We had a break though this morning at preschool. Lydia walked in to her class alone and moved her photo to the HERE side and gave me a hug and kiss goodbye and walked away. It was a good feeling as I know she is having fun. I also am super excited because I get to go into her class on the 28th and be one of two Mom's to help with the class party!!! I know you mom's who do it all the time are laughing at me right now but for me it is a big deal, this is why I stay home, to be there with my kids and do fun things!!!
Also for my Mother who is so worried poor little Hannah will be sleeping in a half painted room with no crib, we are 1 step closer to her having her own room. Kris, Lydia and I painted all morning Sunday and we are DONE!!!! I just love the white woodwork and lavendar walls. Now to buy the crib and figure out how we will get a Queen bed, crib, rocker and dresser all in this room oh and where the computer is going to reside until that day money falls out of the sky and we can buy a laptop. But I feel so much better with the room painted. Now on to getting clothes ready and baby stuff unpacked from boxes.
I have three hours to myself this morning so I am off to knit (oh yeah, Rachel taught me how to knit in the round and make hats and I am on my 2nd hat in one week for Hannah and the next one is for Lydia) so fun and watch a little TV. We have a 3 year old who thinks she needs to get her Mom and Dad ready for a newborn and is waking up two to three times a night, to either go potty (which is good) be covered up (oh come on you can do it yourself) or rock her. I know I should cherish these moments but when you are 7 months pregnant you cherish your sleep more!!
Happy Fall, we are loving this wonderful cool weather.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
God Bless America
Lydia is learning lots in preschool, I look forward to every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon when I pick her up and see all the stuff she did that morning. She has learned how to write letters A, B and C and what common words start with them. She is now tracing her name and can tell you she has a L Y D A in her name but not sure how they go. The drops off are a little tough but when I pick her up she is a happy little girl ready to tell me about her day. She goes to a Christian preschool so she says prayer before snack and lunch and they sing "God Bless America" every morning. She comes home and sings it for us and I finally got it on video, here you go enjoy. I set my c-section for Dec 10th, we do not know what time yet but will by next appt in two weeks. I have 10 weeks left, I am not sure if that sounds like a lot or a little but back at 8 weeks when I was so sick I never thought I would make it this far so I guess it too will fly by.
This past weekend Kris's old college roommate, Jason Smith and his good friend Mike ?, flew in from Upstate New York, they had a great time, I think they said it had been 12 years since they saw each other. Very nice men and I enjoyed having them around, they cooked for us two nights and took us out to eat a few times which was really nice treat for me. They timed up their visit or should I say got lucky with "College Game Day" being in town and a HUGE BSU football game on Saturday night. Someday we hope to make it out their way. Jason owns his own Lumber Saw Mill and I would love to see how that operates and meet his wife and kids. I have been busy busy busy with house nesting, I am almost done with Hananh's room, I painted all the woodwork from puke yellow to white and this project proved to be a tough on, sanding, priming, three coats of crappy Sherwin Williams paint, followed by sanding and two coats of GREAT Behr paint. I just have three little walls left to roll in lavendar and then we need to buy a crib and get her room set up. I or I actually can say we canned 20 quarts of peaches Saturday and 5 pints of salsa. The garden just kicked it into gear and I am finally getting tomotoes. I am working on Lydia's halloween costume which I will surprise you with a photo later once it is done. Well I better move it on out and get her from school.
