Month: August 2007

Last night, I had both kids in the bathroom while I was preparing to cut Kevin’s hair. I had just sat him on the counter when I saw Tasha fall out of the corner of my eye. She screamed like I’d never heard her scream before and saw that she’d fallen between the tub and toilet and had sort of bent in half, obviously bumped her head. My guess was that she’d been standing on the toilet to get something out of the basket of bath things that sit on the toilet tank and lost her balance. I picked her up to console her and to my horror, found blood all over my hand when I pulled it away! =( We took her to the ER that is just down the street and they gave her two staples to close the wound. She was such a trooper, hardly crying at all, despite the fact that she had nothing to numb the stapling. They had us in and out in about 40 minutes and even gave the kids a toy each to take home. Sigh…… two trips to the ER this year for Tasha…I decided I don’t wanna go again unless we’re visiting a friend who’s had a baby or something!

Other than getting up once in the night to tell us that her head hurt, she’s handled it great. No pain all day today!

Our little Kevin is obsessed with airplanes and cars. He LOVES the movie “Cars”and requests it often. He doesn’t get his way nearly as much as he’d like! 😉 One of his favorite places are car dealerships; he loves getting in and out of the new cars and “test-driving” them (in the showroom, of course!).

Ever since I pointed out an airplane to Tasha and him while waiting for Grammy to arrive at the aiport in June, he has been so fixated on them. That’s what he does when we go outside to play. Tasha will be running around, going down the slide, whatever….Kevin, is standing in one spot with his head cocked back, desparately searching for that winged-craft he loves so much! When the plane gets out of sight, he asks me for more, as if I could magically summon more planes our way!

Yes, we are officially in the “WHY” stage of life with Natasha. She had one of her little “boy” friends over a few weeks ago, who has the vocabulary and verbal skills of a 5 year-old. “Why” has been a favorite of his for quite a while. You guessed it! Right after he left, Tasha asked her first “Why, Momma?” and it hasn’t stopped, even if she knows the answer!

No, these aren’t type-o’s!! These are the kids newest words. Tasha is speaking in proper sentences most of the time, but still learns new words from time to time. Her newest is Anazing, otherwise known as “amazing”. She learned this word the other day, when I saw her putting our basinnet together (we’re lending it to a friend). I hadn’t shown her how and she figured it out all by herself. I exclaimed, “You put that together all by yourself? That’s amazing!” And ever since…..

Kevin kept asking for “munch” one day and I could not, for the life of me figure out what he was trying to say. Finally, I figured out that he was hungry and wanted “lunch”! You need to hear his little boy voice say it to really see just how cute it is though!

So, I was going through photos and decided that though I didn’t start this blog until 2006, that I should post older photos that some of you might not have seen, or that you’d like to see again…..There’s alot of them….get ready

Ammon, Me and Pj; before kids!!

Ammon and Tasha bonding, just hours after she was born

5 day old Tasha taking a nap with Daddy

First outside photoshoot

Deep in thought….hmmm……

Blessing Day

The whole gang waiting for Sister Manning to return from Lithuania

Sleeping bear

I call this “rufflebum!”

Just a cute picture!

Gerber Baby

Chillin after a bath

Tasha’s first Christmas

Auntie Julina and my green girl

Picture Perfect!

Our little snow angel

In her Easter bonnet with all it’s frills upon it….

Another Easter girl

Mommy and the easter baby

Checkin out Dad’s music on the plane ride to Florida, 2005

On a horse-drawn carriage ride in St. Augustine, Fl. in 2005

First swim, in St. Augustine, Fl, April 2005

Lots of firsts in Florida, here was her first Carousel ride

Sweet girl

Auntie Ju and her pal, Jaron

First birthday-partytime!

Grandma Manning and the birthday girl

Cute cousins

Natasha showing her sassy side

Picnic lunch with Dad

Kiss me!

Getting into mischief

The gang in Utah for a family reunion

This has to be my favorite picture so far of Natasha. I love how her blue eyes pop!

She looks scared, but really she’s loving it!

Our little piglet, her first Halloween

Here’s Darth Ammon…whoops! I mean Darth Vader at Jaron’s 4th birthday party

This is Daddy and Tasha. Tasha’s first meeting with Kevin in the hospital. When Tasha saw this photo today, she asked….why is Kevin in a cage, Mommy?

Auntie Christina and cousin Jaron holding day old Kevin

Auntie Julina holding day old Kevin

This was two weeks after Kevin was born. Nana and Papa Bruyea came to visit him. Tasha had fun throwing herself around while Nana was holding her.

Great-Nana and week old Kevin, getting to know each other

Papa Bruyea visiting with Tashy

Kevy and Papa Bruyea

Tasha and her Snowy’s

Giving Teddy some loves

Kevin’s first Christmas

Great-Papa and Tasha making friends; from their visit March 2006

Me and my Pops

Cute couple!

Wheeeee…this is fun!

More sass

Easter 2006 at the Mannings

Strike a pose!!!

Grammy and her boy

Help me!!! I’m being squished.

I call this…..Girl in a Tree

Happy boy

Big Smiles

This picture has a fun story….Ammon and I were downstairs and Tasha came down and was coyly asking, “where’s snowy?”, kind of shruggin her shoulders. She obviously wanted us to follow her and we did. This picture is when we had opened the door to her room and found him on her bed. She’s showing us where he was “hiding”.

Big hunk! No other way to describe him here.

Cute kids and Momma

Hey Everyone! How are ya?

Tasha’s 2nd Birthday; Grandma Manning and her girl

Grammy n Tash

He’s a horsedog

Natasha’s favorite furry friend

Grandparents and the birthday girl

I’m gonna make a mess, she’s thinking! ha ha ha (evil laugh)

The girls

Waterbaby for life!

See…..

Kevin’s first popsicle….it gave him a brain freeze, but he kept asking for more!!!

Sigh….whew, ok, I’m done….I can’t tell you how long that took! But it was fun to look through the photos. hope you enjoyed them!