Guess what my sweet daughter did today? She dead-bolted me out of the house, with her inside! That little stinker! I didn't even know she could reach the dead bolt. I had innocently run out to the garage to grab something from the car. I went to open the door, and it was locked! I heard her on the other side playing with the door knob, so I tried to talk to her and tell her to turn the door knob for about 5 minutes. Then she disappeared. I couldn't hear her at all. So I ran around the house to see if any of the windows or doors were open (nope.) The even worse thing was that all the blinds were closed, so I couldn't even see her! I went back to the garage and started shaking the door. I'm yelling "Makaylee, Makaylee!"
I hear this little voice. "What?" (like what's the big deal?) Then "Are you stuck mommy?"
A few minutes later I hear distant crying and I get really worried. "What's wrong Kaylee?"
"I want to watch Dora" (She is obviously not worried about me.)
I run to the neighbor’s house, he tries to break in (unsuccessfully.) " Should I call the police?" I ask him.
" no."
"Should I call the locksmith?"
" no, too expensive" he says.
So, I use his phone. I call Terry's school, they pull him out of class and tell him to hurry home because his baby is locked in the house alone.
I wait. . . and shake the door, and wait some more. I pull the weather stripping out of the door. I shove various things in the now larger crack. I finally pry it open with a paint scraper! I run into the house and hear music upstairs. I find Makaylee in her room, playing with a musical toy, completely calm. She looks up at my red and panting face for a moment, "Hi mommy" then returns her attention to the toy. However her legs were inexplicably blue. She must have found a marker and colored all over her legs. I'm just glad she didn't color all over the walls.
Moments later Terry gets home. He runs in the house, his face red and panting. "You really need a cell phone!" I said.
7/10/2006
6/29/2006
Bennett Wendell Williams
My newest little nephew was born June 21! He was 6 lbs 15.8 oz. and 20 inches. He is such a sweet little baby! Congratulations Jeni and Steve (on baby #5!)
Disneyland Vacation
We just got back from Disneyland! We had so much fun. Makaylee was so good, considering that she is 2! She loved the Teacups, we rode them 4 times! She also loved the Electrical Parade. On Saturday we went to the beach and to my favorite restaurant the Cheesecake Factory! Yumm! Now that we're home we're going through withdrawals! Makaylee keeps asking me if we can ride the teacups, and go to the beach. I would love to take this vacation every year!
5/22/2006
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!
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!
5/02/2006
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!
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!
4/25/2006
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!
4/19/2006
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!
4/13/2006
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!
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!
3/09/2006
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!)
12/22/2005
'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. . . . 11/22/2005
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!
11/19/2005
11/04/2005
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!
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!
10/26/2005
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