The Hibblog

Well, since I haven’t blogged in almost 2 whole months, I have a lot of catching up to do.  I missed all of March and almost all of April, so here is my attempt at doing those months justice.

Laken has started to climb on everything.  I’ve never had a climber before so this is all new.  She hasn’t figured out how to get up on counters in the kitchen or bathrooms yet, thank goodness, but she loves being on the kitchen table and on the top bunk bed.  Neither of which she can get down from.  She did figure out how to come down the stairs finally.  She’s been crawling up them for 7-8 months but then would just stand at the top and whine for someone to come rescue her.  She likes to go up there and poop in her pants, stink the room up and then come down.  Maybe it’s time to start thinking about potty training.

Oakley has nightly homework and Laken loves to try and help.  It drives Oakley absolutely crazy.  Laken has learned to say Oakley’s name and it is so cute.  She calls her “Oakey”, just like Oakley called herself for the longest time.

We had a lovely day of snow in March.  That always ruins my day.  The kids were so excited because there had only been one other day of snow this winter and we had to be gone all day and they couldn’t enjoy it.

Nash was given a bike about a month ago that one of his friends had outgrown.  He’s never shown much interest in a bike since he can get everywhere he needs to go quickly on his Plasma car.  He was pretty excited to see the bike since it had Lightning McQueen on it and he wanted to try it out.  He hopped right on and started cruising around.

He’s spent time on that bike every day since then and LOVES it.  The Plasma car has been retired.  He really seemed to rely heavily on the training wheels so I wasn’t sure he’d even have them off by the end of summer.  But to my surprise, when Coy went out to get Nash for dinner last week he saw Nash riding his bike down the road without any training wheels.  He came and asked me if I had taken them off.  I hadn’t.  Come to find out, the 8 year old neighbor girl had taken it upon herself to remove them without even asking.  So I was extremely annoyed about that and a little sad that I had missed out on those first moments of seeing Nash ride without training wheels.  Grrrr.

Nash and Laken were playing in the backyard a few weeks ago.  I would occasionally look out the window and check on them.  On one visit to the window, I cracked up when I saw this:

We didn’t make it to Twin Falls to visit Coy this year, but we did make the long trek to Ontario during his last week there.  We just drove over when Oakley got out of school and had dinner and went swimming and then came home for bed.  Oakley and Laken loved the pool, but Nash “hates it” because it’s too cold.  He prefers the hot tub.

Shortly after she lost her first tooth at the end of February, Oakley lost a second.  She let this one get so loose that it was just barely hanging on.  I didn’t want her to go to school with it like that but she refused to let me pull it.  Sure enough, when I picked her up from school that day the tooth was gone.  She had no idea where it was or when it even fell out.  That’s how loose it was.  She was worried that the tooth fairy might not come, so she decided to write her a letter and explain the situation.  She was happy when she woke up the next morning.

We actually had some pretty nice weather for Easter, which was great.  We colored eggs the night before and it took about 5 minutes.  We are not a large family and can only eat so many hard boiled eggs, so doing two dozen (which is way more than we can eat) doesn’t take long at all.  I managed to ruin the first dozen with my fails-every-time hard boiling method.  I really don’t know what is wrong with me.

Easter was in Emmett this year.  Getting a picture of all the kids is not easy.

Oakley found her limit in just a few minutes.  Nash took a bit longer and loved running as fast as he could all over the place.  Laken didn’t want to hold her basket, but instead just open eggs and leave them along the way.

Last weekend we took the kids to Kathryn Albertson park in Boise.  They always get excited when they hear that we are going to a park, but we had to specify that this was a nature park and they weren’t as excited.  They had a good time though.  It was a beautiful day and there was all kinds of wildlife out.  The geese were out in full force and were actually semi-obnoxious.  I took a quick picture of Oakley and Nash as we were on our way out.

Laken loved the park but as we were on our way to the car she had two back to back traumatic events.  We were pushing her in the stroller and were stopped, taking the above picture.  A goose approached and Laken put her hand out and got bit by the dumb thing.  She cried and couldn’t even regain composure.  It was sad.  In an effort to cheer her up, I decided to let her walk the rest of the way to the car.  She hadn’t taken many steps at all, when she tripped and smacked her forehead on the concrete.  The sound of little skull hitting pavement was terrible, but she wasn’t even that wounded.  Just a patch of divot marks where her skin had been planted into the rough cement.  It just wasn’t her day.

Laken has decided lately that it’s fun to take her diaper off while she’s napping.  I’ve discovered her once with poop everywhere and another time she had just taken a wet diaper off.  She also pooped in the tub while taking a bath with Oakley.  Oakley wasn’t a fan of the code brown or of Laken picking it up and playing with it.  Good times.

This past Saturday we took our little horse lover to the Horse Expo.  It was just what it sounds like, an expo with all things horses.  There were lots of booths and also live horse shows.  There were ponies and horses that you could pet and there was a whole area of kid activities.  Oakley got to paint her very own model horse and Nash got to practice his roping skills.  Turns out he’s really good.

Oakley was just mesmerized by the real horses.  She would have watched all day if we let her.  I can only imagine what she’s thinking about….

Yesterday we had record high 85 degree weather in April!  It was crazy.  We decided to go to Swan Falls and enjoy it.  Our bodies were not at all adjusted to the heat, so the short little 1/2 mile walk to and from the lookout almost did us in.  Laken insisted on walking the entire way.  She was sweating and moving so incredibly slow.

