More pictures of Dig...
In his Carharrt like Daddy
In his new rocking chair from Nanny and Pa and in his Carharrt bibs...
Cottage Cheese Pancakes
2 hours ago
Saturday, February 17, 2007
PICTURES!!
More pictures of Dig...
In his Carharrt like Daddy
In his new rocking chair from Nanny and Pa and in his Carharrt bibs...
PICTURES!!
This is DD after she DIDN'T sit on Santa's lap...but boy was she happy to get the goodie bag!
Drue Kathleen, Christmas morning, 2006. Opening her now favorite movie, Spirit.
Drue sitting in her chair with Diego. She has her pluggy and blanket waded up by her ear.
The kids under their table in the toy room
Drue in the snow, January 2007
So...I'm finally getting around to posting some pictures of our beautiful babies!! I'll add a note later...the kids are downstairs with Daddy and Travis, not sure how long I should leave them down there without supervision! :)
Our realtor's competition showed our house this morning, so we went to Eldora for donuts and groceries. Shawn and my Dad came to get the last of our cows...That made DD sad, but she was glad to know her cows would be with "her" horses at Pa's farm. We'll never be 'without' animals with 2 grandpas that have cows, horses and pigs...Drue doesn't know the sheep are gone, we gave them away to a guy, and strangely, she's never asked about them...
Monday is my Grandpa Harold's 90th birthday so we'll be going over there in the afternoon for cake and ice cream.
Have a great weekend and enjoy the pictures! :)
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Drue Kathleen is THREE!
DD's favorite color is pink...Right now anyway...Yes...our baby girl is THREE! We can hardly believe how she's grown into such a beautiful, intelligent, loving little girl. We talk about when she was born and how excited we were when we found out we were having her. She gets a real kick out of retelling the stories. On February 2nd, she Drue turned three! We had planned for a week or more that we were going to go to McDonald's for supper when her daddy got home...(she picked the place, obviously) She opened a present from her brother, a Dora bike helmet and pads. She and Dig enjoyed playing at McDonalds, even though neither of them go down the big slide, they just play on the steps and in the 'preschool' area with the tiny equipment, which I guess isn't so tiny to them! On the way home, DD said, "Poopy Butt never ever called me!" she had received a few birthday greetings and no one ever gets by the "Marilyn Monroe-like" renditions from my Aunt Cindy. Anyone with caller ID knows better than to pick up the phone. Actually, it's more entertaining to let her leave a message, then you can let visitors hear her and you can replay it several times for your own enjoyment. These messages are not your normal, 60 second 'happy birthday' songs...they go on...and on...and on...and if she doesn't feel you get the picture, she'll call back and leave kind of a "P.S." She's done it for years and you feel really neglected if you don't get a call...although, I don't think she's ever forgot anyone. Drue's song went something like this...after the whole generic happy bday part..."Drue...we love you...Drue...even the emus at the zoo love you...Drue..." you get the idea...but Drue had thought Great Aunt Cindy forgot her...luckily, there was a (long!) message waiting for her when we got home. She would have been bummed!
The next day was D's party. We had a lady from Wellsburg make her Diego cake and OH my goodness! Ryan and I were shocked at how good it looked. The lady didn't even know who Diego was, but Drue let her borrow a coloring book. I'll post pictures...(I know I say that all the time...but I WILL!) We almost didn't get the cake...Ryan's truck (a diesel) jelled up on him...for you city folk...it is way too cold here and the diesel gums up and the truck dies or won't start...anyway, it did it in the middle of the driveway. Ryan called my Dad but before he was even able to get here Ryan had it moved up to the machine shed. Drue's party went well. We had 18 people here. We missed Great Grandma Luiken, Great Grandpa Harold and Uncle Steve and Lisa, though! She requested tacos for her meal so we had "Walk-O Tacos" as DD calls them, along with a fruit salad. Drue got many nice gifts...she opened everything so quickly, I'm not sure she even knew what she got until the next morning when she was going through things. The morning after the party, I slept in and DD and Ryan played Dora Chutes and Ladders and made some spin art...both gifts from Aunts Trudi and Traci. Ryan thought I was dead or something, I never send Drue downstairs by herself, I just told her that if Daddy wasn't down there to come back up...2 minutes later I hear clomping up the steps, Ryan grabs my shoulder, I looked at him and he said, "oh, you ARE ok." So much for sleeping in!
