Hill Family Blog

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Glasses

A few months ago we noticed that one of Kaitlyn's eyes was crossing when she was eating. It started to do it more and more so I made an appointment with her ophthalmologist. Sure enough, she needed glasses. She's near sighted, more in one eye than the other, and that is causing the crossing. He said that she should grow out it it by the time she is 9 but that if we don't use glasses until then she'll end up with an eye that crosses all the time. So glasses it is! She does pretty well with them and looks totally cute.

March

Trying my best to update this blog! It's been months, but here we go...way back to March.

Kaitlyn really, really wanted a hair cut. She wanted it pretty short and we cut off six inches. She LOVES it, I miss her long hair.

Kinsey's half birthday, 7 1/2! She wanted pop tarts for her special treat. Easy enough!

Kinsey did a Powderpuff Derby (think Pinewood Derby) with her Girl Scout troop. She and Jason spent HOURS on her car. She designed it, cut it out (with just a little help), painted it, and then Jason added the weights. They were obviously a good team because her car was FAST and she won first place. She got a gigantic trophy that she is so proud of!

Sunday, March 9, 2014

February

February brought more snow (!) and lots of work on the house. Thankfully the flu left us alone this month!

We had a big snowstorm (for here) with about 6 inches of snow. It literally shut the whole area down for a few days. The snow came FAST and many people ended up completely stuck on the roads and had to abandon their cars and walk home. It was crazy! Thankfully we were all home and safe and stocked up on food and painting supplies :) Jason worked from home for a few days and we just enjoyed the snow and our warm house.

We have such a fun neighborhood for sledding. We live at the top of a hill so all we have to do is walk outside and the fun comes to us!

We built a decent snowman!

The snow really was beautiful. We were sad that it melted a few days later.

The girls had almost no toys unpacked in February. They have gotten very creative in their playing. I kind of love it! But not enough to throw all the toys out... Kaitlyn especially likes playing with kitchen utensils. I think these spoons/fork had just been tucked into their cutting board bed.

We've made good progress on the house!

Removing the laminate floors

The girls helping to paint their room. It's a pretty teal color, though that is hard to tell from the picture. They love it and we do too!

The girls love to sneak my camera and take pictures of each other. Here is a picture of Kaitlyn where you can see her little gappy smile :)

My niece Avery sent us "Flat Avery" and the girls think she is so fun.

She joined us on a trip to the park the other day.

Poor flat Avery had a bit of a mishap with the swings and lost an eye and got quite dirty. We cleaned her up as best we could but we still need to replace her eye.

Our master bedroom has 16 foot high ceilings. We scraped the ceilings and then needed to paint them and couldn't do it with jsut a ladder. Jason rented scaffolding from Home Depot and we were able to get the ceiling and walls painted. The girls enjoyed having a jungle gym in the house.

Kisney made this girl as a project for school. She did the entire thing herself and I was pretty impressed!

January

Oh, January. January was a crazy month. We closed on the house in December but had our apartment until mid-January. This was nice because we were able to get lot of work done on the house while not actually living there and dealing with boxes and furniture. The house also gave my family a place to stay while they were here for Christmas. We were set to move out towards the beginning of January. We had been putting all our efforts towards working on the house and still needed to do a lot of packing at the apartment. The Monday before our move (Saturday) I started to feel sick. I thought it was a simple cold and hoped it wouldn't slow me down too much, as I still had a lot of packing to do. By Tuesday night I thought I was going to die. Or maybe I just wished I would. Wednesday I dragged myself to the doctor (the first time since I was a teenager) because I knew I needed to be well for the move on Saturday. Well, turns out I had the FLU. You don't feel better by Saturday when you have the flu. By the next day Kaitlyn was sick too. We both went of tamiflu but Jason still had to take off work because I was useless. This halted our progress getting the house ready as well as packing and we had no choice but to reschedule the move for the next week. I did finally get better and we were able to get everything moved in, but it was such an awful week. So glad that is done!

