Life Is Good!

Last night, before I put Makaylee to bed, we poked our heads in the computer room to say goodnight to daddy. Of course she wanted Daddy to hold her and play with her for a minute. When I started to take her from him she started crying, "Want Daddy too!" So all three of us headed into her darkened bedroom. We hugged and said our prayers. We started singing Makaylee's goodnight song, and she wanted to sing it over and over and over. It was quite the noise with Terry singing low, me singing high, and Makaylee howling a few words here and there and completely off key. I think normally I would have been a little agitated, thinking of all the things I needed to do after Makaylee when to bed. But not last night, I closed my eyes and thought, there is no where in the world I would rather be right now, and I wish this moment would last forever!!

I went to lunch with my friend Sonya today. She has a little girl that is almost one. Makaylee loved playing with her and playing on the slides. Sonya is building a house one block away and I am so excited for them to move in!

Later today my sister-in-law Heather called and asked if I wanted to go to the Aquarium at the Gateway. (Of course I did!) We met her and her twin girls (14 months old) by the fountain at Gateway, and guess what? The Aquarium was moved to Sandy! We decided to stay at Gateway anyway and shop (and spend way too much money,) eat, and let the 3 girls play in the fountain. We stopped at the Chocolate Cottage and bought chocolate strawberries for us, and rice krispy treats for the girls. Makaylee got one look at my strawberry and decided suddenly that she didn't like rice crispy treats. She ate half of my strawberry! Heather and I got caught up and did plenty of "talking" about our husbands (who are brothers.) he he he

It really is fun to be the mother of a 2 year old. (Really!) Because Makaylee is so facinated about the small things, it makes me pay more attention to them. Who knew that walking to the park one block away would take 20 minutes, and that the journey would be more fun than the destination!

Elephants

For some reason Makaylee has a new obsession. Elephants. During the day time hours she loves them. She likes to watch movies with elephants and read books with pictures of elephants. But as soon as the sun sets, they are something to be feared.

It started one night as I was putting her to bed. She sat straight up in her crib and said "No Elephant! No like-a elephant." She was staring at the window with huge fearful eyes. I told her there was no elephants, but she didn't believe me. When I told her to show me the elephant she clung tight to me as I pulled her out of her crib. She pointed to her valance. It is a big puffy valance that is gathered in 3 places. I guess it could reasonably look like an elephant when it is dark at night. So I unhooked it and let the curtain fall flatly over the window. She let out an audible sigh of relief and said "Elephant all gone!"

I thought the problem was solved until we were in the car driving home in the dark tonight. I said "We're almost home." Makaylee replied "No elephants home, no like-a elephants." And sure enough, when I put her to bed I had to show her that the curtain was really just a curtain, and not an elephant at all! It reminds me of that trippy part in Dumbo where he gets drunk and has a freaky dream about colorful elephants that change sizes and sing scary songs. Maybe she had a trippy dream about elephants herself!

Our Friendly Girl!

Today Makaylee and I went to the Library for story time, but it was cancelled. So we went to the childrens section and picked out a few books to read ourselves. This cute little boy came up and sat next to us. He listened to me read a book and then he asked if I would read his book to him. It was so cute! But Makaylee didn't think so. She just kept staring at him with a not-so-pleasant look on her face and never said a word to him (or me) while I was reading with them both. Later Kaylee was playing with this magnent toy thing for a while. When she was done some cute little sisters started playing with the toy. Makaylee walked over to them and said "No like a girls!" I was so embarassed! The little one said "We dont' want to play with you!" The older sister told the little one to be nice and let Makaylee play, but instead she and Makaylee just stared each other down until I stepped in and interrupted. I don't know where this new attitude came from!

Potty Training

So, we started potty training, (not very seriously,) but I have been putting Kaylee on the toilet about once a day, just to get her used to the idea. Well today I was getting some lunch ready and Makaylee disappeared, I heard her running around upstairs and so I went up to check on her. I found her in the bathroom with her favorite doll "Jada." She had put her doll on the potty seat, complete with toilet paper between her legs, no joke! I had to take a picture, I thought it was so funny! At least she is getting the idea!

Two Years Old!

Happy Birthday Baby!

April 9th was Makaylee's 2nd birthday! I can't believe she is already that old! We had a huge Birthday party for her at our house, both sides of the family came (33 people!) We bought a 6 foot sub from The Philidelphian. . . yummmm! Makaylee loved being the center of attention and got lots of nice gifts.

She is really sick right now though. She had a fever of 104! The doctor said it was just a virus, so she just has to let it run it's course. It is so sad, she has just been laying around and not being herself at all!

Big Slacker

I know, I'm a big slacker. . . I haven't written for months! But we are finally moved into our new home! We are so excited to have our own home again. . . Except for Makaylee, she misses living with Grandma and Grandpa. She's still going through withdrawls. One day she blurts out "All Done, ALL DONE!" ("with what Makaylee?") "All done, NEW HOUSE!!!" I feel so bad for her! It's a huge adjustment for an almost-2-year-old!

I thought I would just put a few pictures of Christmas (so fun), and Makaylee being a goon in our new house (wearing my shoes and looking proud!)

