Grandma Marla got Jadie some great gifts for her birthday but my personal favorites were picked out by Dale...bright red cowboy boots!! they are awesome! and she loves them! honestly, the cowgirl just runs in her blood. man so cute! oh very cute story i need to share: yesterday we went to the byu utah game (yayaeh byu!!) at Lee and Mimi's house. Jade was nuts. Lee has these banana chairs that she adored. Cameron was sitting in one of them and Jade walked in front of him and looked at him. then she sat on a cushion front of the couch and said 'nuggles dada' Cameron heaves a sigh and gets down on the cushion to snuggle with her. Jade pops up and as soon as Cam is off the chair and onto the cushion she runs behind him and sits on the cushion, which was her plan from the get go. can you believe she is only two. wow. talk about problem solving...and lying...and manipulating your dad. she amazes us everyday.
well...for the first time ever i have embarrassed my husband. i feel terrible. we were at his aunt and uncle's house for thanksgiving. we had been there all day and the kids were nuts. i was ready to get home. i knew the kids needed to sleep and i couldn't wait anymore. Now Lee, has an HG projector in his basement with an amazing surround sound system. All the guys were watching Star Trek. i went downstairs and said 'its time to go'. he said ok so i went upstairs and started getting the girls ready to go. he didn't come up. so instead of calmly and patiently waiting for him, or going to talk to him again i went into pissed off FINE mode. i looked at his mother and said can you take him home?! Now, usually i keep my cool pretty well with his family, (this weekend has not been that way...i lost it a couple of times...) so this was the first time she has seen me showing my anger. As I started heading out the door Cameron comes up. i looked at him and i dont remeber exactly what i said but is was snotty and bossy...something along the lines of 'i'm ready to go home and if you aren't then you can go home with your mom and i'll just drive home myself because we arent waiting anymore!' i dont know if you have this happen, where it seems as though you have a cloud around you, and that cloud is red and angry. i had a tornado, i was so annoyed, i just wanted to go home! but as i got mad at him the clouds parted and i saw his aunt behind him looking at me with raised eyebrows...in fact no one was talking, no one. everyone was looking at me, was watching me scold my husband and treat him like he was a kid. it was not good. of course being my sweet husband he took it in stride and we left but the whole way home and ever since i have the look of his aunt stuck in my head. see, i just embarrassed him in front of his family. they now have a vision of our relationship--where i'm a shrew and boss my husband around all the time! honestly, i threw a fit, i might as well have stomped my food or thrown myself on the floor like Jade does...i just wanted to get home. its so stressful to be at events with kids..who haven't had naps...and the house isn't child proof...i just get stressed. anyway, there is my confession. i did a terrible thing. and there isn't really anything i can do to fix it. the damage has been made. but seriously this time of seeing his parents i have had the least composer...how do you spell that? anyway, i dont know why but i just couldn't keep it together. perhaps its the little amounts of sleep i got...hopefully next time i can do better.
