Friday, May 21, 2010

What did you say?

Taryn's latest funnies:

"Mom Guess what?"
"What?"
"I so so so ungry I eating my boogers...."

"Mommy I wish I was the oldest one so I could be the bossy one"

Taryn busts in running to me like there is something wrong..."Mommy! OH NO!!! My legs feel like they need to turn into fins"...(humming something nondiscript and spinning around the kitchen) THEN "Ah ah ah...(mermaid Ariel's theme song with arms outstretched and body spinning)

Taryn discovered "night dresses"....and was devastate she didn't have one. She loves wearing dresses every second of every day but I had never in a million years thought about getting her a night gown. I am all about comfort NOT princess when it comes to clothes. Brent picked her up from her buddies house and she started crying. He asked her why and she told him Caroline gets to wear dresses to bed why don't I? He took her on a special date that week to buy her a "night dress." She has worn it pretty much EVERY night since.

She is getting a lot easier to understand and it kind of makes me sad. I want to understand her and communicate with her without so much effort but I really have loved her high pitched funny baby voice. The way she says things....I am in love with it and it is sad/good to see it go. She finished preschool and will totally miss Miss Megan and her friends over the summer. She is doing better with letters and sounds and has incredibly neat handwriting....I am glad she missed the school deadline and has one more year to get ready for kindergarten...one more year for me to enjoy her before she is gone for half the day.....


Not sure what this picture was for now but isn't she cute?


May 12 Jocelyn popped out her first tooth...tooth number two arrived a couple weeks later...She looks so cute with two little teeth nubs sticking out of her big smile. She also sits really good now and screams really good now too-not in anger-mostly just to hear her own voice I think...usually it is kind of funny but not so much today during the middle of a prayer at Church with no warning or provocation...She loves to drink water from a cup and does a great job. She also does a great job spilling water in a cup as she grabs for it to drink herself...She loves sweet potatoes and yogurt and tolerates other food. She will be eating stuff (peas for example) that she thinks is nasty and making faces but if we are smiling and telling her "yummy oh that's good!" she eventually stops the gagging and grimaces and eats it. She is still really bald but has enough hair for a faux hawk.....if her hair is slicked with baby lotion. Oh we love this girl and have so much fun with her.
If you look closely you can see one of her new teeth nubbins'


Cami finished Kindergarten with a bang. At the end of the year testing she tested to a 4th grade reading level with 99% accuracy and comprehension (her teacher ran out of time to finish testing her) and her favorite thing to say is "I love to read. I'm a good little reader." She will follow me around the house reading rainbow magic fairy books while I clean. A few months ago I walked in and she was reading Taryn the secret garden...She also really likes Cam Jansen books...She was one of just two kids in her class to win a Radiant Roadrunner award at the end of the school year. (She turned in all her homework and reading lists and a bunch of other stuff.) She will really miss her fantastic teacher Mrs. Bruschke. She can get Jocelyn laughing harder and faster than anyone else and she is a VERY good big sister. I love her good heart.

The family at Cami's award night...

Cami by her super citizen award in the lobby at school, wearing her radiant roadrunner award...

Cami and Mrs Bruschke on her last day of kindergarten...big smiles for kind of a sad day...must have been the ice cream Sundays that cheered everyone up.

Both older girls are in swimming lessons and Cami has been doing "Safety Town." She showed me how to stop drop and roll the other day. Last night was their last dance recital and Cami got all the moves down and Taryn loved every minute of it...Other than that they are hoping to go camping a lot and play with cousins a lot...

Brent is busy with work as always and these have been really stressful days (more than usual) BUT the good news is his machine is working great and they are filling orders. He just got back from youth conference and survived camping with lots of teenagers for three days. He has scout camp in a few weeks and lots of stuff in between. I am thankful he is a hard worker.

Thursday, May 06, 2010

6 months old BABY!!!

I can't believe that my baby is cruising right through her babyhood. Time is really flying and that definitely means we are having fun. Jocelyn hit her 6 moth milestone last week and celebrated by getting her shots. She weighed 14 pounds 2 ounces and was 26 inches long. Yes she is SERIOUSLY chunky and I love every big old roll. Speaking of rolls she can roll over but doesn't really like to. She is learning to sit pretty good but still has great wipe outs. Her favorite toy is her johnny jumper-she really has the jumping spirit. BUT she is also really fond of her exersaucer, particularly the piano part. She readily laughs at any crazy thing Cami and Taryn do and is really very patient with all the lovin' she gets from them. She is still a cuddler and I love that. She recently started eating "real" meals. She LOVES prunes, tolerates carrots and rice cereal, and LOVES water out of a cup. Everyday she is growing and learning and changing and it is so much fun to have her in our family. We love love love her!

She gives the best suck on your face kisses ever!

Before her first "real" meal.During her first "real" meal. She was grabbing and helping shovel as fast as she could. After her first "real" meal she was still pounding for more.


She was not sure what hit her-talk about flavor assault. Despite the look prunes are this girls best friend.
Jumping for joy!
Working on the sitting.
Snuggling with her bear friend for a long afternoon nap.