Sunday, February 15, 2009
"Check on Avery"
Travis was so cute yesterday. He was out playing with the dogs, when all of a sudden he came into the family room saying... "check on Avery". He went over to the swing, put her binky in her mouth, turned the swing on, then went to go play with the dogs again. Needless to say my heart melted. These our the times which makes having kids worthwhile.
Back To Work
Well I finally caved and am helping Clint @ the Honda Shop on Tuesday's and Wednesday's. Marsha (Clint's Mom) is coming over to the house to watch the kids for us. My first day back to work was Tuesday February 10th & 11th. I enjoyed seeing Clint all day, but I must admit I missed the kids. Marsha enjoyed watching them, she brought over some motorcycles for Travis to play with day one, and a train set on day two... so he had lot's of fun. We have our first MX race this weekend coming up on the 22nd, so this week is going to be pretty busy and LONG! No time for sleep.
Family Visit
I must say we had a wonderful time having Jenny, Larry, baby Ashlynn & Nana out for a visit. It was so nice meeting my niece for the first time! Luckily Amie & Jim have a navigator so we were able to switch cars so I could haul everyone around. Everyone arrived Friday January 30th. Travis, Avery and I drove out to the Airport after Travis's Tumbling Class. The whole Airport trip couldn't have gone smoother. Nana's flight and Jenny & Larry arrived basically at the same time, we got everyone in the car including car seats and luggage; no small feet where Jenny is concerned. Saturday, we went to lunch then Dad & Jeaninne came over to see everyone... mostly the new family addition, Ashlynn. 
Sunday, February 1st was Superbowl Sunday. The guys watched the kids while Nana, Amie, Jenny and I went shopping and to lunch. We made it back in time for the game which turned out to be a great game to watch. Nana's trip ended Monday, so Amie, Jenny and I went to the Carter's Outlet.
Wednesday we attempted to take the kids in for pictures. We tried to take the babies picture together first, but Ashlynn was being a little fussy so I thought we would get Avery's and Travis's picture while Jenny tried to calm Ashlynn down. Travis, the one we thought we wouldn't have to worry about was completely scared of the "big camera". So after lots of bribing, we only ending up getting little Avery's picture; she of course was all smiles! We then attempted to get the babies picture again... it was not happening so we decided to take a later appointment time and see how they would do. So after being home for a hour or so we came back for round two. Travis this time was hysterical. I had to sit with him outside of the area while Jenny did the babies pics. Luckily Ashlynn was happy this round and we were able to get some cute pictures of the two girls. We ended up taking some pictures at home as well, so this will give you an idea of how cute they looked.
Aunt Jenny & Uncle Larry bought Travis a early Birthday gift... a tricycle! Travis would ride it every time we were @ Target, so Aunt Jenny couldn't resit buying it for him. Thanks You!
Jenny, Larry & Ashlynn had to leave Thursday, Travis had his speech therapist coming over @ 11AM and Avery had her 4 months checkup later that day so Dad and Jeannine ended up taking them to the Airport for me. Avery's checkup went good. Her 4 months stats: 13 pounds 1 ounce (50%), 25 inches long (75%), and HC 41 cm (50%). Well that about sums up the tip! Oh, wait I forgot to mention I got wrangled into watching The Strangers. For those who haven't seen it, it's a scary movie about a couple who get killed. Those who know me, know I don't do scary movies... so some how I got out numbered and had to sleep with the closet light on.
Sunday, February 1st was Superbowl Sunday. The guys watched the kids while Nana, Amie, Jenny and I went shopping and to lunch. We made it back in time for the game which turned out to be a great game to watch. Nana's trip ended Monday, so Amie, Jenny and I went to the Carter's Outlet.
Wednesday we attempted to take the kids in for pictures. We tried to take the babies picture together first, but Ashlynn was being a little fussy so I thought we would get Avery's and Travis's picture while Jenny tried to calm Ashlynn down. Travis, the one we thought we wouldn't have to worry about was completely scared of the "big camera". So after lots of bribing, we only ending up getting little Avery's picture; she of course was all smiles! We then attempted to get the babies picture again... it was not happening so we decided to take a later appointment time and see how they would do. So after being home for a hour or so we came back for round two. Travis this time was hysterical. I had to sit with him outside of the area while Jenny did the babies pics. Luckily Ashlynn was happy this round and we were able to get some cute pictures of the two girls. We ended up taking some pictures at home as well, so this will give you an idea of how cute they looked.
