Kater is 6 months old (well...she's now 6 1/2)

Miss Kate turned 6 months old the day before Charlotte's birthday. I just can't believe it!! She's a nugget and I love it. I love changing her diaper and seeing the chunky legs. But she's not a chunky girl overall...she doesn't really look it. But she's tall too. I didn't realize how tall she was until she was measure at the dr last week!!! I was FLOORED! ha ha

She weighs 17 lbs 4 oz and is the 72% for her weight.

She is 28 1/4 inches long and is in the 99 PERCENTILE!!! Can you believe it?! The typical height for her age (on the paper it said) is 26 inches long. She's 2 inches longer than other 6 months old. CRAZY!!! ha ha.

This picture just CRACKS me up!!! ha ha. She gives this face a lot. ha ha ha ha.

Yes, I know. The flower is usually on the SIDE of the head. ha ha.

A lot of exersaucer pics but what can I say, she's stinkin' cute :) Doesn't she just make you wanna smile?!

She's just so cute. She's getting SO much better. Still a fussy girl but not quite as much. She really really enjoys Charlotte and Jack. And since Jack is at home all day, he entertains her. When he walks into a room and bobs his head or whatever she cracks up laughing. I love hearing her laugh. And it's a lot :)

She isn't too keen on baby food. We give it to her but she isn't crazy about it. I'm sure one day she'll be like, yeah, I like it! But she loves milk a lot. :)

She has been sleepomg AWFUL these last few weeks. She's generally a good sleeper but lately she's awake a few times a night and sometimes she'll wake up and start cooing and laughing. What's up Kate?! seriously!!

I think she's going to start crawling (more like army crawl) very very soon. She rolls around everywhere and likes to put anything in her mouth. So we have to be extra clean on the floor. She can sit but you have to be behind her cause she likes to fall back still. It's amazing how fast she's becoming mobile. I thought Jack was fast but I had him compared to little Charlotte. But he doesn't compare! sheesh!

She's REALLY good at ripping apart your face. If you enjoy this, I'll let you hold her. ha ha. She gets the BIGGEST smile on her face. And smiles so much. And she loves to say ma-ma and da da. I know these are sounds but I think it's a bit early to say it...at least to me. Especially since she's been doing it a while. I don't know. Maybe my audiologist friends and SLP's can tell me :) But I swear she'll turn to Wade and say "hi dadadadada" ha ha. I know it's just sounds but I like to pretend, okay? okay.

Kate has been so much fun. And I love to hold her and squeeze her and give her kisses. She's so happy when you hold her. Not when you leave the room :( but her eyes just light up when she looks at you. I love it. Makes me feel good. I still can't believe she'll be 7 months in a couple of weeks!!

Pumpkin picking fun :)

Every year we go to the same Pumpkin guy for our pumpkins. Just off the Highway to the west of Ted's gas station. The kids love picking out their pumpkins! It's quick and easy and CHEAP.

Wade loves picking out his perfect pumpkin :)

And Jack had found his!

Charlotte couldn't decide but finally found one. And she wanted to carry it. It probably weighed more than her.

Here's Kate trapped again. I know she enjoyed picking out her pumpkin. Well, maybe it was me...

Came home and I made a batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookes. This is the best recipe ever and it's from my Sister-in-law Stacy! SERIOUSLY YUMMY. No cake mix either.

Had to have a fun treat after the pumpkins. So drank nice hot apple cider and our pumpkin cookies.

I think the cider made Wade want to chunder later. Just can't take the goodness I guess.

Awww. Cutie Kate! Enjoying the pumpkin day too.

How to have a perfect Halloween Week(end)

1. Head over to the Pumpkin Patch/Corn field Maze for a class fieldtrip!

2. Pick out a pumpkin!

3. Have fun in the cornfield!

4. Look so adorable and cute for mommy while being trapped!!

5. Head off to the Pumpkin Walk with the class. Oh, and only take the traditional pictures. ha ha. (it was an extremely cute one this year!! All about animation.)

6. Wait until after Charlotte's birthday party to head out to the Pumpkin Patch again (the next day) with good friends and crazy, freezing, rainy weather (uh, it snowed the following week...)

