Moving Blues

I would be so sunk without the help of Grandma Ro and Grandma Sue right now.  We finally got to a point where we could live in the other house (today) but we’re still a long way from being done moving.  These pictures are from Monday when Eliza and Olivia came over to help babysit the kids while we moved things.  Good memories.

 

Raleigh said several times tonight at the new house—I just want to go HOME!    I know how he feels, the new house doesn’t feel like home yet.  I have found myself feeling strangely sad and I did not expect to feel this way about leaving the house on Sunnyside.  I am going to miss it, the green shag carpet and all.  Heck, even the orange carpet in the kitchen!  It’s the perfect color scheme for Halloween parties.  I think one thing that will help Raleigh feel more at home will be to get his computer set up.  He misses playing Toontown.  I am actually at the house on Sunnyside right now because I had to do some stuff on the computer and we don’t have internet at the new house yet.  (I also had to pick up Ty’s cell phone that I left here and get some clothes for both of us.)  It’s been a really stressful week for both of us with the Skyline camp going on and the J.V. tournament at Skyline this weekend, not to mention the Madison camp for the varsity team.  Poor Ty is just doing his best to keep his head above water.  So like I said, without our moms we would be sunk for sure. 

 

We went to the gym for a bit tonight to wait for Ty and the kids had fun playing with Laura and Travis’s girls Erin, Jesse, and Riley.  Kysa started trying to dribble, and I’ve never seen her do it before.  She dribbled 3-4 times several times and seemed to be picking up on the technique.  I just enjoy watching the way she does things.  I think she has more athleticism in her little fat finger than I have in my entire body.  Like mom says, “I can’t believe she’s only two.” 

 

I had to leave Shay in the car for a couple of minutes and she could see lightning in the distance and she was really freaking out about it.  I had to hold her for quite awhile when we got home because she was insecure. 

 

I love my kids.  I just hope they don’t tear our new house apart!

 

One of My Favorite Places

Mother's Day Visit to Grandma Rue's

The best place EVER to learn how to skip rocks.

busy busy

Last Saturday we went to watch the junior high conference track meet at
Bonneville, but we didn't last long. We also went inside the gym to watch
the volleyball matches Eliza was playing in. We ended up at Arctic Circle
because the kids are at an age where it's pretty tough to just sit down and
watch ANYTHING. (Well, anything other than Dora the Explorer--Kysa loves
Dora!)

I thought this was a cute picture of Shay and Ty.

Oh Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?

Yesterday and today were just beautiful. Ty has been in Twin for state golf
and he said it was 90 degrees there last night at 6 p.m. Kirby and Andrew
came through last night and we ate Bajio to go outside and then made a fire.
We had to chase Kysa and Poot a couple of times because they kept taking off
and heading down the sidewalk towards Hillcrest. YIKES! I let Poot out
this morning and he ran away and we had to send out the search party.
Luckily the lady across the street named Wendy Scoonmaker saved him from
certain death on Sunnyside and put a leash on him. I was really nervous
because it was my fault he was running loose. Andrew made a loop all the
way around Edwards before he found out I had located him. Shay and Kysa
really have fun with Poot--Raleigh isn't much of a dog lover.

anniversary

Ty lined up Eliza (and Emma) to babysit tonight so we could go to dinner and a movie for our 8^th anniversary.  We tried Ruby River and then went to “Baby Mama” with Troy and Janet.  We got a lot of laughs.  Amy Poehler is hilarious.  We made the mistake of coming home to check on the kids before the show, and when we looked in to check on Shay she woke up and freaked out, so I told Ty to go and I stuck around to calm her down.  She is such a mama’s girl right now.  I think she would have been fine if Ty would have looked in on her, but she saw me and it was O-V-E-R.  Thankfully I only missed the first 25 minutes of the show.  It could have been worse.

 

Kelsy came up to visit on Thursday and helped me with the kids.  It was good to see her.  She brought her dog Dex and he got off the chain.  Luckily somebody found him and called Dallas from his tag, and the person brought him back to the house.  Dex had to stay in his kennel after that.  Kelsy brought up several Game Cube games and Raleigh has been thoroughly enjoying playing them, especially Mario Party 6. 

 

Kysa is really into Dora the Explorer right now.  She tells me, “I watch Dora”.  And she gets really made if she can’t. I remember when Raleigh went through the Dora stage.   She also wanted to have a “mick-mick” today.  That’s how she pronounces picnic. 

 

 

Giff and Mari's House

The kids had a great time at Giff and Mari's Sunday after Nash's baby
blessing. Stafford left today for basic training in Oklahoma. We are
really proud of him.

Living Room Olympics--Laundry Basket Event

May 1st Snowstorm

May 1st is not a day that you expect to tell your 2 year old to stop eating the snow. "I eat the snow!" Kysa exclaimed. What the heck is going on with our weather! Thankfully, we have had some nice days since. It's about time.

