THE KENNARD KLAN: March 2012

Saturday, March 24, 2012

2 Wheeler Bike!

I came home from work Saturday afternoon and Taeya had learned to ride a 2 wheeler bike! She was so proud. I think dad was pretty proud too!

Monday, March 19, 2012

My Phone often comes up missing. I have little hands that enjoy playing with it. I found it in Anastyn's little hands this day. Not sure why she chose the animal bin in the playroom, but I thought it was cute!

More Snow Fun

One more snow day, we just had to take advantage of some more snow fun. Taeya built a snowman family while I played with the little girls. It was a bright day, we had to wear our shades!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

St. Patrick's Day

This year St. Patrick's day was extra exciting. The Leprechaun finally found us! He wasn't going to come but at the last minute made an appearance. The girls followed a sparkly trail to the basement where he had left a treasure. Lots of candy, donuts and juice for breakfast, and Cinderalla and Ariel polly pockets. My girls are way too spoiled!

Taeya celebrated St. Patrick's Day at school on Friday the 16th. She took Mrs. Reiber a little treasure.

We had fun hair for the day too.

The girls following the trail the Leprechaun left.

Cute Anastyn

This is what was at the end of the sparkly trail!

The girls love gum so they were extra excited about a little easter gum.

They were happy with the polly pockets too.

Anastyn all ready for the day - this is the shirt I made for her last year. We made it work for this year too!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Another Half Birthday

Anastyn's is now 2 1/2. Since we celebrated Taeya's half birthday we had to have a little celebration for Anastyn too. She is so much fun. We started potty training on March 1st and she is doing pretty good. She has a hard time with the poop thing. She's not afraid of it, she just doesn't want to do it all of the time in the toilet. She's definitely not totally trained yet, but no more diapers! She didn't want to put diaper on at night so I didn't fight her, I just prepared myself for an accident. So far she has only had 1 during the night. I probably don't sleep as well because I jump to her room everytime I hear a noise to make sure she doesn't need to go potty. When she goes potty she gets a gumball out of the machine. She loves that.

She talks in full sentences, loves to sing, is happy most of the time, loves to play at the Bailey's, loves "big girl nursery," is my little shopping buddy - and she is actually not too tricky to take to the store, she loves to dance, and is starting to really like dressing up. She loves wearing nightgowns to bed. She loves donuts, chips and cheese (nachos), chips and salsa(shalsha), turkey, blueberries, yogurt, uses the word "they" instead of "them" (for instance, if you were using the sentence "Where are they?" She would say "Where are them?" it's pretty cute). She hates to have her hair combed but if I ask her if she wants it cut she refuses. She loves to watch any of the Barbie movies. She's not quite as interested in Dora as she was before. If you ask her who her favorite princess is she will tell you "Cinderella." She loves the color purple and insists on having that color if possible. She still has her binki at bedtime. She doesn't take naps anymore because she wouldn't go to sleep before 11:00pm. We loves to get Taeya from school. She is so much fun and we love her so much!

Today was a good hair day - she let me do something fancy! I stuck her in front of a movie and she did great.

Anastyn and Alayna - we had brownies and ice cream that night with the Bailey's.

I got her a new swimsuit for her "birthday" - she loves it!

We love this "big" girl!

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Duckies!

When I was growing up we had pet ducks a few times. Some of the ducks lives ended tragically with the neighbors hunting dog busting through the fence, other times they flew away. We got lucky with a male and female mallard one time and they even even had baby ducks, that was super fun. They always seemed so easy, you put out some food and change the water occasionally and that was it. So I got the brilliant idea to get some baby ducks for the girls just for easter. They are so excited! My plan is to take them to a pond when they get big. Maybe it was a bad idea.......we'll see.

Taeya picked out the blackish one and named her "Blackberry." They yellow one is Anastyn's and we named her "Daisy."

They girls are so excited to have little baby ducks!

Taeya with Blackberry

Anastyn with Daisy - I hope she survives. She has already been dropped several times, poor thing.

