Sleeping Beauty

Everyone who knows Kayla knows that she doesn't stop from the minute she wakes up. She is always on the go and looking for something to get into. She hates nap time, although she usually takes an afternoon nap every day. So, I was very surprised when I found her like this a few minutes ago:

I guess she had already worn herself out by unrolling the toilet paper, emptying out all of Hayden's toys and dragging all of his trucks into the living room, trying on all of her shoes, and much more.

Ta-da

One day last week while my dad was here visiting, Kayla came running into the living room with nothing on but a shirt. She runs in and threw her hands up in the air and said "Ta-da". It was so funny, me and my dad died laughing. --Yes, she still hates to keep a diaper on, and we tried potty-training some, but it just wasn't going very well. I would take her to the potty every 15 minutes, she would go once, then the next time she wouldn't, then 5 minutes after I'd taken her, she'd pee in her panties. Then, she wouldn't potty anymore, she'd always wait and pee after I had just taken her. So, after a few days of this, it seemed like she just wasn't getting it. So, we're postponing the potty training for a few more weeks until after I'm done helping Debby with all the canning. It's just too hard right now to remember to take her potty every 15 minutes. Although, tonight she took off her diaper and put on just a pair of shorts, and it was almost time for her bath, so I just let her go like that. We were out in the garage with Waylen and she started doing what looked like the "potty dance", so Waylen brought her in, and she did go potty. Yeah!! So, it's a work in progress!!

The Bologna Man

A little Background Knowledge: My father-in-law has a friend that often goes over to his shop. Many times when Jimmy goes over he takes some bologna (the "good" kind) and crackers over for a snack. Well, Hayden refers to Jimmy has the bologna man because he knows when Jimmy goes over it's a good chance he has brought some bologna with him and he loves to join his Papa and Jimmy for a snack. --Now onto the story: Hayden's Primary teacher was telling my mother-in-law today that one Sunday at church they were talking about Pioneers and how they had to leave their homes and a lot of the things they had they couldn't take with them. She then asked the kids what thing they would hate to have to leave behind if they had to leave their home. She said Hayden said he would hate to leave the Bologna Man.

Back to School

Today was a big day for Hayden, he started back to school. He is attending Pre-K this year at the same school that he attended Preschool last year. He only goes on Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8-11:45 again this year. He has been excited since last week when we went to Meet Your Teacher night at the school. That next morning, he woke up and was ready to go to school. This morning while getting ready he said he wanted to go to Mrs. Bagwell's class (teacher from last year) because they did fun things in there, and he got to bring home the "class pet" -which was a frog stuffed animal. But I assured him that his new teacher will probably have lots of fun stuff too. Luckily, he was fine after that and ended up having a great day. He said he had lots of fun, and said they did a lot of stuff when asked what he did today. Never got any specifics, just that they did lots of stuff. It's hard to believe that the summer is over, and that we are back in the swing of things for the school year.

Kayla wanted her picture taken too:

Camping, Kids, + Rain = Cabin Fever

We went camping over the Labor Day weekend. We (our family and my dad) left on Friday evening after Waylen got home from work. That night, after dinner we sat around the campfire visiting with some of the other families that were up camping too. Then, on Saturday morning, Waylen's parents and brother came up, and all the guys headed off to do some fishing. So, while they were busy catching fish, the women stayed busy visiting and the kids stayed busy playing. Hayden had a lot of fun playing with some of his friends that were up there camping too. They turned an old tree stump into a motorcycle. Later that afternoon, Waylen's sisters and their families arrived too. So, then there were even more kids to play with. Kayla had fun playing with Lexie, her cousin, and Reese, a friend. That evening, Hayden and the rest of the older kids had fun playing a game they called, "Musical Stumps." All in all, Saturday was a pretty nice day and the kids were able to have a lot of fun playing, the guys had fun fishing, and the women had fun visiting. Then at dinner time it started raining, and we ended up eating dinner under the big canopy. But luckily, it stopped pouring rain, so we could enjoy some S'mores and sit around the campfire for awhile. Unfortunately, the rain didn't stay gone and it started drizzling rain Sunday morning. Waylen's family decided to leave that morning, since it was going to be a pretty rainy day. After they left, we went for a little scenic drive up to Chama, then came back to camp. It wasn't raining when we got back, so we sat and visited with some people before it started raining. After that we were confined to the camper for the rest of the night. I really think we need to invest in a T.V and DVD player for the camper for when this happens again. It's hard to keep two little kids entertained for that long. Hayden played cards by himself for awhile until Kayla wanted to "play" too. Kayla enjoyed emptying out all the cabinets and throwing all the blankets and pillows on the floor over and over again. She turned into a wild animal by the end of the night (that's her eating her hot dog). We played Phase 10 after eating dinner, and then ended up going to bed around 9. So, Sunday ended with everyone getting "Cabin Fever". It had stopped raining by Monday morning, but everything was pretty wet. But we still decided to go on a little hike. Hayden enjoyed finding what he called "salt mushrooms" and stomping on them. Kayla was her independent little self, and walked part of the way, which led to her falling several times, but it didn't stop her. After our hike, it was starting to sprinkle, so we finished packing up and headed home.

Our trip would have been much better if it wouldn't have rained, but I guess you never know what you might get when you live where we live. I was thinking back earlier today that our first camping trip of the summer (Memorial Day) got delayed because of snow, and our last trip of the summer was a rainy one, unless we decide to try to go again one more time this month. I guess we'll have to see what the weather is like these next few weeks, you never know!! It's already starting to show signs of fall, and it seems like summer just began. Ugh!!

She-Devil

The other day, Kayla found this old costume in one of Hayden's drawers, and wanted to wear it, and then she came prancing out wearing a pair of my sandals. It fits her personality perfectly. If you can't tell it's a Devil costume.

Hayden used to love wearing it too. Notice how clean his Cars shoes were.

Enjoying Ice Cream

Just thought these were funny pictures of the kids eating their ice cream.