Overalls

So I was going through a box of kids clothes not too long ago looking to give stuff away to a friend of mine for her little girls and came across a couple of outfits that Eli wore when he was a baby. Among these outfits was a pair of jean overalls that both Kayla and Eli wore. So naturally I had to have Emma wear them at least once...which is probably all I will get out of them since they are size 12mo and Emma typically wears 18mo. I put her in them today before I lost my chance and got a couple of pictures. I don't have a scanner so I had to get creative and took pictures of the pictures that I have of Kayla and Eli in them! Here they are!

Here is Kayla in the overalls....she is 12 months old here

Here is Eli in the overalls....he was only 6 months old....what a chunk!

And here is Emma in the overalls......and she is 12 months

So now these overalls will be put away so that maybe a grandbaby or two can wear them. That is if the kids don't think I am a big dork still by the time they have kids of their own! :)

Track Stats

Sorry this is so late but as you can see I had some blog catching up to do!

Kayla had a track meet last Wed (the 26th) and this time the team came in 3rd as a whole. Which is still great considering they are a team of 50 girls going against teams of 100+ girls! So the odds are against them but of course they rock! This time Kayla did the long jump and the 4x200. She was disappointed in her long jump so she can't even tell me how she scored (they don't let parents out on the field and I didn't hear the results over the loudspeaker). She did really good on the running though. I love watching her try harder and harder every week. I can see the improvement every time.

So she has 1 more meet on Tuesday the 2nd and then the next week are the classics. I don't know exactly what day yet.

Happy Birthday Emma!

Yesterday was Emma's actual birthday. I cannot believe that baby is 1 already! My how time flies! She ended up having a pretty busy day yesterday. Nana brought her to my work so everyone could see how big she is and see her walking. Well to also help me out since Emma had her well baby check-up...kept me from having to go from one side of town to the other! And of course Emma loves to have people stare at her so she was in her element at work! One of the guys I work with let her play with a toy car, which she drove on the floor a bit. She has learned from her brother how to make car noises, so she make a car sound when she plays with them. It is quite cute hearing it come out of her mouth. The Val gave her a picture of Morgan to carry around.....she gave her some kisses and tried to get Nana to stuff her in her purse for later.



First we had to go get Eli from school. He found it a bit strange to have Emma in the car because we usually go get her from Nana's house together while we wait for Kayla to finish track practice.

Then we headed off to her appointment....found out she weighs 24lbs 12oz and is 30.5" long. So she is right around the average size for height and just over average for weight. She's a healthy girl! We got there a bit early and didn't get in until after the scheduled time so we spent lots of time in the waiting room.

After we got home we ate some dinner and then tried the birthday cake thing again. (see earlier post for previous issues) I am guessing she just didn't like the first cake because she tore into this one! Finally have one kid that is willing to get a bit dirty! And then we did family presents....yep more to add to the bulging toybox! Here are the pictures from that.

Getting ready to blow out the candle

Uh-oh here we go again.....

Yummmmm

And she's done with it....she has already learned to take advantage of having a dog....when you are done with it...throw it over the high chair and the dog will be there to catch it!

Kayla set up this "throne" for her to open her presents

Bath toys from Kayla because she gives her a bath alot

A little people SUV from Eli...naturally

A baby doll from daddy (she smells really good too)

And a set of soft balls from Momma

As you can see, we have had enough of the loud, flashy toys so we opted for things that don't make noise or make soft noises! And the girl is set for the next year at least!

Emma's bday party

Have a temporary fix for my internet issues so I am taking this opportunity to update the blog here!

We had Emma's bday party on Sunday and it was great! We ended up with 21 people plus our family of 5 and 1 straggler that was a bit late (but excused considering he lives a couple hours away) in our back yard! It was great weather (actually kinda on the hot side) for doing it. And of course the kids love being outside. One of my friends has 2 little boys that are pretty fond of catching bugs so they really had a blast in our undiscovered backyard! And one friend even had a bug land on her and just about gave us all a show! :) Emma got way more presents than any child should so we breezed through opening them. She was such a trooper. I would help her get one opened and take it out from in front of her right away and she would accept that and move to the next one! And then came the cake. Our Wal-mart gives the baby their very own cake to demolish so we stuck the candle in it, the wind blew it out which was OK since her real bday wasn't until Tue (and she can't do it anyhow), and we let her have the cake. She stuck her little fingers in the icing and licked them a couple of times and then decided she wanted nothing more to do with that! So we had to get her out and wash her up right away. There were only a couple of swipes out of the frosting and maybe a tiny bite of actual cake gone! But that is true to Trumbull form there! Can't be dirty! Here are the pictures from Sunday.

Here is Emma with one of her many presents

Waiting patiently for the next one to come her way....and watching what is being done

Emma with her soccer ball from Janae

Opening her Elmo doll from her bff Morgan

She loves ducks....so what a perfect cake this is!

