Some Funny Stuff

     Here is another post of all the things that have made me laugh lately. I hope you enjoy.

     For a while our girls kept waking up in the middle of the night and sneaking into our room. There were a few nights when we would wake up with all three girls in our bed. That was during the week when Kyla was sick and the girls had colds. There was one night that week that Brynlee came into our room late at night and Joel was obviously dreaming about flying trusses at work. They had been flying trusses that day. Brynlee tried to snuggle up to her dad and Joel yelled at her, "Get out of here Brynlee! It isn't safe. We are flying these trusses and I don't want them to fall on you. Get out of here Now, before you get hurt!" Brynlee didn't get out right away, she just started crying which only made Joel worry more about her safety. He yelled some more incoherent sentences about how dangerous it was for Brynlee to be in our bed. I just started laughing. I carried her back to bed and Joel could only vaguely remember what had happened the next day.

    After church a few Sundays ago Brynlee and I were asking Annalyn about what she did in Nursery. I was asking her if she played with one of the new little girls that just moved in. Brynlee didn't know her so she asked Anna,
Bryn: "Anna, what color dress was she wearing?"
Anna: "White"
Bryn: "What color was her hair?"
Anna: "Brown."
Bryn: What color were her eyes?
Anna: Pink.
Bryn: What color was her skin?
Anna: Orange!

     Another Sunday at church we were walking through the halls when Annalyn stopped, bent down low, and then she went up to a lady and pulled on her dress. When the lady acknowledged her Anna bent down on the ground again and started petting this ladies shoes telling her how much she liked them. "I lub your shoes. I don't have shoes like that."

      Annalyn: "I can't drive. I is just a liddle gurl. I am going to drive when I grow up and get big Big BIG!"

     We were at my grandma's house and my cousin Ryder took his shoe and flung it off of his foot. His mom and grandma both got onto him and told him not to throw his shoe. Brynlee looked at Ryder and told him, " I can throw my shoes at my house. My mom doesn't see me."I guess I need to start watching her more.

     Another day at church on our way out the door Brynlee noticed that one of the primary teacher had the same keychain on her bag that Brynlee has at home.
Brynlee: Hey, I used to have one of those when I was a little girl.
Teacher: Oh, you had one when you were a little girl huh.
Annalyn: Yeah, I am going to get one when I get Big Big Big.
Brynlee: Did you know that you are old and someday you are going to die?
Oh kids. Sometimes they are so embarrassing.

     At grandma's house one day Annalyn came up to my grandma and asked her if she wanted to see her panties. "No Anna" I said "we shouldn't show people our panties."
Anna: Yeah, I just want to show you.
Grandma: How about if you just tell me what kind you have?
Anna: Just watch.
Grandma: I know are they Cinderella?
Anna: No
Grandma: How about Frozen? A princess? Green ones? Batman?
Anna: No no no. Let me show you.
Me: Anna don't pull your pants down.
Anna: Look
Me: Annalyn! Where are you panties?
Anna: See, I didn't want to wear panties today.
Yeah, We would not have guessed that.

     My dad had a birthday earlier this month and Brynlee decided she wanted to give him a present. She wrapped up one of her singing stuffed animals in a gift bag and was all ready to bring it to him. Then Annalyn got two of her most favorite swimming suits and her "dinosaur movie" and put them in a gift bag for my dad. I tried to convince Annalyn to keep those at home and instead we made a card for my dad and we put the picture in a gift bag. I put the movies away but then Anna got really mad and insisted that she was going to give those presents to her grandpa. We were meeting my dad for lunch at Idaho Pizza but I told the girl to leave the presents in the van and we would give the presents to him later. We were running kind of late so when they started to throw a fit I just let it slide and they ran in the restaurant and had given my dad those presents before I was even done paying for our food. I think my dad was just thrilled to get two Annalyn sized swimming suits, Anna's favorite movies, and one of Brynlee's toys. At least we all had a good laugh. A few days later Annalyn realized what a mistake she had made when she wanted to watch her movies. "I don't want to give those movies to grandpa!" She cried over and over again. Every time she brought the movie up and I would tell her that the movie was at grandpa's house she would yell at me. She did not want those movies to be at grandpa's house. I tried to talk to her about what a nice gesture it was but she just wanted it back. My dad ended up giving those things back to Annalyn and he told her to keep them at her house. She was pretty excited to get them back.

