Snuggle Time!

Bed time! Oh, dreaded bed time! Karson, we have no problem's with; Ansley is an entire different story! Daddy is in charge of bed time. Has been since Ansley was born. Usually, we rotate cleaning the kitchen and bath time, but daddy is always in charge of getting little man to sleep. 7pm is Karson's bed time and Ansley's is usually 7:30-8.  Ansley throw's a huge fit and we spend a good 20 minutes trying to get her to stop crying and go to sleep! Ugh! See, we hate bed time! But, I think we have found a solution! We started a bed time chart on Friday and it seem's to be working great! We use this for both nap and bed time! Naps are usually bad with her too! Everytime she goes to bed without crying, she gets to put a sticker on the chart and get a peice of candy, when she wakes up! It has worked great! I spent $3 on this little experiment and so far its the best $3 spent! That even included the candy! So keep your fingers crossed that we found something that will work!

                                     decided that she wanted to nap on her bedroom floor! :) 

 

This day she refused to take and nap and fell asleep on the couch at 7:15! This NEVER happen's!

every night snuggle's with daddy! :) 

Time marches on

Oh, the time! Where has the last 3 years gone? My baby who isn't such a baby isn't more, will be starting school next year! How is that possible? Seem's like we just found out that we were pregnant with this beautiful little monkey, and yet here she is; three already! She has so much joy, love and passion for other's! She is a mother hen, without a doubt! She is a determined child that presses my buttons on a daily basis! Her love of life, dance, music, reading and learning fasinates me! We are truely blessed! Blessed with two happy, healthy children. Children that give us so much to live for! Children that we love with our entire hearts!

Ansley, was tested for the Webster P.A.L.S program on Friday! She was so excited! Excited to play with the other kids and of course go down the slide! :) We walked into that building and all of the sudden it hit me; my baby girl isn't old enough for school! The confidence she had when we entered that building was amazing to see! She was ready! They were doing devolopmental screening to see how she much she knew and what area's if any she might need extra help in. She was screened for hearing, vision and of course her smarts! :) She passed with flying color's and I couldn't help but smile from ear to ear when they said how well she was doing! Such a proud moment! She knew her shapes, ABC's, could count to 11, most of her colors, her name and many other thing's. They also asked her question's that either she forgot the answer too or was too nervous to tell them. For example the colors: orange, purple, black and brown. She wouldn't tell them her full name. Didn't know where her ankle was and had a few problem's pronouncing words. All of these she of course knows! Crazy girl! :) She was also asked to be a peer model for the 3 year old program next year. :) The testing lasted about an hour and she was not ready to leave! :) She will be almost 4 when school starts and will be one of the oldest's in her class! So proud of her!

Ok, enough with the bragging,  here she is with her name tag on!

 

 

Ouch!

 

Poor little man! He can't seem to catch a break! Karson has been teething for months now! We got a late start to getting teeth, but when he finally started getting them, it has been horrible! I believe we have 14 teeth in and working on at least 2 more! The only good news about all of this, is that we only have the 2 year molar's left! His poor bottom has been red, sore, blisters and even bleeding at times. The last two night's, he won't even sit down to take a bath! Did I mention the poop!!?? Pooping at least 6 times a day! :( Poor little man. I finally called the doctor to get some "heavy duty" medicine, but that doesn't seem to be helping either! We have tried Desitin, A&D, utter butter and a homemade mixture of mylanta and vaseline! The homemade mixture has always worked in the past, but for some reason not this time! I've gotten lots of advise from my friends on FB, so maybe by tomorrow we will have good results!  I worked yesterday and when I walked into the door this morning he had already pooped and pooped again within the hour. We have been doing a lot of cuddling today and running around the house naked trying to "dry" up the booty!

 

 

 

 

He had a cool bath this morning. baking soda and cool water. Seemed to help! He actually sat down. He was mad a big sis in this pic, not crying because it hurt

 

 

enjoying it!!

Karson Michael!

 

O, little man how you melt my heart! You are such a snuggle bug! You want to be held all the time! You are changing more and more everyday! It amazes me how much you have grown and learned in such a short amount of time! You are speaking and understanding at such an amazing pace! I love you little man!

 

 

 

 

 

 

First real haircut

Today I took Ansley to get her first real haircut! Her hair was really getting long, but it was so uneven and thin that it needed a good cut! Here she is before!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After :) So much thicker!

 

 

More from the iphone!

Here are several pictures from December and part of January!

 

tractor ride with dad!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

tired babies

 

 

Girl's day shopping in Wichita

 

baking! :)

 

 

Front page of the paper! So proud of her!

 

 

Getting ready for dance

 

want's be be like the big girl's :)

 

crazy face

 

Christmas day!

 

painting

 

fishing in the tub

 

snow fun!

 

 

Snow!

With the little bit of snow that we got earlier last week, we adventured over to gma and gpa's to go sleding behind the golf cart! The snow sure didn't last long and both kids did not like the sled! :( We played for over an hour outside and even built a snowman! :)