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Videos of Kyleigh

I have added some videos of Kyleigh. I was trying to get her laughing but of course she didn't really laugh once I got the camera. She is getting so big and it's hard to believe she's almost three months. Don't you love the hair in the second video, the poor girl has quite a few bad hair days.

Our weekend was pretty relaxed. I had my last day of tutoring on Saturday. Mark got his papers written for his class and he finished putting new trim around the living room window.

Kyra was a chatterbox yesterday in church. I don't think she went thirty seconds without talking. The funniest part was during the sermon when Kyleigh passed gas loud enough for the people around us to hear and Kyra loudly exclaims for the rest of the congregation "Kyleigh passed gas". It took a lot of self control for us and the rest of the congregation not to laugh. Kyra also made sure everyone heard that she got candy during the children's sermon. Thankfully it was a Lutheran Sunday so the congregation just laughed at her antics. During Sunday School Kyleigh attended the adult forum with the pastor's wife, she was very good until she got hungry. I got the feeling not much got discussed instead Kyleigh was the center of conversation. Don't worry I wasn't kid free, I took the Sunday School teacher's 1 year old and entertained him since he was giving his mom fits. Mark covered the other three in Sunday School, actually it was just Kyra he had to watch and she did very well listening, sitting still, and doing what was asked.

We're getting ready for Thanksgiving here in Illinois this year. I first have to get my over fixed, the heating element went out in my top oven yesterday. This morning I had a light go out in the fridge. Our garage should be complete by Wednesday! Tomorrow they are finishing the siding and on Wednesday installing the garage doors. Have a good week!

The sickies....

Valynn ended up being home all of last week. Her fever finally broke Friday morning. Friday afternoon Mason decided the fever looked like fun and he spiked one. He still has one today. I was feeling better by Thursday and my sore throat was gone by Saturday. This weekend Valynn had a birthday party at Jump Start Gymnastics and CCD. She also was able to spend some one on one time with mom and Saturday and dad on Sunday. I think she really needed this. We don't have anything too exciting going on this week. Mason was home from school today. If everyone is healthy enough I'm babysitting Annika tomorrow. We'll see how skilled I am at handling two babies. I'm tutoring more hours this week since I cancelled last week.

As you can see Mark's garage is coming along. They orginally thought they would have it sided on S aturday but I think it was too cold and they quit for the day. The garage doors should be in by the weekend.

Enter at your own risk....

Unfortunately, we've been sick here. Valynn is home from school for the third day with a fever. For the most part that is the only thing she's complaining about. I have also been sick for two days now with a fever and chills. Mark worked from home yesterday so I could take it easy and he's planning to come home early today as well to help me out. I'm hoping everyone else doesn't catch what Valynn and I have.

2 month stats

Here are Kyleigh's two month stats. Height 23 1/2 in. (83%). Weight 10 # 8 oz. (34%). It looks like we have a tall skinny girl.

I am currently watching the walls go up on the garage. Next Sunday the roofers are supposed to be here. It's all coming together quickly.

Yesterday I was giving Mark a bad time because Kyleigh peed all over her clothes when he was changing her and just as he was putting a clean onesie on her she spit up. Well what goes around comes around. This morning Kyleigh did the exact same thing to me, so three outfits later we head to the doctors office where she proceeds to pee all over her clothes as I was lifting her off her diaper onto the pad that she is weighed on. She then decided to really let loose on the way home and managed to get another outfit and onesie full of poop. So I guess I should go put a load of laundry in, it looks like I'll need a few more outfits today.

Happy Halloween!!!

The kids are on sugar overload. Another successful trick or treating around the lake. Mom even scored some wine at one house and mom and dad got beer at another. For some reason it took us 3 1/2 hours to make it to 11 houses. We maybe shouldn't visit so much. Wednesday Mason had his Halloween party. On Friday Valynn had hers.

This morning concrete was poured for the garage. On Monday they will start framing and by next Sunday the roofers will be here. It's so nice to see this project finally going and be done in a timely matter.

Keep cheering for Princeville, they won their first game in playoffs last night. Also, school test scores came out yesterday and Princeville High school was ranked number 37 in the state. The elementary school didn't rank as high but they still made adequate progress with over 91% of their students passing.