i did a bad, bad thing

A neighbor came over yesterday asking about my wedding dress. She wondered if another neighbor, who is getting married in June, might try it on to see if she could use it. I thought that was great. I love sharing. My cousin wore (the skirt of) my dress when she got married a few years ago. So I got my dress out, but it wasn't quite what she wanted. It has short sleeves and she wants long sleeves. (In June. I know. Crazy.) Anyway, my dress has been hanging on the stairs since yesterday. It's been calling out to me while I've been cleaning today during nap time. "Try me on," it says. "You're not too fat. Really. Just try me on." I gave in to its pleadings and just barely tried it on. I got the skirt on, and my confidence grew, and then I tried to put on the top. It was not pretty. It does not fit. It is too small. I am too big. Why do I do this to myself? I need to develop the willpower to just say no to the talking dresses in my life. "Be quiet, you dresses. I don't need to put you on to feel good about myself."

some anagrams

KIRSTA SILVEY
A Silvery Skit
Ask Servility
Ivy is Stalker
Kit is Slavery
Ivy Seal-Skirt
It Risky Slave
Risky Sail Vet
Vilest Sky Air
Ask Virile Sty
It Yaks Livers
Ivy Likes Rats
Ray's Evil Kits
Ivy Ass Kilter

NATHAN SILVEY
Hasten Vainly
Neatly Vanish
Shiny Anal Vet
Have Salty Inn
Saintly Haven
Venial Shanty
Thy Nasal Vein
Ten Shiny Lava
Satan, He Vinyl
Heals Tiny Van
Halves Any Tin
Ay Thin Navels
I Navel Shanty
Hi Nasty Navel!
Any Thin Slave
Hail Navy Nest
The Slain Navy

COLIN SILVEY
Silly Novice
Silicon Levy
Icily Sloven
Evilly Sonic
Lively Coins
No Silly Vice
One Civil Sly
Sly Evil Coin
Ivy Is On Cell
Slily In Cove

KATE SILVEY
Evilest Yak
Leave It Sky
Vet Is Leaky
Valet Is Key
Ivy Eats Elk
Ate Evil Sky
Ya Like Vest?
Eve Is Talky

easter!

We had a great Easter. Nate's parents were in Iowa/Missouri with their other kids/grandkids, so it was just us and my side of the family, which these days is just Mom, Heather, Seth, and Adopted Brother Kenny. Here are a few catch-up pictures of the kids, and then on to the Easter-y goodness.

Farmer kids.

Nate and I bought a new camera with some of our tax refund money. I've been playing with it trying to figure out the settings and whatnot. I still have no clue about half the things it can do.

I bought some door knob covers to try and keep Colin in his room and out of mine. After approximately one and a half days, Colin was able to get the door open anyway. There's $3 that I'll never see again. Curse my talented son!

He thought he was being so funny, climbing up on his bed and stealing my spot. When I came in he was holding the book up talking to himself.

Kate's tongue still curls up and back when she gets mad/excited/happy. She was happy here, in case you were wondering.

Colin still loves to make a good mess. Here he is sporting some vanilla yogurt.

DeAnna sent this dress to Kate, and it is super cute. I washed it and put it on her so I could see how it fit and how cute she looked. She spit up on it before I could get it off of her.

Colin gets jealous when I'm taking pictures of just Kate, so I had him hop up and say cheese.

When I changed Kate's clothes out of the dress I tried taking a picture and she was furious with me—probably because of the indignity of having her picture taken in just her diaper cover.

There's something about that face that tells me she knows what's up.

Lenna made this skirt for Kate. You can't see just how awesome it is in this picture, but it was so cute that I had to put it on her and take a picture as soon as I got it. Trust me, it's cute.

A couple other skirts of Addi's came in the mail with the above mentioned awesome skirt, so I changed Kate's clothes several times and held an impromptu fashion show.

On Saturday morning we had a Neighborhood Easter Breakfast and Egg Hunt. It was freezing, but we bundled up the kids and went anyway. Breakfast was super delicious, probably because I didn't have to cook it.

Colin's friend Mary helped him find eggs—for a few minutes anyway. As soon as they let the big kids loose she ran looking for her own candy.

Colin was content with what he got. And he was pretty cold. So we took him home.

Caleb needed help building his retaining wall before his fence is put in, so Nate went over on Saturday to help him. I stayed inside and watched conference with the kids. Heather was out shopping getting ready for her sister's bridal shower. Rachel and Kaylee were excited to have their little cousins over to play.

When conference was over, Nate asked me to cut his hair. He was tired from helping Caleb, and I was tired from being the mother of two. Nate had the clippers sitting in his lap with the attachment on, so I took them from him and started cutting. After a few strokes I realized that I could see his scalp. I freaked out and dropped the clippers and started crying/laughing. I looked down and saw that instead of a number 8 there was a number 2 on the clippers. Nate was really nice about it. He didn't make me feel bad or anything. He just said, "I guess I'm getting a buzz today." He even let me take some pictures as we went.

What his hair looked like when I realized something was wrong.

Rock on!

Nate's bangs.

I wish he would have let me leave the bangs.

The finished product.


The Easter Bunny came on Sunday because mom forgot to tell him he was supposed to come on Saturday. A few eggs were hidden around Colin's room, and a nice bucket was filled with toys/books since the good basket couldn't be found. Good thing Colin is under 2 and doesn't care.

I put 2 Skittles in each egg. When Colin realized there was candy in the eggs he wanted to stop and open each one as he picked it up. He got upset with me when I would take the eggs away and put them in the bucket. After about 15 eggs he finally got the idea and put them straight in the bucket on his own.

