this week in their terminology and responses...I just have to relay them!

We have been visiting my family this past week and Parker (my brother) was making caramel popcorn and when he was done Kayelynn quickly shouted "Yeah, now we can watch TV"!

Bryant was sitting at a table in the backyard with his cousin when he was asked if he was sitting at the cool table. He responded, "Um, no, actually this is just the table without parents".

Sarah would tell anyone that got too close, without permission, to "get away from me"...quite the sass-I'm not sure where/who she learned that phrase...

Which Jane Austen character are you?

Take the Quiz here!

You are Emma Woodhouse of Emma! You like being the queen of your social circle (small and provincial as it may be), and feel it's your duty to help those less influential than you. You often meddle in the affairs of others, though you do it with a pure heart. You are often deluded in your flights of fancy, but your good intentions and creative spirit make you someone anyone could like.

Interesting...certain aspects I would agree with, but then maybe not-could it be because I don't accept it?

Photography

So, we are here in Boise and I just had to have my friend take pictures of the kids. No matter how hard I try to convince myself that I can do a good job, I really can't and she is AWESOME. The kids loved her!
I do not have the cd yet, but PLEASE check out her website:
instead of laundry
Tiffany, thank you so much! Your location was great, the kids can't stop talking about it.

3 weeks later...

What a busy three weeks we've had since Lydia was born(and this post doesn't even document it all)...I totally wanted to be up to date and show pictures of her each week, but that just didn't happen...so now you get to see more pictures from the day she was born and the progress up until now and of course, the other kids.

Lydia has been such a good baby (until this week...she's really been a crier, I think colic sets in about now and I would have to say she 99% has it) It's been great that she doesn't rely on a pacifier, although you can't tell with the pictures we've taken, I guess we've only decided to take pictures during the 5 minutes she takes the thing...

WEEK ONE (most pictures)

in all my big-ness

there she is!!

amazed at my little miracle

three hours old-still at hospital

proud sister, although she wasn't sure how to hold her...

amazed sister-can't get enough of her

Great-Great Grandmother

getting ready to go home

three days old

Sarah LOVES her sister

we enjoy grandma being with us

(forgive the tank top, Kayelynn was very defiant about NOT wearing a shirt underneath-which is why she's not smiling)

one week

WEEK TWO

tired big sister-it takes energy to help care for your baby sister

she wears her sunglasses EVERYWHERE!!!

international folk dance festival parade

she's from Mongolia-BEAUTIFUL music

they are from India-this was fun to watch

they enjoyed watching the dancers

WEEK THREE

she is totally changing-look at all that hair!

she favors this one side of her head, sorry not a great shot

when she's mad, she's mad, watch out!

yummy fist

princess Kayelynn-she insisted on makeup today and she looked adorable

Cowgirl Sarah-I just loved her look-she's adorable

three musketeers-lydia was too mad to be in the picture

Bully?

We were at the park the other day and Bryant had decided before going that he wanted to look like his Grandpa Thornock-when he rides his motorcycle. He insisted on wearing a dude-rag on his head...he sure looked like Grandpa, just was missing the motorcycle.

So Bryant is playing on the toys and the girls are with me getting cleaned up from lunch to go play when I am told that my son needs to learn some manners, excuse me (my children are perfect ;) please note all sarcasm- for what reason I ask...well, he was fighting with another kid on the playground...HOLY COW-he hasn't even started school yet and he's picking fights on the playground??!!!

So, I'm going to investigate when my mother-in-law heads over there to see what's wrong. Well as she's walking there I see Bryant twist this kids arm (like an indian rug burn). Now for those of you that know what Bryant looks like, he's way taller than his age and way huskier...the kid that he was picking on was 1/2 his size (from my view, anyway). My mother-in-law takes care of the situation and the kids walk away-way to go Jodi!!

Bryant then comes over to me and tells me that the kids were going to beat him up because he had wanted to show them something and apparantly they didn't understand his "friendliness" and insisted that they were going to beat him up for trying to pick on them. So he twisted his arm and was pretty proud when the kid said that it hurt. Riley (the friend Bryant was originally playing with) threw the kid on the ground.

Jodi came over and informed me that she asked them why they were picking on a five year old and all they did was walk away! Kind of funny actually, but oh so scary. We are only a month away from school starting...I can only imagine how it'll be when I get a phone call from the principal...I just hope that the image with the dude-rag was the reason for the "fight".