Catching up...

So we are officially bad parents...   We have not blogged for almost a year and a half.  But boy has our life been busy!  Whew!!!!!! 

Here are the top 10 things that happened this past year (that I can think of!):

10. Pierson turned 2!  How is time flying that fast?
 

9.  Amelia turned 5!  EEK!  Kindergarden is just around the corner.

8. We sold our house Finally!!!!!  We all miss that house but we sure have a great place now!

Ye' olde homestead!

7. We made a very exciting announcement:

6.  Amelia took her first flight!  We took up Papa's plane and had quite the joyride!  Of course she fell asleep about halfway thru it! 

5. I Ran my first 5K ever!  Our Friend Josh and I ran the Warrior dash Nebraska! It was a fun, muddy time!

4. Beth and I celebrated our 10th anniversary! 

3. Aunt Naynay and Uncle Jay got married!!  Amelia was a flower girl and pierson was the (only slightly uncooperative) ring bearer.  They looked adorable and the wedding was great!



2.  Eleanor Rae was born!  November 6, 2012 weighing 6 lbs 3 oz!

1.  We are just having a blast living the life!  It is busy and somedays it seems like we never have enough hours in the day, but we couldn't ask for a better life! 

- L

Pumpkin Patch

We went to Roca Berry Farm for the first time as a family. Amelia went to a pumpkin patch last year at daycare, but this was the first time for the rest of us!! A good time was had by all!!!

Amelia LOVED these big air pillows they had for jumping! (I liked them, too, but fortunately no one got a picture of me jumping!)


There was an old woman who lived in a shoe...


They had an area full of corn kernels (like a sandbox), it was pretty fun until P tried to eat the kernels! Amelia also enjoyed taking pocketful of kernels over to the pigs and feeding them!


She attempted a "corn angel" (only in Nebraska....!)


Happy boy!!


The pigs (she's probably feeding them pilfered corn)....


My little pumpkins with some pumpkins


Pierson LOVED this slide and would squeal and jump up and down in my arms when we hit the stairs to do it again!




Hayrack ride


P was ready to go home!!

We are in trouble....

*We were visiting family in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. Amelia has been digging for gold in her nose so much lately--we struggle with it and trying to keep her fingers outta there! Well, it was a typical day where we had to keep reminding her to stop mining, and that evening, I caught her with her hand in my Mom's new cup of ice water. She was trying to fetch a piece of ice.
Me: Amelia, get your hand out of grandma's water! That's rude to stick your
hand in other people's drinks!! Mom, you'll need to get new water, she
had her hand in it.
Amelia: Uh, Mom, the boogers are on THIS hand (holding up the hand that was
not in Mom's cup!)

I never even said anything about boogers on her hand or in mom's water!! Clearly she thought this through.... clearly, we're in trouble if she's this smart already....

*Amelia having a conversation with my mom:
Amelia: My daddy is 21 years old.
My Mom: No, he's 31 years old.

After arguing back and forth with mom for a bit:
Amelia: I'm going to ask my mom....

She comes back to my mother:
Amelia: Well. I guess I was wrong then.

Say what?

The other day, Amelia told me, "I want to 'eclect' leaves like on Wow-wubzy." It took me a bit to realize she meant "collect." I told her we'd get a tub for her to put stuff she finds outside in, so she can have a collection of leaves.

Pierson is (already?!?!?) 9 months!!!

We had Pierson's 9-month check up last week. The boy is 18lbs 1oz, 26.5inches. Still in the 2nd %ile for length, 25th for his weight, and of course, his head is still his biggest feature at around the 50th %ile!

He's always on the move, and playing hard! He's got 2 bottom teeth, and I'm pretty sure he's working on the top two as we speak.

He says "Dada" and "Mama", albeit very rarely. He's definitely not the Chatty Cathy that Amelia was at this age. He claps for fun and dances when music is on. He's totally on table foods and eats almost everything we do. He had pureed foods for about 4 weeks, and was ready to move on. He prefers to feed himself, and will often turn away if you try to feed him.

He's growin' so fast!!

2 ways I know that Amelia is our kid

So as most of you know Beth and I both talk in our sleep sometimes. So about a week ago I went to wake up Amelia to get ready to go. First attempt went like this:

Me: Amelia it's time to wake up...
Amelia: (sits up quickly and looks all around) Where did all the popscicles go?

She them immediatly laid back down and fell back to sleep.

Second Attempt (after I left her room and stopped laughing) went like this:

Me: Amelia! It's time to get up!
Amelia: (this time without moving) Just one more cookie Daddy! Please!!!

I was cracking up hardcore at this point! What a great way to start the day!

-L

Compliments from Kids

Compliments from kids crack me up and Amelia is no exception, that's for sure! Last night she went into the bathroom to go poop. When she was done she called me in to help her wipe and when I was done wiping her she said, with a smile:

"Dad, you are the best bottom-wiper EVER!"

Cracked me up!

-L