Thursday, February 28, 2008

Shay's birthday pictures and her woof woofs



Shay picked up the little beanie baby dog tonight and said, “woo woo woo” several times. Then Olivia said, “What does a doggy say?” and sure enough!

She’s a little smarty-pants…her vocabulary now consists of:

mom

dad

up

down

out

na na (banana)

ba ba (bottle)

ow

don’t (always directed at kysa)

no

uh oh

woo woo woo

dog

ba (ball)

mo (more)

And of course she loves to wave hi and bye. She also does “three-pointer”, but she does not sign “more” like Kysa and Raleigh did so emphatically.

Shay is also quite the dancer—she really bops her head to the beat. She even tries to bend her legs and bounce up and down.

Kysa tries to sing the abc’s, and she is pretty good at certain letters, but she still has a language all her own. She also tries to sing “baby beluga” and it’s hilarious. She can count to ten, sort of. She’s really good and doing the odd numbers when I say the even numbers, but not quite as good the other way around. I heard her count all the way to ten by herself when we were riding in the car a couple weeks ago, but she won’t do it when asked. She’s a stubborn little soul.

Ty is at the state tournament with Emmett, Mike, and Doyle Barney. I was able to have all of Janet’s girl come over to spend the night since they don’t have school tomorrow. They are awesome and do such a great job playing with the kids. They entertain all three of them. I should be able to get some dishes and laundry done!!! I’m so lucky to be their aunt.

I went to Victor this afternoon for a broker open house. We scored a free night just for going, it was a networking thing. Sue watched the kids, and they like going to her house but always want to play with their cousins when they do, so it was nice to pick up the girls from gym on the way home.

Garrett Jones covered for me and helped with the basketball clinics at Apple today, which was so nice. He just got back from his mission to the Phillipines and stopped by the house yesterday. Kysa was born on his birthday.

Monday, February 25, 2008

hat girls

Kysa calls these hats her “pink hat” and her “pincess hat”. She has been putting hats on Shay lately. Shay will actually keep them on for a minute. I think she enjoys the attention she gets. (Kelsy gave them these cute matching outfits for their birthdays.)

When we left Grandma Rue’s house yesterday, Kysa said enthusiastically—“Bye…have bun!” She told the ladies at Apple the same thing tonight and it’s definitely become a habit. Speaking of Apple, one of the ladies asked her what happened to her eye. She said, “mommy did it!” They were concerned! Then when we got home I asked her what happened to her eye, and she said, “Daddy did!”

So she’s getting everyone in trouble!

What really happened? Raleigh accidentally wacked her with Holden’s nerf baseball bat last Sunday. It’s looking much better today.

On an unrelated note, Shay’s hair got curly all of a sudden. I really started to notice it about a week ago. I’m not doing anything different to it—it’s just curly, especially in the back. I LOVE it! She has WAY more hair than Kysa.

Playing in the Car

Driving back from Grandma Rue's today, Kysa and Shay discovered they could
reach across the car and grab hands. They thought it was hilarious as you
can see. (I pulled over and took some pictures because they were cracking
me up.)

Thursday, February 21, 2008

zero best friend

I overheard Raleigh today—

“Garrett, you’re my first best friend. Holden is my zero best friend, which means he’s the first.”

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Sand Creek House

February Funnies

Raleigh called Ty's cell phone and got the answering machine message, which says "Please leave your name and number and I will call you back."

Raleigh leaves the message,

"Hi, my name is Raleigh...and I don't have a number."


Raleigh and I were driving home from Apple Athletic Club today, and I told him how much fun I had in my spinning class.

Raleighs asks, "What did you do?"

I told him we just rode the bikes and worked really hard while we listened to music.

Raleigh then asked, "Well how much weight did you lose?"

HA! I just started laughing.