Taeya rushed home from school the next day to hold both the ducks. So exciting!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Puppy Girls

One of Taeya's favorite things to do is definitely have her face painted. Today after church the girls decided they needed to be puppies. Cutest puppies ever!

This past week Gordon was in Pennsylvania for work. He brought Anastyn this cute little tigger. We named him Paisley. Anastyn is so nice to share him with Taeya. Here is our pre-puppy Taeya.

We had a few extra minutes before church today so we got to do one of our fancy hairdos.

My favorite puppies - Anastyn and Taeya

This puppy needed some daddy snuggles!

Friday, March 2, 2012

Sledding

We had another snow storm. This time we decided we better go sledding. Right behind the Hollingshead's house was the perfect little hill on the golf course. The girls (and Jack) had a blast and I got a good workout pulling them back up the hill!

Taeya and Jack

Anastyn and Alayna

Eating snow is apparently a must when we are in the snow!

Alayna just hung out in the tub and we pulled her around - such a cutie!

Silly Taeya

Anastyn had a great time. She would laugh and laugh as she was flying down the hills!

Moments to Remember...

10/31/12 Anastyn did not want to go to sleep tonight, probably a result of too much trick or treating candy. As I'm trying to get her to stay in bed she says to me "I need to tell you somethin," I say "what" and she proceeds to tell me nothing really. Than she says "I need to tell dad somethin." I said that she could tell me and I would tell him. She says "dad, is a good worker!" Than she says "I love him this much," and she spreads her arms out as wide as they can go!" Love this girl even if she won't go to sleep at night!

04/03/11 We were talking to Taeya about Noah's Ark and the flood, and she said "that was good cause the whole Earth had a big drink of water!"

03/29/11 Taeya: "Mom, dad thinks sandwiches are made out of sand, but I think their made out of whitches."

02/19/11 Taeya was giving her penguin a little checkup with her doctor kit. She took the blood pressure and then said "just what I suspected." Gordon laughed and said, "you're going to be a great doctor someday." Taeya looked at him and said "I don't want to be a doctor, I want to be a paper maker."

12/10/10 Taeya: "I know why we do karate, it shows Jesus that we love him."

12/2/10 Taeya and Brielle were playing and Taeya didn't want to share her princess castle. I was trying to help her share and she said to me "mom you're ruining a princesses dreams."

11/28/10 Taeya: "You're ruining my life!"

11/01/10 Anastyn: this is what she says pointing to what she wants, "a, a, a, a, a, a..........." she knows how to sign a few words but this is what I hear all day long from her!

10/21/10 Taeya was down stairs watching a halloween movie with Gordon. I went to get her to take her to bed and this is what she said to me: Taeya: "That girl turned itno a girafica (Dracula) but it was just pretend."

10/09/10 This has been one of Taeya's common phrases lately, she says is bratty like: Taeya: "I don't even care."

10/07/10 Taeya: "This is the worstest day of my life."

09/26/10 Taeya: "This is the best day of my whold life, cause I catched a lady bug!"

09/23/10 Random conversation Taeya and I had: Taeya: "She has a great body." Mom: "Who does?" Taeya: "Ursala" Mom: "What does it mean to have a great body?" Taeya: "Infesterating - is that right?"

08/20/10 Taeya: "Mom you're the best mom in the whole world cause you do puzzles with me."

07/26/10 Anastyn took her first steps

05/24/10 Gordon and Taeya were watching princess and the frog. She was watching the part where she kisses the frog and he is supposed to turn into a prince. Taeya looks at Gordon and says, "I'd kiss a frog if I turned into a frog!" Funny how she didn't want to become a princess, just a frog!

05/23/10 Anastyn's top tooth came popping through!

05/09/10 Anastyn officially started crawling on Mother's day.

05/03/10 Sunday was Stake Conference and the theme for the conference was Temple Attendance. For FHE we were talking about the temple and we told Taeya that one of the speakers said that Heavenly Father walks the halls of the temple. Gordon: "What would you do if you saw Heavenly Father?" Taeya: "Heavenly Father can I have a kiss? Now can I have a hug?"

