Bailey Family

my 'dirty princess' (yes, she MUST go outside in her brand new sundress) and then sit in the dirt and dig! No explanation necessary Mom brought the stuff to make a fruit bouquet, but we ate most of it in progress, so it never really was completed! I think a lot of the chocolate dipped strawberries were gone by this picture (with good reason)!

Seth update: He still thinks it's already spring and wants to wear shorts everyday (please, spring, come!) He is still fascinated by dinosaurs. We went through a thick book today talking about them (he even quoted some lines from an "eyewitness" video from the library that he's checked out probably 2 dozen times). His favorite game is sequence (the kid version, which he calls 'the animal game'). I actually really like it too. (notice Carolyn trying to interrupt him the whole time as he continues with his song and ignores her. My brother Jared and his wife Kristen are the ones I span to in the arm chair. Jared was quite ammused by Seth's crazy little song he made up as he went.) Carolyn update: She got her second hair cut - just a trim really. Back to not potty trained. She doesn't feel like it this week. What Carolyn has to say about Time Out, which she finds herself in often: "It's not fair." (actually, I give more chances than I should)...

Carolyn has been using the potty the past two days (Tuesday and Wednesday) without me even saying anything to her. (Rob jokingly said when Kaitlyn started taking steps all of a sudden last Monday, "Now, what if Carolyn just started using the potty all of a sudden!" That was a week ago, but my goodness, she is. I hope she keeps it up!) Anyways. Tonight she tried before she got in the bathtub, although she had recently gone. She called me in there when success happened. I had been requesting to see it (proof before candy), so now she thinks everytime she does it, I have to see it before she flushes. I'm ok with this...except when I'm cooking b/c just walking into the bathroom makes me have to wash my hands all over agin! So, when I looked in tonight and saw the little bit she'd done, she comments, "Isn't it cute?" The kids were eating in the kitchen and Carolyn dropped something on the table and then tried to pick it up and eat it. I usually don't ...

I think Kaitlyn looks similar to....[do you know who this other baby is?] What do you think? ANSWER: my mom (Kim Swilley Edwards)

So, since Valentines is this week (which we don't even celebrate because I think it's a stupid holiday, oops, bad word, I mean Silly holiday!), I decided to do a little quiz. Can you guess whose mouth is whose? The winner gets a kiss from the kids (you have to come visit us to claim your kisses!) A. B. C. D. So, of Seth, Carolyn, Kaitlyn, and Natalie, who is A, B, C, and D? (I will give the answers the day after Valentines - Friday.) One of them is a giveaway b/c of lack of cooperation - take a close look and you'll see what I mean. One was sleeping when I took it. Should have taken them all asleep! Today: Seth has tried playing his "new" ukulele (Uncle Jared passed it down). Carolyn stayed in bed until almost 10 - how nice that would be! Kaitlyn has worked on the rubiks cube. Natalie tried to climb into the compartment under the seat on her riding toy. ANSWER: a. Natalie b. Seth c. Carolyn d. Kaitlyn

Some of you I have told this to: Carolyn thinks because she is three, everything about her, around her, of her, etc. should be in threes! So, one of the most constant of her "three" annoyances is the three hairbow fight. I put in the first two bows (they're a little big, but you know, a 'honkabow' never hurt anyone and I was forced to wear them...I think she's cute with big bows because she's so prissy). She added the blue one - one on each side and one in the back. In fact, she must be thinking about fours b/c today she added the yellow one in her hand. We finally agreed on one in the back and then left for walmart...which was another adventure in itself - thank goodness she's still here for me to gripe about today!

I'm so sorry - the idiot (me) who has already made this mistake, learned it, and then forgotten it...You can't turn the camera portrait (tall) and take a video b/c the videos do not rotate like photos! Oops! So, everyone tilt your head to the left, and enjoy the show: So, she just started walking tonight. I was retelling a story from the scriptures (for FHE) when all of a sudden Kaitlyn stands up from her favorite brown chair (which is the same way Carolyn learned to walk), and starts taking steps out of nowhere! I had hardly even worked with her trying to get her to walk because she wouldn't let go of my hands when I stood her. Natalie on the other hand who will let go can only take one shaky step or two. Seth likes to walk Natalie around. Kaitlyn does not like the help (independent little baby). She prefers to pick up her food rather than be fed it also. I guess she wasn't going to take steps until she could do it herself! I wonder how long before she's really wal...

Kaitlyn loves music! Natalie loves to climb! and climb some more... Carolyn splashing in puddles Seth splashing in puddles Some days are just too cold for anything but feet pajamas! Kaitlyn thinks the brown chair is hers - she even tries to muscle out Seth! Seth as Monster Robot Rob's new hat - he loves it. Isn't it cute? :) Natalie - my little squirt gets into anything small

(left) Seth and Jack (one of his best friends from church) playing in a hole in the penguin (bird) house. (below) Koala with new baby on tummy - isn't it cute? Seth eating his pizza he made himself. (I made pizza dough and then Seth and Carolyn rolled out their own little pizzas, topped them, and then (after I cooked them), ate them. The babies each got 1/4 of one of the older kids' pizzas. Carolyn eating Seth and his other friend Hayden (who moves today) Kaitlyn likes to stretch. Natalie likes to smile.

