How stubborn Nikki is

Nicole is now almost 14 months old. She just barely figured out how to go down stairs backwards, and only falls when she tries to stand and dance. She only figured this out with the help of our friends son spending an entire evening teaching her. Well last night Randy came home around 10 pm, after visiting Gramma and Papa. Nicole had hit her second wind and was punch drunk goofy. We woke Kim up, and got her out of the car to get her ready for bed, and were doing our regular routine, when Nikki crawls to the couch, stands up and turns to face me. she starts to take a couple of steps (she has been doing that for 2 months now). She fell, laughed, and crawled back to the couch to repeat. after the 3rd attempted we realized that she was practicing and trying to walk across the room to me. All 3 of us started to cheer for her and she finally did it! after moments of her clapping and giggling, she crawled back to the couch to do it again.

I am excited she finally decided she wants to walk, but what does this mean for her future with her personality? ;-) She is defiantly strong willed, and stubborn... who knows where that came from?

Name that Baby

Eveyone always says my girls look just like me, but nothing like eachother... well, you tell me. Can you name that baby???

Easter

Easter was a lot of fun. I think it was the first we really celebrated in our home. Saturday I went with our friends Taron and Daylon Deeds to the Air Force Easter Egg Grab. It was fun. We waited 20 minutes for 5 seconds of egg grabbing. The kids had fun though. Kimmie only wanted pink eggs, and Nikki just wanted to check things out; I would but eggs in her basket and she would pull them out, look at them and then through them. After the egg grab, we spent the day with the Deeds, and colored some eggs.

Sunday we didn't do a lot, we went to church with Gramma and Papa, wearing our new pretty Easter Dress (which I didn't get picture of yet... grumble...) and I went to pick up Randy. Sunday night we had the Easter Bunny make a special stop, and Monday morning the girls got their baskets. They had fun going through everything, and playing with the new stuff they got. Nicole really enjoyed the grass.... good thing we have vacuums!

Cinderella

Kimber loves her Disney Princesses. I am guessing that Ariel is her favorite, but she has me singing the Disney songs all the time. The other day Kimber wanted to watch my Rodgers and Hammerstein's version of Cinderella. Hours later we were driving home from visiting Ron and his family, and she started singing "It's possible.... EVERYDAY."

I hope the video clip sounds okay (she had me singing too... so sorry about that)

WebCams

I convinced my mother to buy a web cam months ago. Randy and I use it all the time when he is gone, so I though now that Grandma and Grandpa moved to Kansas they can still see the granddaughters. After buying the web cam way back when, we finally set it up last night. Kim LOVED it!!! Grandpa read her an Easter story, and counted eggs with her. Kim talked all about it as I was putting her to bed. I personally think it was my parents that were more excited. It was so fun. Kim is pretty good at talking on the phone, but she always think they can see her, so she is trying to show them what she is wearing or her favorite toy for the day. Web cams are just amazing for that!!

Besides that, life has been fairly normal. I had a slumber-party with my girlfriend in Anchorage, and let the girls run wild with her sons. Kim crashed about 4 the second day, and slept until 7... It wore her out!!

I figured school out!! I am graduating this spring with my AA (with honors) but i am taking a class this summer and student teaching next fall and can graduate with my AAS Early Childhood Education. I am so excited, the end is near. I am getting my AA this spring just in case something comes up and I cannot get my AAS this fall (like moving). But all my work is paying off. I want to get my BAS, but I think I need to wait a bit on that, school was much harder than I thought it would be with 2 kids.