"29 week belly shot"
This past weekend Kris's old college roommate, Jason Smith and his good friend Mike ?, flew in from Upstate New York, they had a great time, I think they said it had been 12 years since they saw each other. Very nice men and I enjoyed having them around, they cooked for us two nights and took us out to eat a few times which was really nice treat for me. They timed up their visit or should I say got lucky with "College Game Day" being in town and a HUGE BSU football game on Saturday night. Someday we hope to make it out their way. Jason owns his own Lumber Saw Mill and I would love to see how that operates and meet his wife and kids. I have been busy busy busy with house nesting, I am almost done with Hananh's room, I painted all the woodwork from puke yellow to white and this project proved to be a tough on, sanding, priming, three coats of crappy Sherwin Williams paint, followed by sanding and two coats of GREAT Behr paint. I just have three little walls left to roll in lavendar and then we need to buy a crib and get her room set up. I or I actually can say we canned 20 quarts of peaches Saturday and 5 pints of salsa. The garden just kicked it into gear and I am finally getting tomotoes. I am working on Lydia's halloween costume which I will surprise you with a photo later once it is done. Well I better move it on out and get her from school.
"29 week belly shot"
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Ohio
We got back from our trip to Ohio this past Sunday and I don't think we are yet back to normal but are working very hard at it. We were there for 12 days and had a great visit. Kris was able to take his Dad, Brother Jason, his cousin Jenny and good friend Brian to Washington D.C for the Virginia Tech BSU football game and they had a blast.
Lydia had so much fun playing with her cousins. It was so dang cute to watch how happy she was to have a playmate most every day. She absolutely loved Grandma and Grandpa and took full advantage of being around them. She played with them none stop as well. I took advantage of having Grandma around as I did a lot of relaxing which was great. The weather was perfect most days in the 70's and Fall like. Kris and I were able to sneek away for two dates, one to dinner and a walk up on Lake Erie and another to his alma mater Ashland University and to Amish Country. It was so nice to have together time.
On our flights home we had a LONG layover in Denver so we meet my parents for lunch, it was a special treat to be able to do so, despite how tired the 3 of us where. On our way back through security you would have thought I had the next atomic bomb, I had 5 TSA agents on me searching my bags (I had a back pack and her carryon and my purse) comes to find out Play-Doh is a Haz-Mat item and not allowed through Denver's airport, the funny thing is it made it through both Boise and Cleveland and on every other 30 flights we have taken since she was old enough to play with it. Made for an interesting experience.
Thanks to everyone who made our visit special, it was great to see you all and spend time with you.
Grandma, Baby Kiptyn and Lydia playing the the yard
Playing at Aunt Lindsey's and Uncle Jamey's
Cole and Lydia (they are two peas in a pod and she loved him to pieces, he did EVERYTHING she wanted)
Hanging out on Uncle Fred and Aunt Kathy's combine
Sitting on a John Deere
Playing in the yard
The four Grandkids
Wearing Grandpa's hat
Lydia had so much fun playing with her cousins. It was so dang cute to watch how happy she was to have a playmate most every day. She absolutely loved Grandma and Grandpa and took full advantage of being around them. She played with them none stop as well. I took advantage of having Grandma around as I did a lot of relaxing which was great. The weather was perfect most days in the 70's and Fall like. Kris and I were able to sneek away for two dates, one to dinner and a walk up on Lake Erie and another to his alma mater Ashland University and to Amish Country. It was so nice to have together time.
On our flights home we had a LONG layover in Denver so we meet my parents for lunch, it was a special treat to be able to do so, despite how tired the 3 of us where. On our way back through security you would have thought I had the next atomic bomb, I had 5 TSA agents on me searching my bags (I had a back pack and her carryon and my purse) comes to find out Play-Doh is a Haz-Mat item and not allowed through Denver's airport, the funny thing is it made it through both Boise and Cleveland and on every other 30 flights we have taken since she was old enough to play with it. Made for an interesting experience.
Thanks to everyone who made our visit special, it was great to see you all and spend time with you.
Grandma, Baby Kiptyn and Lydia playing the the yard
Playing at Aunt Lindsey's and Uncle Jamey's
Cole and Lydia (they are two peas in a pod and she loved him to pieces, he did EVERYTHING she wanted)
Hanging out on Uncle Fred and Aunt Kathy's combine
Sitting on a John Deere
Playing in the yard
The four Grandkids
Wearing Grandpa's hat
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
First Day of Preschool
Today was Lydia's first day of preschool. The drop off went well, she was a little nervous at first but found the dolls to play with and went over in her corner and played. Now if she listened while there, I am not sure yet but I am sure she did great. I was so excited because they get there 1st book order today (those piece of papers that came home with me in elementary and you got to order a book or two) so we will order a book or two as well. On the drop off we ran into a little girl that was in her class that comes to the gym all the time so I was so relieved to know there was someone in her class she would know.
