Saturday, August 13, 2011
I Love Nights Like These
On Friday night Daddy got off a little early, so once the girls were up from their naps we walked them to, Boomers (a local mini gold/arcade place). Daddy needed to work on his batting practice, so the girls and I walked around a bit and watched him. Daddy took Coco on the carousel and then we played some games in the arcade. Coco, once again, had fun collecting tickets and redeeming them for candy. She loves to get the boxes of nerds. We got her a few prizes. Then we walked back toward the house but stopped to get pizza. The girls were really good and we just enjoyed a fun family meal. We talked and laughed and enjoyed good company. Caylee is starting to talk a little more. Just this week she has started saying "Hi" and "ball". She is learning so much. Daddy and Mommy stopped to get a tea before walking home. I love nights like these where we get to walk, spend time together, eat, drink and have well behaved little girls.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
7 Years of Marriage
7 years of Marriage
(We made it past the make or break it year, the 7 year itch)
-2,555 Days spent together
-2 beautiful little girls
-3 babies already in Heaven
-2 new cars
-3 meals dining at “Gooky’s” kitchen
-25 trips to Disneyland
-6880 diapers changed
-1 kitty, 3 dogs, 2 birds (Romo is the only surviving dog)
-4 iphones bought
-1,689 Venti Non Fat White Mochas from Starbucks
-22,158 Glances at facebook
-352 renditions of “Happy Day” by Courtney Sue
-25 pairs of designer jeans (8 for Heather and 17 for Ben)
-4 Times each as a Bridesmaid or Groomsmen
-4 Nephews added and 2 Nieces (Total 6 Nephews and 3 Nieces)
-6 New Jobs started
-6 Trips to the Emergency Room
-3 Stays in the hospital
-1,550 Status updates on Facebook
-5 Blood Transfusions
-14 new pairs of Running Shoes
-2,555 Hours spent walking, running or at the gym
-7 Camping Trips (2 Daddy/Coco Trips)
-4 Trips to Palm Springs
-3545 Times one of us sang “I Love You Lord” to put the girls to sleep
-5 Times Ben led worship at church
-85 Softball Games played
-688Friends of Facebook (140 friends in common)
-4 Times snowboarding
-42 Hikes
-6 Tattoos
-43 Episodes of Jersey Shore watched
-334 Sunday mornings spent at church
-Millions of smiles and giggles shared with our two little girls
(We made it past the make or break it year, the 7 year itch)
-2,555 Days spent together
-2 beautiful little girls
-3 babies already in Heaven
-2 new cars
-3 meals dining at “Gooky’s” kitchen
-25 trips to Disneyland
-6880 diapers changed
-1 kitty, 3 dogs, 2 birds (Romo is the only surviving dog)
-4 iphones bought
-1,689 Venti Non Fat White Mochas from Starbucks
-22,158 Glances at facebook
-352 renditions of “Happy Day” by Courtney Sue
-25 pairs of designer jeans (8 for Heather and 17 for Ben)
-4 Times each as a Bridesmaid or Groomsmen
-4 Nephews added and 2 Nieces (Total 6 Nephews and 3 Nieces)
-6 New Jobs started
-6 Trips to the Emergency Room
-3 Stays in the hospital
-1,550 Status updates on Facebook
-5 Blood Transfusions
-14 new pairs of Running Shoes
-2,555 Hours spent walking, running or at the gym
-7 Camping Trips (2 Daddy/Coco Trips)
-4 Trips to Palm Springs
-3545 Times one of us sang “I Love You Lord” to put the girls to sleep
-5 Times Ben led worship at church
-85 Softball Games played
-688Friends of Facebook (140 friends in common)
-4 Times snowboarding
-42 Hikes
-6 Tattoos
-43 Episodes of Jersey Shore watched
-334 Sunday mornings spent at church
-Millions of smiles and giggles shared with our two little girls
I did it all by myself! No Mommy.
"I did it all by myself! No Mommy." This is Courtney's claim to fame right now. She loves doing everything herself without Mommy's help. It is kind of nice because I don't have to do everything for her.
