Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Highlights Magazine

Emily recieved a subscription to Highlights for Christmas from Aunth Cheryl! Each issue comes with a craft and a recipe among other wonderful stories.  Emily can't wait to make them. 
Here are her renditions...
 Forsynthia twigs - we didn't have yellow tissue paper on hand, so we made ours more colorful.  Not sure if forsynthia only come in yellow or not?
 Fruit dip.  She loved this one.  1 cup of vanilla pudding spread on a plate, cover with 1/2 cup of blueberries, raspberries, and kiwi. Arrange cinnamon sugar pita chips around to dip with.
They loved it!

18 months

My little lady is 18 months!  She is still the smallest of the Kibbe kids. 
Weight 22 lb 11oz, height 30.75" and head circum 46 cm  She is growing steadily, still in the 25-30% range.

My other two rugrats at this age
Emily 24 lb 7 oz, height 31.5" and head circum 48 cm
Dallas 27 lb 1 oz, height 33.5" and head circum 49.6 cm


How wonderfully made they all are!

I was able to tell the Doc that she walked (just barely) at her checkup.  Not walking by 18 mo is considered delayed.  She is still not walking on her feet primarily, but she will oblige you for lots of praise.  She gets around pretty well by walking on her knees, bear crawling or crawling.  She says tons of words.  I understand everything she communicates, although she will also spend lots of time grunting at you as well.  Mine, mommy, no, night night and eat are the forerunners.  She will say eat and sign it first thing in the morning after you change her diaper, must be hungry.  She loves the sandbox and has finally stopped tasting the sand, I still catch her with rocks in her mouth.  She likes to have about anything in her mouth, she'll chew on a hair tie until I fish it out. 
She is wearing 18 month clothes, and whatever else I can find her.  A major shopping trip is needed soon around here for summer stuff. 

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Happy March Pictures!

 I love this picture, is she growling?
Emily helping Bo with a case of the Monday's
 Silly faces with daddy at the dance
 Tickets to see the Lorax
 During date night I introduced Rob to the High Life Lounge
 Noelle and Emily with their St. Patty's craft hats - Aunt April and Uncle Mark kept them busy during date night!
 Cruising to Osky in the truck with daddy
 love, love, love this picture.  Dallas reading in the bottome bunk, Emily reading in the top bunk!
she plays peek a boo in the tent, only when she says it, it comes out like "pee, boo"

The one big snow

 sledding
 They all loved it, not sure Dallas really saw what was going on
 snow ice cream with sprinkles and a graham cracker
 Noelle made it one run and screamed a ton, we let her sit the rest out
little kid snow angels

February Roundup

 Valentine's from Daddy
 Attempting to get a picture of all three (i might have 40 versions of this)
 Homemade egg rolls for the Bud Shoot-out
This sick day = movie day

 
 Skinny Dallas, big red slippers, and popcorn
Wishing this one wasn't blurry

the sand box

I love it, I hate it... 

I love that it provides hours of imaginative play
I love that it is outdoors, it provides sunshine and fresh air to my kiddos
I love how much he loves it, some little guy you know might have asked if he could go out to the sand box at 6:15 am the other day
I love that all three kids can play together in the box
I hate that you need a bath everyday
Noelle hates that I have to vacuum her hair after she plays, she also eats sand occasionally, and then poops it!
I hate having to vacuum a small pile of sand off the rocking chair
I hate discovering their pockets or cuffs were full of the stuff too
It's in my bathtub, in my washing machine, in my dryer.  I might have undressed and undiapered Noelle in the backyard yesterday...

Monday, March 5, 2012

Guess what

She walked today!   Just shy of 18 months...  She stood up, I wasn't paying attention, so she was yelling mama, mama, mama, and clapping her hands saying yea, yea, praising herself.  We give her lots of encouragement, when she stands.  I said walk Noelle, walk.  She took four tiny little toddles.  Emily, Dallas and I all broke out into the biggest praise Noelle had ever heard.  She got up and tried it again after I asked her to walk again, this time two steps, and then again three steps later for Robert.  Perhaps she'll start performing since it gets her lots of attention.