I'm doing a happy dance right now!!! I think I have a whole new love for facebook to go along with it! I posted last night how my pictures were gone on my facebook page and some of my friends helped me get them back all by myself... no money out of my pocket and my pictures are now on my computer safe and sound! Woohoo!! I never would have found a solution if I hadn't mentioned it on my FB page! So.. if any of you ever have this problem, amazingly you can recover pictures that were deleted from your memory card through a FREE software download!! Stay tuned for pictures. I plan to get them posted tonight after bedtime! :)
Okay- scratch the pictures tonight idea. I had great intentions but as it turns out some of the pictures didn't recover. I still got a ton of my good ones back, but I need to edit a few of them before I post them! Hopefully tomorrow! Goodnight all!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
A flower shirt
The requests are different everyday, but today Katelynn's request was to wear a flower shirt. Her grandma makes sure her closet is always full of cute clothes so she had a few different ones to choose from! 
Bedhead & Personality
Justin has all kinds of hilarious faces. He's especially good at bringing out some funny ones when he is being told to not do something. In this case, it was to not put his feet on the table.....
Can I cry now?
I just "thought" I uploaded a bunch of pictures I took of the kids over the last few days... and not just any pictures either. I got some really, really cute pictures that I was so excited about! FRAMEABLE pictures! I uploaded my rebel first (where the good pictures were) and then my not-so-great diaper bag camera. I just came on to load them to blogger and my rebel pictures never transferred. :( That wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't deleted the pictures off my camera as soon as I pulled it off the computer USB. I'm seriously pouting... almost crying. They were such good pictures and they are gone forever! I am sure my kids will not cooperate half as well in the next coming days as I try desperately to get a few of the lost ones back (which is really impossible.. just trying to make myself feel better.) I will post the few crappy ones I got from our "diaper bag" camera below, but I'm oh so sad!!
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Family Bike Ride
Wow. What an event our first family bike ride was! Where do I even begin? Do I start with the fact that I haven't been on a bike in AT LEAST five years and boy did it show? Or the fact that I learned very early on in the ride that this mama is way out of shape? Or the fact that it took lots of bribing and pursuading to even get my kids to ride in the first place? You all must be thinking the ride ended in disaster after hearing all that, right? :) Well, it was actually a lot of fun and something I think we are going to really enjoy doing this spring with the kids (and hopefully on a regular basis to get myself back in shape!).
Jonathan and I bought bikes the year we moved to North Carolina. We were lacking friends after moving several states away from anyone we had ever known and it was something fun and different to do together on the weekends. It ended up being a great idea since we bought a house on a huge greenway (biking/walking trail) only seven short months later. However, as you all know life gets busy and somehow we have let our bikes collect a lot of dust in the back of the garage for several years now (way before kids even). It was actually Jonathan's idea this year to get the kids the equipment we needed to all ride together. Katelynn has her own bike, but we weren't sure if she would ride several miles all on her own so we found her the third wheel bike that we attached to Jonathan's bike. She doesn't have to pedal if she gets tired but we still get her from point A to B without having to push her bike for her! And Justin gets to cruise in luxury in his bike trailer that I pull behind my bike. We thought we had the perfect setup and were so excited!
Fastforward to today- a beautiful and breezy spring-ish day out. It was perfect! We loaded the kids up, packed snacks and drinks and headed out for a ride. Katelynn and Jonathan tried out the bikes in the street first (and mind you, Katelynn only rides with training wheels normally so this was different. Jonathan holds her weight steady but she still was lacking training wheels). Katelynn felt like the bike was "shaky" and got scared. We adjusted the bolts that held her bike to Jonathan's bike and assured her it was fine, but she was hesitant. So what did I do? I pulled that really bad trick that I know every single mom is guilty of from time to time: I bribed her with chocolate. Yes, I sure did. Sure, she could have riden in the trailer with Justin, but I knew if she gave it a chance, she would loving bike riding with her daddy. So, I gave her a bite of a Reeses' cup and told her if she gave it a try on the trail, she could have the rest of the cup when we got home. This of course worked like a charm- she wouldn't be my daughter if she didn't love chocolate! With that out of the way, we started loading up Justin and there's where problem number two surfaced. He did not under any circumstances want to ride in that bike trailer. No way, Jose! He was screaming like we were abusing him when we tried buckling him in it. I think we seriously spent over an hour getting prepared for this ride, but after putting Katelynn in it, showing Justin how fun it was, loading it with toys and snacks and his sippy cup, he finally got in it without a fight and we were off!