Our local bowling alley has free bowling for kids during the summer. We have yet to go. Since we had a pretty slow week, I decided this would be a good morning activity for Friday. I had an errand to do and it's close by, so we let Caylee sleep in the stroller and we walked. I was so happy that Caylee slept and Courtney was good and didn't wake her.
The bowling alley set up the bumpers and a ramp for her. I let Courtney pick out her ball and showed her one time what to do. The rest was history, she wanted to do it all by herself. After every frame she jumped and screamed with delight. It was so fun to see bowling thru the eyes of a two year old. She did really well, listened and had a blast.
We went next door and ate our lunch while watching kids ride the rides at Boomers. Courtney went inside and played every single game in the arcade, yet I didn't spend a dime. All she wants to do it push the buttons and sit on the cars. She had a ton of fun and was sad to go home.
Our local bowling alley has free bowling for kids during the summer. We have yet to go. Since we had a pretty slow week, I decided this would be a good morning activity for Friday. I had an errand to do and it's close by, so we let Caylee sleep in the stroller and we walked. I was so happy that Caylee slept and Courtney was good and didn't wake her.
The bowling alley set up the bumpers and a ramp for her. I let Courtney pick out her ball and showed her one time what to do. The rest was history, she wanted to do it all by herself. After every frame she jumped and screamed with delight. It was so fun to see bowling thru the eyes of a two year old. She did really well, listened and had a blast.
We went next door and ate our lunch while watching kids ride the rides at Boomers. Courtney went inside and played every single game in the arcade, yet I didn't spend a dime. All she wants to do it push the buttons and sit on the cars. She had a ton of fun and was sad to go home.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Always the Life of the Party
On Saturday Daddy's supervisor invited us to her birthday party at Dave and Busters. We love going there. If we can get the girls asleep in he stroller then Daddy and I play games and act like kids again. If the girls are awake then Courtney plays the games or so she thinks. Most games we can get away with not paying for or we play and let her collect the tickets. So we were excited to go.
We woke the girls early from their naps and headed over. I was expecting a little party, but this was no little party it looked like a wedding reception. Food, DJ, dance floor and lots of people. We introduced Courtney to Alex, the birthday girl, and Courtney just tagged along with her the entire party. I had to keep asking Courtney to leave her alone. She knew it was her party and wanted to be a part of everything. She even sang her "Happy Birthday" into the microphone in front of the whole party. Though she called her Allison instead of Alex.
We took a break and went to play games for a bit. Daddy was determined to get as many tickets as he could and he did. On one game he got a jack pot and got 100 tickets! Courtney loved pulling out all the tickets. We played lots of games and got over 3000 tickets. We took her to the little store and let her pick anything she wanted. She picked a box of nerds. We grabbed a few more things for her and headed back to the party.
The dancing began and Courtney didn't miss a step joining in. They created a circle and she danced right in the middle of it all. She got the party going and loved all the attention.
A combination of sugar, fun, tired, and late night we had a delirious girl on the way home. She kept screaming "Daddy is so funny and the scream. She kept repeating this over and over. It was pretty fun. My little Courtney always keeps us on our toes, not a shy bone in that little girl.
We woke the girls early from their naps and headed over. I was expecting a little party, but this was no little party it looked like a wedding reception. Food, DJ, dance floor and lots of people. We introduced Courtney to Alex, the birthday girl, and Courtney just tagged along with her the entire party. I had to keep asking Courtney to leave her alone. She knew it was her party and wanted to be a part of everything. She even sang her "Happy Birthday" into the microphone in front of the whole party. Though she called her Allison instead of Alex.
We took a break and went to play games for a bit. Daddy was determined to get as many tickets as he could and he did. On one game he got a jack pot and got 100 tickets! Courtney loved pulling out all the tickets. We played lots of games and got over 3000 tickets. We took her to the little store and let her pick anything she wanted. She picked a box of nerds. We grabbed a few more things for her and headed back to the party.
The dancing began and Courtney didn't miss a step joining in. They created a circle and she danced right in the middle of it all. She got the party going and loved all the attention.
