The new Edward...

This kid is absolutely cracking me up!! He's totally playing up the whole Edward thing. He was sitting in quiet time and he stuck his head out and I hear...

"Mom, I want to change my name". He said it a couple times before I was able to answer.

"What do you want to change it to?"

"Edward!!"

He's keeps playing the part of when Edward stops the car, and keeps asking does Edward do this? Does Edward do that? and "Mom, don't call me Jaden anymore, call me Edward". "You tell my teachers my name is Edward."

Most recently..."Mom, does Edward spit at babies?" (as he's spitting at KynnLee)

To which I reply, "no".

"But spitting makes babies laugh." ... this is quite entertaining, I must say...

I might have to take my little man on a date to see Edward.

I had to get his enthusiasm on video...

Only Edward

This is going to be a quick one, I just had to post it before I forgot...

We were leaving the store and getting in the car. I was buckling KynnLee in and told Jaden to stay right by the car. Then he started getting mad because I wasn't letting him in (I have to reach over his booster to get KynnLee in). He said he didn't want to get hit by a car... and then he said,

"Well, I'll just push it away with my hand so it won't hit me".

I told him that only Edward could do that.

Then he was all interested in this "tough" Edward.

He asked "Is Edward real? Is he around town?" and "Why is he so tough?"

I told him that Edward is a vampire and we talked about it for quite a bit, and I tried to answer his 100 questions. Jaden thinks Edward is pretty dang cool.

Not 3 minutes later, on the way home, Jaden asks what color KynnLee's eyes are (hazel), and what color Jaden's are (blue), and what color mine are (green). Then he asks, "Who has red eyes?"

I told him that only Edward does.

His reply... "And Squidward??"...

I think Jaden found a new Superhero. And that's fine by me! Now it's time to teach him to act like Edward. :o)

Christmas pics and other things I've slacked on...

I know, I know, I'm a slacker in the blog department.

First off, I just have to show you the car that we "purchased" and totaled....





Nice eh? If you're going to wreck a car, might as well do a good job of it.

And for my biggest news yet... I can't believe I didn't get this posted earlier... KynnLee got her first FRENCH BRAIDS over Christmas!!!! How many 10 month old babies have you seen with french braids? Sorry, I just have to gloat, I absolutely love that my girl has lots of hair. Perhaps I may like it even more because it is one of the few things my girl gets from her mom... so unfair when they look like dad.




Pictures don't do it justice... it was seriously the cutest thing I've ever seen!!! I'd do it more often if I could catch her sleeping in a good position to do her hair.

My mom's family has a Christmas party at the bowling alley every year. It was fun to be there and see everyone since we never make it to family reunions or anything anymore. There's never a dull moment with the aunts around (my mom has 7 sisters). I wish I would have gotten some pics of my aunts, they are drop dead hilarious (air-headed)I tell you! But Jaden went bowling for the first time....



Of course I couldn't pass up a shot of the feet. Sometimes I think *I* should be the one going to Podiatry school...


Jaden and cousin Kaleb crashin' down the bowling alley....


Oh, and what a surprise!!!! Santa showed up!!! Jaden may have been shy at first, but he was downright ready with his Christmas list... a bike, a pipes truck (pickup truck), a fire truck, and a police car. (I think that was right)




The kiddos in their Christmas Eve jammies, I couldn't get them to give me a good pic.



And here's some of my favorites of Christmas morning....



I just LOVE that face!!

Jaden is not much for pics. (I love when I end up in a picture w/o makeup on... thanks Beeda!)


So Jaden starts asking my dad if he will take him fishing. They both love fishing. Convenient that they live on the river, I think that just fed Jaden's want. They talked about it for a while, I don't think my dad had real intentions of going down there, but Jaden wouldn't let him off the hook. So that's where they are headed... it was so funny listening to their conversation.... "but grandpa, you can break the ice on the river, and put the hook in...."

I wish I would have gotten pics, but it was freezing cold. The river was literally iced over all the way across. This is throwing rocks on another day...
(Beeda and Grandpa got new stairs down to the river...)




Another thing I didn't get pics of is when Jaden went to work with Grandpa. That boy loved every second of it (I think Grandpa did too!)!! First off, grandpa took him on a ride on the "snow motorcycle". Then they fixed a lawnmower, and a chainsaw, and lots of other things right up Jaden's alley.

We had a great trip. Then it was time to come back home to reality...

