Danny's Week

There is one week a year when we celebrate Danny.  It happened to be last week.  It was Father's Day, our anniversary, and his birthday.  It was a great week except for the no sleeping part.  YES, Kayzee has gone back to her no sleeping.  I didn't change any of her routines that helped her sleep through the night so it is very frustrating because we try EVERYTHING!  She eats every 2-4 hours through the night and she is wide awake and wants to play from 10-midnight or later.  Her naps are the same and she goes to bed at 8, she just doesn't stay asleep.  Don't know if it is a growth spurt or teething but I hope she grows out of it SOON!  But she is so darn cute:)  Look at those eyelashes and that smile!  The dress is from her Royer grandparents when they went to the family condo down in Mexico.

Now back to our fun week:

FATHER'S DAY
Danny was in Price that morning but once he got home, we gave him a gift, had lunch, and then we went to Kaysville to celebrate a birthday.  It was Danny's nephew's 3rd birthday party.  They are in Utah this summer so it was fun to see them all.  And Memphis had fun running around with his cousin Owen. This is an old picture but it was the only one I had of Danny and our kids.

OUR ANNIVERSARY
It was our 3rd wedding anniversary on the 21st.  We actually got to celebrate and have a date night all to ourselves.  It was really nice and much needed.  Thanks to Cam Jarvis (I use to babysit him!) who watched our kids, I got to go watch Danny play softball with his team.  I never get to go watch because of crazy Memphis so it was a nice break for me.  Then Danny and I went to Ruby River.  We tried going there when we got engaged but because of it being Valentine's Day it was a two hour wait so it was nice to finally go there even if it was expensive.  They helped us celebrate our anniversary and gave us free dessert:)  Here are some pictures of Danny playing softball. Sorry they are far away.  The zoom on our camera broke:(

 He plays centerfield-he is standing out under the sign-he makes some really crazy catches

 Up to bat-he is really good at hitting at least 1 home run per game:)

DANNY'S BIRTHDAY

Danny turned 24 this year!  SO YOUNG:)  He woke up and decided he wanted to mow our backyard weeds.  It took him almost 4 hours!  Time to invest in a riding lawn mower.  I made him a pancake breakfast and then I let him relax.  His best friend and another friend came up from Price.  We went to Chili's-his favorite restaurant and then he went fishing with his friends.  I was going to buy him a BBQ grill for his birthday but we ended getting a FREE one from some friends who were getting rid of their old one.  NICE!  We also bought our 5th car (yes we have 5 cars at our house right now!).  It was really cheap and it is the same car as the one Danny has been trying to fix up and sell so now it's the parts car.  We are going to make a huge profit on them both hopefully!

COUPONING
So I have decided to try out the world of couponing.  We are trying to get rid of our debt faster and start saving more money so what better way:)  Danny told me I could try it but I had to save more money than our subscription of multiple copies of the newspaper with coupons.  SOOOO...my very first trip to the store (on a Tuesday because Wal mart doubles coupons that day) I got $34 worth of food and groceries for $14!!!  I even got 5 boxes of bandaids for FREE.  So I saved $20 on my first week of grocery shopping and the subscription only costs $14 a month.  I AM HOOKED!

THIS WEEK
I am busy packing for our big upcoming vacation to Washington to visit my family.  I AM EXCITED!

9 months Uh oh!

Kayzee is 9 months old!  Still can't believe that she is growing up so fast.  She is officially crawling and can now pull herself up holding onto things and start waddling along.  Oh dear!  I don't think she will be walking in the next couple of days like her brother already was but that is ok.  She loves watching her brother and loves crawling after him and watching him run away.  Memphis was so funny when he first realized she could move across the room.  Every time she starts crawling to get to him he runs away and climbs up on the couch.  She can reach toys and is so determined to get into everything.

 Time to lower the crib mattress 

 She is so proud of herself

Time to put everything higher out of her reach

She also has finally discovered food and she LOVES it!  She figured out that there is more to life than just a bottle of formula.  The doctor gave me the go ahead to start alternating whole milk and formula every other bottle and she can gum anything (no teeth yet).  So far she has LOVED everything I have given her.  She especially loves cheese and bananas.  Whenever any of us are eating, she has to be eating too.

