Joy Festival, slip-n-slide, and Build-a-bear!

Last weekend (6-12) we went to the Joy Festival. Basically its a parade with small things for the kids and porkchop sandwiches. The kids loved the parade and Brenna loved the bounce house.


Brenna throwing rocks.





I love how Collier is looking at his big sis in this picture!


Trying again to get the two of them together.


Cousins! I think this might be the first successful picture of all of three of them together!

Grandma and Bubby!

Hi Bubby!

Mimi's turn with Bubby!


Bounce house time!

Face painting!

They painted some flowers on her arm.

At the Festival Brenna won a slip-n-slide. So of course we had to play with it that night. Brenna was pretty hesitant because the water was cold, but Bubby loved it! He is definitely our little water baby!

On Sunday our plan was to go to Monkey Joe's but we ended up going to Build-a-bear. Brenna LOVED it, and of course Collier just wanted to run around the store and act like the crazy little boy he is! :-)

Brenna chose a white horse (imagine that).

Putting the heart with a wish in!

Giving the horse a bath.

Bubby with his monkey that we named Cubbie!

The kids togeher. Collier REFUSED to put the sippy down. Little stinker!


Brenna with Sleeping Beauty. She even picked out a Sleeping Beauty dress!

I have a couple more post to make, so hopefully I'll get this blog updated in the next couple days!

Random post

This is just a random post. Just little things the kids are doing that I have forgot to put in the blog.

Collier

*He blows kisses, has been for about a month now. Very, very, cute!

*He does the shhh thing. But instead of putting his finger up to his lips he puts it in his mouth and says Shhhh!

*He is refusing to drink out of sippy cups. He wants real OPEN cups. Oh boy! He does fairly well at it, but sometimes gets the shock of spilling all over himself.

*He has starting sitting on the potty. He doesn't go on the potty, but just sitting on the potty is a good start. I'm not potty training him, but I think its important to get him comfortable with the potty. He just grins and grins when I set him on there.

*He beat boxes. Hahah....well kind of. On Yo Gabba Gabba there is a "Biz's beat of the day". If we say It's Biz's beat of the day he starts "beat boxing". LOL! It's pretty cute!

*He loves putting things in the dogs' kennels. You'll often find shoes, toys, the remote, my phone, etc. in the kennels.

*He LOVES giving kisses.

*He is learning that certain things go together. For example, if I put his shoes on he goes to the door and starts waving bye. He knows its bye-bye time. He knows certain toys go together, or that the remote controls the tv. He's starting to notice the relationship between things

*Some new words include: down, done, duck, ball, night-night, and up. I would say he says about 3o-35 words. I have no idea if that is good or not. I usually don't pay attention to the "This is what your kid should be able to do at a certain age".

*He loves food, and when he eats he constanly says MMMMM!

***Okay, we were just talking about Obama and I swear he's saying Bama, Bama, Bama....lol!

*He also loves to tickle. He'll come up to you and "tickle you" and say tick, tick, tick. He thinks its hilarious!

*He also loves to give raspberries. If he sees my belly he instantly starts giving me "belly blows" as we call them. And of course when I laugh, he keeps doing it more!

Some recent Brenna funnies.

Brenna: Mom I have to go the bathroom.
Me: Okay.
Brenna: You watch Bubby, o-tay!!!
Me: haha...okay Brenna I'll watch him.
Sometimes she thinks she's the little Mommy!

Conversation we had at the doctor's office bathroom.
Brenna: **Sitting on the toliet** Hey Mom, apple juice makes my pee, and food makes my poopie.
Me: yep! That's pretty much how it works.

Brenna was petting Lola and then said Hey Mom! Lola has lots of boobies on her belly, that's funny! Then pointing to her "boobies" she said, My boobies are up here!

She saw President Obama on the tv the other day. She said "Mom, that's Obama! He's the Presient." She's known who Obama was for close to a year (around election time she learned who he was), but it shocks me that she remembers who he is, and knows he's the President. Now, she doesn't understand how important the President is or what is role is, but she knows he's important. Smart girl!

I know there's more but these are just the ones I wrote down.

Memorial Day Weekend

For the most part we had a pretty relaxing weekend. Memorial day weekend always seems to be busy but we just stayed at home for the most part. The pictures are backwards (my pet peeve with blogger) so we'll start on Sunday.

On Sunday, we went fishing with Grandma and Grandpa. It was horribly mugging out and pretty much started horribly. Collier fell into some ashes that were from a fire, what I didn't know was that the ashes were still hot. :( :( So we had to take him to the ER, luckily only his right foot was injured. He had a couple nasty blisters on his big toe and pinkie. I am very thankful that it was only his foot.

Sleeping in the car. We just got home from the ER.

Before the "accident". We went to the Bay, don't know how I let Wyatt talk me into the Bay instead of a pond. Not a fan of the Bay at all.

Our little Diva! Fishing with style!

On Saturday, we set up the pool for the kids. They pretty much played in it all day.

She insisted on wearing the floaties...goof!

Little man!

All smiles!

So cute!

She thinks she's a little model!

On Friday we ran some errands. We were looking at flowers and plants at WalMart and Brenna insisted on getting a watermelon plant. I figured if were going to get watermelon mine as well get tomatoes, squash, peppers, etc. So we came home and planted a "garden". It's a ghetto garden! I had intentions to tilling a garden area and never got around to it, so I planted the plants in containers. We already have some plants coming up, and the tomato plants have flowers on them. Next year, I will make sure we actually till up an area and have a BIG garden. The ghetto garden is doing just fine though, and it's a great learning experience for B.

