Pumpkin Carvin Time

Tonight we carved pumpkins. Wow what a different experience than last year. Last year she was all into digging into the guts of the pumpkin. This year was a completely DIFFERENT story. She didn't like the feel of it this year. She was OK using a spoon though to dig the guts out. She got bored very quickly with the carving but loved to look at them after we got the candles lit. She was enjoying looking at Ryan's pumpkin creation. We made a pumpkin with a face and one that had Kyra's name.

I just had to post this picture of her with her pumpkins:) I used a program to edit and add some things and thought this was to cute.
Uncle Kenny called to wish her a Happy Birthday. She just talked and talked and talked some more to him. I love to listen to her talk. We do not have clue to what she is saying, but I think she was telling him about her pumpkin carving because at one point I heard her say "pumpkin". Auntie Heather called to tonight to talk to her but she wasn't interested because she was wanting candy at that point. So, her Aunt and to settle talking to mom.:)

Potty Training!

Another great day at daycare with NO ACCIDENTS! Two days in a row! I couldn't be more proud of her. She couldn't wait to let me know how well she did today. She went pee pee in the potty for me at home and she became so excited! She looked at the potty and said "pee pee!" while waving her hands and giving me a HUGE hug!

She is just growing up so fast. I can't believe that tomorrow it was 2 years ago that I was sitting in a hospital bed hooked up ready to be induced. Where does the time go? She just does so many new things and does them when I least expect it. This morning she looked at the TV and said "Urious George". Words cannot describe the feelings in heart for her!

Her treats were a success at daycare for her birthday! I had a little boy come up to me and say "your dirt cups were sooooooooooooooo good" and one little girl had to show me the treats and the daycare provider said "She knows what they are...she made them". LOL I'm so a rockin mom....that'll last until she's about 15-16 years old though.

UPDATE 10.30.08: Kyra only had one accident at daycare today and none at home. Out of 6 only 2 are left training: Kyra and another little boy.

Birthday Treats For Daycare

I decided that for her daycare treats I would make a spooky treat! I made 15 "Graveyard Dirt Cups" Each treat has a surprise Spider (gummy) at the bottom layered with cream cheese/chocolate pudding filling and crush oreos. Creeping out of the grave are worms (sour gummies) and a gravestone (cookie) hoping that the occupant of the grave Rests In Peace (RIP).

These turned out rather well. Who needs plain ole' cupcakes right??? I also made Witches Brooms which were made out of a pretzel stick and Foot By The Foot!

I even got Ryan to help make treats! He's a super duper broom maker!:)

Thank you to my friend Jill for finding the brooms on Familyfun.com!!

I really do enjoy being able to create and make things like this for Kyra. I hope that this is creating traditions and memories!:)

POTTY TRAINING UPDATE: I just have to share that today Kyra did not have an accident at ALL today at daycare and even told Rina she had to go Pee Pee! How awesome is that!!! We are still working of course but it's only been a week and half of training so gooooooooooooo Kyra!!!!

Ear Infection

Poor Kyra! Friday night Kyra and I watched the movie Enchanted. (She picked it out...she is starting to like princess things) We both fell asleep on the couch...more like ZONKED out is a better term. When I woke up to move her to bed I noticed that she was very stuffy and couldn't breathe well from her nose. I thought "oh no here comes the cold!"

She got up Saturday and seemed fine, a little tired though. She spent the day with Grandpa & Grandma Olberding since Ryan and I went to the game (yes I suffered through the horrible play calling and lack of defense...GO CATS!) Sense my sarcasim??? Kyra went to Alma to watch her Aunt Monica coach her volleyball girls and then they came over to the stadium to meet us for an after-the-game tailgate. She was sleeping in her carseat and when she woke up she was a BEAR!

We came home and I noticed that she kept tugging on her left ear. Then all of a sudden she was yelling "ouch! ouch! ouch!" I almost took her into the ER because she has NEVER done that and she does have tubes. She has had tubed now for a year. Daddy gave her a cookie and all then seemed well.

We went to church Sunday and when we were coming back from time-out (she threw a ball in church) I noticed that her ear smelled and has some dried blood. We went ahead and went to the pumkin patch as planned and she again played and seemed fine.