Where's Jack? Uh, he fell asleep in the car and Wade stayed in there with him. I don't think Wade minded at all. :)

7. Have Charlotte's Birthday.

8. Carve pumpkins the few days before Halloween!

This is Jack. He's good at carving! ;)

9. Charlotte carving too. She was so into it! She designed her own but Dad cut it out. So did Jack...sort of...he he. But Charlotte wanted to eat the seeds (i'm sure she learned that at school!) and wanted to make pumpkin pie out of all the pumpkins. Yeah, sorry Charlotte. Not too into that one. he he.

10. Align the pumpkins for a perfect picture!

Jack, Charlotte, Kate, Wade's then mine.

11. Get all dressed up for the school party on the 29th!

Obviously, Charlotte's a pirate and Jack's just a builder...but based off of Bob. He doesn't know Bob very well. ha ha. But he'll talk up a storm about his tools. Seriously. He's a hoot.

And here's Kate in her ghost costume. This is the same one Charlotte wore for her 1st (well, technically 2nd) Halloween! SO so so cute :)

12. Be silly!

13. Get redressed that night for the Ward Fall Festival! Fall Festival is a lot of fun. Full of carnival style games for the kids, cupcake walk, photo booth and a chili/soup cook off!

14. Light pumpkins for Halloween (which was celebrated on the 30th)

15. Eat a spooky dessert after trick-or-treating!

16. Let mom take another picture of all the loot! Yep, Kate's is there too...:)

17. Watch Wallace and Gromit- Curse of the Were-rabbit!

18. Halloween day, just relax at home but at least have a fun dinner!

Jack-o-Lantern and Mummy french bread pizzas with Bone Breadsticks! Yummers! Yikes!

We had a wonderful weekend full of fun! Lack of pictures of course, but it was great. We went trick or treating with Daxton and his family (they dressed up as Scooby Doo characters. SO CUTE!). Wade and Kate came along on our street then when we got back to our end of the street, he took her home and gave out candy for trick-or-treaters. We lasted 45 minutes til it decided to DOWNPOUR on all of us. ha ha. So we called it a night. Had dinner, watched a movie and sent the kids to bed.

It was so awesome to see Charlotte's face light up. Jack was into it too but it was awesome that Charlotte really got into it this year. She would yell TRICK OR TREAT even before the doors opened. And then shouted THANK YOU when we would leave. ha ha. And Jack even would say his cute way of Trick or Treat!! This makes me look forward to all the upcoming holidays more and more.

Charlotte's 5th Birthday!

Well, as you all know from previous post, Charlotte had a fabulous first birthday party on Saturday. So her actual birthday was quite simple but special. First of all, I decided to celebrate by being sick! Food poisoning is my suspicion so I couldn't do anything the night before to prepare and was really disappointed. Wade was amazing and stayed home to take care of the kids so I could regain my energy. Charlotte was sent off to school that morning, which is her favorite thing to do, and Wade went and got donuts and apple juice for the party at her school. Jack was able to go too! He ended up chundering at school. We are convinced he just gagged on his donut (go figure!) and wasn't really sick. Poor Wade! ha ha. Charlotte had the time of her life with Dad and Jack there. She really did feel special.

When she came home from school, presents were opened and played with! We gave her a dvd, shirt, playdough toy, Tinkerbell Plate and a few other things! Ma and Grandpa sent her things (listed under the picture below) and Grandma and Grandpa Chandler gave her a sweater for Christmas and two hats!

Then we made a roast dinner (which was supposed to be sunday's dinner) for Charlotte and then had cake and ice cream. She loved having the Happy Birthday song sung to her. She thinks it's the best thing EVER. And then we watched her new Tinkerbell movie that night. So that's all we did but it was awesome.

Walked in the door and noticed her presents instantly!

She was SO funny! She immediately grabbed the shopping cart, went about 5 feet, turned around and started opening presents.

She would open presents, look at what she got, smile and say something, dump the present on the table and went for the next one. SO cute!

Presents from Ma and Grandpa: Money (she still has to spend it!), stickers and a book.

Reading about the Pukeko :)

I was sick as a dog but wanted Charlotte to have a birthday cake on her birthday. It's really not that great looking but don't look close. I would have done better had I the energy and desire. But Charlotte liked it too!! So that's what mattered. I did my best under the circumstances :)

They love it when someone blows out candles and when they sing Happy Birthday.

