Seriously so cute!!

Kenna loves her baby brother!! And Mahler sure loves his kids! :-)

Here we go for a third time:(

Makenna hurt her foot the other night! She was wrestling around with her sister and she fell off the couch with Jordyn falling right on her foot! We had her go to bed and were going to see how she felt in the morning. She still wouldn't really walk on it so I made her an appointment for that afternoon. She got a quick x-ray and although he couldn't see a definite break, he said it was probably a buckle fracture. That is what happened to her last year with her leg. We took her to the quick care and they said it wasn't broken but a few days later when we took her to the doctors, he could see the buckle. I guess it's hard to see until it has started to heal and you can see the new bone covering it. The doc said she should get a cast so it would heal faster since she was having a hard time walking on it and she freaked out. Remember this! It totally made me tear up watching it again and I felt so bad because I kept telling her that it doesn't hurt and the lady cut her on both sides of her leg. And of course the same nurse still works there. She literally had tears streaming down her face. The doctor said that he would take it off but she doesn't understand that. So, he gave us the alternative to give her a hard splint. I was all for it since we can take it off for baths and most importantly, we don't have to go back in and get it sawed off;) She keeps complaining that she wants it off but all I have to do is threaten her to take her to get a cast and she stops complaining right then;)
Here's my breakable cutie!!

Oh to be a baby again.....

We were cleaning the garage and Travis was putting all the baby stuff together so we would know where it was when we needed it. Well, the girls saw the play mat and decided they needed to play with it now!! Especially Jordyn:) She was lying under there for quite awhile.

Then I showed her the mirror and I got a pic that is very similar to a baby one;)


Playing with the toys....

Love this face!!

And then since I had the camera out, I thought I would take a few close ups of Kenna.

So beautiful!!

Random

Our sweet Jordyn can be cuddly sometimes. She was snuggling with her Daddy before bed last night:) I seriously could eat those feet...or at least nibble on them for awhile!

I love the way she says things too......

Grandma and Grandpa= Hama and Hepa

Grandma and Papa= Hama and Papa

Butterfly= He fly

Humidifier= Hefier

Cereal= Ce ler (she says this so differently that it's hard to even express it in writing)

Milk= Nilk

Fish or Fishies= shishies

She also drinks really well from a regular cup thanks to nursery:) She absolutely loves gogos (Yogos). She will eat them all day if you let her! She can also count to 17 (that's how many stairs we have:).

Makenna is such a good big sister. She loves to cuddle Jordyn and also tries to discipline her as well. I call her the second mommy. She can get really frustrated with her at times but then be so loving and concerned as well. They are very close and Jordyn does whatever Makenna does. She is her parrot sometimes. Makenna is also learning how to write her letters very well and surprised me by almost knowing the whole pledge of allegiance. We have been doing that in preschool and all the kids will have it down by kindergarten. She loves doing her school and Mommy loves having some alone time to actually get stuff done when I have the week off and loves teaching her when it is my week. She loves her friends and gives them hugs frequently. She hugs her cousin Gunnar a lot which thankfully he doesn't mind....yet:)

I love these little girls so much and I'm so happy to have two beautiful, healthy sweethearts to spend my day with!!

Different day....same clothes:(

For some reason, Makenna loves this shirt and pants. And she likes to wear them every day! It is a Halloween shirt (at least it's good timing) with a cat on it that is like two years old and the jeans have been worn so much that they now have a hole in it. On the days where we are actually going somewhere, I make her wear something else but she asks to put them back on the second we are home. I have no idea why!! Plus, she hates showing her knees right now. It's not a big deal now but when it was hot, she didn't even want to wear shorts. I would ask her why and she said she didn't want to show her legs and knees. I hope it is just a phase because she is too young to be having those kinds of issues!!

And here is my cute little tomboy!! This little cutie pie can play with her cars for a very long time. She was driving them around the chair legs for the longest time. She also likes to drive them all over the couch!! So sweet!

