Sisters

Sisters

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Year 2 in Review.

Watch her grow...
Just turned 2 (June)
Birthday party girl (June)
wearing her glasses (June)
in Clearwater (July)
at the Rodeo (July)
Ready for school (August)
Becoming a big sister (August 27th)
so proud and happy (August)
playing in the bed (September)
getting every last crumb of that cookie (September)
After the Race for the cure. (October)
made Fruit Loops necklace (October)
 laying on the floor with sister (October)
Jumping (October)
gearing up for Halloween (October)
Loving holding sister (October)
Kins and her punkin (October)
being Tinkerbell  (October)
playing at the park (November)
Happy Thanksgiving! (November)
O Christmas tree outing (December)
making Christmas cookies (December)
Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's (December)
Christmas morning (December)
It's cold out here. (January)
playing at the Hobbs, NM sign  (January)
catching snow  (January)
Work in progress (February)
playing in the snow never looked so cute  (February)
swing high (February)
always on the go (March)
playing "chest"  (March)
on a bus  (March)
done helping mom with homework  (April)
Easter at school  (April)
hunting eggs  (April)
swinging  (April)
in Ruidoso  (April)
at Swim class (May)
 Science Spectrum  (May)
Feeding ducks (May)
being beautiful (June)
playing in the pool with sister (June)
eating our homemade Rocket Pops (June)
And now, at 5:00pm, I'm 3! (June 19th)



Thursday, June 16, 2011

Happenings in Hobbs...

It's been a while so, here's just a few highlights.

Indy's not crawling. Yet.  She can crawl. We've seen her move her knees once or twice. I suspect that she does it when we are not looking though.  But Indy can pull herself to a stand. And to prove it, she did it in her crib. Her crib is now lower.

Kinsey is back to swim class and still a work in progress. She knows how to swim, it just a matter of her wanting to and not being distracted. The not being distracted plagues her in almost every aspect of her life these days. She's such a water bug. She'd be in the pool all the time. Kinsey's also super excited about turning 3 at the Great Wolf Lodge or just "the Lodge" as she would call it.  She likes singing happy birthday to herself. Also, daddy bought her her first set of golf clubs today.

I met with an oral surgeon today about this pesky cross-bite. OMG! So basically, he wants to pick my top lip up and cut my teeth out back to the jaw. THEN, cut it down the center of that, insert some expander device. And sew everything back on. So, I think I'm going ask about a second opinion.

In lighter news, I won 1st place in the Still Life category at the photography show. Woot woot!

Sunday, June 12, 2011

We survived

It was a long week. But we made it.  We stayed very busy.  We went to pools, parks, play dates, the movies, had friends over, made crafts, and even went to the airport.

Kinsey never let on too much that it bothered her, but it did. The sitter said she cried for about 10 minutes after I left for a dentist appointment.  Kinsey doesn't cry when I leave.  She is not that kind of kid. And she was much more cuddly. Also, not that kind of kid. She held it together very well though, I must say, for a 2 year old. I, also, thinking Indy may have been missing him, too. (Although, she'd never admit it.) She began a series of da-da sounds this week.  It's not clearly da-da but a really close grunt.  I had hoped for a ma-ma noise out of her, since she's such a momma's girl and all. That's not looking good.

So, daddy's home. And we're all happy to have him back.

On another survival note, I had my six month check up last week and test results show no sign of recurrence.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Solo mommy

Rusty will be leaving for Europe in minutes and it will be just me and the girls.

I have plans to stay as busy as possible in hopes of cutting down on the "Where'd daddy go?" followed undoubtedly by "why?" questions.  The days should be okay as I can give the standard "he's at work so we have a house to live in." answer that seems to typically do the trick.

Unfortunately, it looks like will be starting off with a bang... taking feverish little sister to the doctor.

I'm sure I'll have a new found respect for single parents by weeks end.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Plant a seed...

 And watch it grow!

One of our summer projects is planting of seeds/vegetables! Tomatoes, carrots, green beans, watermelon, cucumber, and a variety of flowers.

Here's our photo documentary of what we have thus far:

Start with garden gloves!
Plant and water daily.
She loves playing in water, so why not.
First sign of green beans.
Also a green bean.
Hard work is starting to pay off.
We now have carrots, tomatoes, green beans and some flowers sprouting.

Getting ready for the move.
Add water.

Dig in the dirt.
Making room for tomatoes.
Okay, so our tomatoes didn't make it in their green house.  These are fresh from Lowe's.
Our carrots and green beans are getting there.
These are our watermelon and cucumber plants.

Sunflowers, I-don't-remember-anymores, and poppys.