The Holbrook Family

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Welcome Scarlett

My sister Cami had her baby on Monday, her actual due date, and she did it NATURAL. I got to be there and she did amazing. It was very intense and emotional to watch so I can't imagine what it would be like to be the one doing it!

Welcome Scarlett Camille Lane
7lbs 4 oz
20 inches
August 30, 3:23 pm

She looks a lot like her oldest sister Sailor, same "crazy" hair as Kenya says. :)

Good job Cam, she's a keeper!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Summers End

Once again summer flew by, especially fast this year with having a baby and all the crazy weather we had this summer. We tried to soak in the last few rays and days of the rec center outside pool being open. We spent a lot of days there this year.

Charlie would play basketball the entire time we were there, he loved it.

He also went off the high dive for the first time, I know great picture but it's all my camera would do.

We also spent a lot of days at Lagoon. Lots of cousin fun.

This wimpy ride was Kenya's favorite, she's not scared of any rides but for some reason she loved Bulgy the whale. Charlie's favorite ride was wicked, can't go up much from that one!

We are on the ferris wheel and it was windy!

Princess Kenya

Kenya is really getting into princesses lately, like every other 3 year old. She wants to watch Snow White every morning along with asking for "cheewios, with a bowl, and a spoon, and milk!" always in her most enthusiastic voice. She sings "Some day my prince will come" all through out the day. Last night when she was pounding on her door after I put her to bed and I was helping Leila so Kenya was crying and kicking her door and then I heard in a sad crying voice "Some day my pwince will come, and the birds will sing, and the bells will wing, when my dreams come twue." I couldn't help but laugh at that sad little voice.
The other day she found this dress in Leila's closet, which it was in there hiding because I borrowed it from Cami for Halloween last year but she never wore it and it was starting to get a little tear in it so I didn't want it to get ruined, but when she saw it she said "Oh thank you mommy, I love it!" So how could I resist letting her put it on? Now she always asks to wear the blue princess dress, so sorry Cam, we will fix the tear in it, in the mean time don't you have this same dress in a bigger size? Maybe that would fit her better. :)

I guess it's time to make another trip to Disneyland, she is at the perfect age for the princesses. Oh and yesterday I asked her to come drink her smoothie and guess what she said? "Yes your majesty." I'll take that one!

They were watching Baby Einstein together, Kenya definitely more than Leila.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Grrr #2

Learning more patience...

Testing my efforts in trying to be a calmer mom.

Charlie brought the milk in this morning and was trying to fit it in the fridge, he was getting frustrated so as I was walking over to help him this is what happened.

The bright side? I didn't have to clean out the fridge to fit the milk in.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

First Day

Kindergarten! I can't believe it's here. It seems like time has gone by so fast and so slow too. Charlie's been looking forward to this for so long. I was actually a little more sad about it than I thought I'd be. When we went to the Kindergarten open house it kind of hit me. We walked into the school and I could tell he was a little bit nervous. He was holding my hand walking through the halls and I realized that this isn't going to last too much longer, holding my hand, giving me hugs and kisses in front of friends. That is what made me sad! My little boy is going to be too cool for his mom, weird that I'm the mom and not the kid because it feels like I was just the kid. I got choked up when he lined up on the first day but held it together just fine, I did have a moment the next day while I was watching Good Things Utah for a few minutes and they were talking about their boys starting school, one of them read a poem about it and I started to cry. I'm still a little hormonal too. :) But over all I'm excited for this new step in our lives.

With his friend Kage

The shoes. First of all his feet are huge! These are a size 2, they're a little big but I wanted him to have room to grow. His feet have grown like 2 sizes a year, it's crazy. Charlie is very picky about what he wears so this year I took him with me to school shop so that I could make sure that he would wear what was bought. These are the shoes he really wanted and I don't think he's taken them off since. He's also starting to want to do his own hair a super slicked mohawk is his style of choice. It sometimes doesn't work too well with his cowlick in front but once again, he's a determined little boy. So yes, he did his own hair on the first day of school, sometimes it's just not worth the fight, right?

Very excited about riding the bus, Kenya was excited to see him get off!

Preschool and Grrrr...

Kenya started preschool this week at Miss Lisa's. She is pretty excited about it! I love that when she came home she told me lot's of details of what she did. When I ask Charlie about his day he tells me he can't remember! She was most excited about her Snow White lip gloss that she got. She's loving Snow White right now. She randomly sings "Some Day My Prince Will Come" through out the day, it's adorable. She pretends to make pies too like Snow White. She has quite the imagination.

She's going with her cousins Knox and Greta.

I even got her the "mini" back pack and it's still huge.

So this next picture is where the grrrr comes from. I don't know if it's her age or the new baby, probably some of both but she is getting quite the attitude sometimes. Not listening as well, more tantrums and more defiant. I'm not liking it and I'm also not liking my shortage of patience, so it's something I'm truly trying to improve on.
Almost every day I make a "green" smoothie for my kids. It's mostly fruit but it has a lot of spinach in it too which you can't really taste. It's important to me that they drink it because it's the easiest way to get a lot of fruit and veggies. Well occasionally they put up a fit about it and today when I told Kenya to come drink her smoothie while I made lunch she picked it up off the table and said "I don't like a smoothie, I want lunch!!" I calmly said "You need to drink your smoothie first." Then she says "I don't like a smoothie!!" and as she's throwing the cup full of green smoothie I'm yelling "Don't you dare!!" Too late, smoothie all over my kitchen floor, rug, and cupboards. Patience right? I put her directly in time out so I could take a few breaths instead of yelling at her. After a couple minutes I had her help me clean it up and explained to her what she did wrong and that it was unacceptable. She went back to time out and when she said sorry she came out and drank a smoothie (she wasn't getting out of that. :))
Patience is HARD. I've had to stop a couple times today and take some deep breaths to stop me from yelling. But I really want to be a calmer mom so here's to deep breaths!

The bright side? This rug really needed to be cleaned so this forced me to do it.

Smiles

Leila has started smiling. On Sunday I was able to catch some on camera. I just started talking to her in my "baby voice" and she just lit up, it was so cute.

They just get big so fast! My little newborn is already gone. I bought a bumpo chair, she can kind of sit in it which just makes her look bigger.

Love it.

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." :)