Aunt Jenny & Uncle Larry bought Travis a early Birthday gift... a tricycle! Travis would ride it every time we were @ Target, so Aunt Jenny couldn't resit buying it for him. Thanks You!Jenny, Larry & Ashlynn had to leave Thursday, Travis had his speech therapist coming over @ 11AM and Avery had her 4 months checkup later that day so Dad and Jeannine ended up taking them to the Airport for me. Avery's checkup went good. Her 4 months stats: 13 pounds 1 ounce (50%), 25 inches long (75%), and HC 41 cm (50%). Well that about sums up the tip! Oh, wait I forgot to mention I got wrangled into watching The Strangers. For those who haven't seen it, it's a scary movie about a couple who get killed. Those who know me, know I don't do scary movies... so some how I got out numbered and had to sleep with the closet light on.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Accident!
The life of having kids... I just spent the last half hour cleaning Travis's carpet. Travis had decided to pull his diaper off. Instead of fighting him to put it back on, I let him keep it off since we are trying to potty train him. Travis seems to use the potty more when the diaper is off all together. Well today he failed to mention he was going to have diarrhea squirts! He did however tell me he had "yellow" in his room. I hope that's a good enough visual since I didn't want to take pictures of the scene. Oh, I also failed to mention instead of going pee pee in the potty, he went pee pee on the bathroom floor. Needless to say, he is back in a diaper. After dealing with Travis's whole ordeal, Avery smelled stinky so I went to change her diaper and what did I find... oh she had pooed all the way up her back! So my day has consisted of me still in pj's, the kids have been through two change of clothes, a bath, I've managed to brush my teeth, wipe up spelled OJ off the kitchen floor after Travis tried to poor himself a glass and finally have used more paper towels to wipe up all the melted snow from Travis driving his Tonka truck all over which was covered in snow.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Day one of blogging!
Today is the first day of me attempting to blog. This has been a big month for me, not only did I start this family blog, I opened up a facebook account. Who would of thought this day would come. My biggest question is how does everyone seems to find the time? I still have yet to figure out how to make changes to this blog page, maybe by the time I post this and notify you all of its existence I will have.
OK, so the New Year has started off good! Avery will already be 4 months the first of February and Travis is turning three the end of March. I still can't believe I have two kids and one is going to be three! This means I keep getting older and not so hip. Travis is growing up where all kids have cell phones and laptops etc. As a parent I am going to be way behind the curve. Clint is busy working at the Honda shop. It has been a slow winter, and the economy doesn't help, but I can say he is loving every minute of it. We are getting ready for another motocross season. God help me! Britt Promotions (Clint & I) will be promoting three MX races this year. I know Clint lives for this stuff, so I try to be supportive and helpful. Travis loves that his dad owns a motorcycle shop and thinks he can ride all the bikes. He runs around the house making motorcycle sounds, and plays with his toy bikes, then when the rider falls off he says oooohhhh. My saving grace my be my daughter. Avery just might like to be at the lake with her mom wake boarding! :-)
Avery just started to learn how to roll over this week! I will attach a couple of pics. I also spent most of my day Saturday putting together her exersaucer. It had probably 20 more parts than the one Travis had used. Thanks Aunt Jenny & Uncle Larry! We are really excited because Jenny, Larry, baby Ashlynn and my mom (Nana) all
come to visit this Friday! I'll be sure to write all the highlights down. Well time to go, the kids are calling!
OK, so the New Year has started off good! Avery will already be 4 months the first of February and Travis is turning three the end of March. I still can't believe I have two kids and one is going to be three! This means I keep getting older and not so hip. Travis is growing up where all kids have cell phones and laptops etc. As a parent I am going to be way behind the curve. Clint is busy working at the Honda shop. It has been a slow winter, and the economy doesn't help, but I can say he is loving every minute of it. We are getting ready for another motocross season. God help me! Britt Promotions (Clint & I) will be promoting three MX races this year. I know Clint lives for this stuff, so I try to be supportive and helpful. Travis loves that his dad owns a motorcycle shop and thinks he can ride all the bikes. He runs around the house making motorcycle sounds, and plays with his toy bikes, then when the rider falls off he says oooohhhh. My saving grace my be my daughter. Avery just might like to be at the lake with her mom wake boarding! :-)
Avery just started to learn how to roll over this week! I will attach a couple of pics. I also spent most of my day Saturday putting together her exersaucer. It had probably 20 more parts than the one Travis had used. Thanks Aunt Jenny & Uncle Larry! We are really excited because Jenny, Larry, baby Ashlynn and my mom (Nana) all
come to visit this Friday! I'll be sure to write all the highlights down. Well time to go, the kids are calling!
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