She had her nine-month well-baby check-up and all is well:)  She is way above average (80th percentile) in her stats so she is growing like crazy.  I still can't believe she is wearing 18 month clothes.  She weighs 20 lbs and is 28 inches long.  Memphis at nine months weighed the same but he was 2 inches taller!  I LOVE my kids.  We have been having fun everyday playing together and we have lots of fun plans for the summer.

Memphis has a time-out rug and he tries so hard to get out of it sooner by his big puppy-dog eyes and holding his arms out for a hug.  HA nice try son:)  He is not in it that often and he has actually been the most behaved I have ever seen since I have not been working anymore.  Maybe it's the fact that I am home with him all day now.  Whatever it is I am loving it.  He does everything we ask and since I have been home he has added about 20 words to his vocabulary.  He can talk and communicate really well now.  It does make a difference when mommy is home to teach him and play with him:)

It's just Crazy

It really has been crazy.  Since my last post where I mentioned I got food poisoning, well, let's just say it got worse and I was miserable!  That was also the first time in my life I have thrown-up on the side of the road.  I was really sick that Saturday night not keeping anything down but Sunday I was able to munch on some toast.  The only thing bothering me was a really bad headache.  I just thought it was because of being really sick the night before.  Well, it got worse!

I got a sub for Monday, took my kids to Day Care and went home and tried to sleep it off.  It was turning into a serious migraine.  I felt better after getting more sleep so I tried going a half day to school on Tuesday.  That just made the migraine come back so I scheduled a sub for the rest of the week.  Wednesday I kept the kids home because they had a stomach bug and trying to take care of them with a migraine was the most painful, heartbreaking day ever.  I couldn't even pick up Kayzee without blacking out and feeling like I was going to pass out.  The more I tried to take care of my kids the worse I felt both physically and emotionally.  Not resting made me feel sicker and not being able to care for my own kids hurt my mommyness side.  Plus, this was my last week with my students and I was missing their last day of PE to have fun and say goodbye, especially to the 6th graders who I will not have next year.

So with my migraine which was all in my neck and the back of my head spreading up and down into my shoulder blades---I couldn't even pick up my baby, watch TV, be in any light, move my head, or eat. It made me so nauseous the thought of eating made me sick.  I had already lost 7 lbs in 4 days. And I was popping ibuprofen like it was candy, making my stomach hurt.  I knew it was time to see a dr.

Thursday, I took the kids to Day Care and went to see my favorite Doctor.  He is so kind, takes the time to listen, and really does care about getting his patients better.  He was concerned that the strain of food poisoning bacteria I got spread into my head, causing my migraine. WEIRD!  I had driven myself so he couldn't give me the strongest drugs to drive home on so he just gave me a shot of ? (basically he told me it was tylenol on steroids).  He also gave me painkillers, anti-nausea medicine (which knocked me out for a couple of hours) and some stomach acid neutralizers.  He told me if the pain came back Friday morning I needed to go back in and get blood work done to see if they could pinpoint a cause and fix it that way.  Luckily I felt fine:)

Friday, Danny's grandparents came and picked me and the kids up and we drove to Price to pick up Danny (who had been there registering his cars the day before).  Then we headed the rest of the way to Blanding to stay with Danny's family for the 3 day weekend because his brother Benny is leaving to go on a mission today!  Memphis got car sick on the way down (first time experiencing that) but we made it in good timing and the kids were actually really good considering the long ride being in a different car and not in our SUV with the DVD player.  We had a wonderful weekend playing ping pong, hand and foot, going to the temple, golfing, basketball, watching movies, napping (I got to snuggle with my Memphis while he took a 2 hour nap-I LOVED IT), trying not to be blown over by the crazy wind, listening to Benny's farewell talk, and just enjoying being together.  I did feel my migraine coming back with the nausea but I got a blessing and have felt fine since:)

I still cannot believe I didn't take a single picture.  OH WELL.

Now we are back and I am finishing my last week of school (no students just cleaning up my room, dance festival, field day, awards, etc.)  Kayzee was so spoiled this weekend being held by everyone so it has been a rough couple of days of lots of crying whenever we set her down.  She is army crawling forward faster now, she can definitely get where she wants to go, and she is up on her hands and knees moving a few inches that way too.  I could not deny it anymore and try to squeeze her in 12 month clothes so I finally pulled out all her 18 month clothes and she is not even 9 months old until Saturday.  She is a chunk but a cute one at that!  I take her for her 9 month check-up on Monday so I will let you know how that goes.  Hopefully we can move on to whole milk instead of expensive formula.  Kayzee and Memphis now wear the same size diaper (size 4) which is nice but it just shows how skinny Memphis is at 2 years old and how chunky Kayzee is at almost 9 months old.

