I am so excited for Christmas this year. We have our decorations out except for the tree which we will get tomorrow. The stockings are laying by the chimney with care as Katelynn has already pulled them down. So that temptation was taken away. I know that the tree will only be decorated halfway up this year. Hopefully the little one won't be too mischievous.
Ben put up the lights outside today and we have more stuff planned. I guess I am excited about it because of Katelynn but, I know that she has no clue what is going on except that things are looking alot different around the house. I am trying not to overwhelm her, but maybe I am and I don't know it.
I didn't realize it but I do have quite a collection of Nativity's. I have six totally different ones. One small one, a painting, a full stable, a homemade one, a statue and a play one for Katelynn. I don't quite have one for each year of our marriage but pretty close. I do love nativity's. I hope that you are feeling the Christmas spirit too.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving seemed a little odd this year as we didn't have Thanksgiving on the actual day. On Wednesday we ate at my parents and had a very enjoyable time there. I was in charge of making the Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes and Rolls. I used the recipes from Pioneer Woman, Paula Deen and My Mom, in that order. Everything turned out really good. I didn't use cream of mushroom soup in the green beans and I just loved them. The sweet potatoes were SWEET. Ben has been raving about them since then.
Ben's family came over to our house for dinner on Friday and as Caleb was saying the whole time, "And I knew that you wouldn't screw it up." I don't know what there was to screw up, there was food for people to eat and dinner was ready when I had said and planned it to be. The only thing I would have changed would be to have another table out. I thought that we would be using both of our tables to eat at but it turned out that one table we at at and the other we had all the food on.
I made both dishes again for Ben's family on Friday and Ben still hadn't gotten tired of them.
Katelynn had a great time playing with her cousins. She was just running around in circles trying to keep up with them. I love to see her now interact more with them and try to do what they are doing.
I did do a little shopping for me mainly. I have most of Christmas done already, nothing wrapped though. Katelynn is too tall for her own good so we went to Old Navy on Thursday and got some shirts for her. I think she has about 30 pairs of pants that have been handed down to her from cousins so we were good there. She also has about 25 dresses in 24 months to 2T that she is wearing, so she is good there too. her shirts were just midriffs and 3/4 sleeves. She is covered now though. I also went to Micheals and got some stuff for my first Activity day with Primary that is this Saturday. We are doing a craft day so we shall see how that all turns out. I will be glad when it is over. There has been alot of things to plan for and make sure we have.
Friday I went to Bath and Body Works and got some more stuff for me.
We had a great Thanksgiving and enjoyed the time that we had with our family.
Oh, yes! I almost forgot our drama for the weekend. The weather changed DRAMATICALLY last week and we had been doing some stuff in the garage so I didn't park in the garage like I usually do. Wednesday night it was 28 degrees for the low. I woke up Thursday morning to head over to my parents and hang out with them and the car won't start. The battery is dead. Since it is Thanksgiving everything is closed that would have a battery and Ben wanted to check ad make sure that it wasn't the alternator that wasn't working first. So, we jumped the car a few times Thursday and got a new battery Friday. I guess three years is a good life for a battery and we learned that extreme temperatures can bring out the bad side in batteries.
Ben's family came over to our house for dinner on Friday and as Caleb was saying the whole time, "And I knew that you wouldn't screw it up." I don't know what there was to screw up, there was food for people to eat and dinner was ready when I had said and planned it to be. The only thing I would have changed would be to have another table out. I thought that we would be using both of our tables to eat at but it turned out that one table we at at and the other we had all the food on.
I made both dishes again for Ben's family on Friday and Ben still hadn't gotten tired of them.
Katelynn had a great time playing with her cousins. She was just running around in circles trying to keep up with them. I love to see her now interact more with them and try to do what they are doing.
