For Christmas we gave Elizabeth an ipod touch (I was able to trade Keith's PS3 controllers that he never uses for a touch thx craigslist!). When Elizabeth opened up the present she declared "An iphone!! I am not old enough to have a phone!"

We are finally getting some words out of Weston. Mostly it is gibberish but we are getting there!! For Halloween he was a football player and now whenever he sees numbers on a shirt or on pants he points to it and says football player! football player! Until someone acknowledges what he is saying. I also bought him a little camo outfit and the shirt says something about a pilot. The first time he wore it I told him it was his pilot shirt and now he will go around telling people he is either a football player or a pilot.

Last week we went to Wal-Mart for a few things. While we were there a gentleman stopped us and asked if I had any idea where cheese spray would be. He told me about some crackers he had that had spicy sausage and spicy spray cheese on top. I pointed to the aisle and we went on our way. As we were putting our stuff into the car Weston saw the guy 10 cars up and starts yelling good-bye to him. The man loved it and drove his car over to say good-bye to Weston.

But it is morning!

I came home from work last night at 12:15am I open the door and the kitchen light and tv are on. I think weird if Keith is sleeping on the couch he normally has the lights off. I come around the corner and there is Elizabeth laying on the couch with a blanket wrapped around her watching cartoons. I gently explained to her that it was not time to watch cartoons and she should be in bed. She told me that it is morning and she does not want to go back to bed. I finally get her upstairs and into bed I come out of her room and she follows me out. At this point I am tired and I want to go to bed. I tell her in a loud voice to get into bed. She tells me no and I tell her again then I hear Weston's door open and he peeps out. I then say WE ARE NOT PLAYING THIS GAME GET INTO BED. Weston shuts the door and I hear nothing more from him. Elizabeth went to bed also but she cried for the next 10 min. From the three seconds I saw Weston I could tell what he was thinking. He woke up to my yelling opened the door to investigate and decided not to get involved.... good boy. =)

When Elizabeth and Weston were babies they almost never put stuff in their mouths but Kenzie puts everything in her mouth. Elizabeth's new chore is to vacuum the kitchen floor before dinner. As she was vacuuming tonight she commented that "Kenzie is going to be angry with me because I vacuumed all her food up."

We call Kenzie our scavenger, if zombies ever come she would be the one we send out to get our supplies.

You know when..

You know you have a kindergartner when you hear her say to her brother...

"Do you want the line to leave without you?"

You know when you have a boy when....

Walking back to the car takes twice as long or maybe even three times as long because he has to pick up and examine every single rock on the sidewalk.

or...

When he brings you a dead bird clenched in his fist and is SOO excited to show it to you.

His THING...

After lunch one day Elizabeth asked if she could color and she went to get her coloring book which happened to be a notebook this day. She asks me what she should draw a picture of and I told her Weston. She drew a picture of Weston and then showed it to me. I then asked her what the thing was on Weston's tummy.
Her reply "his thing."
Me "what thing?" (all the time I am praying she is not going to say the next thing but know it is coming)
Elizabeth "you know where his peepee comes out."

Last week I was at Target and we walked past the toothpaste aisle. As soon as we were past it Elizabeth asked "Mom, can I tell you about Colgate Total?"

Me "sure"

Elizabeth "Colgate total keeps your teeth clean for 12 hours."

I think maybe I should write a letter to Colgate saying that their commercials can even reach a 4-year-old... Awesome

I have some worksheets that I give Elizabeth with her name on them so she can trace her name and get the feel for what it looks like and how to draw the letters. (it is an awesome website you can make it print anything http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/) She had been doing a great job in tracing the letters the correct way and this morning while I was watching her she was starting at the bottom right and moving her pencil to the left. I told her that she is not doing it right and asked if I could show her the correct way to form the letters. She looks it me rolls her eyes a bit and says "Mom, I am a kid I KNOW what I am doing." What more can I say to her??

She KNOWS what she is doing.

About a month ago our upstairs tv, Keith's gaming tv semibroke. It had a 7 inch blue line down the middle. He told me it was broken and I said that I would take care of it. Two weeks late he asked if I had done anything about it... no I never turn that tv on so I just did not think about it. So I finally called and Geek Squad came out to look at it. He said that they needed to order a new screen for it and then he would be back in a week to fix it. A couple of days later I got a call from Best Buy saying that Toshiba does not make a replacement screen for that tv so we would get a new tv. So we went from a 720p to a 1080p tv for free yeah!!! Thanks Best Buy!!

