The Holbrook Family: January 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Monkey Love

I know I've mentioned Kenya's "monkey loves" before but I love when this little girl wraps herself around me and hangs on just like a monkey. It actually makes it quite easy to carry her around when she's pretty much holding herself up. whenever I get her up out of her crib I don't even need to do much beside bend down and let her wrap her arms around my neck and she just hangs on and wraps her legs around my waist. She loves to rest her head on my shoulder and pat my back when she does this too, it's so sweet. Please ignore the ugly pictures of me.

Kenya is doing good with her naps, she still skips them once in a while but she's getting more regular. I have been putting on footed jammies or one pieces on backwards so she can't undress herself though. This has worked well and for the past couple days I haven't had to do it and she's gone to sleep without getting naked. :) Here's some pictures of her with her pajamas on backwards before her nap.

She loves her books! I'll find her a lot in her room with her books scattered around her and she's babbling to herself, or she loves to sit on Charlie's bed and read his books too.

She loves this diaper drawer and wipes! I found her like this with a wipe in her hand and she was wiping her nose. She also has started saying "deeese!" When I pull out the camera. The other day she was walking around with the camera saying "deeese!" she also says this when she says "please."

I can't believe she is 20 months old! That's how old Charlie was when I got pregnant with Kenya, he seemed so much older to me than she does. She's starting to say a lot of words, her favorite are "mine", and "I want that". What can I say, she's got an older brother, and she is learning how to stick up for herself. Charlie has been saying the past couple days "Mom, Kenya is doing bad stuff to me!" And she's upstairs pulling his hair or pinching him. This is not good when she's around other kids though, she's quite aggressive. I really have to watch her. She's not afraid to hit and pull other kids hair to get what she wants. She also says "cup, ball, apple, hi, bye, baby, Diego, " she has said a lot but is not very consistent with too much. She loves Baby Einsteins still and Little Einsteins, she get's so excited when they come on, she'll point her index fingers out and start dancing, it's just cute to see her get so excited. She loves coloring and playing with play-doh too. It's fun that her and Charlie are starting to play together and interact a lot better. Charlie was giving her piggy backs the other day and she loved it! He's a good big brother to her, he sings to her when she's sad and they always give eachother hugs when one is sad. Love these two.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Jean Party! Save The Date...

I discovered a girl on my street who does jean parties, yeah! So for all of you who need a new pair of jeans (she has some shirts and hand bags too I think) or want a little break from home mark Saturday January 24th on your calendars from 2-4. I would love to have any other vendors come and set up shop, I just don't know who so if any of you know someone or have any suggestions or you have something you sell please let me know! The more the merrier. Bring anyone who wants to come, all are invited, and no pressure to buy anything! Just come and look if you want. I'll have more details in a couple days...

Here are the details...

Eve Boutique
2-4 pm at my house (email me nikkiholbrook02@hotmail.com if you need my address or directions)
True Religion, Sevens, Rock n' Republic, jeans and capris. Juicy Couture hand bags, Ed Hardy shirts, and designer inspired jewelery.

We will also have available
Jen's Jewels- beaded watches, jumbo colored faces and small faces, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, baby bracelets

Shelby's bows- Girls bows, headbands, flowers, and hats.
shelbysbows.blogspot.com

The Love Wraps- Girls under-t's and long sleeve shirts (like layers for kids) and nursing covers. thelovewraps.com

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Next day...fell asleep! So relieved, only took about an hour this time. :) Why is life so much better when kids sleep and eat well? Charlie is asleep too, love my kids, but love them when they're asleep too. It is such a nice break.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Attempt #2

Kenya's new year resolution, I decided, was to say bye bye to the binky, for real this time. I ended up giving it back to her after 3 days of not taking a nap last time. This time she cried the first day on and off for about an hour. Second day was better, not as long. Third day same thing. I was getting excited, she was doing pretty good! Fourth day- no nap. Fifth day- no nap. Here we go again...I've decided to stick to it though. She occasionally wouldn't take naps even with her binky she's just so different from Charlie in that area. I find it kind of funny that my 19 month old is wide awake while my 4 year old is sound asleep. This is what I found the past two days when I've gone in to check on her.

