A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Tomorrow Lydia will be six weeks old so today we had a visit with Valerie. Lydia weighed in at 8lbs 9oz, but she was wearing a diaper and her shirt so maybe 8lb 8oz without. She’s exclusively bottle fed now, which still makes me sad, but seeing her grow does make me happy.
Tyra has a wiggly tooth. Every night at bedtime she has been claiming that tonight is the night that it’s going to come out. Kyle tries to yank it and it doesn’t budge. Of course Tyra is a very over dramatic girl and is totally dramatizing over this wiggly tooth. Tonight she looks like this:
Excuse the messy face, we were eating dinner when she discovered that she could push her tooth out like that. Then a few minutes later she took a bite and it popped out.
I got up to feed Lydia, and Kyle got up to take a shower, and when I came back to go back to bed I found:
Nowhere to lay down is what I found!
We have started this summer off with teaching Ethan to work! I remember by the time I was his age I could fold laundry, do dishes, change diapers, and make simple meals (like spaghetti) all by myself. I also started mowing the lawn at a pretty young age too. So today I decided to have Ethan ‘help’ me mow the lawn. Really I did most of the work, and having him in front of me made it harder for me to push the mower, and I did trip on his feet several times as we were going, but the boy needs to learn sometime.
I have decided to make Ethan my personal shadow this summer, which means that if I’m folding laundry he is learning to fold laundry. If I’m doing dishes he is learning how to do dishes and so on. So we’ll see how that goes. 🙂
Tyra has been begging us to let her invite some friends over for a birthday party. We actually got so busy last year that we just never had a friend party for her and she reminded us of that ALL YEAR LONG. She would randomly break down and freak out that she didn’t get a friend party like Ethan did. And since she is a very social little girl, she wasn’t happy about that. So this year she kept asking about it, and I didn’t know what to say since I didn’t know how things were going to work out with having the baby. Well Lydia was born and we’ve just kind of been surviving trying to find a new groove, but the birthday party topic came up again recently and we decided to just do it and have it over with.
Tyra passed out a few invitations to her friends. Our rule is you get one package of invitations and that’s all you get to invite. Well Tyra showed us a glitch in that rule. She picked a bunch of her friends and wanted to invite their sisters too! So each invite that went out was actually inviting 2 girls!
The day of the party I made a carrot cake, and filled the pinata that I had previously bought. Then I realized that I couldn’t find the rope that we had to hang the pinata with so I decided to pick some up when I went out to get pizza for lunch (which is what we had decided on serving at the party. Well 11 am came, and then it went, and nobody showed. We kept waiting and nobody came. Eventually I decided that we just needed to feed our kids, so I went out to get some pizza so we could just have the party with just us. Going into town was a challenge. I guess there had been a parade going through the Ranches and there were people everywhere, and traffic was moving extremely slow. I wondered if maybe that might be why nobody showed, because they all had gone to the parade?
When I got home we ate and the kids were so excited to eat their pizza outside at the picnic table. And I started wondering what to do with the filled pinata. Kyle decided to take Tyra down to see if one of her friends was home, and they had just got back from the parade (see I thought so). So they brought her friend and her sister over, and we did the pinata.
I can’t remember if Chloe has ever been around to hit a pinata before, but she seemed to take it very seriously. 🙂
We could see that the pinata had a large crack in it and one good hit and it was done for so before letting Ethan take a real swing at it, Kyle asked him to pose for me so I could get a picture.
It totally looks like he’s posing too. Silly boy.
After the pinata had been busted open all the kids collected their goodies, and then I went to fill a bunch of water balloons. Then the kids had a water balloon fight, but everybody wanted to be on the purple team, so Jeremy and Chloe on the orange team had balloons long after everyone else had thrown the last purple balloon. Those balloons were popped way faster than it took to fill them, and the kids begged for more. But my fingers still hurt from filling the last ones, so I told them to talk to daddy. I think he filled some, but not as many as I had filled.
All in all the kids had a good time, and I think in the future I’m going to have to rethink how we do birthday parties. I mean having a family party and a friend party every year for every kid is just going to get crazy. Maybe we’ll just do family parties, and let the birthday kid invite one or two friends to that and just be done with it, we’ll see.