Charlotte's 5th Birthday Party

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Charlotte had her first ever birthday party this past saturday. She was SO excited and happy to have one and has been looking forward to it for weeks! She invited a few friends, mainly from school, to come. She wanted a Tinkerbell party and to dress up (thankfully we already had a tink costume from last Halloween!). Since she had boys come too, we had to think fast! They could come as Lost Boys/Pirates. Phew! So we had fairies and pirates. What a combination :)

It was a lot of work and a BIG THANKS to Jen, Mel and the Stoddards. We wouldn't have been able to throw this party without you!!! Anywho, wewere so happy to throw this party for Charlotte. It was priceless to see her face.

At the party, we colored pictures and made cereal necklaces, passed the parcel, hit a pinata, ate lunch, opened presents and had birthday cake. You can see in the video clip, she is also singing when she is being sung Happy Birthday. We had to sing it twice too!!! I'm so proud of this girl. I can't believe she's 5 years old now. To see where she was and where she is today is a miracle. I love my Missy moo!!

Tinkerbell Cake

Warning: blurry pics below. Sorry for my useless photo taking skills and CAMERA. ARGH. Oh well, you get the gist of the pictures, right?



My favorite thing on the cake were the mini mushrooms. so cute!!

So I haven't blogged for ages. I've got a couple of good excuses. I have a lot to catch up on as well. I think once Charlotte's birthday is over with, I'll definitely start trying to catch up on this blog. But I wanted to share the cake I made for charlotte's birthday party. I'm making another one, but just one tiered, simple cake. You have to have a cake ON your birthday!! She was so cute at her party. It was her first one. I hope she felt good. She deserved it.

She wanted a Tinkerbell Birthday cake for months. I searched on the internet and had ideas in mind on what to do. Oddly, it isn't really what I imagined it (due to lack of flower cutters and my crazy head) but I think it has turned out really awesome. So proud of it.

Kate's 4 months old now.

The kids love this thing. Especially when Kate gets in it.

Can't believe she's big enough for the exersaucer!!

Having her first taste of rice cereal!

I can't believe how fast time is going again! Four months old now. She's still a bit of a stinker. LOVES to be held. But she sleeps really great at night. She sucks on her hands and still only rolls from tummy to back. She had her first taste of rice cereal yesterday and really liked it. She now weight 14lbs 4oz so on the 58% and is 28 cm tall! Which means she's on the 94% for height! Isn't that awesome? Jack was tall like that too when he was a baby! But no matter how fussy this one is, I just love her to pieces. She's got the greatest smile and thinks you're the best thing in the world especially when you make her laugh. The kids still go crazy for her and I just love she's part of our family.

Charlotte's first day of school and first day on the bus!

Charlotte officially started her school again last Monday, August 30th! But she was sick that day. So didn't end up going. So August 31st was the day :) She was SOOO excited to go back and to see all her friends. They had half days last week which she wasn't too upset about. We bought her a new outfit and of course she picked out her Tinkerbell backpack. It is so cute and she loves it so much!

I love the little skirt on this backpack!! She's so loving it too :)

She's such a crack up :)

Today was the first day of all day school (8:30-3) and the day she gets to take her lunch! And the first day the school bus comes! Usually the school buses are like this:

But since Charlotte's school is "private" and just recently joined forces with the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind they use private transportation services. I told Charlotte her bus was a white school van and she seemed a bit disappointed because she was expecting the cute, typical yellow school bus but then again she was just excited to ride the "bus" to school with her friends!

Each bus has only 3 kids in the two buses so she only got half of her friends but you should have seen her smile! She LOVED it. And she got a brand new car seat because she's not big enough to sit on the seat without one. It was hard to have her go. I'm not kidding you. Typical mom thing plus you hear about scary stories on the news. I was so worried. I know those things won't happen but it still is scary to put your child's life in someone else's hands. But taking the bus will ease the miles on the car, gas and time. Quite a wonderful blessing for us.

Here's my retarded camera. It just took this picture this way and I'm so disappointed. :(

Waiting for the bus!

I'm so proud of this girl. I love you, Charlotte.