Some fun times in January...

Kaitlyn's half birthday. She requested chocolate cupcakes. We took some into preschool as well as her birthday falls in July so she is not there to celebrate it. Kaitlyn is now 4 1/2. Don't try to tell her she is 4. She will quickly correct you. Loudly.

We had a VERY light dusting of snow and earned ourselves a 2 hour delay. Gotta love the south!

Kaitlyn took matters into her own hands at audiology. This was actually a useless appointment because she had fluid and double ear infections (which I didn't even know about) so they couldn't test her hearing. But of course I still had to pay a co-pay! Plus another $112 because an ENT fellow spent 5 minutes pulling out one of her tubes that was no longer helping. Sigh.

We go back to both tomorrow. Hopefully we have better luck.

Kaitlyn lost her first tooth--at 4 1/2! She is so excited. This is her "I lost my tooth face!" I do have a better picture that actually shows the tooth missing. It will be in the February post.

We got more snow, this time a good amount! We manged to buy one of the last sleds in town and Kaitlyn was so excited she convinced me to let her sleep in it. You can't really tell because of all the blankets but she happily slept all night long!

The girls with the funny moose socks my mom got for them in Maine. They were perfect for the snow! Kaitlyn wore hers for like 3 days straight, she liked them so much.

We live in North Carolina and consequently we don't have a snow shovel. Jason used our leaf blower (because that is a necessity here) to blow off the sidewalks and the cars.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

December in Pictures

December was a crazy month. We closed on our first home on December 3rd. We are doing quite a few updates to the house and those projects have pretty much consumed our time. All of that deserves its own post, but for now, just know that we've been busy. We did try to squeeze in some Christmas fun, though not nearly as much as in past years. But I think that in the end the girls had a good Christmas season and that's the most important part.

Taylor came back and the girls loved watching his antics all month long

Kinsey took this picture of Kaitlyn and I love it. Jason is asleep on the air mattress in the background probably after he got home after night shift (though I can't remember why the air mattress was there)

Gingerbread houses that my mom got (but Taylor got credit for bringing)

We had a girls trip to Disney on Ice with some friends

Dipped Oreo's for friends

Decorated the tree, though I never actually remembered to take a picture of the girls in front of it

Hot chocolate

Visit to Santa

Taylor got pretty uncreative after a few weeks....

Christmas party at dance class

Santa came! Girls got just what they wanted!

Glow pet, jammies, jolly ranchers in a candy cane case, and rainbow loom bands for Kinsey

Rainbow loom, Spiderman plate and cup, new scissors, and a Doc Mcstuffins game for Kaitlyn

Partied hard on New Year's Eve

Moments...

