Out and Over

She has broken out.
None of my kids have had cribs. I saw them as a big pain so mine have always been in a pack n'plays for ease. Trevin was out of his around a year. Garrin made it to 18 months. Kiya almost made it 2 years. Last night we put her to bed as usual and came back down to finish watching a show. A few minutes later we hear a door open and some footsteps down the stairs. Joe and I both assumed it was Garrin, since he is the one that opens his door and comes out. We look up and see our little girl dragging her blanky behind. After we got over the shock and a few giggles we realized it would be an exhausting night/few days.
We had bought a "big girl" bed for her almost a year ago anticipating this very night. Luckily she did take to the idea of sleeping in her big bed and it only took us 3 more tries to get her down.
She did wake up around 2:30am and came into our room. LUCKILY, I have trained my kids well and she just walked in and said, "Daddy..." ha. That means I get to stay in bed while he takes her up. She stayed in bed until about 7am and then called for me to come and get her out. Which was nice. It took a few times this afternoon to get her settled, but hopefully she will get the idea quickly.
I've been very blessed with good sleepers and plan to ride the train as long as I can.
Now if I can just get her to keep her pants on....

Wanna Know?

So, you wanna know how to let everyone know that you have arrived in a new neighborhood? You attend church and during sacrament meeting have your 3 year old yell out to the congregation that "HIS PENIS IS BIG AND HE DOESN'T LIKE IT!!!" Yep. About 3 times. That's right folks. Garrin announced us properly and let everyone know several things about our family right off. That his mother teaches him the correct names of body parts and he has no issue with letting you know what is happening with each and every correctly named body part. You will also see that the other menfolk of the family are useless when penis jokes abound. Joe went RED from laughing so hard and Trevin had to bury his head under Joe so he didn't make anymore noises. I, of course, simply kept my head up and my composure as everyone took it the fact that this little family is just bringing some class into the neighborhood. I'm sure they'll all thank me later.

MOVED IN

Ok, we are in a new home! I am SO in love with having my own house. This thing is a monster though and everytime I have to clean it I regret getting so much sqaure footage. (poor me, i know) We are all civilized now with TV, internet and phone so I feel connected again. We have not moved our computer over that has all our pictures so I can't post anything with pics yet, but I invite you all over for the 5 cent tour. I have no problem showing off my new place that will not be "done" for months I'm sure. The home decore is the last thing on my list so the place is just functional, not pretty. At least not yet. I'll get it there eventually.

I quit my job as soon as we moved in too so I am the newest member of the stay-at-home clan and most days feel relatively sane about it. most days. Which is why I need lots of visitors to distract me. The kids have adjusted perfectly. Trevin has lots of friends already and the little ones have loved all the space in the house and outside.

Joe is uber busy with work and schooling but we both feel so blessed to be so adult right now. Lets hope we can keep it up!
So hit me up here or on my phone for the address and come see the new digs!

Pretend

Here is what we are going to do, people.
We are going to pretend that I haven't neglected this and ya'll and I am going to go back through all my pictures and try to catch up and post the stories that I remember along the way.
alright?
alright.
let's do this.
ps. i will also be changing the dates on all the posts so that when someone in the far away future looks at this blog...it will be seemless. So it may not show on yours that I have updated, but i HAVE.

I got in so much trouble for this....

See those cute little earings in Kiya's ears? Yeah, I may have pierced her ears without officially telling Above Average Joe about it. It's not that he is opposed to girls having thier ears pierced he just didn't like that he wasn't in the loop for the official happening. I always told him that if we had a girl that I would pierce her ears early in life. My mom did it with both my sister and I and I just think it is so much easier. Kiya agrees with me. She'll tell you. In a few years....when Joe starts talking to me again....

Kiya 6 Month

Garrin had to get in on the photo action...and see that popsicle? that's the only thing he eats these days. Those with chips and salsa are the only nutrients this 2 year old accepts lately...sigh.

Kiya's Sweet Tooth (if she had teeth...)

When daddy come home for lunch he sometimes splurges and makes himself an ice cream cone...Kiya has discovered that she very much like them.