Utility Sink
My new house has a utility sink in the garage! OK, Not that exciting but when you don’t have grass and your one year old loves to play in the dirt the Utility sink becomes quite valuable:
clean boy
Rosies turn!
Benji cooling off
Category: Rose
Catch Up: May 25th-30th
school is out? summer is here? the Hancock’s stayed with us for a week?
Cali and Mia
Cali finished Preschool! She will not be old enough for kindergarten so she will be going to the same preschool again with Mia. She knows most of her letters and counts to 50ish. She watches her brothers and wants to read and write like them. I think she’ll be doing both very soon. She loved her teachers and had a great end of the year party.
Packer and Luca
The boys had the end of the year dance festival! and they had field day! and Packer got to go to Cabela’s and we went to kindergarten graduation! The boys were great students and good examples in their classes. We are proud of them.
proud sisters
Packer LOVED his teacher
Erica and her kids came and stayed with us that last week of school and last week in our house. We had lots of last sleepovers in the most awesome play room. We tried to keep the house clean while people came to see if they wanted to rent it! We played at the park. Erica babysat my kids MANY times while we had our final walk through and drove to SLC to close on the new house and … it was fun having them. It’s always amazing how much fun our kids have together and how they just know that they have to be friends 🙂
at the park
these 2 have very similar personalities
breakfast
Silly Babies!
Rose always tells me that she is a baby like Ray Ray.. She doesn’t want to be a big girl, she always chooses the baby roll. Naked like Ray. Hold me like Ray. They are only 16 months apart and as he gets bigger they are getting closer in size and really enjoying playing and being silly little babies:
  
Raymond is not a baby anymore. He runs around the house and follows the kids and tries to do whatever anyone else is doing. He is our most mischievous child yet. He loves to walk now and is learning new tricks all the time.
TheToy Room
I love my toy room. And we all LOVE when it is actually clean and organized. It took me 3 hours this time to put it back together but that was after a good month of neglect. The newly instated old goal is to make the kids clean up after themselves so it doesn’t get out of control.
Cornbellies 10/29/12
If you live in Utah County then you probably know what Cornbellies is. If you don’t live in Utah County but you read my blog in October then you probably know what Cornbellies is. For the rest of you, Cornbellies is a child’s Halloween wonderland. It is loaded with fall activities for kids of all ages and over the last few years it has become tradition for us to go every October!
Pumpkin Carving 10-27-12
Rosies Fat Lip and Ray Rays Teeth
Rose – all bloodied up from her walking injury
Rose will not ride in the stroller. She turned 2 on the first of October, Just one month ago! BUT she will not ride. She wants to walk. We walk Packer to school almost everyday so now it takes us double or triple the time because we have to go Rosie Speed. She walked at cornbellies. She walked all of trick or treating. I still take the double stroller in hopes of convincing her to jump in but she never does. Last Friday she walked and she tripped and she got a fat lip and she bled a lot but, guess what? She STILL would not get in the stroller!! I finally got her home and got the blood cleaned up. She needed a sippy and blanket and 2 band aids on her feet! Her tooth looked pretty bad but has healed ok from what I can see.
I little medicine helped too.
I wasn’t about to put the band aid on the lip so the foot did the trick.
And as most of these incidents go, little brother decided that he was not happy and needed to cry the whole time with her 🙂
I’m not happy!
Ray got 3 new teeth in October. He got one while we were in Florida and here towards the end of the month he decided to cut 2 more on top. I’m guessing the 4th top will be in soon because he has been a grouch today. He is officially our early kid. He came a little early in general and has done everything from teeth to hair to roll, sit, crawl, stand. He slept longer earlier and ate real food super early. Anyway, he is growing up fast. I think he is done nursing. Maybe once a day until I am done but he would much rather have a banana, cereal and bottle.
I think he got some tylenol that afternoon also.
