A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
We started switching our Thanksgiving tree over to a Christmas tree on Friday, but we finished by putting the ornaments and the star on today (since Kyle was home to be with us). It’s so pretty, it’s a silver and gold tree (well the tree is green, but the decoration on it is silver and gold 😉 )
Today we finished Jeremy’s birthday by singing happy birthday, having cupcakes, and he opened his present and his cards. Daddy and Wendy were home to be with us today. He’s very cute and when you ask him how old he is now, he still has to be told. 🙂
Today is Jeremy’s 3rd birthday. Kyle asked him this morning how old he is now and he answered “little”. He’s so cute. We took him to Toys R Us so he could pick a birthday present. At first he wanted a Funshine bear (Funshine is his favorite of the Care Bears since he is yellow), but they only had ONE care bear. So we took him to check out the Thomas trains. After showing him a bunch he decided on ‘Molly’, which happens to be a yellow train. Then we walked through the books and he ended up picking a set of Thomas board books, and said the train was for Daddy for HIS birthday. We kept on, taking him through the store showing him the Cars (from the Disney movie) then showing him the Transformers. Then we finished off in the movies. They happened to have a couple of Thomas movies that we did not have, that included trains (which we also did not have) in the box, so we let him pick one movie/train pack to go with the books. Since he still wanted the books and not the train. Well the movie he picked ended up being $12.99 but when we checked out it rang up at $4.99. So I ran back in and checked the prices of the other ones we were looking at and another one of them also rang up at $4.99! What an awesome deal! A movie AND a train for $5, and if you buy Thomas trains you know that those alone can cost $10 or MORE for just the train. So he got two Thomas movies and two trains for $10 plus a set of board books 🙂 He is really excited. Ethan and Tyra were not happy that we were leaving the store with nothing for them. But it’s not their birthday so they can wait 😉
While we were over by the trains, Jeremy saw a Thomas the Train couch. It was very cute and one side can go up so that you are sitting in a soft cushy train, or you can lay the side down and just sit on the couch, very cute. I took a picture:
Well we went to Kyle’s mom’s house for dinner today. I made pies to take along. An apple crisp, a peach pie and a pumpkin crisp. Kyle made mashed potatoes, but I don’t know what possessed him to use his hand mixer instead of the potato masher. They were more like potato mush or whipped potatoes. They tasted good. They were just a weird consistency to me 😉 Karen made the turkey and stuffing and made some mashed yams, covered with marshmallows. And Laurel & Roine brought rolls and green bean casserole.
The kids had lots of fun playing with their cousins. Tyra even skipped dinner completely and just played the whole time.
Debby and Jeff met us there and Wendy came with us, so it was a nice gathering.
It was a busy day and everybody ate too much. But it was good. 🙂
Kyle cut Jeremy’s hair this evening. Here Jeremy is almost three and we have never cut his hair before. It was getting kind of long, but it’s very fine so you really couldn’t tell unless his hair was messy. So we decided it was time to trim it so it has a chance to thicken a bit and give the shorter hairs a chance to catch up. He was very excited about having his hair cut. Every time the clippers would vibrate he thought it was the funniest thing.
We then trimmed Tyra’s new bangs to make them even. I had to help Kyle figure out where the bangs should stop and the rest of the hair began. Then I got to hold the hair out of the way while Kyle made the bangs straight.
Then Ethan also had a hair cut and we finished the night off with a bath to rinse any loose hair off. Dinah didn’t have a hair cut, but she got to join in the bath anyway, because she LOVES baths. 😉
Here’s Jeremy without his fluff.