We've been potty training in our house. It's been a long week...a very, very, very LONG week. But Miss Caroline is kicking butt and taking names. She turns 2 in August right before her little sister comes and mom does not want to be changing two sets of diapers. So last Wednesday we took the plunge! The moon was in the right sign and it was go time.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Chocolate Bunny Worthy
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Spread the news
Ollie Faith's open heart surgery has been set. Please pray for her, the doctors and medical staff at Barnes-Jewish, and our family. Surgery is Thursday June 9th. Here is her prayer card-please steal it, print it, post it everywhere. Thanks to our family friend Jamie McDonald for capturing her gorgeous eyes and working this card up for us to pass out.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
holy COW!
miss caroline loves cows. i mean L-O-V-E-S cows. you say anything about them and she just starts talking her talk and throws in ta-ow(which is cow) she loves daddy ta-ows, momma ta-ows, and of course baby ta-ows. now that we live with my sister, we are much much much closer to the cow action than before. so, occasionally when we want to kill a little time we'll take her down the road to see all of the cows.
i've always grown up with cows around. my dad has always had a ton at his cattle farm down the road, plus we had "bucket" calves at our house. i have always loved cows too. they're cute. they're not that smelly. and they are delicious. yeah, we raise them and eat them. and we are very fortunate to be able to have farm fresh beef. this year my dad is actually building a butcher shop at my parents house so he can cut up his own beef.
sorry, side tracked. i took caroline to see the cattle one day, she loved it...of course. while there we also saw a bunny. so now anytime we go to the barn or even mention cows, she says bunny then hop, hop, hop. it's cute. my girl is cute. now picture time.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
sugar & spice and everything nice
baby daniel number two is a GIRL! we've known, our family has known, most of our friends have known. i'm just a bad blogger. kylie and i are very excited to get another little miss. especially kylie, he can't wait for two little girls to be obsessed with him. i am thrilled too! i wanted caroline to get a sister. my sisters are my best friends and i wanted that for her too.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Come again?
They really did perms like this back in the day. Can you imagine a wet solution on your hair then hooked up to wires?! |
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Jasper
i promised to blog more, but obviously i'm failing. so after much hounding of family and friends (mostly 7 emails from the dearest heiserman.) so here i am racking my brain, and boom! welcome to a blog all about my brother (in law) Jade aka Jasper. Now that my family lives in the reid household, i've learned some new things about my brother i never knew before. and yes he's is truly my brother, considering he came around when i was 9 and he's been with my sister, annie, for like 14 years, he no longer get "in-law" after his title. i really love him like a brother and know that i can go to him anytime for help. i love him.
Annie, sweet Ollie, and Jasper |
so it's been almost three weeks since we hauled our treasures into the beloved basement and things are going great...or at least i think so. i've always known that their are just certain things that jade reid WON'T eat : the 3 M's-mushrooms, mustard, and mayonnaise. he's extreme about his dislikes too. he can't just pick out mushrooms, nope. no way. uh uh, won't do it. he'll skip dinner and go straight for pie(who could blame him there though!) he won't eat a burger with mustard, even if it's scraped off and topped with ketchup. won't do it! but there are things he will eat. things that i would raise my nose to and clench my teeth and say nope. no way. uh uh, won't do it.
one of these things would be "oatmeal and dumplings" in the words of jade. what is this mess you ask? well it's a bowl of oatmeal with two slices of bread inside. two whole pieces just smothered in oatmeal. then he breaks it up and eats it. he claims is awesome. annie says it's terrible. i'm with her 100%.
he also eats cookies as cereal. he fills up a glass of milk, dumps like 6 cookies in, swirls it with a spoon til they are mushy and broken up, then he enjoys. that is just not right. just. not. right!
oh and both him and annie drink milk with dinner. seriously?! you can't drink milk with spaghetti. that is unamerican!
so i've learned he has some weird eating habits. i've always known he loves my sister and he is a great dad and an extremely hard worker, so seeing those qualities everyday was not a shock. but oatmeal in dumplings. gross jade. just gross. but i can look past that and still love you.
p.s. jade also works in the upstairs of my salon. so not only do i see him at home, but at work too. good thing he's not one of "those" in-laws like my zac. BOOM! just kidding abbie. i love zac too, but i can't write about his weird food cravings or this blog would never end! oh and tiff, i love kolby too. but what could i write about him, maybe everyone should know about the red afro that floats around in our babies' blood streams, lets just hope they aren't girls that inherit that hairdo!
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Meet Penelope Jane
This blog is long over due.
On August 23rd at 6:28pm, Miss Penelope Jane Daniel was born. Weighing in at 9lbs 1oz and 20 1/2" long. She was and is beautiful. Blue eyes just like daddy and a nose like mommy. I thought she looked just like Caroline right after she was born. But after a few days she started to look more and more like my side of the family. She was absolutely beautiful. Miss Penelope is very easy. She took on to nursing like a champ. And has been a great baby since birth. She is almost 5 months old now and is doing lots of new tricks. She recently started rolling from her back to her belly and gets very mad when she gets stuck on her belly. She loves eating oatmeal cereal and her fruits and veggies. especially applesauce. Caroline is a great big sister. She loves to help mommy with Penelope all the time. She likes to play with Penelope and hold her and kiss her. She says Penelope is her best friend. She calls her LP. And LP-a. She also calls me, mom-mia And her dad, dad-dia. Life with two girls is not that much different than life with one girl. It's just one more butt to wipe!
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