And who can resist this sweet smile!?!? This picture really does show his personality, there is rarely anything that gets him really upset.Monday, April 25, 2011
Rex is learning fast!!
And who can resist this sweet smile!?!? This picture really does show his personality, there is rarely anything that gets him really upset.Silver Dollar City
Cora turned a new leaf this year too as she is now able to ride the bigger kid rides with an adult. When asked which ride she wanted to ride first after riding the little baby rides she wanted to ride the swings. I was a bit anxious myself mainly because of the fear of my little child falling through, but she loved it and actually rode it two times in a row. She even helped nudge Kayley into riding it too for the first time. Kayley has always been pretty brave to ride rides except for the swings. But she rode them and loved them just as much as Cora. These are pictures of Cora's first time riding it with Nick. It was cute as you can see in the picture on the right that she is clinging to Nick for dear life. Even after riding it a number of times she would get in the seat and immediately put your hand/arm exactly where she wanted it. She also rode Fire in the Hole with me which is a tiny roller coaster, but it's all in the dark and the actual roller coaster part is very small, you are mainly just riding around looking at statues etc for the whole ride and the roller coaster part is at the end. She liked it until the end and and I've never had her hold on to me so tightly! It made me think of riding Space Mountain with my Mom when I was younger. It was dark and scary, but I remember holding onto my Mom so tight and having her tell me to hold on to her so tight. Overall she had a blast being able to ride so many more rides this year.
So, Addison was Kayley's little buddy the whole weekend! Kayley couldn't get enough of her and vice versa with Addison. We decided to stay for the show in the evening since Michelle and Kendall weren't going to get there until later in the day on Friday, Kayley was so good with Addison all day. Cora loves Addison too and keeps telling me that she is cuter than Rex. Cora calls her "Asdisdon" It's cute how much they love her and get so excited to see her!
Then Michelle and Kendall got there in the evening and we went to go ride the kiddie rides again. Once again it was great the lines weren't long making it easy for the kids to ride all the rides multiple times with their cousins. Garrett also got to ride the rides for the first time and of course was all smiles!
Then that night we all fit into the 2 bedroom condos. It was tight but do-able. Michelle and Kendall were in one room with Garrett, Nick and I in the other room with Rex and Addison, and Grandma and Shannon were on the pull-out couch with Kayley, Cora, Ashlyn, & Preston...well for a little bit. Ashlyn was actually the only big grandkid that stuck it out only because she was the first to fall asleep. It didn't take long for Preston to go into bed with his mom and dad and Kayley and Cora either. Then it stormed a bit that night (we didn't hear it over our fan apps on our phones, but everyone else did) and Ashlyn said she woke up to the storms, noticed she was the only one out there and still went right back to sleep instead of getting scared. I was impressed. But they just loved the fact that they all got to sleep under the same roof and had a blast when they all woke up!Friday, April 15, 2011
My Kids
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Lil Kickers
Thursday, March 31, 2011
March Festivities
A couple of days after the party the kids all got sick. Kaelyn was actually sick at the party and no one knew it so almost everyone there got sick. The kids had fevers and nasty coughs and a little bit of throw up all week. Nick and I even got it, but it was luckily a small bug and only Nick and Kayley threw up. Other than this we haven't been up to much. I had my birthday last week which was fun! Nick got me breakfast in bed before work (well, he brought me my spoon and napkin to my yogurt that I had for breakfast...he leaves for work really early so he didn't want my yogurt to get warm!) Then the girls woke me up with my presents of a running shirt and some yummy snacks from Sams club. Then they wanted me to go downstairs to see my big present, but I waited till Nick got home, which he was able to get home for a half day that day. I got a new bedspread, but it was actually not the color I originally wanted (which Nick knew beforehand, but they were out of the color I wanted)...so instead we went shopping that night for some more workout clothes and then went to eat at 54th street. It was yummy and great just spending time with my little family!
