10 days ago me and Dawson started his reading lessons. He looks forward to doing them everyday (one lesson a day, about 20 minutes per lesson) and is SO excited to learn how to read. During yesterday's lesson one of the tasks was for Dawson to sound out three letters (mmmm-aaaaa-t) and then I was supposed to sound out the word for him (mmmmaaaaaaaat) and then he was supposed to say it fast (mat). (Hopefully that makes sense, it makes sense to me but that's because I do the lessons with him *lol*) Well to my surprise he sounded out the word and put it together all on his own, he didn't need my help sounding it out at all! And then after that he sounded out and read the word "sat" and "am" too! He was so excited and proud of himself that he went and got Dave to show him and then he started flipping through the pages to find more words to read. He ended up reading "me" "see" "ram" "rat" and "eat" all on his own!! He is catching on so well!!! It's so exciting to see him so excited about learning. I'm one proud mama!!
Here's a little bit of video of him reading a few words. I'm sure I'll be sharing lots of video of him reading in the coming weeks!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
The Sounds That I Hear
Tonight is the 6th night Ashlynn hasn't had her binky. I am so happy that we decided to take it away and honestly wish we would have done it sooner. I'm so proud of Ashlynn for quitting the binky cold turkey. :P Not that she had much of a choice, but she's doing great without it and I really am proud of her. She's been providing me with lots of free entertainment since getting rid of her binky, too. I put her and Dawson to bed between 730-8pm every night. Dawson basically hits the pillow and he's out (most of the time at least). Ashlynn stays up for at least an hour and plays with her stuffed animals that are in her bed. Even when she had the binky she would do this, she was just much quieter. Now I get to hear her talk, sing, growl, and pant (yes, she was panting like a puppy tonight and I was cracking up laughing listening to her) while she's playing. Last night I recorded a little bit of her singing on my phone. I have a feeling I will be doing that a lot, it's too cute not to capture on video. All that you can see in the video is the sound monitor, but what you hear is adorable. I've been bringing the monitor over to the couch with me so I can listen better.
Dawson is still doing good with his reading lessons. We did lesson 7 tonight and he got super excited when he saw two letters next to each other, he was like I get to read that word!! It's fun to see him so excited about learning.
Speaking of learning, I totally think he's ready to start kindergarten this year but because his birthday isn't until October he misses the deadline by almost two months. And honestly, I don't think I'm ready to send him off to school. But I know it would be good for him. So I'm thinking about starting kindergarten with him on my own. Homeschooling. I need to look into it more but I figure this year would be the year to try it out since he can't go to school. If it goes well then we'll start first grade, at home, when he should be starting kindergarten next year. This isn't set in stone, just something that I've been thinking about and am definitely going to look into. If anybody has any information or tips about homeschooling I would love to hear them.
Anyway, that's it. Probably not the most exciting update ever but I know me, Dave, and the kids will love reading it a few years from now.
I sure do love my little stinkers.
Dawson is still doing good with his reading lessons. We did lesson 7 tonight and he got super excited when he saw two letters next to each other, he was like I get to read that word!! It's fun to see him so excited about learning.
Speaking of learning, I totally think he's ready to start kindergarten this year but because his birthday isn't until October he misses the deadline by almost two months. And honestly, I don't think I'm ready to send him off to school. But I know it would be good for him. So I'm thinking about starting kindergarten with him on my own. Homeschooling. I need to look into it more but I figure this year would be the year to try it out since he can't go to school. If it goes well then we'll start first grade, at home, when he should be starting kindergarten next year. This isn't set in stone, just something that I've been thinking about and am definitely going to look into. If anybody has any information or tips about homeschooling I would love to hear them.
Anyway, that's it. Probably not the most exciting update ever but I know me, Dave, and the kids will love reading it a few years from now.
I sure do love my little stinkers.
Friday, February 22, 2013
A Little Behind...Let's Catch Up!