Total naked and happy baby! Here's a video too.

This is just a cute picture, I'm sure everyone has one of these- spaghetti face

This is Kenya's new favorite thing to do. The other day I was watching my sisters three kids and Charlie's friend Kody so things were a bit hectic at times. At one point I was doing the dishes when my phone rang. It was a client so I was trying to schedule an appointment when the doorbell rang. It was the shutter guy who was here to install my last shutters. I went out to the garage to clear all the junk in front of the window so he could get to it and when I came back in I realized Kenya was missing. I could hear her little voice from inside the pantry, I opened the door to find this! Now when the pantry door is open she runs straight for it and shuts herself in, by the time I get to her she has a completely stuffed mouth of cereal and another handful in her hand, or she's dumped it out all over the ground.

The World Through Kids Eyes

August 2013

Leila has officially stopped saying "I wanna hold you" :( She would always say that to us and I have never corrected her but I guess she figured it out for herself because tonight she said "hold me". She's growing up too fast!

November 2011
I told Kenya tonight that I was glad Heavenly Father sent her to me. She said "Why did Heavenly Father send me to you?" I said "well we were all a family before we came to earth, in heaven." She said "Mom, how did you get up in the sky?" "I don't know." I said. "Did Santa give you a ride?" Followed with giggles by both of us.

November 2010
Today I was telling Mark about how angry I got at Kenya for coloring on the table for like the millionth time. She heard me talking about it and said "You're not a nice mom, you're like the BEAST! I'm gonna put you in da gawbage and get a new mommy!" Then later Mark asked her when he was reading her a bedtime story "Kenya, am I the King?" She said "No, you're the debil (devil)." Charlie was drawing a picture of our family for school and drew me with my mouth open he said "Look mom, you're yelling." I don't think we're leaving the right kind of impression on our kids here.

July2010
Today Kenya came up to Mark and said "Daddy I have to tell you something." She then made him bend down so she could whisper in his ear "You're the best dad in the whole wide world." He thought maybe I told her to say that but she came up with it all on her own. She then did the same thing to me. I love hearing that little whisper in my ear.

June 2010
Kenya randomly makes comments on the baby in my belly, it usually goes something like this. "I like your big belly mom" then "I like your baby Leila." Then it's followed by "I have a big belly too." Tonight that was followed by "It's hooge."

March 2010
When Kenya is demanding something I will tell her she needs to ask nicely. She then yells at me "NICELY!" Not quite what I was meaning.
If you say something like "How are you doing?" She'll say "Kenya" instead of good, or bad, or sad, or happy. Kinda cute.
She's really starting to put her sentences together and express herself a lot better. It's fun to have conversations with her.

March 2010
At dinner we were discussing how babies just drink when they're newborns and don't eat food. We asked Charlie if he knew what they drank and he said "yes, milk from your..." he paused for a few seconds and we were anticipating what was going to come out, then he said "from your belly!" What innocence.
February 2010-
Kenya has been saying some cute things lately most mornings she comes into our bed and snuggles in right in the middle of us. This morning she snuggled up next to Mark, put her hand on his cheek and said "daddy you're my sweetie girl." We had to laugh. Last night we were in the car, Mark was on the phone and Charlie was being really loud so he turned around and grabbed his leg to get him to be quiet. Charlie started crying and Kenya got really mad "don't hurt my sista! You otay Charlay?" We explained it was her brother and she said it all over again, this time with brother. She's been calling a lot of people her sister lately, she's a bit confused.
I made chocolate football cake bites for the superbowl and whenever she finishes her food she says "I want a hapball!" The first couple times I didn't know what she was saying until she ran over to them and pointed, now we know that hapball is football.