This is what I call conquering the box. She loves to tip them over and sit on them. Forget the toys that came in them!

Yep, she got caught playing with a baby toy! :) It was reading nursery rhymes to her.

Some good and some bad.....

So the good news is that Kayla had her 2nd track meet (3rd for the season) on Tuesday and her team placed 2nd again. These girls rock! Kayla did really good too and is working hard to improve on her speed and it shows. She was feeling more confident this go around than the 1st.

And the bad news (for me anyhow) is that we are having internet troubles at home and it probably won't be fixed until next week (and hopefully it will be that soon and not longer!). We are having to check email at my moms house so if it takes us a while to respond that would be why! Ugh!

We are having Emma's first bday party on Sunday. I cannot believe that baby girl is going to be 1 already! This past year has flown by! I will post pictures on Monday (from my mothers house of course) of the party!

1st track meet

Kayla had her 1st track meet of the season (and ever as she has so kindly pointed out) yesterday. It was fun and exciting watching her team and her out there doing their thing. She competed in the 4x200 and the 4x100. She was also supposed to do shot-put but they didn't time that very well with one of the races she was in so she missed the call for that one. Those Irving girls are a strong team (they placed 2nd yesterday) and played against another very strong team.

Kayla is already talking about what she wants to do at next week's track meet. She wants to do long jump, 4x100 and the 200 meter dash.

And for those of you who don't know, the 4x100 is a 100 meter relay with 4 girls per team and the 4x200 is the same only it is 200 meters.

Here are the pictures that I got. I don't have the best digital camera so hopefully they turned out OK and you can kind of find Kayla! I did a short video of her actually running but it doesn't seem to want to post here!

Eli hanging out at the stadium waiting for Kayla to run

Emma say's "I just can't take the suspense". Actually it is Emma getting so frustrated with having to sit in the stroller for too long.

Kayla is the girl in the inside line bending over catching her breath! This was after running the 4x200

Kayla coming for some trail mix and water.

See that school pride?! And she waits until after the fact to ask if that makeup will wash off!

Eli in the hood, Emma and Kayla chillin yo! :) Emma is trying to get Kayla to cheer...we are working on teaching Emma to yell "Go Irving, Go Kayla!"

I had to share this picture because this cracks me up. Whenever we go for walks in the stroller she talks and talks and holds her hands up like this. It makes me think of someone riding a roller coaster!

This is how she looks to everyone else. It isn't as cute from the front because her arms are so short! :)

A day out

My mom and step-dad were kind enough to invite (their treat) my step-sister Ayrah and I to get out of the house without children or hubbies on Saturday. We got to play tourist as we took Uncle Steve and Aunt Kim from CA to a few places with us. The first thing we did was go to Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO. I have been there several times for concerts but never just to visit so it really was cool to see it in a different light. We went to their visitor's center/gift shop and they have a deck on the backside with a really great view down the rocks. Then we did actually go into the amphitheater part but thank goodness didn't go down the steps! Their seating capacity is 9450 so it is a pretty big place. If you click on the link above, you can go to a really neat interactive seating chart and it will give you a good idea of just how steep the place is.

My mom (the one looking the other way), Bryan, Kim and Steve on the deck at Red Rocks

Then we went to Coors Brewery in Golden, CO for a tour. I can't really say that any of us are beer drinkers but it was still interesting to learn all about the process of making beer! And here is a little tid bit for ya, if you aren't really a drinker, you could probably get a wee bit tipsy on this tour! You get a small cup of beer about half way through the tour and then at the end you get 3 more full glasses of beer! Kim tried a couple different Zima flavors, I tried a pumpkin flavored beer and my mom tried a couple dark beers. And we pretty much only liked one of the Zima's! What women we are! :)

How would you like to have this full of beer?! This is just outside of the Coors building.

Ayrah at the tour halfway mark with her first sample of beer.

Bryan, Steve, Kim and my mom with their 1st beer samples. And despite the look on Kim's face, she wasn't drunk! :)

And finally, after all of that, we went to a Rockies game. Of course the game we go to is the 1 in 3 that they lost! Oh well! The games are still really fun to go to.

All in all, it was a fun day. Very tiring though. And I think everyone else enjoyed it too! Sometimes it is good to just get away from it all. And then it is that much better when you get home and see your kids happy smiling faces!

She's walkin, yes indeed

Is the song in your head yet? :)

Emma has finally (I say finally but I really thought I had more time) walking. Most of the time she is doing it until she realizes what she is doing and then sits down. But it is still just as cute! And to watch her concentrate on what she is doing as she lifts one foot and then the next! Such a joy!

