February Updates

 

I finally got it together enough to post a few more February posts... if you mean get it together by avoiding all laundry to the point that I am concerned about what work clothes I have available to me and what will AJ wear for picture today tomorrow... then yes, that together I am.

Happy Valentine's Day  Our post about our fun parties and some pictures of my babies all together

Our Little 100 year old Lady  KK celebrates her 100th day of school

AJ The Fish  Our little man shows off his stuff in a cute video

Enjoy!  I can't promise I will ever catch up but at least I documented a few special days!

Kin's 1st Peas Adventure

As much as I prefer to deny it, our little baby girl is growing up.  She is seven months old already... Wowzers!  As the third baby, let's just say things are a little lax around here (we do ask ourselves some days "when did was last give the baby a bath" - don't worry, she does get regular baths we just forget what day it is). 

 

And as the last baby (sniff sniff) we aren't in any hurry to go through these big milestones.  I already bawled my eyes out when Kin's rolled over for the first time.  My hubby was all excited and I sat down and cried.  My reason:  that was my last first rollover. ever. 

 

So don't be surprised that I waited and didn't even start this baby food attempt with rice cereal until after she was six months old.  Miss Kins was NOT a fan of the rice cereal. She would put up with our efforts for a few bites, but then she would tell us exactly what she thought about all this stuff we were placing into her mouth without a bottle.  So as the third baby, we decided why follow the "rules" and wait to start veggies until she has this cereal thing down.  (Keep in mind these are our "rules" we did with the first two kiddos, not by any means a rule for others).

 

So after only a few weeks of attempts at cereal, we decided to go for it!  The pictures speak volumes.

 

Here is our baby, smiling with no idea what we are about to give her:

 

 

Here is her face as I show her the new color of her food.. she is a smarty pants as she figures out real quick something is up (the cameras in her face might have tipped her off too).

 

Okay first bite - here we go... I am pretty sure she is telling me "okay I trust you lady".

 

I can interpret this for you just in case you don't speak Kins:  "WWWHHHHAAAATTT?????"

 

The only way we are going to get this down is with our fingers helping us....

 

Well a few bites later, and messy (you can't see the peas in her hair but she did put some up there), she appears to be on board with the green stuff.  And she is giving us the "you people are strange face" but the laughs on her.  She hasn't seen nothing yet haha.

 

At least, we thought she was on board until we got this face again.  She was a trooper!  She was the only baby of ours that ate half a jar the first go-round.  The other two weenies stopped at three bites and cried.

 

Hmmm... maybe we like these green smooshy food.

 

So that was the show tonight.  Our video was too long to publish but she was laughing and smiling at us while she ate.  I could say its because she loves peas... but more than likely she just loved all the attention the four of us were giving her.  She is so not spoiled at all (can I please request a sarcasm font?).

 

Sweet dreams until the next big first (for my heart I hope it isn't for awhile yet).  I will say I did manage not to tear up until I saw these pictures.  My last first peas.  (Yes, I will do that for every last first, get used to it.) 

 

G'night!

First Daddy Daughter Dance!

So while visiting our sweet cousins in OOOOOKlahoma where the wind blows gently off the plains... sorry, I cannot help myself!  While visiting our girls got the chance to go to a Daddy Daughter dance together!  The girls were so excited they were jumping up and down at the thought of it.  Us Mommas got them gussied up and ready... I think the pictures below show you several things:

 

(1) Our girls are beautiful!

(2) Our girls sure aren't shy about posing for us now are they!

 

First, here is a shot of our Daddies and their little princesses:

 

 

Now while the boys were primping (you know you were Cuz), the girls had a little fun with us:

 

They loved to pose "sassy"

Rock Star Pose

 We did manage to bribe the little brothers to jump in!

 

 So cute!  Too bad sweet Kins was napping through all this

 

My sweet girl (and the photo bomber in the back haha)

Best friends for life

Daddy came out to take a few shots - he had to kiss his oldest Best Girl

We had to get a shot with all of Daddy's princesses in it - don't worry Kins, you will get your chance in a few years

So cute together!

Kins got a few kisses from her Daddy before they left

 

 

So here they are - ready to PARTY

The boys might have thought all these pictures were overboard.. I don't know what they are talking about.  This is our version of prom (at least for the next ten years)...

 

At last they were off.  While they danced and dined, us Mommies took the boys and Kins out to dinner for a Mommy-Son&Kins Date.  We too had a great night (and yummy food and drinks hehe).

 

While we dined, the boys did send us some pictures to show us what they were up too:

There was a limo they could ride around the block in (and they did several times and told me later they were like rock stars 'cause rock stars ride in limos haha)

They were given tiaras and wands for the night as they were princesses (note no eyes were poked out with those wands, despite a hundred girls dancing like crazy with those pointy objects in their hands - God was watching over them I would say)

Daddy and KK at the dance - they danced, ate dinner, KK made Daddy a homemade colored on tie for him to wear, and they even got to bring home balloons from the dance.  As KK said afterwards "Best.Dance.Ever."