After all the eggs were collected we showed Colin his presents from us and his grandparents. He immediately switched out Cracker for Piglet and Pooh Bear. (I bought the stuffed animals at Disneyland and saved them until now. Pooh Bear is technically for Kate. I have a few more to give the kids, but I'm waiting until Colin's birthday.)

Colin wanted to keep looking through his Easter bucket, but he wouldn't put down Piglet and Pooh. That made it difficult to get to the goods.

Kate got an adorable new bib with frogs on it from Granny.

Colin showing off the goods to Seth and Nana.

Nate showing Kate the fun new toys and books.

Colin hanging out with Kenny and Seth waiting for lunch. I made an awesome breakfast and lunch for the whole family. (Okay, my mom helped with lunch.) I mention that because I'm pretty proud of myself for doing it.

I love him. What a good Dad/Husband he is.

Colin got a carrot bat with his Easter stuff. He's decided that now he likes carrots, so he took a bite. Seth wanted a taste too.

Mmmm. Carrots.

And here are my adorable children this morning. Colin was playing with Kate, telling her what sounds the animals make. "What sheep say? Baa baa. What cow say? Moo moo." And Kate just watched him adoringly.


Happy Fat Face.

I have some videos from this weekend, but I haven't figured out how to take them off of the new camera yet. They will be posted as soon as Nate helps me get them on the computer.

4 months old

Kate went to the doctor yesterday for her 4 month checkup. Here are her stats:

Weight—13 lbs. 8 oz. (47%)
Height—25.5 inches (90%)
Head Cir—16.75 inches (88%)

It looks like she's coming along nicely. She's meeting all of her development milestones, and she's a beautiful, chatty, bright-eyed little girl. Yay Kate!

love me some kate

Well, to be honest I love me some Colin too, but I have way more pictures of Kate this week. We'll start out with a few of Colin though. A neighbor gave me some hand-me-downs from her youngest son. One treasure was these overalls. My mom loves them, and Nate hates them. Is anyone surprised by that? I think he looks cute, although more babyish than usual. I call them his Farmer Pants. Here he is giving Mickey Mouse a ride.

Posing with Bad Horse and his Farmer Pants.

My mom bought this onesie for Kate to wear at Disneyland, but it never made an appearance on our trip. It's cute though.

A neighbor gave me this outfit when Kate was born. It's still too big, but I love it—especially the elephants on the pants.

And here are my children playing "together" nicely.

My but that's a fat face.

My mom bought Colin a video of The Wiggles for him to watch during the long car ride to California. Colin didn't watch it much—we don't watch shows at home, so he doesn't have the attention span for it. But since we've gotten back he's asked for wiggles a few times. I'll turn it on and he'll dance around to a few songs (and only the songs, he likes to skip all that boring talking) shouting "wiggles wiggles wiggles!"

But enough about Colin. The rest of these pictures are of my baby girl who is growing up so fast! She decided that she likes the bumbo and the exersaucer—as long as someone is there to talk to her. She's also getting good at holding her toys and pulling them into her mouth. Oh, and spitting too, as evidenced in this picture.

This picture is on here just because her eyes are so pretty. I never thought any of my kids would have blue eyes at any point in their lives.

Kate may have a fat face, but the rest of her is still pretty skinny. Her legs are starting to fill out, so I guess she's getting enough to eat.

Crazy Fat Face.

She is a cute naked baby. And she loves to be naked. Let's hope she grows out of that at some point.

Hannah bought Kate this outfit, and she looks so dang adorable in it these days! I can't believe she's big enough now that she actually fits into it! Thanks Hannah! (I love exclamation marks!)

I love this picture, spit marks and all.

When I took this picture I was thinking to myself that Kate looked like something all wrapped up in my sweatshirt, but at this point I can't remember what that something was. Oh well.

After church today she was so happy and smiley and adorable that I had to take a few more pictures. Her bald little head is cute even without a bow.

Yay Fat Face!

I guess Colin is paying attention when I feed Kate...

I strapped King Louie around Colin's neck and thought it looked like a beard. Hence, this video.

This would be us just hanging out, playing in the kids' room. I had been blowing on Kate's belly, so Colin thought he'd give it a try too.

I pulled out the camera because Kate had scooted herself off of her burp cloth. But then she was wiggling and talking so much that I took a video. She is becoming quite the talker. I have a feeling she'll be a motormouth just like Colin when she gets a little bigger. Colin was just wandering around, exploring the living room. I guess he really likes the speakers.

In other news, Colin won't stop biting his fingers, nails, blanket, dad, etc. I've tried moving/slapping (in the nicest motherly way) his hands away from his mouth. I've tried giving his mouth a light smack (again, in the nicest motherly way. Please don't call Child Services). But I think I've finally found something that will get him to stop. For the last 3 days or so, whenever Colin bites or does something else that is against the rules, I make an angry cow sound. This sound terrifies him. Basically any low loud sound like that terrifies him. He immediately stops what he's doing to cry and run for a hug. Then he says, "All gone angry cows. No bite. All done." And I guess I don't make the sound every time he does it, only a few times a day. The rest of the time we just talk about it—that he needs to stop before the cows make angry sounds—and that works too. It's great! It works way better than time out, and he's learning to stop before he does something naughty. He's starting to tell me about the cow noises instead of doing whatever it is that will get him in trouble. My mom and Nate are on board with this and are doing the same thing. Hopefully soon he won't need the cow sound either; he'll just be perfectly behaved all the time.

I can't think of anything else exciting, so I reckon that's all for now.

P.S. Kate was having some naked time after her second poopsplosion this evening when she rolled over from her back to her tummy! When I took the picture she was trying to roll back to her back. Way to go, Kate! Also, cute bum.