Bathing Beauties

Kynadi had her friend Pace come over after pre-school the other day. They wanted to run thru the sprinklers and since it has finally been nice around here I let them. I was even nice enough to let Brooklyn stay up from a nap to join them. I was just doing the dishes and watching from the Kitchen window when I see this site:

Pace had gotten dressed up so Brooklyn made herself fancy as well. Oh to be a child and not care!

The Giggles

This was great. The other night after baths the girls were singing to Linken. He thought it was so funny. Unfortunately, I didn't catch the best of it on video, but I still think it's pretty cute. I don't know what's better though, Linken giggling or Brooklyn doing the actions. I love my kids.

The TV Critic

Alright, I don't know what everyone is watching out there, but obviously not the best shows on television, since they are all being cancelled. The past few weeks in "TV Land" have been very disturbing to me.
It all started with Prison Break. I know, I know, there is a lot of violence, but I have been addicted to this show for the last 4 years. Now Michael Scofield is dead and the show is over. WHAT?!?!?!? Not only am I disturbed that the series is over, but I felt like Michael was a part of my life. Oh the mourning. I even got the name of my son from this show. Lincoln is Michael's brother, and I have loved the name since first hearing it on the show. Strangely in fact, Lincoln's son is named L.J. My Linken is Linken John...maybe he could be L.J. too. Anyway, I'm sidetracking.
Next on my complaints....I just learned today that the show Life is being cancelled. NBC must be crazy. This is one of the best shows I've seen on TV EVER. Have you ever watched this show? Charlie Crews is great. His zen comments alone would keep me watching for years. I'll buy some fruit and mourn this one as well (you'd understand if you watched). My only prayer is that the rumors that USA will pick up the show are true.
Moving on. American Idol lost Danny. He would have won tonight had America voted correctly. C'mon why didn't you vote for Danny!?!?! Too late now.
24...now this one is debatable. Jack can't die or I'm done with TV for good. How could 24 go on without Jack? I really don't believe this will happen, but the way things are going in other series Kiefer Sutheland better start looking for work.
House is giving me some hope. House in a psych hospital could make for some good TV, that's still to be seen though.
Now to help the ratings here are a few shows that I still have hope for, so start WATCHING, what else do you have to do? "Lie to Me", "Flashpoint", and "Numbers". I really think that's all that's left. Please help these stay on, so I have something decent to watch online when I'm up with my children in the middle of the night.

All about my little Kynadi

I just wanted to write a post about my little Kynadi so when she's older she'll know how much I love her and get to know the cute little things about her at the ripe old age of three.

First I'll start by saying she just told me 3 + 3 = 6. Pretty good for her age I think. She's just a smart little kid. In fact a few weeks ago Kynadi was being evaluated for this pre-school next year. I will say that they mostly work with kids who have problems, whether it be physical, emotional, or intellectual, but anyone can have their child screened. The first screening she was given a couple months ago and she scored 99/100. The only question she missed was what her middle name was....she doesn't have one so she didn't answer. Anyway, so she was being given the "intellectual" part of the 2nd screening. They asked her to say her ABC's and she did it perfectly. The 2 ladies looked at each other impressed and said they had never had a 3 yr old say it perfectly. That one surprised me, but Kynadi kept impressing them. As they continued through the "test" they kept commenting on how they hadn't had any other child that age go as far into the test as Kynadi was going (they continue asking harder and harder questions as the child continues to get them right). My favorite was when they asked Kynadi why we wear clothes. Kynadi's response was so that we can keep our bodies modest. They were surprised by the response...I was proud. I don't know many three year olds that even use the word modest, much less know what it means. That may just be due to our world these days, but I can still be proud. Well, they finally just ended the test when Kynadi had reached the 6-7 yr old level. This just solidified to me, as a mother, what a smart little kid my Kynadi bean is. She just picks up on everything (not always good :) ) and loves to learn. I wish I had her memory too. She often has to help me remember where I put things, and she'll often talk to me about things that happened long ago, things I only remember because she brings them up.

Kynadi is also the best little helper. I oftentimes treat her as if she is much older, but she seems older than she is for some reason. She helps with Brooklyn and Linken all the time, whether it's getting diapers for me, helping Brooklyn get clothes and dressed, or just playing with Linken so I can shower, or get things done. The only thing she really complains about is when I tell her to clean her room...this often results in break downs and fits. She'll complain that Brooklyn did it or that it is too big of a mess. If we could jump this hurdle life would go pretty smoothly most days.

Kynadi is the sweetest little thing. She is always concerned about others and wants to help. You couldn't ask for a better big sister. She gets upset when there is contention in the house and always says, "hey! we had a plan, no more getting mad at each other". Just now she was leaning on me and I said, "don't do that Kyandi" and she corrected me, "you should have said, 'Please Kynadi don't do that". Definitely keeps me on my toes.

I thought this was a precious moment. A few weeks ago, Kynadi and I were talking as I was tucking her into bed. We had just read The Rescuers, where the little girl gets adopted at the end. She loves this story because the little girl gets a mom and dad. She was asking me about adoption and then somehow this turned into a HUGE discussion about death. She gets very worried about death. She told me that if we all die together than it will be ok because we will all go to Jesus together. Then at one point she told me, "I almost started to cry" and had a sad look on her face, but was fighting the tears. She actually did start to cry as she told me how sad it would be if Brooklyn died. I was crying but I was trying to teach her about life after death, and at the same time comfort her that we will hopefully not have to face the death of anyone in our family for a long time. I told her if she gets worried about dying she can just pray to Heavenly Father and ask him to allow us to live longer. Now EVERY prayer she includes, "help us to stay on the earth longer". So if I live for a long time it will be because of the faith of my three year old.

So that's just my post about my favorite 3yr old. I love her and am grateful to be her mom...she definitely teaches me a lot.

Easter

For some reason I'm always slow posting Easter pics...but here some are.

Kels was with us for Easter again, which is always fun. Kynadi especially loves it.

Before Kelsey came, we went to the Easter Egg hunt at the Convalescent center. Earlier in the week our primary had helped paint the Easter eggs for the hunt, so that was fun to be able to find some of the eggs we painted. After this last week (I was in charge of a Fabulous Friday) everything is kinda a blurr, but that night when Kels came, the girls painted eggs and had their own little Easter egg hunts for each other. I thought that was cute.

Easter was good, not too eventful, but enjoyable.

This was the only pic I got of the two girls in the Easter outfits Grandma bought.

I completely forgot to take a pics of the girls in their Easter dresses...but I got some good pics of Linken in his Easter outfit..he's such a cutie

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Good-bye Norman...Hello Beamie

So after 10 good years I had to say goodbye to Norman the Neon. He was a good car, and never had a problem until just recently. His trannie had something wrong and the fix was pricey. John took this as a great opportunity to find himself a different car (which he had been trying to convince me of for some time). Apparently Norman was too "bubbly" for John. He said it was a girl car...well I did buy it and I am a GIRL.

So anyway, he finally found himself Beamie (as I call her). I actually think he takes more pride in it than me. If you could cheat on your spouse with a car...John would be a first class adulterer...glad this isn't the case though. Anyway, Beamie is older than Norman and has more miles, but John is more than happy, so I guess that's what really counts.

I was a bit sad to hand Norman over. We had posted him on KSL and in less than an hour he was sold. Someone from GR actually saw the add and called like 15 min after we had posted. I took this as a sign, I guess, and we have parted ways. I still think Norman looks better inside and out...Beamie is OLD, but I have a better car than both of those to drive, so I can't complain.