04/30/10 Taeya: "When I growed-up, i'll never be mad to my kids and if they want candy i'll listen to them and give them candy." (This came totally out of the blue while we were driving, it made me wonder if I wasn't being nice to her that morning?!)

03/22/10 While we were at the salon fixing Taeya's hair that she and Brielle cut, I noticed that Anastyn had her first tooth. A cute little bottom tooth. She hardly complained, she seemed a little more mellow than usual, but not fussy at all. The second bottom one appeared a week or so later.

03/18/10 Taeya was talking to Gordon on the phone, she had all sorts of things to talk about, but this comment made me laugh out loud. She said "Dad, Kimball's leg is all better, that's good, for heavens sake!" (Kimball broke his femer on New Years Eve and Taeya was amazed that it was all better).

02/19/10 On my birthday: Taeya: mom, how old are you? Brandalyn: I'm 31 Taeya: (In a quite voice, almost like she's thinking) wow, that's old.

02/17/09 We are driving in the car and I am trying to put Anastyn's binki in her mouth. Brandalyn to Anastyn: Where is your mouth? Taeya: Right in the middle. (She said this in a very serious tone!)

01/25/10 We were driving home - on canyon road: Gordon: Taeya, help me watch out for deer. We don't want to hit one. Taeya: But we could take it home and it could be our pet, we don't have any pets.

01/14/10 Anastyn rolled from her belly to her back for the first time.

01/12/10 Anastyn rolled from her back to her tummy for the first time.

01/06/10 Taeya: "I want to be a lady when I growed up, uh, actually I want to be a gymnastic girl."

12/23/09 Anastyn laughed for the first time. She was watching Taeya jump on the tramp and obviously thought it was quite funny!

11/15/09 Taeya: "Dad, do yous bracelets hurt?" (Does his braces hurt!) She is always so concerned about them, she says she wants some "bracelets" on her teeth.

11/1/09 Taeya: "Mom, where's my computer? I'm going to send and e-mail."

10/31/09 We were trick-or-treating and decided it would be fun to visit Brother and Sister Anderson's house (Tayea's nursery teachers) but we didn't know where they live, Taeya said to me "maybe they live at the church!"

10/17/09 Taeya: "Mom, I is freezing cold." (This is a common statement around the house, apparently she is always cold)!

10/12/09 Anastyn had her first taste of candy today when Taeya so nicely offered her a taste of her ring pop! I think Anastyn liked it!

10/11/09 After Gordon blessed Anastyn in sacrament meeting Taeya said, "I want a big girl blessing!"

10/11/09 We are frantically getting ready for church on Sunday and Taeya was playing in the room while we were putting the blessing dress on Anastyn. Gordon says to the baby "now don't poop in your pretty new dress," and Taeya responds "okay!"

10/10/09 Gordon and Taeya were driving in the car and a man came on the radio, Taeya commented that the man was the prophet. Gordon asked her what the prophets name is, and she told him, a minute later she said "we should name our baby President Monson, that's a pretty name."

10/1/09 "My names not Taeya, it's Emily."

09/30/09 I took Anastyn to her 2 week checkup and thought Taeya should come and get a flu shot while we were there. I prepped her all morning long for getting a shot, she told me "she wouldn't even say ow!" (Which is the only thing she said when she got her shot at her 3 year check-up). They didn't have enough flu shots at the doctors office to give her one and she was so upset. The nurse offered to give her a shot of saline and Taeya would have let her, but I didn't think it was a good idea. She finally settled for a sparkly star bandaid instead.

09/26/09 Gordon took Taeya swimming at the Lehi pool. She went on the big tube slide several times with Gordon. One of the times the turned a corner and Taeya bonked her head on the side of the slide. When they got done Gordon asked Taeya if she wanted to go again and she said, "Yes, but don't drive crazy!"

09/17/09 The day we brought Anastyn home from the hospital I said to Taeya, "what do you think of your new baby?" She enthusiastically answered, "I think it's great!"

09/01/09 Taeya and I went to meet her preschool teacher today. After we walked out of the classroom, she said "hey, I didn't learn my letters!" I guess she knows what she is going to learn at school this year!

