My big girl

My little girl is now 9 months old. Wow time is going fast. She loves life and is full of smiles. She gets so excited when it is time for kaitlyn to get off the school bus it is like she is smiling with her entire body. she is wavying like crazy! She says ma ma, da da, dog (at the cat). She loves fish and the doc gave me the ok to start nuts whenever I wanted. She has had her first ear infections (double) poor thing. She pushes the walker around the entire house- she weighs a big 16 pounds now. she is my petite little one. She also has 5 almost 6 teeth in already- she has accomplished more in her life than kaitlyn and caleb did before they were one. She is growing up way to fast.

Kids Valentines day party

Amanda and I decided to do a valentines day party for the kids. We made oreo cookie pops, had a snack, played pin the heart on the bear, whats in the bag- mystery items, guess how many candy hearts there are and and we did a scavenger hunt. Wow we had busy couple of hours. The kids had fun and Amanda and I were exhausted!

Another reminder

Well today marks another piece of Anardi's out of Va. We sent Sadie (our family dog) on an airplane today with grandpa Kim- THANK YOU to him and my parents for taking the dog. $300 later she will be in Wa for many years to torture us but as Ryan puts it she is ours so we must take care of her. It is one more reminder that our time VA is coming to an end. Very mixed emotions from all of us, this has been our home, family and support for 4 years. I am hoping that our over whelming family support and our dreams will help us through this transition. I am dreading the day that I have to listen to my kaitlyn cry because she is leaving. We continue to have the house on the market and have showings. What an adventure it has been. The countdown for Ryans school is under 100 days now- amazing- and Monday is the 100th day of school for kaitlyn. I cant believe it- baby Brooke is now 9 months old. We are staining the deck today and going tree shopping for the back yard- now that we are dog free.

The Pez

We have a lot of pez machines- Most stem from my mom buying them from Ryan but we have now found a use for them!

House on the market

This is going to be fun- We officially have a house on the market- Our Realtor came and took photos and final measurements and it will be listed tonight. Everyone keep your fingers crossed it sells soon- It is going to be a huge challenge for me to keep it clean with three little ones. Although we will miss VA so very much we are looking forward to the next phase of our lives.

Pizza night

I am always trying to make Friday nights fun- We were going to make pasta but all of my pasta stuff is packed away. So we made homemade pizza- Kaitlyn now likes pineapple- sausage and ham on her pizza. Caleb like any meat. Kaitlyn also made stuffed crusted with cheese sticks.

Mulch- aka Beauty Bark

We are trying to get ready to put this house on the market- It has been a lot of hard work- we spent all day Sunday spreading 10 yards of mulch. Although with three kids- 1 birthday party and 1 sick baby who did not take good naps. Ryan and I getting worn out of all the stuff around the house that needed to be done- We are looking at putting the house on the market around the 10th of February. Thank goodness my dad came to help a few weeks ago- We are down to getting things packed up- replacing two more lights in the upstairs hallway and painting a few little things inside and outide. Wednesday is going to be 70 so I am hoping that I will be able to finish up then. We are looking forward to the next phase......like July.

Oreo time

Saturday night we had worked outside all day and just exhausted and brooke was fussy so at dinner we just needed a few moments to try to get some food in so we gave Brooke her first Oreo-Poor thing it was actually a newmans own organic cookie- so it wasn't even a real Oreo rather a chocolate sandwich cookie- They are pretty good. She enjoyed them.

Goldfish

Brooke has moved up to the big kids favorite snack- GOLDFISH. They are on sale right now at Kroger for 10 for 10. I bought 20 bags. Between three kids that should last about a month. Brooke has not been feeling well the last few days and it has been no fun for any of us so I am glad to see this morning that she is playing and wanting to eat.