So, here's the thing: whoever said something about you never forget how to ride a bike.. or however that saying goes... is WRONG! I was a mess out there! Sure, I could pedal and balance myself.... .okay, maybe I couldn't even do that. I was wobbling quite a bit in the beginning there, but in my defense, I was pulling a bike trailer! But oh my goodness. We couldn't have gone a half mile before I knocked the chain right off my bike from not shifting correctly or even shifting in the right gears at the right time. I completely forgot how to work it! Take that and the fact that I was Miss Cautious, and I was probably giving everyone out there a good laugh today. Somehow I lost my daringness the day I delivered Katelynn. Seriously. I have always been a more cautious risk taker, but there has still never been a sport I haven't been willing to try out. I love the adrenaline sports. Then I had kids and the whole fear of harming them or myself and not being able to take care of them took control. The fact that I was pulling one of my children today made it worse I am sure. I walked my bike down several hills and the ones I finally concurred, I had brakes on and my feet on the ground most of the way down. What a joke I was! And of course there was my husband and 3-year old in front of me pedaling themselves as fast as they could to see how fast they could go down them! At least some of us still have the fun left in us! Honestly, though I got much better near the end and I am sure I will be back to being a pro and taking a least a very small risk riding very soon!! I think this is going to be a really fun activity for us this spring!
So... I HAD a ton of pictures before our ride, but I lost them all. :( These are all I have to show of our first family ride:
Jonathan and I bought bikes the year we moved to North Carolina. We were lacking friends after moving several states away from anyone we had ever known and it was something fun and different to do together on the weekends. It ended up being a great idea since we bought a house on a huge greenway (biking/walking trail) only seven short months later. However, as you all know life gets busy and somehow we have let our bikes collect a lot of dust in the back of the garage for several years now (way before kids even). It was actually Jonathan's idea this year to get the kids the equipment we needed to all ride together. Katelynn has her own bike, but we weren't sure if she would ride several miles all on her own so we found her the third wheel bike that we attached to Jonathan's bike. She doesn't have to pedal if she gets tired but we still get her from point A to B without having to push her bike for her! And Justin gets to cruise in luxury in his bike trailer that I pull behind my bike. We thought we had the perfect setup and were so excited!
Fastforward to today- a beautiful and breezy spring-ish day out. It was perfect! We loaded the kids up, packed snacks and drinks and headed out for a ride. Katelynn and Jonathan tried out the bikes in the street first (and mind you, Katelynn only rides with training wheels normally so this was different. Jonathan holds her weight steady but she still was lacking training wheels). Katelynn felt like the bike was "shaky" and got scared. We adjusted the bolts that held her bike to Jonathan's bike and assured her it was fine, but she was hesitant. So what did I do? I pulled that really bad trick that I know every single mom is guilty of from time to time: I bribed her with chocolate. Yes, I sure did. Sure, she could have riden in the trailer with Justin, but I knew if she gave it a chance, she would loving bike riding with her daddy. So, I gave her a bite of a Reeses' cup and told her if she gave it a try on the trail, she could have the rest of the cup when we got home. This of course worked like a charm- she wouldn't be my daughter if she didn't love chocolate! With that out of the way, we started loading up Justin and there's where problem number two surfaced. He did not under any circumstances want to ride in that bike trailer. No way, Jose! He was screaming like we were abusing him when we tried buckling him in it. I think we seriously spent over an hour getting prepared for this ride, but after putting Katelynn in it, showing Justin how fun it was, loading it with toys and snacks and his sippy cup, he finally got in it without a fight and we were off!