Merry Crash-mas

We've had an exciting and fun-filled trip to Utah/Idaho, to say the least. So far, we've totaled a car, made 2 trips to the ER for KynnLee, had Rx phoned in for Jaden... why do kids always have things go wrong when you're away from home and their Pediatrician?? Seriously...

So we arrived to SLC on the 16th, "purchased" a car from Kent (the bro-in-law)and drove it up to Idaho on the 18th. We were on our way to get Mexican food that night, with 7 people in the car, and a Mexican turned left in front of us and we plowed into them. Their momentum dragged us into another pickup truck waiting at the light. Since the light was yellow, the BRILLIANT officer declined to give anybody a citation and said he would let the insurance companies duke it ou. Oh, but it gets better... the third car we ran into happened to be an ex-serious-boyfriend of mine, lovely! :o) His comment was "What a way to run into an ex-girlfriend, eh?" And it still gets a little better... the Mexican didn't have insurance. That's just the way some of them roll... How many of you can say you purchased a car and totaled it in the same day? It was perfect for us... a Trailblazer with a 3rd seat. Lots of room, but not a huge SUV. What a pitty.

So then the days following, my little beauty queen has had a cold and gets really fussy... I knew it must be her first ear infection. Jaden has taught us the signs all too well. So I call the pediatrician, and the insurance. Pediatrician says to take her in, the insurance says the only thing that is covered out-of-town is the ER. So we go to the ER on the snowey-est day of the year, I think they had about 6 inches of snow so far that day, and the little tiny ER in Burley, Idaho had 5 ambulances. We were glad that the Dr. was nice about things and got us what we needed. She was a new baby by the next day. A couple days later, Jaden developes an eye infection. I was very glad that the Pediatrician phoned in a prescription for him, we didn't want to go to the ER for eye drops...

We had a great Christmas. KynnLee was most interested in the TAGS on everything, not the boxes and paper, or toys, but the tags. She loves her ballerina bear that Jaden made for her at Build-a-Bear, and Jaden loves his Mack Truck that KynnLee got for him. They were so stinkin cute on Christmas morning! They absolutely love eachother! I'll post all the cute pics after we get home.

So then the scary thing comes... I was at Micalla's in Utah and the little princess baby starts crying out of nowhere, I pick her up, she's crying and holding her breath as she turns blue. As I'm freaking out, I blow in her face and she finally took a breath and then passed out. It was the freakiest thing! After she woke up and I held her for a bit she acted fine. I mentioned it to Micalla and she said that she had done the same thing the day before when she was watching her. I called the Pediatrician (again) and she said to just watch her and sometimes kids do that. So then KynnLee does it 2 more times within a few hours. I called the Pediatrician (yet again) and they say to take her to the ER. I have to say I was glad that she didn't do this while we were in Burley, I trust the ER at McKay-Dee much better than in Burley. And it was nice that Tanya knew most of the Docs and told me which ones to avoid. So, an EKG and an x-ray later they say she's fine. And she's been fine ever since, hasn't passed out. What a freakish thing!!

So we have 2 days left before we go home, we are finally going to go get that Mexican food tonight. I'll let you know if anything else exciting happens...

This-n-That

I just have to show off some of the pics I got while I was home.

Here's Grandpa Dan (my dad, whom Jaden Dan Haynes was named after...) and the two littlest grandkids. Those two little girls were so cute together!


We all went out to eat together at the Upper Crust, which I thought was awesome! Here we have Kent the freakazoid, who makes the same face in EVERY picture (you're welcome Micalla!). I'm in there, you just can't see me very well, it's better off that way anyway.


This is my Great-Uncle George who is 90 1/2 (I guess I'd be counting the halfs at that age too!). But don't ask him how it feels to be that old, because he's never been that old before...

George is probably one of the smartest people I know, even at 90 1/2!

My camera went missing for a while at Grandma's viewing and let's just say I had a few surprise pics. I deleted the one they took of my feet, which are WAY cuter than Laurie, Tanya, and Micalla's feet. Was that in the right order you guys? Tanya's in the middle? I know who "looks like the hooker".... ;o)



Speaking of the "GEM" who said Micalla looked like a hooker.... Nick...


Micalla and Tanya doing what they do best...


Laurie and BreAna. I wonder who was taking the pic that made Laurie feel the urge to give that cheesy one...


My favorite Mikka with my favorite princess...


After everything was said and done we were wiped out. Mikka is not a good faker over there on the chair though...


