So what to talk about... well there are so many things to talk about even if they are small, so I thought I'd just give you
In completely random order as they come to mind...
1. We hired a cleaning lady. I'm pretty sure I was on the brink of a breakdown. I felt stressed over every little thing at home and the chores hung over my head like a dark cloud. Mainly she cleans the bathrooms and the floors but it's so nice. Takes something off of my ever growing "to do" list and it's well worth it to me.
2. We had family pictures taken. I'd been meaning to get them done since Chasey was about 6 months old. Now I actually have printed pictures of him and up to date family pics. It was only about a billion degrees the day we took them outside but they turned out great. Here are a few of my faves.
4. I also bought some artwork for my orange kitchen wall and I love it. Picture to come when it's hung but I will say it's colorful :)
5. My Sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and nieces came to visit in June. My MIL and FIL were here too and we had a great family visit. It was awesome to see Kenley and Sophia together.
8. Work is busy busy busy!! And as part of my attempt to not have a breakdown, I changed my hours. I gave up my Friday afternoons and now work M-F 730am-345ish. I never get out of there on time but I needed to change because I wasn't getting out of there until 5 or later and by the time I got home it was past dinner time with no dinner made and then right to bath and bed for kids and it was too hectic. Now we have time to make dinner and play. We even try to take a walk when we can and I'm enjoying it much more. Can still be hectic with 2 kids but not as hectic :)
9. During my blogging absence Chase turned 7 months old, 8 months old, and now 9 months old. He is growing much too fast!
11. He is wearing his shirt backwards in 2 of the pictures above because I was too lazy to change it for the picture. Hey, it worked!
12. Chase has 3 teeth now but they are all on the bottom. No sign of the top teeth. Weird!
13. All this red makes me think of the 4th of July parade. Kenley and I tagged along with Liz, Lee, and the kids and had a great time. I think this picture looks like they are singing.
16. We did fun run this summer and well, it was fun! Kenley didn't really want to run at first. We had her in the 2 and under group and she wanted to be carried and I was practically running over other kids. We started running with the 3 year olds. We ran with Rylee a few times (although Rylee is super fast) and decided that worked better. It's an entire lap around and I run with her. Does that count as my exercise? Well, anyway. We got a ribbon each week and last week (the last run) we got our very first trophy! Grandma Verna, Grandpa Tom and Grandma Cheryl all got to see her run different weeks. We can't wait to do it all next year and maybe even have Chasey do a lap.
17. Apparently, washing dishes naked is the best way to do it. Who knew?
19. I joined the bandwagon and read the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy. Quick and easy reads. They should be called the legitimate "Twilight" series for women in their 30s. What can I say, I'll go see the movie when it comes out. I'm sure the book will be better.
20. On a related note, I've been reading a LOT on my Kindle. I really enjoy it and I love the free books from Pixel of Ink. I've read a few books by Stephanie Bond too and they were good. I think everyone that enjoys to read should have a Kindle. (There...sales pitch over)
21. We inherited a few bikes. Now we just have to learn to ride them. They say you never forget. Oh I mean we have to make time to ride them. I'm sure we remember :) I took Kenley out the other day and my muscles reminded me for days they remembered how but just weren't happy about it.
22. Chase had his first wagon ride. I don't think he stopped moving his feet the entire time :)
23. I'm down to pumping 2x a day. I know none of you really care but it's a huge step for me wrapping it up. I've got a stockpile in the fridge so I decided to reclaim another small part of my day. Too bad I have to give up the "personal break" at work as I enjoyed reading during that time but it's nice to have less time with that machine. It's sad but I just did the math to figure out that I only have 89 days until Chase is 1 year and I will be more than done pumping. (I'm hoping to end earlier than that) 89 days would only be 178 more times to pump. Let the countdown commence.
24. I've only used 5 :) so far in the post. (And 1 :( face)
25. You are tempted to go back and count.
26. You hate those stupid lists that do things like that.
27. But if I told you I skipped #11 you'd go back and check that too :) (That makes 6) Wow I'm desperate but this is taking forever to get to 67 (,
28. Chase is SO SO close to crawling. It feels like he has been rocking and scooting forever and he is a master at rolling anywhere he needs to go. He even uses his head as an anchor to pivot and turn.
29. His newest trick is sitting up and it's so cute when I go in there in the middle of the night and he is sitting up just looking around or chewing on his blanket. (Please read this as he STILL isn't completely sleeping thru the night. I've had a handful of nights recently where he will make it to 5am which is thru the night but not until my alarm. Getting so close)
30. They shouldn't make halter tops for young girls. It's not fair. They look too cute.
31. Time to give a "Thumbs up" on a job well done. For a few weeks, Kenley would give us a thumbs up like this:
She now does it correctly but it was so cute. However now she says she just needs one more wif her fumb (with her thumb). The cuteness never ends.
32. May be too much for some readers but my laugh revolves around poop at times. Since we started potty training back in May things have gone the wrong direction. Kenley did great for the first few weeks and then something happened and she just completely stopped pooping. She holds it in and its a battle to keep her going. Long story short she hasn't been our regular little girl. We go thru this cycle over and over and when she gets super clingy and fussy it's very hard on me. I'm ready for it to be over even if I have to buy diapers forever.
33. We haven't been watering but many people in the neighborhood do and one of our favorite things to do is run thru everyone else's sprinklers. It's only the ones that hit the sidewalks but its great fun! Kenley and I even walked home from a friend's on the 4th July and stopped for nearly 10 minutes to run thru some neighborhood sprinklers. Apparently the owners were watching from inside and enjoying the show.