Nash was having a hard time breathing so he was able to get a ride.

After the lookout we went down to the falls and relaxed in the grass.  It was a pretty perfect day.

I really don’t know where the past two months have gone.  Coy finished up his traveling for work, but is working a second job that takes him away from home equally as much.  I have been exhausted by this pregnancy and am just waiting to get some motivation to do something.  It has to come back eventually!  Baby is due September 29th…a due date just one day later than Laken’s due date.  Their birthdays will likely just be days apart.  We are very excited and can’t wait until June so we can find out if it’s a boy or girl.

I have a lot of catch up to do, but decided that a birthday deserves a post of it’s own.   Nash turned 4 on March 12th and we did some pretty good celebrating.  A couple days before his birthday we went to Jabbers.  That was his choice of kiddie play places.  We invited the cousins to go along and McKinlee and Cannon were able to meet us there.  Nash loves Jabbers.  There is so much to do.  We spent about 4 hours and even had lunch there.

Last time we went to Jabbers, I blogged about how Nash called me an idiot very loudly when it was time to leave.  Well, even after a serious talk about being disrespectful before we even got there this time, he still called me “Stupid” repeatedly.  He was still 3 for a few more days, so I was hoping he’d magically change at a mature 4.  Not the case.  He called Coy a “scurvy dog” loudly during church a couple Sundays ago, and he has started calling us both “T.R.S.”  I can only assume that this is his poor spelling of A.S.S. which I am guilty of spelling a few times when angry.  Gosh, I’m awesome.  Anyway, my point is even after a month of being 4, Nash is still the same old Nash.  Maybe in 11 months when he’s five?

Oakley had to be at school on his actual birthday which they were both a little bummed about.  Nash did get to have Cannon over for many hours and Coy came home at lunch so we could celebrate with Nash’s favorite, donuts.  We sang to him and he had a huge chocolate donut with sprinkles and a chocolate milk.

We had Nash’s birthday party the next Saturday.

He had been counting down the days because he also got to go see the Monster Truck Jam a few hours before his party.  Coy and Keith took him and he had fun!  In true Nash style, he asked about a million questions about everything, but then was able to come home and tell us all about it.

I didn’t take many pictures of his party at all.  The cupcakes were hideous and I swear I will never serve crumbly cake or cupcakes at a birthday party again.  Next year my guests can plan on a Rice Krispie Treat.  Crumbs give me anxiety and I am just done dealing with it.  So, after reading this post, one can assume that I need Anger Management and a therapist.

And not to steal Nash’s thunder or anything, but we also made the announcement that we are expecting baby #4 at the end of the party.  Maybe that’s my excuse for the anger, anxiety and absence from blogging…

I might update.  Maybe.

Oakley has been so anxious to lose a tooth for at least a year now.  She has friends who lost teeth earlier than she did and she just wanted to be part of that group so badly.  About a month ago she told me that one of her teeth was moving.  Sure enough, it was!  Both of her bottom teeth were loose, but one more than the other.  She wanted to know how soon it would come out.  I had no idea, but I told her to just play with it and it would come out when it was ready.  A few days ago she was wiggling it around with her finger and it started to bleed.  She tasted blood and panicked a bit.

Yesterday when I dropped her off at school the tooth was just hanging on by a thread.  She told me that she wasn’t even going to run around at recess.  She really didn’t want to lose it at school.  She made it through school and when she came home she could make the tooth lay completely flat.  It totally creeped me out.

I begged her to let me just pull it because it was just gross hanging there.  She didn’t want that, so off she went to play with the neighbors.  A couple minutes after she left, she was back with the tooth in her hand.  The neighbor girls had suggested that they get some dental floss and tie one end to the tooth and one end to the door knob.  Oakley had agreed, but might have secretly been worried about that idea, so while they were looking for floss, she gave the tooth and little twist and out it came.

Bubka made her a cute little pouch to put the tooth in.

I had typed up the cutest little tiny note on the computer from the Tooth Fairy, but when I went to print it I was out of ink.  I was so mad.  Instead I had to hand write the note and it wasn’t cute and petite like I imagine the Tooth Fairy would write.  I sprinkled some glitter on it and it went into the little pouch with $1.35.  I never have cash and I have no idea how much teeth are worth, so she’s just lucky there was something in it!  She was excited to find it under her pillow this morning.

Now Nash is asking me several times a day to check and see if his teeth are loose yet.

Oakley has been taking a hip hop/jazz dance class since the beginning of September.  She really enjoys it and she just had her first competition on Saturday.  We had to be there pretty early in the morning, so we got her in her outfit then sent her to Sydnee’s house for hair and makeup.  This is sad, but I have no idea how to do a “slick bun” and I don’t wear make up, so I couldn’t help her there either.  Thank goodness Sydnee is a pro in those areas, and happens to live across the street.  We got to the auditorium and Oakley was super excited.  She wanted to see the stage and get on the stage.  We took a few pictures and her class practiced their routine a couple times.  I was a little worried about it because Oakley tends to get very shy and awkward when she is put in front of a crowd, but she did such a great job!!  At one point in the routine, pairs of girls were to go front and center of the stage and do a little part together.  Oakley’s partner wasn’t there, so she went out and did a solo.  It was pretty amazing.  I couldn’t have been more proud.  She loved every minuted of it, so we will be keeping her in dance classes!