Funny things

Watch out! I've posted two days in a row, it's a record! :) Today was a good day with Isaac and I just had to post about some funny things he said and did today. It started snowing early this morning already and I decided to go to the gym this morning as I knew it would be a day or so before we could get out again. As we were backing out of the drive way Isaac said "Mommy, I don't like snow. I kick a the snow, mommy." I was completely frustrated with his 'I kick a" statements a couple weeks ago but I have decided to write it down and chalk it up to being 2 1/2. When Isaac gets frustrated or doesn't like something I have figured out his way of expressing those emotions is to say "I kick a"... you fill in the blank. While I tell him that's not how we speak, I'm trying to remember he's two and has a limited vocabulary and he needs to learn how to express these emotions correctly and some day he will outgrow wanting to kick whatever is bothering him. At thanksgiving when papa was carving the turkey we were all oohing and awing over the turkey and Isaac said "I kick a the chicken." If I know he needs to go potty and I take him and he doesn't want to break from playing he says "no potty, I kick a the potty." Just so you know he won't actually kick these things, he just says he wants to.

Today, Isaac also broke a house rule, and it's a rule he knows not to disobey. Since I have told him over and over not to do this, I decided natural consequences were going to rule his decision to disobey me. I was right there watching him, and just as I knew would happen he ended up falling as a result of doing something he knows I have told him not to do because he could get hurt. Well he fell, he bumped his head on a toy and got his first ever (surprisingly first!) 'goose egg' on his head. We hugged, he cried and we had a talk and after our talk I noticed this goose egg and told him he got a goose egg on his head because he didn't listen to me. Tonight as I was putting him to bed, the other side of his head got bumped on the door and we had more tears, this time was an accident. So we sat down in his chair to read a story and he says "kisses mommy" with tears rolling from his eyes and pointing to his head. So I kissed him on his head, and then he pointed to the side where he had the goose egg and he says "I got a goose on my head." That got a few good laughs out of both of us.

Here's a video of Kylah to leave you with. I took this a couple weeks ago just haven't had the chance to post it. She is a very vocal baby and we all love to hear her voice, it is music to our ears!

Thanksgiving

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving with your families! We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Pennings side on Thanksgiving day and then we headed to my parents house to see Grandma, Papa and the aunts. It was the first time most of my family had met Kylah. We had a great time and the kids and I got to stay a few extra days, I love spending time with my family! Here's some pics from the weekend and a video of Isaac. We celebrated Aunt Gina's birthday on Sunday by going bowling and it was Isaac's first time. I'll let you see from the video what he thought about bowling! :)



Big boy carrying the ball on his own
Kylah taking her turn at bowling, she didn't like it
Playing pass the baby. Kylah with Aunt Gina (top) & Aunt Steph (bottom)

Waiting for his ball to hit the pins, he averaged a whopping bowling speed of 1.54 mph!The excitement of bowling didn't last long. The rest of the time he kept himself entertained by loading his 'bobcat' with peanuts
Taking a turn with mommy

So excited he hit a pin!
Look Aunt Steph!

Getting there!

I am getting pretty anxious to get into our new house. With each night that passes that we have a snorting baby in our room, the more anxious I become :). Space is definitely becoming a thing of the past around here! Isaac is excited to have a new room as well, and he picked out his bedding the other day. I asked him (and showed him) to pick between a jungle theme or a cars/trucks theme and he said he wanted a bobcat, so go figure the cars/trucks theme won. Everytime we go over to the house he remembers which room is his and he screams at me to go downstairs. So hopefully he will like his playroom we added to the house and that he won't want to spend all day playing in an unfinished basement. Here's a recent picture. I have to say a big thank you to my sister Steph who worked very hard of the design of our house, we love it and this house wouldn't have been possible with out her help! Siding goes on this coming week!




Here's some other pictures from the last couple of weeks. We are still adjusting and Isaac especially continues to adjust. He loves his sister but we are definitly finding that when it's time for Kylah to eat Isaac thinks it's his time to disobey and be naughty or mean to his sister. I will never understand the psychology behind trying to get attention negatively! We are trying to find a lot of grace and mercy for him as we know his world has been turned upside down, new sister, new house, less time with mom, daddy's never here because of long work hours and working on the house...it's a lot for a two year old and especially when it's all happening at once.

My sweet little babies!

Always has to being doing what sister is doing!

I took Isaac to the Center Grove Orchard last weekend on the beautiful 70 degree day we had. He liked it, but he wanted to go on the big tractor the whole time, we only got to go on the hayride once.


Corn pool

The best picture I could get of all of us on the hayride

This nap didn't last long because big brother couldn't keep his hands off her!

We still can't get over her cheeks! If you go to one of Isaac's baby pictures in the picasa album you can see he had no cheeks what so ever! We think they are pretty cute though. Isaac even notices them too, he's always trying to squeeze her cheeks and Gary and I never do that!

4 Weeks

It's hard to believe Kylah is 4 weeks already. It's amazing how fast the time goes after they are born, too bad the weeks during pregnancy don't go as fast! She's growing like crazy, but she still is wearing newborn size. She is still sleeping a lot...thankfully because when she is awake she thinks she needs to eat! That helps so I can give more attention to Isaac as he tries to get use to having Kylah around. He loves and adores her, sometimes a little too much. I'll post a few pictures of the last few weeks, but be sure to check the picasa web album link on the left.


She always ends up in this position when she is in the swing. She is so strong she actually sits forward and falls to the side to get into this position.


Isaac on his 4-wheeler he got from his cousin. He's actually had this since May but he hasn't wanted to get on it and he is finally to the age where he has figured out how to work it. I have to help him steer, but he thought he was big stuff when he was on it.

Our family of four at the Williamson's pumpkin patch, I'm carrying Kylah.

She's here!

Well Isaac is finally a big brother!!! Kylah Nicole Pennings arrived Thursday, September 24th at 6:29 pm. She weighs 7lb 14oz and is 19 1/2 inches.



We are all doing good, mom and baby are healthy. It was quite an eventful day! I was completely uncomfortable since I woke up this morning, and then Isaac and I went for a walk about 11:00. I started having 'timeable' contractions around noon that I couldn't talk through so I called Gary since he was 2 hours away. He got home around 3:30, he quick showered and packed, we got Isaac to our friends house, got Gary a bite to eat, got to the hospital around 4:45 and she was born at 6:29. So praise the Lord Gary got home when he did! We are loving her and enjoying her and are so happy she is now a part of our family!

Labor Day Weekend

Here are some pictures from over the weekend. We didn't do anything this Labor Day Weekend because Gary was working on the house for most of the weekend. Saturday Gary stayed home until mid-morning so we could spend time with him and Isaac could get some play time with daddy. I was doing some cleaning and I'm not sure what Gary was doing at the moment but Isaac randomly went all the way down stairs and he came back up with a pair of my shoes and he decided to walk around in them for the next half hour. It was an interesting choice he made, daddy found it funny at first but when he kept carrying the shoes around with him daddy took them away :).


The next few pictures are of Isaac and Gary watching TV together. We always find it funny how he snuggles up with daddy, the kid has a mind of his own. He definitely brings us a lot of laughs!

King of the hill

We spent the night out at the new house 'seeing' daddy this evening. Isaac has been wanting to climb up the dirt piles since Friday when they dug the lot but he hasn't gotten enough courage to do it...until tonight. We were a little surprised he actually made it up all the way just because of all the lose dirt on the pile but just as he always does he didn't cease to amaze us tonight.






I have more pictures on the Picasa Photostream if you want to follow the progress of our house.