An Overview - The Past Week

Wow.

This past week has been kind of busy. Too busy to update the blog. Apparently. But it's been a great week! Here's what we've been up to...in no particular order:

Kyri had pajama day at preschool, which went right along with the letter they learned that day: "P" and she really wanted me to take a picture of her on pajama day.

All my kids wore pajamas ALL day...it was awesome!

And, of course, she had to pick long sleeved (even though it was still hot outside), mismatched jammies.

Last Thursday after Gary got home from work he played outside with all the kids.

It was nice to take advantage of the good weather...before it turned bad.

They all had SO much fun!! Gary was wearing his roller blades, which the kids thought were pretty cool!

They would race to the next door neighbors (Kyri's kind of behind the tree in the driveway)

It made me laugh every time because Graysen was always SO far behind....just like he always is!!

But then he finally wised up and turned around before they could pass him!!

I wonder if he'll get any faster once he can actually reach the pedals on this bike?!?!

This same day we went for a walk. We went around the block. Just one. Gray on Kyri's "bike", Kyri on her scooter, and Tanzi in the stroller...it took us over 30 minutes! Kyri would get SO far ahead and then get frustrated that Gray was being SO slow. He's definitely the kind of guy that will stop and smell the roses....every few seconds :)

I think one must have to be really exhausted to be able to sleep like this:

The first session of General Conference Saturday morning was pretty quiet, since this is what the kids did for the entire 2 hours...nearly

Grandma and Grandpa "from Bunkerbill" came for Conference weekend. It was SO great to have them here!!

Friday morning Pops and Gary went on a nice, long bike ride (thanks for the bike AND helmet, Pops!) Then we all went to breakfast at the Golden Corral. We don't go out for breakfast very often. In fact, the last time we did was before we had kids, I think. So, it was a really nice treat!

In the afternoon we just hung out, talked, and took naps. And then Gary and I went down to Salt Lake for Gary's 10 year mission reunion. And the kids had a "party" with Grandma and Grandpa...and got spoiled rotten with LOTS of treats and movies!! :)

The reunion was really nice. It started with a session in the Salt Lake Temple. It's always nice to go to the Temple...and always a nice change to go to a live session. Afterward we had dinner over at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was kind of pricey, but I think it was really worth it. Gary had such a great time catching up with all his mission buddies! He hasn't been to any of the reunions before this one, so there are some of his friends he hasn't seen in 10 years that he was able to catch up with. It was pretty amazing to hear so many voices singing the hymns in Polish. I'm sure 99% of them have not kept up with the language, but it seemed to come back to them for those moments. Even the prayers were said in Polish. I don't know the language. Obviously. But I thought it sounded amazing!!

Tanzi getting all the snuggles she can!! And Grandma got her to go right to sleep, of course :)

Thanks again for coming up "Damma and Papa" (as Graysen likes to say)

We had a GREAT weekend!!

Like father like son....

sleeping through the afternoon session of Conference on Sunday

I just love that she is sleeping with her feet up on the side of her crib!

Tanzi has had some REALLY good nights...and some not so good ones.

A couple nights ago she woke up a couple times, but only fussed, and went right back to sleep. I didn't feed her until 5 am!! Yea for 11 hours between feeds! Since I knew she could do it I told her I was going to have her do it again. But that meant that last night when she woke up in the night...a lot...I had to listen to her cry...a lot!

I got up and fed her just after 4am.

Then she slept until 8 am, woke up and had a huge blow out, went down for a nap at 9:30am and slept until 1pm!!

She had 2 other stinky diapers today, so I'm hoping her tummy feels better than last night and that she will sleep MUCH better.

If she's only going to choose one, I would prefer she choose to sleep good at night instead of during the day :)

The last couple days Kyri and Gray have been waking up before 6am!!

THAT IS RIDICULOUS!!

I tell them to go back to bed, but shortly after that they just close their door and turn their light on! I would be okay with it if they were happy throughout the day, but they are both SO fussy because they are STILL tired!!

Ridiculous, I say!

Eventually they will make their way into the playroom. Kyri is VERY quiet, but Graysen can not be...to save his life, I don't think! So, then I'm grumpy all day too because I didn't get enough sleep either!

Truly ridiculous!!

I am trying to convince Kyri to NOT wake Graysen up when she wakes up. And today I told her that I'm going to get her a clock soon and if it doesn't have a 7 as the first number then she has to go back to sleep!! She seemed excited about it tonight, but we'll see what she thinks after the time change and her clock says 4:30 and she has to lie in bed and not wake Gray up for 2 1/2 more hours!!

Ridiculously ridiculous!!

Yesterday I took all 3 kids to the Dentist with me. Tanzi fell asleep in her car seat and everyone commented on how cute and good she is.

While I was getting my teeth cleaned Kyri got hers done too...and Graysen did too! They all said how GREAT the kids did!! They were so impressed at how still they sat and how big they opened their mouths :) Last time we went to the dentist Gray wouldn't even open his mouth for them to look at his teeth...and he was sitting on my lap!! So, this was HUGE improvement!!

YEA KIDS!!

They were very excited about the whole thing...I'm not really sure why...strange kids, anyway :)

Unfortunately, Kyri has a couple cavities. :( They are between a couple of her back teeth. The dentist said she does great brushing, but that we need to floss her teeth every night.

Do any of you floss your kid's teeth?

Just curious.

We will do it...and promote good hygiene...because Gary and I were not the best of flossers until recently. Oh, who am I kidding? We're still not the best of flossers, but definitely better than we used to be! My mom flosses EVERY night. I know this is part of her routine....why she never flossed mine when I was 4 is beyond me....but maybe it had something to do with the fact that I'm the youngest of 7...and got kind of neglected? Haha...just kidding...I think most parent's don't floss their 3 and 4 year old's teeth.

We will now!!

After the dentist we met my mom and Tawn and Alyssa in Brigham City for lunch.

It was quite the experience!

Just before we got our food Kyri and Alyssa had to go potty...and Grammy was nice enough to take them.

Shortly after they returned my mom was holding Tanzi and discovered Tanzi had a blow out...all ever her!! I didn't have any spare clothes (really? I can't leave my house for 2 hours and not need them?!) so Tanzi wore her diaper and headband. Grammy washed off the best she could.

Shortly after that Kyri had to go potty...again....so I took her. Of course she had to go stinky, so we were in there for quite a while!!

When we got back to our table everyone was done eating and there was my food...not even half eaten.

I ate it cold...but it still tasted pretty good!!

What a day!!

I'm sure there are a lot of things I'm forgetting about this past week....I will fill you in as I remember them.