July 2009-
Charlie was asking me if his dreams would come true (I thought he was referring to bad dreams because he's been so scared of having bad dreams lately thanks to watching "Thriller") I told him they wouldn't come true and he kept asking me about it. Finally he said "Well daddy's dream came true when you were his wife!" Awww, thanks bud!

June 2009-
Yesterday Charlie randomly said to me "You know mom Jesus is sad when you're mean to me." I guess what goes around comes around. He also told me as we were reading "Little Red Cap" (the real Little Red Riding Hood story) "She shouldn't have lied to her mom" he said. I said "No she should've minded her mom and not gone off the path." He said "well sometimes I lie to you." At least he's honest, well sometimes. :)
May 2009-
Kenya loves the park. Every time we drive by one she freaks out "side, side! Mama side mease, meeease!" (slide please) she says "mease" all the time, it kills me! So cute. She also loves to say "go way!" Every time she's mad at someone or we're trying to get her to do something she doesn't want to its "go way!"

February 2009-Charlie said a prayer the other day that went like this "Grateful we could go to Disneyland, grateful for Halloween, grateful for Christmas, in the name..." That was it! Kind of funny.

December 2008-Last night when Mark was putting Charlie to bed Charlie said "Dad, I think Jaxon isn't choosing the right." Mark said "Yeah, how come? " Charlie said "Because he likes BYU and that's not choosing the right." Mark was pretty proud.

December 2008-

Charlie had a Christmas pajama party at preschool. He got a gift from his teachers. He opened it up and it was a blanket they had made for him, "Wow, a blanket!" I said. Charlie said "It's beautiful!" Then a bit later he was doing a puzzle while I was on the computer and out of nowhere he just says "Merry Christmas mom." He can be so sweet.

November 2008- With Christmas right around the corner and his birthday a couple weeks ago Charlie wants everything he sees on TV. He'll be upstairs watching TV and you'll just hear him say "How 'bout that!" And if it's a girl toy it's "How 'bout that for Kenya!" I don't know why it's "how 'bout that" but it puts a smile on my face every time he says it. It's too cute.

I love how honest Charlie is. The other day he went to the bathroom and when he came out I said "wash your hands" as he came out he got distracted for a minute and then said "Oh yeah, I got poop on my finger." And went to the bathroom. The same day he told me that while he was playing outside with his friend Brady he peed in our dirt, just randomly told me later that afternoon with a guilty look on his face. I was surprised because he hates peeing outside!

I took Charlie to Target to pick out a Halloween costume. I thought he would pick one out immediately and probably choose spider man or batman, well he wasn't really jumping on anything he saw, until he saw a transformer costume he said "I want to be a transformer!" I said "Ok do you want to be Bumble Bee?" "No, I want to be Octopus Prime!" I think it's so cute to hear him say it I haven't told him it's Optimus Prime.

One morning while we were getting ready for church Charlie in his best little sick voice says to me "Mom, (cough cough) I can't go to church, I'm sick (cough cough) see I have a cough.! Isn't he a little young to be doing that?

Last night I was kneeling down by Charlie as he said his prayers. This is what he said- "...Grateful I could go to preschool, grateful for daddy and Kenya," then he reached out and stroked my hair, "and grateful for mommy's hair." He was so happy yesterday when I came home from work and my hair was done and not in a pony tail anymore.

Charlie's Aunt Kristen asked him one day "Charlie what did you do today?" He said " I played with Samara." She said "Oh, is that your friend?" "No!" He said, " she's my husband!"

