Sleeping Beauty

Just thought I would post a few pictures that I have taken recently of Kayla sleeping. Not sure why I always want to grab the camera when she is sleeping. Maybe it is because it is the only time that I can (any other time I want to get a picture of her doing something, she usually runs away!!) plus it is the only time that she is not busy getting into something and being so bossy!!!

That is a great idea, Mom!!

Tonight when I was looking at Hayden's papers from school I noticed that he had written his "d" backwards in all of them.  So, I was asking him about it, and so he explains to me how he just can't make them since he learned how to write the number 6. --I had him try to write a d, and every time he would make a 6. It is just the weirdest thing, because he has been writing them just fine up until the last two days.  He was getting a little frustrated and I told him it was o.k. he would just have to keep practicing. --So anyway- we were looking at his papers, and he is telling me- we did the letter b a long time ago (which was on Tuesday) then the letter c today. So, I asked him -so what letter do you think you'll do tomorrow? and he said "d". I said - "Well, there you go, you'll be able to practice writing the letter d tomorrow." He got this big grin on his face and said "That is a great idea, Mom!!"-- I thought it was pretty funny, just because of the expression on his face, and he sounded so excited.  So it will be interesting to see how he does on his letter d tomorrow. 

Speaking of Hayden and school, he is doing good.  Some mornings he says he doesn't want to go and it's not fun, etc. but his teacher has said that he is doing really good and that she wouldn't even guess that that is his attitude.  --He doesn't seem to be too thrilled with P.E. -we were asking him why he didn't like it and he told us "It uses all my energy!!" Of course, Hayden wouldn't like P.E., but he always comes home singing songs that they have learned in class or either in Music (which I think he likes a lot more than P.E!!) --I think deep down he really likes school because he loves to show us all of his work and tell us about things from school, but I think it's just the whole concept of getting up and going every day.  By the end of the week, he is just completly worn out (and so am I!!!)

2 months to go...

Just another update on how things are going with our upcoming addition. I am feeling good, much better this week than I did the last few weeks. I had been pretty busy for about two weeks helping Waylen's mom do a lot of canning, which I think wore me out. Then I had to take Kayla over to Pueblo one day last week for a dentist appointment, so I just haven't done too much of anything this week. I did have to go on Tuesday and have another ultrasound done because when I went in for my appointment last Tuesday, I was measuring at 26 cm instead of 30 cm. So, my doctor wanted to do an ultrasound to check the growth and anatomy of the baby to see what she was measuring. And thankfully (which I was pretty sure of) everything turned out fine. I had to go in today to my doctor to discuss the results and she said everything looks good. The baby (which is for sure a GIRL) is measuring 29 wk., 6 days and I am like 31 weeks and 2 days. She said that is just fine and not a big deal, my amniotic fluid levels are good, and when she measured me today I was measuring just right. So who knows what the deal was last week when she measured me-the dr. said that sometimes it all depends on how the baby is positioned. So has of now- everything seems just fine!!! -

During the ultrasound, they weren't able to get a good picture of the face b/c she kept covering her face with her arms, and playing "peek-a-boo". But we were able to see her stick her tongue out at us!!! Kayla went with me to my ultrasound, and didn't really care too much about watching the screen (as if she can tell that it's a baby), but she gets a kick out of telling everyone that the baby stuck her tongue out!! Before we went to the appointment, she told her daddy: "I going to see the baby and I get to hold her!!"" So I think she was a little disappointed when she didn't get to see and hold her. Then she was excited that she got to hear the baby's heartbeat today at my appointment, and loved telling Hayden the fact that she got to hear the baby's heartbeat and that he didn't!!! --Last month, it was that she wanted a baby "like J.D's" (her friend from church, who has a little baby sister), well, this month it is that she wants a baby "like Papa Night's" ("Night" is Mike (my dad), who has a new grandbaby in GA too!!). Not sure why she started saying that, but she said it one day a few weeks ago and says it all the time now!!