I did do a little shopping for me mainly. I have most of Christmas done already, nothing wrapped though. Katelynn is too tall for her own good so we went to Old Navy on Thursday and got some shirts for her. I think she has about 30 pairs of pants that have been handed down to her from cousins so we were good there. She also has about 25 dresses in 24 months to 2T that she is wearing, so she is good there too. her shirts were just midriffs and 3/4 sleeves. She is covered now though. I also went to Micheals and got some stuff for my first Activity day with Primary that is this Saturday. We are doing a craft day so we shall see how that all turns out. I will be glad when it is over. There has been alot of things to plan for and make sure we have.
Friday I went to Bath and Body Works and got some more stuff for me.
We had a great Thanksgiving and enjoyed the time that we had with our family.
Oh, yes! I almost forgot our drama for the weekend. The weather changed DRAMATICALLY last week and we had been doing some stuff in the garage so I didn't park in the garage like I usually do. Wednesday night it was 28 degrees for the low. I woke up Thursday morning to head over to my parents and hang out with them and the car won't start. The battery is dead. Since it is Thanksgiving everything is closed that would have a battery and Ben wanted to check ad make sure that it wasn't the alternator that wasn't working first. So, we jumped the car a few times Thursday and got a new battery Friday. I guess three years is a good life for a battery and we learned that extreme temperatures can bring out the bad side in batteries.
Friday Letters
I haven't posted one of these in a while but I really LOVED this topic so I knew that I needed to do it.
What did your child do this week that made you laugh?
This is something that she does every night. We read scriptures, say a family prayer and then I tell her to give Daddy kisses. She gives fart kisses or raspberries on his cheek then turns around and says as loud as can be "BYE" while waving her hand that is under her chin. She is such a cutie pie.
Sometimes Ben says to just take her to bed but I have Katelynn give him kisses and he just can't resist her silly little self.
We have a name puzzle for her and the tupperware shape ball and we have her trained that when she gets the right shape in the right spot with either the puzzle or ball she will stop and clap. It is funny when she is doing a puzzle at someone's house and she will stop and clap she just make me laugh.
What did your child do this week that made you laugh?
This is something that she does every night. We read scriptures, say a family prayer and then I tell her to give Daddy kisses. She gives fart kisses or raspberries on his cheek then turns around and says as loud as can be "BYE" while waving her hand that is under her chin. She is such a cutie pie.
Sometimes Ben says to just take her to bed but I have Katelynn give him kisses and he just can't resist her silly little self.
We have a name puzzle for her and the tupperware shape ball and we have her trained that when she gets the right shape in the right spot with either the puzzle or ball she will stop and clap. It is funny when she is doing a puzzle at someone's house and she will stop and clap she just make me laugh.
Monday, November 8, 2010
18 Months
Katelynn is growing developmentally so much now. Her latest word is "no" she just picked it up this weekend. Her other words are shoes (choo), brush teeth (ruh tee), Elmo (e-mo), book (boa), Dada, open, hot, back, amen, beep-beep, bath (ba) and more that I can't think of right now.
As you saw from the previous post she is sleeping on the futon now and we will see when we get a bed for her if she will sleep there.
She love to color, do her name puzzle, play with blocks, play with the shape ball from Tupperware, read books, and sing songs. If she puts her two index fingers together she wants to sing itsy bitsy spider. She'll do most of the hand gestures for pat-a-cake and I'm a little tea pot. She will scribble all over her magna doodle and knows how to erase it. She will dance to songs she likes and spin in circles in the kitchen. She has learned how to walk around in Ben and I's shoes, but she gets so frustrated doing it. She loves to play with other kids and hasn't made it back to nursery since that first day a few weeks ago since she keeps on having a runny nose.
She is eating pretty well on her own now. She is definitely still a mess when we get done but she will try to eat with the spoon and fork. When she is done she will tip over her plate and give the plate to you and you better be ready to take it, or else everything will end up on the floor.
She keeps me moving all day and is always ready to go. We usually go and do something in the mornings after we do her hair and she knows it. So, she will whine and complain at me while I am trying to get things ready to go, until we get out the door. I couldn't imagine life without her. She brings so much joy and happiness to us. She is just a happy little girl, with some tantrums coming.
As you saw from the previous post she is sleeping on the futon now and we will see when we get a bed for her if she will sleep there.