The day before Valentine's Day I made mini pancake muffins for breakfast, half of them had blueberries in them and the other half had chocolate chips. I put a couple of drops of red food coloring into the ones with chocolate chips so they would be pink and then a sprinkled all of them with some mini heart sprinkles. They looked cute and tasted yummy! I had to work on Valentine's Day so I wanted to make sure to do something special for the kids the day before. Me and Dave also celebrated the day before by going to dinner and a movie. We ate at Chili's and ordered off their "lighter" menu. We both LOVED what we ordered and will be definitely ordering again. The chicken I ordered had the most delicious habanero & sweet orange glaze on it, I want to try to recreate it at home. After dinner we went to see Identity Thief, it was pretty funny!
That night before bed we set up the kids' valentines on the couch so they would get them in the morning. They each got a stuffed animal, some chocolates, a cake pop, and a card. They loved it all.
While I was at work Dave sent me a picture of what he made the kids for lunch. Little heart sandwiches. Awww!
Ashlynn is tall enough to reach the figurines that we had on her dresser and she loved to grab them and play with them. Luckily, because they are glass, she was very gentle with them and would cradle and rock them. It was really sweet actually but we didn't want her to break them and hurt herself so we bought some shelves to put up on her wall. Brandee helped me hang them up one night that Dave was at work... it was quite an adventure but we did it!!
The rose on the bottom shelf is a rose that Dave gave me a few months before we got married. It's usually in our room but I felt like the bottom shelf needed something tall on it so I'm letting Ashlynn borrow it for awhile.
The other night Dawson and Ashlynn were playing in Ashlynn's room and they got quiet so I went to check on them and found them like this:
Dawson said he was holding her like a baby. *lol* That's a BIG baby! I love the way they love each other.
Dawson loves to play games. We play Hedbanz, Apples to Apples, and Candy Land a lot. The other day when we were playing Candy Land we decided to change it up a little and use Jake and Izzy instead of the little people that came with it. Dawson got a kick out of it.
Also a couple of days ago (sorry this post is jumping everywhere... that's what happens when I get behind) the kids had a dentist appointment. Both of their teeth look healthy and strong but Ashlynn's top teeth super narrow....the roof of her mouth by her front teeth is really narrow... I don't know if that makes sense at all but the dentist said it's probably because of her binky. I've noticed the shape of the top of her mouth not looking quite normal for awhile now and I figured it was because of her binky but I knew it was going to be hard to take her binky away so we didn't. Mostly laziness on our part. :( She really only uses it at nap and bedtime but after going to the dentist I knew it was time, even if it was going to be hard. Tonight is her third night without and it's definitely getting easier for her. She still cries a little bit but if I go in there for a minute to comfort her she's fine. She'll probably wake up a few times tonight but luckily she goes back to sleep pretty easily. I'm thinking she'll be completely over it in another three days or so.
Oh, and before they left the dentist they got to pick out new toothbrushes. Cars 2 was playing on the TVs during their checkups so the dentist knew how much Dawson loved Cars so he gave him a Cars toothbrush (it's actually the same toothbrush he already had but his old one was due to be replaced). Ashlynn got to choose from a princess one (it had a few princesses on it, I can't remember which ones), a Cinderella one, and an Ariel one, she chose the Ariel one.
I'm hoping that when they go back to the dentist in 6 months Ashlynn's teeth will have started to move back to where they're supposed to be. The dentist said the sooner we take her binky away the better chance they had of going back to normal.
Me and Dave are still doing well on our weightloss journey. Our official weigh-in day is tomorrow but I think together we are down about 17 pounds! We're doing really good about eating healthy, staying within our calorie range, and drinking a lot of water. We really need to start exercising more. I think it will be easier when it isn't so cold so we can get out and walk and eventually start running again.
Dawson has been really interested in math lately. He's always telling us things like if I have two toys and you give me two more toys I'll have four toys! He does some subtracting, too, and will ask us to help him. He'll ask things like if I have eight candies and you give me eight more how many will I have? And we'll help him count on his fingers to figure it out. I've also started doing his reading lessons again. We started them last summer and made it to lesson 10 or so and both Dawson and I were getting too frustrated with it so we stopped doing them. He just wasn't ready yet and that's ok! We did lesson 4 today (there are 100 lessons, you are supposed to one a day) so we are not that far into it but I can see a HUGE difference in how he's doing. He's actually excited to do them, it isn't a fight at all. I think he's ready this time.
