10 Months

 

This past month has been a busy one for Lyvi. She hit some big milestones and is on the MOVE! She finally started crawling and is pulling herself up on EVERYTHING! She is also cruising around the furniture and has taken a couple of nasty spills. The fact that she is on the move now just means that she really is into everything. She loves to crawl over to the edge of the rug and pull off the fibers and eat them, yuk! She also has a huge fascination for wires, especially Ky's speaker wires. She has also decided that she is big enough to hold her bottle (sometimes) and her sippy cup. She loves to be independent and will only let me feed her oatmeal, she likes to feed herself everything else. She is a big eater and has a bowl of oatmeal and 1-2 muffins for breakfast or 2 full sized pancakes. She also eats at least one more BIG meal a day, but is still only 15 pounds. She is finally wearing the 6-9 month clothes, she is so small. My other girls were all at least 3 pounds bigger and into the 12 month clothes by now. It is funny how different they all are.

She loves to play ball and rolls it back to us very well. She also loves to look in the mirror and say "hi" and wave to herself. Her favorite toy is her train, she plays with it all day long. She loves to turn it on and grab the balls that come out of it. 

Lyvi is still going through horrible separation anxiety but some days she will let other people hold her (very rarely). She had a massive meltdown for me a couple of weeks ago at Winco when I wouldn't give her my pen. I was sure getting some nasty looks, but we are trying to kick that tantrum thing in the butt before it gets worse. She is so fun though and we are just loving watching her personality grow.

This is what I found one day when she was suppose to be napping.

It is a good thing I had lowered her mattress!

She is so much fun and we love her so much. I can't believe she will be one in just two more months, crazy!

Another Catch up

So here is another catch up post. There has been a ton going on around here lately besides the Operetta and all of its prep. 

Ash has been cross country skiing at school and a couple of weeks ago they went up to a local park in the mountains and skied 5.2 miles. She took her camera with her but used up all her battery taking pics and videos on the bus!! I think you can see how much fun she had! She said it was so pretty up there!

 Hey Natalie!

She was so sore when she got home. She promptly took over my bath tub AND my milk bath bubbles.

I also had to post this because I thought it was so cute, they videoed themselves dancing, AWESOME!

I missed muffins with mom when Lyvi had RSV. Shilo filled in for me and always sends me cute pics of the girls.

Ash, Kenadee, Shilo, and Camille

Ash and Kenadee

She also sent me this one from donuts with dad.

Last week was so warm all the snow finally melted off the driveway! We were able to pull out scooters and bikes, yay! However, they are put away again since it snowed yesterday. Ky said it was the worst white-out by far this year!

We kicked off St. Patrick's day with our green shamrock pancakes. Well we had a hard time actually getting them to look like shamrocks!

The girls had their nails painted and everything, they did not want to get pinched!

We have been keeping busy but have definitely had some fun. I have also been busy shuttling Kami to ice skating lessons, more on that later.

Kaite's Operetta

Kaite had her Operetta last Thursday and Friday, it was super cute!!! The title was "Three of a Kind". Kaite was a kitten and they danced the last two dances. They danced to Walkin on Sunshine and Bear Necessities. Here are the pics I got (can't seem to upload a video again!)

Before the 1st (Thursday) performance. I had Lyvi at this one and didn't get it videoed. She also picked the exact moment Kaite was on stage to spit up all over me!

 After the first performance on stage posing, but I am sure Lark got some better pics.

These are from the Friday morning performance (2nd one).

First pic courtesy of Chantelle

She is in the back on the left

Now in front on the left

I love how high she was jumping, she had so much energy on stage (I was a little worried she would get shy). This was during their lines.

All my kittens I was suppose to watch and make sure they didn't touch their faces (that is a lot harder than it sounds!)

Friday night performance.

This is from the second dance.

  

 The promenade.

It really was a super cute play, I thought the costumes turned out great! I really wish I could figure out how to upload the videos.... I had fun helping the girls with their make-up and costumes, I am so glad I have the opportunity to be involved. I am glad that it is over tho, it is exhausting!

Two years before the next one! They are thinking of doing "It's a Small World".

Catch Up

Marianne had her birthday on Friday. She turned 20, she is officially not a teenager! This is her cake I made her, it is our favorite cake (I am requesting this again this year too) so yummy! Her best and biggest present this year was..... she is finally ENGAGED! Cory proposed to her the night before her birthday. Her ring is gorgeous and we are so excited for them! We have already started looking at flowers and dresses, she picked out her cake I am making her awhile ago. We are so excited for them!!!!

Congratulations Marianne and Cory!

This is what else we have been up to.

We went to the museum and saw their carousel exhibit. The girls loved this, but since we went on the free day it was packed!

 

 We didn't know it at the time but Lyvi had RSV, all the people we exposed, ugh. And it was nap time, she was so tired.

 

 Some of the first carousel horses.

 

 There were some really neat older exhibits.

 

 

 The girls had a ball and we learned a ton about how they started and evolved.
 

When we were done we came home and finished tiling the fireplace.

We still have to clean it up, grout it, and seal it. I think it turned out great, Ky did an awesome pattern! I am excited to see what it looks like when we are done.
 

Update: Lyvi is doing great! I think she may be over it and finally better.
Kami starts ice skating lessons tomorrow. My mom got her lessons and skates for her birthday, she is so excited!