Settled in

We are all settled in here at Nana and Papa's house.  We are loving the extra space inside and out!!!

Camden the Super angry bird!

Probably the last photo of the "cousins" with baby girl inside!

Camden (about baby cousin): "when's she gonna come outta there?"

Me: Oh probably in a couple weeks!"

Camden: "is she gonna POP out or are we gonna PULL her out?!?"

Camden also had a revelation at lunch the other day... 

"Did you know that Auntie Kyla ATE a baby, she swallowed it!! Her tummy is very big!!!" 

I love it when the kids giggle and have fun together!

Our setup in the basement.  We have an awesome playroom and our computer is set up for me to work.  In the background is my sewing stuff and Daddy's fly tying station!  Please excuse the huge pile of clothes, I just got out their summer things and everything needs ironed! We are really enjoying it down here!

Keaton with Jinx... Jinx really is Keaton's kitty!  She loves him and meets him at the bus every day!  They both enjoy climbing the tree together!

Izzy is a bit jealous of Jinx and was really trying to figure out how she could join them in the tree!

Super Camden with his big muscles!

I will leave you with a Keatonism:

While driving home last night from meeting he was laughing really hard in the back seat.  Of course, this really annoyed his siblings, they kept asking why he was laughing but he just would ignore them and continue.  I told him that he really needed to tell us why he was laughing or just stop please.  He told us something that had happened at school... it really wasn't funny!  Of course none of us laughed.  Keaton asks why we aren't laughing, it really was funny.

Me: "Honey, I just really think that this is one of those times that you had to be there to understand why it was funny"

Keaton: "I know, Mom, I WAS there!!!"

Easter

Well we had our annual Easter egg hunt with Jeff and Anna and Kids on Saturday this year!  The kids are getting REALLY good at finding eggs and in record time! I just love that everyone has a best friend when we get together with them! Camden and Troy have been soooo cute together lately, playing games, chatting, having fun!

Camden, that is a SERIOUSLY cheesy smile!

 

And of course we can't forget the goofy photo! Keaton was quite disgusted that Lily is just smiling!

My three adorable kids on Easter after Meeting!

This "funny face" look that Keaton is giving... that is one we get a lot when he is NOT wanting to do what we ask him to! I think I am seeing into the future teenage years with that look!

Me and my cute hubby!

And in more tooth news, Tiana lost her second tooth last night!  Daddy went to wiggle it and it came right out!!  Of course, as you can see by the permanent tooth behind... it was way overdue! 

The MOVE!

The kids did amazing during our long week of packing and moving!  There were quite a few firsts even though most of our days were filled with boxes!

They entertained themselves with curly fries!
"Look Mom, a mustache!"

Keaton lost his first tooth!!

SOOOO excited! For some reason his little hole is so much more noticeable than Tiana's... I love seeing it while he talks and smiles!

Anytime they could, Tiana and Camden would swipe a sharpie and draw pictures on the boxes!  Packing isn't fun but I loved running across the cutest little drawings.

We had a great turnout on the big moving day!!!  The guys made record time loading all of our things into a semi truck .  Everything gets to hang out in there until our house is done!  A HUGE thank you to ALL that helped us out!!!!

Goodbye House!!!  We closed on this house March 29th 2007... we lived here EXACTLY six years... to the day!  We closed on March 29th 2013!  Crazy little fact that we discovered!

I mentioned that the other first was that Tiana is now riding without training wheels!!

Camden was helping Daddy put together our playset!

Chicks and Ducks 2013

I ran a special in my studio for Easter again!  I just love these photos, they always turn out so fun.  The kids loved the animals again!

 I made her dress using the Farbenmix Elodie Pattern.  I really like this pattern for a different style of peasant dress.  The fitted skirt is just adorable!

Whew... Made it!

Well, we made it through the month!  YAY!  We listed our house and 1 and a half days later it was sold!  We are moved out and mostly settled at my parents house until our house is done being built!  They have a job going in Hawaii so we get to house sit for them for a bit.  The kids have really enjoyed having a big yard to play in this past week!  That explains our absence here though!  We are waiting for the internet to get set up on our computer so that I can upload some photos.

Just a few quick little quotes:

 Camden refers to everything in the past as "yester-time"

Camden: Mommy do you know why we have shoulders?

Me: why?

Camden: So our arms don't fall off!

 

Keaton lost his first tooth on the 25th!! He is VERY excited about this and has the cutest little hole in his mouth! We went to his parent teacher conference before spring break and of course he is doing wonderfully.  He is one of the top in his class and has perfect grades!!  He is reading.... but doesn't think he can read!  We can sit him down with an easy reader book and he can ready most all of it.  However, if he misses even one word he thinks he didn't read it!  One of these days he will get the self confidence, until then we will just keep encouraging and cheering him on.

 

Last Friday, Tiana spent a lot of the day practicing riding Keaton's bike that doesn't have training wheels on.  I saw her but couldn't help her with my ankle and as soon as she saw me watching she would stop trying.  I wasn't sure how well she was really doing but just admiring that she kept trying.  Saturday morning she asked Daddy to take off her training wheels... he did and she took off.  She taught herself how to ride!!  She can stop and start without help and looks like she has been riding without training wheels for months now!  Daddy was a bit sad that he didn't get to teach her.  That is our girl though... VERY stubborn to try anything new until it is HER idea.  Then, watch out because NOTHING will get in her way!

 

Tiana had a rough week with her asthma again... she was put on antibiotics and she is finally big enough for Advair!  YAY, she was able to add this med INSTEAD of Prednisone!!!  Yes it is one more med but any med that will replace Prednisone is good news.  Her specialist was really not happy with how bad her lungs sounded.  This is the first time that he has seen first hand how bad she gets.  He was amazed that she was on ALL her meds and her lungs still sounded so bad.  We went through an hour and a half test today that I will talk about after we get results!  Until then, I will wait on the edge of my chair willing the phone to ring!  I really don't think that she has what we tested for but I will still be greatly relieved once the final results are actually in.

~Update~ We had Tiana tested for Cystic Fibrosis!!  The specialist had said that with a child who's lungs are THIS bad it makes him wonder about Cystic Fibrosis!  All children in the state of Idaho I guess are tested but because she was born in Montana, she had not previously been tested.  We had a sweat test on Tuesday... she did AMAZING through the entire test.  It wasn't a walk in the park for part of it.  We got test results back and it was NEGATIVE!  YAY!  Our gut instinct was that she didn't have it but it still was a huge worry until we found out for sure.  I have to laugh when I think that basically finding out that she has REALLY REALLY bad lungs and asthma is GOOD news! However, in light of the alternative, I will take asthma.  So poor thing will probably have to live with this all of her life but we are learning each month how to better control it!