Oh kids...

Note that I am writing these things on here largely because this is, for the most part, my journal. I don't want to forget them.

The other night after I had already put Cohen to bed, Caeli and I were having a little fun time. We were doing puzzles, coloring and playing some good ol' go fish. After a few minutes of coloring Caeli sighed and asked. "Mom, can we do something fun?" I told her she could choose and we could do anything she wanted. She put her finger to her lips and one hand on her hip and said "hmmm... well, how about the cooking channel, maybe we could find something tasty to make Dad for dinner." Caeli has also recently taken to making up recipes. She'll draw pictures and tell me what they say. One of the latest was- 2 cups milk, 2 cups eggs, 2 cups sugar and 2 cups chocolate.

Caeli won't let Cohen touch any of her dress up items, jewelry or make up and several other things. (some of them Cohen's toys) So when Cam had Caeli out running errands with him the other day I found Cohen hiding in Caeli's room with her princess crown and necklaces playing her leap pad (that he is also forbidden to touch) I walked in and looked at him and he started laughing and ran away before I could grab the camera. That picture would have been great blackmail for when he was older.

Oh, one more funny story, Caeli keeps asking what we will name our baby. I was rattling off a list of a few names and when I started naming boys names and included Conor she said oooh yeah, or what about blitzen or comet. So maybe we will name our baby after the reindeer Conor, or Blitzen or Comet.

My little Pink

I am in big trouble.

The other day while we were waiting to pick Cam up from class this song came on..... Pink's "So What". Well. Today I was in the other room and I could hear Caeli singing to Cohen..."We're all gonna get in a fight! So what, I am a rock star, I got my rock moves." Over and over. I kept listening, only to hear her repeat more and more of the lyrics. There are probably worse songs, but there are lots that are WAY bettter for a 4 year old to know. Then later this afternoon she was dancing aroung and singing it again and I got a few pictures

I think Cam taught her to do some kind of rock star move.... she does that and then sticks out her tongue. She put on her pink clothes and put in her pink bow and said to call her pink. This all came from my mistake in telling her when we heard the song that the person singing was called pink and sometimes she has pink hair. She asked me if she could get pink hair. I told her that if she ever came home with pink hair I would shave it all off like a boy. That horrified her, I am pretty sure she won't be coming home with pink hair. Needless to say I think we will be listening to more children's songbook songs in our car.

Sick little guy!

Cohen the poor little man is sick again! He has had this same little cold that we have all had for a while now. But his wouldn't seem to get any better. He was really wheezy and just not quite himself. I thought it would just kinda go away on its own but I decided to risk being called the over-reacting, hypocondriac mom and called the doctor. (it seems we are always at the doctor for some reason) We got in there and the doc listened and looked and informed me that he not only has RSV (AGAIN) but he has ear infections. Appearantly his lungs are really inflamed and so we are on all sorts of meds. He made me a little more nervous because he told me if I don't stay on top of his lung issues he could have some permanant scarring and cause all sorts of trouble! As soon as we get this cleared up we are going to treat him for asthma. All day all that he wanted was his dad. I felt bad for a minute.... he should want me right? But it was really cute and I got over it pretty fast.

Pretty much that's all that is going on at our house lately. Cam started school. He has quite the load. I guess we'll see him in a few years :) We had a fun New Years Day party that I never got posted. We had a fondue party with Katie and Mike and Mike's siblings up here. It was soooo yummy. We then played rock band and just had fun. I am so glad Katie and Mike are up here. Overall things are going well for us and we are looking foreward to a great new year.

Christmas

When we came back to Logan from Christmas we left our camera in Koosh, so sorry no pictures of our awesome Christmas. We had a really great one. The kids were of course spoiled rotten. Grandma Hatch especially spoiled the kids. They got a new little 50 fourwheeler. It's really cute. My favorite feature is the remote shutoff, if the kids happen to get going to fast or get too far away I can kill it. Cohen got a new tricycle which he won't be able to ride for a long time but he didn't need anything else. Caeli got the ballerina dress that she wrote numerous letters to santa about. They both got tons and tons of clothes which they actually needed. Cohen got lots of toys that are no where near age appropriate. He got a play chainsaw from my dad and a play rifle, also a toy train and well, just way too much to even list. Caeli got a leap pad the she is always playing. We are going to have to invest in some more games soon. She got a lot of random things as well. Then the kids both got little sleds so we can get some use out of all of this snow. It was an awesome day. kids make things like that fun.
Friday was our Chidester family Christmas party. I thought that it was so fun. But once again no pictures. I think that is a really good tradition we need to keep going..... We had lots of yummy food and opened more presents. The kids had a ton of fun playing together. And I always love to be able to see and visit with everyone that we don't see as much. Hope you had has as good of a holiday as we did!

Official Announcement....

After a very encouraging doctor's appointment this week we are finally making our little announcement. We are expecting another baby at our house! It has been a HUGE surprise. (I just sold ALL of my baby things in September!) However we are really excited now. I am 11 weeks right now, which puts the baby coming in July. I really like the doctor that I found up here. He is wonderful and very thourough. He told us about a new drug that will greatly decrease the chances of delivering early. He will start that at 16 weeks. We had an untrasound and he told me to plan on having one at every appointment. Things were looking well. It's always fun to see the baby in there moving around. It makes things seem more real. I am definately not in lala land (though maybe I should be) This could potentially be a really stressful 29 more weeks. However after a blessing and finding this good doctor, I am really encouraged and comforted. I know that the Lord will bless us, and I am grateful for that. Past experiences as well as this one have shown us that it doesn't matter what we do, things are in the Lord's hands and not to argue with him.

Just some stuff....

Granny this post is mostly for you. :) We haven't done anything exciting for the last little while but here are just a few pictures of life at our house. Caeli had so much fun decorating the tree. Luckily Cohen hasn't really bothered the tree very much. I have WAY too many decorations for our little tree. I kept at least half of them in the box and the tree is still pretty full. We had to go with a little tree because our living room isn't very big. I was just glad that we got to have a real tree. Even though at this point it is super dry and making a huge mess if you even breathe on it.

Caeli being silly. She makes me laugh all of the time.

We made Grandma's Yummy ginger cookies the other day. They would have turned out great, and a few batches did, but my oven is a hunk of junk and the temperature fluctuates when I am cooking. A couple of batches were fine, one was way over done and one took forever to cook. I promise I know how to make cookies, for a girl that hates to bake I can at least do cookies. It really is my oven. The kids ate lots of cookie dough. They were a huge mess, but they loved it.

I am so grateful for this time of year. It's really fun for Caeli to be old enough to get it. Not only Santa and all of that jazz, but she understands that it is when we celebrate Jesus' birth. She keeps telling me that Jesus was wrapped in "toddling" clothes and slept on the hay. Children are so innocent. I can see why we are told to be "as little children" full of so much faith and love and so forgiving. I am really grateful to my Heavenly Father for my children. What a blessing!

Gingerbread Houses

We spent ALL day making gingerbread houses. Caeli had a ton of fun. Thanks goodness that is all that matters because it was a ton of work and a huge huge mess. She was covered in flour.

We made a big house and a small house. Caeli and I decorated the little one and Cam took care of the big one. It really was fun to see the kids be so excited about something. Cohen just liked to eat the candy. So did I for that matter. It really was a lot of fun once I got the dough rolled out. I don't like baking at all.

The finished products. We aren't very creative. Cam did well though. It was late when we finally got around to decorating them. That's why we don't have any pictures with Cohen helping. He had to go to bed.