Giddy Up

A couple of days ago Sidney got real into the stick horses. Kylie added her cowgirl hat to Sidney's head and we taught her the phrase "giddy up". Sidney then proceeded to run around the house saying "gi up, gi up". It was fabulous. Of course, I tried getting video of it, and failed. All 4 times I attempted. But what I got is still mildly funny.
Enjoy. :)

At the end of this first video, you can kinda tell her attempting her fast paced "gi up, gi up".

 

 

 

 

I love in this video that she says absolutely nothing, just me attempting to

 get her to say something....but she figured out

how to keep the horse between her legs!

A Couple of Sickos and a Weekly Update

Mike has had one serious cold the last few days that seems to be kicking his butt, poor guy. Sidney caught it and was miserable yesterday. There was a whole lot of couch snuggling with that girl. She then proceeded to make last night miserable for me, after the 5th time getting up with her, the two of us hit the couch and spent the rest of the night there. She didn't nap much today leading to one extremely over tired little girl tonight, who is so far fighting sleep with every ounce of effort she has left. I am really hoping she will give in soon. I really think she would feel tons better by tomorrow if she would just get some sleep.

my sleeping sickos.

 

Kylie and I have managed to not catch it, yet. I am truly hoping that we can avoid it. I was sick last year around superbowl time, and am hoping it is not going to be a new yearly tradition!


I taught school last week and Kylie greatly enjoyed having her friends over. We are learning about goals right now and about order and keeping things picked up and put away. I think the second part hasn't really clicked yet, as the play room and living room are still always littered with toys. *sigh* One day the place will stay clean....one day. Until then....Oh Well. :)


Library hour is a challenge now. Sidney has discovered that she can escape the room quite easily to go out to the children's area and play so I have to chase her around a lot. She also likes to pull books off the shelves. Ugh. So annoying.
They are starting a health series now though which should be fun. Every other week starting next week they are getting a visit from one of the following: a dentist, a nurse, a doctor and an eye doctor. I think the kids are really going to love it.


Something seemed to like our bird feeders. It completely stole mine. Kylie's hasn't been touched, but mine straight up disappeared. Hmmm...

The sky has been amazing out here this past week. Such beautiful colors. And the deer running around the house has been awesome as well. Both girls love watching them.

 

I found this cool little creation where the water drips

off the end of our gutter.

 

Sidney is quite the chatterbox and has developed her own little version of the Ewok language. It is pretty cute when she gets on a roll and won't stop "talking". She is growing up so much! Watching her open books and start chattering like she is reading the book is just priceless. She throws away garbage, she loves to put her empty cups in the sink and watching her "brush" her teeth is just fun. I was just thinking the other day..."Oh man, she is going to be TWO this year!" And my big little girl is going to start school this fall.....Where has all this time gone?!

Kylie is finally the size of the giant bear she won 2.5 years ago

 

Cowgirl Sidney

Kylie's napping fort

And lo and behold....she actually fell asleep and

took a nap in it!

(that was a pleasant afternoon!)

:)

 

I've been trying to get video of the girls to try to upload, but every time I actually start the camera, they stop doing what they were doing. But I am trying!

Hope all has been going well with all of you! Take care!

A Couple Weeks In Review

After New Years day, things have pretty much gone back to normal around here. Mike is working, teaching classes for the VFDs and taking classes in CO and down in Riverton this month. So he is going to be here on and off.

Kylie is back to me running her around town for activities. Joy School on Tuesday and Friday, library on Wednesday and playgroup on Thursday. She is loving being with her friends again, but during our two month vaca I managed to forget what it takes to run into town all the time with the two of them. I mean, it is only a couple of miles into town, but it still manages to be a lot of effort to get them both ready and to town.

Today I made toilet paper roll bird feeders with Kylie, so she enjoyed some one on one time while Sidney napped. Tomorrow I teach Joy School, so we spent the night cleaning out the toy room and making space for 5 kids to play. Yikes.

Not much for exciting stuff. Here are a few pictures of the randomness of our last couple of weeks.

Kylie taking menu orders from all of her "sick"

doll patients

The orders up in her kitchen so she can make them all lunch

Some visitors we had one night

 

Our very very cold door.....

The whole door was covered in frost too.

Sidney having some tomato soup via a

straw and a cup.....she did not approve of it!

 

Rolling the tube in bird seed

our finished tubes

taking it outside

hanging in the bush

waiting for the birdies....

we put it on a bush right outside our living room windows so

she can keep an eye on them and see if anything comes!

 

New Years Eve

*I apologize in advance, as this is kind of a venting post for the first half*

Well, the year is pretty much over. It has been a crazy filled year and we have had our share of bad luck (when it comes to this house) and hopefully 2014 has better things in store for us. And maybe a new place to live!

The two and a half days we have been home have been quite questionable.

The guy finished the new kitchen floor Sunday afternoon after we got home. Then he finished fixing the hole in the ceiling of the girl's room Monday morning. But of course he left a giant mess behind that I got to clean up before the girls could even use their room. A different guy came and fixed the living room carpet Monday morning as well, since they had to pull it up to put dryers and heaters under it to dry it out.

Today was incredibly low key since our hot water heater blew this morning and gushed hot water all over the basement. Turns out it broke at the seam and we need a new one.

Then I stubbed my toes on a weight by the bed and bruised my toe, I wouldn't doubt it if I sprained it.

The plumber did show up this afternoon and totally thought that he wasn't going to get us a new hot water heater until Thursday, but thankfully after a phone call, he told us he'll be out tomorrow morning with a new heater.

We are just hanging out tonight, not doing much. We found a channel with constant music videos and the girls had a blast jamming out in the living room. :)
Kylie knows "Roar" by Katy Perry pretty well and sang along to that song. It was hilarious. Sidney also enjoyed bouncing her head along to the videos.