Drue is so cute about turning 3. Anytime she sees a number three she'll say, "Close your eyes...ok open them" Even though she's still not showing you what it is she wants you to see and then gets all excited to show you a number 3! She also says, "Mom, DD's 3 now, but you can still hold me." She must sense I'm pretty emotional about the kids growing up. She also likes to compare her hands to Ryan's, she keeps saying, "almost Daddy!" Like one of these times, they'll be as big as his! When she was reminding me that she was three today, she asked, "Mom, what happened to 2?" I didn't understand at first, then I explained that, "you still have 2 and everything fun that happened when you were two...you learned to say a lot of words, you learned how to count, how to say your ABC's, you went to Sunday School, you did this, went here, etc..." I'm amazed at how little brains work...if she's three, where did 2 go...? I ask myself the same thing...WHERE DID MY TWO YEAR OLD GO? ughh.
We are having a conflict at bath time now. Drue would rather she bathed alone. Not for privacy sake, just it doesn't seem as "spa-like" with your brother in your way. She likes to lay out, sing songs with her ears under water, use her fancy new American girl body wash and shampoo stuff like that. Friday night after her solo bath, she put on her lotion, blow dried her hair, then painted her fingernails with her new polish. Yeah...she's three! Last night she painted her toes...and shhhhhhh.....Her daddy's, too!
We about called out an "AMBER ALERT" (again!!) for her blanket! This time he was missing an entire day! Thursday when we came home I saw it in her coat hood, (she wads it up and sticks it by her ear) I grabbed it...then I don't remember if I kept it or gave it to her, but from there I couldn't find it. She took a nap without it, went to bed without it. But by Saturday was asking where 'blank' was. I had gone out with a flashlight the night before looking in the car around the dog kennel, places I'd been. Nothing. Saturday morning Ryan looked everywhere in the house, nothing. After it got light out, Ryan went outside looking and came in smiling...he had DD reach in his coat pocket and there was 'Blank!' He had blown to the south side of our house...thank goodness he's no longer white! The little brown-ish guy was on a small grassy patch in the yard! I can't believe we found him, I again, was happier than DD. I danced and screamed! From now on, I'm carrying that blanket with my teeth, like Wilbur carried Charlotte's egg sack! :)
Dig has turned in to our little COOKIE MONSTER! Chocolate, anything sweet...he's on it! Usually...it's on HIM! He loves Oreos, cupcakes, Andes Mints...anything! He is definitely a little Grandpa Steve when it comes to snackin'!!! Don't think I'm a bad Mom...he also LOVES apples, kiwi, mandarin oranges, you know...the good stuff for snacks, too! Right now he gets the biggest thrill out of picking out, unwrapping, then putting a Starburst in his Dad's mouth...he literally shakes with excitement! You'd think he was eating them. He has the cutest expressions and is such a lover. I got him a shirt this week that reads, "Ladies Man." I got it big so he can wear it next summer...We have such cute kids!
Well, Ryan must be asleep downstairs, I don't hear anything...maybe Drue fell asleep with him...they were watching a (duh) Diego movie and having some juice. OHHHH>>>>>>> I forgot....While Lane and I were napping today, DD and Ryan made their first ever snowman!!! The snow wasn't really snowman making snow, so they just kind of piled it up, but they used a carrot for nose and tops of Ryan's pops for buttons...she was so proud...I'll post pics :) We're supposed to get a lot of snow this week, so maybe we'll try again next weekend.
