Creative Friends

I've always thought I have some of the most creative friends ever. This is just one example. My good friend Anna in Wichita gave this to Grady when he was born. She is so crafty being able to make this hat. I love it! Thank you Anna - you definitely got skills!




I thought I would include this Christmas picture of Grady. Such a cute boy in Santa's bag!

Klepto

About 7 last night, Matthew and Ryane were setting on the floor playing cards. Matthew saw something green poking out of Ryane's pocket.

Matthew: Ryane, do you have something in your pocket?
Ryane: (looking down) yah!
Matthew: Did you take something from Nanny's?
Ryane: yah!
Matthew: Ryane, show your mommy what you took from Nanny's.


Ryane proceeds to pull out these snakes! Jesh - my klepto chose these to take???? Guess Santa needs to go do more shopping now! We proceeded to have a little 'life lesson talk' about how you don't take things from Nanny's and don't put things in your pocket that aren't yours, blah, blah, blah. Some of those talks are tough when you are just trying not to laugh.

There she was!

I had the oddest thing happen tonight. After a shopping trip to Wal-Mart we walk out to our truck. What do I see next to him (the truck) is an Xterra. My first thought was awww, looks like my old one. I get a little closer and look down at the front grill and realize "There she is!". It was my old xterra. I go into a daze and recall special memories with her. I got a lump in my throat and pride in my heart that she was still around and running. I couldn't help myself but to really check her out and saw there was a stroller in the back and was happy she had another young family to take care of! :) I tore myself away from her and finished buckling the kids and rode away. It was such a good site to see her again and I was happy that she and truck got to park side by side again.....just like when they were kids in the driveway.

Worst mom ever

I could so title a lot of blog entries like this! :) I had to pick up Ryane from day care yesterday with a fever. After battling the fever for several hours, I took Ryane to the Dr. today to make sure it wasn't something more serious going on rather than something viral. Sure enough, I find out she had a double ear infection. I had NO idea. Bad mom!! It's times like this that I feel that I don't have a clue what I'm doing as a mom. My poor kids being stuck with me to be responsible for them! But, we got the prescription and off to Wal-Mart we went. I just love Wal-Mart and now I super love their $4 prescription program. I filled prescriptions for both of us for a whopping $8! Now, when can we get those doctors to go to $4 routine visits?!?!

Extra Princess-y

Sometimes you feel a like a little princess


..and sometimes you feel a little extra princess-y

Soon to be MaMA!

Over the past few days, Grady has really began to talk! He is doing the repetitive sounds. Right now it sounds like Bababababa-----but, we ALL really know he's trying to say mamamammamama!! He just needs to match up those lips rather than talking with an overbite with that bottom lip sucked it.

I've been trying to teach him M M M M Ma Ma for awhile now. BUT since he starting to talk, Matthew is really trying to swoop right in there and start repeating Dadadada to him. It's really not fair as I'm worried he'll win. Ryane said DaDa first, now I'm needing Grady to say MaMa first. I'm telling Ryane to help Grady say MaMa while they are at daycare so he can get extra practice in! :)

Ryane and I put our Christmas tree together last week with the lights. Then, on Sunday, we enjoyed decorating it together. It was kinda tough going through the decorations and only getting out the non-breakable ones (learned my lesson after she broke her first one). I'm excited our tree is decorated a little different....a little bottom heavy with the ornaments as I think Ryane hang most of hers at the same level. Oh, and she was a fan of clustering her ornaments. Who knew a branch could support 4 ornaments at a time?! :) It is tough not going back to redo her decorating, but I won't. If I did, I'm 99% sure Ryane would notice and put them back anyhow.


New decorating technique - clustering!


I asked her to point to her favorite ornament. It's her Baby's 1st Christmas ornament with animals surrounding a picture frame. She tells me it's Grady in the picture. I'm still trying to convince her it is Baby Ryane. (yes, she HAD to wear her hat and scarf and put it on herself. Also, yesterday she HAD to wear her pink cowboy boots to daycare with this jogging outfit. Some fights aren't worth fighting.)