November went so FAST!!!

What a busy month November has been! I decided to take Banana back to Nebraska early so that we could spend extra time with family. I had a blast. Banana on the other hand a rough start and then it got better and then it got worst again and just before we left she started to get better again.

Our first visit was to my moms house. It was fun getting to spend that time with her. My mom turn fifty a couple weeks after we were there and I knew we were going to miss it so I decided to throw a surprise party. It was a lot of fun decorating and seeing how happy my mom was. It was just a small party with one of her friends, Larry and me. I ordered my moms favorite pizza, Canadian bacon with green olives. I had so much fun getting to know Larry better and seeing EVERYONE. We also spent some time with my dad, grandpa and Christy. My dad and I were able to go through some of grandpa's things and get the house cleaned up. . We got the chance to have a good visit with Mari and Mae. It took Banana about three days to finally get warmed up.

We then ventured to Lincoln where we got to spend some time with Shayla and Heather. I always love hanging out with Shayla. I am sad that I am so far away from her :(. I spent some days at my in laws alone. I was really nervous at first. But actually it was a lot of fun! By this time we were missing daddy a lot.
Unfortunately Banana wasn't the happiest baby once we got to Lincoln. On Monday she started throwing up. Banana has never thrown up before and she did not like it. After 2-3 days of that she started to have diarrhea. That lasted a while. She only wanted her momma and she didn't eat much which meant she was up about every hour. Not fun over the holiday week.

We are back home now and it has almost been a week. She is just now getting to the point of normal. Since we got home she has been so attached to me. Today has been a good day for her. As much as I LOVE spending time with my family and in a long period of time, it is really hard on the little ones. We were back for about 2 1/2 weeks. I am so sad to say that we didn't take a single picture while we were back :(. I HATE THAT!! I love pictures but for some reason we never take them. I wanted to get some family pictures for a Christmas card  but we never did. I use to LOVE to send out Christmas cards with a picture but it has been a few years now. Aaron doesn't really like pictures and I always space it off.

O well I guess we still have time!

Banana is 10 months old!!

I can't believe little banana is 10 months old!! It seems crazy to think in two months she will be one. I think it is time to start thinking about her birthday party. I know she won't remember it but I want it to be special and I want to have a party.

She is getting so big. She can stand for two seconds :). She makes the funniest facial expressions and I love how excited she gets to read books. You can ask her if she wants to read a book and she will get so excited and go and get a book. She also likes circle time. We have been working on sign language but I don't think she knows any yet. I think sometimes she signs more but I'm not completely sure. She knows patty cake. She can clap and then she rolls it :). It is crazy how much they learn so fast. She also tries to use her fork while eating. She hates her diaper being changed and she loves to run around naked. Her pups are inside now and Banana just loves it!!

I just thought I would post about some of the things Banana is doing these days!! See ya another day

Halloween

Although I wanted to get Banana the cutest little costume from an expensive store I knew it wasn't worth the money. I just couldn't spend so much money on something that she will wear one time or that will have to be used as a hand me down, but there are so many cute costumes out there!!! Banana was a cute little kitten. I was going to make ears and a tail but my mom decided to buy her ears and a tail. I use eye liner to paint on her face and she did pretty well sitting still. I am happy with the costume and proud to say that it cost us nothing. I guess my mom did spend some money on it but it wasn't 30 + dollars.

On Saturday Banana and I attended a costume birthday party that was followed by trick or treating. Even though we were late (like always) we still had a lot of fun. Daddy was planning on coming but something came up and he wasn't able to attend :(. I dresses up as a witch and Annabelle was a cat. I'm sad to say that we didn't get any pictures together. It's funny how you plan things and then nothing turns out the way you plan. I always plan to take lots of pictures and then I never do! It makes me sad but I guess it will be ok, I at least got some pictures of Banana. We were going to get dresses up on Halloween and take pictures together as a family but I guess when the time came around no one was really in the mood. So we didn't do anything on Halloween b/c we celebrated it on Saturday. People were telling me that trick or treating was on Saturday only. But then I found out last minute that people were trick or treating downtown.. You just never know what's going around here!

Anyways here are a few CUTE pictures of Banana.. These are a couple of her funny faces :).

