Getting ready for Summer 2013

     The kiddos are almost finished with Mother's day out for the year, even though I feel like I was just getting everything ready for the beginning of the year.  We have lots of fun things planned and have already been to the beach with the Willards this past weekend - which was great!  It's pretty awesome that our kids are old enough to play so well with their cousins now, and I love getting to know all of my nieces' and nephews' unique personalities.  Mae and Chaney were fast friends.  These sweet girls played dress-up, doctor, had a tea party, and played with Murphy (Mitsi's dog) for three days without any fights (amazing, I know!).  Layton had a great time at the beach. He loves to jump the waves with his daddy, and he and I kicked the soccer ball around for a while. The weather was great. The water was a little cold for me (I hate cold water, one of my things), but it was just fine for everyone else.  Hattie Joy ate so much sand that it turned up in her diaper....She literally became "one with the beach"! Haha! It would be great if we could do a yearly trip to the beach with the whole Pair family :)

     

   

     Layton had his first sleepover Sunday night. It might have been a terrible idea to schedule this the day we came home from the beach (Matt and I were pretty exhausted), but we made it happen because it's difficult to schedule things like this with everyone's activities.  I'm so glad it all worked out. Layton and Luke had a great time playing video games and watching movies. They ate pizza and stayed up  late. All in all, a pretty successful sleepover!

Some quotes from the boys:

Layton: Luke, how old is your mom?
Luke: I'm not sure...probably 99 or something...she's older.

Luke: If you put your head under the covers long enough you'll die.

Layton: I put two pillows at the end of the bed at night so monsters don't get me.



Chaney recently had her 2nd birthday party (which was Little Mermaid themed, just like her friend Ella's).  It was extra special because she had lots of family here for it, including two sets of grandparents! She's also made some GREAT friends in Sugar Land over the past year who came to play.  Our home is now filled with dress-up clothes and pink toys.

Chaney is talking non-stop these days.  She loves to sing and dance and knows several songs including: Ring Around the Rosie, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ABC's, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, You Are My Sunshine, and Jesus Loves Me.  She also knows all her shapes and colors.  I'm thinking about putting her in some dance classes soon.


May 20, 2013

Chaney's words @ 16 months

This is random, I know, but I wanted it in here :)

Tayton (I miss this)
wawa
cup
daddy
mom
pa
nana
hattie
mae
ella
rhett
cracker
berry
car
ball
play
baby
night-night
hot
wet
dog
duck
cheese
potty
diaper
hair
eye
nose
ears
arm
fingers
toes
boat
bubble
sock
shoes
color
cho-cho
mine
apple
what's that
cake
cookie
elmo
purple
mimi
eat
banana
hoho (pirate)
slide
no
play
down
up
bow
wet one
computer
dora
ham
hello
bye-bye

Fall 2012

Layton

Tee-ball is going okay for Layton.  He really enjoys hitting the ball, but getting him to pay attention when someone else is hitting the ball is a different story.  And, getting him to keep his hands out of his pants is another story all together ;)  Layton really loves to color these days, and he is SO good at it.  He's working on filling up a scooby-doo coloring book.  Recently I learned that he's understanding addition. 2+2=4  3+3=6  4+4=8 5+5=10, and he can spell a couple new words, mom, dad, Matt, and he might be able to spell Chaney.  This past week Matt and I went to Boston (which was fabulous! We had THE BEST TIME!), and Layton and Chaney went to Clyde with Matt's mom (Nana).  I'm not sure who had the best vacation! The kids LOVE going "home" to see our families! They were able to go trick-or-treating with their cousins, and play, and play, and play out in the country.  I'm so glad that they're able to do that every-once-and-a-while.  It does make me a little sad that they aren't growing up the same way I did.   We started a "thankful tree" at our house.  We pin a different leaf to our tree every day until Thanksgiving.  So far  the only thing Layton has told me he's thankful for are people. No toys, or TV shows, or games,  I wanted him to come up with some funny, 5 year old stuff, but instead he showed me how much he truly loves his family and how important relationships are to him.

Chaney

Chaney started putting two words together!! This is major!! She says things like car go, nana dog, daddy work.  She still LOVES to look at books, and gets so excited that she squeals most of the time when someone reads to her :) I read to her for over an hour at a time, and I'm pretty sure she would have listened longer. Chaney is doing great at MDO.  Her teachers are always saying that she is one of the leaders of the group.  Probably has something to do with her LOUD voice! Her favorite songs are row-row your boat, abc's, firework (katy perry), and we are never getting back together (taylor swift).  She loves to dance and spin around in circles (a little scary when she does it around the brick fireplace!).  Chaney tries to do ANYTHING Layton does.  The latest is jumping off the couch. I swear she going to break her leg, and today at the park she tried to jump to a pole to slide down the playscape, Luckily I saw her and caught her mid-air, by her leg, before she landed face first on the ground!  

Trip to Boston!!

Boston Common

We had so much calamari while we were there. Yummy! 

Touring the harbor 

Oh yeah, there was a hurricane!

Our swanky hotel

Harvard Campus. This church was beautiful!

I'm so thankful we were able to take this trip. It was much needed time together. We both realized while we were away that we had to start doing this more often.  Real life is always so busy!


November 2012