Englerville USA: January 2007

ALRIGHT ALREADY

okay, so I'm not very good at keeping up with the typing - but at least I am TRYING right? Isn't that what really counts? right...
It just get's a little tricky with these two. Soon as you think you have a couple of minutes to sit and type - something happens. Like right now. Here I thought "what is my problem, if I just really try to make time to do these things, it will really only take a minute, and they'll be fine!" But Isabella would have to say otherwise. She is crying at me like I haven't fed or held her in weeks and oh the sad sob look! So terrible.

Nothing really in recent news -
spent the week between Christmas at New Years around the house (Brian took off that week), would've been great except for everyone (except me) had a pretty nasty cough.
Rang in the new year at my moms house - Kaylin had so much fun! Jill, Christine and Ashlee were there (for all you homeschoolers that remember them, Ashlee is Mike Callards little girl), along with Marie, Syd and Royce, Aunt Lolita, Don and of course my mom and sisters (hope I didn't forget anyone!). Although they had more fun ringing in New York's new year (on TV) - they were getting so "ready" for our time thinking they had an extra minute, when all of a sudden it was over! So they faked it and rang it in themselves a few minutes later! It was pretty funny.
First week in January when we finally got our snow, Kaylin was ELATED to go out and play in it! She was so excited about making snow people and snow angels and she wanted to fall on the ground and cry "I can't get up, I CAN'T get up!!!" just like in a Christmas Story - she's been talking about it for months. So to finally get to do it was pretty exciting for her. That was, until she got her mittens off. She kept asking me over and over if she could take them off - finally after the millionth time of me telling her that her hands would be freezing if she did, I told her to go ahead and take them off so she could see. That's when the screaming began and the snow fun ended.
I also decided that maybe it was time for Isabella to try some food - since she seems so intent on putting everything in sight into her mouth. I gave her some mushed up cooked carrots and she almost had a heart attack of excitment when she saw it, until she got it into her mouth, as you can see from the photos below! She'll still try things, just making awful faces the whole time! Pretty hysterical!!!
We also decided to repaint the living room a more "light" color, since it's so dark in our house. It does lighten up the room alot - even though I loved the colors we had in there before (green and gray), this is much more pratical and warms up the living room alot.
Well, more on our exciting lives to come...