THE KENNARD KLAN: January 2009

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Babysitting in Idaho

My sister Chantel and her husband went to Hawaii for the week, so I got the enjoy their beautiful new home, and their 6 kids! We had a fun week, with no major problems. (I babysat for them last year and everyone got the flu and I flooded the laundry room!) I didn't take very many pictures, but I did get a few cute ones of the little kids. Taeya really enjoyed playing with her cousins. The 3 youngest are all boys, so they weren't too familiar with princesses. Cameron (the 6 year old), kept asking me "why does Taeya always want to be a princess." He finally gave her some star wars princess name which seemed to make them both happy. Poor little Cael (the youngest, he is almost 2), got a little beat up. Taeya went back to her scratching and biting phase that I thought we were out of. Thank goodness he is a sweet little boy who recovered quickly!

The "big" kids had a few friends over and Taeya, Cameron, and Cael found their shoes and thought they were pretty cool wearing them.

Cael was obsessed with toothpaste and thought he would see what it was like as war paint.

Cute little Cael again, always looking for a good pair of shoes.

Cael and Taeya playing in the boys room. I had just changed 2 poopy diapers and didn't think it was worth the fight to get them dressed again!

Saturday night we took the younger kids to Leo's which is a Chuck E Cheese type place. This is Taeya driving the tractor (all the other pictures I got from the night were blurry). The kids had a fun time.

"BeenaBeena"

I got this outfil for Taeya in the Philippines and I just couldn't resist posting it! She looked so cute. She called her skirt her "beenabeena" (ballerina). Taeya is giving me her say "cheese" smile!

Little Gym

Last semester (August thrugh December), Taeya was enrolled at Little Gym. For the most part she really enjoyed it. She got really posessive of the equipment some days, and one day she even bit one of the girls in our class, but it was a great place to "explore," and release some energy. Our friends Heather and Cohen came with us and that made it extra fun. Sadly, I think the kids enjoyed going to Jamba Juice afterwards just as much as they did the Gym!

At the end of class they always blew a lot of little bubbles. She loved having them blown on her tummy and trying to catch them.

Taeya and Cohen playing with the balls

Taeya doing the "bear claw."

Cohen and Taeya were cute little monkeys!

The beam was one of her favorites. She got really good at walking across by herself.

Friday, January 9, 2009

R & R

One of the greatest things about Gordon's job is his yearly R & R. He always gets the week between Christmas and New Years off. This year with the day of the week the holiday's were on, he had a half day on Christmas Eve, and he didn't have to go back until January 5th! We loved it and did a lot of fun things. Here are some of our events during the week:

-We tried to go to the movie Chihuahua (we lasted about 20 minutes).

-Went to Los Hermanos for dinner twice (one of our favorites).

-Went to the Kennard Family Reunion (Gordon was elected as the 2nd vice presidents so it looks like we will be going to the reunions for the next 3 years since he will help plan it)!

-I worked one day (not so fun).

-Went x-country skiing to try out the new stroller ski's.

Gordon and Taeya. I have the coolest stroller, it's called a "Chariot." A few of my girl friends recommended it to me when I had Taeya and we haven't been disappointed. It can be a jogger, a stroller, a bike trailer, x-country ski trailer, and it even has a hiking kit also. When I first bought it I thought I would never need the x-country ski kit, but look at us now! We discovered the way to keep Taeya in the stroller was to give her a bowl of snow that she could eat along the way! She loves eating snow.

-Went to the cabin in Weber Canyon and had a great time. We went sledding, build Taeya a snow fort "or princess castle" as she liked to call it, did a puzzle, rang in the new year, ate yummy food, went x-country skiing, made snow angels and watched Barbie "Swan Lake" a million times.

This is Taeya admiring the beautiful scenery. I think that girl would have played in the snow with nothing but her pajama top and boots on if I would have let her. Actually, she would have loved her boots and a princess dress too!

We had a lot of fun sledding. Taeya just sat in the sled with her arms dragging in the snow. When her gloves would get enough snow on them, she would eat the snow off, then do it all over again.

Gordon built Taeya a snow fort or a "princess castle" as she liked to call it. It had steps leading down to it and everything. She played in there with her barbies for a while. She didn't want to keep her gloves on and after a while I realized she was using Ken's hand (or "Eric as she calls her boy barbies because she loved Ariel) to scrape the side of the cave and get snow off, then she would eat the snow on his hand!!

This is Taeya trying to ski with Gordon.

Who can't resist making a snow angel in fresh snow?

-Went to the Melting Pot with Elaine (Gord's mom), to celebrate her birthday.

-Took Taeya to Sundance to go skiing for her 1st time.

We took Taeya to Sundance to let her get a little used to the idea of skiing. She loved her ski's, she kept saying they were "tiny, tiny." We had to park above the overflow parking at sundance. It was closer to walk onto the mountain, than it was to walk to the shuttle. We put on all are gear, and let Taeya kind of practice going down a little bit and she seemed to love it, but then we had to go all the way down the hill to get to the tow rope, and she didn't really love that. Gordon ended up carrying her down. By the time we got to the tow rope she was done. Gordon made her practice going down a few times anyway, then we gave her the promised sucker! It was fun to enjoy a beautiful day in the snow, and we will try again another day!

-Watched a lot of movies!

-Enjoyed having Gordon home!!

Now we are back to reality!!

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!

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