Stay Tuned!

Okay...I have typed up a bunch of different posts and put the pictures in there, but the pictures are not uploading right. I have been having this problem for awhile. So, I am going to take my camera to a different computer and see if that will help. It is no fun to post blog enteries without pictures - so give me a day or so! Hope all is well.

Baby Update

Okay, I wish there was something new to post, but there really isn't. The baby is still in there and doing well. After having another ultrasound to check growth, they've determined it is about 4 pounds and "normal". I had them double check just to make sure it really is a boy - and it is. No doubt about it. It is still low so they told me to make sure I take things really easy until I get my stitches out. My fear is once those stitches come out, the baby won't. My fear is I will be a couple of weeks past my due date - I really hope that doesn't happen. We are slowly preparing for it - still trying to come up with a name - we did find a car seat, and we bought a crib. Now we need to find it some clothes. That will be our project in the next couple of weeks.

Haircuts!

My girls love getting their haircut. We go to Evans college and they enjoy everything about it. McKenna likes to pretend she doesn't, but she really does. They wash their hair, cut it and style it and they enjoy the experience. Our appointments were for Friday and they were excited. Kylie sat on a different row then me, but I sat next to McKenna and it was funny to hear her tell the girl exactly what she wanted. She likes her hair long (but when I comb it she hates having long hair), she likes it straight - not curled. Not a lot you can do with those instructions. I thought the girl doing McKenna's hair did a great job and she looked so much older to me all of the sudden. I had to take pictures so I could try and re-create it at some point. Kylie's hair turned out alright too. Not my favorite, but Kylie of course loved it. They curled the ends and put a flower in it so she felt great. Mine on the other hand - a lot shorter than I wanted. The girl cutting mine finished cutting it and had the instructor come over to look at it. The instructor said it was quite uneven and re-cut my hair. I am getting used to it. It will be fine and if I want to grow it out again, I can. Anyway, enjoy the pictures. I don't think they even look like my little girls anymore! Or at least not like little toddlers that I will always remember.

Kylie's New Glasses

At the beginning of December, one of the lenses of Kylie's glasses popped out and we had no idea where it was. We searched and searched everywhere but with no luck. She had had that pair of glasses for two years now, and our insurance wouldn't pay for a new eye exam until January. So for the month of December, Kylie was kind of blind. We knew we wanted to get her a new frame in January and it just didn't make sense to spend a lot of money on a new lens just to change them in a month.

The day of her appointment arrived and she was so excited. I think she enjoys the attention and of course the sucker at the end! It was funny to hear the Dr ask her questions and to tell him when things were too fuzzy. She told him when things were fuzzy - I hope she knew what he meant. However the good news is her eyes have improved a little. The Dr said we will really notice a difference in the next few years.

Out of the exam room and off to pick out frames. They had a disney princess cinderella (her absolute favorite princess) frame. The lady helping us tried a bunch of different ones, but as soon as Kylie knew these were cinderella princess frames, her mind was set. They have a little heart on the temple and on the very end of the temple where it rests on the ear, is the shape of a glass slipper. It usually takes a couple of weeks when they have to order lenses, you can imagine my surprise - as well as hers when they told us we could pick them up in a few hours. For those few hours Kylie couldn't wait. For her it was like Christmas morning and the wait was killing her.

When we went to pick them up, she tried them on, they adjusted them and she was absolutely beaming. You could tell she felt very good about herself in them. I didn't think her excitement could expand any further. That is until they gave her the case in which they come. It was a little pink purse that says princess on the outside. She is definitely in heaven!

Sledding

Since the students were all away - and it was awesome - we decided to take the kids sledding a few times. There is a really great hill on campus and it is actually quite steep - but they all enjoyed it and weren't afraid at all. The weather was extremely cold so they couldn't go for long periods of times, but at least I was able to snap a few shots of them.

This is Tyler

This is Kylie

This is McKenna. Don't worry, she landed just fine and managed to stay on the tube.

Christmas 2008

We are all well and survived Christmas. It began snowing on December 13th and literally didn't stop until just before new year's. There was so much snow piled everywhere - a lot more than last winter combined. I was thankful Allen was home and when people ask him "what did you do on your vacation?" - He can literally say he shoveled snow. Lots and lots of it. In fact on Christmas day there was 2 feet of wet heavy snow on our driveway and with the plows coming by, we were stuck. He started shoveling and it took about 2 hours to clear half of the driveway. There were quite a few days we were unable to receive our mail because there was no way to get to the mailbox. Now it hasn't snowed for a little while. It will be interesting to see what January brings us.

Like I said, Christmas was great. The kids were bouncing off the walls like crazy for the week prior to Santa coming. I have never seen them so excited. I knew if we could get the girls in bed by 8 p.m., we would be okay. Tyler has always been so good at sleeping through everything and most Christmas mornings we have had to wake him up - or he sleeps in until 8 a.m. I have no idea what changed this year. Santa was finished around 11 p.m. or 12 a.m. - and at 1 a.m., Tyler was awake and ready for Christmas. He woke up the girls and sent them in to wake us up. Needless to say, we didn't get any sleep that night. There were a couple of times I woke up and there Tyler was just staring at the Christmas tree - wide awake. So, as Allen and were making notes of things we wanted to remember for next Christmas - like a to do list to make things easier on us, we wrote down - "make sure Ty's alarm clock is turned off."

The kids all enjoyed what they got and had a great day of playing. They all got slippers and I think we as parents have truly realized that we have to choose our battles. As you know, Kylie is extreme girly girl and into princess everything! McKenna is complete opposite and for whatever reason I am unsure of, is into Spiderman everything. So McKenna got spiderman slippers for Christmas. We've decided it is so much better to keep her feet warm, than to fight with her to put on socks and slippers. She has been great at wearing them constantly. As a side note, Kylie did get princess slippers.