January 1st- January 5th 2013

01-01-13

Ryan had the day off work for New Years Day. He always does and it is nice. 

He spent the day washing detailing the car and the girls and I spent the day hanging out. They played with each other for a long time and then had their friend Kenzie come play for a little bit. 

Kailee and Ellie love to get out their blankets and dress up like they are 'getting married.' They put on dresses, veils and walk around saying 'I'm getting married', 'mom/dad, marry me.' Silly girls.

Of course when dad is home, the girls don't get naps. Actually, we don't have much of a schedule at all. 

Around 6pm, Kailee and Ellie finally sat down to eat. As I was getting Ellie's food, she fell asleep. Too cute. It was a long day and they played hard.

01-02-13

I have decided that it is time to help Kailee learn some responsibility. I made To-Do Lists for both girls for things they need to do each day. 

Kailee's list includes:

Making her bed, brushing her teeth, getting dressed by herself, putting her clothes away, nap time or quiet-time, pick up toys, read before bed and feed the dogs.

Ellie's list includes everything on Kailee's list except feeding the dogs. 

On Saturday they will get a treat from the store for their efforts.

So far they are excited for it. Kailee loves to help me with random things around the house and now she will get 'recognized' for it. Everything on the list is what I need them to get used to do every single day without my help. Things they need to do to help keep our house in order. Except feeding the dogs. That was just something extra that I could give Kailee to be 'responsible' for and so far she loves it. She even asks a few times each day if it's time to feed the dogs!

01-03-13

Kenzie came over to play on Thursday. Of course, they immediately went up to the girls rooms and put on their dress-ups. Kailee even climbed up onto her shoe shelf in her closet and got down a few extra clothes for them to wear. Kailee and Kenzie were nice enough to help Ellie get dressed up. They also made sure she had the matching bow in her hair. She is clearly so very happy about dressing up!

Ryan is on-call at work this week. I don't mind it when he goes on-call because it adds quite a bit to his paycheck. Around 3pm on Thursday he called and said he would be a little late coming home. They had been called to a leak in Bountiful. He ended up coming home at 8am Friday morning. He slept for a couple hours and went right back to work.

01-04-13
On Friday we went to the Ogden Treehouse Museum with the Hoggans, Richards, and Lawsons. It's so fun to take the girls there so they can run around and play with whatever they want and it was fun for me to have other moms there to talk with. I was surprised that the girls didn't spend much time playing with the other kids though. So far, I think their favorite things to do are the little art projects and ride the horses and bulls. Cute kids and good times!

When we left the Treehouse Museum, Ryan had called and said he had been called out again. They had to go back to the job they were at Friday night. I didn't want to go home and hang out with my two out of control kids all night by myself, so I kept driving to Ikea. It ended up being the longest drive ever because of rush hour. The kids slept. I went to Ikea looking for some bins for the kids toys and a shoe cabinet for the garage. I love walking though Ikea and the girls were pretty good too. We made it home around 10pm and Ryan was still out working. He called and said they were on their way out to Stockton. I feel so bad for him. The night-time temperatures have been below 0 this week. COLD! He made it home again around early afternoon. Yay for the hours, but man, I think he could use some sleep.