 

Raleigh is always good about helping scrape off the windows when it snows.

Cousins

Raleigh, Kysa, and Cousin Hannah at Snake River High School.

Weekend in Paul

Ty's golfers had a practice round at Rupert on Saturday so we decided to make it a family trip and stay overnight, and then hit Nash Gillette's baby blessing and the dinner at Giff and Mari's (in Pocatello) on the way home.

We had to stop at Snake River high school where Eliza was playing volleyball to drop some dance stuff off with Janet that Hannah and Olivia had left as our house. I was bummed that we didn't have time to stop and see Grandma Rue, but I gave her a call and Claire and Dale were there so that made me feel better.

We met mom and the Minico baseball game and then she took the kids home. I got to go golfing for the first time this year and it was fun. I got tired and hungry towards the end of the round and I was so excited to go to Stevo's afterwards. I ate all my food and took home Boston and Tyson's leftover fries. What a treat!

We had fun playing outside with Nochie and Max. Raleigh played frisbee for a long time with Ty. Shay had a lot of fun on the trampoline and cracked us up. She was not quite as wild as Kysa was at her age, but she was still pretty aggressive.

Kysa continues to be a daredevil. When Ty woke up he came upstairs to find her out front banging on the door to be let in. I was still asleep, and Grandma and Grandpa had already left for church. She informed Ty she'd been out playing with the doggie.

Later she got on the trampoline by herself and I was standing in the doorway watching her. She decided she wanted to get off and said, "Mom, help." I said, "Okay Ky, I'm comin'."

She said, "No, I jump." So she did. And she stuck the landing, like a gymnast. She landed in a perfect little squat, then stood up, no wobbling at all. How many two year old jump off trampolines, and land on their feet? Raleigh told me she jumped off the trampoline this winter a few times, but I never witnessed it. So i guess he wasn't kidding.

Broken Mirror, Skyline Parking Lot Diaper Change

Uncle Perry's horse trailer is hooked up to the Expedition awaiting the move to the new house in a couple of weeks. Since the Booster Club was needing help, I volunteered to bring the horse trailer over to a Party Rental place to haul stuff to Skyline for the big Hall of Fame banquet tomorrow night. Shay kept Kysa and I had Raleigh and Kysa get in the Ex. As usual I had to run back in the house for something. In the meantime, Kysa climbed in the back and thought it would be a good idea to straddle a door mirror that I hadn't unloaded, and broke it into pieces. Luckily she didn't get cut, but Raleigh managed to get a little cut on his finger. Of course, he was freaking out when I got out to the car and realized he had a little blood on his finger. He got spanked on the way into the house because he wouldn't stop flipping out--I'm sure it really helped....I ended up leaving him home so Ty could deal with him. We had a good talk about it tonight and he laughed. He's pretty good about putting himself in other people's shoes, and I made him tell me what he would tell his son (if his son was freaking out about a tiny little cut on his finger) if he was the dad. Anyway, after that we were looking at our old blog entries and I asked him what I should write about for today and he said, "Kysa breaking the mirror." I do as I am told....some of the time.

Shay has started to say a couple new words--she said "juice" very clearly tonight when she wanted a juice box. She makes a little circle with her lips when she says it and holds it--it's pretty cute. She also likes to say "nope", and when she does she really emphasizes the ending and actually bring out her lower lip and blows air out of her mouth so it makes her bangs move. It's "No-puh". She does it on purpose and it's pretty funny.

Shay will follow directions from us on a few things now, like closing doors, throwing stuff in the garbage, etc. We'll tell Raleigh to brush his teeth and Shay will run to the bathroom like she's on a "million dollar treasure hunt" as Ty likes to say. Same thing with taking a bath. Brushing her teeth is definitely a favorite activity of hers.

Shay's second favorite word right now is still shoes--she loves to say "sh-shoes" and she loves to put on any pair of shoes she can get her hands on. Raleigh has taught her the McDonald's jingle--buh buh buh buh buh--lovin' it. and of course since that's not that far off from ba-ba, so she tried to imitate him and sing that. (Her favorite word is still ba-ba.)

Oh wow, I almost forgot! The funniest thing today of all was Kysa at Skyline. She told me she pooped her pants, so we had to go out to the car to get a diaper for her. There wasn't a diaper in the car so I told her to stay there and I quickly ran over to the Expedition which was a few parking spaces away. I grabbed a diaper and turned around, and there was Kysa, laying on her back in the middle of the parking lot with her legs in the air, ready for me to change her. It was so funny I quickly grabbed my video camera and got evidence.

I think it's time to get that girl potty trained! Yikes. But did I ever get a chuckle out of that one.