A combination of sugar, fun, tired, and late night we had a delirious girl on the way home. She kept screaming "Daddy is so funny and the scream. She kept repeating this over and over. It was pretty fun. My little Courtney always keeps us on our toes, not a shy bone in that little girl.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
I go Pee Pee on the Floor
"I go pee pee on the floor. And wash my pants. I wash my pants in the sink. Sink wa wa. And wash it. And mommy frustrated I go pee pee on the floor.". This was Courtney's explanation to me after the below events occured.
Courtney hasn't had a single accident in months, then yesterday she had one and today she had another. This one was mostly my fault and could have had a much worse outcome.
She told me she had to go to the bathroom, I had just started to feed Caylee Love and did t want to take her because Caylee would have started screaming. So I told her to go up to her room and use that bathroom. She uses this one all the time by herself. She was gone for a while and I didn't hear many noises thru the monitor, then she came down and told me that she had peed in her pants and had washed them in the sink. I thought, oh no, this could be bad. I run upstairs to find her shorts and underwear in the sink, water on full blast and draining over the top of the sink onto the bathroom floor.
Fortunately, I got there fast enough to prevent too much clean up. At least she was trying to help!
Courtney hasn't had a single accident in months, then yesterday she had one and today she had another. This one was mostly my fault and could have had a much worse outcome.
She told me she had to go to the bathroom, I had just started to feed Caylee Love and did t want to take her because Caylee would have started screaming. So I told her to go up to her room and use that bathroom. She uses this one all the time by herself. She was gone for a while and I didn't hear many noises thru the monitor, then she came down and told me that she had peed in her pants and had washed them in the sink. I thought, oh no, this could be bad. I run upstairs to find her shorts and underwear in the sink, water on full blast and draining over the top of the sink onto the bathroom floor.
Fortunately, I got there fast enough to prevent too much clean up. At least she was trying to help!
Monday, July 25, 2011
Caylee is growing too fast
It's a love/hate about my baby girls growing up. I love each new stage but I miss that they aren't going to be babies. Caylee is 10 months now. She still isn't crawling, which is fine with me. According to the pediatrician and all the books, they should be crawling by now. I take the blame, though. One, I don't want her to crawl yet, once she starts crawling it's going to be so much difficult around here. Two, I don't put her on her tummy enough. She doesn't like it much, and so the only time she gets the practice is if I lay down with her or if I listen to her scream, both don't happen enough.
Well, yesterday she got up on her hands and knees for the first time and stayearthere for a while. Today she stood holding onto a toy for a super long time. She was playing with one of those standing toys. I think she is going to be crawling in the next few weeks.
She is so much more interactive as well. She hates when Courtney takes toys away, she screams "Mama!!". In the stroller she tortures Courtney by pulling on her clothes, grabbing her legs, grabbing her snacks and anything her chubby little hands can grasp. She wants to be a part of everything going on.
One of my favorite things right now is listening to the two girls giggle. This happens a lot in the car. Coco will get Caylee laughing and then Coco starts laughing, and then both are doing things to make the other giggle. It's so cute to see and hear them interact. I love it.
It's fun to see her become such a big girl.
Well, yesterday she got up on her hands and knees for the first time and stayearthere for a while. Today she stood holding onto a toy for a super long time. She was playing with one of those standing toys. I think she is going to be crawling in the next few weeks.
She is so much more interactive as well. She hates when Courtney takes toys away, she screams "Mama!!". In the stroller she tortures Courtney by pulling on her clothes, grabbing her legs, grabbing her snacks and anything her chubby little hands can grasp. She wants to be a part of everything going on.
One of my favorite things right now is listening to the two girls giggle. This happens a lot in the car. Coco will get Caylee laughing and then Coco starts laughing, and then both are doing things to make the other giggle. It's so cute to see and hear them interact. I love it.
It's fun to see her become such a big girl.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
You swallowed a penny!!
"Mommy! Look! My monies are all gone". Oh the dreadful words a mommy hears as her toddler points to her wide open mouth. "What?!!!"
