Noodle creations

So I forgot about this until I was going through my recent videos. I had this great idea awhile back to make Noodle Creations (my own invention). My thought was the kids could make shapes, pictures, numbers, ect. out of noodles. I thought it would be fun. I had told Kynadi all about it, and we couldn't wait for Boston to get here so we could do it with him. Unfortunately things didn't go quite as planned...

This video shows most of the excitement for the project...maybe when their older...huhh or maybe NEVER again.

Happy Birthday Grandma

Yesterday was my mom's birthday. We celebrated it on Sunday though, so Kelsey could be with us. As you can see, after the tradgedy with John's cake, I just bought this one. The girls made her some earings and we sent her on a Scavenger hunt...since that's what we all get to do on our Birthdays. We Love Grandma and think she is the best thing EVER. Kynadi even broke down in tears when I told her grandma was going to be gone to visit Corbyn and Landen. She doesn't want Grandma to leave and also she was sad that she doesn't get to see Corbyn and Landen. Anyway, we hope you had a great Birthday mom... we LOVE YOU!!!!

John's Birthday

Well John got a flu bug for his birthday so it was a pretty uneventful day. He had already bought himself new rims for his present, so he didn't even have any presents to unwrap. To make matters worse, the "cute" cake I was going to make for him turned into this diaster:


This is supposed to be an Astro's baseball hat...obviously I ran into some problems. Happy Birthday anyway hun. We love you and are grateful for all you do for us!!!!

Kynadi's Graduation

Kynadi had her graduation from pre-school at the end of May. She loved being in Mrs. Kari's class and I know we'll definately miss it next year...but you can't turn down free pre-school. Here are some pics of her big event.

Linken and K-bean medical update

We took Kynadi and Linken in for check-ups recently. Linken is looking really good. The docs are very happy to see how round he is becoming. He's already out grown his helmet and next week we will go get his new one. Nothing else to say there. His progress is great.

Kynadi, on the other hand is digressing. She has been out of her brace now for about six months. On her x-rays back in Nov. they said her curve was only about a 15 degree curve. But this time on her x-rays it showed about a 34 degree curve. I met with the nurse practitioner in the orthopedic office this time rather than Dr. Smith her normal doc, and I LOVED her. She actually explained things and took the time to look at the x-rays and compare. She showed me how she was measuring Kynadi's back and even showed me how her measurements on the last x-ray were at 22 degrees. I was very impressed with her, and would like to see her all the time. We'll see though, I'm not sure how to tell Dr. Smith I think he sucks!
Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked.
So obviously Kynadi isn't able to maintain the straightness in her back, so she's going back to the brace. We went to SLC last week to get her cast for her new one. She did GREAT. She held still the whole time they were casting her. I wish I would have had my camera. You could tell she was a bit nervous laying on the table with 4 grown-ups around her, putting the slimy casting "stuff" on her, but she didn't complain at all. Anyway, we go back to SLC again next Tuesday to get her brace and Linken's helmet. We'll see how wearing it again goes. Dealing with a new brace on top of potty training Brooklyn and dealing with Linken teething sounds like good times to me :)

What a Character

Our little miss Brooklyn is such a funny little thing. I don't know quite how to describe it, she is just entertaining to watch. She always has facial expressions and is soo determined. Her newest word is "hit" and she is doing most of it (in fact she just hit me to get my attention). The best part is she hits Kynadi and then comes to me to tell on herself, "hit, hit" she'll say. I'll ask her if Kynadi hit her and she'll answer truthfully with a "no" then I'll ask if she hit Kynadi, she'll say, "yes". I tell her no more hitting and then we're done...she runs off on her way.

Funny story:

The other night the girls were supposed to be going to bed. I had let them both sleep on Brooklyn's floor, in hopes Brooklyn would get used to being out of the crib. We've done this a few nights; always with threats that if she gets up she'll have to go back in the crib. Most nights she gets put in the crib. Well this particular night I happened to be walking down the hall and heard a little jiggle on the doorknob of her room. So I bent over next to the door to surprise Brooklyn when she opened it. When she finally did open the door, there I was. She looked at me a bit surprised and knew she was busted. So how does she respond? She grabs her crotch and tells me, "potty". LOL How much she has learned. Kynadi never gets in trouble when she gets out of bed to go potty...I think you have to be potty trained to use that excuse. Too the crib she went.

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.