October

Here it is February 5 and I haven't blogged since the beginning of October. I haven't got any birthdays, house, Hawaii, Christmas, nothing. I'm going to try and play big time catch up then keep up with this!

Kynlie had two birthday parties, one with her friends and one with family. She loves rainbows so she asked for a rainbow sparkle mermaid party!

 

 The basement floor got poured the beginning of the month.

 Neil got to share Kynlie's rainbow sparkle birthday party with her- lucky guy!

 We went to Sheridan, WY for my brother's little guy Raymond's first birthday, he got quite spoiled.

 We carved pumpkins that the kids picked out at the pumpkin patch in Bismarck

 Max bobbed for apples!

 The beginning of November the cheerleaders put on a Knight's Ball dance for little girls. Neil took Kynlie and Locklyn asked Poppy to go with her. The girls had so much fun getting their hair fixed, wearing their new dresses and dancing with daddy and poppy!a

The end of the month our trusses came and more progress was made on the house!

Pumpkin Patch

Bright and early- or not quite bright yet- Monday morning my dad, the kids and myself took off for Bismarck for Kynlie's 5 year appointment, and for Locklyn and Max to get their eyes checked.  

Just outside of Wibaux a grouse came out of nowhere and shattered my windshield, smack dab in the center of the window. Made for some interesting driving in town!

Kynlie's appointment with Dr Ocejo went great, she weighs 43 lbs and is 45" tall. That is the 70% for weight and +95% for height. Quite amazing considering where she started almost 5 years ago. We went and saw all her nurses which is always so  fun and she actually was sweet and talked to them!

Locklyn and Max did excellent at the eye doctor. Both their eyes are perfect and Dr S said he got the best exam he has ever done on a two year old in his career! He said he doesn't expect to get that much cooperation out of a seven year old!

We skipped shopping and made a stop at Papa's Pumpkin Patch for the kids to run around. It is such a wonderful place for the kids. They picked out a pumpkin and we got ready to leave just as the rain started coming down and a bus full of after school program kids showed up.

September

Kynlie started her second year of preschool the beginning of September at Toybox Preschool. I also got her signed up in Piano lessons once a week, she LOVES it! 

We have been going to story time at our Public Library. They read a few books and have a fun craft for the kids to do.

Lots of hours have been put in on the new house. All the walls are up trusses ordered and working on finalizing lots of other materials. I am so beyond excited to be in this house and out of town!

We had gotten tickets to see Kat Perkins in August then the show was rained out and rescheduled for the first weekend in Sept so Kynlie, Connie and I went over Sunday afternoon. If you get a chance, Kat puts on an amazing show.

Little Miss Locklyn was lucky enough to be able to get into a small preschool class twice a week. She absolutely loves it. She finally has something that is hers, Kynlie was a little upset she didn't get to go with Locklyn to class but now she's enjoying a little mommy time to herself

The kids have been spending lots of time at grandma and poppy's while we are working on the house. I snapped this picture of Kynlie that I think is just beautiful. I can't believe she is almost 5

Max loves dirt. Feeling it, eating it, breathing it. We do have nice dirt at the place but he takes his obsession a little too far!

The girls have a very interesting sense of style. I let them express it at home but have to approve before we leave the house!

Probably the biggest feat this month is shown in the picture below. Up until this last week, Max had slept no where but in someone's arms or in my bed- his choice, and still nursing every 1 1/2-3 hours, making sure if he wasn't snuggles right next to me that his hand was on me. We started sleep training him on Wednesday. Neil and the girls were sleeping downstairs so they didn't have to listen to him scream all night. He screamed until 2 am when I finally gave in and put him in bed with me, but I didn't let him nurse at all during the night, he put himself to sleep. The next night he cried for an hour and a half while holding on to my hand through the crib rails. He fell asleep holding my hand! He didn't wake up at all that night. Friday got a little better, Saturday was a little worse. Sunday he didn't have to hold my hand but I had to be in the room, Monday I woke up with the heart sinking feeling every mom knows, the one you have when you wake up the first time your baby sleeps through the night and you realize you haven't heard from them. You jump out of bed and run into their room as fast as you can to look and make sure they are breathing. Last night he put himself to sleep within 1/2 hour  and slept all night. He did wake up at 5 and 6 but put himself back to sleep within minutes of waking up. I am SHOCKED at how little time this took to get this stubborn boy out of our bed. I do miss his sweet snuggling but it sure is nice getting a full nights' sleep!

Some of August

August came and went- and again, I didn't blog. I miss doing it but dang it takes so much time! The girls did the Rec Department youth rodeo and did quite well. 

I entered Kynlie in the Jr Barrel Racing during the fair and she practiced and had the patern down and could do it by herself. Then came rodeo day and she was being her dingy little self, not paying attention to anything so I led her through the pattern. When I let go of the horse to send her home, she told me she was ready, then JJ took off on her and her head was hitting his butt as he was loping. She wasn't holding on to anything when I let go and couldn't hold herself up. They got JJ stopped at the end of the arena and he stopped fast and Kynlie fell off on her head. Luckily all she had was a little road rash on her forehead and cheek. She promises me next time she'll hold on!

Neil got himself stuck during the derby in Baker so his car was still good for another weekend. It POURED the next weekend during the Miles City Derby but the cars bumped into each other long enough that they overheated and Neil was the last one running!

The basement walls went up and we did a lot of work on the house. My dad and I got really good with wacker packers and paint rollers full of tar!