I posted awhile ago how Ashlynn was not interested in reading time at all. Luckily that did turn out to be a short phase. She LOVES storytime now and often asks me to read her two stories before bed. She tries to see her ABC's... it goes something like this "A-B-C-D-F-Geeeeeeeeeeeeee A-B-C-D-F-Geeeeeeeeee!" It's pretty cute. :) She's also been into dancing a lot. I LOVE to watch her dance. We really need to get her into dance classes soon, I think she'd love going to them. I'll leave you with a little video of her dancing. (Sorry it's so dark, the light bulb in the living room needs to be replaced)
That night before bed we set up the kids' valentines on the couch so they would get them in the morning. They each got a stuffed animal, some chocolates, a cake pop, and a card. They loved it all.
While I was at work Dave sent me a picture of what he made the kids for lunch. Little heart sandwiches. Awww!
Ashlynn is tall enough to reach the figurines that we had on her dresser and she loved to grab them and play with them. Luckily, because they are glass, she was very gentle with them and would cradle and rock them. It was really sweet actually but we didn't want her to break them and hurt herself so we bought some shelves to put up on her wall. Brandee helped me hang them up one night that Dave was at work... it was quite an adventure but we did it!!
The rose on the bottom shelf is a rose that Dave gave me a few months before we got married. It's usually in our room but I felt like the bottom shelf needed something tall on it so I'm letting Ashlynn borrow it for awhile.
The other night Dawson and Ashlynn were playing in Ashlynn's room and they got quiet so I went to check on them and found them like this:
Dawson said he was holding her like a baby. *lol* That's a BIG baby! I love the way they love each other.
Dawson loves to play games. We play Hedbanz, Apples to Apples, and Candy Land a lot. The other day when we were playing Candy Land we decided to change it up a little and use Jake and Izzy instead of the little people that came with it. Dawson got a kick out of it.
Also a couple of days ago (sorry this post is jumping everywhere... that's what happens when I get behind) the kids had a dentist appointment. Both of their teeth look healthy and strong but Ashlynn's top teeth super narrow....the roof of her mouth by her front teeth is really narrow... I don't know if that makes sense at all but the dentist said it's probably because of her binky. I've noticed the shape of the top of her mouth not looking quite normal for awhile now and I figured it was because of her binky but I knew it was going to be hard to take her binky away so we didn't. Mostly laziness on our part. :( She really only uses it at nap and bedtime but after going to the dentist I knew it was time, even if it was going to be hard. Tonight is her third night without and it's definitely getting easier for her. She still cries a little bit but if I go in there for a minute to comfort her she's fine. She'll probably wake up a few times tonight but luckily she goes back to sleep pretty easily. I'm thinking she'll be completely over it in another three days or so.
Oh, and before they left the dentist they got to pick out new toothbrushes. Cars 2 was playing on the TVs during their checkups so the dentist knew how much Dawson loved Cars so he gave him a Cars toothbrush (it's actually the same toothbrush he already had but his old one was due to be replaced). Ashlynn got to choose from a princess one (it had a few princesses on it, I can't remember which ones), a Cinderella one, and an Ariel one, she chose the Ariel one.
I'm hoping that when they go back to the dentist in 6 months Ashlynn's teeth will have started to move back to where they're supposed to be. The dentist said the sooner we take her binky away the better chance they had of going back to normal.
Me and Dave are still doing well on our weightloss journey. Our official weigh-in day is tomorrow but I think together we are down about 17 pounds! We're doing really good about eating healthy, staying within our calorie range, and drinking a lot of water. We really need to start exercising more. I think it will be easier when it isn't so cold so we can get out and walk and eventually start running again.