 I LOVE my kids and can't wait to spend the summer with them:)

And it begins...

Very soon I am going to have two mobile children.  I already cannot keep up with Memphis so having two children that run is going to be way too much fun.  Kayzee gets up on her hands and knees but just can't get going on the whole crawling thing.  She has no trouble getting around though.  She can push herself backwards in her walker and she rolls and scoots anywhere she wants.  I love my precious Kayzee Lynn and her chubby cheeks:)

Memphis keeps me laughing and says new words everyday.  I LOVE how he counts to ten and he loves counting at the park whenever he climbs up anything with steps.  This is how he counted to ten the first time I heard him (which was a surprise to me because I have never taught him how so who knows where he learned it).  "One, two, three, four, five, sis, siete, eigh, nigh, ten"  The video clip is Memphis and the movie cars.  He surprised us by singing the "ugh" and flashing his adorable grin at us.  Please excuse my laughing in the background.  We also had some fun with the camera.

We are slowly working on our HUGE backyard.  We bought the house because of the huge lot size  and someday it will be how we want it to be.  It is going to take a lot of work but thanks to Danny's friend Chuck and Fugals, they got a lot done in one day.  Danny borrowed some Fugal equipment and that helped a lot.

We have had a lot of fun the past two weekends with both sides of our families coming to visit.  I miss them all so much and wish we lived closer but what fun we had!  Memphis LOVED playing with all of them.  And Kayzee LOVED being passed around.

I had a HARD week at school last week.  I planned on a softball week because I was not able to use my gym but the rain would not stop coming down and flooding the field.  So most of my classes had to have PE in the health trailer crammed full of desks so no running around for them.  Lets just say we were all miserable.  I took Friday off because I had had enough and I got to spend more time with my parents.  Now I am going to be taking Monday off too because I am sooooo sick.  Very bad food poisoning...NO FUN!  I only have one more week of students and then one more week of end of year fun and cleaning so I can't wait to be done with this school year!  Can't wait to be home with my babies all day and just enjoy learning and growing together.

8 Months and Ties

8 MONTHS
Kayzee will be 8 months old tomorrow May 4.  Time is going by too quickly.  But I don't mind because I can't wait for summer so I can be home with my two adorable children.

At 8 months Memphis was devouring all kinds of food, sleeping 13 hours at night, crawling and walking holding onto things and standing by himself.

At 8 months Kayzee is FINALLY eating a couple bites of baby cereal and baby food but seriously only a couple bites.  She LOVES biter biscuits and yogurt melts.  She is sleeping about 8pm to 8am most nights.  Once in awhile she will wake up to have a bottle at 6am.  She is scooting backwards and rolling around the room.  She is trying so hard to crawl.  I can tell she wants to so bad but her chubby body just won't cooperate.  She is definitely not developing as fast as my 9 month walker Memphis but THAT IS OK!  I don't mind her taking her time and being my precious little baby girl just a little bit longer:)

TIES
Awhile ago I asked how moms kept ties on their sons for church.  Most said wait till they are older.  I guess that was all Memphis needed.  He now LOVES to wear a tie to church.  He picks out the one he wants to wear each Sunday.  And it stays on the whole time.  Sometimes he doesn't want to take it off when he gets home.

And since he has discovered ties, some weekdays I actually find him dressing himself and the tie is a definite must!

Memphis surprises me everyday with new words and phrases and songs that he knows.  Since I work obviously he is learning new things at Day Care and he LOVES NURSERY.  If his teachers are not there he gets so sad.  He loves giving his teachers hugs and his favorite part is when they put a table half up and let him slide down.  One thing that I will be forever grateful for is the nursery's clean-up routine.  I have never really had Memphis clean up his room or toys around the house so I decided it was time to start.  I had no idea he knew this but I just started singing the clean-up song and picking up his toys hoping he would see my example and to my surprise he started singing along and he cleaned the whole house!  THANKYOU NURSERY!!!  He helps clean up every night now.  He also surprised me and sang wheels on the bus for me:)  So awesome.  He can sing along with his favorite cartoon songs and can count to 5.  My son is growing up:(

The only thing I don't like that he has learned is to hide or put things between us so that I can't catch him.  It is really annoying sometimes.  But sometimes it is hard to get mad at him.  This morning when we were getting in the car to go to Day Care he ran around to the other side of Danny's car and when I started to go around to get him he just ran around to the opposite side.  He kept the car between us knowing I couldn't reach him and he is too fast for me.  He thought it was funny and kept laughing and I couldn't act mad because I couldn't stop laughing so yes we were late but oh well.  I know that is why he keeps doing it because I just laugh along with him.  I LOVE my son.  He makes me laugh so hard everyday.  And he still loves to give me hugs and kisses.

