Halloween 2010

Here we are before our ward Halloween party. Jon is a lacrosse player, I'm a cowgirl, Ryder is Buzz Lightyear, and Kendra is a bunny :)
Simona sent Kendra this cute bunny hat from Romania before she came to America. Thanks to her I didn't need to buy Kendra a costume. I just made a bunny tail out of cotton balls and glued it to her pants HA!
Melissa and Reed decided to come along with us. Moe was a cheetah and Reed was a sock monkey. So cute! Jon held the babies while Ryder jumped around in the bouncer so Melissa and I could go through the haunted house, which was so scary. I never went through it last year because I was too chicken but Jon and Melissa convinced me to go this time. I held Melissa's hand and closed my eyes most of the time until the end when I screamed, let go of her hand, and bolted out of there as fast as I could. It was just the young men in our ward in there but they were SCARY!!! They kept touching us and grabbing our feet and hair and we almost fell down the stairs. Plus there was this super creepy baby doll that was freaking us out. I'll never go in there again lol. Happy Halloween everyone!

Funny Story

Sorry no pics and I already posted the short version of this story on my Facebook. But I wanted to document this on my blog as well for when I get another book printed. This happened last week but I'm still laughing about it today. Ryder woke up in the morning with a super full diaper (as usual) and I had forgotten to buy more diapers the day before. Luckily Jon didn't have to go into work until 10am so he took off Ryder's diaper and was able to stay with the kids while I ran to the nearest store. I told Jon to put a pair of underwear on him but Jon thougth that he would just poop or pee in them. He told me he needed to jump in the shower, which worried me, but I was in a hurry and didn't think much about it. When I got back not even 10 minutes later, our front door was cracked open. I panicked thinking Ryder got out of the house while Jon was in the shower, but when I walked in Jon was just standing there next to Ryder (who was butt naked) trying not to bust up laughing. He told me that Ryder went outside and then came back in saying he pooped. Jon checked his butt (which was poopy) but had no idea where the poop went. Jon cleaned him up and I slapped a diaper on him quick and asked him to show me where the poop was. He took me outside (yikes) and around the corner (double yikes) and just kept walking out towards the parking lot (this is where I started to cringe). He finally found "the spot" and said, "Look mom! I pooped!" He had walked to another building with no diaper on and dropped a log in our neighbors' rocks. There was even a little fly sitting on it. I was so mortified I just ran back and told Jon where he pooped and Jon started laughing. He asked if I was going to go clean it up and I told him I probably should but I was too disgusted. My child is a dog.

4 Months!

At 4 month Kendra is reading music and can play some simple songs on the piano. I know...child prodigy, right? HAHA! Just kidding, but aren't these pictures the cutest? I went to hang out with my sister Sonia yesterday because it was Saturday and and both our husbands were working so we decided it was play time. She got a new camera and wanted to try it out on a photoshoot with Kendra so we got to work and I just couldn't resist having her sit at the piano. I originally wanted to put her in my niece Ashton's violin case and have Kendra hold the violin but she was WAAAY to big for that case. I love that she is sitting all by herself like a big girl in these pics but she doesn't actually sit up alone yet. However, she is learning quickly from sitting in her bumbo throughout the day. At her 4 month check-up she weighed 14 lbs 15 oz and was in the 75th percentile for height and weight. She doesn't roll over yet and it's partially my fault because I don't give her enough tummy time. She's such a puker so it's hard to find the right time to let her play on her tummy without making a huge mess and having her smother herself in it. She's also very chunky so I think she has a hard time getting her weight around. She smiles and coos all the time...it's VERY easy to make her smile. She also laughs a lot and is very ticklish. I love to tickle her. Her Dr. said to wait until she was 5 months to start her on rice cereal but since Ryder started at 4 months I gave her some anyways, and she did really well with it! She seemed to like it. But then I thought about it...and the fact that she's super chunk...and decided to just wait til next month to start giving it to her daily. She drinks 5oz bottles 5 times/day and sleeps about 8-9 hours straight at night. She's a very good-natured, happy baby like Ryder was. And speaking of Ryder...she LOVES him. She gets the biggest grin every time she sees him and he loves to wake up and see her and give her lots of love. I can't wait until she's a little older and they can interact. He likes for her to watch cartoons with him and sometimes when I'm trying to get something done I'll lay her in my bed and he'll go lay down next to her and talk to her. She looks SOOO much like me, especially when she just wakes up I can't help but stare at her cuz it's like I'm looking at myself as a baby. I am very attached to her and LOVE having a girl.