She love to color, do her name puzzle, play with blocks, play with the shape ball from Tupperware, read books, and sing songs. If she puts her two index fingers together she wants to sing itsy bitsy spider. She'll do most of the hand gestures for pat-a-cake and I'm a little tea pot. She will scribble all over her magna doodle and knows how to erase it. She will dance to songs she likes and spin in circles in the kitchen. She has learned how to walk around in Ben and I's shoes, but she gets so frustrated doing it. She loves to play with other kids and hasn't made it back to nursery since that first day a few weeks ago since she keeps on having a runny nose.
She is eating pretty well on her own now. She is definitely still a mess when we get done but she will try to eat with the spoon and fork. When she is done she will tip over her plate and give the plate to you and you better be ready to take it, or else everything will end up on the floor.
She keeps me moving all day and is always ready to go. We usually go and do something in the mornings after we do her hair and she knows it. So, she will whine and complain at me while I am trying to get things ready to go, until we get out the door. I couldn't imagine life without her. She brings so much joy and happiness to us. She is just a happy little girl, with some tantrums coming.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Things to remember
Katelynn's favorite spot in the whole house right now is in her top dresser drawer. First she opens the drawer, climbs onto the arm of the futon, and climbs into the dresser where she then proceeds to take all of her folded socks apart. After they are taken apart she then put one on her right hand. She can't cover both hands by herself and she can't get down from the dresser without calling for help. Since she is now sleeping on the futon we have separated the dresser and futon so that she can't get into the drawer in the middle of the night.
Katelynn has a new word...No. Right now she says it soft and sweet. I know that won't last to long. I asked her tonight if she wanted her bedtime milk, she thought for a second and turned to me to say, "no." I had to laugh since I knew she wanted it. The full concept of no hasn't sunk in yet.
Katelynn's understanding of things is growing so much. Tonight I told her it was time for a bath. She looked at me and said, "Ba." I then asked her where the bath was and she pointed down the hall. I got up and followed her to the hall and asked where the bath was and she looked at the two closed doors and went to the correct door to open it. It really seems like she is catching on to more things quicker now.
She is pretty amazing if I do say so myself.
Katelynn has a new word...No. Right now she says it soft and sweet. I know that won't last to long. I asked her tonight if she wanted her bedtime milk, she thought for a second and turned to me to say, "no." I had to laugh since I knew she wanted it. The full concept of no hasn't sunk in yet.
Katelynn's understanding of things is growing so much. Tonight I told her it was time for a bath. She looked at me and said, "Ba." I then asked her where the bath was and she pointed down the hall. I got up and followed her to the hall and asked where the bath was and she looked at the two closed doors and went to the correct door to open it. It really seems like she is catching on to more things quicker now.
She is pretty amazing if I do say so myself.
Halloween
Halloween was fun this year. Katelynn was more interested in what was going on but still didn't quite understand all that was going on. We took her to our ward trunk or treat party on Saturday night and she had a blast chasing around all the little dogs that were there. Since Bruno and Cocoa (our dogs) are 80 and 100 lbs it is hard for her to enjoy them because they just push her around and knock her down with their tails. So, seeing all the little dogs just made her day. She just wanted to hang around them all night long. After visiting for a little bit the kids started coming around to the trunks. Katelynn stayed in our undecorated trunk with us and watched all the kids come around. She was quite entertained with that and the dum-dum that Daddy gave her.
We didn't make it to the pumpkin patch this year but she didn't miss it. We tried to go one day and got to the patch and found out that they didn't open until 11 and we were there at 10:30, we didn't want to wait around for them to open so we just came home. I carved some artificial pumpkins a few weeks ago and she has enjoyed playing bouncy ball with them. We had some pumpkins just not real ones this year.
On Sunday we were at home and passed out candy to the trick-or-treaters. When the doorbell rang for the first time Katelynn came running down the hall to see who was at the door. Then seeing the orange bowl full of candy she was even more excited and wanted that bowl. She caught on pretty quick that when the doorbell rang we would get the bowl and go to the door. She loved seeing all the kids come by and wanted to go home with a couple of them.