Blessings to all! ~the Luikens
The next day was D's party. We had a lady from Wellsburg make her Diego cake and OH my goodness! Ryan and I were shocked at how good it looked. The lady didn't even know who Diego was, but Drue let her borrow a coloring book. I'll post pictures...(I know I say that all the time...but I WILL!) We almost didn't get the cake...Ryan's truck (a diesel) jelled up on him...for you city folk...it is way too cold here and the diesel gums up and the truck dies or won't start...anyway, it did it in the middle of the driveway. Ryan called my Dad but before he was even able to get here Ryan had it moved up to the machine shed. Drue's party went well. We had 18 people here. We missed Great Grandma Luiken, Great Grandpa Harold and Uncle Steve and Lisa, though! She requested tacos for her meal so we had "Walk-O Tacos" as DD calls them, along with a fruit salad. Drue got many nice gifts...she opened everything so quickly, I'm not sure she even knew what she got until the next morning when she was going through things. The morning after the party, I slept in and DD and Ryan played Dora Chutes and Ladders and made some spin art...both gifts from Aunts Trudi and Traci. Ryan thought I was dead or something, I never send Drue downstairs by herself, I just told her that if Daddy wasn't down there to come back up...2 minutes later I hear clomping up the steps, Ryan grabs my shoulder, I looked at him and he said, "oh, you ARE ok." So much for sleeping in!
Drue is so cute about turning 3. Anytime she sees a number three she'll say, "Close your eyes...ok open them" Even though she's still not showing you what it is she wants you to see and then gets all excited to show you a number 3! She also says, "Mom, DD's 3 now, but you can still hold me." She must sense I'm pretty emotional about the kids growing up. She also likes to compare her hands to Ryan's, she keeps saying, "almost Daddy!" Like one of these times, they'll be as big as his! When she was reminding me that she was three today, she asked, "Mom, what happened to 2?" I didn't understand at first, then I explained that, "you still have 2 and everything fun that happened when you were two...you learned to say a lot of words, you learned how to count, how to say your ABC's, you went to Sunday School, you did this, went here, etc..." I'm amazed at how little brains work...if she's three, where did 2 go...? I ask myself the same thing...WHERE DID MY TWO YEAR OLD GO? ughh.
We are having a conflict at bath time now. Drue would rather she bathed alone. Not for privacy sake, just it doesn't seem as "spa-like" with your brother in your way. She likes to lay out, sing songs with her ears under water, use her fancy new American girl body wash and shampoo stuff like that. Friday night after her solo bath, she put on her lotion, blow dried her hair, then painted her fingernails with her new polish. Yeah...she's three! Last night she painted her toes...and shhhhhhh.....Her daddy's, too!
We about called out an "AMBER ALERT" (again!!) for her blanket! This time he was missing an entire day! Thursday when we came home I saw it in her coat hood, (she wads it up and sticks it by her ear) I grabbed it...then I don't remember if I kept it or gave it to her, but from there I couldn't find it. She took a nap without it, went to bed without it. But by Saturday was asking where 'blank' was. I had gone out with a flashlight the night before looking in the car around the dog kennel, places I'd been. Nothing. Saturday morning Ryan looked everywhere in the house, nothing. After it got light out, Ryan went outside looking and came in smiling...he had DD reach in his coat pocket and there was 'Blank!' He had blown to the south side of our house...thank goodness he's no longer white! The little brown-ish guy was on a small grassy patch in the yard! I can't believe we found him, I again, was happier than DD. I danced and screamed! From now on, I'm carrying that blanket with my teeth, like Wilbur carried Charlotte's egg sack! :)
Dig has turned in to our little COOKIE MONSTER! Chocolate, anything sweet...he's on it! Usually...it's on HIM! He loves Oreos, cupcakes, Andes Mints...anything! He is definitely a little Grandpa Steve when it comes to snackin'!!! Don't think I'm a bad Mom...he also LOVES apples, kiwi, mandarin oranges, you know...the good stuff for snacks, too! Right now he gets the biggest thrill out of picking out, unwrapping, then putting a Starburst in his Dad's mouth...he literally shakes with excitement! You'd think he was eating them. He has the cutest expressions and is such a lover. I got him a shirt this week that reads, "Ladies Man." I got it big so he can wear it next summer...We have such cute kids!
Well, Ryan must be asleep downstairs, I don't hear anything...maybe Drue fell asleep with him...they were watching a (duh) Diego movie and having some juice. OHHHH>>>>>>> I forgot....While Lane and I were napping today, DD and Ryan made their first ever snowman!!! The snow wasn't really snowman making snow, so they just kind of piled it up, but they used a carrot for nose and tops of Ryan's pops for buttons...she was so proud...I'll post pics :) We're supposed to get a lot of snow this week, so maybe we'll try again next weekend.
Blessings to all! ~the Luikens
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