No Bing face this time.

I don't know how I actually managed to get a picture of Paige without the Bing face, but I did. (and I was just walking through the room with the camera at my waist and snapped, I didn't think she'd even be in the photo. NICE!)

Mommy wow! I'm a big kid now!

At 14 months Taylor figured out how to get out of her crib. So with the suggestion from Dr. Luu, Taylor is now in her big girl bed...it won't be long before we're converting this into the full size bed. To those of you who's kids are like 2 and 3 and still have not tried to escape, I would really like to know how you did that, because both of our have now been de-cribed before 16 months.
Trying to get a serious picture of Taylor can be a feat in and of itself.

I told you those feet were big!
My little cutie!

Shoes

On Monday night we went to Payless to pick Taylor up some shoes until we find the perfect pair for winter. Let's just say Taylor LOVES shoes! ( and that might be an understatement) Nonetheless, we were all spending a little family time in Taylor's bedroom before bed time, which oddly has never happened, normally we're only in there to get Taylor up or lay her down, anyways, the girls were having fun spinning in circles and Taylor was perfecting the art of jumping and trying NOT to land on her feet, but flat on her butt. Being the mean parents we are we finally decided to send the girls to bed and Taylor said "Night, Night" and proceeded to try and get her shoes in bed with her. I guess we know she likes the ones we picked out.

ps. YES! Her shoes really are that big, size 7.

How to please at 15 month old.

Instructions in one simple step.
1. Give them sheets of dried seaweed.


About a month ago we (and by we I mean Daylan) was making sushi rolls for lunch and Taylor of course seeing food started getting very...anxious. So being the mean mom that I am, decided to give her a piece of the seaweed to see what her reaction was. Well, she definitely is my child, she LOVES the stuff, she has gone through 3 packages herself in the past month. So, if you're ever watching Taylor and you can't calm her down, just ask her if she wants some seaweed and she'll happily show you where it is. I am thankful that she has outgrown her old stand-by calmer downer, letting her get naked down to a diaper.

Bears Family Night

Paige showing off her serious strength.

Nothing like a good ole disfunctional family picture.

Taylor enjoying the 90+ temp.

Thank you monkey leash...Taylor and Ryan love you.

The whole gang - Andrea.

And Andrea!!

Hello World! I'm BACK!!

Okay, so I don't have a good excuse as to why it's been a month and 10 days since my last post, lets just say...laziness. I'll try my best to catch up, but honestly, I'm just not that exciting or funny as some of you out there. Let me start with a follow up to my last entry about Paige's disorder. They determined that she has a mild case of reflux and so far, no serious damage has been done. They have put her on antibiotics nightly for the next year, and they will retest her again next summer, if she tests positive again at that point, they will test Taylor. Paige is excited that she gets to take medicine everynight, and never lets us forget, however when we told her she would be tested again next year she said, " I don't think I'll really like that." On other Paige news, she starts kindergarten in less than two weeks. We finally finished up all of her school shopping tonight. She is very excited to get to wear her uniforms, and we let her indulge in lots of crazy knee high socks, including argyle, stripes, and even socks with buttons, hey she has to show her personality somehow.

Now onto Taylor. Let's see. She's stubborn, crazy, hyper, loud, and just all over the place. Then again would you expect anything less out of one of my kids. She goes in for her 15 month check up next week so I'll have updated numbers then, but for now, just know that she's going into 2t's purely for height, waste size, she's still in a 6-12 months...thank you gap for adjustable waists. She's starting to talk a little here and there. She still refuses to say Dad, but fortunately she will say it in sign language. Right now her favorites are ball, park, and shoes...and she insists on everyone putting on their shoes. While my best friend Charity was in town her son Ryan decided to mark his territory and bit Taylor on the cheek, almost 4 weeks later the marks are still there, sorry boys, I guess she's taken.

Daylan. Well he'll be 29 on Paige's first day of school. Ya, he's getting old. Works going great, he's busy as always, but thankfully he can always arrange his schedule around anything we need to do, and normally works from home on Fridays, well, stays home and plays most of the time.

Me. I'm the same ole same ole. I'm trying to get us all back into our normal rutine, while adjusting Paige to her new one. Let me prefice this next statement by the fact that I normally can only "handle" having company for about 2-3 days max, and this dates back to early childhood. I am also very particular about the way things go in my house, I'm probably just a control freak, but my house is my job, and so being a perfectionist even the laundry has to be folded a certain way, and clothes hung in the closet in a certain order. For the past three weeks we have had company at our house. Remember when I said 2-3 days max?! Let's just say I'm frazzled, exhausted, and very happy to once again have quiet. Not that I didn't love seeing our visitors, but I just don't handle it very well. As much as I don't like cleaning, I'm actually enjoying it this week, becuase I get to reorganize my house...and I find cleaning like that truely enjoyable because I like to purge when I clean and you just find all kinds of old stuff when you clean out the back of closets...it just brings me pure bliss. I have no clue if any of that made any sense.

Back to my laziness, I don't really feel like uploading all the pictures from Charity and Ryan's visit, so if you'd like to see our many adventures, check out her blog from the link on the right.

Well, I think that's enough for now...I'll try to do better!