Watch out Sizemore!!

... here comes JADEN!

We took advantage of the nice weather the other day (daddy was studying) and went to the park to teach the Jaden-boy the basics of baseball. Tee ball starts in a couple weeks and I don't want my kiddo to be the one that hits the ball and runs to 3rd base. =)

He dressed himself appropriately for baseball, (goggles and unmatching shoes are necessary for baseball, didn't you know?) and we jumped in the bike trailer and rode down to the park. He did really good. I was pitching to him, and when he connected he could smack them outta there! I was actually scared when he got a hit. Of course every time he got a hit it was "HOME RUN!" and he'd take off running. We had fun, we're excited for tee-ball!

KynnKynn just walked around the field, stepped in the mud when she was trying to chase the ball, and watched some guys playing soccer, she loved watching the ball go way up in the air and across the field. She got upset when she didn't get her turn to pitch to Jaden. She also posed for a few pics...

The park close by is really 3 parks in one. You go down the hill to get to the 2nd one, and down another hill to get to the 3rd one. I had the brilliant idea of going all the way to the bottom, to get a work-out. Once we get down there, we gotta go up!! It was TOUGH! I had to get off and stop for a minute halfway up the 2nd hill. It's a STEEP one!! I felt like I was floating when we got on level ground. WHEW!!!

Here's some favorite pics of the ride. That boy just can't leave her alone sometimes!!

EVERYBODY was thirsty when we got home. Yeah, that hill was tough on those little riders... "Mom, why are we stopping??... GO GO GO!".

I'm glad I could grace you all with my beat-red face. It was a good work-out though, I was glad I did it...after I got home that is.

Stay tuned for the Hair blog. I was going to post it tonight, but it's past my bedtime.

Goodnight.

Girls Rule!!

Ok, I can't believe I forgot to post this. I just remembered when I uploaded the pics~

We've been playing games with a group of friends every now and then and the girls always lose at Ultimate Outburst. Well, Miss Dina had a birthday, so we got to play games again and...

THE GIRLS FINALLY WON OUTBURST!! Can I get a "Wooot wooot"!! Raise the roof!!

I had to take a pic when we were in the lead, and the guys quickly packed up the game before I could get the winning shot. That's ok, I don't need a picture to prove it, or rub it in!!

The best part is that they lost on the 10 Commandments!!! They said they could name 8 of them, and they couldn't!! WAHOO! That totally makes up for last time when Trevor's winning "Earthquake" rolled off his tongue to win the game as the last grain of salt fell in the timer. They had just been getting lucky with their easy cards...

Oooohhhhh, you'll have to excuse the sore losers. Trevor is so naughty!!

I had to post a few of the details for Julie, she was so disappointed she missed it. No worries Jules, we'll do it again!! :o)~

I had lots of other stuff to post tonight, but I watched Dancing With the Stars instead (SO awesome!!), and now it's past my bedtime.

Good night.

better late than never...

Ok, the rest of the Kentucky pictures. It just takes so long to upload all the pics, so I put it off. But since I'm not feeling 100% today, it gave me the opportunity to finish. =)

So, yeah, after the Summitt we stayed at Elizabeth's house. The kids played, we went to church on Sunday... it was SO good to see everybody. I don't know how many excited "Are you moving back?" comments I got. I wish I could answer YES! Everybody is so sweet there.

We had a fantastic Sunday dinner at Elizabeth's and she invited her/my friend Kim, one of my Canadian friends, so we could catch up.

(...more bars in more places....)

After dinner the kids were dinking around with this microphone that dubbs your singing into the radio.

Then I hear Elizabeth say, "Oh my gosh, is he singing Applebottom Jeans?!?".

Yes, he was. VERY few songs this kid knows, and Applebottom Jeans is one of them. Seriously, won't sing at Primary, just really has never been into singing... can't say I don't know where he gets it...

For whatever reason, KynnLee thought Luke was pretty cool that night. I'm not exactly sure why, because as you can see, he just kind of ignored her. I thought it was cute, she's such a sweet baby.

And the last and final day was spent at the Zoo with Connor, the Zoo expert. Seriously, that kid knows more about animals than most adults. In fact, he got upset because Jaden called the Gorilla a Monkey. Becky and I were cracking up! I should have got pics of Becky and Jaxon too, he's a cute little guy. These boys are so cute together. Connor was Jaden's first friend in Kentucky, they were best friends right off the bat...

He must have been telling Jaden the proper diet and favorite activities of the orangutan...

We can't make it through the Zoo without a few of these "OOooohhh" faces from KynnKynn. She's so animated!! I love it!

Leave it to my kids to hog the swings...

The boys were funny walking around with their snacks/junk food (cotton candy and popcorn). They were talking to the puma here.

We had a lot of fun. It worked out well to spend some time at the Zoo so we could make the drive home in the evening for the girl.