Well I better get off the internet and enjoy the quiet time for the next hour and get my to do list done.
Well I better get off the internet and enjoy the quiet time for the next hour and get my to do list done.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Our Visitors
Like I mentioned before my brother Dan and his family arrived into Boise on Thursday and spent the weekend here. We had a great time. They stayed at a hotel with a nice pool and the girls swam and swam. Both Lydia and Ellie were sad to see each other leave. They have a blast together and get along great.
Monday, August 9, 2010
Baby
Well thanks to the mystery pain I got to look at my sweet baby girl #2 again last Thursday. Here are two of the photos from the ultrasound.
Colorado
We got home from Colorado on Wednesday to have my brother and his family arrive at our house for a visit so this is a little late but better late than never. We had a good time on our trip. Lydia had a BLAST with Grandpa and Grandma, they would play whatever she wanted when ever she wanted, she got to go to parks, swim, the zoo (that story to come in a few lines)the children's museum and just be a kid. I know Gpa and Gma loved having her there as well.
The weather is amazing there, it is warm all day until about 3 or 4 then the storms roll in and the wind cools it off so you can open your windows and doors and enjoy the evening. That is one thing I truly do miss about Colo. the only time we can open our windows is at 3am if you trust your neighborhood!!
Mom and I went to see South Pacific the Musical and it was excellent. I would say the 2nd best one I have seen next to Lion King. No I haven't seen Wicked yet.
And what vacation of ours would be complete with out a trip to the ER?? Hopefully the rest of them! I got heat exhaustion at the Zoo, and due to the side effects of it and being pregnant ended up severely dehydrated and scared because of the baby so Kris and I landed in the Labor and Delivery section of the local hospital for a night to get IV's in me and monitors on the baby. Thanks GOD the baby is healthy and was doing well. Mom is feeling much better I am just not sure if I have gotten over how tired it made me because I am still dragging. I also got my mystery pain back (the one I went to the ER in McCall for) they thought it was a twisted ovary-it isn't so I was tested for Appendicitis it isn't so now I will talk to my Dr again to see what tests they want to run on me. The pain has let up a lot but while in Colo. there were times I couldn't walk or sleep it hurt so bad. Oh pregnancy and the joys of it!
Here are some of the photos of the fun times we had.
The weather is amazing there, it is warm all day until about 3 or 4 then the storms roll in and the wind cools it off so you can open your windows and doors and enjoy the evening. That is one thing I truly do miss about Colo. the only time we can open our windows is at 3am if you trust your neighborhood!!
Mom and I went to see South Pacific the Musical and it was excellent. I would say the 2nd best one I have seen next to Lion King. No I haven't seen Wicked yet.
And what vacation of ours would be complete with out a trip to the ER?? Hopefully the rest of them! I got heat exhaustion at the Zoo, and due to the side effects of it and being pregnant ended up severely dehydrated and scared because of the baby so Kris and I landed in the Labor and Delivery section of the local hospital for a night to get IV's in me and monitors on the baby. Thanks GOD the baby is healthy and was doing well. Mom is feeling much better I am just not sure if I have gotten over how tired it made me because I am still dragging. I also got my mystery pain back (the one I went to the ER in McCall for) they thought it was a twisted ovary-it isn't so I was tested for Appendicitis it isn't so now I will talk to my Dr again to see what tests they want to run on me. The pain has let up a lot but while in Colo. there were times I couldn't walk or sleep it hurt so bad. Oh pregnancy and the joys of it!
Here are some of the photos of the fun times we had.
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