'Tis the Season

We are getting so excited about Christmas! Makaylee is old enough this year to actually understand it a little bit. We had her picture taken with Santa at the mall. At the time she wasn't too thrilled about it, but we managed to get a weak smile out of her. But everytime she sees the picture of her and Santa on the fridge she says "No Santa, No like a Santa!" Every day she sees it she says it more emphatically! I'm afraid I will have to take the picture down in a few days because she may have a full-out tantrum! (Today in the car "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" came on the radio, and that also set her into a fit.)



Well, here is the newest picture of our house, it's amazing that hardly anything has been done on it in a month! We are getting pretty ornery about it around here when anyone asks about it!! Some day, we may acutally live here, right now it is hard to believe. . . .

The framing is almost done!

When I went and looked at our house today they had framed the walk-in closet wrong. I am afraid that fixing it may set them back a day or two. But if all goes well, it should be framed by Thanksgiving!

Two Story

It's growing up!

Halloween

This post is a few weeks late, but I thought I would post some Halloween pictures. Makaylee was a fairy princess (I thought she should be something girly this year, because last year she was a pumpkin.) There are also a few pictures with her cute cousins in costumes.





Our house is starting to be framed, I will post some pictures of that soon. It is so exciting to be able to actually walk through the house instead of just going to our lot and looking at it!

Foundation!

Terribly funny two's

I'm afraid Makaylee has hit her terrible 2's, the problem is that she is 6 months early! Honestly, this child is driving me nuts! Actually, she is hilarious, I can't help but laugh when she stomps her little feet, and then almost falls over because she is not yet coordinated enough to be that mad! I taught her how to sign "please" in sign language (you rub your heart). So when ever she is having a tantrum I tell her that she needs to say please, and she stops screaming and rubs her belly and smiles, looking so pround of herself for "mastering" that sign. She is just so dang cute! When she is really mad at me, she yells at me in this baby garble (that only she understands thank heavens) and gets the most serious look on her face, like she is really telling me off. My mom said I did the same thing when I was her age. I guess it's my payback.

Her new favorite game is naming body parts. She hops up on my lap with her face about 6 inches from mine and randomly pokes at my mouth, ears, eyes, nose, chin ect. Saying each name as she does this. You have to be on your guard because the random eye pokes are a bit dangerous. And my least favorite combination is when she pokes her finger in my mouth, and then my ear, successfully giving me a wet willey!

I just got a call from one of my old neighbors. She wanted to know where we were building because they are going to try and buy a home in the same neighborhood! I was so excited, that would be so fun to already have some friends near our new house.

We had the foundation poured on Monday! It 's really exciting now that there is progress every thime we go out and look at our house! My brothers house however, (it was started when ours was) already has the framing completed, and they are going to be in theirs by Christmas. . . sigh. . .

Finally, some progress!

We finally recieved our building permit last week! I went out to check our lot today and I finally saw some progress. We have footings! We should have the foundation in another week, and after that your guess is as good as mine!

(It may not look like much, but big things are going to start happening soon, just you wait.)

We went to St. George this weekend with my whole family (Kimballs.) A friend of my dad's let us use their vacation home. We had so much fun. Their vacation home was so nice, it has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, so each family got their own room. We all went to the outlet mall, sat in the hot tub, and ate at Cafe Rio, but the funnest part was sitting around the family room just telling stories and laughing.

Congratulations to Eric and Heather who blessed their twin baby girls Abigayle and Kayleigh last week! They looked so precious in their little white gowns. We'll have to remember how innocent they were, for when they get into trouble up to their armpits, with Makaylee joining in on the fun!!!

Can We Please have our PERMIT!!!

Well, I guess we just need to accept it. We will be living in my parents basement forever! Forget worrying if we'll be here for Christmas, forget thinking that we may be out by New Years eve! Our builder has been fighting with the city of Riverton over our permit for a few weeks. The city wanted our electrical system to have more amps and our builder didn't want to put forward more money to do that. So either we would have to pay for the upgraded system, or the city of Riverton would have to fold. Luckily our builders electrical engineer submitted a letter testifying to the fact that our electrical system would be sufficient, and the city gave in. So why do we still have no permit???!!! "We should have it within 1-2 business days" I have been hearing that for almost 5 weeks! This is getting so frustrating!

My sisters baby, Lanie, came down with a serious infection after her hip surgery. Luckily my sister caught it really early or it could have been a lot worse. She had to go into surgery again and have her incision opened up and cleaned out. They recasted her and inserted a PICC line (a long term IV that has a catheter that extends right to her heart) and sent her home with IV antibiotics that my sister has to administer every 8 hours for two weeks. I told my sister that if she ever wants to be a nurse, she would be way ahead of the game! Lanie is doing as good as can be expected. Although a body cast, and a bad case of the runs (caused by the anitbiotics) are not a good combination to say the least. (my poor sister!)

Did I mention before that Terry got the much anticipated Customer Service Supervisor position? He is really excited to move up at Magellan. They have treated him really good there, and it's nice to keep his seniority and the benefits that go along with it! I quit doing the PRN Home Health visits that I was doing on the weekends. The schedule was always too up in the air, and it was taking too much time away from my family. . .