 

Daddy even taped her dancing to Beat It (gotta have some Michael Jackson if you want to dance and break it down) - see below.  Daddy said she danced all night long and just laughed and smiled.  He siad you couldn't get her to leave the dance floor.  :-)

 

 

Daddy and KK had an amazing time!  Here they are after coming back home - she was all smiles.  I love that he did this for her and that they had so much fun together!  She's got a pretty amazing Daddy (both the girls do)!

 

Sweet Dreams Y'all!

See my post about the rest of our trip below:

OOOOKKKLAHOMA TRIP

OOOOOK-lahoma where the wind comes sweepin off the plains

That's right!  Our first official trip to Oklahoma to visit our amazing cousins.  They moved away from us after six years together.  We had our baby girls together, then our baby boys together, and Aunt A was there when baby Kins took her first breath... there wasn't more than a day at most that went by without us getting together and playing with one another.  So last fall we got some hard news from them (and that is saying something given the year we had thus far) about how they were packing up and moving to Oklahoma.  They did ask that we join them hehehe.  (And yes, every time I say Oklahoma I start singing the dang musical song.  I'm wondering if they had picked California so I could be singing "California girls are incredible, cowboy boots bikinis on top" but no... I have western musical in my head all the time now.)

 

Anyway, as always I digress.  We braved the roads and went to spend some much needed time with our sweet cousins.  Miss Kins wasn't all that pleased with the road trip (she prefers the front seat when in the car and doesn't seem to understand that she had several years before she can call shotgun) but she was a trooper.  The minute she saw her Aunt A she was all smiles and coos - the whole trip she would find her Aunt A in the room and just stare and smile at her until Aunt A was forced to come snuggle her.

 

Well we made it!  We were greeted by four excited faces that we missed SO MUCH!  They were standing in the dark on their driveway, waving and laughing.  (Mommy might have gotten us a little lost in their neighborhood opps).  What a greeting, these Texas-born Oklahomians are pretty great!  The kids were together in seconds, laughing and hugging and chasing each other.  They were so happy, it took us a few hours to calm them down and get them to bed.

 

 

 

 

Our weekend was spent playing mostly while the Mommies and Daddies chatted and spent time together.  I somehow managed to ignore my camera through most of the relaxing times, but I did take some pictures when our Cuz took us to the Aquarium.  See below:

 

Here is our four smiling faces - they did not let go of one another the entire trip!

Mommy and Kins - she loved the fishies

You could actually touch some of the fish and shells - this is AJ getting brave (well Mommy wasn't touching them - I grabbed the hand sanitizer instead. Someone had to be the health inspector on this trip).

Kins and a fish staring down - I think they made a real connection

The girls... notice someone photo bombing like a BOSS?  I said girls only and he decided to show me who's a boss.

Daddy and Kins checking out the sea creatures

So another cool thing in the Aquarium was the SHARK tank.  You walk under the tank and can watch them swim right over you.  Here are the girls showing me how very tough they think they are!

Kins wasn't impressed, she decided it was her feeding time.

The boys posing with the sharks - they loved this place.

So we had some fun in the tank - here are the girls pretending to be scared... I'm not sure they will be nominated for any Oscars this year.

The boys were too busy checking out the cool sharks to even pose for me

Yes, this is what we do when surrounded by sharks.  Like logical people we pose for a self taken picture.

Me and my little man

 

The girls and Cuz petting a sting ray - how cool (and a little creepy for me) is that! 

 

So one of the cutest things that happened at the Aquarium was when Kins found a little friend and fell in love... While I was playing with the big kids, Daddy and Kins found a little tank made just for her, full of colorful fishes.  There was one little fish in particular that she couldn't get enough of.  We called her "Dorie" even if she was yellow.

 

Here is Kins and Daddy, watching for her yellow fish Dorie to come back.  Kins just watched her go back and forth across the tank forever. 

 

Clasping our little hands together as we see Dorie coming closer to our side of the tank - she was so excited.  It was adorable!

 

Our sweet girl just about fell over when Dorie swam by - I was laughing so hard I almost didn't take the picture in time to catch our Dorie (that is one fast fish).

 

 

There are so many pictures I should have taken while at home.  The girls had to match every time they got dressed (next time A and I are planning what I pack so its easier to accomplish for them) and every time I checked on them in their room they said they were having GIRL TIME and to go away.  They listened to music, danced and giggled all weekend.  So sweet.  The boys were no different.  They tore up the play room playing legos and super heros and then went to their room to play trains (or sit on top of the train table and destroy things together) and jump on the bed illegally.  All the kids were sweet with Kins and would sit by her on the floor as she played and talk to her.  They loved on her so much.

All in all it was a great weekend!  As I was telling the boys it was almost time for us to get in the car to leave.  Will told me I couldn't take AJ. I said that I had to take him ,that he was mine.  Will gave me a fierce look and said "NOOOO, he is MINE"!  It was so cute and almost made me tear up.  We hated leaving but we will be back in no time to visit again.

 

So here is my last shot - the cousins (minus Kins)... inseparable, even with several hundred miles between us.  We love you guys!  Counting down the days until we are back.

 

P.S. See my post about our girls and their Daddy's breaking it down!

Daddy Daughter Dance Post