Too cute not to post:)

Goodness...I'm on a posting roll:) But my kids were being too cute today that I had to post!
Our sweet Lady has been really good with her sisters! I caught Jordyn hand feeding Lady her dog food and Lady was being so sweet and taking it very gently from her. One at a time!!
Don't you just love that little baby belly sticking out;)

Lady has also been getting into a lot of trouble lately because she keeps eating Jordyn's leftovers!! It doesn't help that J.J. pretty much hands it to her either though. Travis finally got really mad at her tonight after finding her eating fruit loops and our sensitive Makenna got really upset. She was so worried about Lady and I found Makenna downstairs consoling her! She is very attached to Lady;)
I also felt very proud of my big girl tonight!! I had put a load of laundry in and a little while later I hear Makenna in the room. I went to see what she was up to and this is what I found!!!

She got a chair and started moving the clothes into the dryer. I love it!!! She couldn't quite reach the bottom but I can't wait until I can ask her to do this chore for me!! Now if I can only get her to fold too;) And excuse the undies!! She has been in the habit of changing clothes a couple of times a day. I caught her before she could put another outfit on but she never put her other clothes back on. O-well!! :) She has also been wanting to wear the same outfit everyday this week. I finally convinced her to wear something else so I could wash it.....hmmm....maybe that is why she was being so helpful with the laundry:)

King Putt

Makenna finally earned all of her stickers that she needed on her chart so we took her to play golf and out to lunch at Applebees. We had never been there before but she has been asking us to go golfing ever since Travis started playing. It has black lights so everything glows (especially me with a white shirt;) It was a pretty cheesy place but Makenna had a great time and that was what it was all about. It's nice to just go out with one kid and spend one on one with her;)

This is the same pic without the flash;) I don't do so well without the flash but I had to get some with the glow.

I could not get an un blurry pic of Trav for anything;( O-well! It was fun!!!

More bikini fun;)

Last Saturday we went over to Trav's sister's home to celebrate our niece Stephanie's birthday. It was a pool party and the girls were all about that!! They were both so excited. It was the first time this year that they got to swim in a big pool. It was pretty cold in the pool so I just hung out in the jacuzzi. Pretty soon all of the kids joined me as well.
I didn't get too many pics of Kenna's face. She was too busy;)

Jordyn kept going down the first step and jumping back out. She kept doing it over and over. Travis decided to dunk her and by the look on her face, she didn't like it much. It was just too cold for her. But she kept going up and down that first step and then joined me in the spa as well.

Ahhh....she got water up her nose. I think someone splashed her. She wasn't too happy about it but Daddy is taking care of it.

Um......gorgeous!! ;)

Ashley was playing peak a boo with her and hiding her behind the towel.

Kenna and Leslie;)

They had fun and we get to go swimming again this weekend. This time it is for my sister's little boy Mason. He is turning two!!

Poor baby!

And yes, she is still a baby. She's my baby girl;) Instead of going on a movie date on our anniversary, we got to spend two hours at the pediatricians! You got to be jealous of that fun;) Our sweet girl started having fevers the night before. I was keeping it under control with some Motrin but it stayed at 103 a lot. Well, right before we were about to leave, Makenna woke up from her nap so we waited so we could give her some more Motrin and she was on fire!! She also looked so pathetic. It was so sad. We took her temp and it said 104.9!!! And usually the ear ones are less than the rectal temps that are more accurate so that scared me!! I called the docs and asked them what I should do and they told me to come right in. That worried me even more since it's usually pretty hard to get in even when you call first thing in the morning. Of course her fever broke right when we got there and it made it hard to really see that she was sick but I just kept thinking of how she looked just an hour before. He said there was some fluid in her ears but didn't think that would warrant such a high temp. Makenna then got to pee in a cup for the first time but that came back fine so she didn't have a urinary tract infection. He was a little stumped but gave us some antibiotics after an extra test showed that she had enough gunk in her ears. So, hopefully this will get her to feeling better. She feels fine in between fevers but she just crashes when it starts spiking again. She started feeling really yucky again last night! I just wish the doc could have seen that. O-well. Today has just been a lounging day filled with movies and gatorade and hopefully she will feel better soon. And hopefully Jordyn and I won't be next!!

