Well lots has happened

 A year of catch up. Hmm that's alot of happenings.
  My brother got a little leave time (7 days) but it was wonderful to see him. We've been apart alot more than together physically in the last few years. But the clock is ticking on him being home soon.
  Kaya has grown in leap and bounds..literally! She's tall, perfectly portioned and healthy as a horse. Smart and beautiful. Alot of adjectives to describe our baby girl lol She retains words well, uses big words correctly and makes us laugh with some of her interesting ways of saying them. Every day is awesome and we are learning that every day may not go well but it's in how you handle it :) She's independent, strong willed and funny. Great qualities...most the time lol
  Kaya turned the big 4 on June 12th. I don't know who was more thrilled with her My Pretty Pony three layer cake (complete with icing clouds, ponies and all the frills)..Kaya or my sister in laws lol I love making Kaya's cakes. We had a big party at our house complete with a cookout. It was nice to see so much family together and to have a visit from an out of state friend before the party and some friends that came to visit after the party. I've watched my babygirl go from a chubby cheek new born to an incredible 4 yr old.
  Our other big thing was Steve being diagnosed with MS this year. What started out as severely tired...that we chalked up to all the outside work we had done on garden beds and the heat...ended up with Steve having very hard to understand slurred speech and unable to get out of bed for very long. Once at the ER we braced ourselves to either hear stroke or...something easily fixable. Once the catscan came back with an abnormal spot it was 3 days in the hospitals, lots of anxiety, one freaked out husband (he's NEVER been in the hospital ever) and a child that cried every night. After 3 days of barely 8 hrs sleep they let me bring Steve home. Within 2 days we had a call from Dr K to cancel our appt with him and get to Dr B as soon as possible. The abnormal vein was actually MS lesions. Every day is a new learning experience with the disease. I'll blog more on that later.
  We lost Granny in Oct of 2011. One of the hardest times. My last grandparent..gone. We had to admit her to the nursing home in April due to her memory issues etc and we had spent alot of time over there making her feel at home. Kaya and Granny was VERY close. Two of the hardest things I ever had to do: Tell my daughter her Nanny was in Heaven and then contact my baby brother. I was up for nearly  54 hrs dealing with RedCross (not a big fan of their military procedures) and then the military base. He made it in the day after the funeral. It took me several months (actually it was in Feb) for me to officially go back to Granny's house. I was walking through the house, could feel the tears at the corner of my eyes, and then I found an envelope. Inside it was a valentines my grandpa had sent my Granny while he was stationed in the service during the war. It made me smile and made me think Granny was saying "its ok..I'm with Grandpa."   I go back to the house from time to time and it's the same farm house...just missing the two most important accents...my grandparents. I feel the same when I go to my Mom's family farm. I have not been back in my Grandpa Roberts house since my Grandpa died.
   Most of the last year or so has flew by, holidays were great (just different due to not having it at the normal place I've had it for 30 some years), and every day is something new.
  Ethan is now 17, a junior and driving. Emily is almost 16, a sophomore and boys think she's cute. Makes me want to puke all around lol Sorta moving into another phase of life in that regard. One day my babies won't come up as they will be in college. But I'm very proud of them.
  Lots of great times ahead in our lives and some serious decisions on several issues. Some pretty personal that takes a couple thinking it out hard, others just things to deal with and move on. Very blessed in my life and even for all the bumps..wouldn't change the year or so we've had.
 
 

Been awhile..so excited LOL

  So excited to be back to writing on the blog. I'm horrible about just sitting down and writing...and to be honest the log in and format had changed..so yeah. lol Will definately be doing a better job. My next post will be catching up the year UGGHHH lol and then onto things now :)

The big 3!!

Well we are in countdown mode..lol..Kaya is getting ready to turn 3!!!

Too smart

   So proud of how smart Kaya is but at times it simply floors me what she manages to retain and recite later. She can now do all her body parts, count to ten or more depending on her mood,count to at least five sometimes 8 in Spanish,uses rather large words such as dangerous etc when the mood strikes her. She knows boy and girl even though she CONSTANTLY calls Daddy a nice girl lol or will say “see that boy she’s nice” makes us laugh!

  Knowing all her body parts is great EXCEPT for when she decided to inform people of what body parts they have such as telling Mimi tonight at the nursing home/rehab that “Mimi you do have boobs”. Cracks me up but we keep telling her its not nice to say such things etc.

  She’s almost completely potty trained (few night accidents) but doing awesome. Packed up all the training panties as “she’s a big girl” and doesn’t wear them. Went through ALL her dressers and closet this weekend. Amazes me just how fast she grows. We are constantly adding to the totes of outgrown clothes.

Been awhile

  Since I’ve had time to sit down and write. Kaya is growing more and more every day and is almost completely potty trained (few night accidents) and doing great.

   We spent last Saturday visiting with Steve’s stepdad in Loogootee and had a great visit. He’s a very nice guy and any time we are down that way we try to stop and visit with him. After our visit …off to DairyQueen we go for the required icecream! lol We took our blizzards to the park and spent the whole day there playing. Incredibly nice weather and super nice time together. Seems like during the week by the time I get home,we have supper and now with the time change then its time to get baths and in bed. The day goes TOO fast so the weekends are super nice to just be together.

Cousins

  Even though Kaya has informed her cousins they are no longer cousins but friends (that’s her new word) she was very excited they spent the weekend with her. Even though they are going to be 14 and 16 this summer they are still awesome with Kaya and play with her and give her time and attention.

 

   They had a great time this weekend. Pizza party Friday night, LOTS of playing together all weekend, and then a trip to see Addie on Sunday. Busy time but lots of fun,giggles and love

Kaya is doing great…

  With potty training. She had been doing fairly well awhile back then took a stubborn streak and decided she wasn’t NEVER using the potty to quote her. Now she is back to staying dry and is on almost a month in panties other than night time BUT she has been getting up more at night to potty.

   Every week she stays dry she gets a little prize and when she does something even better….like using the potty at Walmart at her OWN request then she gets a bigger prize. Once she accomplishes doing a number two in the potty then she gets a BIG prize!

  She’s pretty proud of the purple panties she earned this week. She had wanted them last time we went shopping (she has A LOT of panties lol) so we made them her goal this week.

 

Pretty proud of my girl. Hard to believe she will be THREE in June ….