This morning she was tugging at her ear and it still continued to have an odor so I called the Dr. to make and appointment today. I was so luck that our Dr. was back from vacation. I hate to see anyone else but him. So we headed into the Dr. for our 12:30 appointment. Kyra decided to bring her own baby to see the Dr. The Dr. looked in her right ear and that ear was dry and her tube still stationary. In her left it was a different story. The left ear was so yucky that we don't know if the tube is still in there, however we are thinking it still is because it's draining. After the Dr. finished checking Kyra out he went over and "checked" her baby's ears and she went right over like a little mommy to watch and tend her baby.

We got a prescription in and started that today. On our way home I asked if she wanted Sonic because she really didn't eat lunch. When I mentioned getting a POP she got the cutiest grin and shook her head yes!

She finally laid down at 3:15 p.m. for a nap and has been sleeping ever since. She so needs the rest!

New Farmhouse

Daddy and Mommy got Kyra a new farmhouse set to play with. She and daddy were having lots of fun as you can tell.

Another Pumpkin Patch

Today we went to Lambert's Pumpkin Patch over by Topeka. We met Ryan's side of the family there to have some fun. It was very windy and made it chilly. It didn't seem to stop the little ones from running and having fun. They loved climbing the hay bales and then jumping off into the hay. I of course couldn't let all the little ones have all the fun and decided to jump off myself! It was higher than I thought!

We had went to church here in Wamego and Kyra did fairly well except when she beaned me with a stress ball. Then we went outside for timeout...so yes if you every drive by St. Bernard's Catholic Church you'd see us outside in time-out. Now, she really didn't mean to hit me with the ball because as soon as she did it she buried her head in daddy's shoulder.

We left Wamego and arrived at the Pumpkin Patch we ate lunch. Kyra was too excited to see her cousins to eat so we ate a free chips and drank some milk and we were on our way to play.

Kyra and her little cousin were so darn cute! They were walking hand-in-hand. They were enjoying the wagon ride that Ryan was giving them towards the end of our day.

Kyra absolutely LOVED the train ride! I don't believe I've ever seen her smile and wave so much! I have to admit I was a little nervous to let her go alone, but she did a great!

Trick-or-Treating in Aggieville

Happy Halloween! (a week early!)

This week was KSU Homecoming and part of their celebration included Trick-or-Treating in Aggieville before the Homecoming parade. Kyra got the chance to sport one of her costumes. Yes she has TWO! On this day she was a BEAUTIFUL witch. She just ended up being too darn cute as always! Elmo was downtown and she wasn't quite sure of him. I don't think she could get over the fact that he could ge the BIG:) LOL
How can you not fall in love with her? Her soon to be aunt came along for the fun. We didn't stay very long, just long enough to get some candy and become chilly. We then headed out to our friends for supper over by Wamego.

Birthday Scrapbook

Thank you!

Kyra wants to thank all those who came and celebrated at her birthday party and thank you to those who were thinking of her too! These are the Thank-you's I made for her party minus the text. I did that with a program for the blog only.

Thank you again!!

Playing Mommy

Kyra love love LOVED her baby dolls that she got for her birthday. She played mommy the whole day and night. She would feed them and then burp her babies. Too Cute!

Auntie Freedom and Kyra were have a ball playing with the babies. Kyra would pretend to wash the baby and then put powder on the baby.

She got a Mrs. Potato Head from Grandma Green and she was wearing the glasses from it! I don't think I've laughed so hard in such a long time! I just happened to look over at her and she was just playing away with green glasses on! LOL

Today Is Her Birthday Party!!!!

Kyra had a wonderful birthday party! We are very lucky to have such wonderful family and friends. Kyra received lots of babies and baby accessories, puzzles, play dough and crayola items. She also got some clothes and a barn yard set from mommy and daddy. We hand many "little" guests. Kyra's cousins and two friends from day care came over to help her celebrate. The cake was a huge success! I couldn't cut the cake and had to have Ryan do it just for the fact that I did all that work last night I couldn't bring myself to destroy it:( Ryan did not object since it was a chocolate cake. Kyra did a nice job of blowing out her candles once her cousin helped her out and showed her what she needed to do.:) She enjoyed more though the chocolate covered banana than the banana cake...LOL
Such pretty hair!! Here hair is getting so long. I can't imagine how long it will be a year from now! We don't plan on cutting it other than her bangs like we did this past year. Her little curls are just too adorable to cut off.
Kyra had help from her little guests in opening presents. Kyra would get side tracked from time to time with gifts that had already been unwrapped. She started unwrapping a few before the party because Uncle Gerard and Megan had to leave by two so we started with theirs and opened one from mommy and daddy.

