New Changes Coming Up

I was on face book garage sale the other day. I found a bunk bed for $400 I talked the girl down to $350. The bunk is really quite awesome from the picture I have of it. We are going to check it out on Saturday.
It is not the exact bed I wanted but the one I is over $1600 without mattresses so obviously this one is a much better deal. When I first decided the girls would get a bunk bed this is the style I wanted, just over the last year or so I changed my mind on the type so I guess its a good thing. It has a desk and 3 drawers and some shelving.
It obviously is going to take up a lot of room in the girls bedroom but that's all right, our room has less room then the girls at the moment.
Right now the girls room has 2 toddler beds, a desk, a little dresser with 2 drawers, and a little princess couch all of that will taken out of there room. The beds we will try and sell. The rest will go in what is now there toy room.
The toy room is going to be converted into a entertainment room. I will put her desk in there with the little white dresser which I will put a TV on. Then they can have there vtech motion, v smile baby, the leap frog computer and a DVD player. It should be cute with there little princess couch there 2 little plush Dora chairs and there little spider man fold out couch.
Now there bedroom will have to take most of the stuff that is now in the playroom. So along the wall with the window it will have the dresser we got from Kennedy that we use for toy storage. Also there little Dora toy box will go in there room I am not sure where it will end up yet though. Also we got the girls letters to there name for Christmas last year that we haven't put up yet that we are going to put up with some pictures of the girls as well. I will take some pictures when its all said and done.
I am hoping putting the the toys in the girls room will help contain some of the mess to there room only. Should be some nice changes for everyone.
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Awesome Morning

Today it was something so simple that made me so happy. I got up once Taylor went to school and laid on the couch and from 8:30-10:30 Eastynn laid down with me. It was awesome for a couple reasons cause first of all she is 2 to get a child to sit never mind laying down is a miracle secondly anyone who knows Eastynn well knows that she is a kid that is just well her she doesn't like cuddles at all. I loved it except the little elbows in the ribs and stuff but I would take it again in a second to have another day like that. So precious for me.
Taylor will lay down and cuddle with me everyday I so enjoy my time with her don't get me wrong but with Taylor it happens probably 3 times a week. With Eastynn well apparently once in 2 years.
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Speech

Today we went to Taylor's speech again as we do every Monday and will continue to till she has got all her sounds down pat I guess. Today unlike every other Monday I had to take Eastynn with it was good though I sat in the other room and was able to see Taylor through that 2 way mirror and hear her through speakers in the room we were in. I think she did great as usual and its not quite as emotional for me in the other room.
Taylor is still working on her "s" sounds and now its at the beginning and in the middle of the words. She learned little miss muffet today.
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Swimming With Papa

On Friday we went swimming with Papa at the pool. Papa's back has been bugging him so he wanted to hit the hot tub at the pool. He went in the big pool with Taylor for a little bit so she could show him all the tricks she does. She is doing so much better being very content in a life jacket now and actually jumping in the pool not holding our fingers and lowering herself in the pool like she use to.



Eastynn she would be absolutely content to just stay in the toddler pool and play with the toys and do what she does. She is so cute in the pool she crouches down so the pool is about chest deep on her and then she paddles her hands as if she was swimming it cracks me up. You can kind of see her doing that in one of the photos with Taylor.



Other than that not much has been happening Eastynn I think is teething she has been having so difficult days to say the least but occasionally her sense of humor comes out. Like the other day she was cranky so I sat her on the counter while I was making dinner and she said and I quote "one two three go to our room." I was absolutely shocked but all I could do was laugh at her. I usually tell the girls to go to there room if they are crying I try not to use there room as punishment one there is to many toys in there and two I don't want them to dislike there room for sleeping I have enough trouble with Lil E in that department already.

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Speech And Such

Not much has been going on.

Friday I took the girls bowling with Becky and Brooklynne. It was fun even though Brooklynne was sick. After that we came home and ordered some chinese food and just hung out. Becky and I decided we need to get together a couple times a month so the girls can play. Hopefully next time everyone will be feeling fantastic.

Sunday Taylor and I went shopping with Grandma and Grandpa Mellor we got a ton of stuff I sure hope we can use all the food but we are really trying to eat and be healthier. More fruit and those handy 100 calorie snacks. 3 meals a day and 3 snacks in between.

Today Taylor had her speech and she is doing so well. It's pretty funny she will show her a card lets say a snowman Taylor will say snowman I want to build a snowman. Then stairs and she says Grandma and Grandpa have stairs. It cracks me up so much every card has a story. The teacher tries to humor her by saying oh yeah or really but just wants to move along. Taylor so loves the games there I think we need to play one game a night I think she would like that.

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Sleep....Not So Much

I do not know what is happening but the last few nights Eastynn has been having EXTREME troubles in the sleep department. We always put her down at 1pm in the afternoon and she usually looks forward to this nap running and jumping right up into her bed and sleeping till about 4:00, 4:30 at the latest. Bed time is usually a little more of a struggle we put her down at 8:00 and she usually talks for awhile till about 8:45. Now its full out crying and sometimes taking off her clothes and diaper. So she obviously gets to come out of her room and then when we put her back she does the same thing. She isn't falling asleep until 12:30 at the earliest last night was after 2 and she ended up sleeping with us so by this morning there was 4 people in our bed. I want my bed back. Hopefully we get sorted out asap.
Should I cut her nap back?
Should I cut her nap out?
Any other ideas?
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Hearing Test