We'll have to plan another Kentucky trip!!! Dad will come with us this time. We are very sad that we missed Thunder over Louisville last weekend, it should totally be televised world-wide. My family and I watched the firework show on TV last year. I was surprised at how good it looked on TV... but still better in person. We'll have to watch the Derby on TV here in a couple weeks. =)

Friday, and other Jaden events

Last week we went to this Flower Factory here in Parma. Jaden came up to me and said something about getting this thing to put outside like Beeda. I had no idea what he was talking about, and didn't pay much attention to him.

We walked by it again and he almost started freaking out. It was a display of different rod-iron suns.

He said he wanted to get it and put it on our house so we could be like Beeda. My mom has a rod-iron sun on her house. I never even knew Jaden paid any attention to it. I hardly paid any attention to it. He was so excited about it! It would have broken his heart if we didn't get one, so we let him pick one out.

He sat in the car holding it, running his little hands around the rays. Then he says, "Let's name it!!". After a bit of contemplating... "Let's name it Friday!!!".

Have no idea where Friday came from, but at least he chose the best day of the week!!

This first picture is of him taking a picture of Friday with his little digital camera. Then his proud little self showing the world that we have a "Friday". It's like his link to Beeda and Grandpa. Sometimes when we're backing out of the driveway he'll say "Bye Friday!". He's so proud and excited about his little find.

So, the other day, my little man was outside playing and came inside and said, "Mom, I picked a flower for you!!". Isn't that something every mom wants to get from her little boy? I told him that every girl LOVES to get flowers and made a big deal of it. We had to get this tiny vase and put water in it. What a sweet little man!

We've got these little purple flowers growing all around our yard... no worries, he didn't pick a neighbor's flowers!!

I've been teaching him about being a gentleman, and he's been VERY interested ever since the whole Edward thing. He's always said he wanted to be a fireman when he grew up, and now it's "I want to be a vampire when I grow up, and then a fireman, and then a dopter" (doctor). That's fine by me, this little man will be the non-fictional Edward when he grows up!! Watch out ladies!!

And last but not least... I got into bed the other night and somebody was in my spot... well, 2 somebodies were in my spot...

It was hard to take the picture, I couldn't see a darn thing until the camera flashed. But how funny is that?? I guess daddy was hogging the pillow, so he found his own. Daddy is usually famous for hogging the blankets... Anyway, the two snuggle-bugs of the house were snuggling. How cute is that?

KynnKynn's jabbers translated

I just wanted to jot down some of the things KynnLee says at 13 1/2 months. It's just for my own record. You don't want to know what Jaden says at 5 yrs old... some of you already know too much (especially Ashly...).

FYI- for those that don't know, KynnLee has the nick-name KynnKynn because Jaden wanted to be Mr. Incredible for Halloween and he wanted KynnLee to be Jack-Jack/KynnKynn.

Mumma= Momma
Da da= Daddy
Da duh= Jaden
Buh pa= puppy (sounds kind of like Bubba)
Ba la la la= Ballerina!! That's right, my girl says BALLERINA!!
Ba ba= bottle/drink (even though she doesn't have a bottle anymore)
Da doe= Thank you
ah boo= Love you
Wo wo wo wo= Low low low low (like "Apple Bottom Jeans")
Hi!! = it's always with enthusiasm
ello= Hello; she even gets the "L's" in there
nan nuh= banana
my la=Myleigh (she sounded like she said it one day and I kept having her say it. I don't think she even remembers Myleigh)
book
Buh bye
WOW!
Uh oh
Ewh
Wo

She also knows a few signs...
*more *all done *thank you *please
*milk *binky *drink *blanket

and she blows kisses! gives the best hugs!

You just need a day like this once in a while

Don't you just love the days when you feel like you're super productive??

Today before 11am I had worked out, took Jaden to a Dr. appointment, got groceries and had them all put away (there were a LOT of groceries).

So we took some time to chill and eat lunch, and Jaden did some Hooked on Handwriting before preschool. There's like 100 stop lights on the way to preschool, and they must have known I was on a roll today because they just let me keep rolling!! I swear I had a green light on almost all of them!! It seriously cut off like 5 minutes... even 30 seconds is a wonderful thing when you're in the car with KynnLee...

Isn't it weird how all the small things can just make your day??

And it's sunny and 55 degrees, total opposite of yesterday's snowing and 25.

Then I got to do a little shopping with a friend for a baby shower tomorrow. It's nice to go shopping when our older kids are at preschool.

To top the day off, I come home and there's a package on my front step from the in-laws. It's full of ALL KINDS of Easter goodies!! They always send the best packages.

I think I'll sneak a nap in before I make the preschool run again.... =)

Favorites

I just wanted to jot down some of my favorite things my kids do, usually on a daily basis...

KynnLee comes up to me, motions to my phone and starts dancing.
Translation: Turn the music on your phone so I can dance!!!
That's my girl!!