Dawson has been really interested in math lately. He's always telling us things like if I have two toys and you give me two more toys I'll have four toys! He does some subtracting, too, and will ask us to help him. He'll ask things like if I have eight candies and you give me eight more how many will I have? And we'll help him count on his fingers to figure it out. I've also started doing his reading lessons again. We started them last summer and made it to lesson 10 or so and both Dawson and I were getting too frustrated with it so we stopped doing them. He just wasn't ready yet and that's ok! We did lesson 4 today (there are 100 lessons, you are supposed to one a day) so we are not that far into it but I can see a HUGE difference in how he's doing. He's actually excited to do them, it isn't a fight at all. I think he's ready this time.
I posted awhile ago how Ashlynn was not interested in reading time at all. Luckily that did turn out to be a short phase. She LOVES storytime now and often asks me to read her two stories before bed. She tries to see her ABC's... it goes something like this "A-B-C-D-F-Geeeeeeeeeeeeee A-B-C-D-F-Geeeeeeeeee!" It's pretty cute. :) She's also been into dancing a lot. I LOVE to watch her dance. We really need to get her into dance classes soon, I think she'd love going to them. I'll leave you with a little video of her dancing. (Sorry it's so dark, the light bulb in the living room needs to be replaced)
Sunday, February 17, 2013
We need help!
I'm sure most of you know that Ashlynn was born at 34 weeks gestation. She struggled with her breathing, eating, and gaining weight, and also had a scare with NEC disease (Necrotizing enterocolitis, usually called NEC, is a condition where the intestines become infected and can begin to die. The disease usually affects premature babies, although term babies may also get NEC. Necrotizing enterocolitis is a serious condition that may require surgery, and has a high morbidity and mortality rate). She spent 24 days in the NICU and less than a month later was admitted back into the hospital for RSV where she had to stay for 5 more days. I am VERY happy to report that she is now a happy, healthy, very active and very smart two year old! She is hitting all the milestones that a two year old should and talks a lot and really well. She's amazing and very much loved by everyone.
We are walking in the March for Babies walk on May 18th. We've set a big goal this year - to raise $2,000. We've got 3 months to do it! If you have any fundraising ideas please let me know. I know I've got a lot of work to do but I am so ready to do it!
One thing I have thought of is asking my friends that sell things on facebook (or etsy) to maybe donate something they make or donate a giftcard to their shop and then raffling off tickets to win everything that has been donated for $5-$10. I'd love to hear everybody's ideas or input on my idea. Also if you know somebody that would be willing to donate something (or if you yourself would like to donate something) please have them email me. (harrison.jamie@yahoo.com)
If you would like to donate right now please use this link to do so: http://www.marchforbabies.org/Jamie0811 Please share this link with anybody that you think would like to donate as well.
Thank you all for your love and support! :)
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Comparison Pics and Interviews
Dawson at age two:
Ashlynn at age two:
And side by side:
Dawson at age two (25 months, just like Ash is now)
And Ash also at 25 months:
Side by side:
Gosh they're adorable!
In other news, a group of friends (who I've known since I was pregnant with Dawson... they were all pregnant, too, which means they all also have a 4 year old) decided to put together a group of questions to ask our 4 year olds and get them answering the questions on video so we can share with each other. Such a fun idea! Here is Dawson's video:
I started doing interviews with him in 2011, we've done two so far. As soon as Ashlynn turns three I will start asking her the same questions. Here is his interview from 2011 (hopefully if you click on the pic it will be big enough to read)
And his interview from 2012
Ashlynn at age two:
And side by side:
Dawson at age two (25 months, just like Ash is now)
And Ash also at 25 months:
Side by side:
Gosh they're adorable!
