William Tell Overature Mom

I received this in a e-mail from a friend a little while back. It is so true. Sit back and enjoy!!!

Friends & New Orleans

So, I'm not to quick at posting pictures very soon after they happen, but I guess better late than never! Almost two weeks ago, our friends (BJ & Jana) flew in from Colorado to help Jason & Michelle wire their new house (BJ is an electrician).
Thursday and Friday were spent working on the house. Friday night we took them to the Rice Festival. It's a huge thing here. The kids even get off of school for it. Anyway, we usually only go to the kid's parade and where they have the fun jumps, because the main part is quite disgusting. There is trash EVERYWHERE. We took them down the main street so they could see everything. It was pretty interesting watching some of the people there.
On Saturday, we left the kids with babysitters and went down to New Orleans. I haven't been down there since Katrina except to go to the airport. We did drive through a couple parts where there were houses that were still destroyed, but we stayed mostly in the French Quarter. We ate lunch in a restaurant that used to be a house a LONG time ago. The food was great. We didn't have a whole lot of time, so we pretty much just walked around looking at the main places. We did go to Cafe Du Monde and had beignets. They were delicious.

Cute Pictures

Here are some pictures that I have taken since I blogged in September.

Kylee riding in a ice cream truck at the mall.

Kylee in her "football helmet"

Having fun at Wendy's

Kylee found Joshua's hat and belt.

Kylee & Leah

I have been having problems with my laptop and they finally ended up giving me a new one, so now I can blog again. Yea!

Kylee's friend Leah just had her 2nd birthday. Here are a few pictures from the party.

shoe ideas?

Yesterday I went looking at shoes for Kylee. She is already needing a size 7 (hopefully she doesn't inherit my big feet!!). Anyway, her feet are still chunky on top and so she needs wide width. Since this seems so common, you would think that stores would carry more of them. I did find her some tennis shoes for about $20 which I was very excited about (thanks to Rack Room Shoes). I was wondering if anyone who might have had kids that needed wide shoes had found somewhere that you didn't have to pay $40-$50 a pair. I have looked on the internet, but haven't had much luck their either. Hopefully her feet will be back to normal by the time she gets into the next size.
Well, I just thought I'd toss the question out there so see if any of you might have some ideas. Thanks so much.

productive??

So, yesterday I decided to mow the front lawn. Kylee played by the front door where it wasn't "so hot" as Kylee put it! I was all happy with myself because I had got something productive done (which I hadn't felt like I had all day - must have something to do with having a 2 year old).
Our front door isn't that new. It was probably original with the house. It's wood and the front of it at the bottom is trying to peel some, but I went ahead and just painted over it and we were going to fix it later somehow. Having explained about our door, I come around the corner and find Kylee with pieces of our door in her hands! She found something that was loose and decided that it needed to come off. Having never told her not to peel the door (sounds funny just saying that), she wasn't in trouble but was told to never do that again. :-) Now I laugh whenever I come in the door. I still am going to do some touch up, though.

Oh, I tell Josh on the phone about what she did and he laughs and says, "I wonder who she got her destructiveness from?" Huh, I wonder!!! (After all, Josh IS her dad) :-)

So, at the end of the day the question comes to mind, how productive is the mom on a 2 year old???? Seems like I get one thing done and have to turn around and do something else that was messed up as I did the first thing! I'm not complaining, just stating the facts. The other fact is that Kylee brings joy, happiness, craziness, laughter, love, amazement, etc (oh yes, and insanity) to our lives. Gotta love her.

just us

Joshua is doing Air Force Reserve stuff all this week, so it's just Kylee and me. When I am not getting my work done, we have been playing outside, reading books, getting ALL the toys rearranging them all over the house (this is normal, but without daddy home for lunch and in the evenings to take some of her attention off of me). We both can't wait till he arrives home.

Kylee & Gracie

Kylee and Gracie are only 4 months apart and have become great friends. Sometimes Gracie's mom and I switch off watching both of the girls. It's nice for the girls, and us!

"nap time" which turned into a glimpse of future slumber parties, laughing and giggling, talking, and no sleep

looking out the window at church

posing for the picture (and talking to Valarie)