Winter Bliss

It's the last day of January and we are outside at 10:00 in the morning with only a jacket to keep us warm.  Best. Winter. Ever!

Theme Night: Camping

Richard doesn't often try to come up with new things to do (not enough brain cells left after he's finally done with all that homework!) but when he does, they are GOOD ideas. His latest idea? Theme nights. Since he needs something to look forward to at the end of a busy week, he suggested theme night for Fridays. We choose a theme and have a dinner that goes with it as well as a movie or activity that we can do with the girls. This week was a camping theme. We were going to make tinfoil dinners but ran out of time so we had those the next night and we tried to set up the tent in our living room and it was too big to fit...but we still had a lot of fun! We got out the sleeping bags, turned off all the lights, and played cards by the light of our flashlights.

 We also roasted marshmallows over the stove

and went "fishing" for goldfish crackers (sorry no pictures of that). Then we took turns telling stories and ended the night by singing fun songs we used to sing at girl's/scout camp. Kaylee is still too young to get the whole theme night thing, but it didn't stop her from having fun (and eating MOUNDS of marshmallows)!  I'm not naive enough to think we'll actually do it every week (after all, we don't want to run out of creative juices before the kids can really enjoy it!) but I'm hoping at least once a month we'll pull it off. Anybody have good ideas for some other fun nights we can do??

Squishy

 "I shall call her squishy and she shall be mine. She shall be my squishy"  That is what I think of when I see all of McKenna's cute little rolls and double chin. (and if you don't know that movie quote you obviously don't watch enough kid movies!!) I love this cute little chub-a-dub so much! We took her in for her two month appointment on Friday and found out that she is in the 96% for weight (13 lbs 6 oz) and the 78% for length (23 in)! Atta girl Kenna! She is so opposite of Kaylee in every way and her size is no exception. She's going to catch up to Kaylee pretty quickly I think. I love that she is so chubby but at the same time I'm pretty sick of people coming up to her and saying WOW she's chunky! I try not to be offended because I'm sure they don't mean it in a bad way but come on, at least tell me how cute she is first!! It's not as if I don't know she's a big baby, she's got rolls in places I didn't even know was possible,  but she is SUPER beautiful anyway!!  (sorry for the little rant) We love you Kenna and have been so happy the last two months with you in our family!

Negotiator

Kaylee is such a good negotiator- I have no idea where she got this skill from. She can talk her daddy into absolutely anything and she's pretty good at working me over too :) My two favorite ways she does it is:

#1 "Can I have some (gum, candy, lotion, etc)?" 

     "No Kaylee not right now"

     "Ok, just a little bit then"

And #2 happens when she wants to sit with us in the rocking chair instead of going to bed.

"Rock for minute?"

"Not tonight sweetie"

"Ok. Rock two minutes?"

Ha ha. It is so adorable!! And who knows? Maybe she'll be a great lawyer one day!

Tubby Time

I'm not going to lie, bathing newborns has always scared me. Those little slippery bodies are hard to keep under control sometimes! I still haven't perfected the "don't get water and shampoo in the eyes" technique for Kaylee. Maybe one day I'll figure it out! But I'm pretty proud of the fact that I've been able to bathe both girls at the same time. It doesn't always come out tear-free, but it's much easier than I thought it would be. And there is nothing Kaylee loves more than taking a bath with sister!

 

Family Pic

(sorry for all the posts- I don't get a chance to blog much lately and so I have to do them all in one shot when I can!)

I was looking back through some of our pictures the other day and realized we do not have ONE single picture of the four of us!  Not even at the hospital when McKenna was born.  That's kind of sad!  So I decided to fix it immediately and we sat down to take a quick family picture so that we have some proof that all four of us live under the same roof :)

Oh the Fun!

So much entertainment can come from a simple sheet of bubble wrap!  It kept us going for days :)