I had the two girls in the car with me and we were getting back from a playdate. Our van was looking messy and I wanted to clean it out a bit. I let Courtney roam thru the van as I cleaned up a bit. I found a penny in the back and said to Courtney, "Coco, look I found a penny! Do you want it for your piggy bank?". She immediately came over with a smile on her face and said, "Yeah!". She has played with "monies" for over a year now and knows that we don't put it in our mouth.
About a minute later she tells me that she ate her penny. I didn't believe her and kept asking her over and over. I told her she would get in trouble if she did swallow it, so if she didn't we needed to find it. We searched that whole car and couldn't find it. She kept telling me she ate it and it was in her tummy.
I immediately looked on my phone to see if it was something I should take her in for (gotta love the iphone) or should i just see if it passes. Everything said take her in, so I made some calls and planned to just take her to the pediatrician which opened in an hour. Then daddy called and said to bring her into his work.
Daddy was working in Irvine, so it was super convienient. We went in and got the red carpet treatment. They were so great with Courtney, she was a little nervous, but they kept her at ease. Daddy was able to come down several times and see us and help out. Caylee ended up sleeping in the ergo, so it freed me up to concentrate on Courtney.
They took her in and took an xray of her. Daddy was able to hold her down and be right there. As they checked out her xray, Daddy went in with them. All of a sudden we heard a roar of laughter as the entire radiology department sees the penny in her tummy on the xray. So she wasn't lying! We showed Courtney, she broke the ice even more by saying "Poop!" to the whole group.
They sent us back with instructions that it should pass, but Mommy gets to search her poo for the penny to make sure. Courtney did great the whole time. She was a good listener and handled it well. Ben promised her ice cream, so I took her to the cafeteria and we got her an ice cream. She ate every last drop to the point that I threw the ice cream away and a few drops few on the trash can and before I could stop her she licked it off! Oh my Courtney.
To complete the craziness of the day, I thought we lost blankie. We could not find it anywhere and for the first time Courtney went to sleep without it. I ended up finding it in the car under Courtney's seat. Whew!! That could have been a really bad ending to an already crazy day.
I had the two girls in the car with me and we were getting back from a playdate. Our van was looking messy and I wanted to clean it out a bit. I let Courtney roam thru the van as I cleaned up a bit. I found a penny in the back and said to Courtney, "Coco, look I found a penny! Do you want it for your piggy bank?". She immediately came over with a smile on her face and said, "Yeah!". She has played with "monies" for over a year now and knows that we don't put it in our mouth.
About a minute later she tells me that she ate her penny. I didn't believe her and kept asking her over and over. I told her she would get in trouble if she did swallow it, so if she didn't we needed to find it. We searched that whole car and couldn't find it. She kept telling me she ate it and it was in her tummy.
I immediately looked on my phone to see if it was something I should take her in for (gotta love the iphone) or should i just see if it passes. Everything said take her in, so I made some calls and planned to just take her to the pediatrician which opened in an hour. Then daddy called and said to bring her into his work.
Daddy was working in Irvine, so it was super convienient. We went in and got the red carpet treatment. They were so great with Courtney, she was a little nervous, but they kept her at ease. Daddy was able to come down several times and see us and help out. Caylee ended up sleeping in the ergo, so it freed me up to concentrate on Courtney.
They took her in and took an xray of her. Daddy was able to hold her down and be right there. As they checked out her xray, Daddy went in with them. All of a sudden we heard a roar of laughter as the entire radiology department sees the penny in her tummy on the xray. So she wasn't lying! We showed Courtney, she broke the ice even more by saying "Poop!" to the whole group.
They sent us back with instructions that it should pass, but Mommy gets to search her poo for the penny to make sure. Courtney did great the whole time. She was a good listener and handled it well. Ben promised her ice cream, so I took her to the cafeteria and we got her an ice cream. She ate every last drop to the point that I threw the ice cream away and a few drops few on the trash can and before I could stop her she licked it off! Oh my Courtney.
To complete the craziness of the day, I thought we lost blankie. We could not find it anywhere and for the first time Courtney went to sleep without it. I ended up finding it in the car under Courtney's seat. Whew!! That could have been a really bad ending to an already crazy day.
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