Silly Little Girl

Kaitlyn decided to wear Momma's jammies. I had to help her get into them, but it was so cute I had to take a picture.

We found our thumb

Keith found his thumb today for sure. He had been trying before without much success. I have been giving him a pacifier and he'll take it, but when ever there isn't a pacifier he looks for his thumb and today we have been successful. I was really hoping that I wouldn't end up with another thumbsucker. I was really wanting him to take the pacifier, because the pacifier seems easier to break. You can't take a thumb away. So any tips from anyone out there on how to break the habit would be great, because Kaitlyn will be the first guinea pig.

We are just about done with processing elk meat, all that's left is a bunch of scraps to grind up and package and we are done. We eventually did end up with quite a bit of meat. Tyler was nice enough to share some of his elk. When we get up enough drive we'll turn a lot of the ground meat into sausages of various types and beer sticks.

The Fish Slapping Dance

I just had to put this on here, because it's one of my favorite Monty Python skits.

Happy 50th Dad!!

Sorry Keith isn't in the video, but he's been really crabby all day and finally is taking a real nap. I was not going to wake him. He wishes you a Happy Birthday too though.

Just so everyone knows, the guys made it back from hunting, albeit a relatively unsuccessful one, but they did make it back. Another added bonus is that the kids and I didn't kill each other while they were gone. Yeah!! There were moments when it was close, like going to the grocery store. Never again! Otherwise we took a walk to the park one day, when it was warm and calm, and just hung out and played outside with Duke enjoying the warm weather while it lasted.

Jordan's uncle, Eric, Tyler, and Eric's friend, Pat, are the only ones of the group that came back with an elk. They didn't see that many this year. It got too cold earlier in the month with all the snow that it drove them down farther this year than usual and were out of their hunting area. So, another year without an elk. Jordan was going to try to get a deer, but said he didn't even see that many deer either. He'll go this weekend to get a deer. Here's hoping that he'll get a deer. He usually does.

Keith is 2 months

Keith is now 2 months old and we had a doctor appointment today. He is 12 lbs. even and 24 inches long. He's in the 50th percentile for his weight and the 90th for his height. He was supposed to get shots today, but they didn't have something so that he doesn't have to get as many shots, it's something that combines them. Otherwise, he'd be getting poked like 7 times. So, now we have to go back a little later in the week and just get shots.

Kaitlyn went to the doctor with us and she actually impressed the doctor with her recognition of animal butts. There was a poster in the exam room that had different animal butts on it, some sort of second hand smoke poster. She started naming the animal butts while the doctor was in the room. She had asked me a question just before Kaitlyn started naming them off and she had forgot what she had asked.

He's been doing pretty good. He still "talks" quite a bit and has even added a few more sounds to his vocab. Also, he's rolled over from his belly to his back a few times. If he's on his belly and gets mad he'll even manage to get his knees under himself and then face plant. It does manage to move him around a little bit, but it looks like it hurts.

I did switch him to formula, and thankfully his gas has gotten better. He still eats like he's not on formula. The kid just eats and eats and eats. He does get some sleep in there somewhere too. He's still a pretty happy little guy, unless he's not getting a bottle fast enough.

Kaitlyn's doing good and still trying to find ways to get into trouble. I also can't get seem to get her to understand the meaning of "brother is sleeping and we need to be quiet". It just passes right over her head. Also, we're trying to get her to understand that she needs to be nice to Duke and that he doesn't always want to play with her.

Jordan's getting ready for elk hunting. They leave on Wednesday and luckily for him there's been snow, snow, and more snow. There's probably over a foot up in the area where they hunt. He's going up with family and friends for about a week. I'm going to be alone with two very young kids and a dog who acts like a small child for a week. I'll let you know if everyone survives. I'm really hoping that he does manage to bring something home this year. We didn't have any elk last year and we had to buy more meat. Plus I like the fact that elk isn't any where near as fatty as beef.

I'll post again after the hunting week, that is if I survived.

Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

We love you and hope you have an absolutely wonderful birthday!

WHAT the "bleep"? NOOOOOOO!!

This was the view from my backdoor this morning. I couldn't believe it. We got a little bit of snow on the first, but it wasn't enough to get worked up about. This is a few inches and it's heavy and wet. I'm not ready for winter yet. Jordan was all happy about it of course. It's good for hunting and all. Still, yuck. Then it was grey and cloudy all day and snowed ever so lightly most of the day.

Kaitlyn had fun. She put on her new snow boots, coat and gloves and played in the snow. Duke went out and played with her. It was really cute. Kaitlyn would throw snowballs (after I told her that her hands would get really cold if she kept picking up the snow, her gloves aren't made for that) and Duke would try to find it. He had been eating snow all day long. After a while Kaitlyn comes in the house and says, "Momma I'm freezing." Sure enough her hands were just frigid. I finally convinced her to stay in the house so she wouldn't get sick and made her hot chocolate with marshmallows.

Jordan got a video of Kaitlyn dancing on Sunday morning while he was making breakfast. He had put in a video in our kitchen radio and Kaitlyn was watching and dancing. However, for some reason our computer won't recognize them on the card. I'll keep trying and post it when I can.

Keith will be turning 2 months in a few days and I'll have an update then.