Then yesterday Rex went to his 9 month appointment. He weighed in at 19lbs. 8oz...only putting him at the 33rd percentile. Is it just me, or does that seem wrong? If my girls were that weight at this age, they would have been at the 50-75th percentile...I guess boys are just that much bigger!!? Crazy! He is still growing like a weed. He's now crawling on his knees instead of his beached whale crawl where he would get up on his hands, move forward and then fall flat on his stomach to get forward. It was cute and I got it on video just in time before he stopped doing it. He also says "mama" and "dada" a little bit and he plays peek-a-boo. He still refuses to eat baby food so we are venturing in to eating table food now and he's doing fairly well, it's just hard to find him things he can eat well. We sure love our Rex though!
Monday, March 7, 2011
My Kids are growing up
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Conversation with Cora
Cora: What do you have to do to get copped?
Me: Well, when you do wrong things sometimes the police will come and "cop" you.
Cora: Well, I'm never going to get copped because I have my CTR ring and I will always Chose The Right because I'm never going to lose my CTR ring!
I think I'm going to have to save this conversation for later in her life when maybe things change! But until then, I'm going to bask in my sweet Cora!!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
St. Louis Trip
Monday, February 21, 2011
Knickles, etc
We made Monkey bread tonight for FHE and Kayley was watching them in the oven as they baked and said, "Oh I see why this is called monkey bread, because the rolls look like monkeys when they get big like that." Then in the opening prayer of FHE she blessed the banana things in the oven (monkey bread).
Rex has officially started moving forward in his crawling. I found him tonight pulling himself forward in a type of army crawl. He only did it a few times, but it was cute! I also have to get a picture of how his teeth are coming in...his two front teeth look really cute! I'll hopefully get that tomorrow and post it! Four teeth and this boy still refuses to eat baby food! I guess he's just waiting for the rest of his teeth to come in so he can eat the real stuff!
Friday, February 18, 2011
The House That Built Me...and more....
Cora got her first official haircut. A couple of months ago I tried to do her first haircut myself...didn't get any pictures of that time as I was busy trying to bathe three kids at once and trim her hair, it was probably a good thing as I did a horrible job! So thanks to my friend Jenn who does a great job at cutting hair she looks much better now with a cute short hair haircut. She loved it even though she was really scared to do it at first.
Then we have had all this snow in the last month..tons of snow days, which I'm not going to lie, have been nice! Kayley has liked them too, but I'm sure we'll say differently when our summer gets delayed making them up. Nick got out in the snow with them one night and helped them make a snowman and do some sledding on our makeshift sled/shovel. They had a blast and we even made a little slide from all the snow from the snow plow. They had a blast!
Then we headed for a massive trip filled with lots of fun times! We went first to Sikeston to stay the night with the Sanders. The girls had a blast with them, especially with Caroline and Julia. They also had fun finding out how much Andrew loves Toy Story....they didn't know someone loved it as much as they did till they played with him. Notice Jesse and Woody make it into almost all four of these pictures.
Then Saturday morning one of my best friends Jami came up from Memphis and we met at Bo's for breakfast with her husband so she could meet Rex. It was great catching up and I guess we didn't realize how much our husbands had in common! It was a fun catch up!
Then later in the day we went to go visit Aunt Tootie and Cousin Carrie. We took Einstein with us for this trip so he could meet Liberty and Carrie could see him. I think Einstein probably wished he could have stayed there as he was treated like royalty there! Aunt Tootie and Carrie had not met Rex yet, so it was great to get to see them and as always it was a great visit!
Then the handprints by the pool. They aren't my handprints as I wasn't born yet or either was too small (don't know when the cement was laid for sure), but they are still there, very faded, but still under the slide. The girls handprints fit perfectly in some of the handprints.
Then we of course stopped by the graveside of Dad, Kathryn, Grandma and Grandpa...but it was freezing outside so I only got video of it and didn't get any pictures.
More fun with cousins...it seemed like the front room couch was the target for rough play! Someone was always underneath all the cushions with all the other kids on top...and everyone just loved it!
Then we celebrated Valentine's Day...Rex's first one! The girls woke up to their valentine treat from Daddy, Toy Story chocolates! They were so excited!! Kayley had a blast going to school that day for her Valentine's Day Party and brought home lots of treats and goodies and willingly shared with Cora.