2 more weeks and my baby is going to 1 yr old! I cannot get over just how fast this last year has gone by. To think that this time last year I was preparing to go on maternity leave and making sure we had everything we needed before she decided to make an appearance! Oy!

Fun in Divide

On Saturday we went to visit some friends that live in Divide, CO for a bbq. They live at the top of a mountain and you have to turn around and getting a running start just to get up their driveway. I certainly wouldn't want to travel that road and that driveway in the winter time! And the wife does it twice a day to come down here to the Springs to work! Anyways, they have a swing attached to a tree and a hammock attached to a tree that makes you feel like you are going to fall off the side of the mountain. So naturally I had to make my kids get on the swing and get a picture of that. They had moved the hammock so it isn't as scary to be on any more. Here are the pics from that.

Here is Eli playing it safe and facing towards the drop off - not as scary this way!

Here he is standing on the swing with the drop off behind him. Can you see how tense he is by the way he is standing? I don't think I have ever seen him so stiff!
Here is Kayla standing on it with her back to the drop off. It didn't freak her out as much.

Emma chilling in the hammock. She started singing to herself and was ready to go to sleep as I pushed her. A girl could get used to this life!

Kayla and Emma in the hammock. Now this is what scared Kayla! Can't you tell by the look on her face? She was afraid of falling the 2 inches to the ground! :)

It was a nice fun day with friends up in the mountains. It did rain and chase us in to the house for a bit but it was nice and cool afterwards! Beats the heat we have been living with down here in the city!

First day of school!

So today was the big day! Kayla's first day of middle school - 6th grade - and Eli's first day of 2nd grade! Big stuff man! Kayla had me come in to the school with her and wait until she could go her locker. She really wanted me to go into her classroom with her but I made her do that much by herself. She got her locker open on the first try this morning which is a great way to start the day considering that is one of the biggest fears for the first day. Of course it proceeded to give her troubles all throughout the day but what do ya do? She got lost once and didn't have any lunch money (the school failed to mention they wouldn't be using their account and card for the first day or so) so her friend had to share. But all in all she had a really good day and is very much looking forward to her 2nd day! We went to the store tonight to get her a Trapper Keeper like thing (they are WAY different from when I was in school!) and to get her some fun stuff for her locker. And here is the best thing....again true to Trumbull form.....she asked me if she could stay late at school tomorrow so that she could get her locker all fixed up!

Poor Eli was worn out by the time he got out of school this afternoon. Twain Elementary tends to be a pilot school for a lot of programs the district wants to try out and this year they get to be a pilot for an extended day. They made the school day a full hour longer than in the past....so he doesn't get out until 3:30. The goal is to raise test scores by increasing lesson plan times. I guess we will see how that goes! I think it will take Eli some time to get used to this though. He was pretty proud of himself because he made a new friend already. But I can't say he is as excited to go back tomorrow as Kayla is. He likes school, just not the way Kayla likes school.

Anyways, here are the pictures from this morning.......Here is Eli with his back pack all packed and ready to go....pardon his expression he was messing around and apparently it was too early in the morning for me to catch this!

Here is my little poser Kayla.....looking cool with her back pack!

All ready to go........looking bad.......

Again....looking cool.........

Here is Kayla in the front of her school.....the funny part of this picture is that she wanted me to take a picture of her in front of the school this morning....then once we got there she wouldn't let me do it so we had to comprimise and do it from this far away....

And here was our first friend siting......Carolyn from elementary school

School starts tomorrow!

So tomorrow is the 1st day of school and we are an excited bunch! This is a huge milestone for Kayla that I am excited to watch her go through! It brings back lots of memories...especially for JR since Kayla is going to the same school he did....Irving Middle School. It was a little surreal for him last night while we were getting the tour.

Anyways, the last couple of nights has been meeting teachers and tonight was spent preparing for the big day tomorrow. Here are a couple of pictures from tonight.

Eli settling in to bed (with his plane of course) before the big day

Kayla lying around trying to make herself tired (she is just a little excited)

True to Trumbull form....gotta have everything all laid out and organized......bags have been packed since July but I made them undo them to make sure we got everything

Kayla checking emails to pass the time until bed time

I will post 1st day of school pictures tomorrow! JR will be taking Eli to school and getting him all settled and I get to take Kayla and get her all settled. What an exciting time!

Check this out!

So as I have said before, when Emma goes to Nana's house, she always gets her hair done. Tonight, she came home with part of her hair up and the sides were curly. I kept looking at her thinking I have seen that before! That is when it hit me....she looks like I did in one of my pictures of when I was younger! It is crazy! So since I don't have a scanner I had to be creative and take a picture of the picture I am talking about. Here they both are!

So here is the picture of me......

Here is one of Emma

And here is the other

We tried to get a picture of Emma with my pic next to her but she was having none of that! She just wanted to hold the pic!