Sweet Kiera

As Kiera gets older she is becoming more interactive. Here is a look at her first smiles and coos.

Jadee wanna Cracker...

This is just about the funniest thing in the world to us right now. Jade saying the word cracker. You will have to listen to see what all the laughing is about. We have no idea where she came up with that sound, but obviously that is the sounds she hears...

This is what happens when...

I have decided that being a Mom of more than one child is an art form that I just have not mastered yet. I have been a great multi-tasker my whole life...but now it seems that I need to focus more on doing one thing at a time. This post is all about what happens when you are doing one thing and it turns out differently than planned.

When you give Jade a snack of green peppers and smoothie....she dips her peppers innocently enough....

but then you turn your back to make lunch or check on baby Kiera and this is what you get!

Sometimes Kiera just hangs out with us in the kitchen as we cook or clean. This is usually her face as she checks out what is going on and listens to sister yell...

but every so often I get rewarded to see a face like this!

And last week I was making laundry soap and got distracted by this....

and this lovely chemical reaction occurred, giving us a ball of silly putty because it got too hot...

this is what homemade laundry soap is supposed to look like. After scrapping the first batch, I put Jade down to watch Elmo and I made another batch!

Bread for the Ducks

In May it rained for like 11 days straight and was just nasty and cold here. There was one Sunday that it was sunny and warm for a few hours and so we took advantage of it and went to feed the ducks. Jade was so excited because she got to feed them bread. It was funny to watch her rip off chunks of bread, one for her, one for the ducks, one for her, one for the ducks...you get the idea!

One for her...

One for the ducks...

A video starring Jade....feeding the ducks!

Jade and Daddy also had some fun on the slides.

In this video Jade went down the giant twirly slide all by herself...she is becoming such a big, independent little girl!

Family Fun

One weekend in May, my whole family decided to get together for a BBQ. This is something we have not done in a long time, so it was fun for all of us to eat good food, visit and play! Jade and her cousin Maddi had way too much fun running and climbing all over everything. Since Maddi is a year older, Jade follows whatever she does, it is super cute!

Climbing on the rocks

We tried to get the four girls together for a Revelli grandkid pic....this is what we ended up with! Pretty hilarious!

The two babies...they are a little over two months apart.

The girls wanted to play some Rock Band with Uncle Troy...

And of course what family visit would be complete without Jade getting rides from (and beating up on) Uncle Cole!

The girls kept stealing handfuls of Cheetos!

We even paused to take some family pics. It has been awhile (like before Mitch left on his mission) that we had just a family pic with us four kids and Mom and Dad.

We had to do some funny ones with Dad. That's what he gets for having four creative kids!

The 2 new mamas...

On the Friday before we had the BBQ, Mitch and Manda came down to do something for their anniversary so I babysat their 2 girls for the afternoon. What fun we had....

4 girls + 4 hours = way too much fun, screaming, sharing, and laughing!!

This is the older two eating lunch...all they could do was smile and laugh at each other. I am surprised that any food was eaten at all! I think the video below sums it up nicely...

Cowgirl Maddi has lots of fun on the slide.

Hair Do

Jade has been obsessed with having her hair put in pig tails lately. She loves seeing herself in the mirror but as soon as she remembers that they are up there, she pulls them right out!!! It's a full time job just putting those elastics back in! After awhile though I just give up and let her hair do whatever it wants. It has this crazy curly, wavy thing going on since it has been getting longer. Why is it when they finally get hair long enough for you to do something with, that is when they won't leave anything in??? Anyway, fun hair times to come for us!!!

Look at those curls!!

Jade also thought it would be fun to put a ponytail in sister's hair!!! Kiera is so patient with her big sister!

Cleaning

Cleaning at our house these days involves Jade helping. She is very interested in doing whatever Mommy and Daddy are doing, so we try to teach her. Here she is doing the dishes, actually just playing with the bubbles!! She had a blast rubbing them between her fingers, on her face and in her hair!

She had to sweep the floor all by herself. Look how efficient she is using both the broom and mop at the same time!

Last of all, we apparently clean the table using our yogurt! Oh well, guess it is better than paint and it's edible too!