In other news, a group of friends (who I've known since I was pregnant with Dawson... they were all pregnant, too, which means they all also have a 4 year old) decided to put together a group of questions to ask our 4 year olds and get them answering the questions on video so we can share with each other. Such a fun idea! Here is Dawson's video:
I started doing interviews with him in 2011, we've done two so far. As soon as Ashlynn turns three I will start asking her the same questions. Here is his interview from 2011 (hopefully if you click on the pic it will be big enough to read)
And his interview from 2012
Ashlynn's Two Year Checkup
Ashlynn had her two year checkup a couple of days ago and it went great! We had scheduled her checkup two times in January but kept forgetting about it. That's the first time we've missed an appointment and we did it twice in a row! Oops! When we scheduled it for a third time I made sure to write it on the calendar ASAP! She weighed in at 24 pounds (20th percentile) and is 34 3/4 inches tall (73rd percentile). Dave said she's like a baby super model, tall and skinny! I thought that was pretty funny. :)
Let's compare Dawson and Ashlynn's two year checkups...
Dawson (2010) Ashlynn (2013)
32.4 lbs 24 lbs
36.5 in. 34 3/4 in
HUGE difference, isn't it? I can't believe Dawson was 8 pounds heavier. Ashlynn is a little runt compared to him. :P In the next post (either later today or tomorrow) I will post comparison pictures.
Dave has drill this weekend which means he'll be home tonight and tomorrow night. It's nice to have a couple of extra nights with daddy since he normally works nights. It's cold and snowing right now so I doubt we will go out and do anything, but I think we are going to have some family over and we're going to play Apples to Apples. Dawson loves playing it and Hailee and Drea have never played it before. I think they are going to like it!
I'll be back soon with some pictures to share.
Let's compare Dawson and Ashlynn's two year checkups...
Dawson (2010) Ashlynn (2013)
32.4 lbs 24 lbs
36.5 in. 34 3/4 in
HUGE difference, isn't it? I can't believe Dawson was 8 pounds heavier. Ashlynn is a little runt compared to him. :P In the next post (either later today or tomorrow) I will post comparison pictures.
Dave has drill this weekend which means he'll be home tonight and tomorrow night. It's nice to have a couple of extra nights with daddy since he normally works nights. It's cold and snowing right now so I doubt we will go out and do anything, but I think we are going to have some family over and we're going to play Apples to Apples. Dawson loves playing it and Hailee and Drea have never played it before. I think they are going to like it!
I'll be back soon with some pictures to share.
Monday, February 4, 2013
I'm Feeling a Little Chatty.
It's been pretty quiet around here lately, not much to update on. It's been a cold winter so we haven't been going out and doing much. Dawson has gotten really good at playing Cars on the PS3, he'd play all day if we would let him so we limit him to two half hours a day. He'll usually play his first half hour after breakfast and his second half hour after lunch. He's pretty good about turning it off when his time is up because he knows if he throws a fit about it he won't get to play it at all the next day. He's gotten it taken away two or three times before but for the most part he listens. He also loves to play with his die cast cars, paint, play on his Innotab (we don't really limit his time on that, if I feel like he's playing on it too much we probably will but for now I think he's ok to play it when he wants). He's got two games for his Innotab now, Cars is his favorite and he's also got a Jake and the Never Land Pirates game. Ashlynn also has an Innotab and she's got a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse game. Last year Dawson went through a phase where we were reading Peter Pan every night before bed. I'm sure I posted about it in our blog because he just about had the entire book memorized word for word and it was a pretty long book. For awhile now (like months) we've been reading stories from his Cars Storybook Collection. It has twenty or so different Cars stories. I'm getting tired of reading those stories every night but he loves it. I'll be excited when he's ready to read different books each night. As long as he's excited to listen to stories I am grateful and shouldn't complain!