09/09 When Taeya refers to herself she will say things like, "do you want I to...." (instead of do you want me to..)

08/22/09 Gordon and Taeya were singing ABBA in the car and Taeya said, "I sing so good cause I'm a big sister!"

08/19/09 Taeya asked me, "Mom, are you going to be a baby when you grown down?" I just kind of laughed, then she said, "but if you're a baby, who's going to be my mom?"

08/19/09 On the way to my doctors appointment Taeya was talking to Gordon on the phone telling him we had a lot of doctors. (She has gone to a lot of OB appointments with me and she had recently gone to her 3 year check-up). Gordon asked her if she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up and she said, "No, I want to be a lady!"

08/13/09 Taeya and I drove by a man holding a sign advertising for 99 cent tacos. He was wearing a large cowboy/somberero. Taeya said "mom, there's a cowboy!" I didn't really want to argue with her about whether is was a cowboy or not so I just agreed. I minute later she said to me, "hey, cowboy's don't hold signs, they ride horses!"

08/9/09 On the way to church I was getting mad at Gordon for driving too slow, and he said a little sarcastically, "I love church," and Taeya said "Me Too!" (Although she wasn't being sarcastic)

06/10/09 It was a cooler day and Taeya told me she was cold and wanted her witch costume on. We put the costume on but not 5 minutes later, she came to me and said, "I need to change, it's freakin' hot!" Of course she quickly found a swimsuit to put on instead.

05/29/09 Whenever Gordon or I get home from work she will say "how was yous work?" Most of the time if she was in bed before we got home she will ask us the next day! 05/29/09 After we get mad at Taeya, or if she thinks we might be sad, she will say to us, "Are you happy?" If you say "no", she will wait a minute or so and ask you again, until the answer is "yes!"

05/24/09 I told Taeya that we were going to go run errands, so we get to the first store, I think it was Cooks Nursery, and she said, "Is this errands?"

04/7/09 Gordon's sister, Angie, is in town from Washington. When Taeya was born she made her a Winnie the Pooh blanket that she loves recently. We told Taeya to tell her thankyou for the blanket. When she did Angie said, "you're welcome sweatheart." Today she said to me "I not a sweatheart, I a Taeya!"

03/15/09 Once again in the middle of the night, I put Taeya in bed with me, this time she said to me "thank yous for sharing yous bed with me!"

03/14/09 Taeya and I were in Idaho visiting my sister. Taeya woke up in the middle of the night and I put her in bed with me. I had my watch on and when I put my arm around her back I scratched her a little bit (she insisted on wearing a sleeveless dress to bed). She said to me "owe that hurt, I a special, special girl."

03/13/09 "Princesses don't wear pants, they wear tights."

02/24/09 On the way out of the Disneyland park Gordon was holding Taeya and she said "I need a nap at night time." She quickly fell asleep on his shoulder after that.

01/18/09 I asked Taeya to help me clean up the hair things after I did her hair and she said, "No, I'm too dizzy." ( I am not sure if she meant that she was too busy, or if she just needed an excuse!)

12/08 Anytime Taeya does anything she thinks you will like she look at you and says, "Whatchu Think?" (What do you think?)

11/13/08 Taeya had on a pair of leggings that got a little hole in them. She looked at the hole and said "daddy fix it?" She thinks he can fix anything!

10/5/08 We were driving in the car and Taeya was playing with a toy phone. She had it up to her ear but didn't say anything for at least 10 minutes. I finally asked her who she was talking to, and she said "Grandpa," I asked her what Grandpa was saying and she said, "trick or treat!"

08/18/08 Last night Taeya found out how to climb out of her crib! She was talking to herself (hm, I wonder where she got that?) I could hear her through the door saying, "Careful Tae-ya" over and over. Curious I opened the door and she was teadering the bar of her crib avoiding a disaster!

THE KENNARD KLAN

Saturday, March 24, 2012

2 Wheeler Bike!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Missing Phone

More Snow Fun

Saturday, March 17, 2012

St. Patrick's Day

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Another Half Birthday

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Duckies!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Puppy Girls

Friday, March 2, 2012

Sledding

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