Good bye Great Grandpa

Today was a sad day but happy. My great grandpa died on Friday October 14 2011. I wasn't close to him and to tell you the truth I am not sure when the last time it was that I saw him. I just remember when I was a kid he would always go to my grandparents house and bring stuffed animals that he picked up somewhere. They usually looked ratted and old (I honestly think he got them out of the garbage), but it was always the thought the count. As he got older I remember he had a hard time hearing so after awhile you just stopped talking because he never knew what you were saying. Or at least that was how it was with me because I had a quiet voice. Today in the memorial service they talked about how he would visit the old people in the nursing home (he was 80) and hand out snickers until they said he couldn't anymore. Then he started to hand out bananas. What a great man, to always visit the elderly and actually care and love them. To always make an effort to bring someone a gift even if it was out of the garbage. Even though I didn't know my great grandpa that well I can learn from his example of always loving and giving.

It is amazing how families work. Today I found out that my grandpa has three brothers and a sister still alive. All this time I only thought my grandpa had one brother. Why is it that most of the time families get together because of a death or wedding?? I wish that there was a family reunion every year or two years. It's amazing how much family you still have alive that you just didn't know you had. I know it is hard but it would be nice to stay in touch with family. I think of my husbands family and how many cousins he has that he doesn't really keep in touch with them and then I have my family with my very few cousins and I think we keep in contact well.

Today watching my grandpa cry as my mom hugged him was hard. I have spent every summer with my grandparents from age 2-17. I have never ever seen my grandpa cry before. My family is kind of the family who doesn't show a whole lot of emotion (I must be the odd ball). Sometimes I think they think they are stronger than they are. Everyone knows that we all have emotions. Studies have shown that it is good to cry once and awhile. It was amazing and sad at the same time to see someone you LOVE so much start to cry. You never know what they are really feeling because they don't really talk about their feelings. I couldn't imagine losing my dad or even my grandpa. That would be one of the hardest things. I love my family so much and I am glad to be so close to them. 

New move!!

We finally got everything moved into our new home yesterday. A big thank you to my mother and father in law for driving all the way out here to help us move and to occasionally watch Annabelle. The one thing I hate about moving is you never know where anything is. We are still looking for a washer and dryer, but for now I will use the laundromat. I'm not sure how this is going to work with a baby and one car. Nights and weekends will be laundry night.  Banana is sleeping and I should be putting this house together considering I want to go to the pumpkin patch this weekend and to a hot dog roast out at my grandma's. But I just have 0 motivation.

Dog attack!! YIKES

Most of you know that we have to move again because the house we were renting got sold. I should REALLY be going to bed but I remembered that it had been awhile since I wrote on my blog. We went back to Nebraska this last weekend and it was so great to see family and friends. Our little Banana was not the happiest camper though. I believe she is going through some major anxiety issues which is normal for a nine month old, but we had fun anyways. I didn't get as much pictures as I wanted. We are having a hard time getting pictures with Aaron's family. One of these days ;).

A fun day at the dog park :)

Today was a beautiful day so I decided to take the whole family to the dog park. That would be Titan, Kya and Banana. I am getting pretty good at loading them all and then unloading them. We have the best dog park where we live. Titan just loves to chase the cars behind the fence. Kya likes to run around and chase as many squirrels up the trees as she can.

I told Titan to get his Frisbee and this is what he brings back.

Kya running around.

 

Funny things about Banana!!

Well our little girl Banana is about the funniest little thing!! 

First I want to start off by saying how much I love to vacuum. I love having clean carpet that I can lay on and not get dog hair all over me. I also love the lines it leaves in the carpet so that everyone knows that I just vacuumed. My most favorite thing about vacuuming is watching Banana crawl as fast as she can to get away from it. Haha that might sound mean but it is so cute and funny. She doesn't cry, she just kind of screams and crawls as fast as she can. I love how she always stops to look at the vacuum. Here are some pictures.

 Annabelle crawling away :)

"it is still there mom"

Banana likes to chew on almost anything (just like any other baby) and one day I gave her Tylenol and then I let her chew on the rubber end (probably not the safest thing). Most of you know that Banana is a thumb sucker just like her momma was. We tried to get her to suck a binky but it just didn't make her happy. Well I decided to get out one of the 8 binky's that we had to see what she would do with it. Believe it or not she loved it!! She loves to chew on it and then throw it and repeat or she will shake it and listen to the plastic part click. She doesn't know how to suck on it so that it stays in her mouth. It is so funny to watch. I was able to get some pictures.

