Colors

How sad that it's been this long since I've posted anything!  Well that just gives you some insight on how crazy busy we always are.

Korbyn has been growing like a weed.  She no longer fits into anything 2T and is almost in a size 9 shoe, and continues to amaze me every day.

Here lately Colton and I have almost gotten to the point of concern because it seems like she truly has a hard time with her colors.  If you hold something up and ask her what it is she just looks at it and either says "I not know" or "red."  And then if you tell her what color something is it's like she can't remember it a few minutes later.

Every morning we eat breakfast and watch the news.  After the weather man comes on, I turn it on cartoons for her while I get ready.  Just last week she was sitting in between Colton and myself and the weather man came on.  The screen showed an array of colors (rain I think) and Korbyn said to nobody in particular "oh that's purple.  Oooo that's green, and look there's blue and yellow and orange."  Colton and I just looked at each other and started laughing!  That little turd knew her colors all along, she just didn't want to tell us when she didn't want to!

Funny things

I wish I had a built in voice recorder taped to me all day long!  Between hearing conversations between kids at the daycare and my own daughter, I could laugh all day.

The other day I was taking two three year olds to the bathroom.  While they were washing their hands, the little girl noticed that the boy had a picture of a skeleton with headphones on his shirt.  She looked at it and said "what is that?" the little boy told her it was an alien.  He then proceeded to tell her that aliens come and take you away and eat you. 

Now, normally I would have put the conversation to a stop and re-directed them onto something else...but at this point I just had to see where this was headed.

He then proceeded to tell her that first they cut off your leg, then they eat you.  The little girl said "nuh uh, cuz if they do that I'll just kick them!" and then she kicked the air with her cowboy boots.  Then she said "and my daddy (who is a cop) has special zombie bullets, so he'll go 'pow pow' and then they can't eat me."  Like I said, I usually don't let the kids talk about aliens eating people or shooting them, but it was hilarious!!!

Whenever we're at home during the weekends and Korbyn is taking a nap, she has this cute new way of letting me know she's awake.  The first thing I hear down the hall is "mommy, I wake up!" I'll tell her "ok."  Then she says "can I get up?"  I'll say "of course you can."  Then she tells me "ok mommy, I wake up and come give you a kiss!" and then she comes scurrying down the hallway with her darn bunny in her hand and gives me the best hug and kiss ever!

 I've been joking with her that I'm going to put her bunny away because she's getting too old for it.  But, it's definitely become a comfort for her.  In fact, sometimes when she gets hurt or upset, that bunny is the first thing she'll ask for.  I'm going to have to post a picture of what it looked like when she first got it and compare it to what it looks like now.

Tye's Birthday

 For Tye's second birthday we went to the Houston Zoo.  We had a great time seeing all the animals and getting to see all the people that we rarely get to see anymore.

 

A few of the people that we were with went to go feed the giraffes, while they did that Korbyn and I spotted the carousel and just had to ride it.  She liked it at first, but by the end of the ride she was clinging to my neck asking to "stop and get off!"  I don't think she'll ever like rides or anything similar.  She does the exact same thing when she swings too, she hates it.  She obviously didn't inherit that from Colton or myself, we both love roller coasters and anything that moves!

 We wanted to get a group picture of the kids before we left, but they were all pretty antsy because it was lunch time.  Poor Tye, he's all boy and has absolutely no interest in taking a picture haha!

 

 Korbyn stood there very still but wouldn't smile, then she started flashing everyone so we decided to call it quits.

 

 I still haven't been able to thank Yvonne for putting suckers and lip gloss in Korbyn's goody bag...thanks.

School Pics

 I chose Laugh Out Loud Photography to come to the day school to do school pictures.  They're a little different in that they have a couple "styles" to choose from.  I chose Old Hollywood.  I figured they're in daycare, not school.  I would rather pay money for something fun rather than "school pictures."  They brought all the props, the outfits, and hair pieces.  I had to be the photographers helper, so I had to dress all the kids and fix their hair.  I used up about a can of lysol spraying everything down in between uses...that part was kind of gross to me.

 It took us TWO days to photograph all the kids.  The other reason I chose them is because they were running a special for Christmas.  All children were photographed and as long as the parents sat down for two minutes to look at their child's proofs, they received a free 8x10, two 5x7, and eight wallets...just for looking!  And since I was the director I got $200 worth of free pictures!

 Another reason I went with them was that they promised to have all the pictures processed and delivered by Christmas.  Well wouldn't you know we didn't receive them until the first week in January.  I was so upset, and so were some parents, because I had planned on using some for Christmas gifts.  Oh well, I think they did a great job!

 I of course scratched Korbyn's forehead when I was getting her dressed.  And on her fair skin you can see the red mark in almost every picture.  I had to step out while they were taking hers because she started whining for me.  As soon as I walked out she was fine!

Mrs. Ashley

 

I hired Mrs. Ashley as one of my two year old teachers about a month after I had been there.  I was in a crunch for a new teacher and actually hired her over the phone taking a huge leap of faith in her abilities to manage two year olds.  Well, as an employer I feel like I've struck gold, and as a parent I want her to be with Korbyn FOREVER!  She's wonderful.  She's reliable, loyal, honest, hard-working, and best of all patient.