MY KIDS ARE SO PRECIOUS TO ME

7 months/ 28 years

Kayzee is now 7 months old.  Still can't believe it.  She is sitting up on her own, rolling around the room, and scooting backwards.  She is all smiles, big open mouthed grin, and she LOVES watching her crazy brother.  She is still only drinking formula (which is getting expensive).  I try feeding her all kinds of baby food and nothing gets swallowed.  I try everyday but she just doesn't get it.  Oh well.  I know she is getting enough from formula because she is wearing 12 month clothes.  Little miss chubby cheeks:)  Here are some cute pictures of my sweet pretty baby girl.  Thanks mom for the cute shirt and sweater!

I had my birthday April 2 and yes I will admit how old I am...28!  Everyone tells me it is not really that old but I just feel old next to my 23 year old husband who doesn't hesitate to bring it up constantly.  I had a great birthday weekend!  All 7 of my Friday PE classes sang to me.  That night we got a babysitter and Danny and I went bowling and out to Cold Stone for ice cream.  We bowled 3 games and I actually broke 100 (104) and beat my husband at one game (yes, he was bowling left-handed) but YAY for me!  Saturday we went to lunch at Brick Oven Pizza and then just hung out as a family watching movies and playing games. I got all the books I have been wanting to read so now I have 8 new books to read.  AWESOME!  Jodi Picoult's newest book, Hunger Game Series, and Uglies and Pretties Series.  I also got gift cards and money so shopping I go!  Thanks everyone for the Happy Birthdays and the gifts!  Now each day I get closer to 30---UGH!

Memphis in his new Sunday suit and shoes.  He was not happy to be going to church during his naptime.  We were loving going at 9 but our ward changed buildings so we had to move to 1.  Right during both of our kid's naptimes of course!

Falling Behind!

I kept telling myself to blog at least every two weeks.  HA!  Life has been so busy.  I am trying to get fitness testing done at work, both kids have been taking turns being sick, etc.  One WONDERFUL thing that I have to report since my last post...drumroll please...Kayzee has been sleeping through the night and she doesn't cry long hours anymore!!!  How much better life has been when mommy gets sleep HA HA.

The one idea that I got the most from everyone was that she was just overtired and needed to be put to bed sooner than I was letting her.  I had no idea since Memphis was a champ at sleeping when he was an infant.  It definitely works.  THANKS everyone!  Now she has a bottle at 7:30, I put her in her crib at 8 and she sleeps till about 7:30!  Once in awhile she will wake up at 5 or 6 to eat but not every night anymore.  LOVE IT:)  She is such a happy smiley baby now and she is just trying to grow up too fast.  She decided to outgrow her 9 month clothes in about three weeks so now she is wearing 12 month clothes.  She is also getting good at rolling around the room and scooting backwards.

Here are some pictures of Kayzee for her first St. Patrick's Day (see, here is proof I am behind on my posts).  My favorite is the adorable little bracelet she is wearing.  Our day care babysitter Kim made it for her.  Thanks Kim!

TOO BIG

So Memphis loves to play with his old infant things that I got out for Kayzee.  He is definitely too big but he sure has fun and he loves trying on all my shoes.  Memphis is growing up and talking a lot better. He knows a lot more words and loves to copy movies, cartoons, and commercials.  He is really good at singing along even if he doesn't get the exact right words at least he is trying:)  He is also doing better at obeying and not letting daddy or mommy get to 3 because he doesn't like time-out.  Can't wait for warmer weather because he is so much happier when he can play outside each day.

Well, my birthday was last Saturday and Kayzee is now 7 months so I will try to post about them sooner than later.  Kayzee is really sick right now (fever and throwing up) so hope she gets better soon.  And I have spring break next week.  I am so ready for a break:)