34. Yes, look closely, that's Kenley and I enjoying some time at the park. We made the newspaper. I guess we are now famous!
35. After more than 10 years, Clay and I retired the old handme down bed and got a new KING bed. It is fabulous. Just wish I got more sleep now.
36.We've made a few trips this summer to my MIL & FIL's campground. At the edge of the campground is a property with a field and a horse. Kenley adores the horse (whose name is Newt). We've gotten him to come to the fence and I've petted him. I've even fed him flowers that Kenley has picked. Now our #1 goal is to feed him an apple but everytime we take one he's not out. I guess we try again next time.
37. The next string of updates all go together in a weird Kim Brockman kind of way. SPeaking of horses, Kenley really likes the horse (Maximus) in the moving Tangled. We've been watching that movie a lot and I really enjoy it. I just love Disney movies.
38. If you have seen the movie you know they launch the "Floating lights" which are really floating lanterns. I now want to do that sometime and have added it to my Bucket List.
39. Yes I have a Bucket List. I had one long ago BK (Before Kids) and I know it had lots of travel stuff on it. I don't know where it is so I have a new one in my head. Things on it include (in no particular order) launch the floating lantern, ride in a hot air balloon, go sky diving, shoot a gun (at a target), go to New York, take a cruise, ride a tandem bike, and many others. What's on your list?
40. On still a related note, the Brockmans have decided to travel to Disney in 2014. Now there's some planning! I guess we will be going with the Herron family. Time to start saving.
41. On a whim a few weeks ago I decided I wanted to learn how to fold a fitted sheet. Should be easy enough, right? Wrong... even with videos and my FIL's help I couldn't repeat the feat more than 1 time. Now they are just haphazardly folded and taunting me.
42. We've actually managed to go swimming a few times this summer and it's been great. We've gone a few times at the campground and a few times at the local public pool. Kenley is loving the water and learning to jump off the edge as well as allowing me to dunk her.
43. I even went down the water slides this last weekend at the pool. Not something I usually do. I should definitely do it more.
44. Clay enjoyed a few jumps in the deep end.
46. We played softball the other day at work as part of our company's United Way campaign. My work team had a team and yes, we were bad ass. I went 1 for 3 but made contact with each at bat. Made me want to play in a rec league but where would that time come from? HA!
48. I've gotten some slack about not blogging but others have been really supportive knowing that it's busy around here. In all honesty I just haven't made time. I've been lounging when I can and after pumping before bed and watching some tv (and after an entire day on the computer) I just don't do it. I'm hoping I still have some readers when I pick this up again even if still more sporadic.
51. I'd like to post more videos but the internet is acting up. I wanted to share one with Chase's laugh. It's my favorite sound in the entire world and you can't help but smile or laugh along. I would dare you to try and keep a straight face watching him laugh, but stupid computer.. I'll just leave you with this picture of him blowing raspberries at me while Kenley gets in trouble in the background.
52. Wow, 52... are you still reading this? It's totally hard to do this late at night when I'm tired. But I'm determined now. And yes this one counts!
53. I'm getting braver giving Chase food. I was so scared with Kenley and I'm still very reserved with Chase but I'm trying. I do get big laughs from his faces when he eats. I'm just glad he will pretty much eat anything. He doesn't seem as picky as Kenley was (and still is!)
55. Had a proud moment when I thought I may have a cheerleader in the making. Here is Kenley doing her first shoulder stand. The dismount needs a little work but she was solid. I still have it!
58. Clay switched jobs and got a promotion at the same time. He's excited. Still in ITS but different area and project that will hopefully keep him busy. However true to corporate form, he had training in June and the project they were supposed to do in July was delayed to sometime later this year. Now he still isn't busy at work.
59. Kitty is still kicking it but lives mostly in our closet. I did take her to the vet and she gained 1/2 pound. We keep getting the 1 year rabies shot instead of the 3 year shot because how much longer can an almost 20 year old cat have? We started the 1 year shots like 4 years ago, go figure.
60. Clay and I have had a few nights out lately and they have been fun. We went out to play shuffleboard one night at a dive bar in town. The shuffleboard you play on a table not the ground although I'm sure I'd play either. We also went out recently with Nathan and Alissa and I made a torch out of empty beer Keeper cups from our table. You may have seen the picture on Facebook. It was Olympic!! We definitely need to do that more often too. (
61. We've been playing a lot of games lately. Chasey prefers Peek-a-boo.
63. Kenley is getting better taking pictures with the real camera as long as she keeps her finger out of the way.
66. Miss Sharon is back at the sitter's and that makes us happy. However my kids have been the only kids there full time this summer and often times are the only ones there with Miss Sharon. I guess I like the one on one attention but I wish they had friends to play with. Oh well, school starts soon and the others will be back.
67. This list started as 67 things you may have missed but it was super time consuming and I had to take a break and go to bed and finish it later. It still took another hour tonight and it's way past my bed time.
Bonus!
68. ME (Implying I hope you missed me during my hiatus. I'll try not to make the next one so long but I am doing well and enjoying all the little things each day.
I'm not proof reading this post like I do most of the others. Good night :)
4 comments:
Great post Kim, though I think my favorite is #40!
So glad you are back! I missed you, but totally understand. I am enjoying my blogging much more with that pressure of an every day post over. That was hard.
You did a great job with your 68 things and all were interesting.
Blog when you can.
Good to have you back, Kim (& family). :)
Mom's glad you are back too. This way I get to see pictures you hadn't send my way. I know I took more than a minute to do this blog, but I love it. Love you all! See you Friday night.
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