Happy Birthday Baby Boy!

Happy Birthday to my (mostly likely last) baby.

The party was a success. I'm just sad I didn't take more pictures of the final product. The party post is coming up soon.

All Great Chefs Have Scars Right?!?!?!

I really did a doosy to my finger while making dinner the other night. I only blog about this because I haven't had stitches since 5th grade and I was still a boob about it.

Too bad I waited too long to go into the doctor and the stitches did nothing to close the wound. As soon as I took them out that bad boy popped right open again.

It will leave a nasty scar I'm sure, but that just a cooking battle wound that when I'm a famous chef I can think back and remember cooking for my family. (Or maybe it's just a mommy scar, and I'll never be a famous chef)

Family Reunion - 2011

As you can tell from my video, our family reunions are a riot! We always have something fun planned and this year was no exception. We had a presidential theme and it was fun being visited by the "President" and receiving our stimulus packages. We had great food and a good time. I only brought my camera out twice. When we went to the cemetary to make rememberance flags for Grandpa, and when my kids did their talent. So here are the few pictures that I do have.

 Siblings

 Cousins

 Great-Grand Kids

Dylan and Kelton entertaining eachother

A Day of Firsts

Kinlee had a busy day today!!! It was her first day of preschool and first day of dancing. She has been looking forward to both for weeks now and it did not disappoint.

 Classic Kinlee picture, hurry and look away as soon as I take the picture.

 Dancing queen. Kinlee will probably kill me for sharing this when she gets older but it's too funny to not write down. I was really worried about her not being able to make it to the potty at dancing because she has to take her whole outfit off to go. So I made sure she went before we left home. Well I go to pick her up after an hour and after all the little girls run out I can't find Kinlee anywhere. I look for about 5 minutes and finally a teacher said that a little girl had to use the bathroom. I poked my head in and asked if she was in there. She said, "I've been waiting here forever!" Poor girl needed to use the bathroom and was waiting there for someone to wipe her bum. She missed the last part of her class sitting on the toilet. Guess it's time for wiping lessons. And I'm not entirely sure she could have gotten that outfit back on by herself either.

  It was a crazy day for sure, we had to pick her up from school, rush home, eat and change, and rush to dancing. Tray asked why we had to be so fast today. Tuesdays are just going to be a busy busy day for me.

School Daze

I can't believe Tray is in Kindergarten!

 He couldn't be happier. His favorite thing is riding the bus to school.  He loves going to school everyday. His teacher is Mrs. Roberts. He can recite all the classroom rules word for word, although I'm not sure if he grasps their meaning but it's a start. He is so smart and thrives with learning. I couldn't be more proud of him! He has 2 of his friends in his class, Lyvie and Jace. Jace even rides the bus with him. He's made 2 more friends already, Justin and Hallie. I'm sure he'll have loads of friends by the end of the year too.

Family Reunion Fun!

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I guess I missed Dylan's 9 month mark. I was waiting til after he went to the doctor to post all his fun stats and then I just got so busy that here it is a month later and still no post.

9 month stats
Weight - 22 lbs 64%
Height - 29 in 65%
Head - 48 cm 97%

I'm amazed that he isn't higher in the weight and height. He always seems so big to me!

A few things about Dylan
Dylan is like a magnet to the dog food. Whenever he spies the dish on the floor he makes a beeline right for it as fast as he can just to splash in the water and try to shove some food in his mouth.
He has 8 teeth now.
He eats mostly table food now and loves it.
He said his first word on August 23rd. He said mama followed shortly by dada.
He can crawl so fast. And an update, he took his first steps on September 2nd. He loves to walk along the walls and almost prefers that to crawling anymore.
loves to walk along furniture and walls.
He loves his blanket (swaddling blanket - aden and anais) and I'm so glad that I 4 of them to rotate through.
He is just my busy body. He loves to be where ever the other kids are and loves to use his voice. I love to lay in bed in the mornings to listen to him babble to himself.
He is such a mellow baby. People always comment on how good he is. He really only cries when he is hungry or tired. Never just to whine.
He is so fun and I still love to kiss on him all day long.