Little Cheeks and Big brother

I love my Rylan. We are visiting the cuzzies in Aurora and Rylan keeps sneaking Aunt Tawnya's candies off the counter and running in the bedroom and eating them all. He's been such a turkey. He loves playing with Jameson and Shayler and with all the new toys etc etc. It's definitely colder up here and so on, but we're having a lot of fun.




This is an update on McKinley little cheeks. She takes after her mother with those cheeks I'm afraid. She is so precious and fights hard to keep her head up with the cheeks she's sportin' and the three chins and no neck. At her two month check-up her new stats were: 13 lbs. 5 oz. 23 1/2 inches long. She's growing so fast and starting to show her personality thru her smiles and jibber jabber as she tries to talk with us and play along. I'm not gonna lie to you, I was almost brought to tears as the nurse gave her her first set of shots. She was not the nicest nurse I've ever seen work with a baby, and I wanted to give her a little smack before we were done. Just picture it, baby crying, Rylan wondering what the **--? and the mom being restrained from having beat the nurse up. That would not have been good, but it crossed my mind.

My hot Hubby

This is my hot and handsome hubby. I just realized I have only put one picture of him on our site and I just wanted to show him off a little bit. I sure love and appreciate Ammon. He works so hard and is so patient and happy with me and the little Manns. Tonight when I had had it with kids and the same four walls, held down the fort and let me escape of an hour (by myself) and that was nice for a minute. I just love ya Sweets!

Oh My Hell!

Okay, so it's been awhile since I've posted. I've gotta tell you the funniest story. The title comes from the latest cussword at our house that has been perfected by my two-year-old potty mouth. I guess you all thought I was asking for toilet training pointers on my last blog, but I was really asking you for "PottyMouth" training :o) No but seriously. Rylan has repeated his mothers favorite cussword several times now. One time he was in the back room with his dad and looked over at the puppy pad and saw a little puppy poop and says clear as day "Oh my Hell!". His dad stopped in his tracks and had to think twice before he burst out laughing and came in asking if I had heard his new phrase... of course I had a couple of days earlier. Then he was hanging with his Grannie KaSea and decided to sneak a piece of candy off the table. He comes carrying his loot into her and in his deepest voice again says, "Oh my Hell!" I tell you what it's sooooo hard not to laugh at him when he says it and I can hardly contain myself.
So, I do want to tell you all where I learned to swear and where I learned to say my favorite swearing phrase. IT'S ALL TORI AND BUTTONS FAULT :o) When I was young and spent a ton of time at Tori's house it was the only friends house where it was "ok" to swear. Of course I had to hold my tongue at home, etc., etc, but Buttons was cool with it, and her catch-phrase was "oh my hell". And that's where I learned it, so on down the line that's essentially where my munchkin has now learned it. How was that for passing the buck? I figure I'll get a few comments from the Chappell girls and I welcome them. Kids say the darnest things, just had to share this one with you all :o)

Potty Training Pointers ANYONE??

Okay, So I'm about to embark on the potty training adventure of a 2 1/2 year old boy. I'm nervous because it's my first time, so I am asking for any help or hints that anyone might have for me. It's cold now and we don't spend a ton of time outside or I could start by letting him practice on bushes, trees, and neighbors lawns, but I'm thinking we should try it the more conservative way.
I'm open to suggestions and anything that you think works I will consider. For any of them that pan out and prove to be useful I will definitely pass on and report back. I'll have to get creative with my picture taking, cuz already I went to put one on of the cutest "cheeks" in town and I got the husband lecture of "once you put it on the net anyone can see it you know". We'll see what happens. Thanks

Cute little dolly.

Just a couple of pics of our little bathing beauty. She's sure growing and getting bigger. She takes after her mom a lot when it comes to putting on the pounds. Lots aroung the face and belly area. I figure some of it is for the same reasons, we both like diet coke and chips and since that's what I like, she must too cuz it's in the special recipe that I brew for her daily :o) I'm sure that's not the recommended thing to do, but who really knows???? McKinley is already running the roost around here. She likes to be held a lot and we try to lay her down to sleep, but within minutes she's awake making "pick me up noises" to any and everyone in the house. I don't think we give these little bundles of joy enough credit for their built-in attention devices at birth. Things just get complicated once we learn to speak...

Mr. Rylan

These are so cute I thought. He's a good little kitchen helper especially when it comes to eating, liking the beaters, rinsing the dishes and spilling on the floor. Seriously, I don't know where and what I'd be doing without kids to keep me busy. They are just so precious. Oops, sorry about the retard-o picture that I didn't rotate.




These are just some cute little shots of my Rylan.
Every since the nice rain storms we had last week, Rylan can't seem to leave this darn umbrella alone. It's all but broken now, but he insisted on having it open all the time. It got a nice toss right after it hit baby sister in the face.

The spotted child "Pudge"

These are a couple of pictures of our middle child. We got him in September and he's pretty cute. We've house trained him and everything. He plays keep-away from Rylan and the two of them fight like brothers (when I let them). We like him and he's a good little pup. When I was pregnant, he was smaller and used to like to sit up on my belly, but now he definitely got the boot when McKinley came home, he still tries to get right up there and lay under her while I'm holding her if he can, it's kinda funny.