Ashlynn loves pushing her babies around the house in her stroller, playing Cars with Dawson, coloring, playing with her princesses and babies, and looking at books. Oh, and occasionally she'll play on her Innotab. She doesn't like storytime before bed. Or anytime for that matter. The stories from Dawson's storybook collection are about 15-20 minutes long which is too long for a two year old so I read her board books, Dr. Seuss books, etc. before bed and she usually only lasts a minute or two before she wants to get up and play or wants to take the book away from me because she wants to look at all of the pictures herself and doesn't want me to read. I always finish the book even if she's not listening to me. I'm hoping it's just a short anti-story time phase that's she's going through. I'll keep trying to read to her and hopefully soon she'll start listening. :)
Me and Dave are now two weeks into our second weightloss journey. In my last post I mentioned that we had each gained around 35 pounds, so an extra 70 pounds combined. Yikes! So far we've lost a little over 10 pounds combined. Yay! I have been in a super cleaning and organizing mood for about a week and a half now, too. I'm guessing all this extra energy is from eating better. I seriously feel like super woman! I've cleaned and organized our entire apartment. Granted our apartment is only about 1300 square feet so it's not liked I'm cleaning a mansion, but I was surprised about how much junk we had stuffed around here. It's so refreshing to walk into each room in our house and know that everything is clean and is in it's own place. I'm STILL in the mood to clean and organize... pretty soon I am going to run out of things to do. (Is that possible? With the mood I have been in, in might be!) We have a ton of stuff in my dad's basement that Dave wants me to go through because I've been throwing a lot of stuff away. He wants to take advantage of this mood that I'm in, in hopes that I will get rid of some stuff that I've been hanging on to that he doesn't think we need. For example the kids' clothes that they've outgrown. I'm pretty sure I've kept almost every single outfit, shirt, pants, and shorts that they've owned. The only reason I've held on to EVERYTHING is because I'm thinking if we do have another baby eventually, we're set! We won't have to buy much at all. I'm thinking if I'm still in this mood on Wednesday (both mine and Dave's day off) we'll have to see if somebody can watch the kids for us and we can go tackle the stuff in my dad's basement together. I can't promise that I will get rid of the kids' clothes but I'm sure I will find a bunch of stuff that I am ready to part with.
In other news, Ashlynn's fish, Goldie, died a few days ago. We've had our fish since July or August, thankfully since our fish aren't "new" anymore the kids hardly even pay attention to them and didn't even realize one of them is missing. Goober (aka Goob), Dawson's fish, seems a little lonely, we might have to get him another little buddy soon. I kind of wish we didn't get goldfish to start with so we could have a little bit of variety in our tank but there's no going back now, I suppose.
Geez, for starting out this post saying I don't have much to update on I sure have written a bunch. Now here's some random pictures that I took with my phone over the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!
Dawson loves to play Hedbanz, he's really good, too! Here are a couple pictures of him trying to guess who he is. (He asks me questions to try to figure it out)
One night Dawson was sitting next to me on the couch, I grabbed him and started cradling him like a baby. Ashlynn walked over to us to see what was up and I told her Dawson was my little baby. Then she asked to hold him! So I told her to sit on the couch and I gave him to her. She was so sweet. She tried to rock him and rubbed his head all motherly-like. She didn't want to give him up either! She held him for a good 5 minutes and when I tried to get him off of her she told me "No! Mine! My baby!" *lol* (Which reminds me, she sure is talking a LOT!!. She's getting really good at putting together 3-4 word sentences, too! I love listening to what she has to say.)
I've got plans to go over to my friends house next week with the kids and she's got a baby girl who is two months old. Ashlynn is going to ADORE her, I already know it!
The other night Hailee and Drea slept over here. The kids were so good all night and had so much fun playing together. Here they are settling down and watching a Hotel Transylvania.
Goofy goobers.
Loves!
P.S. I started typing up this blog a couple of days ago. I am happy to report that I finally worked out today! I'm shooting for 3 workouts a week for now... I can do it!
P.P.S. I read Ashlynn Dr. Seuss's ABC book tonight, which is pretty long for her and she sat through the entire thing and listened so well! Hooray! Let's hope her not wanting to listen to stories phase is over! :)
P.P.P.S. I read Dawson Tag Team from his Cars Storybook Collection (surprise! riiiiiight...) in case you were wondering. ;)
That's all folks! Until next time...