Jaden knows all about choking because about a year ago he swallowed a bean from his Don't Spill the Beans game. It was pretty traumatic for him. He was scared to do the #2 the next day. Anyhow, he's a pretty good look out for me, if KynnLee puts something in her mouth it's always...
"CHOKING HAZARD!!! SISSY, THAT'S A CHOKING HAZARD!! MOM, SISSY PUT SOMETHING IN HER MOUTH!!!" in a totally frantic tone. Such a good brother... ;)

When Jaden gets cold he says, "get me a blanket, I'm sugaring".

KynnLee often comes up to me and hugs my legs and goes "Oooohhhh" and gives me a pat. Such a little sweetheart!

Warning...picture overload

So, I was a big picture geek on my trip to Kentucky. Since Trev had to stay home to take tests (lucky!), I wanted to take lots of pics and show him how everything went down.

I've always thought downtown Cincinnati is really cool. So since we hit a little traffic, I took some pics, but this is the only one I'm posting...

I remember when we first moved to Kentucky and I thought it was a little annoying how they have horses everywhere... not actual horses, but like on the sign and stuff. After being there a while I realized that it's all really classy the way they use them. And being around for the Kentucky Derby I understood how big of a deal it is. I mean, 2 weeks of celebrations before Derby?? The 2nd largest firework show in North America... it's a big deal. I mean, there were Dancing With The Stars contestants there... that pretty much sums it up for me! I now love their use of horses, I think it's really cool. Anyway, moving on...

Most of you are aware that my girl hates the car. The first half of the drive was ok, the 2nd half had to have a few extra stops. This was the last stop we made at a rest stop just outside of Cincinnati. She was clapping her hands and all happy, 30seconds later I put her in the car...

I will never attempt to travel with this baby during the day again. Of the whole 6 hours it took to get there (that includes stops), this girl slept for about 45 min. of it. The drive home was in the evening, she slept for over half of it.

First off was girl's night. Mexican food. Need I say more? Left to right is Darla, Christine, Ashly,(little Raegan), Rhonda, me, Elizabeth. It was so good to see little Raegan for the first time and we're so happy that Rhonda has a healthy little baby. Look at those cheeks! They were as yummy as they look! My heart goes out to her and her family every time I see a little one with Down Syndrome.

A big huge thanks to Kayla (and a bigger one to Jeff) for babysitting for me. Jaden thought it was cool to see his preschool again.

Jaden and Luke were inseperable. They had fun polishing their skills on the Wii. Jaden always curls his tongue like that when he's concentrating, it cracks me up!!

The next day was beautiful weather so we did some shopping at The Summitt. As I mentioned, Jaden and Luke were inseperable so I offered to take Luke with us. We started out at Old Navy, where the boys were wild and crazy. I mean, literally running and then sliding across the floor on their knees. So, we left in a hurry, but I was able to score some Nutcracker jammies on clearance for KynnKynn. LOVE THEM!! I ask her where her ballerina is and she points to her shirt... that's my girl!! We ended the Summitt adventure (that's not a joke) at Barnes and Noble with a cookie and chocolate milk for the boys. I know, I know, that was just like throwing fuel on the fire. Just don't tell Beeda that I allowed my child to have that much sugar...

Jaden knew very well that Barnes and Noble had a train table in the back. There was no skipping out on that, so we hung out there for a bit and KynnLee found herself a little Fancy Nancy doll. She was so stinkin funny with it, I almost had to buy the little $15 thing.

Of course ALL the kids are exhausted from walking all the way around the Summitt, so they took "the train" back to the car. Seriously, all of them, even KynnLee were doing the "woo woo" train whistle thing all the way back to the other side. I considered it my work-out for the day. (Don't tell Elizabeth about my pansy-of-a-work-out )

That night we got to stay at Elizabeth's and spend some time there. Jaden had fun playing with Madison and Meredith (probably his only girl buddies in KY) while I had a laugh at KynnLee on the grass. She *hates* touching the grass with her hands, she won't even stand up... I'm such a mean mom to be laughing...

Carson wasn't so sure of KynnLee, so we started him off with her locked up in the pack-n-play. He eventually approved of her and even let her suck on some of his toys...

Isn't he a handsome little man? Another healthy/miracle baby blessed to deserving parents. I got to meet this little guy before we left though. He would crawl around with his little tongue out like that, I couldn't resist a snapshot.



Ok, I'm all blogged out for the night. The rest of the trip will have to wait. Good night!

The Viper

I know you all have been waiting for the pics of the Viper. It was a nice day the other day so we spent some time outside playing in it. So here you go...

You can't really tell, but when you start it, the dash lights up a florescent blue. Hilarious! And rearview mirrors... but even with those he's not exactly "the world's best backwards driver".

Jaden thinks he's pretty cool stuff. Every time he gets in it he has to turn on the radio, even if it's on a weird station. We'll have to install some type of seatbelt for KynnLee, it stops pretty abruptly. It was fun taking a stroll around the block, but we're thinking it might have been a good idea for the car to come with a remote control... so WE can control it. He's still got some driving skills to develop...

The princess girl really likes her hot little ride too. She beeps the horn the whole time she's in there. In fact, her little hand is on the horn here....

It's going to be a fun summer!!