     Annalyn asked me to make her a "Cinderella dun" in her hair the other day. She wanted a bun so I made her one. As soon as it was done she had to go potty. I came to check on her and make she she wasn't destroying the bathroom and she told me, "I is just pooping like Cinderella with my dun."

     We were eating hamburgers at my mom's house when Annalyn started crying. Their dog Gunner ate her hamburger. When my mom heard what happened she asked Annalyn how Gunner got ahold of her hamburger. This is what Anna told her, "I was just trying to feed him my lettuce, but then, he ate the whole thing. Even the meat!"

     My girls decided they wanted some banana bread one night. I told them we could make some later that day. I was trying to finish dinner when I discovered that they had already started to make banana bread. They had about seven or eight bananas mashed up and They were getting out the other ingredients and all of the utensils they would need. They ended up mixing up a bath of banana bread right in the middle of our kitchen floor. I helped them a little by telling them how much of everthing they would need but they did it all on their own and I am pleased to report that they made some pretty tasty banana bread. I sure do love my three crazy girls.

Kyla 8 Months

     I am having a hard time believing that this little baby is already eight months old. She is now rolling all over the place, scooting on the floor, and is so close to crawling. She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks and can crawl/inch forward a few feet. She can go from sitting to a crawl position and then back to a sitting position. I am sure she will really take off any day now. She has been much more content to just play on the floor now that she can get things to play with but I hate this stage when she has to put everything she finds in her mouth. I have already had to fish several things out of her mouth. The thing I find most often are those little plastic hair rubber bands. (Now that I am finally getting around to posting this, Kyla is really crawling all over the place. It didn't take her long.)

      This month Kyla got her first tooth. Her left bottom one came up a few weeks ago. Kyla also got RSV and she was really sick and miserable feeling with the RSV at the same time she was teething. Neither of us got any sleep for about a week. The only way I could get her to sleep was to hold her or to let her sleep in our bed. I am hoping we can move her to her own room soon and then we will have to get her to sleep better on her own. Even for her nap this baby sleeps really well while I hold her but she will only take a really short nap in her bed. She got spoiled while she was sick since I just held her while she slept. We are working on breaking her of that habit. I just hope she finishes teething soon.

     When Kyla gets tired she will start to fuss and will resist letting me hold her and cuddle her at first. As soon as she puts her thumb in her mouth, I know we are golden. Then she just snuggles right into my arms and closes her eyes. She seems to be good after only a short cat nap and then she wants down for another round. She rarely falls asleep after I nurse her.

     Kyla is making lots more sounds and she even said mama! Bynlee is trying to get her to say Bryn since I told her that Brynlee would be hard for Kyla to say and Annalyn is still working on Anna.

     Kyla got to try lots of new foods and so far I really haven't found anything that she won't eat. She was not a huge fan of the avocados or the rice cereal I gave her but she ate it. We feed her at the table with us, (she sits in the high chair) at least twice a day for lunch and dinner. Breakfast is trickier but I try to give her some kind of fruit in the morning. Usually it is a little bit of a banana. I need to start giving her more rice cereal. I have given her lots of mashed up fruits and veggies that she can feed herself but I have to be careful because she chokes really easily. She does all right with things likes peas and green beans but I have to smash them up first. 

     Kyla is finally growing some hair and her bald spot in the back is almost gone. Her eyes are looking more and more like they are going to be a dark blueish hazel color. She sure is a cute and cubby little baby. I think she is gorgeous. 

     Kyla got to go outside a few times during her last month of life but I don't think she really knew what to think of the whole thing. She was so unsure about the grass. I sat her down in the grass and she cried and would not let her hands touch the stuff at all. She just whined and waited for me to come and get her. Once I sat by her and played with the grass she seemed to calm down and relax around it but she didn't want anything to do with it. She loved the swing and she had a good time watching the chickens. 