Can't believe I got them both smiling!

Watering the "ghetto garden".

Bubby thinking he needs to help.

Don't laugh! hahah! The garden!

Some pictures and what we've been up too!

The kiddos have been doing really good and we've all been enjoying the beautiful weather! Wyatt is still working at GPC but we are almost 100% he will be going back to Allsteel by the end of the summer. This is great news! The hours are rough at GPC and he struggles to get sleep when he's working nights. So, hopefully soon he will be back at Allsteel.

I'm also doing great! I got an A in my second class at Ashford, so I'm still maintaining a 4.0. I also lost 25lbs and 20+ inches (I'm still losing inches) on the HCG diet. I'm now into phase 3 where you are suppose to maintain your new weight and I'm doing really well with that. I'm planning on continuing the diet in July after my maintiance phase is done. I'm really trying to have a better balance of "wife"/mother/student, and so far I'm doing good. I never have enough time, but what mother does?

Okay..enough about us...lets get to the kiddos! :-)

My children amaze me everyday with how much their learning and the funny things they say and/or do.

Brenna is still doing great in school. I am so GLAD we enrolled her in school so early. We saw 2 of her friends at walmart/grocery store last week, and she was SO excited. You would have thought we saw Santa Claus. She also got her first pedicure and manicure in the last week, and she saw her first movie (Shrek forever after) last Friday. She loved the mani/pedi, and it was nice to spend some girl time with her and Mimi. She did AWESOME at the movies. We purposelly went to an early showing, so there would be less people. She had her restless moments and forgot that you weren't suppose to talk, but all in all she did great.

Some funnies from B in the last week:

Conversation I had when I picked her up from school.
Me: Brenna, did you play outside today.
B: Yes...its was SO, SO, hot outside. It's like 7 degrees out here. (It actually was 95 that day...lol).

Brenna: Mom what are you doing?
Me: Nothing, just on the computer.
Brenna: Are you doing facebook or homework? lol!

I was talking on the phone and Brenna kept trying to talk to me and finally I said WHAT?!?! Brenna: I just love you mom
Me: (feeling a little guilty) awww....sweetie I love you too!
Brenna: Did you know it's "Love day".
Me: I love you everyday
Brenna: I love you everyday too, cuz you're my Mom.
**Love her so much, she's so sweet!**

Today I took her for a bike ride and we were getting ready to go down her Grandma's road, and she said, c'mon Mom let's go see Wyatt's mom. haha....okie dokie sweetie.

Collier.....this boy wears me out. He is go, go, go...ALL day. He is almost 14 months and still weighs about 22 lbs and is about 30 inches tall. He's pretty much in all 24 month clothing. He is talking so much. He probably says "Mom" 200 times a day. He follows me everywhere I go. He wants to be with me 24/7......a little Momma's boy! He loves strawberries and would probably eat a whole carton a day if I'd let him. He also has a funny little grunt he does when he wants something, almost sounds like a monkey. Some new words are cheese and kiss. My mom said he said bite and me the other day, but I have yet to hear it. He's also been saying Na-Na a lot. I can't quite figure out what it means. Maybe night-night? He loves to "drive" his red car and "talk" on the phone. He's also obsessed with brushing his teeth. Everytime he goes to the bathroom he thinks he needs to brush his teeth. He's just growing and growing and is more toddler than baby. :(

Time for the pictures!

I was taking some pictures of Bubby, and of course Miss B had to get in on the action.


He loves going in the kennel with Lola.


He kept getting right up in the camera, saying "Cheese"! So stinkin' cute!


Waiting to get her mani/pedi.


Lovin' her pampering!


Out like a light!


I thought this was funny. Wyatt was in the tree trying to cut tree limbs with a little hand saw. It only lasted about 20 minutes...goof!

Mother's Day

This was by far the BEST MOTHER'S DAY EVER!! LOVED IT! We started the day by meeting my parents for breakfast. We then went home so Collier take a nap. Then we headed to Muscatine to check out Weed park and the play ground down by the river. The kids loved feeding the ducks at Weed park and we were even lucky enough to see some adorable ducklings. We plan on bringing Brenna there to fish next weekend.

Brenna in our yard.












The play ground was a lot of fun and it's so pretty to look out at the Mississippi while the kids played. Brenna loved the play area and Collier warmed up to but for the first half hour he just liked making us chase him.














Brenna helping Daddy mow last week.


Collier made Daddy take him for a ride too!

Carnival Time!!!

Yesterday, was Brenna's school carnival, and it was a lot of fun. The theme was Nature, so the games all involved nature things. Some of the games were birdseed dig, bowling (the pins were recycled bottles), a recycling game, bean bag toss, and a fishing game. There was also a jump house, petting zoo, and an area for the kids to plant a flower. Brenna was really excited that Grandma and Grandpa were able to go. Mommy really appreciated the extra help!

This was the golf ball toss.


Planting a flower.


Bubby doing the golf ball toss!


The birdseed dig! Brenna really liked this!


Petting Milly's bunny!


Bowling!


Bubby in the "nature tunnel"!


She caught a big one! :-)






Today we went and tried on dresses for Katie's wedding. Of course Brenna was in heaven and she looked so pretty and grown up! I don't know if she can't wait the whole 5 1/2 months until the wedding...lol!



Posing with Aunt Katie!