Cute Kaitlyn sayings and more

So Kaitlyn is talking all the time now, and I’m actually understanding a good portion of it. It’s pretty fun, but I can tell she gets really frustrated when I don’t understand her. We went to Milwaukie last weekend (more on that later) and Kaitlyn saw something that she liked and she said “coo wow!” . Andy (a 19 yr old that’s living with us, more on that later) and I thought it was so cute. She says it all the time now. Andy says when he goes on his mission, he’ll start that were ever he is as the new saying. So now everything is coo wow. Too funny. The next one is funny and kinda sad. We were all watching TV’s funniest moments when there was a clip with a bull in it. The clown got attacked and the funny part was the bull completely pantsed the clown (it was blurred). All of a sudden we hear Kaitlyn “No Cow! No Cow!” Her poor little face was so cute. She was so worried about the cow hurting the man. She has only really seen milk cows and thinks of them as sweet kinda cuddly things. Poor girl. Now randomly she’ll say “no cow” and she’ll even go up to Emily and have a conversation about no cow with her. Too funny. It’s amazing the things she remembers. I just hope she doesn’t grow up with a fear of cows now.
I feel like we are at the doctor almost everyday now. It’s crazy. We’ve been there twice for Emm’s breathing, once for Em’s ears, for Em’s 1 year check up and for my monthly prenatal checks. It’s been crazy lately. It’s really funny though because when Kaitlyn sees the doctors office she starts saying, mommy doctor tummy, over and over. After the doctor does his check on me Kaitlyn wants it done on her too. She loves to get weighted, get her blood pressure taken, her ears checked. All of it. She walks in and says hi to everyone and says Hi doctor when he walks in the room it’s so cute. Her favorite thing to talk about though is defiantly mom’s tummy. She gets to hear the baby and see moms belly. After the doctor leaves she hops up on the table and mom get to check her tummy for a baby. I never thought a doctors office would be so fun for a little girl. Maybe she’ll be a doctor, or marry one. Lol.
So we got a new little addition to our family. No I did not have the baby yet! Actually because we have number 3 coming we decided we needed to upgrade to a van. There’s no way 3 car seats would have fit in my car. We had been kinda looking for a while, but weren’t serious. Well one weekend Ryan said we should go shopping right then. I was kinda like ok, whatever, we’re not getting one yet though. I mean we still have quite a few months before the baby gets here. So anyway we went up to Platteville and the first place we went had a great van. It was really nice and at a great price, so Ryan convinced me to test drive it. We ended up buying that van. I love it and it has been such a blessing to our family. Ryan said he felt prompted to go and look and when we did we found exactly what we needed. It also has been a great help now that we have Andy living with us. Ryan was able to use the van to help him move, and we can give him a ride to church and stuff because there’s plenty of room. So I’m sure you’re wondering who Andy is, well here’s that story. –With Andy’s permission of coarse.
Ryan had been Branch mission leader in our branch until just this last week. Because of this he has gotten to know our two new converts really well. There’s Andy, who’s 19 and Ethan who’s a senior in high school. These two are great young men and we have loved getting to know them better. Unfortunately Andy’s parents aren’t happy about him joining the church. General Conference weekend Andy told his parents of his plans to go on a mission. His parents took his house key away and stopped paying his rent for his college dorm, and kicked him out of their house. We had an extra room, so Andy is living with us until he goes on a mission. I’m so sad that there are still people who can not accept our church, or even find out what it’s really about. I wish Andy could still spend time with his family. He has a little 12 year old brother who really looks up to him, and it’s sad that he doesn’t see him much anymore. I hope their hearts will be softened and everything will work out. On a positive note, having Andy here has been a blessing for our family. Ryan and Andy are great friends and act like brothers with each other. It has been nice for Ryan to have someone to do boy things with. Also Andy has been a real big help with the girls. He helped me a ton when we went to Milwaukie and he’s happy to watch the girls anytime. Kaitlyn really looks up to him and loves having him here. I think it will be very hard for her when he goes on his mission.
So last weekend we went to Milwaukie (4 hours away). I have never been there, so I was really excited about going. Ryan had a continuing education class up there and his boss paid for gas, so we decided to turn it into a fun family weekend. We had a great time. We got there Friday late afternoon, and checked into our hotel. It was right down town and it was very nice. Andy came with us to hang out and help me with the girls when Ryan was in class. Here’s our little family in our hotel minus me.



We went out to eat dinner and walk around the mall that was just down the block. It was fun to get out and do something different, plus I’m ALWAYS up for shopping! On Saturday Ryan had his class most of the day, so Andy and I took the girls to the Children’s Museum. It was so much fun. The girls LOVED it. If you’re ever in Milwaukie I would defiantly suggest going there. I’m so glad Andy was there! There’s no way I could have taken both girls there by myself! Kaitlyn was all over the place. There was just so much to explore! Here’s some pictures of the girls exploring.










Around lunch time we decided to get some lunch. So I stood in line at the information desk for 10 mins for them to tell me they don’t have any food! I thought every child attraction would have some food at least nearby. Kaitlyn and Emily were so worn out from all the playing and exploring plus they were starving. Any mom out there knows that spells BIG trouble. We had lots of meltdowns on the way to the van! So we had to drive around downtown and try to find somewhere to eat. If you’ve ever been to a big city, you’ll know there is no parking anywhere. It was crazy. I finally just dropped Andy off at a Dominoes with some cash and drove around until the pizza was ready. Luckily the girls crashed as soon as we got in the van. We drove back and payed another $6 to park at the museum again, and enjoyed our pizza lunch in the van. The girls slept for almost an hour and then got up and ate some pizza with us. Then we went back in for another hour or so until it was time to pick up Ryan from his class. Apparently the hour nap was nowhere near long enough for Kaitlyn. We had some MAJOR breakdowns! Fun fun. I was just glad I had Andy there to help with the girls. We went and picked up Ryan and drove to Madison and got out at the mall there to stretch our legs, and of coarse go shopping again! We got home safe and sound, but we were all exhausted. It was a fun quick trip and now I can say that I’ve been to Milwaukie.