December 13, 2010
Kinsey: "Mom, do you like being a human?"
Me: "Yes."
Kinsey: "I don't."
Me: "What would you rather be instead?"
Kinsey: "A ballerina."
October 26, 2010
Kinsey told me: "I think right now Jesus is saying 'Halloween is in 5 days! I will make it NOT rain that day.'"
June 18, 2010
Kinsey's band-aid fell off in the middle of the night. Kinsey decided, "I think Heavenly Father took it off."
June 18, 2010
Kinsey's explanation of teething: "When I was a little girl, you put some things in my mouth, and they hurted, and then they turned into teeth so I could chew! And that's what will happen to Kaitlyn."
June 3, 1010
Kinsey asked me today, "Mom, why do parents not listen?"
May 3, 2010
I braided Kinsey's hair today. When I took it out, Kinsey looked at all the waves in her hair and said, "I look like an old, old lady!"
April 29, 2010
Kinsey drew me a picture today and said, "This is for my two grown-ups; you and daddy."
January 15, 2010
I gave Kinsey a cookie tonight after dinner. She finished it and asked for another. I told her that I had already put them away and she said, "Well, can you put them un-away?"
January 15, 2010
Today was an unusually nice day (in the 50's) and Kinsey told me, "The sun dried up all that winter!"
December 10, 2009
A classic Kinsey sentence, "Mom, last morning your daughter named me and you dad named Grandpa forgot to weprise (surprise) yours mom!"
November 25, 2009
Kaitlyn woke up from a long nap and Kinsey told her, "Welcome."
November 25, 2009
Kinsey told me, "Mom, I have been holding my pee for one hours! I need to go potty." The other day she told us that she had been in rest time for "30 hours."
November 13, 2009
After her bath tonight Kinsey said, "I look as nice as a daisy!"
November 12, 2009
Kinsey said, "Kaitlyn can hear me in her left ear but not her black ear!"
November 10, 2009
Someone asked Kinsey how old I am, she said, "I don't know what letter Mommy is."
November 7, 2009
We are working on knock knock jokes but Kinsey doesn't really get them. The other day she told me this joke..."Knock knock, who's there? The missionaries! Ola!"
October 30, 2009
Jason is teaching Kinsey some Spanish. The other day she was practicing her counting and started out with "One-o."
October 26, 2009
I was doing Kinsey's hair in the morning and it was tangled. She said, "My hair is all rectangled!"
October 26, 2009
The other day I told Kinsey that we were going to go to a Halloween party at the church. She told me, "Nephi goes to our church."
October 24, 2009
Jason took Kinsey to Wendy's to eat and she told me, "I had a kids meal and Daddy had a big guys meal."
October 22, 2009
During prayer tonight..."Help Kaitlyn to be happy when her binky is in, when it falls out then she not be happy."
October 22, 2009
Kinsey told me, "Kaitlyn is hearing me! In her listening ear." She knows that one ear "doesn't work very well."
October 12, 2009
The other day I was hurrying Kinsey to get out the door and she looked at me and said, "Chill Mom."
October 9, 2009
Kinsey told me that Kaitlyn has "ABCDEFG" (referring to her CMV).
October 7, 2009
Kinsey asked me the other day if we could take a "talking picture" (video).
September 9, 2009
Kinsey told me, "I love Kaitlyn. She is such a good cleaner!"
September 9, 2009
Kinsey: "Why does that doggy have a handle?" (the dog was on a leash)
August 30, 2009
My brother came over for dinner today. After he left Kinsey said, "I just love that man."
July 19, 2009
The missionaries came over today. After they left, Kinsey said, "Them missionaries are so lovely and cute."
July 18, 2009
Kinsey noticed some guys moving furniture outside of our apartment. Some had taken their shirts off and she asked me why. I told her that they were probably hot and explained that sometimes guys take their shirts off outside but that girls shouldn't and figured that would be the end of the conversation. But a little while later she saw the guys outside again and said, "Them boys took off their shirts. They're HOT!"
July 5, 2009
The other day Kinsey told me that when she gets older, she will be angry. I later asked her what she thought the word angry means. She said, "It means I be soooo tall!" I don't know how that one got so mixed up...
June 25, 2009
The other day I started to hiccup and said to Kinsey, "I have the hiccups." A little bit later she yawned and told me, "I have the yawns."
April 22, 2009
Kinsey told me today..."Daddy mine family and you mine family. All both of you mine family!"
April 21, 2009