Katelynn was little red riding hood for Halloween and I thought that she was so cute.
We didn't make it to the pumpkin patch this year but she didn't miss it. We tried to go one day and got to the patch and found out that they didn't open until 11 and we were there at 10:30, we didn't want to wait around for them to open so we just came home. I carved some artificial pumpkins a few weeks ago and she has enjoyed playing bouncy ball with them. We had some pumpkins just not real ones this year.
On Sunday we were at home and passed out candy to the trick-or-treaters. When the doorbell rang for the first time Katelynn came running down the hall to see who was at the door. Then seeing the orange bowl full of candy she was even more excited and wanted that bowl. She caught on pretty quick that when the doorbell rang we would get the bowl and go to the door. She loved seeing all the kids come by and wanted to go home with a couple of them.
Katelynn was little red riding hood for Halloween and I thought that she was so cute.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
What a week?!?!?!
I would like to know who flipped the switch in my daughter to make her a crazy woman when it comes to sleeping. Whoever you are, you will PAY!! Usually when we put her down for a nap or bed she is quite and we never hear a peep. This is not what happened this week at ALL! This all started on Sunday. We did our usual night-time routine and she starts crying and screaming and we go back and forth with trying to calm her and get her to sleep. She finally is asleep at 11pm. What is up with that? Then she decides to wake up at 2 in the morning and start the scream fest again. I end up sleeping with her, not what I want to do. She doesn't lay still for anything, she kicks and hits and moves all over ALL the time.
Monday, she has a normal nap 12:30-3:30 just fine maybe it was a fluke. Night-time comes and she screams and cries again this time she climbs out of her crib. Ah, crap! She climbs out twice. She can just heel hook it out of the crib, I watched her do it, amazonian baby that she is. Now we have to figure out what to do with that at 10:30 at night. Should we keep her in the crib, take down the side rail, or sleep with her? I ended up rocking her to sleep which I haven't done in at least 6 months. I get her in her crib put the rail back up and we are in bed at 11:30.
Tuesday, normal nap, normal bed. What in the world, who are you child?
Wednesday the worst one. I had work on Thursday, she knew that I needed sleep too, but we didn't get much of it. She finally fell asleep after her scream fest at 11, we all went to bed. 3am she starts again. Mind you all, I am trying everything, ibuprofen, rocking, singing, letting her cry, giving her some milk. Toning her out doesn't work so well. At work I can tone out the babies crying if I really need to, Katelynn, I can't. She makes me pissed, makes me sad, I just want it to stop. So, I again fall asleep with her at 4 and my alarm goes off at 5:15. Ben tries to transfer her to bed but, that didn't work she is up and poor Aunt Sarah gets to watch the crazy woman all day. Sarah tried to get her to nap to no avail, which I expected since she would rather play with the boys than sleep. Ben gets her after work and at 5pm she finds a binky climbs into his lap and passes out. Crap! He calls me at work and says we have a problem. (That is never good to hear) he tells me that she passed out at 5 and it is now 5:30 I told him to wake her up eat dinner, and get her ready for bed and keep her up until at least 6:30. He does it, she is still awake when I get home at 8. We do the bed time thing and she starts crying. I need sleep so at 9 I go in and we sleep together for the night.
Ben and I are both so fed up we don't know what is going on with her, I made a Dr appt for Friday to see if there is anything medically wrong that I have missed. We go and of course she is healthy, we turn it into our 18 month appt and since that was scheduled for a week later. He said that kids go through dependence and independence phases all through their teens so this may be her dependence phase and that we need to let her self soothe. So, we go in with another game plan. We will put her in her crib, let her cry for however long. We go for an hour and a half. 10 pm she climbs out of the crib. I go get her and we decide that we'll take off the side rail of the crib and let her roam in her room, with the light on and see what she does. I didn't hear her crying by 10:45 so I went outside her window and peeked in, since we don't have the video monitor (I want one) I wasn't sure where she would be, I thought she would be in front of the door. She wasn't she was face planted on the futon. I go in and turn off the light and let her sleep there.