A little while ago I got the girls speech assessed and they figured it would be a good to have there hearing tested. Today was the day we had there hearing tested. The man who did the girls tests was so good with the girls it was really awesome. They did a couple tests that I had no idea what they were. I guess one was to check if the girls had fluid behind there ear drum. The second test not sure what that was but they both passed. Then he had a little camera and looked in there ears which was so neat I always wondered what it looked like.
Then they took Taylor in the sound proof both and showed her a bunch of pictures then put some headphones on her and then from another room he asked her to point to the pictures she did awesome then he did the tones and she had to raise her hand every time she heard one and that she did so awesome there. I was really proud of her. They said her hearing is great if anything to good as in sounds that would be normal to anyone else could be loud to her and loud noises to us are extremely loud to her, which I already knew from when we went to the air show in the summer.
When Eastynn went into the room she didn't wear the headphones. In the room they had 3 boxes with a toy and a light in it on the wall, one in front and one to the left and one to the right. He'd make a sound through the speaker and when she'd turn her head in the direction the sound was coming from the light would come on and the little toy would play the drums (it was cute). Then the one in front would go off to re direct her attention. Then another sound would happen and when she looked the lights would go on and the toy would play the drum. It was so interesting I really thought that was cool.
Now they have no excuses not to listen to me although the guy said they can't do much about them being mommy deaf. Oh well.
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Taylor Has Mastered The F sound (in more than one way)

Taylor had speech on Monday. She really does enjoy her speech sessions. I think because it is so one on one and she gets all the attention for the entire time she is there. She also gets to play one game every week. She did good yesterday although I noticed the teacher was starting to write more and get her to talk more so I think we are going to start working on other stuff now. She is got the F sound down pat so much that she has even started using "the F word". Yikes. Oh well hopefully with the 4 time outs in 2 days she will figure it out.
So she has moved to the S sound for next week.
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A Wii Bit Of Pain For A Whole Lot Of Fun

Yes Tamara it is punny I know.

On Saturday we went to my friend Becky's she was having a Wii Party. It was great cause the girls got to go and it was just the Huber's and Becky, Brooklynne and Becky's brother Mark. Everyone had a blast from our family at least.
We got there and watched the hockey game Canada won woohoo. Then I went through the tutorial on the wii and then Fabian went through it.
We finally started playing started of with some bowling I won woohoo again. The we did boxing. Fabian and Mark went first, Mark won. Then Becky and I went, Becky won. Then Fabian and I went, Fabian won. Then Fabian and Becky went, Becky won. I didn't want to embarrass myself anymore so I didn't play against Mark. Then we played golf I think Mark beat everyone at this AGAIN. We played one more game of bowling and I am not sure who won it was a good game though every one was withing a few pins of each other I think it was Becky though. Then we played some Guitar Hero I was clearly the worst player on that one oh well. Fabian and Beck were pretty good.
The girls had so much fun they passed out around 11pm very late. At least the older girls slept our little Eastynn was just giving er right till the bitter end which was 2:30am. I couldn't believe it I asked what time it was and it was like 1:30am I didn't even think it was 11:00pm yet.
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Tara and Taylor & New Years

On Christmas Eve Taylor and I went and picked up Tara. We went and bought Taylor some ice skates and Taylor and Tara went skating. Taylor loved it and Tara was very paitent with Taylor she is getting there I guess though once she goes back to school I will have to take Taylor skating. YIKES.
Today Taylor and I went and picked up Tara again and we went sledding we went down to Kin Coulee once we got there Tara and Taylor walked all the way to the top I watched some people come down as was so scared the hill is so fast it is scary. So they went down and Tara thankfully kept her feet down in order to slow the sled down. I decided it was not safe enough so we went to the golf course and went sledding there and we had a blast. Its funny how you forget how fun that is I had such a great time a good way to start off the new year. I can't wait to go again.

We didn't do much for New Years Eve. We went to Grandma Chisholm's and ate and ate and ate. I ate the good fatty food the girls ate the fruit. We watched the hockey game and visited. We came home at about 10:40 and were in bed shortly after 12:00 we did watch tv for awhile in bed though.
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The Sleigh Ride and The Christmas Lights

On the morning of the 28th we went for a sleigh ride that Grandma and Grandpa Huber had set up. It was Grandma's best friend Lois' family that did this for us it was fantastic. Lois came as well she is always a lot of fun.
Phillip was the guy who took us on the sleigh and the horses were Molly and Libby. They also had a crazy dog named Digger the girls really seemed to enjoy it. We would go a little ways and let the horses have a little break and then go a little more and stop again. We had some hot chocolate one of Taylor's new favorite drinks. The girls also had some thin bread sandwiches which both girls really enjoyed them. We made our way back to the Phillip and Sheila's house we had some tea and some cookies. The girls ran off some energy in there house and then we headed back to Grandma and Grandpa's house for awhile before we headed to Bredenbury to see the lights they have the whole little town is decorated it is very cool. Taylor was in the truck with Grandma and Grandpa Huber so I never got to see her expressions but they said she loved it. Eastynn couldn't be bothered but that's okay mom loved it.
Then we went out to supper with Grandma and Grandpa Huber, Uncle Daniel and Linda, Calvin, Brooklynn and Luke. Uncle Pat and Aunt Janet and there kids Nathan, Devin, and Loran. Taylor I think may have had a little crush on Devin and may have been a little scared of Nathan. The rest of the table was to far for me to see.
The day of the 29th we just hung out and did nothing which is something after all the previous activities I was so looking forward to.
The 30th was the day we came home which was good and sad the girls really love hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa and its usually a break for me although this time we did a lot in the few days we were there. One of the cutest things that came out of Taylor's mouth was "when you have been away for a long long time and you come home you have to say ahhhh home sweet home." It was hilarious but true.
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