Jan 2012

Just realized that I haven’t updated since before Thanksgiving…I have a bit to cover!
Thanksgiving weekend took us to Michigan with the whole Wood crew and we celebrated our niece’s 3rd birthday (Princesses and Pirates!). Christmas: we drove to Ohio, the kids and I stayed for a couple more days. We got back just in time to celebrate Bailey’s 2nd Birthday! We are all getting back into routine and are quite busy! This winter I’m taking Brett and Bailey to gymnastics on Monday nights, Tuesday mornings: we have music class for Bailey, Grace and Colin, Wednesdays: Brett goes to story-time and Art & ABC class, Thursdays: Brett goes to music class and Bailey goes to story-time with grandma Nancy…Friday: we do nothing! (although, we usually end up listening to music and dancing)

Quotes/Funny stories
Bailey has started this twirling and singing bit…la la la la! She is adamant as soon as she wakes up that she NEEDS to put a pretty dress on because she can NOT dance in her jammies!

‘This is really really good!’ Bailey said in regards to a peppermint oreo. I agree!!

Rob likes to use Brett as a guinea pig to work out wrestling moves before he goes to practice. The next morning, Brett was trying to teach Bailey.

B&B all of the sudden seem to know every word to any song they have ever heard. We’ll be in the car and both will be singing along to the radio. Their favorites are Moves like Jagger and Party Rock Anthem by the Chipmunks. And of course since their mother is a little bit country, they constantly ask for Sugarland songs (All I want to do AND Stuck like Glue!).

Kids have loved the Llama Llama books by Anna Dewdney. Bailey just told me that ‘to fret’ (which is in one of the books) means to cry a little. You know, just in case mommy didn’t know.

Brett asked me ‘How do the police catch cars?’. Before I could answer, he asked ‘do they have a net?’

Rob took Brett to a wrestling tournament and Brett tells him right before getting in the car that he HAD to go. So…daddy showed him that sometimes boys can pee outside.

We started Elf on the Shelf with the kids this year. They were REALLY into it! We named our friend Macaroni Toni. I heard Bailey say ‘Macaroni Toni, I want a Cinderella….are you making a list?’ She said daily ‘Macaroni Toni is watching me…’ which actually sounded creepy, but somehow worked!

Brett got a little aggressive going up for naptime and I caught him pushing Bailey out of the way to beat her up the stairs. I tried to express how it could hurt her if she fell down. I asked him to say sorry. He did. I asked him to give Bailey a hug. He did. I asked him to say ‘I don’t always have to be first’. His response: ‘I don’t want to say that!’

Brett was starting to be a little lippy. I told him that Macaroni Toni will tell Santa that he was talking back to mommy. He said ‘Then Santa will say BRETT, I’m going to eat you up!...and then I will fight Santa like a bad guy’ WHAT?! We are missing the point somewhere.

For a couple weeks, Brett was coming into our room literally 10 min before my alarm was to go off. So I would let him lay with me until I had to get up. This sparked the funniest conversations. One day he asked if when he was older if he could marry Bailey. I told him that was nice but we can’t marry our sisters. He said, ‘I know, I’ll marry Asha’. I said, ‘well it’s actually frowned upon to marry cousins as well’. Brett said, ‘well that means I can’t marry Aubrey either’. ‘OH how about Auntie Kylie?!’ I said, ‘well Auntie Kylie is married to Uncle Phil and he might be sad if you take her away’. I tried to explain that he should look to marry someone that was his friend, someone who makes him laugh, who’s a good person…he says ‘OH I know I can marry YOU Mommy!’

Bailey wasn’t feeling well but told me that Colin makes her feel better.

Brett yelled, ‘Yay Christmastime! My Santa’s coming!’ I said, ‘yes but who’s birthday is it?’ He said, ‘Bailey’s!’ I said, ‘yes her birthday is soon. But Jesus’s too. Remember, that’s why we celebrate Christmas’. He said, ‘oh yeah, him too’

I was changing a poignant diaper…I said ‘oh that was stinky’. Grace walking by, says ‘Sure is Kelli, sure is’

Kids were a little hyper one morning and I let out a pretty big sigh when I finally got them all down for naps. I stopped outside of Bailey’s door to hear her belting out “Happy Birthday Jesus!’ I thanked God for letting her remind me to just relax and enjoy the little things.

Bailey has a way with saying things…she has turned many single syllable words to multi-syllables! DA-ANCE! MO-ORE! PUH-LEASE! What’s even more humorous…ask Rob what a syllable is:)

When Bailey still had her pacifier, I told her to put her binky up on the counter since naptime was over. She said, ‘be patient Mommy’. I asked ‘Be patient for what?’. She said, ‘Be patient for Wes Welker’. The girl loves the Patriots. To expand, she just fought her nap because she didn’t want to miss Tom Brady playing.

While in Ohio, Grandpa was trying to race Brett down the school hallway. Papa was running backwards ahead of Brett…which prevented Papa from seeing the floor waxing machine which then propelled Papa flying feet over head and crashing him down to the floor. Brett picked up the bottle he dropped and kept running. After we made sure everyone was ok…they raced down the next hallway. Which led to Brett asking ‘Papa, are you going to fall again?!’

Brett and Bailey were tag-teaming in making it IMPOSSIBLE to get out the door last weekend on the way to a birthday party. I found myself a little frazzled. I finally got them in the car after (I’m not exaggerating) a million “MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!”. Brett said ‘Mommy!’ I just about had it. ‘What Brett?’. ‘I just wanted to say I love you and you’re pretty all day’. I mean really…he’s such the little charmer.

Bailey was playing, I heard her say ‘I had a good day at work. I had toys, and tools, and pink pants and my daddy and my Brett Brett and my mommy. I love today’. I love today too honey.