5/11 - Kasey turned 17 months on April 28th so I'm a little behind - who knew time would go so fast. Kasey is a strong willed sweet little girl. She can throw a fit, but she can also make you laugh with a smile. She scratches (sometimes I think to get attention), but she also cuddles. When I leave her room she will throw a fit and throw her blanket out of her bed, and then Greg will go in and she'll settle down first try. She understands just about anything we say. In May I started giving her options at night or nap that she could cuddle in my lap or go to bed. She will choose what she feels like and then decide when she's ready to go to bed. She's eating pretty good. She still loves most meat. The main vegetables she eats are cucumbers and avacados - sometimes peas and green beans. She likes fruit especially bananas, blueberries and cantaloupe. She's just getting breastmilk at night now, and drinking soy milk outside of that. It depends on the day how much soy milk she drinks - sometimes 16 oz and somedays I think more like 4oz. She'll eat yogurt as well. We've actually started giving her some cheese with cow's milk in it and it seems to be ok so far. We'll see how that goes. She has gotten sick a couple times, but other times she doesn't.
Kasey can climb up into the car by herself. She also can take her own shirt off. She tries to put on any clothes or shoes that are around the house (everyone's except her own)
She's in 5 diapers although last night we were noticing that they really don't fit her very well. She's wearing 24months and 2T clothes. Her top half is long with shorter legs, and she still has a belly. She tried to say avocado the other day. She says things like bye bye, teeth, ma ma (a lot), da, and she tries to say several things like all done, Landon, other family member names, and things we repeat a lot
She loves to play. And loves to take Landon's toys. She likes books, she loves to draw, and will pull everything apart. Anything that has several items in it she will remove them all and put them all over the floor. We wonder why our house is a mess all the time.
Landon is recovering from being sick. He went at least a day and a half without eating, and now we sometimes think he'll eat us out of house and home. He's hungry all the time.
He's playing tball, and only has a few weeks of school left.
Landon is also getting some attitude. He'll tell us he can't do things, or do things that we've told him not to do. We're trying to negotiate that when he turns 4 at least his blanket in the car goes away. We'll see how that goes. There are days that he throws a complete fit for not having it. This past weekend he picked riding with his blanket over riding with both of the grandparents and me. He seems to be doing well in school and wants to learn how to spell things which is good.
5/9 - My mother's day
Landon came home from school Friday with some fun Mother's day gifts. He had made a plate with some flowers on it that had a little card that said Happy Mother's Day, and he wrote Love, Landon. They had planted sunflower seeds and they were starting to grow with a little card and poem attached that Landon signed. The teachers had filled out a little sheet that said:
My mommy is 14 years old
Her favorite foods are lettuce, blueberries and raspberries
She likes to fly on trips
while I'm at school Mommy does art at work
Mommy's favorite thing to do with me is: draw pictures
I think this was priceless!
Saturday night Greg and Landon went to the FC Dallas soccer game. Greg came home and his eyes were very red, hurt and he couldn't breathe very well. Needless to say he didn't sleep very well. The kids got up at normal time so I let Greg sleep in. Landon, Kasey and I made muffins together. They helped me poor things in and mix them up. Landon helped me figure out which ones needed more batter. The three of us had breakfast, and then Landon said he was tired (he had been up late the night before). Landon went and laid down with Greg in the bedroom and they slept until 10:30-11am. After everyone was awake Greg had the kids bring me my presents. They each had a bag from James Avery, and they helped me open them. One had a beautiful bracelet in it that I had told Greg I liked, and the other one had matching earings. Greg still wasn't feeling well, but the kids and I went and met Janice, Cindy and Nanny for brunch at Mama Emilias. It was a little crazy. We had reservations, but still had to wait 30 minutes for a table. Landon was telling me he was hungry and starving every 30 seconds :) After brunch we went back to the house for a little bit so Grandma could open her mother's day presents. I got some pretty flowers from Cindy and a few nice cards. We hung out for a little while and finally got the kids down for a nap about 4:30pm. I then went and took a nap. I thought Greg was going to as well, but I don't think he did. We had to wake the kids up to go to dinner at Terra with Grammy and Gramps. We had a great dinner, and then they came back to the house for a little bit for Grammy to open her gifts. I got another nice card and some Mother's Day money. Grammy helped me get the kids a bath and read them a book. It was fun to get to do that with my mom on Mother's Day
5/2 - This was the first day that I stopped breastfeeding or pumping in the mornings. I'm now down to breastfeeding Kasey once a day. She's doing pretty well. She will ask for it sometimes, but is doing better drinking soy milk instead. I try to give her lots of hugs and lap time when I'm home.
5/1 - Landon had his first Jr Tball game of the season. This is his second season with the Cubs, but Greg is the head coach this time.
4/27 - I had to go out of town to California this week. The kids did well. Greg had his first tball practice on 5/28 as the head coach for the Cubs Jr Tball team. Landon is on the team with friends Justin, Asher, Alfonso, Ian, Jack and Miles. This is Greg's first time to be head coach and is doing a great job.
Week of 4/19 - Kasey said ear. She says eat a lot, bye bye and tries to say a few other things.
Last time Landon went to that Little Gym for a party he got the Swine Flu. This time he got a bad virus. Monday night he had a low fever of 99 but was fine otherwise. He didn't go to swim Tuesday because he had a higher fever. He seemed fine otherwise. Wednesday he still had fever and wasn't doing as well. Wednesday night he came downstairs and slept with us. He woke up about 2am and started throwing up. He said, that wasn't very fun. He got to point where he didn't want to eat and was sleeping a lot. Greg took him to the dr and they said it's a virus going around. Thursday afternoon we thought his fever broke, and then he woke up Friday morning with a 103 temp. Finally by Saturday afternoon his fever went away and he got a rash which is normal.
Even today - 4/29 - he slept 3 hours for a nap. He's started to get his appetite back, but not fully recovered and not eating like he used to yet. Hopefully he can get some rest and fully recover soon.
4/19 - Kasey is trying to say things like elephant and cookie, not quite there but she tries.
4/18 - I think Kasey is drinking breastmilk or breastfeeding twice a day now.
Landon got to go to Little Gym for birthday party for some friends from school
4/17 - Today Kasey is taking her shirt off because she can do it in the middle of the day!
4/16 - Kasey said bye bye today for the first time. She's been eating cheese a little bit, but the one day she had a whole stick of cheese she threw up. She's not drinking a lot of soy milk during the day. I'm still breastfeeding some. In the mornings I either feed her or pump if I have to go into work early. Then I feed her in the evenings before bed.
We went to the park by our house today and Kasey went on all of the big slides by herself. That was the first time. She's growing up to fast. Landon is such a big help to make sure she's ok or to help her to something.
Kasey took her shirt off by herself. Greg says she's done this before, but I haven't seen her do it.
4/12 - I guess I've been busy celebrating my birthday and doing stuff for my new job that I started on 4/5.
Greg said yesterday that he thinks Kasey says eat. She still signs it too.
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