ok, i have to post this because i think it is hilarious. i put alana and jade down for a little nap when i got home from taking cameron to school. jade usually doesn't sleep in the morning but a little 'rest' generally helps her. anyway, i didn't hear anything from her for a while so i went upstairs to see what she was doing. the light was on in her room, so i thought oh great she has just been playing in there, i'm sure she wants to come out. i open the door and low and behold laying on her tummy, in all her glory is my naked daughter....completely and utterly nude. she took all her clothes off, and her diaper and fell asleep on top of her blankets naked. ahahaha. so funny. i should have gotten a pic but i didn't think about it. i was trying too hard not to laugh. i put a daiper back on her and which point she woke up and looked at me. i said 'its ok hunny, i'm just going to get a diaper on you and then you can go back to sleep' closing her eyes she say 'daiper, uhuh'. she is still asleep...oh my little nudest. i think that being part of the 'jaybird' club must run in the genes. ;)
Jade's birthday was great! The party was so fun and everything went so well. Everyone knows my stress levels about food and thankfully we had leftovers. I get so worried about stupid things, i mean honestly for the first time in my whole life i have a canker sore in my mouth because of this stinkin' party. we had over family and the neighborhood kids. Jade loved playing with all the kids and i think she really got it that this whole thing was for her. She stood still and smiled so big when everyone sang her happy birthday. We had an extreme amount of presents though, wow. There were so many presents the moment that she was done opening one i pulled it from her hands to give her another one. It was marathon. We dont even need to give her anything for christmas i think i'll just wrap up some of the stuff she got for her birthday. She truly loved all the presents though. Well, all the kids loved them. We had so many presents that i hid the two we had bought for her, so that everyone didn't have to stand around and watch her open that many more. All and all it was so fun and so good. My daughter is two. wow. She is a little girl. She loves to put on make up with me when i get ready for the day. It would be so endearing if she didn't put her fingers in my expensive stuff and the wrong brush in wrong powder. anyone who has multiple brushes and expensive make up will understand what i mean...it sucks to have your powder brush full of dark brown eye shadow. Anyway, it really is cute how she puts on make up with the brushes and takes chap stick and puts it on her mouth. She also LOVES purses. anything she can sling over her arm is a purse. She loves babies and her kitchens. Joel bought her a little kitchen for her birthday so now her kitchen is fully stocked. that girl could whip out thanksgiving meals like it was nuthin'--that or plastic speghetti and pizza with some plastic katchup on the side. She really is so helpful. She loves her sister and loves her daddy. Oh and she loves Tina. the next time she wakes up in the middle of the night crying for Tina i'm going to take her across the way and hand her over. ;) At night i've been trying to teach Jade about saying her prayers. So, before bed we kneel down and i say each word and she repeats. We have now done it so often she knows which words come next and just skips to them. here is a transcript of last night: ME: Dear Jade: Father Me:Thank you J:Tank to M: For J: Four M: Family J: Famey M: Thank you J: Tank to M: for J: four M: Jesus J: Jesus, Amen M: in J: in M: the J: the M: Name J: Amen M: of J:..... m: Jesus J: AMEN!! (jumps into bed with a huge smile on her face.) Of course at this point i cant help but laugh at which point she says 'so funny!' She really is so funny. Each night when i tuck her in she also has to roll her eyes at me. i think i'm raising a teenager in a two year old's body. Honestly, she rolls her eyes as far back as she can and keeps them there until i leave. She has this sly grin on her face like...na na na na whatever mom! so funny. Well, there are some jems on our baby girl that is now a little girl. love her.
we have new comp!! isn't that exciting!?! i think so. it was really expensive and we keep needing to buy more things to get it fully functional. isn't it annoying how you think you will pay one price and you end up paying a ton more, over and over and over again. wouldn't it be nice to go somewhere and have the actual prices marked. like, this comp cost this much which includes all the wires, software, desk, router and whatever else you will need to actually use it. anyway. we have been without internet for about a month so here is the update....dana came for halloween. it was awesome. i really love her and i wish we could live closer. i would be a lot fatter but hey we'd sure have a lot of fun getting there. Alana is close to crawling which is awesome as well. its really fun. she is so big, honestly, she wears 9-12months clothing at this point. i think that she and jade are going to be wearing the same size in not too long. Jade is...a tornato. she realized she is going to be turning two and therefore decided she needed to act her age, early. she moves around the house creating havoc so quickly its hard to believe it really is just one child. Cameron is still doing school. and work. he's tired. come to think of it so am i. i usually am up 4-6times a night. that may not seem too bad (if you're insane) but when you realize that i usually dont go to bed before 11 if i'm lucky...and i am up at the latest 7am....thats a lot of getting in and out of bed. yeah, i'm tired. there are some days when i think- i can i give this all back? just for half a day? thats it. honestly i think if i ever sleep through the night i will wake up and think i had died, or someone else had. i wont know what to do with all the excess energy. Jade's birthday is tomorrow. i have a two year old. me. a two year old. wow. do you ever wake up and think- is this my life? not in a bad way just in a wow, really? i'm at this point? i'm really old enough to be doing this? i do. so anyway, there is an update. i have tons to say as i've been mute for a month so hold on tight!! i'll get some pics up soon too. since i know no one actually reads this we all just look at blogs for the pics really. :)
