Kaiya's 10th Glamour Birthday Party

Kaiya turned the big 1-0! I was so busy with baby/bridal showers, Kaylee's wedding, Cirdan and Ella's birthday and the pregnancy that by the time Kaiya's birthday came around I was partied out. I felt as if it was her 9th or 11th birthday I could have skipped it but it was an important one. Which means I had a busy week planning another party. Kaiya wanted a dress up/glamour party. We had to skip a couple of her ideas because I didn't have enough time/energy. The party did come together however and the girls had a lot of fun!

Kaiya invited about 13 girls and only one couldn't come. I was sure that inviting that many there would only be around 8 or less that actually came. I was wrong! When the RSVP's started rolling in I started getting scared. These girls all dance together and they are a great group for Kaiya to be friends with. All of them are so supportive of one another.

I saw these glasses on Pinterest and had to make them. Taking the Starbucks stickers off them was a pain but now I have a bunch to use for future parties.

Eating pizza and hanging out

A girl that I know sells Mary Kay so I had her come and let the girls learn how to apply makeup. They had fun putting it on themselves. I also had a table set up where they could paint their nails.

They played outside for a while. The rest of the time they were upstairs and running around the house screaming and being loud.

Kaiya's cake. I knew what I wanted but couldn't find it at the stores that I tried. I asked my mom to ask the lady at the bakery where she works (Albertsons) if she could come up with something and this is what I got. It was perfect!!

Kaiya and Bailee

Kaiya got a lot of really nice gifts and some cash. She was especially excited about the money.

All the girls

The invite

It was a fun night! I can't believe my baby girl is already 10. She is growing up so fast. Looking back at pictures it seems just like yesterday she was 5 year old. She is turning out to be a well rounded, smart and ambitious girl. Stop growing up so fast Kaiya!

Kaylee's WA Reception

I didn't get many pictures of Kaylee's reception in Washington. Here are some of them...

The cake was beautiful

We had Mexican food catered by one of Cirdan's workers mom. It was delish! My mom also had a cheese fountain and veggies for people.

The guy that took pictures at my wedding took some at the reception. I will have to post some of those later...

Ouch!

This is what happens when I listen to Cirdan.

Jett is a climber. It scares me so bad when he is outside and climbs on things with the hard cement under him. He also likes to play in the backyard but he spends a majority of the time going up and down the cement steps and in and out of the house. The owies on his face are from the steps out front and a couple days later the ones in the back.

I say it is what happens when I listen to Cirdan because I am a freak and will do whatever I can to not let him get hurt. Cirdan on the other hand lets him explore and do his own thing. After thinking, "yeah, maybe I should loosen up and let him just be a boy" this is what happened. Ha ha...it didn't phase Jett. He cried for a little bit but went right back at it.

Mothers Day

Mother's Day was very nice this year. We woke up, went to church, opened presents and went to my brothers house for dinner. Cirdan and the kids got me some nice gifts...pillows, flowers, perfume, ramekins and a wall hanging for the kitchen. The kids also made me some nice gifts at church and preschool. I scanned them and attached them below.

Some of the yummy food the guys made for mothers day.

What Kaiya gave me. Some of her answers were...questionable.

What Ella made me...

Jett decorated the pot in nursery and the teachers put the flowers in them. So cute!!

Ella at 4 Years Old

Ella's Answers...


Fav food – noodles with butter, salt and lots of pepper and cereal

Fav cereal – life (she has to have this almost every morning)

Fav color – pink

Fav thing to do – play on iPod

Fav show – Austin and Ally and Jessie

Best friend – Starley

Fav animal – giraffe and pig

Fav treat – lollipops

Fav part about preschool – snack time

Ella loves accessories (bracelets, necklaces, earrings etc), reading stories, playing outside with her bike and playing out in backyard. She loves to dance and go to preschool. Ella has just gotten to the age where she gets shy and doesn't want to get up in front of people. We took her out of hip hop because she was too shy to do it now.  She loves to dance hip hop but didn't like the environment.  Parents gawking (group of 20) at the window....too much spotlight took the fun out of it.  She's all about making up hip hop dances and Kaiya makes up dances for her too. 


Ella has recently become a willing care taker of Jett.  She loves being the big sister and loves to help out.  They've become good buddies and enjoy playing together.  Ella has grown up quite a bit in the last few months, it's amazing to watch her evolve.  She's a very affectionate little girl.  Ella loves getting and giving hugs and kisses.  Her smile is huge and she can light up a room.  Ella is very thoughtful and enjoys pleasing others.  She goes out of her way to be helpful.  She always thinks about her siblings, if she gets something she wants Kaiya or Jett to have on also.  She has a very kind and generous little spirit about her.  Most people remember her big smile after meeting her.  

Doctor Visits - 18 Months and 4 Yrs Old

Cirdan and I took Ella and Jett to their doctor checkups. Ella had her 4 year and Jett had his 18 month. They both are healthy and happy. Here were their stats...

