Kid Week

This week has been pretty busy with random things.
Monday: I ran errands in the morning after Preston's morning nap and then cleaned the house, did laundry and paid bills in the afternoon. Our neighbors invited us over for dinner and then our kids played for a bit. I took off to the gym after I put Preston down for bed.

Tuesday: A girl in our ward has a ruptured disc so she has been needing people to watch her kids in the morning while her husband is at work. She has a 2 1/2 yr old and 5 month old. I signed up to watch them this morning at my house, but I forgot! So I woke up at 7:30 to them calling to say they were here. :) The kids were easy and the baby was super easy. I need a baby like that who sucks his thumb and falls asleep wherever he is put!!! After lunch, their Dad picked them up and I put my kids down for afternoon naps. Then, at 3:30 my neighbor and friend, Darbi, dropped her 3 kids off because it was her birthday and her and her husband went out for dinner and some shopping. So the kids all played and got every toy out imaginable, which was totally fine, so when Kyle got home from work he said it looked like a tornado went off in our house! Having a playroom in our future house will be fabulous for this reason! After dinner, we sent all the kids outside to play for a bit and not too long after that Darbi came home. The kids played outside for a bit longer before it was bedtime and I went off to the gym again. I try to go about 3 times a week after the kids are in bed which is at 8 pm. It's kind of late, but then I don't have to pay for their kids club which gets expensive.

Wednesday: It was nice not having to go anywhere today. I like days like this when all the other days in the week are crazy there is one day of down time. We just chilled around the house and I played with Kate in her bedroom while Preston ate all her necklaces. Kate likes to pretend she's making cake with her necklaces so we pretended to make cake and then eat it. She's also in the pretending stage where she wants to switch roles so she'll tell me that I'm Kate and she is Mommy. Then she'll say, "Kate, I'm going to do this..." and I'll say "Okay, Mommy." It's pretty funny that she is already playing pretend like this. That night I watched my friend's 2 kids while her and her husband went to a park to watch a Romeo and Juliet play. It's been a week of kiddos for me! Funny how it happened to fall within the same week.

Thursday: We had playgroup at a beach where we could have entered a sand castle building contest, but we didn't. It was fun though, once we were all bundled up (the weather has been gross lately). The kids played on the playground and then on the beach in the sand. In the afternoon, I filled 100 water balloons to prepare for the Primary Activity Day for tonight. Well... it never happened. It started to downpour rain this afternoon and the forecast said rain for the rest of the night. Our activity was supposed to be at a park with water games and it was a "fun in the sun" theme. So we figured with no sun, we might as well reschedule it for next week when we might have a higher chance for some warmer weather! It was a bummer, but now I have 100 water balloons. The neighbor kids will love me when I let them have a water balloon fight. :)

Tomorrow night, I am going out to dinner and to go shopping with some friends of mine. It will be fun to have a girl's night out. Lucky husbands. Ha!

Pioneer Picnic

Our Stake had our Pioneer Day celebration on Saturday at a local park. It was a lot of fun. After dinner- BBQ pork sandwiches, salads, desserts and homemade rootbeer- there was face painting, taffy pulling, ice cream in a bag, gunny sac races, pole pull game, water balloon toss, square dancing and probably other games I didn't see. Kate took her scooter in the kiddie parade and we even attempted to decorate it. But next year we'll be taking her bike for sure. I let her choose whether she wanted to take her bike or scooter and she chose the scooter. Well, let's just say she fell down, started crying, didn't want to ride the scooter, got passed by everyone behind her and was the caboose of the parade. She actually had a melt down because she wanted to be with Alyssa (her friend) and Alyssa was on a bike and way ahead of her. She couldn't keep up on her scooter. During the parade she even passed the little water park area and wanted to stop and get in the water. Talk about attention span! :)

Alyssa and Kate in their pioneer outfits

The kiddie parade
Kate square dancing with Anna (a young women in our ward who has babysat Kate). Kate LOVED it since it was dancing.

Preston Eye Check-Up

Preston went to the eye doctor at Children's yesterday and he got a really good report. After waiting 2 hours to see the doctor (yes, I waited that long!) and Preston throwing up in the doctor's office after his exam......his left eye (with the displaced pupil) sees as well as the normal right eye! That is great news. The doctor kept saying how surprised he was that Preston is seeing so well out of it and that it is perfect vision. Basically, so far his displaced pupil is a cosmetic thing and he wouldn't recommend surgery because "why mess with his eye when it's perfect" (it may be an issue later if Preston gets teased a lot). We still have to go back in 6 months for another check-up and probably every 6 months until he is 6 years old or so (I hope the next wait isn't as long!). They want to keep monitoring his vision in case he needs any intervention. We are so glad he is still seeing so well and hope he continues to be fine. Below is a picture of Preston up close so you can see what his displaced pupil looks like in his left eye. Interesting, huh? I have never heard of such a thing.

Here is a video from a couple weeks ago of Preston jumping in his crib. It's pretty cute to see him play in his crib. I sometimes peek through his door enough to watch him, but not enough so that he sees me and he does some funny things like jump holding onto the railing then plop down and giggle, then pull himself back up and smile away. Funny boy.

