March Randomness

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One Saturday afternoon Avery kept going over to Adelyn’s doll highchair and trying to climb on it so I decided to see if he fit. Adelyn was pretty excited ‘cause she had her own real life doll to feed!

This was Avery’s response when I asked him if he wanted more…such a sweet boy!

Adelyn was sharing her pasta with Avery, such a good big sissy!

Who needs matching PJs?!? ha!

We had a Sunday afternoon play date with our friends Chris & Sarah. Their kids are about the same ages as Adelyn & Avery and they always have a good time!

March 13th was first real nice day of 2014 and we couldn’t wait to get outside and play & swing!

I’ve mentioned before, but Avery loves to play in the bathroom. Mostly he loves to find mama’s stash of tampons and carry them around! Silly boy!

Kyle usually works one evening a week. Those evenings we will usually go for supper so the kids can see Daddy since he usually gets home after they are in bed. Avery is always very entertained with all the people while we are there, always a good time!

The kids enjoyed their toys from our good friends Mark & Kathy. They recently went on a cruise to Mexico and were very sweet to bring back some gifts for us!

Adelyn loves to play “catch”, but you have to sit with your feet together and she usually ends up rolling the ball! Avery even got in on the fun this time! Love hearing my kiddos giggle with their Daddy!

Grandpa Steve was on babysitting duty one weekend when Wendi & Hayden were back. Avery was already in bed when we left for the evening, but I think Adelyn & Hayden kept him on his toes! Ha!

Christmas at Home

After Christmas at M&P’s we headed home, put out our cookies for Santa, & got the kiddos in bed {much later than normal}! Christmas morning the kids found filled stockings, a Minnie tricycle for Adelyn, and an anywhere chair for Avery!

The look on Adelyn’s face kills me…she does not look impressed, however she was very excited for Christmas morning, as was Avery!

Matt, Wendi, & Hayden stayed with us so they brought along a few things for Hayden to open Christmas morning too!

For the record I DID NOT give my daughter crackers, it was the only box I could come up with late one night when I was wrapping!

She made the entire Christmas season so magical this year! Love her so!

Yes I do! Ha!

Checking out their stockings! This was the first year for us all to have our own personalized stockings!

Daddy was very excited about his Nutella!

Hayden had to help his lil cuz out!

After our gift opening we had a nice brunch of monkey bread, fruits, & comfort breakfast bake! Yum!

Kiddos loved it too!

After we got ready for the day we all headed down to Grandma Cindy’s house for lunch. Click here to see the post about that. When we got home Adelyn was excited to ride her tricycle around! I moved one of the recliners out of the way and she had a nice long straight away to ride! She couldn’t quite pedal at first, but now {mid January} she pedals all over the house!

My whole heart <3

Big Girl Bed

December 23rd we bit the bullet and took the side off of Adelyn’s crib. She was pretty excited about her big girl bed. We piled pillows on the floor so if she did fall out, she’d have a soft landing. She went down really well and never got out of her bed…
…until about 10pm, I heard THUD! She fell out. And that happened 3 more times. And she wasn’t feeling well, she had a low grade fever & was just very sad. Who can blame her when we had just rocked her world and there was nothing to catch her when she rolled to the side of the bed?!?
We had a bed rail type thing, but that was in our other vehicle that was currently in the shop, so Daddy had to get creative. He grabbed the bottom of the pack & play and shoved it between the rail on her bed and created our own bed rail. It worked the couple nights we needed it, but then Kyle put the actual rail on her bed.
Over the past few weeks she has done SO well. In the mornings she doesn’t get out of bed till she hears us up or Avery crying. And even at that, she usually hollers for us and doesn’t get out of bed on her own. One more step towards our sweet girl growing up! {insert mommy tears here!}

Santa

Great Grandma met us at the mall to go see Santa one evening {12.14.13}. I thought for sure I’d have two crying babies in our Santa picture this year, but they surprised me. Adelyn took a little time and ended up warming up to Santa and told him she wanted a Minnie Mouse tricycle and Avery didn’t even cry! I was SHOCKED! They both look a little stunned or not impressed, but I still like it!

Just for fun…here’s last year! ha! Get us outta here! {I don’t blame them…he was a little creepy!}

Christmas Baking

Adelyn loves to help me in the kitchen so I knew she would enjoy a little Christmas baking. We made sugar cookies one weekend – Bubbles {our elf on the shelf} actually brought the supplies for us!

She did really well and was gentle when picking up the dough! Proud mama right here!

When it came to frosting she was more interested in eating the cookies than frosting them. That was ok though! We had fun!

September Randoms

ICYMI I’ve been a bad blogger & I’m determined to get caught to have our family memories “journal-ed” on our blog!

This is from Labor Day weekend at my Grandma Cindy’s house. I thought Aunt Wendi captured the perfect picture of my sweet boy!

We spent quite a few of our Saturdays in the fall in Iowa City cheering on the Hawkeyes!

For the IA vs ISU rivalry game we had a few friends over who also have kiddos around our kids’ age. It was SO fun and the kids had a blast! (oh and the right team won too!)

With summer wrapping up we had to take advantage of our last few nice weekends at the park! I love how Adelyn puts her arm around Avery…at least he doesn’t mind!

We had to make a quick stop at the office store and Adelyn had to potty while we were there. She was SO proud of herself that she could reach the sink!

This is when I decided it was time to move Avery out of his baby bath tub into the big tub…he was trying to crawl OUT of it!!

love.

Adelyn’s 1st IA Football Game

ICYMI I’ve been a bad blogger & I’m determined to get caught to have our family memories “journal-ed” on our blog!

Saturday September 21st Adelyn attended her first Iowa Hawkeye football game! She had been to Iowa City and tailgated a few times last year, but this was the first year she got to in to the game! At first she was a little overwhelmed with all the people & noise (she’s quite shy!).

The majority of Kyle’s family came to this game as well..his sister’s Laura & Mel (and her hubs Steve) and his parents. It was a fun Bangert family day!

We had to check out the drum line before the game…Adelyn was quite mesmerized by them! Oh and it was quite chilly that morning too, hence the gloves!

We headed into the stadium to watch the pre-game and for Adelyn to get acclimated to the craziness that is an Iowa football game!

She quickly warmed up and LOVED finding Herky running all over the football field!

And she knew just what to do when they sand the national anthem…so proud!

We made it to half time and had an “incident”. She was reaching for something under the bleachers and slide down the concrete to the row below. It scrapped her leg pretty bad. I felt SO bad for her! So Adelyn and Mommy hung out and walked around for the 2nd half.

We had some fun shopping…

…people watching…

…and the game got over just in time for her to crash in her carseat on the 3 hour drive home!

It was a fun day with our family! I can’t wait for Saturdays in Iowa City in the fall to be a norm for our family in the years to come!

GO HAWKS!!!!