Ella -
Height - 41" (75%)
Weight - 39.6 (80%)

They checked her hearing and vision and she can both hear and see well. :)

Jett -
Length - 32" (40%)
Weight - 22 (10%) small guy
Head - 19 1/2 (95%) lots of brains

Jett at 18 Months

He is such a snuggler and would snuggle with me all day if he could
Loves Books - Especially books about animals
Hates Milk
Climber - I have to keep my chairs down around the table because he will scoot the chairs and try to climb on the counters
If he puts something in his mouth he knows he shouldn't, he will bring it to me. He wears a sneaky grin on his face and I know something is in his mouth. He even will come all the way downstairs just to find me with his sneaky grin. He knows.
He loves playing with water. Cirdan had to shut off the water on one of the faucets in our bathroom because he would climb up on the bathtub and stand there, play in the water and get wet.
Doesn't like tv - but does like Elmo - not to watch but just to see and say..."Elmo!"
He LOVES bubbles and goes to the sliding glass door often asking to go out to play with bubbles
The girls have taught him how to act like a dog. They will tell him he is a puppy and to get down and he immediately drops down on all fours and acts like a dog. It is pretty funny.
He loves flowers and loves to smell them. If we see flowers we always have to stop for him to take a big sniff.
He enjoys tools and fixing or building things.  If Cirdan needs to put something together or fix something- Jett is right there, anxious to help and use all of the tools.  He is also a great helper.  He gets excited to help bring in groceries, clean or just help out.  If you ask him to go get something he's pretty happy with himself when he knows what it is.  Jett speeds off and races back to bring what you asked.
He recently started to like the girls headphones with their ipods.  They're the full size headphones that cover your ears.  What's even better is the fact that the girls both have girly color and design headphones. 
Jetty loves to wrestle and play with Daddy.  Cirdan tickles him until Jett is laughing hysterically, they play the binky game which he digs.
He is pretty shy still.  He hears people say his name loud and clear and he just looks away or looks down, acting as if he didn't hear.is cool with Mom, Dad and Kaiya as far as taking care of him.  He won't let anyone else babysit -other than Val if Kaiya's there-.  Jett When he's comfortable, he has the sweetest and funniest demeanor.  He is super funny and has a great sense of humor.  He will even go comfort Ella know if she is crying sometimes. 
Lately he and Ella have become closer as Jett gets bigger.  They have become pretty good pals.  Ella recently has also taken to becoming more of a caretaker to him.  She wants to be able to help out.  She tries to get him to sleep or feed him, whatever she can do to help.  They have a good time together.
He says and can point to ears, hair, eyes, toes, nose, teeth, fingers, mouth, tummy


His vocab has grown a lot this past month. Words he says often...
Books
Bubbles
Ball
Water "agua"
Horse
Cow
Dog
Noodles - Noonal
Rice
Apple
Banana - as soon as we get into the grocery store and he sees a banana he starts yelling really loud..."nana! nana! nana!"
Binkie - inky, deety
Bug
Flowers
Outside - side
Kaiya - Yaiya
Ella
Ava
Papa
Diaper
Shoes
Leaf - he loves to pick one of the small leaves on the bush outside our house whenever he walks up to the door
Socks
snack
milk
lights
Elmo "melmo"

Celebrating Cirdan, Kaiya and My Dad's Birthdays. Kaiya Turns double digits!

Birthdays! When we got home I only had a couple days to prepare for Cirdan and Kaiya's birthday. Ella, Jett and I did some shopping and got everything we needed. The birthday people both woke up to balloons. Kaiya got a donut for her birthday breakfast. Before Kaiya went to school I let her open a couple of presents. One of the top things she wanted was dangle earrings. I have held off on letting her wear any so I told her that she could when she turned 10. Not crazy dangle ones...just the cute dangle earrings.

Putting on her new earrings

Kaiya went to school and Cirdan stayed home. His friend was over installing new closet organizers for the closets upstairs. We gave him a couple of gifts...which he is going to return. That boy is picky! Then the kids and I went to Starbucks to get Cirdan breakfast. We also went to pick up his ice cream cake and get him and David (his friend) some lunch at Subway.

When Kaiya got home she opened the rest of gifts from us. Her birthday fell on a Thursday which is her long day at dance (4:30-9:00) so she had to hurry.

Kaiya requested a fruit truffle from my mom. She just enough time for us to sing to her and to eat some.

The birthdays went in stages. Kaiya had her cake 1st. Then we had Greg and Staci over for an Applebees takeout dinner and some ice cream cake.

Lastly, my mom and dad stopped by around 9:00 pm so we could sing to Papa.

The birthday kids! (minus the guy in the back, ha ha)

It was a fun filled day of sweets and birthday celebrations! Happy Birthday!

Going Home

We headed home on Sunday morning. We didn't need to be back to Washington until Tuesday for Kaiya to be at school (MSP) and dance. So we took our time. We packed up the car and stopped off at Cirdan's aunt and uncles house to say a quick goodbye and see his cousins that we weren't able to see the week before.

Each time we were in our hotel the kids loved playing with the 2 phones. One was in the room right when you come in and the other phone was next to the bed. They spent a majority of the time on the phone with each other playing house.

Our hotel room was nice and had a kitchen.

All loaded up and ready for the long drive ahead! At this point I was really ready to throw Kaiya's glasses out the window. :)

Our quick stop to see the relatives.

The plan was to stay in Boise again. However, once we started driving we figured we should drive a little farther than Boise and make the drive on Monday shorter. We also wanted to stop in Imbler, Oregon which was on the other side of the Blue Mountains. Unfortunately we wanted to get as far as we could so we ended up in Pendleton for the night. Which was past Imbler. Next time!!! I really thought it would be fun to see all the Imbler stuff around town. The drive wasn't as bad as Cirdan thought it would be so I am hoping for more drives to Utah in the near future.