July and August highlights

July highlights:  Swim lessons.  Addison did four weeks worth.  Clark decided after some convincing he would try for the last 2 weeks and loved it! I already posted about Kaylee's birthday.  Tyler turned 30 this year! It's hard to believe we are actually aging.  Most of the time we still feel like we just got married.  I didn't get any pictures but we had a Whitworth family reunion in Bone, ID.  We all enjoyed it very much.  We camped and ate s'mores, played in the lake, played games and enjoyed talking around the campfire with family!  The kids also got to hang out with Uncle Joe and help him pick peas which they loved while Tyler and I went to a sealing for Tyler's cousin Ben.  We also had help from Tyler's parents a few times to try to get some more done on our basement remodel/update. Thank you! We now have plumbing, windows, electrical box and meter, new a/c and furnace and new egress windows in the basement (which involved digging the holes, cutting the concrete, cleaning up from that, getting the windows in, and doing the window wells. Now what to do with all the extra clay piled in our backyard... The basement is now plumbed for a bathroom and my washer and dryer are moved to a more convenient location.  It will be nice to have the whole basement finished but right now I'm just pleased with the progress made.  I didn't realize what all it would take doing so many of the things that we have. It's been a mess but it will be worth it when its done! :)

 I wanted to try to do some extra special fun things this summer. Addison is heading into first grade on Monday August 24th.  She is nervous about it but I know she will do great! Some extra fun things we have done in August are: discovering a new park and getting to show Grandpa and Grandma Tonks it when they came for a visit.  Also we went to the recreation center to swim one time I just took Clark and Addison, the other time with G and G Tonks. We also went to see the minion movie with them.  That was a big fun full day!

 I didn't get a lot of pictures from when my parents were here either but here's one! I haven't figured out how to put them on from email yet... I'm sure I could figure it out but I should be getting dinner ready the rest of the way. :)

 Just this week we went to a splash pad nearby that is free. The kids all enjoyed it.  We went earlier in the summer too but Kaylee wouldn't get in.  This time with her baby in tow she was happy to get baby wet... She got wet a little too. ;)

 The fun park at the splash pad that is almost as cool as the water part. 

Kaylee's second birthday!

I can hardly believe Kaylee is 2, although she has started to act like it lately. She is very independent but happy most of the time. She still needs a good nap or she is a beast. :) currently we try to get one at the same time or I get beasty too. Kaylee is starting to learn her colors. Purple and blue are her favorites or at least the 2 she knows. We love her so much. She is so loving. She absolutely adores babies and I know she will be a great big sister soon! She was so excited to get her own "bike". I tried to correct her calling it a trike and I got corrected. :)

Summer has begun!

 Summer has officially started for us. Addison is done with kindergarten. The pictures are on the computer not my phone anymore of her graduation along with pictures from the zoo with Kaylee... Maybe I'll get them on here some time... Maybe not... But tonight at the library we had the summer reading program kick off which is all about super hero's! The kids really enjoyed it. Addison is flower power super girl! Kaylee put a heart on her cape. Probably love you death super cutie and Clark is just Clark. ;) he doesn't like nick names of any kind. He can be so serious... Wonder where he gets that from... We came home and had ice cream. The others were in the tub and I caught Kaylee with her face in her bowl.  Addison and Clark spent almost a whole week with my parents which they absolutely loved! I think Kaylee really enjoyed the one on one time with daddy and mommy but you can bet she was sure excited to see them last night. She talked to Addison all the way home and Addison was a non stop chatter box. Clark's comment was " I miss grandma already." We are glad they had fun but are glad to have them home. We sure missed them (although the break was nice. I only did one load of laundry and only had to run the dishwasher every other day!) Kaylee and I had fun too. We went to the zoo and she had a blast grocery shopping with mom and dad's attention plus all the one on one play at home and being held for naps. Yep it was nice. :)

Another what?!?!

 That's right another girl is coming to this family... At least we think so. :) she was being very uncooperative not only for revealing the gender but also for a few other medical things they check. She is growing and everything seems to be well so we are glad about that. We are excited to add more pink to our home too! As you can see I have already bought material and made one blanket with more projects to come. I am even going to make some minky crib sheets and another crib skirt since our current one is on the toddler bed.

So I did love Clark's response... "What?! I wanted a boy." Said with very much frustration and wrinkling of his nose. I think he will survive especially when he realizes he will be the one with his own room and does not have to share quite so many toys. :)

The flannel blanket I made last night...

April already!

Wow. I can hardly believe it's getting to be the end of April. I am sitting in the rocker snuggling Kaylee and thought to myself time is passing by so quickly. I'm already 17weeks along with baby number 4 and my baby will be in first grade when this baby is born. Clark is finally maturing some and playing well with other children and Kaylee has just exploded with talking. She calls her babies "bobos" and there are so many other things she has words for. Just month ago I told a friend I was worried because she wasn't taking at all even though she was very good at getting what she wanted or at least "telling" us... She is very independent.  A few examples... She gets the juice or milk from the fridge or grabs a diaper and wipes if she needs to be changed. She was playing nicely in the TV room while Addison and Clark were watching a movie so I thought I could snatch a quick nap. I woke up as she came out covered in white cream. It only took me a minute to figure out what it was by the smell. She had gotten the butt paste and spread it so lovingly all over any skin exposed along with three of her dolls. Of course it wasn't any of the dolls with plastic bodies. What a pain it was to get out but to her she was just taking care of her "bobos". What a good little mommy... 

 March paintings

 Addison's

 Clark's... He still loves sprinklers so there are several in his painting.

 Addison had been wanting a hair cut for a couple of months and I was too pokey. She came home from school one day with a few bangs and some shorter pieces in back... I made her wait a few days but then we went and donated it. She was so excited not to have so much hair and tangles.

 She lost her 3rd tooth too! And that darn tooth fairy isn't very reliable at our house. She had to try again the next night. Oops! At least the fairy left a note apologizing! ;)

 I was pretty proud of my marshmallow peeps i made... They turned out super cute and only took maybe 4 hours from start to finish which was good since I bought the fabric 2 days before Easter!

 Addison's first field trip!!! It was so fun to go with her. Actually I drive separately. She wanted to ride the bus. She said that Clark and Kaylee could come to because she didn't want them to miss out and be lonely. She is so thoughtful and sweet! We went to wheeler historic farm. It was interesting to learn some facts I didn't know about assumable. Like the black and white cows produce the most milk with up to 8 gallons a day. Poor ladies!

 Park one afternoon after dropping Addison off at school. We didn't have other babysitting kids with us!

 Our freak April snowstorm was sure fun. Poor tulip our snowman was gone the next day. :(

 Clark loves Lego's. Just a random picture of one of his creations. I don't remember what it was unfortunately. Maybe a sucker truck...

 Kaylee on her new old bike.

 Clark mowing but actually we had just used the spreader to put out fertilizer so he was pretending to as well but it kept running away from him or so he said. Silly boy... :)

Kaylee had some awesome bed head this morning. She is so funny and happy. I love looking back at my blog and seeing how we are growing and changing as a family.  I have fallen way behind on my scrapbooking but this hopefully will help me when I do catch up to remember these stories.