The Perfect Philosophy

Those of you who read Kirsten's blog have already seen this. Those of you who don't here it is. Unfortunately for Brian this is the philosophy I have adopted for the sake of our children.

"Babies Don't Keep":
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth

Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,

Hang out the washing and butter the bread,

Sew on a button and make up a bed.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?

She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue

(lullaby, rock-a-bye, Lullaby loo).

Dishes are waiting and bills are past due

(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek-peek-a-boo).

The shopping is not done and there's nothing for stew

And out in the yard there is a hullabaloo.

But I'm playing "Kanga" and this is my "Roo."

Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?

(lullaby, rock-a-bye, lullaby loo).

The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,

For children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

Ruth Hulburt Hamilton, 1958

Mischevious little Kayda

Kayda is too smart for our (the parents) good. She is incredibly resourceful. She decided that she was going to use the bouncer seat (behind the chair) to climb onto the chair where she could reach a bag of "boogie wipes". She then preceeded to pull them all out...every last one of them. I didn't catch her until she was already at the point in the picture. She does things like this all the time. She'll use her blocks container as a stool to get something she wants and now that she's getting taller it's getting easier and easier to get to things. She can now EASILY reach things left on the edge of the counter or table. She had one of Grandma G's empty cans just yesterday.

She is developing into quite the character. She works the crowd incredibly well, she waves at people when they drive or walk past us, she smiles at everyone and unfortunately for us, she knows EXACTLY what she wants. She has developed an "I want that so you need to give it to me" routine at the ripe old age of 16 MONTHS... It is WAY to early for that! I managed to catch a picture of it, in this particular scenario she desperately wanted the camera I was using to take her and Dillon's pictures.

On a lighter note, here's Dillon, sweet undemanding laid back little Dillon. We were playing this morning and I FINALLY managed to get another good picture of him smiling. It took me about 30 pictures this time to get one you could actually see. Kayda was a lot like this at this age too so we could have our hands REALLY full a year from now. Especially since he loves his big sister so much, he will just sit and watch her play, he finds it fascinating.

They grow up so fast!

Wow he is getting so big and so strong so fast! Grandma G has been letting him spend a little time in the exersaucer and he loves it! He has decided he likes to sit up and look around so he gets kind of crabby if he's awake and you make him lay back where all he can see is the ceiling. He likes to talk to people now, he makes all kinds of cooing sounds. When he had enough of the toy I pulled him out and big sister automatically wanted in! I raised it up as high as it would go but her legs are still bent up. You can't see it really well in the picture because of the shadow from the couch but that's okay it's still funny.

Kayda has learned a few new tricks. She has decided that if she gives you kisses you will take her to do whatever she wants to do. So now if you pick her up she'll point at what she wants and give you unlimited kisses. She has also decided that she REALLY likes any sauces so if there is ketchup or hot mustard sauce or ranch dressing she'll dip her food in it and then lick off the sauce. Eventually she'll eat her dipper but she uses as much sauce as possible first.

What an amazing sibling combo!

Kayda discovered a mirror we had sitting around. It's one of the fake kind that don't break so I laid it on the floor for her. She had a great time with it. She wanted everyone else to think it was cool as she did so she kept pulling either mommy or daddy down to sit with her while she played with it. It's funny what will entertain kids.

Dillon just hung out the whole time, looking around with those big blue eyes.

These two make life with two babies under 1.5 years as easy as any babies possibly could. Kayda absolutely adores her little brother, she is starting to want to lay down next to him and hold him. She gives him kisses and rubs his head. This morning when she woke up she came in looking for him. He was already awake and was getting his diaper changed. She sat next to him and he just started grinning at her. I'm excited for when he's big enough for them to start to play together. Kayda already thinks he's so great, it will be interesting to see what she thinks when he can respond to her better. We couldn't have asked for better kids.

Dillon's First Easter and Kayda's Second!

Here are our sweet babies on Easter. This is one of the first pictures of Dillon smiling we have been able to catch, thank heavens for getting the new camera, now we can actually catch those moments. Kayda did NOT like having a dress and tights on at first but she adjusted rather quickly. I think I'm going to put her in dresses all summer, she is just so cute that way. We spent the day visiting with Jordan, Chelsea and their kids (Jordan is Brian's best friend who now lives in Arizona). Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa G's for dinner before we headed over to visit Grandma and Grandpa H. Unfortunately with everything that happened on Saturday (Dillon's party) we didn't have the chance to prep for the easter egg dying and the hunt. We're trying to decide if we want to do it another weekend or just wait until next year when BOTH babies can participate.

Dillon's Welcome Party

So many of our friends and family came to see Dillon and celebrate his birth (2 months late of course). We had a barbecue, Grandma Peggy worked so hard to help us get everything ready for it. It was a great evening and we loved getting to show off our sweet little boy. He slept the majority of the time but Kayda spent almost the entire time outside with the big kids. In the picture are MOST of the kids that came. All except for one in this group are cousins, there were a few other kids that came but they had come and gone by the time we took the picture. Good thing the weather cooperated or it could've been interesting having them all in the house!

First time blogging

We have enough friends and family that we don't get to see frequently that we decided a blog would be a good thing to do for our little family. I'm planning to post some pictures from Easter and Dillon's welcoming party as soon as I get the chance.