And I just had to add this cute pic of Jordyn changing her baby's diaper;-)

The joys of Motherhood

We see a lot as Moms. There are a lot of ups and downs. A lot of kisses and a lot of tears. But whether they are happy or sad, I love being there to lift them up or encourage my girls. Makenna has gone through a lot of emotions today. She went with daddy to get me a mother's day gift and he got her a tinker bell necklace. She was so excited and told him that she loves going shopping with him. She was so happy when she showed me. Not even a full day later, it's broken. She was so upset but I sat here rubbing her back and found her another necklace to put her tinker bell on. She is happy again. She has also now figured out the consequences of drinking too much apple juice. I usually get them those apple juice boxes with their happy meals at McDonalds. Since they love them so much, I thought it would be good to buy them at the store instead of capri suns. Big mistake. Since she loves them, she got like four of them and drank them yesterday. She is paying for it today and had an accident before she could get to the bathroom. She was so upset that she didn't make it to the toilet in time. There was this horrified look on her face that actually made Travis and I smile. She kept saying, "I was going to go potty and I pooped in my pants!!!!!" I tried to calm her down and get her on the pot but she was just so embarrassed. I told her it happens and she cried, "I pooped in my pants like J.J!!!" I am now back to making her feel better. And as I have been writing this, Jordyn took her diaper off and was running around bare butt. She has such a cute bum that I didn't immediately put it back on. Well, a few minutes ago, she peed on the bathroom floor and started playing with it with her foot. Gotta love it!! At least it was on the tile.
But even though it's been a crazy day, I love those little munchkins and am so thankful to be their mom! They are so special. They are my life!
Happy Mother's Day as well to my mom that shaped me to be the kind of mother that I am. I am so thankful for that loving example all my life. And also to my mother in law that raised my wonderful hubby that let me sleep in and served me breakfast in bed this morning!!

More cute Kenna

Makenna is so observant and has the best memory. She knows exactly which streets we are supposed to go on to get to a lot of places including Grandma and Papa's and Grandma and Grandpa's. And if we go a different route, she gets upset because she thinks we aren't going there. We were running errands a couple of weeks ago when we drove by the cemetery that my grandpa is buried in. As we drove by, I said, "Hi Grandpa!!" Makenna started freaking out wondering where her grandpa was. I told her that it was where my Grandpa was. Today, we drove by that same cemetery (I wasn't going to say anything today because I didn't want to confuse her) and Makenna yells out, "That's where Grandpa lives!!!!"

I love it when....

My babies hold my hand. I love stroking their soft skin and sharing that special moment with them. I love it when Kenna laces her fingers through mine and when Jordyn wraps her tiny hand around my finger. I want to enjoy these moments because I know they will disappear all too quickly. Time speeds by and before I know it, they will be teenagers;( My big girl Makenna already talks like she is an adult and we are always in awe at what she says. She is such a love bug, always giving hugs and kisses and telling us that she loves us soooooo much!! And Jordyn just changes before us everyday. She got another tooth today. It's her sixth one, fourth one on the bottom to the right. (She is now starting to really use me as a teething ring) She is also starting to kiss us. At first she would just lean her head forward so that we could kiss her head but she is now giving us actual (baby open mouth) kisses. She has also started waving on the 25th and cruising on the 27th. She just hangs onto the couch and goes!! The stairs are a huge attraction to her as well. We have to put pillows all around the bottom of it to keep her from going up. We've done this back and forth thing where I put her down, she goes straight for the stairs. I pick her back up and put her back down where she belongs and it starts all over again. It gets very tiring after about five times so we hope the pillows work for awhile. She will be walking before we know it!!! My nephew just turned one and it seems like it was yesterday when he was born and I know that I'm going to blink and Jordyn will be one. Hopefully recording these memories will help me not be so sad when the days, weeks, and months go by in a blur.

Cousins

It's so fun to have cousins that live close by and that are close in age! It's an automatic friendÜ

This is how you play when you are babies!

Man, these toys are yummy;)

Mason (10 1/2 months) and Jordyn (8 months)

And this is how you play when you are big kids!!

We play and play and play!!!

Makenna (3 years) and Gunnar (2 1/2 years)

Cute pics

Look at this adorable mug;)

This is Jordyn enjoying a teething cookie. Travis said she needed a bra;) What a stinker!


My precious Kenna enjoying the outside. Travis has gotten our yard super nice and she just loves to go out there to eat and just be out. She has a cute little play house that she eats in too and will soon have a new play set. I'm so excited to get that up. She is going to looooove it!!

*On a side note, Sweeney Todd is a kind of a gory movie but has awesome music. Travis just bought the soundtrack. Who knew Johnny Depp could sing;)