Ashlynn loves pushing her babies around the house in her stroller, playing Cars with Dawson, coloring, playing with her princesses and babies, and looking at books. Oh, and occasionally she'll play on her Innotab. She doesn't like storytime before bed. Or anytime for that matter. The stories from Dawson's storybook collection are about 15-20 minutes long which is too long for a two year old so I read her board books, Dr. Seuss books, etc. before bed and she usually only lasts a minute or two before she wants to get up and play or wants to take the book away from me because she wants to look at all of the pictures herself and doesn't want me to read. I always finish the book even if she's not listening to me. I'm hoping it's just a short anti-story time phase that's she's going through. I'll keep trying to read to her and hopefully soon she'll start listening. :)
Me and Dave are now two weeks into our second weightloss journey. In my last post I mentioned that we had each gained around 35 pounds, so an extra 70 pounds combined. Yikes! So far we've lost a little over 10 pounds combined. Yay! I have been in a super cleaning and organizing mood for about a week and a half now, too. I'm guessing all this extra energy is from eating better. I seriously feel like super woman! I've cleaned and organized our entire apartment. Granted our apartment is only about 1300 square feet so it's not liked I'm cleaning a mansion, but I was surprised about how much junk we had stuffed around here. It's so refreshing to walk into each room in our house and know that everything is clean and is in it's own place. I'm STILL in the mood to clean and organize... pretty soon I am going to run out of things to do. (Is that possible? With the mood I have been in, in might be!) We have a ton of stuff in my dad's basement that Dave wants me to go through because I've been throwing a lot of stuff away. He wants to take advantage of this mood that I'm in, in hopes that I will get rid of some stuff that I've been hanging on to that he doesn't think we need. For example the kids' clothes that they've outgrown. I'm pretty sure I've kept almost every single outfit, shirt, pants, and shorts that they've owned. The only reason I've held on to EVERYTHING is because I'm thinking if we do have another baby eventually, we're set! We won't have to buy much at all. I'm thinking if I'm still in this mood on Wednesday (both mine and Dave's day off) we'll have to see if somebody can watch the kids for us and we can go tackle the stuff in my dad's basement together. I can't promise that I will get rid of the kids' clothes but I'm sure I will find a bunch of stuff that I am ready to part with.
In other news, Ashlynn's fish, Goldie, died a few days ago. We've had our fish since July or August, thankfully since our fish aren't "new" anymore the kids hardly even pay attention to them and didn't even realize one of them is missing. Goober (aka Goob), Dawson's fish, seems a little lonely, we might have to get him another little buddy soon. I kind of wish we didn't get goldfish to start with so we could have a little bit of variety in our tank but there's no going back now, I suppose.
Geez, for starting out this post saying I don't have much to update on I sure have written a bunch. Now here's some random pictures that I took with my phone over the last couple of weeks. Enjoy!
Dawson loves to play Hedbanz, he's really good, too! Here are a couple pictures of him trying to guess who he is. (He asks me questions to try to figure it out)
One night Dawson was sitting next to me on the couch, I grabbed him and started cradling him like a baby. Ashlynn walked over to us to see what was up and I told her Dawson was my little baby. Then she asked to hold him! So I told her to sit on the couch and I gave him to her. She was so sweet. She tried to rock him and rubbed his head all motherly-like. She didn't want to give him up either! She held him for a good 5 minutes and when I tried to get him off of her she told me "No! Mine! My baby!" *lol* (Which reminds me, she sure is talking a LOT!!. She's getting really good at putting together 3-4 word sentences, too! I love listening to what she has to say.)
I've got plans to go over to my friends house next week with the kids and she's got a baby girl who is two months old. Ashlynn is going to ADORE her, I already know it!
The other night Hailee and Drea slept over here. The kids were so good all night and had so much fun playing together. Here they are settling down and watching a Hotel Transylvania.
Goofy goobers.
Loves!
P.S. I started typing up this blog a couple of days ago. I am happy to report that I finally worked out today! I'm shooting for 3 workouts a week for now... I can do it!
P.P.S. I read Ashlynn Dr. Seuss's ABC book tonight, which is pretty long for her and she sat through the entire thing and listened so well! Hooray! Let's hope her not wanting to listen to stories phase is over! :)
P.P.P.S. I read Dawson Tag Team from his Cars Storybook Collection (surprise! riiiiiight...) in case you were wondering. ;)
That's all folks! Until next time...
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