Christmas: Rob's family came to us (which was nice b/c we decided we would not haul three packs of diapers, two babies worth of bottles/formula, etc, and all the presents). The normal stuff we've learned to handle, but not with LOTS of presents! (And the kids got riding things this year, so it wouldn't have fit had we wanted it to.) Christmas Eve we opened presents from each other and after the kids went to bed, we watched the play of "The Forgotten Carols". It was really good (play on DVD I mean). Christmas Day, "Santa" had a bike with training wheels for each big kid and ride ons (that were actually from Saba and Nonny) for each baby. The babies mostly played around the ride ons, but we have showed them how to push behind them this week and they were so cute giggling and happily squealing behind them (walking behind them!). At lunch, things took a turn for the worse when Seth lost his breakfast in front of his lunch! (The afternoon was pretty much down...

So, on Monday when we were all feeling terrible, Rob wrote an email to Will (my brother in Chile who checks email every week on Monday). This is the email: Willis (and family), So it started with Seth- he puked a whole bunch on Christmas day, right at the dinner table. Then, Kaitlyn caught it and was tossing her cookies left and right for a day or two. I called Grammy and warned her that we'd be bringing sickness into the NMB condo, but she said we'd just pray hard. Well, evidently we don't have quite enough faith, because David woke up at 2 last night (this morning) and lost his lunch in the bathroom. No, not in the toilet- all in the bathroom. EVERYWHERE! Poor ole granddaddy was mopping up vomit for about an hour last night. In the meantime, Grammy was on the pot making crap soup. And has whipped up many more servings since then. While all the lysol was flying (your Dad cleaning), Beth was in the bed with me moaning about stomach pains. I told her to convince herself it w...

I sent out a picture with an update to most of the family and friends (out of town). I'm still working on getting Christmas organized and I've never been good about post office stuff, so some of the cards got put in the mail on Christmas Eve! (My brother who is in Chile - his package is still sitting on my craft table...) So, the picture that is at the top of the page is our family picture that went out. If you visit this regularly, you don't really need an update! I'll post Christmas pictures later. So, Jacob (my brother that lives across town - and recently 'divorced' from his roommate, our other brother Jared who just got married), wrote his own version of a family newsletter for the Edwards family. Here is the part about me, Rob, and the kids: kaitlyn- currently known as the milkdud, also known as porkchop, chubber, milker, and all other names referring to baby porker's seems to get along with most people. she likes to mimic others and make alot of faces...

Some funny things Seth has said recently Seth eats a poptart EVERY morning. So, when I decided to make grits one morning, I asked if he wanted to eat those like us. "Ok, I'll have grits and poptart." I asked him how he was going to eat both (little tummy - lots of food). He replied cooly, "Separately." And he did have both (the grits then the poptart). Carolyn has an addiction to this little square of silky material mom sewed together when she was a baby. She used to have many, then several, now two (although today we only know where one is - in the washing machine). So, irresponsibly, she always asks me where it is (like I'm supposed to keep up with it. She's three. If she's got a crutch on something to sleep with, that's her job to keep up with it. I keep up with Natalie's pacifier and that's it. So, when she asked recently, Seth told her (in an allusion to Dora the Explorer), "She's not your map." Seth lost a little yel...

I told Seth to go do something with a handout he got from church (b/c ultimately everything ends up on the computer desk in a pile). He was explaining it to me. It's a handout from the lesson about tithing. 9 pennies were glued to the "Mine" side of the paper and 1 penny was glued to the "Heavenly Father's" side of the paper. He told me that he was to give 1 to the Bishop and he got to keep the other 9. Then he asked, "How does the Bishop give the money to Heavenly Father? Does he just throw it?" :) (I did explain that the Bishop was instructed how to use it and that Heavenly Father really didn't need the money for where He is but He needs it to help here where we are.) Seth asks good questions I think. The Bailey Book award for the week (yeah, I know I'm not consistent with these): One Potato, Two Potato by Cynthia Defelice, pictures by Andrea u'ren It's a story about this loney old couple who are poor and find a 'magical...

Seth on some boxes at the Lights at the Zoo A typical dinner at the Bailey house - Natalie (and the photographer) in winter clothing, Rob in summer clothing and more dishes than people (esp silverware b/c the kids can't use the same fork/spoon for everything - each item must have it's own piece of silverware)! But the crowning event of each evening is having the opportunity to dine with a princess and a pirate (or sometimes a mouse)! A cool picture of jellyfish I took at the zoo. Natalie really wants to touch the ornaments - esp the pink ball. The kids playing together nicely...it doesn't happen much, but it's nice when it does. The babies love to crawl all over Seth (or anyone who will sit on the ground long enough).