Hayden (I think!!) is starting to get a little excited about the baby. He has been able to feel her kick a few times and thinks it is the neatest thing!! And tonight, she was kicking around a ton while I was reading him a bedtime story, so I told him to feel her kick, and he said: "Whoa!! She kicks pretty good!!" --Anyone who knows Hayden knows he isn't a very patient kid, so he often asks what is taking her so long to get here. One day, I told him: "Oh, she'll get here sometime soon after Halloween" and he said "Halllllooooweeen (imagine Hayden's voice) that's so loooooong from now!!!" --But if October goes by as fast as September is (I can't believe it is half way over) then it will be here in no time!!! --So, it will be interesting to see how he acts towards her when she finally gets here. He might surprise us all, and actually like her a little bit more than he does Kayla!!!

Last Camping trip of the Summer

We went on our last camping trip of the summer over Labor Day weekend. It did rain some and was a bit colder than we would have liked it to be, but it was nothing like last year. We (our family and Waylen's parents) left on Friday evening after Waylen got home from work, then Waylen's sister, Jacki, and her family came up on Saturday night and stayed the rest of the weekend too. We spent most of the weeknd just visiting with friends that were up there camping with us too, the guys spent some time fishing during the weekend, and we enjoyed just being able to relax and eat lots of junk food, of course!! We had enough food to last us for at least two weeks!!! --It was a nice end to the summer (which it seems like we didn't have this year), although, it would have been nice if it had been warmer and hadn't rain for part of the day on Saturday, but we still had fun!!

Just a few pictures from the weekend:

Doesn't she look so sweet and innocent???

For some reason, Hayden decided to walk in the water.....

which he wasn't very sucessful at........

but in this picture he does look like he was laughing (although at the time-we couldn't tell whether he was happy or mad about the whole situation!!!)

Just a picture of our "little wild thing" as her Papa "Night" (Mike) always calls her!!!

Hayden's 1st Day of Kindergarten

 

So, yesterday was Hayden's first day of school.  He got up without much of a problem, ate breakfast (without wanting to watch cartoons!!) and after I got him dressed, he made his bed (without a complaint) and then he grabbed his backpack and was ready to go.  This really surprised me, since on Sunday when I told him that he would start school the next day, he replied with "No, I don't want to go, that means summer will be over and all the apples will fall off of the trees and the worms will get them!!" (Have no idea where that came from!!) So, I was expecting a little bit of a struggle come Monday morning, but he did great.  When I picked him up from school, he said that he had a good day and had a lot of fun, he told me what they had for lunch, and how many recesses they got to have, and that they went to P.E. --So, then I asked him, "So are you ready to go back again tomorrow?" and he quickly responded with, "NO." I then asked him "Well, what do you plan on doing?" and he said "Ummm, go fishing!!"  

This morning was a little different than yesterday morning, it took him longer to wake up and get moving, and he didn't want to eat breakfast, and he didn't want to go to school because "It's too long."  Then, when I took him to school, he couldn't understand the fact that he is suppose to go straight to the playground, then into his classroom after the bell rings.  He wanted to go in and hang up his backpack and then go "the easier way to the playground".  So, I had to show him that no he could just walk around the sidewalk, then go play, but when we got around to the playground he didn't want me to leave.  Luckily, one of the little girls from our primary, Asia McGinnis, came up and started talking to him and started walking with him to the playground, then the P.E. teacher, Mrs. Booth, saw him and said Hi to him and commented about having P.E. yesterday, so then he was fine after that.  And I just told him, if you take your backpack off to play on the playground, then you'll have to remember where you put it, and get the right one, but he told me, "No, I'll just keep it on." --I guess it will just take him a few days to get comfortable and adjusted to going everyday, and hopefully he'll decide that he likes to go or who knows what kind of year we might have!!!  Can't wait to see what he has to say about going to school today!!