The Holbrook Family

Thursday, February 18, 2010

It's A...

So far things are looking great inside this big belly of mine. We had our ultrasound yesterday and I have to admit I'm still a little bit shocked it's a girl! I didn't realize how much I had in my mind that it was a boy. Although I wasn't set on it, I had an instinct that it was a boy and before this my instinct has been right so it's been hard for me to adjust to something else! I'm so happy that she's looking healthy and I'm SO excited for Kenya to be getting a sister. For some reason I feel bad for Charlie that he's not getting a brother, either way someone was going to miss out though. When I told Charlie he kind of got a sad look and said, "but I wanted a brother." When I explained to him that Heavenly Father wanted us to have a girl he seemed fine. When asked about it later he said "Yeah, I wanted a brother but I wanted another sister too." So he seems fine about it. Hopefully he'll get his brother someday. So here's to sweet little girls!!!

Day of Love

We had a good Vday. Mark and I went to dinner at Mikado's on Saturday, he got me roses, we watched The Time Travelers Wife (I've been dying to watch it since I read the book, the movie was better than I expected. Mark was left feeling a little confused.) The kids got to play at their cousins, one of their favorite places to be. On Sunday I made our usual heart shaped pink pancakes (or panpapes as Kenya calls them) and we gave the kids our little gifts to them. Mark wrote them each a card and gave them a little bag of candy. He also gave Kenya a rose which she loved! It was sweet. I got them each a book and a towel robe for the pool or the bath, they were probably most excited about getting their own pack of gum though. Love these two little ones and my big one too! Happy Valentines Day.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Valentine Adventures

We had my friend Jen and her girls over for lunch and some Valentine cookie frosting! It's fun that Kenya's getting old enough to start enjoying these types of things, Charlie likes it but he's such a boy about it! Just glopping on the frosting and sprinkles. :) They had fun and we were exhausted. Yes we just made cookies but we are both pregnant and it just takes it out of you! I can't imagine how we'll feel if we try and venture out to the zoo. :)

Charlie's preschool teacher had a thank you luncheon for all the mom's last week. I couldn't believe how cute everything was decorated! It was so nice of her. After the kids sang a few songs they gave us a treat. They were holding the treats on their last song and when it was over they were suppose to come give their mom's their treats. Charlie just sort of tossed mine to me, he's already too cool for me! I had to ask him to give me a hug and a kiss and take a picture. I was a bit sad.

We went up to Bear River Lodge again this year with a bunch of our neighbors for a little snowmobiling weekend. Lot's of fun! Not lot's of pictures. I stayed behind on the snowmobiling adventures with some gals and we made some cute little bows for our girls (my first ever bow making experience!) We had a great time.

The snowmobilers

One of my bestest friends Miss Jayme Sayes turned 29 and we got celebrate at Macaroni Grill. We were able to bamboozle two birthday cakes, even though we were there for her, my birthday is close enough to get a free cake! :)

We were laughing because Mark was trying to get in our picture, when we looked over we noticed he had put the chocolate cake all over his teeth, too bad we missed THAT picture!

Friday, February 12, 2010

Lately

I am so glad January is over!!! I can see some light at the end of the tunnel and I love it. As I was uploading my pictures I discovered my kids had taken my camera and took a lot of pictures, mainly of the TV but these two of Kenya were keepers.

She is looking so much older in these pictures!

We've played a lot of Candy Land lately. Kenya loves it but hates when someone else picks princess Frostine. She gets so mad that she just starts putting the game away.

Me at 16 weeks, that dark background against my dark shirt isn't really showing my big belly, let's try again...

There it is!

We had a picnic outside in the beautiful 45 degree sunny weather! It honestly felt so good, I was shocked when I found out it was only 45.

See how sunny it is! The kids aren't use to looking at the sun. :)

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

My bathroom

is my time out. I find myself a lot there lately, I turn on the fan to drowned out the noise and fold laundry, clean, take a bath, cry, sit, think and I come out feeling a bit better. This winter is really wearing on me if I don't get out of the house it makes for an impatient, grumpy mom, and stir crazy kids but it's hard to be motivated to get out of the house lately! I've never disliked winter as much as I do this year. So if you're feeling like me, wanna go do something? :)

That is my sob story, pathetic I know.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Vail

My family took a little trip to Vail last week. We look forward to this every year, and feel so lucky to enjoy it! My kids had a ball. We did the usual, lounging around, swimming, eating, and skiing/snowboarding. Actually this year the snow wasn't very good so we didn't feel like it was worth the $97 to ski the mountain but we got to go a little bit on the free lift with the kids. Charlie decided that he wanted to try snowboarding this year. Now I'm all for snowboarding but I wasn't super excited to teach a 5 year old to do it so I kept telling him not this year. Of course in true Charlie style he kept asking and asking, this kid doesn't give in and knows what he wants! We decided to rent him a snowboard and let him have at it. He actually did pretty good. He just goes down the hill until he falls, he doesn't want to learn how to turn, won't listen to us when we try to teach him, he just wants to go straight down. The last day he was tired and frustrated I think. He told me he said a prayer the night before and asked Heavenly Father to make him be better at snowboarding so I think he thought he was going to get out there and magically be really good. He was shedding some sad tears by the end, I felt bad. Over all I was really impressed with his little snowboarding skills!

Last year they were all gathered around the DS's, this year it was the itouch. I love how Charlie is cuddled up to Stella, this was in the morning just after waking up.

My brother Colby wife Erianne with Knox and Emerson.

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." :)