So, here's the thing: whoever said something about you never forget how to ride a bike.. or however that saying goes... is WRONG! I was a mess out there! Sure, I could pedal and balance myself.... .okay, maybe I couldn't even do that. I was wobbling quite a bit in the beginning there, but in my defense, I was pulling a bike trailer! But oh my goodness. We couldn't have gone a half mile before I knocked the chain right off my bike from not shifting correctly or even shifting in the right gears at the right time. I completely forgot how to work it! Take that and the fact that I was Miss Cautious, and I was probably giving everyone out there a good laugh today. Somehow I lost my daringness the day I delivered Katelynn. Seriously. I have always been a more cautious risk taker, but there has still never been a sport I haven't been willing to try out. I love the adrenaline sports. Then I had kids and the whole fear of harming them or myself and not being able to take care of them took control. The fact that I was pulling one of my children today made it worse I am sure. I walked my bike down several hills and the ones I finally concurred, I had brakes on and my feet on the ground most of the way down. What a joke I was! And of course there was my husband and 3-year old in front of me pedaling themselves as fast as they could to see how fast they could go down them! At least some of us still have the fun left in us! Honestly, though I got much better near the end and I am sure I will be back to being a pro and taking a least a very small risk riding very soon!! I think this is going to be a really fun activity for us this spring!
So... I HAD a ton of pictures before our ride, but I lost them all. :( These are all I have to show of our first family ride:
Friday, March 12, 2010
A Little Boy
It's very hard for me to admit this, but Justin is not a baby anymore. He is a little boy in every way. He is walking all over and getting into everything, and his personality is really coming through (and I'm pretty sure he's going to keep us running through the years!). Justin is really starting to understand everything we say and do, and he's repeating a lot of what we say. He loves to dance to music and play with balls and trucks. His newest things are putting his dirty clothes in the hamper and throwing away garbage. He thinks he's such a big boy when he helps us do these things! His favorite morning food is bananas. He requests a banana by pointing to where they are sitting and saying "Ba!" And the newest of new things for him is wanting to sit on everything! Of course he still prefers climbing, but he also just climbs up on the couch and sits back to relax for a few minutes. I can't believe he's so big!!
Soo beautiful!
I find it rather amusing that I can sit and watch my children for minutes, hours, days, etc. and never get bored of watching them grow, learn, smile..... you know, the list goes on and on. The older Katelynn gets the more fun it is to try to be a fly on the wall while she is having conversations with others (especially when it's with her peers!).
Today we went to Chik-fil-a to meet some friends for lunch and some playtime. It's something we do quite often with two other mommies and their kids so it's kind of a routine for the kids. We always sit at the same table and the three 3-year olds sit next to one another on one side of the table. Today Katelynn and her little friend were having a conversation about earrings. Camryn was telling Katelynn how she has some pretty clip-on earrings at home and somehow this earring conversation turned into Katelynn pulling off her socks and shoes (in the middle of a restaurant while we are eating lunch of all places) so that she could show Camryn her pretty, freshly painted toenails. I had stopped listening to her conversation with her friends for just a brief minute and the next thing I know my daughter is holding her feet up with no socks and shoes. When I told her she needed to keep her socks and shoes on, she looked at me so innocently and said, "I'm just showing Camryn my pretty paint." How could I argue with that?
She is really becoming so much more social (or maybe it's just that I'm just now realizing it). In any case, Katelynn made a point of asking any child she didn't know in the playarea today what their name was. I don't know why I found it so cute, but it just was. What really topped it off though was when she asked one little girl her name and then said, "I like your shirt. It is sooo beautiful!" All the moms that were currently in the playarea stopped to smile and say, "Aww." I have to admit I was proud to be her mommy!
Today we went to Chik-fil-a to meet some friends for lunch and some playtime. It's something we do quite often with two other mommies and their kids so it's kind of a routine for the kids. We always sit at the same table and the three 3-year olds sit next to one another on one side of the table. Today Katelynn and her little friend were having a conversation about earrings. Camryn was telling Katelynn how she has some pretty clip-on earrings at home and somehow this earring conversation turned into Katelynn pulling off her socks and shoes (in the middle of a restaurant while we are eating lunch of all places) so that she could show Camryn her pretty, freshly painted toenails. I had stopped listening to her conversation with her friends for just a brief minute and the next thing I know my daughter is holding her feet up with no socks and shoes. When I told her she needed to keep her socks and shoes on, she looked at me so innocently and said, "I'm just showing Camryn my pretty paint." How could I argue with that?
She is really becoming so much more social (or maybe it's just that I'm just now realizing it). In any case, Katelynn made a point of asking any child she didn't know in the playarea today what their name was. I don't know why I found it so cute, but it just was. What really topped it off though was when she asked one little girl her name and then said, "I like your shirt. It is sooo beautiful!" All the moms that were currently in the playarea stopped to smile and say, "Aww." I have to admit I was proud to be her mommy!
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