When I hired her I explained that I wanted structure in this classroom that had never seen such a thing.  The teacher that was in there before was patient, but she pretty much let the kids take the reigns all day.  In the first couple of days that she was in the classroom, I knew she was going to do great.  She used positive reinforcement instead of always getting onto the kids for doing the wrong things and they responded SO well to that as I knew they would.  Kids that age loved being praised for when they do something right (reinforcing that behavior) and she immediately set the tone that she was the teacher. 

I also knew that she was pregnant when I hired her and knew that this day would have to come eventually.  Her baby is due at the end of February and I have to give kudos to her for having seven two year olds all day and being eight months pregnant, but she handled it like a champ.  Last week she started going part time and now this week I've completely taken her out of her classroom and made her a floater.  I put a new teacher, Miss Raquel, in her place while she's out.  Miss Raquel is amazingly wonderful as well, thankfully.  But she's no Mrs. Ashley and the kids are testing the waters big time to see what they can and can't get away with.

The kids absolutely adore Mrs. Ashley and kids that used to cry when being dropped off now cry that they don't want to go home...I LOVE those kinds of tears!

She's also really good at fostering each child's uniqueness, and Korbyn is pretty unique.  I walked in one evening to check on everything before closing and noticed new artwork on the wall.  If you look closely the paper says "This is a picture of my pet."  On everyone else's picture is a magazine cut out of a dog, on Korbyn's there is a picture of a lion!  I laughed when I saw it and had to take a picture.  I asked Ashley the next day what the story was on the lion and she started to laugh.  She said she had cut out pictures of different animals the night before and laid them out on the table for the kids to choose from.  She said immediately when Korbyn saw the pictures she yelled "LION!" and said that was her pet.  Apparently we have a pet lion.

Singer

 

Korbyn has definitely found her voice.  I can't get this girl to stop singing.  Even her teacher told me that she sings and talks ALL day long.  She is either singing "twinkle twinkle" or "ABC's."  We went out to Fedor a couple of weekends ago and she was hanging out on the back of the truck just singing away, I actually only videoed a small clip.

 The night before we went to my cousin's wedding in Round Rock.  Since it was an hour drive and the wedding didn't start until almost 5 p.m. we decided we would get a hotel room nearby.  After the wedding we pulled up to the hotel and we decided since neither of us had had anything to drink and it was only 10 p.m. why not save $100 and head home.  I called the hotel and thankfully they cancelled our room and gave us a full refund.  On the way home we stopped and got diesel and Colton came walking out of the store with these two huge beef jerky sticks.  I didn't eat mine so it was still in the truck the next day and of course when Korbyn saw it she wanted it.  On the wrapper there's a picture of sasquatch so she pointed to it and said "monser stick!"  We laughed so hard.  She ate the entire thing by herself!

 And her favorite thing to do is ride the tractor with daddy or papaw. 

Happy New Year

 Korbyn's class made party hats for the new year, they were so stinkin cute.  The other two year old class made "fireworks" from pipe cleaners and paint.  I had never seen this done before but it turned out so cute and the kids loved it.  I'm glad my teachers are in love with Pinterest and Google ;)

 New year's eve was just another night at our house this year.  Colton had to work the next day so we knew that we weren't going to go out and do anything.  I considered buying a few small fireworks for Korbyn, but then I remembered the last time we did fireworks with her was the 4th of July and she didn't care for them at all.  So we were all in bed by 9 p.m.  My kind of night!

Today I had my appointment with my dr.  She did a pap and a routine exam since I haven't had one since my six week checkup after having Korbyn.  I LOVE my dr. by the way.  She truly cares about her patients.  She even called me the Saturday after Christmas.  She said she had just got back from the holidays and she saw the notes that they had on me and just wanted to call and check on me and to make sure that I was doing ok. 

Today she told me that unfortunately a miscarriage if very common, in fact they don't usually get concerned until about three miscarriages in a row.  I can tell you right now, I wouldn't be able to function if I had three miscarriages in a row.  My heart actually hurts for women who are not able to conceive and who have to go through this stuff all the time.  I just never imagined it would affect me so much.  Even walking through the baby aisle at Target the other day got me all emotional.  Seeing pregnant ladies all around me was kinda rough.

Colton and I talked and we think in a few months we'll want to try and get pregnant again.  We're in the process of trying to decide what we're going to do about our living situation.  We MUST get out of this tiny rent house...and fast.  I'm looking at this whole incident in a new light, a silver lining if you will.  First of all, our house is very small and we've been wanting to move for a very long time and to stop paying rent, well this pregnancy kind of put a fire under our butts about it and now we're on the hunt for a house!  Second of all, insurance.  I absolutely HATE insurance by the way.  If this baby would have been born, it would have been born at the end of August and my deductible starts over July 1st.  Whew!  God just knew that we needed to do a little more planning before we add another cutie to our family :)