2 Year Old ROSIE!
Happy Birthday to Rosie! Two years old is so fun. You are such a cutie and we love you like crazy. (that was to the tune of Happy Birthday in my head) We started Rose’s Birthday early on Sunday night when the Robertson cousins and Aunt and Uncles were here. We let her open her gifts From Grandma and Grandpa Robertson and we had her DIEGO birthday cake.
Dora and Backpack from my parents!
Look at all those cute Girly Smiles!
THE CAKE! Rose went back and forth between a Dora Cake and a Spiderman cake. I had already done spiderman for Packer so I was pushing for Dora and then she decided that she really wanted Diego! so I decided to try Fondant for the first time. I like it. Not perfect but another option for future cakes. AND 2 year olds love EVERYTHING so I had no pressure.
Turning 2 is exciting!
Monday morning we opened presents before Dad and Benji left for the day…
CHoo Choo Train!
Siblings all get excited too!
Ray Ray enjoyed the wrapping paper mess.
And at 10:00 we had a birthday party with the youngest cousins!! We played Doggy Doggy where’s your Bone? and Cheep Cheep. Then Rose decided she was starving so we had a gogurt break but she was still hungry so we brought out the cupcakes and let the kids do their own sprinkles. We opened presents and fought over who got to play with them 🙂 We played Duck Duck goose and then came in for a Hot Dog lunch – another Rose favorite.
Packer, Sam, Luca, Mia, Cali, Rose, Anna, Christian – Playing Doggy Doggy.
cheep cheep
Pulling her new dora set in her new wagon while she talks on her new phone wearing her new outfit! Â score
2 years old like Christian!! Yipee!
Monday Night I was exhausted! Birthday weekend, extended through Party Monday wore me out. We had family home evening and gave Rosie one last present before calling it a day.
Every 2 year old needs their very own baby doll. She shushed and cuddle her the rest of the night. Big sister helped too.
Rose is a big girl. She is talking a lot and keeps repeating until you figure out what she wants. She plays really well but she also throws fits really well when she doesn’t get her way. She EATS a ton. Mostly yogurt and hot dogs and treats and whatever mom or dad are eating. She will not drink milk so she is making up for it in yogurt. She is still a momma’s girl often throwing fits in the morning if I am not able to get her out of her bed. She is our curly haired cutie and just makes us smile a lot. A week or so ago she got her birthday pillow from Grandma and Grandpa Netteshiem. SHE LOVED IT. She showed it to everyone all night and had a perm-a-grin. She was literally bouncing off the walls with excitement. Our goal for this year is to KEEP TAKING NAPS so that we can be happy. My kids try to give up naps when they turn 2 but I am fighting her on this one.
Rose Kristine Nettesheim – October 1, 2012
My Birthday!
I am One Year Older and One Year Wiser! 🙂 yipee. I need that right about now. I had a fun birthday Saturday. We had a chill sleep in morning and woke up to Ben’s Delicious Cinnamon Rolls. I received some awesome gifts, watched my big boys play soccer, did my birthday puzzle, got to eat Green Curry and Cold Stone Ice Cream Cake. We went to the park, I received many phone calls and I fell asleep to a chick flick.
Happy Birthday! (Benji was laying on the couch with a tummy ache)
Life goes way to fast! I remember very well when my mom turned 35 and I thought she was SOOO old. I’m not quite 35 but I can say that 35 isn’t soo old… I can still do back flips on the trampoline! and I scored 3 goals in my soccer game against younger fast girls! and in my mind I still relate perfectly well to 21 year olds.
Birthday with the Nettesheim’s!
My mother in law’s birthday is the day before mine so we celebrated last Sunday before they went out of town. And remember how I wanted to have a kid to share my birthday with and then I was due with Rose on my bday but she came 2 days later?? well I’m glad that she doesn’t have to share with me cause it was fun to give her the spotlight. I think when we are both old it’ll be fun to celebrate together but for now she needs her own day and she has it and I will blog it ASAP 🙂
Birthday Girls!
two babies
Rose has been so sweet with Ray Ray this week. She plays with him and shows him how toys work and today she was crawling around with him and needed her clothes off because Ray’s clothes were off…