Banana is looking very cute with her two top teeth and her two bottom teeth!!

There is just one problem with all these teeth.

 Sometimes I get mad at Elmo.....

and I bite him!!!

Banana has not bit mom or dad but she gets mad at Elmo when she can't figure out how to turn him on and she will bit down and scream (luckily that is not another kids arm). Banana has not had too much experience with other children so I am not sure if she will be a biter or not.. 

But we will still LOVE our Banana no matter what!!

September 22nd

Hello everyone!!! Today has been quite the eventful day in my world. I found out today that someone made an offer on the house we are renting. We knew this could happen when we signed the lease but we didn't expect it to be so soon. Nothing is final yet but we may be moving again! We have lived in this house for three months. Actually I am kind of ok with it. I do really like this home but we will be ok living anywhere that provides a roof over our heads for the time being.


I just want to say that I am so thankful for my experience with children. It has definitely made parenting A LOT easier. I worked in three different ECDC over a period of 7 years before retiring to be a stay at home mommy!! Their is a reason I am bringing this up. Well lets first say that Banana has started to pull herself up to just about anything. We have hard wood floors in every room except the living room. Banana decided to pull herself up to a toy in her bedroom that was not very sturdy. Yes, Banana fell over fulling the toy down on top of her head. She landed on the side of her head with the toy landing on the other side of her head. Lets just say it was a pretty big BANG when she hit the floor. Banana was very upset and it left a pretty big knot on both sides of her head. Because this is not the first kid I have seen smash into the ground I responded pretty well. I picked her up to comfort her and checked the marks. Then we got an ice pack :). You have to love ice packs!! When you work at a ECDC you get ice packs for children at least every hour :).

That's all for today..

Great News!!

On Monday I took our dogs and Banana to a kennel so the dogs could have their interview. This was the first time that I had to take Titan, Kya, and Banana somewhere. It wasn't too bad. The dogs did great!! Anyways the dogs had to be interviewed to see how they would handle someone else taking them for a walk and playing with them. I was a little nervous at first b/c as most of you know our dogs are a little crazy. I was relieved when the man came back telling me how great our dogs were. Today we did a test run and I loaded up Titan, Kya, and Banana again and headed to the kennel so the dogs could go to doggie daycare. The lady told me she would call if there was any problem or if the dogs were under stress. The lady called me to tell me that the dogs were doing great (this made me very happy). I picked the dogs up when I had scheduled to do so and they were so excited to see Banana and I. The owners told me how much fun they had playing with our dogs and how great they are. I was so happy to hear this. Let me tell you I have never seen anyone loves dogs so much. This is the best kennel I have ever seen. I can't wait to kennel them there and I know I will not be worried about them at all!! Here are some pictures we took the other day while the dogs were inside!! Kya loves to lick Banana and Banana loves to pull on Kya's tail and ears and climb on Titan :). But they LOVE her.

My very first post

Tonight I decided I would start a blog. I have tried to do this once before but I got to frustrated and quite. Today I decided I don't care what my page looks like. I will be happy however it turns out and maybe when I start to understand this thing I can change it around and make it look stunning.

So let me share a little bit about myself and our family. There is just too much going on in our life to not share with friends and family. My amazing husband is such a hard worker that it has allowed me to be able to stay home with our little Banana. I would not change it for anything. So while he is busy all day working his tail off, I am at home cleaning, doing laundry, taking care of our two dogs, and teaching Banana everything she needs to know to be a smart kid. You may be wondering if we actually have a baby or if we have a banana  (that you eat). We do in fact have a baby girl, her real name is not banana. Before she was born we had several nicknames that we thought we might call her (banana was not one of them), but none of them really fit. My husband started calling our daughter banana peel and now it is just banana. We will be referring to her as Banana in our posts. We also have two dogs named Titan and Kya. Titan is brown and Kya is black and they LOVE to play.

That is all for my first post. I hope that my husband and I can keep up on this as a form of a journal and look back on our journey through life.