The Money Shop

Brayden has been at it again. This time he has been busy making paper money. He calls it his money shop. I think he might have a future in counterfeiting.

Nose Bead

Well 5 years later it happened again but this time it was not Kylee. Julia was hanging out with Kylee while she worked on her bead projects. Before long I heard Julia complaining as she walked up the stairs. With a worried look and in her three-year-old language she explained that she had put a bead up her nose. Turns out it was not all that little, and it was a ways up there. Luckily it was Sunday and Matt was home. He had her blow a few times to get it closer to the opening and then grabbed it with a hemostat, which is part of his special nose bead emergency kit.

Cary Piders

Julia has been really good about sleeping through the night. On the occasion that she wakes up she appears in our room like a little ghost. She doesn't really say anything she will just sit on my bed or stand next to me until I wake up. Recently Julia has come into my room in the middle of the night 2 times now. She comes to tell me that there are (s)cary (s)piders in her room. I tell her that there are no spiders and take her back to bed.

Then again, maybe I should believe her. Maybe there are spiders coming out and getting her in the middle of the night. When my younger brother was little he told my Mom there was a monkey looking at him . Of course he was told that there was no monkey, only to find out later that there was a squirrel living in the air vents of the house that would peek out and look at him through the vents.

I guess Randy and Kitty were not cutting it as her protectors at night.

Fast! Quick! Hurry!

I often tell 3 year old Julia "Hurry up we need to go or we are going to be late!" She doesn't seem to understand. I don't think she has added the words fast, hurry, quick to her vocabulary yet. She runs on her own time. I try and move her along and do things for her, but it only makes things worse. It causes her to take longer because then she needs to do it again herself. I can't get too frustrated because I can remember when I was young my family would refer to me as a turtle. I always seemed to be the last one out of the house. I guess I should just pass on the turtle name to Julia.

It is funny how you get flashes of your own childhood through your children.

Growing up

Kylee is growing up. After fighting her for 5 years about combing her hair, Kylee has recently figured out that she likes to comb her hair and actually does it herself. She discovered that she can put it in a ponytail herself. I have to resist trying to fix the bumps and not redo it for her.

Her friend at school taught her this nifty hair do.
I think I remember that when I was young.

Kylee also recently has wanted to choose her own clothes and sometimes they clash a bit. I try and help her out with the little knowledge that I do have. I am not good with fashion. I like to match with similar colors. She is definitely more into comfort and likes to wear the same bright colored green and pink yoga pants. If I would have known she was going to wear them to school all the time I would have thought twice about buying them. No pictures because I don't know if I want to document some of her clothes choices. She won't be happy with me later.

Now if she could only be more independent in taking a bath and cutting her own finger nails.

enjoying the outdoors

This past weekend we went on a hike at Umstead State Park to enjoy the beautiful 70 degree weather. The hike didn't last too long because the littlest 2 weren't feeling very well.

Blake on the move

A few weeks before Christmas Blake started to crawl. Then about a month later he was pulling himself up on everything and walking along the furniture. Blake has been a little laid back on his moving. He doesn't go off and explore. He kind of hangs back and is a little more cautious about things. If he is standing up against something and it moves a little he gets scared and cries. He doesn't even try to go up and down the stairs. I am O.K. with him hanging back and moving slowly. It helps me keep track of him easier.