First off you know that you need to post more blogs when you can not remember how to get to make a new post. It took me 10 min to figure it out... bahh

I have been watching Weston this past week and I think that he is going to be left handed. He eats better with a spoon left handed. So I have a red-headed blue eyed left hand kid. Where did he come from?!

Since Elizabeth has turned four Keith and I decided that she needs to have chores and start to have daily things she does around the house to keep it clean. One of the things is that she needs to clean her room everyday. She does a decent job of it but LOVES to stick items behind her dress-up box in her closest and under her baby doll bassinet. Yesterday, I told her that we are going to deep clean her room. Clean under everything and take out all the 2T clothes that she keeps trying to wear. After spending a hour and a half session in the morning, another hour and a half in the afternoon her room was still messy. (It really was not bad to begin with she just refused to help so there was a lot of sitting there crying and her telling me it was my job to clean her room) At one point when we were almost done there was a pile of dress-ups that needed to be put in the box. She was refusing to open the box and told me not to talk to her. When she turned around I pointed to the dress-ups and pointed to the box. She put her head down put her hand over her eyes and stood there for 10 seconds then looks up at me and says "Mom, your giving me a headache." I could not help but laugh, I think I have said that to her to many times.

Elizabeth has mini conversations with herself usually about clothes. She has a two sided conversation with herself playing both her friends and herself. It usually goes a little like this...
Elizabeth "Mommy, do you think my friends will like my new dress?"
Me "Yes, I am sure they will"
Her playing a friend "Ohh look at Elizabeth's dress. It is so beautiful."
Elizabeth "Thank you my mommy got it for me. Do you wish you had one?"
Her playing a friend "Yes, I wish that I had a dress like that."
It is way funnier in person to hear a 4 year old have a conversation with herself.

Pillow Pets

We are VERY excited to announce that Weston is finally walking!!! He is 14 months old and finally decided hey I can do this. I am going to give cousin Ellie all the credit. We have been trying to get him to walk for about 3 months and he just did not care. We spent some time with cousin Ellie in June and then in July we were around her for a couple of days in Colorado (which was awesome thanks Bonita and Elena!!). He would take a step or two and then give up and start to crawl. Alicia came over on July 21 and Weston saw cousin Ellie again and that was it. He started walking and has not looked back. We are so proud of our walking boy.

This past weekend we were invited to California to camp on the beach with Shane and her kids. I decide that we should go to at least a little bit of church on Sunday. So off we went. They said the closing prayer and we all said our Amens and we here this little voice say Amen. It was Weston, he had said his first word! We have such a holy little boy.

After coming back from California our house was a mess. Five loads of laundry, camping stuff and miscellaneous stuff from the trip was EVERYWHERE. Yesterday I was doing my best to catch up and clean everything. I told Elizabeth that she could watch some cartoons IF she would help me pick up her shoes and a couple of other little things. Since she loves to watch cartoons she did it and I turned the tv on. About a half hour later she comes up to me and tells me she really wants a pillow pet. I have never even heard of what a pillow pet so I turn to the internet. Elizabeth comes over to look at them with me and tells me it is the unicorn pillow pet that she really wants. I tell her that I will talk to her daddy about it and I was not going to buy it right now. (the only place you can currently purchase them is online) I said something about it to Keith tonight and he said that she had been talking to him about it all day. She is almost night time potty trained and I think all she needs is a little incentive and she will be there. So we decide that if she can keep her bed dry for a week then she can have one. Tonight as she was getting ready for bed she told me that she did not want to wear a pull up because she was not going to pee the bed so she can get her pillow pet.
Me: Why do you want a pillow pet?
Elizabeth: So I don't pee the bed.
Me: No, why do you want a pillow pet as a reward?
Elizabeth: Pillow Pet it folds into a full size pillow and then it turns back into a cuddly animal. Playtime sleep time
Watch the following link... I really wonder how many times that commercial played in the half hour she was watching tv.
http://www.pillowpetsontv.com/Default.asp?tcode=pi8&tag=msn&bhcp=1