Our Week at a Glance

I was just reminded once more why you should keep a journal, I have had a couple of experiences this week that I thought, "oh yeah tell your blog peeps about that," but I didn't ever write them down and now I can't remember any of them. So this is what you get... 

 They were both actually really cute just kick'n it on the hammock. Then I went to snap a shot and got double chin, and when I said "smile" instead of smiling Ky purposefully shove his finger up his nose, he really is a covert nose picker.

One of the thrift stores in our town has half off on Fridays! This is Kace slurping on his slushie (we love Sonic happy hour, it has taken the place of snowcones for me, which I used to eat like two a week of in Utah)

Saturday we went with Kyle's parents to a sporting goods store and took our eyes off Kacen for thirty seconds to find him in the ball bin. He loves balls and will scream at the top of his lungs in this really crazy angry voice, "ball!" if he sees one and can't play with it.

We were at the sports store with Perry and Valarie while they bought these fun kayaks. And they were nice enough to take us out on Memorial Day and let us have a great time at a like. Kacen loved riding in the boats, he wanted it to always be his turn. 

 And here are just some pictures that Ky took of Kace earlier last week. I love his expressions.

Memories: Part 2

The “Maeser House” soon came to be known as the “Height House.” The Heights were our upstairs neighbors and they were CRAAAAZY. To illustrate: Ms. Height, would sit outside in lingerie and yell at all the elementary school kids who looked at her when they were walking to and from school, “Why are you staring at me you perverts!” If her kids fought they were locked in their bedroom with “What the World Needs Now is Love,” blaring through the door. What we heard downstairs was screaming and kicking and DeShannon’s melodic voice soothing the children into loving one another.

Say a Tough No!

 While the Heights were upstairs being brainwashed with love my mom brained washed us through The Safety Kids, please watch this movie on youtube . So when Ryan Height and I were outside playing in the drive way and he picked up a his father’s discarded cigarette buds and wanted me to smoke with him I ran away, and when he pursued me and I turned on him kicking, punching and screaming “NO!” at the top of my lungs I felt completely justified. But after his mom found out that he was being rude to me she made him hug and kiss me and say sorry, this threw me into another moral conflict because my parents were very stalwart in letting me know I was not supposed to kiss boys until I was married and I couldn’t get married until I was 30 years-old. 

Here are our family pictures around this time.

 Grandma Murphy, Me, Mom, Dad, Bro Jake, Sis Micah

 Mama, Dad, Micah, K'Leena, Jacob, Me

 Mom, Dad, Micah, K'Leena, Jake, and Heather, ever the star

Fun With Kacen

As any of you who read regularly might know, I have recently felt exasperated with Kacen and his tantrums. This worry has caused Kyle and I to spend a lot of time on our knees seeking further guidance through prayer. And we have truly felt blessed. A couple of answers we received were:

Kacen loves art and needs to spend more time using his imagination and having that independent creative time.

 So we do a lot of coloring, he especially loves pens, and sometimes draws on his legs if left too long unsupervised, we have done a little painting and he loves it best.

 The second thing I feel that is important is that he just needs time to get his energy out, he needs recreation time morning, afternoon and evening. Thanks to the great weather we go to the park in the morning and after dinner, and have gone swimming twice so far after lunch and look forward to more SWIMMING.

 The other night Ky had a ton of fun playing with Kacen on the trampoline and making Kacen's hair stick out. Which if you note in the pictures above I cut it all off last night.

 The next thing is that Kacen just needs our love, I do not want to gripe about him anymore, after my last post about him I almost felt like I was gossiping about my own kid and I don't want to do that. He really is a sweet boy, who loves his family and who wants to help out and just do things on his own. He just has a ton of energy and he is only two, sometimes my expectations may be a little high for his abilities.

Lastly Kyle and I need to learn to be more bendable. Of course we know we are the parents here and need to set rules and boundaries for his safety and development. I don't want my kid to think that life has no rules or consequences. But we realize that our family won't function if Kyle and I are constantly fighting Kacen and letting him get to the point of self harm without intervening with love and compassion. I feel that being the adult doesn't mean that I need to be so tough on him, being an adult means that I am grownup enough to end an argument and teach love and compassion even if he is still at the peak of his tantrum.

 And I am happy to say that the tantrums are down, we still have them but they are shorter and I really feel hope that things are getting better. I love this little buddy so much.

I feel that little missy in my tummy is just as energetic as her bro. She seriously moves all day. Not just little kicks either we are talking full body movement. So I just gotta eat healthy and stay active for these kiddos.  I guess staying up til midnight tonight with a bag of Doritos has been a little counter productive. But today was a Sunday without Ky, involving six hours of church plus outside recreation time so yeah I needed a break. Haha I probably didn't need the Doritos (or the velveta dip, cake, fruit punch or brownie I had earlier eighter), but the late-night "me time" has been nice.

Chair Fabric

Kyle and I found this upholstery fabric for our chair on the clearance rack at Hancocks, while it might not have been our first choice it will be good enough for our summertime project.

And it was only $7.00 a yard! Yes I know that probably means that it will wear out easily but hey we got the chair for a buck and anything will be better than the ragged tapestry now covering the chair.

 

We started breaking this thing down but have a while to go.