Catch Up

We were at my parent's house last weekend for a family reunion for my Dad's side. He has two sisters, one from N. Carolina and one from Virginia, that come out every summer to visit. My Dad put together a slip 'n slide where like 4 people could go down at a time so it was fun. We even lathered up with Dawn soap. Then, several of the adults and older teenager cousins went up to the HS gym to play basketball. I was on the winning team so that was fun. :) But man, I was VERY sore the next day. It's been a while since I have played basketball. I run and lift weights, but shooting and rebounding used muscles I forgot about, I guess.

My Mom made a Jeapordy game using information from the Sabin family history. It was very clever and fun.

Then we made a trip up to Moses Lake to visit Melanie and her family. We got to go to the aquatic park there and Kate loved it. Melanie's kids are so good with her and watched her the whole time which was very nice. :) After the park, Melanie cut my hair and Kyle's hair. Thanks Melanie!

The kiddos being goofy!

Kate fixing Kathryn's hair. :) Kathryn was a good sport. Melanie's kids do anything for "Miss" Kate.

Kyle and I went to see Iron Man on Friday night with another couple. It was fun to go to the movie (we don't do it much nowadays) and we liked the movie. Then, on Saturday we ran some errands and went to a church BBQ at a fun park. It was fun to visit with everyone and we even got to play a volleyball game.

9 Month Stats

Preston went in yesterday for his 9 month check-up.

Weight: 17 lbs 1 3/4 oz (25%)

Height: 28 1/2 inches (55%)

Head: 43 cm (5%) What?!?!

What's funny is that he weighs the same as Kate did when she was 9 months and he is 1/2 inch shorter than she was. He did some catching up because at his 6 month check-up he was a couple pounds smaller than Kate was at 6 months.

He is a strong little guy. He can pull himself up to the couch and in his crib (we had to lower his crib this week) so now his next trick will be cruising along furniture. Yikes! He's still a very smiley baby and likes eating real food now. He wants whatever we are eating. We just have to teach Kate not to give him everything he wants. She'd give him suckers, chips, hunks of food, you name it. Overall, he's healthy and doing well.

Happy 4th of July!

We went to Boulder Resort (aka my parents' house) and we had a good time, of course. My Mom was seriously in the kitchen ALL day long on Saturday cooking up a storm. It was yummy food. We even got a surprise when two of my friends, Kati and Michelle, from Everett called up on Thursday because it was raining over there and they wanted to get away from it. They were just wanting to go to another firework show in Eastern Washington, but to make a long story short, they (both families with 5 kids total) ended up coming over to my parent's house on Friday and Saturday. We all had a good time swimming, motorcycle riding (both husbands of my friends had never done that before), eating, letting off fireworks and more eating. My friends got a special tour of Mattawa (ha!) and the kids all got along pretty well. My parents are the best at hosting. They were so welcoming and I can't thank them enough for everything they did!!!

The cousins with Jared
Carter and Kate- I loved this pose of Kate (she is in some costume dress-up outfit)
Preston loving the water
Kate trying out the new slip-n-slide

Marci with Paige and Me with Preston
Kate's face during fireworks- and this was just the sparklers (needless to say she was saying "I scary" meaning she was scared through the entire thing. I think she said she liked one firework since it was purple.)
Me with Michelle and Kati
The clan during the fireworks show

Visiting the Zoo with Marci

Marci went to the Zoo with us last Wednesday. It was fun to have her go with us and we had fun. We have a pass to the Zoo, which we love, and it's fun because every time we go we see something new that the animals do.

Kate and Marci at the Carousel
Kate being the pooper scooper
Kate looking at the Orangutan

Friends and Family

For Family Night last week, we invited some friends over and I made this cupcake flag (I don't know why the picture is turned like this) and I had gotten some simple party poppers and pop-its for the kids. It was fun and our lesson was on th 4th of July.

Picture Tagged

The rules are you have to take pictures of the following things. And you have to do it right away. No straightening, cleaning or wiping your child's nose.

I took the pictures last week, but it was a crazy week so I'm just now doing it. Celeste tagged me so here it is. :)


The Kitchen Sink:
The Toilet:
The Laundry Room:
The Fridge:
My Favorite Shoes:
What the kids are doing: sleeping, well I woke Kate up when I took the picture- oops!

My Favorite Room: (I had just made cookies- monster cookies, my favorite- so it was a mess!)
The Closet:
Self-Portrait:

Tagged...

My friend Kim tagged me so here it goes...

Two Names I Go By: Heidi and Mommy
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now: pajamas :)
Two Of Your Favorite Things To Do: bake, read a good book
Two Things You Want Very Badly At This Moment: to take a nap, some food (it's fast sunday)
Two Favorite Pets: We don't have any... but maybe a cute puppy that stays outside ALL the time.
Two People Who Will Fill This Out: ?
Two Things You Did Last Night: ate a yummy dinner prepared by my Mom with aunts, uncles and grandparents, traveled back home for 2 1/2 hours from my parents' house.
Two Things You Ate Today: nothing since it's fast sunday
Two Last People You Talked To: Kate and Kyle
Two Longest Car Rides: San Diego, CA and Utah
Two Favorite Vacations: Manhatten, New York and Boulder Resort :)
Two Favorite Drinks: Rasperry Lemonade and Chocolate Milk