Category Archives: Kaylee

Kayleeism

Jon telecommutes two days a week. It’s SO nice. He gets to sleep in, and we get to see Dad a bit when he emerges for breaks. This night I was out the door right at five to go visiting teaching. Jon was solo parenting.

There was an incident. But it’s o.k. He took pictures! When I got home he was all, “Look at your camera.” And then I saw the horror….. 😉
169Jon early in the day asked me if we had any orange juice. We did in the freezer. So being the awesome wife I am I made some OJ for the Hubby. TWO GALLONS of it. Which in hindsight was foolish of me.

170Kaylee after her successful dinner that she did (see previous post.) had decided that she could get juice for herself and Regan. As you can see it didn’t end well. Jon was in the other room writing code and herd all sorts of commotion. I guess Kaylee was desperately trying to clean up her, “biggest disaster ever!” when Jon walked in on this.

171She and Jon cleaned to the best of there abilities. Kaylee I am told first tried using a cleaning rag, but then headed to the garage for the mop.

Their clean was a nice jumping off point for me when I got home. It took four more mopings with fresh water each time before the floor was not TOO sticky anymore.

I asked Kaylee what had happened, and she said, “Something funny!”

I guess Jon told her if they cleaned it all up I would laugh about it. At first I was supper annoyed that he had been in the other room (I thought he was playing StarCraft), but then Jon told me he was writing code for his side job (AKA buy Janice a van job), so then I felt better about my sticky floor.

Oh, and during my second moping Kaylee informed that she “forgot” to show Daddy the spilled juice INSIDE the refrigerator…..

And poor Jon didn’t get a single glass of his request OJ.

 

Kayleeism/Reganism

After the day of cousin fun Jon and I were pretty bushed. It was only just five and not quite time to start dinner, so I was laying down, and Jon was writing code. (It’s what he does…)

The children were being quiet. Too quiet. And then there was all sorts of noises coming from the kitchen. So I tagged Jon on that one. So he went to investigate their latest shenanigans.

He came back all smiles, and told me to grab the camera.

When I walked into the kitchen both Children yelled, “Surprise! We made dinner!”

158Dinner was leftovers that they pulled out. (We like leftovers around here.) But what really killed me was that they set the table, AND got everyone a drink (juice without spilling)!

Keep in mind that I don’t set the table, it’s totally buffet style at our house.

159They have seen Josh and Emily set the table a few times though, and I guess they like it. 🙂

Kaylee later told me that Mother’s Day is TOO far away and she is just “pracasing” for it.

 

Spring festival

The first weekend of this month we got to take the our children with their cousins to a school spring festival. We took them all last year, and were excited for the opportunity to go again.

The children had crazy amounts of fun. Jon, ours, and I were all wearing our adoptions t-shirts. We got lots of attention wearing our hoping to adopt shirts while carting 5 kiddos around. I spoke to several people about it, and didn’t hand out a single adoption card!!!!

I really need to be better about that. I am going to try my hardest to channel my friend Joyce in that regard. She is AWESOME at handing out cards!  In fact last night I had a random chick come and ask me about my hair, then she noticed my hoping to adopt shirt. Well good thing Joyce was there otherwise I would have missed another opportunity to hand out a card!

Back to the festival of fun! This year we did the giant slides, and the older boys did the giant hamster wheels. They waited in line (with uncle Jon) for over half an hour while I took the younger three to three separate things!

092 086 067 057 048We did lots of line waiting.

045She gets SO SO red in the heat. For each ride we would let the children hold on to and hand over their own tickets. They loved that.

038 034 031We ate lunch there. It wasn’t the best, or healthiest meal, but the kids loved it, and I didn’t have to do much so that was nice.

030The hamster wheel photos are out of order, and I don’t feel like fixing them. Watching the boys climb in, figure it out, race, and then climb out all dizzy, was a highlight for all of us. FUNNY!

028 026 023 019All three of these guys were OVER waiting in line by the time it was their turn. Sad for Jon since he waited with them for THEM to ride, and didn’t get to climb in a ball himself. Now THAT would have been FUNNY!

017I LOVE LOVE LOVE my double stroller. This is how we roll with three kiddos. I had ALL five kids extra stuff i.e. water bottles, and three kids riding the whole time. I made a rule that Nathan had to hold on to my running strap. This was to prevent him wandering off, and it WORKED.  We could NOT have done festival day without my awesome stroller.

014 012 003 002 106We ended the day with homemade snow cones. Jon did ONE cone by hand and then decided that it was going to take far to long, and far to much effort to shave the ice the “old” way. So he totally MacGyvered our shaved ice maker to be speedy. And it was! The kiddos thought it was crazy cool.

101Pictures are again out of order. Sorry. Also don’t mind our construction crap pile. The kitchen ceiling needed some lovin’.

098 095A picture of why I am van hunting. 🙂 I NEED a van. Also Kaylee was in the shade the majority of the time, and well hydrated. Poor kid, it’s not even summer yet….

But we all had FUN on our little family adventure to the spring festival.