Today, she started crying with her nap, which we will be keeping, at just 2 hours. She still needs it, I still need it. I rocked her and she was out in 10 min. Slid her into her crib. She didn't move in those 2 hours. For bedtime decided that we would let her roam from the beginning and see what she does. We did the bedtime thing and I laid her down on the futon and hoped for anything better. She was asleep within 20 minutes. The funny thing is, I thought that she would immediately get up from the futon and cry at the door. She didn't. We peeked again and she was laying right where I left her on the futon. If she keeps this up for a week we will be taking down the crib and looking for a twin bed. This is a whole lot sooner than I expected her to be moving to a twin bed.
Sorry this is so long and without pictures too. I hoped you liked our bedtime story.
Monday, she has a normal nap 12:30-3:30 just fine maybe it was a fluke. Night-time comes and she screams and cries again this time she climbs out of her crib. Ah, crap! She climbs out twice. She can just heel hook it out of the crib, I watched her do it, amazonian baby that she is. Now we have to figure out what to do with that at 10:30 at night. Should we keep her in the crib, take down the side rail, or sleep with her? I ended up rocking her to sleep which I haven't done in at least 6 months. I get her in her crib put the rail back up and we are in bed at 11:30.
Tuesday, normal nap, normal bed. What in the world, who are you child?
Wednesday the worst one. I had work on Thursday, she knew that I needed sleep too, but we didn't get much of it. She finally fell asleep after her scream fest at 11, we all went to bed. 3am she starts again. Mind you all, I am trying everything, ibuprofen, rocking, singing, letting her cry, giving her some milk. Toning her out doesn't work so well. At work I can tone out the babies crying if I really need to, Katelynn, I can't. She makes me pissed, makes me sad, I just want it to stop. So, I again fall asleep with her at 4 and my alarm goes off at 5:15. Ben tries to transfer her to bed but, that didn't work she is up and poor Aunt Sarah gets to watch the crazy woman all day. Sarah tried to get her to nap to no avail, which I expected since she would rather play with the boys than sleep. Ben gets her after work and at 5pm she finds a binky climbs into his lap and passes out. Crap! He calls me at work and says we have a problem. (That is never good to hear) he tells me that she passed out at 5 and it is now 5:30 I told him to wake her up eat dinner, and get her ready for bed and keep her up until at least 6:30. He does it, she is still awake when I get home at 8. We do the bed time thing and she starts crying. I need sleep so at 9 I go in and we sleep together for the night.
Ben and I are both so fed up we don't know what is going on with her, I made a Dr appt for Friday to see if there is anything medically wrong that I have missed. We go and of course she is healthy, we turn it into our 18 month appt and since that was scheduled for a week later. He said that kids go through dependence and independence phases all through their teens so this may be her dependence phase and that we need to let her self soothe. So, we go in with another game plan. We will put her in her crib, let her cry for however long. We go for an hour and a half. 10 pm she climbs out of the crib. I go get her and we decide that we'll take off the side rail of the crib and let her roam in her room, with the light on and see what she does. I didn't hear her crying by 10:45 so I went outside her window and peeked in, since we don't have the video monitor (I want one) I wasn't sure where she would be, I thought she would be in front of the door. She wasn't she was face planted on the futon. I go in and turn off the light and let her sleep there.
Today, she started crying with her nap, which we will be keeping, at just 2 hours. She still needs it, I still need it. I rocked her and she was out in 10 min. Slid her into her crib. She didn't move in those 2 hours. For bedtime decided that we would let her roam from the beginning and see what she does. We did the bedtime thing and I laid her down on the futon and hoped for anything better. She was asleep within 20 minutes. The funny thing is, I thought that she would immediately get up from the futon and cry at the door. She didn't. We peeked again and she was laying right where I left her on the futon. If she keeps this up for a week we will be taking down the crib and looking for a twin bed. This is a whole lot sooner than I expected her to be moving to a twin bed.
Sorry this is so long and without pictures too. I hoped you liked our bedtime story.
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