Some Kilbride Funnies from the week

Rory has had some real gems this week...

Wednesday she was not happy with the choice of pants she had to wear...she called her khaki pants "boring".  She continued on with "Mommy, these are so boring, I like color, lots and lots of color!"  So back into her room she went, and then she came out, wearing the same pants, and I said "Rory, you are still wearing the boring pants?" "Yes Mommy, I am, but my top is exciting!  Lots of colors!" 


This week, we were luck enough to babysit precious Elizabeth Perrine, and Rory took her "babysitter-ing" very seriously.  "Mommy, is she buckled in the right way?, "Mommy I think she needs a diaper, Mommy she is hungry, and I know she is hungry because I am hungry and I am a very so babysitter-er"

We have a walker!

It's official....Jack is a walker! All day today he was just walking around freely, nothing to lean onto for support, no flopping down and crawling to get something, just straight two footed transporting today! Brendan is almost there, but no quite, so with that, we have the official passing.....

People had warned me even before Jack was born that at some point Jack would pass Brendan in some way. They told me to prepared, it would be hard. So why don't I feel that? Why don't we feel that? We marvel and celebrate every milestone of every child. There are pictures and videos to mark the occasions, there are high fives and plenty of clapping, for everyone. I want to celebrate Jack's accomplishments and milestones just as we celebrate Rory and Brendan's.

There is no sadness, there is no difficulty. Brendan's day is coming, he'll probably skip the walking and go straight to running...and we will celebrate it, then we'll celebrate Jack running too! Then I'll probably need a bottle of wine!

Sometimes being a Military family really stinks..

The other night while Rory and I were watching Dancing with the Stars, she was looking through the drawer in my nightstand and came across some old pictures. There were 2 in there from the very early morning that Bryan deployed in 2008 and we were on the way to take him to the drop off. Then Rory asked, "When is Daddy going on the airplane again to be with his soldiers?" I told her it wasn't for a few more months, and we would talk about it more as it got closer.




Fast forward to this morning.....Bryan and I got the kids in the car, all buckled in, said the goodbyes for the day, and then I started backing the car out of the garage and Bryan went back in the house. Then Rory pipes up from the back seat "Why did Daddy, kiss us goodbye?" "Rory, doesn't Daddy kiss all of us goodbye every morning that he goes to school?" "Umm, yes. But why did he go back into the house? Is he going on the plane today?" Rip your heart out and throw it on the ground. Guess this is going to be a long summer....

3 is the magic number...

Skinned knee and a hole in the pants

Odd title for a post, I know.

We have been having some wonderful spring weather here in Kansas, our reward for making it through a miserable winter! The kids and I were out in the front yard the other day enjoy the sunshine, and working in the garden. Brendan and Jack love playing together with their cars and seeing who can make it down the driveway the fastest! Then I noticed it, our sweet little Brendan had officially turned into a little boy..

There he was playing in the dirt and poking is his finger through the hole in his pants! So proudof himself, and so proud was I. Just another step in him being a little boy..

Spring time...a breath of fresh air!

Well on the first day of Spring here in Kansas it snowed, and snowed and snowed....6 inches. Not the best way to start Spring, or so I thought. Instead of trying to rush of winter and get spring here I stopped for a moment to look around at what we have, nice how a snow day will make you do that! I know I keep saying, "I wish one of the boys would start walking, if would make things easier for me." Now, it really would, because carrying 2 twenty pound boys around isn't the easiest thing in the world, but I realized I get to hold them! The time is coming quickly when they won't want to be held, or hugged or snuggled with, and it makes me sad.

Rory is going to 5 in May, and I can't believe that time has come and gone! She will be a Kindergartener in the fall, and she is always quick to tell me that "I'm not a baby, I'm a big girl" when I call her my baby.

Brendan is just about ready to walk, he is such a little boy now! He is into books and trucks and getting into the mud and playing with balls! It was just yesterday that he was born, and we wondered, although not once outloud, would we ever be able to bring this baby home, would he make it?? Well, he has made it through so much and then some. He is a tough little boy, and he has made our family so much better and stronger, and much more appreciative of everything that we have! He is becoming independent in his play, but he still loves to sit with Mommy and Daddy and just have some quiet time too!

Jack, oh my Jack. Jack was the calmest baby, just going with the flow, which at the time was exactly what we needed, but now, watch out world! Jack is everywhere and into everything and is oh so proud of it too! He has a smile and a look that makes me scared! He is going to get away with so much and try everything at least once! He is such a joyful child, and he is so happy to have the best playmates in the world!

Bryan and I are so lucky to have 3 amazing kids, who have the truest smiles, the truest most hardy laughs. They give us a reason every single day to be so appreciative that we get to be their parents!

Bedtime Princess and her loyal subjects

So last night, the boys were ready to go to bed, and part of the bedtime routine with them is to give goodnight hugs and kisses to Rory. Well, Rory was in her room watching a Strawberry Shortcake movie with the door closed so that they boys wouldn't bother her. Since it was bedtime, the boys crawled (I wish they would just walk!) to her door and started banging on it. I opened the door, and there is Rory sitting in her big pink Princess chair, and the boys are trying to get through the half opened door at the same time. As calmly as can be, Rory says "One at a time boys, one at a time for goodnight hugs and kisses". A princess who is apparently used to doing crowd control...