Packing Up

We are anxiously awaiting our summer vacation over 4th of July. 

The girls wanted to make sure I don't even think about leaving them behind. 

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to a wonderful husband and father. The girls have been waiting all week to give him his presents. Yesterday we stopped at target to pick up some last minute chapstick for him.  On the drive home Ryann kept saying, "Cara, don't tell daddy, you can't tell daddy what we got him."

As soon as we get home Cara runs upstairs and says, "I can't tell you what we got you, but we just bought you a present that twists at the bottom."

Nice little hint Cara. Needless to say, Rich was spoiled this Father's Day. Breakfast in bed, some cool gifts, and I think he especially loves his Pillow Pet, Giants edition. He has carried it all over the house today.

Gotta love him.  Thanks hun for being such a great day to our girls. I know you spend way  more time with them as of late because I am off delivering babies, but they love you and you mean the world to them. I always know they are in good hands!!

Library Day

Every Saturday Rich likes to take the girls to the library. Fortunately this Saturday my patient in labor wasn't very active so I got to go with them. I introduced the girls to the world of Library computers and headphones.

 My favorite part is when they "quietly" yell for me to come help them, since they don't know how loud they are with the headphones on.

Despite Ryann's grumpy face, she was having a lot of fun on the computer. She loves this stuff.

Hand Foot Mouth

Here are the close up pictures of Cara's Hand Foot Mouth disease. Here is the little report I found on the most reliable Wikipedia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease

 So basically Cara has had no pain, itching a little bit for one day, and hasn't had any problems. I think she might have had a fever some time last week, but if so it was in the middle of the night and so mild that I blew it off to her covers being on top of her and when I took them off she was fine. 

Ryann hasn't gotten it and has no symptoms what so ever, so I think we are in the clear from being contagious now. I haven't talked to our sitter yet, but we will see if her kids get it or not. 

I have a feeling that Cara must have gotten this from someone at swim lessons?  I have really no idea. Either way it doesn't bother her... but it looks like it should!

 Chalk this one down to awesome childhood viruses.

Well Child Visits... sort of

I am a little behind on their well child visits. Ryann turned 5 in February and Cara turned 3 in April. Oh well. I took them in today and as soon as I walked into the waiting room I looked at Cara's face. I hadn't looked at her face when I picked her up from daycare because we were hustling and bustling around, but as soon as I looked at her face I took her to the sick child entrance. 

I figured out she had hand foot mouth disease. 

The past 2 days she was whinier than usual, but not that much. Then this morning she had an "owie" on her toe and an owie on her hand. But they were just slightly red. She has sensitive skin so I wasn't very concerned. 

But this afternoon she had about 3 blisters by her mouth and 2 on her chin, as I started searching they were all over her feet, legs, hands, and inside her mouth too. Sorry Cara!

The only reason I even thought that is what it was is because I have had one friend in Oklahoma post some pictures of her kids who had it, and then I have heard of some other friends local who have had it as well. 

 But I will post more details and pictures tomorrow.  For today I will celebrate my cuties. Cara is 26lbs and 36 inches. She is on her growth curve so we have no problems at all with this petite little lady.

My Ryann did phenomenal and she is 42lbs and 43 inches. Neither girl had to get shots so that was a wonderful surprise. Cara wouldn't have been too happy about that.

Over all Cara is doing remarkable well. We have put some benadryl cream on her blisters and I gave her some benadryl. She hasn't had very many complaints of pain as of yet though... so we will see how tomorrow goes. 

More Swim Lessons

Rich did not disappoint in the picture department during swim lessons. 

Ryann making her ever silly faces. 

Cara has the same swimsuit as the girl next to her, she doesn't fill it out quite as well, but come on, my Cara still wears 12month PJs to bed some days. 

Proof that there was some "lessons" going on and not just sitting on the side of the pool. 

They splashed a lot. Ryann told me they are "digging for bones" when they paddle with their arms in the water. 

Cara looking cold.

Ryann kicking with her teacher Jessica.

I wonder what is going on in Cara's mind here... "oh my goodness you splashed me?!" not too sure, but it is a pretty funny picture.

First Day of Swim Lessons

I made sure Rich got off early today and had the camera in order to document the first day of swim lessons. 

There are super cute pictures he took of the girls in the water, but I am having a hard time choosing which ones, so that will be more for another day.  Because right now I am tired and must go to bed.

Goodnight. 

Child Labor

My little Cara Kay and Ryann had their very first paying job this past week.  They had to feed the neighbor's fish and fill up the bowl with water.

Ryann was in charge of bringing the food, she would drop in 3 pellets and Cara would drop in 2 pellets. Then Rich or I would turn on the hose and the girls would both hold it and let the water go into the bowl. I am not quite sure how that ended up being 10$ worth of work (5$ for each), but those girls were pretty dang excited and Rich is going to take them out on Saturday to buy something.

Neither can make up their mind about what they want to get. Cara thinks she wants squinkies and Ryann says she wants a horse, but they keep changing their minds.

