Bailey Family

I weighed myself this morning for my weekly weigh in (much happier this week - last week I went up, this week I went down...whew!) and the girls wanted to be weighed too... Their ages are 3, 3, and 5...their weights... 27.2 for Natalie, 36.8 for Kaitlyn, and 46.1 for Carolyn... wow! Kaitlyn is nearly 10 pounds heavier than Natalie - no wonder she feels so much heavier! (I have some charts for weight/height like the pediatrician has - we'll check at the appt next month, but my guess by my chart is that Natalie is around the 10th percentile - an improvement for her! and Kaitlyn is around the 92nd percentile - faster growth for her too)

Between two kids snotting, one crying whenever she's awake, my sore throat, kaitlyn's busted lip, and a wreck (b/c we reorganized, but putting it all back together is hard without cooperation) of a house... I think I feel the same way today! Today's Rob's birthday...he had thought about taking the day off...I think he made a wise choice going to work! Better chance of it being a 'happy' birthday there! lol

A few laughs for the day: The kids asked about why someone was dressed like the statue of liberty on the side of the road the other day...we got to talking about taxes/tax returns, and in trying to explain to Seth what a tax return is (because we pay "too much" money to the government everytime Daddy gets paid), he realized something..."So that's why we don't have much money!" (being denied every request at the store means not much money) Natalie likes to talk about hair color - who has hair like who - she likes that my grandma used to have red hair like her when she was younger...so in this discussion of hair the other day, she informed me..."Jesus had red hair like me." Kaitlyn, used to seeing her daddy wear pants, asked at his wearing shorts..."Why do you have legs?" Seth got sent to the corner last night, and Kaitlyn seeing which corner he went to, said..."Hey! That's where I live in the corner!" :) (S...

The girls were watching videos of Alee at the computer just now, and when we got to the last one (actually the first in time), it was her temperature being taken right after she was born (you can guess where)...I said, as the video zoomed to the ...um, thermometer, "Oh, we're not going to watch that." Carolyn, "I want to watch that!" (denied) ...now, why on earth did someone take a video of Alee and her rectal temperature moment?? I'm sure she'll appreciate that someday! Sorry, no picture or video to go with this post...we try to keep it G-rated!

Lights at the Zoo pictures: New Year’s Eve: Alee was tired before we even got there (after 9), so she was fussy, and went to sleep Kaitlyn was not far past her! Natalie kept up her endurance by eating about 100 cheese puff balls…she was drooling orange by midnight! Carolyn and Natalie loved playing with a little girl whose name I can’t remember. If I got this right, I think she is their 3rd cousin, twice removed! She’s a distant cousin! :) Seth was hardly seen most of the night (he was with Conner and other boys) And Carolyn loved the party attire! Starting off the new year with a baby blessing: (Mom smocked the dress…probably the last blessing dress for the Bailey babies!) Isn’t she gorgeous? (I’m only a little biased) and matching Uncle Will and Seth That’s actually an adult sweater that Will shrunk in the dryer! And this was just too funny! (I am putting this in the weekly email too!) The brown door is our front door (th...