Sidney didn't make it past 9:30 though. She was pretty tired. We'll see if any of the three of us make it to midnight. I'm sure Kylie won't.

This is the only picture I have from tonight. Too busy trying to clean up stuff and put things away from them being moved and from us unpacking.

Shared some sparkling grape juice with the girls.

Sidney loved it.

Kylie....not so much.

 

 

We hope you all have a wonderful New Years and that 2014 treats you all well. Take Care!!

15 months

Oh how the time is flying!

Sidney is just a busy little bee these days. Still won't sit still, unless she is not feeling well. And even then, it isn't for long.

She is very curious. She has finally gotten over her fear of the vacuum. She no longer screams in terror, but will squeal at it and has even just sat by it and will smack it while it is running. :) It is kind of amusing.

She signs; milk, eat, more, drink and hat. She picked up three words on our trip and now says up, apple and bye. (bye kind of sounds like bah, but everyone knows what she means). Listening to her say apple is the cutest thing. I love it. She was already saying dad and dada. And I will still every once in a long while hear her say mommy or momma.

Today she figured out that she can actually pick up Kylie's little step stool and move it around. She put it by the food shelf in the kitchen, climbs up and grabs food to give to me or Mike, waiting for us to open it and let her eat it. Sigh.....another place not safe from her grasp. When we got home from our trip she grabbed a couple things from the wall that use to be out of her reach. Not anymore.

I attempted getting a height on her tonight. It was 31 inches. So not much taller than the one year numbers I found, but getting there. She is also up to 22 pounds. She is still pretty lean like her sister.

She still loves food and eats like a champion. But she runs around like a maniac, so that explains her leanness.

She loves playing with dolls and loves playing with anything that her big sister is playing with. She gets a little upset when she is told that she can't have or use the thing Kylie has.

She has also developed a little attitude. Must get that from Kylie. :) When she really doesn't get her way, she has already figured out to just lay down on the floor, face down and cry and scream. Her little tantrums are so cute. :) (I'm sure I won't think that in a year or two!)

I didn't try hard at getting a picture today since we were dealing with the mess the house was still in from the kitchen flooding and them finally fixing the hole in the girls ceiling. The guys finally finished fixing everything today, but the place is still a mess. Hoping to get everything settled back down in the next day or so.

Here is a cute pic I got of her with my phone today though. Quite the squished up face! :)

15 month cutie

Hope you all have a wonderful New Years and don't party too hard tomorrow night!

Christmas

We spent Christmas in MN with my parents. It was the first Christmas we had spent with them in quite a few years, and the first one with the girls. We could tell they enjoyed watching the girls opening their gifts. It was a wonderful time.

Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve and Christmas.

This may be my most favorite photo from the entire trip.

Kylie and my dad at the candle light Christmas Eve church service.

A fabulous black bean spread that my dad made...he

also put it on a tortilla and made a wrap with it.

(hey dad, will you write down the recipe for me?! Please?!)

 

Our best attempt at a family pic.

The best attempt at a pic of the girls. Sidney is incapable of

sitting still.....ever

Opening presents from family on Christmas Eve

Kylie's expressions this year were priceless.

Her excitement was amazing.

:)

 

The cookies Kylie decorated for Santa, and one cracker for

each reindeer. (we forgot to buy carrots!)

Grandpa informed her though that he was told reindeer

love to eat crackers too. :)

Sidney realized it would be faster to just dump out

her stocking instead of reaching in and taking things out

one at a time.

Her reaction to seeing her stocking hanging on the stairs was priceless too.

She had a little dollie sticking out of hers, so she noticed they were full first and

was just so excited about. And mildly frustrated that she couldn't get to her stocking to get it down. :)

 

The girls and their stockings

Kylie realizing that St. Nick gave her this same type of

treat in her stocking a few weeks ago. :)

Opening the gifts Santa brought them.

More chocolate!

Yummy sweet tart candy cane!

We had a wonderful holiday, and a fabulous trip. We are so thankful that we were able to take the time to go home and spend all that time with family. Especially so everyone can see this girls when they are this young. They are growing up so fast.

We miss all of you already!!
Take Care!

 

Time in MN

After our time in WI we headed to my parents up in MN. We were able to still spend a week with them before we had to get back to WY so Mike could get back to work.

The only plus side of having to cut our trip short was that we got out of MN before the ridiculously cold temperatures hit. It's kinda nice coming home to temps in the 30s. We didn't have that once during the trip except for maybe a day or two during the MN deer season.

My dad took the week off and he and Mike made a whole lot of brats, sausages and salami from all the deer we got back in November. It is delicious and I am looking forward to eating all of it. :)

My sister was also able to come up and bring Josephine, so Kylie was excited to play with her for a couple of days too.

Here are some pictures from that week.

 

Auntie Katie crimped the girls' hair

 

 

One of the first things they did was crawl into Jackson's crate.

Silly kids.

playing with some really old stamp markers that were

in the house when I was a kid.

Practicing our hand stands with Auntie Katie

Such fun. :)

 

She loves her chocolate! Yummy scotcharoos!

Too much cousinly love leads to bonked heads

and bloody noses.

 

There was a little too much love going on in this house, as

both girls got their fair share of ouchies in just a matter of one week!

She loved being in the rocking chair.

 

Sidney also loved this step stool

 

Sharing breakfast with Grandpa

 

She has become a fabulous egg cracker.

So sad that it takes 5-10 min. for the Hello Kitty

cupcake/brownie maker to cook the treats. :)

Hello Kitty brownie!

Brownies! Considering we didn't put in the oil the

recipe called for, they didn't taste that bad....

Hanging out with Grandpa