Classic

I forgot to post these awesome pictures yesterday.  Here is Ryann being silly with her ice cube.

Cara "freezing" outside of the pool.

 Ryann learning how to shoot water out of the noodle.

 Ryann and Cara each picked out noodles from the dollar store and they were so excited to play with them.

1 week countdown until swim lessons!!

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!  We spent it with family and friends. I should have spent some time trying to teach the girls about Memorial day, but being a slacker mom I just played with them instead and enjoyed my day off from work.

 Some day I will spend the time to tell them all about their great grandpa Cochran and his military service, their uncle Ron and his service, and not to forget their Grandpa Hamilton, Great Grandpa Kevern, and all the other military men on the Hamilton side.

But until that day I will let them play in the sun and have fun spending an extra day with mom and dad.

Busy Day Cara Kay: Ants, music, and dance.

As I walked in the door at 5:30 this morning from a birth I was startled to see Ryann and Cara jumping up and down on the stairs. They were loud and obnoxious for my tired ears and I imagined Rich was pretty annoyed as well.  I finally calmed them down and I figured out they were so worked up because our downstairs floor was covered in ANTS!

Rich was able to spray them and clean them all up, but while he was doing this Cara decided that she would bring down her little laptop and "play music" for them so that they would follow her and die.

Did someone teach this girl the story of the pied piper? Isn't that sort of what he did??

Weird. 

My Cara is pretty creative. I caught this little goodness on video tonight. 

Follow My Voice

This is what it looks like when Cara says, "Follow my voice mom." as she bounces down the hall pretending to whistle. 

She leads me on little adventures like this about 2 or 3 times a day.

Hair Styles

I am trying to get creative with the girl's hair. It is hard for me to do it all the time, but it is getting so long for both of them that it has to get done or else it looks like a mess. 

Here is what I did for the girls on Mother's Day. Cara wouldn't let me take a good look, but here is Ryann's hair below. 

Ryann's hair is stick straight and Cara's hair is kind of a wavy crazy mess.  But either way I sure love both my girls and their fun hair!

Mother's Day... LATE!

Since returning back to delivering babies and getting phone calls all throughout the night, I have had a little bit of a hard time finding the time to blog regularly. I can't believe that I didn't blog on Mother's Day... but I guess one could say that it is "my day" so I didn't really have to do anything at all.

However, I was spoiled... SUPER SPOILED!... on Mother's day.
I had a delicious breakfast of homemade cinnamon rolls with these cuties.

And I had lots of homemade cards, pictures, and flowers. I even got a SPIbelt (small personal items... Rich says it is just a mini fany-pack), a pink nail polish, amazon gift card, and an awesome watch that has all sorts of gadgets that I haven't figured it all out yet. I have figured out the calorie counter, the heart rate monitor, the watch itself, and the pedometer. There are endless more possibilities. 

Overall it was an amazing and wonderful day. I was spiritually uplifted, slept in, spent time with my family and my wonderful in laws, and I thought of the wonderful mother's in my life who have made me the mom I am today.

Impromptu Play Day

As we were driving out of our neighborhood to do our saturday errands, I saw a little bit of activity going on by our local Ace Hardware. Much to Rich's annoyance, I told him to turn around so we could take the girls to it.

 We met cowboy JJ and his fancy beard. He made balloon animals and hats and princess wands for us. 

 We then took a sneak peak with the fire truck. By the time Rich got up there he had already popped like 3 of their balloon things. The balloon giraffe was the most traumatic of all. 

 Cara looks kind of freaked out in the above picture, but she was really having fun.

See how cute she is in the picture below?  She was loving that fire helmet. 

 They also got their faces painted. 

 I was really surprised Ryann choose a rainbow instead of a unicorn.  Biggest shock of my day I think.

Oh no, the biggest shock was when Rich locked the keys inside the car. Thankfully a good friend was driving past and took me home where I could get our spare key and then she dropped me back off to rescue my family.

Then we were off to finish our errands.  What a fun little impromptu play day. I love my little community.

Gilbert Temple

My girls got to do something yesterday that I have never been able to do. :)

Our current sitter was able to take our girls and her kids to the Gilbert Temple construction zone to watch the Angel Moroni be placed on top of the temple. This had to be very hush hush so we didn't even know they were going!

I was so excited when she sent me pictures of the girls up close and personal with the Angel Moroni. 

I tried to ask them all about it, Cara was being a stinker so she said "no" to everything I asked her, and Ryann was trying to be silly so she said "yes" to everything I asked her. Overall I think they had a really fun but really busy day. 

Desert Breeze Park

The last day Ashley and Addie were in town we finally had some time to play. We took the girls out to a BBQ for Rich's work at a park close by. 

Addie had fun with the bubbles. 

Cara and Addie and Snoopy liked riding the old school rides. (we did go on the train in the background too) 

 Ryann especially loved the splash pad. 

 Of course the horse ride was a stellar hit as well. 

 And they ate all the food and Cheetos and cookies that they wanted.