Maycee and KynnLee giving kisses bye. I bet I know what freakazoid taught Maycee how to use the tongue like that..... (HER DAD!)


This is KynnLee and cousin Avery. We were very excited to see Avery for the first time. I LOVE KynnLee's messy hair in the morning! It cracks me up!


KynnLee loved looking out the window on the flight home. It kept her entertained for a little bit while they were taking their sweet time before take-off.


THAT'S ALL FOLKS!

Grandma Myrtle Hellewell

November 14, 1923-November 3, 2008

We have many memories of Grandma Myrtle and will miss her dearly. Here's the memories of Grandma that I shared at her funeral...

"The morning after Grandma died, I came in the house with some mail and there was a letter from my mom and I said 'Jaden, look what came in the mail today...' and Jaden just lit up and said 'Is it a singing card from Grandma Myrtle?!?!'. We will miss her cards, love dollars, raspberry jam, and rolls. When I was a kid, grandma would make some dough and split it up between the grandkids and let us make cinnamon rolls. She always thought my cinnamon rolls were the best because I was her favorite 'turkin-goose'.

I also have to share a smidget of Tanya's...
"Just to tell you how good her raspberry jam is, I was getting the kids ready for school and got out a new jar of jam. After I took Rylee out to catch the bus and came back in and there was only a little left in the jar. I was asking Nikyla where all the jam spilled and she said 'it didn't spill, Rhody drank it!'"

We will miss the weekly cards and love dollars in the mail from grandma, in fact, we received a card from her the day she died and two days after. We always had to laugh when the spelling of the kids' names varied. She did, however, get KynnLee's name right on the last few cards. I just had to set her straight when she kept calling her Kylee. I guess when you're sending cards to all your grandkids and great-grandkids that often it might get a little confusing. She always included Phoebe in the cards too, she would cut a dog out of a magazine and paste it into our card. Grandma loved Phoebe, but for whatever reason, Phoebe would always sit and bark at her.

I was able to bring a singing card home for Jaden (since only me and KynnLee went)and he was so excited. He taped it up on the wall right outside his bedroom and said it was his doorbell. We had to open the card to "ring the doorbell" before we could go in his room....



All the girls got to have one of Grandma's neclaces and we all wore them to the funeral. KynnLee was the only one that didn't wear hers, but I let her play with it. I thought it was so sweet that little tiny Maycee wore hers the whole time too and loved it!


We love you and miss you grandma!!

Trick-or-Treat fun!

What a fun Halloween we had! Jaden was Mr. Incredible... actually he's been Mr. Incredible for the past 4 months (thanks to Micalla), and KynnLee was a ballerina. We were originally going to have KynnLee be Jack-Jack/ Kynn-Kynn to match Jaden. But I came across my old ballerina figurines when we moved here and I put them up on a shelf in her room and that girl absolutely loves them!! She will grin at them from across the room and just loves to touch them and look at them, so I couldn't help but have her be a ballerina for her first Halloween! And she was the cutest ballerina I have ever seen!!!

We had a little playdate/Halloween party on Wednesday and the kids had a lot of fun. This is KynnLee with her little friend Jaxon. They are so cute together! And of course we have Mr. Incredible showing off his muscles...

How cute is that?!?!?




Here's the actual finished ballerina costume. I can't tell you how fun it was to get my little princess all dressed up and do her hair all fancy. Maybe next year she'll be old enough to put makeup on too!! Click on the pictures to enlarge...



Whoever said ballerinas can't be chubby?? :)

I was so crushed that the ballerina's accessories didn't cooperate. The shoes were too big (but were on clearance so I had to get them anyway!) so I put some ribbon in them and around the ankle to look like pointe shoes and that girl kept kicking them off! The headpiece I made turned out so cute! Even I was impressed! But whilst we were in the car on the way to go trick-or-treating, Mr. Incredible thought he needed to take a look at the headpiece and BROKE IT!! I made sure to get pictures of the accessories. But she was still a gorgeous little ballerina, despite the costume malfunctions...


You gotta click on this one to get the whole effect...


Mr. Incredible thought he was pretty darn cool with his mask actually painted on...



And here's Jaden and his cute little girlie friends. It's funny because he had lots of boy buddies in Kentucky, and the kids his age here are all girls. But he doesn't care, he likes his friends all the same. And we're trying to teach him to be a gentleman to the little girlies. I must admit that he picks some pretty darn cute girls for his friends...




The ballerina gave up...