Mark sold his car and Charlie was with us as we dropped it off to the new owner. Charlie said "Dad, where is your car going?" Mark said " I sold it, it's going bye bye." Charlie said "All our of our stuff going bye bye?" I hope we're not traumatizing him! :)

Charlie has been learning about the Holy Ghost and he seems a bit confused at the concept. Today out of the blue he asked me "Mom, where is the Holy Ghost?" I tried to explain to him that he's a spirit and he can bring good feelings to you etc.. Then he said "Oh, can I touch his blanket?" (This is what a ghost is to him, somebody with a blanket over them.) So then I explained that he's not a real ghost he's a spirit and he doesn't have a body etc. Then he said "Yeah, but he almost has a body, and when I pull off it's blanket is the Holy Ghost a girl or a boy?" Let's just say he's still confused. :)

We went to Discovery Gateway today and as we were walking in there was a little person standing by the entrance. Charlie looks at me and says "Mom, that was a wittle mom." I thought that was pretty politically correct. :)

Today at church Charlie was playing with some cards on the bench during sacrament when I looked over at him he seemed to be pondering something and said to me "mom, am I going to get baptized?" I said "Yes, when you're 8 you can get baptized." "But I want to get baptized now!" (The lady sitting in front of us turns around and whispers "precious." :)) I told him again he could when he's eight. Then he said "Can daddy help me get baptized?" I guess he is learning something in primary and FHE!

Almost every morning I have a battle with Charlie on what he's going to wear. At least the mornings when I care what he wears and want him to look decent. Last night he got to pick out a movie to rent, he chose a Buzz Lightyear one (this is his latest obsession.) This morning I brought out some clothes and he saw them and said "No, not that shirt! That shirt won't make me Buzz Lightyear!" I said "Oh, what shirt will?" "Come here, I'll show you." And he took me into his room and insisted that he wear a white baseball T with green sleeves. This is the closest shirt he has that resembles Buzz Lightyear's costume. Pretty creative kid.

Charlie is in sunbeams now but we've been watching Cami's kids this weekend at her house so he went to nursery today with his cousin Luke. When we got home I asked him what he learned in nursery. He said "nothing." I said "didn't you have a lesson, you must have learned something." Very adamantly he responded "No we don't learn anything in nursery, we just have snacks!" No wonder why he loves it! :)

Cami has a piano in her house and yesterday towards the end of Charlie's nap Luke started softly touching the keys. Charlie woke up and came out of the bedroom with his hands out to the side palms facing up and said in a sweet surprised voice "I wake up and heard the piano singing." Mark and I thought it was too funny.

Those of you who have been around us probably know that Charlie hates my hair in a pony tail. I have no idea where this came from but for about a year he has been like this. It's getting better but at first he would throw a huge fit and say "Don't cutta your hair!" Then I explained to him it was a pony tail so it became "Take out your ponytail!" And he would grab my hair and try and get the elastic out. He's made progress over the past year, it went from forbidding it to throwing a fit but on occasion after I explained to him I was going to the gym or didn't have time to do my hair a few times a day I could make it through the day. Now He doesn't immediately respond to it when he sees it but at some point through out the day he'll comment on it. The other day he was going down for his nap and he said "Mom when I wake up will you take your ponytail out?" I can't believe a three year old boy could care so much about a ponytail! So much for short hair, he probably wouldn't speak to me for weeks! :)

After we sold our house we moved into my dad's. Charlie loves being around his grandpa and the other day he was sitting on the potty and I said "Charlie, do you need help?" and he said "no, I want grandpa to wipe me!" I said "no, grandpa doesn't wipe you, just mommy." So a couple days later he says to grandpa "Grandpa, are you a boy or a girl?" Grandpa said "I'm a boy." Charlie said "if you're a boy then you can wipe me!" Don't know how he decided that one but I guess he's got it all figured out!

Kenya has been sick the past day and tonight at dinner Charlie said "why isn't Kenya eating?" I said "Because she's sick." He said "Oh, does she have a snotty nose?" I said "No, she has a tummy ache." "Oh, did she eat an egg?" "No, I said ache, not egg, it means her tummy hurts." In classic Charlie response to everything "Oh." :)