     Kyla is such an inquisitive and observant baby. She loves to watch her big sisters and she giggles with glee every time they pay attention to her. She really puts up with a lot of being packed around and picked on and she takes it really well.

     Lately this baby seems pretty calm, laid back, content, and easy. Except for the whole not sleeping thing; she has been a dream. When I take her places she is happy to just let me hold her. She still goes to other people but she shows a strong preference for her family members, namely me and then her dad. I have loved getting to hold and snuggle this cute little baby. She sure is a sweet little girl. 

January 2015

     It's a brand new year full of all kinds of new possibilities. We are all looking forward to what this new year will bring. We started out the year by making some new year's resolutions. Joel and I both want to lose some weight and we want to build a house. We are a little uncertain about the future of Joel's job but I think we are just going to go on faith and move forward with our plan to build. The only thing we need now is some land to build on. Joel has been bringing home a whole bunch of leftover materials from the job sites he works at and he bought some industrial commercial heavy duty carpet for our future house. It has a wild design on it so I was a little worried about using it in our whole house. I think it would work in a bonus room or something though. We are thinking about building in a subdivision where the land is cheaper. Then we will live in the house for a few year and sale it so we can make some money. 

     Brynlee's goal for the new year is to learn how to swim and Annalyn wants to learn how to ride a horse and a baby bear. Haha, I don't know how she will accomplish the bear thing. As for Kyla, I suppose she just wants to learn how to crawl, walk, and talk. She has almost got the crawling thing down so she is well on her way.

     Brynlee got to go to the CTR 4 class at church and she was so excited to get a CTR ring. For days after she got it she would tell me how much her ring was helping her to choose the right. A few times she would tell me something like... "Mom, I almost hit Anna but then I saw my ring and that reminded me to Choose the Right so then, I didn't hit her!" Anna has one more year in nursery. I am still teaching primary with my mom but since our class is so much smaller they are having us take turns teaching and then going to relief society. It is kind of nice to get to attend relief society again but it has taken some getting used to. I would really rather just teach the class by myself but at least now my mom can take the baby when it is my turn to teach.

     We started doing preschool again and I even got brave and signed the girls up for music class at the library. Brynlee has been asking if she could do it again and so far they have all been pretty good and they really enjoy going.

     All of my girls got colds this month. Kyla got hers when Brynlee and Anna seemed to be over them and she was miserable. She was also getting some teeth at the same time but I spent almost an entire night up with a crying baby one night. She also sounded really wheezy so I took her to the pediatrician and it was confirmed that she had RSV. There was nothing they could do for her since it is just a virus. Her oxygen levels were fine so I just had to watch her. We spent several more night up with her just being miserable. It is also very contagious for other babies so we didn't go anywhere for a week and a half. We had to cancel preschool and I had to stay home from church with her. I am so glad she is feeling better. One of her teeth broke through and hopefully the other one comes up soon so that she will sleep through the night again. She really has been such an easy baby lately. I got lucky with her.

     There was a little bit of snow at the beginning of the month and the girls had fun building a snowman. It was a small one. Now they are ready for it to be summer so they can go swimming. The month ended with some really nice weather and we had fun playing outside but it is still jacket weather.

     We went and got our picture taken at JCPenneys so that we could put more pictures in the picture frame Joel made me. I still need at least one more picture but I like how it turned out. 

I have been wanting to do something different with my hair for a while but I still wanted to keep it long. My sister Heather has been wanting to put some color in my hair for a while so I finally let her. I really like it. She just did some subtle strands of color so it is just a small change.

     My girls still get into lots of mischief but they have been obsessed with watching movies. I usually let them watch one after they finish up all of their chores and then they are pretty good. I don't like them watching so much television but it is hard to not let them watch at least one show a day. They still play a lot and we have lots of friends over to play all the time. We put the tent up again and they have had a blast playing in there. Their latest favorite thing to do is to play hide and go seek. They are constantly trying to get me to play with them. I am not allowed to find them right away either. I have to look in at least five other places before I can find them. Annalyn giggles so much during that game. I love it.

 We spent lots of time playing games, reading books, playing with toys, and spending time with family. We really are loving life and we can't wait to see what this new year will bring.