Kinsey noticed Jason taking a nap one afternoon and asked me what he was doing. I said, "What is Daddy doing Kinsey?" She thought for a moment and then said, "Homework."
April 1, 2009
Kinsey and I took a walk to take some things to the recycling bins. She usually brings her stroller and a doll or two but didn't ask to this time. When we were halfway to the recycling bins, she stopped in her tracks and said, "Oh my! We forgot mine stroller!"
April 1, 2009
I asked Kinsey is the eggs she was eating for breakfast were good. She thought about it for awhile and then said, "kind of."
March 2009
-I was trying to explain that we didn't need the lights on because it was sunny outside. Kinsey finally kind of caught on and said, "We don't need the lights, the sun is on!"
-That transpired into this...
I was getting ready in the bathroom, a room with no windows, and Kinsey told me, "Mommy, we don't need lights, the sun is on!"
-And finally into this:
Me: Kinsey, you don't need the light on, the sun is on.
Kinsey: No, the moon is on.
(She's two, so she argues everything of course)
February 27, 2009
Kinsey tells me that everything costs "three nine dollars."
February 17, 2009
Kinsey's newest counting method: one, two, three, four, nine, two, three.
February 1, 2009
When Kinsey finds something she is looking for she says, "This it is!"
January 26, 2009
Kinsey has a little basketball that needs aired up. She brought it to me the other day and told me that "It needs batteries."
January 15, 2009
If I don't pay attention to Kinsey when she is trying to get my attention she will start to call me "Kimmie." She will repeat it over and over again until I focus my attention on her.
December 10, 2008
Kinsey and I left this morning and I said, "Bye Hun" to Jason. Kinsey then repeated "Bye Hun" and then started laughing and said, "Kinsey say bye hun."
December 7, 2008
Kinsey has been telling me that our stockings are "Santa's Socks."
December 3, 2008
Whenever Kinsey notices that there is more than one of something, she counts like this..."one two free, one two free--a lot!"
November 24, 2008
Today Kinsey told me that the eggs I was cooking were "cute."
November 16, 2008
After Jason strapped Kinsey in her car seat the other day, she said loudly, "It's too tight Mom!"
November 14, 2008
Today Kinsey told me, "I loo Shampoo." Interpretation: I love Winne the Pooh.
November 11, 2008
I threw some clothes onto the bed and heard Kinsey say, "Oh Mama. No no throw. No no." as she shook her head in disappointment.
October 23, 2008
I put a bow in Kinsey's hair the other day and when she saw herself in the mirror she said, "Oh! Cute!"
October 8, 2008
Kinsey poked herself in the eye today and kept crying about it. Apparently I didn't comfort her good enough because she kept saying "See Cole!" (our friend Nicole). I kept telling her that we couldn't go see Nicole right now and she finally said, "Get in car and see Cole!"
October 7, 2208
We were walking around the neighborhood this evening and Kinsey spotted a dog and wanted to say hi. The dog lay down and Kinsey said "Upside woof-woof down!" (upside down dog)
October 5, 2008
Jason made pancakes this morning. Kinsey really enjoyed them and kept saying "I loo pan pans!"
October 3, 2008
Today I was getting Kinsey ready for bed and she looked up at me and said, "I loo (love) mama. A lot." So sweet!
October 3, 2008
Kinsey was walking up the stairs on her own and I said "Be careful Kinsey!" She said, "I know!" Guess I say that a lot!
September 30, 2008
Kinsey now calls ice cream "abilene" and Winnie the Pooh "shampoo."
August 30, 2008
After a day at the zoo, we were talking to Kinsey about what we had done. We asked if she had fun at the zoo, she said, "Uh huh." We then asked her what she saw at the zoo. She answered, "More and more and more animals!"
August 14, 2008
I was telling Jason how well Kinsey was doing learning her colors. I mentioned that she knows the color white. Jason said, "She knows white?" Kinsey, very confidently, broke into the conversation and said "I know white." We just looked at each other. It was her first "real" sentence that she thought up all on her own. She's growing up too fast.
June 20, 2008
Kinsey and I were taking a walk around the neighborhood when she spotted a dog, or a "woof woof" as she calls it. We went over to say hi and the dog touched her hand with his nose. Kinsey looked at her hand then said "eww" and wiped her hand on her shorts.
April 22, 2008
The other day Kinsey and I were looking at a picture of President Monson. I asked her if she knew who it was. She got really excited, pointed to the picture and yelled, "Bampa!" (Grandpa)