We missed Auntie Heather but we know she wasn't feeling well and we'll get to see her soon. We also missed Aunt Monica and Uncle Toby along with the girls.:( We'll get to see them next weekend though at the pumpkin patch for some fun!!:)

The night before I decorated Kyra's birthday cake. It turned our fairly well. She had her own banana cake that I made. I guess it looks like a monkey...LOL.

The countdown has begun for getting ready for her party. Tonight I got her cake baked and in the freezer ready to be decorated tomorrow. We'll see how long this one takes. Last year it took me 3 hours to finish her Ladybug cake, but that included making the homemade frosting/coloring and piping.

I got her treat bags made for her little friends as a thank you for coming. I was pretty proud of myself for the simple fact of my creativity and the low cost to make these. They only cost $1.75 each to make! As you can see in the picture the contents are a box of crayons, a washcloth and smarties!

Digital Scrapbooking

Fantabulous Fun!

What a weekend! We left Friday afternoon to drive back up to Ryan's mom and dad's till Sunday. Friday night daddy went into Seneca to get us some yummy pizza from Freddy's! (Mommy's favorite!) We spent the evening watching a moving with Grandma/Grandpa Olberding, Megan & Gerard before heading to bed. Saturday Kyra's Aunt/Uncle/Cousins came up and they played football out on the hill in front of the house. Kyra has to be in the middle of the action and was involved in the "tackling"...LOL The kids were enjoying the many fuzzy friends they found in the yard too! (Catepillers)

In the afternoon we went to a pumpkin patch! This was really a neat place! Kyra and her cousin went down the cool unground slide and she LOVED the petting farm! They had all kinds of things there. She just laughed at the turkey gobbling at her and she loved petting the little baby pigs. She went to stick her finger in the chicken pen and the chicken pecked her finger so what did Kyra do.......stuck her finger in again!:) LOL We went on a wagon ride by a "graveyard and haunted house." The kids rode trikes and played with the water pumps. She enjoyed her daddy taking her though the corn maze and hay maze. We ended our fun by going out and picking a Kyra pumpkin, Mommy pumpkin and Daddy pumpkin. It was really worth the drive and $12.00 to go in and I hope we go next year! We are going to another one by Topeka in a couple of weeks.....we have made it a tradition to go with our cousins each year:)

After the pumpkin patch we went into Seneca to eat at Freddy's. (Yep mom got her pizza again!! How lucky is she!:) We left in the morning to come back home because you guessed it our weekend was not quite over!

Today we met Grandpa and GiGi Grund at the Columbian Theatre to have lunch and watch the production of the Wizard of Oz. She did such a WONDEFUL job!!!! We were three rows from the front right in the middle, but we didn't have to leave once, only for intermission. She was scared of when the tornado came and when the Wizard of Oz spoke but other than that her eyes were glued to the actors and the music. She was fully engrossed in the production and she really seemed to enjoy it! I don't have any pictures of our day there but had lots of fun. I think mommy really just loved watching her WATCH the play;)

She is finally down for a nap. I am pretty sure that she is cutting teeth and growing because last night was a rough night of waking up and screaming in pain. I would rub her legs and this would sometimes calm her so I thought maybe she was having some growing pains and she was grinding her teeth, sign of teething.

Busy Weekend As Usual

Kyra went to her first KSU football game this season. She was so excited to see the football players and Willie the Wildcat! We walked down to the railing and she kept pointing and saying "futball! futball!" while trying to get down to go to the field. It was a long 1st half both for Kyra and the game. We left at half-time and as you can see she zonked out and slept in the backseat of the car while mommy and daddy finished listening to the horrid KSU game....they lost 58-28 to Texas Tech. During the 1st quarter though mommy and Kyra went up to Cat's closet and bought her cheereading top, new KSU back-pack and a little football player key chain. We went to Kite's to eat and we ran, more like sprinted 3 times around the perimeter of the shopping/eating establishments while waiting for our food. The girl's got energy that's for sure...just like her dad:) Sunday we went to her cousin Spencer's football game and she again wanted to go out and play "futball!" She ran and ran. She is suppose to be taking a nap and I'm getting ready to drive to Pittsburg, KS for a conference tomorrow.

Check out Kyra in her new cheerleading outfit! She was having so much fun dancing and cheering this morning.
















We have to tie the back so that it fits her properly, but that's ok because then it will fit her next year!