Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Happy Days" and Father's Day

Wow! What a crazy week this last week has been...where to start?!? Um, let's see, the Halle babe is 6 weeks old as of last Saturday, which means my maternity leave is half over with...Aaaagh! She is so sweet, and as Cooper would say, "Halle sooooo cute, Mom, she sooooo cu-ute!" Kylie and Cooper love on her a lot. Cooper likes to ask if he can have "a hug of Halle," or "a kiss of Halle." He'll give her a kiss on her head, hug her, and pat her on the head. He's so good with her. I haven't had any jealousy issues with him, except for when it comes to "his" bouncy chair.After a week of crazy, pounding rain, we finally got some sunshine, yeah! Cooper woke up one morning, looked outside and said, "Is it happy outside today, Mom?" He has this thing about being happy. He likes to ask everybody if they are happy..."Are you happy, Mom? I'm happy! Are you happy, Mom?" And seriously, if I'm a little moody, which I am most mornings (thank you postpartum hormones), I can't stay that way for too long. I mean, how can you look at this sweet boy's face and NOT be happy?So, anyway, with sunshine, comes the kids' desire to spend almost their entire day outside playing. And with that comes accidents and "owies..."
Cooper likes to drop things down our window wells and I am constantly yelling at him to stay away from them. Well, he learned his lesson last week...he FELL, head first, down one of our window wells. I saw him go down and immediately went into panic mode. I jumped down the well without my shoes on and landed on the rocks. It really hurt, but I didn't have time to think about that. I picked him up, checked him for broken bones and cuts. Amazingly, he escaped with only bumps and scrapes on his head. He cried for awhile, while I held him and tried to figure out how I was going to get him and me out. Unfortunately, this window well was the only one of our wells that didn't have a ladder in it. I was able to get him out without any problems, but I had to use some serious arm and leg muscles to climb out. After I got out, I sat down with Cooper and we talked about why we don't play by the window wells. I think he knows now, but I'm wondering if we should just buy some window well covers. What do you think?On Saturday, I took the kids to Gardner Village to take some pics of them in some of their Daddy's shoes. I made a card for him with a picture of them in his shoes and this poem:
These shoes are too big for me as you can plainly see.
But even when I'm grown up, they will be big on me.
The reason is quite simple, I'm sure you will agree...
No one can fill these shoes like my Daddy!The kids played by the water and fed the ducks.Before we left, we bought Daddy some jalepeno fudge from Sweet Afton's candy shop.
For Father's Day, we gave Daddy his cards and candy and the keys to the Durango, so he could go see his Father's Day present...(Yeah, he had to put together his own Father's Day present. He said he didn't mind, though.)
For Father's Day dinner, I made BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, melon salad, potato/onion/mushroom foil packs cooked on the grill, and homemade Rocky Road ice cream! Yum! It was all so good! I think we took pretty good care of our Daddy, don'tcha think?

11 comments:

Nicole said...

Halle is so stinkin cute!! We have issues with our bouncy chair too. I definitely think you should invest in window well covers and I'm going to need the recipe for homemade rocky road ice cream. My mouth is watering just thinking of it!!

Dawn Rae said...

I had to laugh about the bouncy chair. I was constantly kicking both of the older ones out of it. Looks like you guys are doing great. What some adorable children.

Bilary said...

Your kdis are so adorable! Seriously...WAY pretty kids! I love the idea with the pictures of the kids in their daddy's shoes. That is so darling! I bet he loved that gift!

Oh, and I'm impressed that you had the strength to get out of that window well when you are only 6 weeks postpartum. You are one tough chick!

Barbie said...

Kim, I admit I don't take the time to visit blogs as much as I'd like to, but when I saw the photo of your baby on the Daybreak mom's blog I about died. Soooo sweet! And then I couldn't stop reading when I saw Cooper's fall down the window well (I was always afraid that would happen to Ethan...you poor mama!) and then I was dieing over the photos and poem taken at Gardner's Village! You are quite the lady Kim! And talk about muscle. Wow.

Haley said...

So very cute. I remember those days, when you were so small, only vaugley though. Thanks for the card you sent. They were adorable.

The Milletts said...

Hey Kim I just saw your post on my blog I am so glad you found me!! Your Family is so cute and what an adorable sweet little baby! Looks like you are all doing great and it was great to hear from you keep in touch!!! Tam

Becky said...

Halle is so stinkin cute and so are Coop and Kylie. I think you guys took great care of Scott for Father's day! That porch swing is awesome and you guys have a great porch for a love seat swing.

I think you should blog again. You are probably SUPER busy though. Dang!

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