Our little witch's witch imitation...
What's with the hand motion?
December- a very Merry Christmas!
3 months ago
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Halloween Traditions
Happy Halloween from Abigail!
Our sweetheart is now 4 months old!
Our 1st Halloween Tradition is
Making Sugar Cookies
for Family Home Evening!
Annalyn LOVED helping daddy cut out the shapes. Abigail was content to watch!
(As a side note - the DAM stands for Daddy, Annalyn, and Mommy - We noticed in the following pictures and switched the cookies around)
Tradition #2: Pumpking Carving
(Or as Annalyn would say, "Punkmin Carving!")
This is an ALL-DAY-EVENT at the Oldham household!
The Progression... 9am
10am
(Trav meticulously traced the design by poking around the image with a straight pin)
Somewhere around noon...
Nearly there...
And finally with a drill, chisel, and several trips to the windowless bathroom to check the lighting
The FINAL PRODUCT!
(Somewhere around 4:30pm)
Trav won the $75 prize at his work's pumpkin carving contest! SWEET!
Annalyn's blondie punkmin - Here's how the creation process went:
Mom: "Annalyn, what shape do you want the eyes?"
Anna: "Green"
Mom: "Green what?"
Anna: "Triangles"
"What shape do you want the nose?"
"Green"
"Green What? Square...circle...triangle...semi-circle?"
"Semi-circle"
"How many teeth should your pumpkin have?"
"2 cuz I'm 2"
"What color hair should your pumpkin have?"
"Blonde, cuz I'm blonde"
So there you have it! Annalyn's creation.
(I, of course, had to add the ears, earrings, and eyelashes.)
(Trav added the freckles with his drill)
And Tradition #3
THE COSTUMES!
THIS YEAR'S SPECIAL - OLDHAM CLASSIC HALLOWEEN!
Here you have it:
Mummy & Deady, Our resident Candy Witch, & our Plump Little Pumpkin!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Conversations with a 2 year old!
Here's our cute Annalyn. Just turned 2 1/2 and a bundle of energy, joy, and cuteness!
I can barely keep up with this chica! Example:
A few days ago Annalyn got into the pantry and closed the door. When I went to open it she said,
"No, go away mom I'm playing hide and seek."
I went back to washing dishes. About a minute later I hear,
"Mom help! Help me! I need help mom!"
I opened the pantry door to find...
The oreos were hidden BEHIND the paper towels, but like Po in Kung Fu Panda - tell this girl where the oreo cookies are and you'll find her in a "perfect split" on the top shelf shoving cookies in her mouth. Good thing the camera was handy!
Cuteness of this morning 10/12/11:
Annalyn dropped her gogurt on the floor during breakfast.
Mom: "Do you want me to pick that up for you?"
Anna: "No thank you Mom Honey"
Annalyn doesn't pronounce the "s" sound correctly if it's at the first of a word. So here are some fun phrases only to be heard at the Oldham residence:
"I fart mom" (smart)
"I want farties" (smarties)
"Abby, can you file at me?" "She filed, she filed!" (smile)
Obviously nursing takes a front seat in our daily life - and thus my 2-year old's brain thinks she knows all about it:
Shortly after reading (i.e. looking at) her "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" book Annalyn came to me while I was nursing Abigail and said,
"Mom, your milk comes out your boobs, but a cow's milk comes out their bum."
She quickly learned the word "udder" after I had Annalyn bring me her farm book and turn to the picture of the cow.
Anna was being disruptive in sacrament meeting so I took her out into the foyer. After several minutes ON MY LAP she calmed down and said,
"I want to go back in mom"
"Okay, but you need to fold your arms and be reverent"
"Okay mom, you fold your arms too"
"Okay, ready?"
"Sure, but mom... you need to cover up your boobs." As she took both hands and pulled my shirt up to my chin. The other parents in the foyer were cracking up! Haha - thanks for keeping me on track cute girl!
Mom: "Good Morning Annalyn"
Anna: "Oh Hi Mom. I want to see Abigail" (this nonchalant "Oh Hi Mom" is normal)
(Annalyn proceeds to climb up next to me on the couch and poke and prod Abigail while she's nursing)
Mom: "Abby doesn't like that honey"
Anna: "But mom look...Baby Abby waked her eyes up. She yikes it! She yikes it!"
While doing dishes Annalyn was pulling on my legs saying, "Mommy Mommy (exasperatedly) Mommmmy...come here."
Mom: "Hold on a minute honey, my hands are wet"
Annalyn: "Ug, mom, you're dwiving me nuts"
Compliment of the day 10/3/11
"Hi Mom. I like your big legs." (She pronounces like with a y...yike)
I love it when a 2-year old starts praying on their own.
Prayers:
"Dear...We're dateful for mom and dad and all kind of sings(things)..." (funny that she'll say the "s" sound at the first of this word, but not when the word actually does start with an "s"....why is that?)
"Dear...We're dateful for dad and peter piper...amen"
"Dear...dateful dat mom and dad got mawwied in the tempo" (this was so sweet cuz she did it all on her own - we hadn't even been talking about the temple that day.)
Mostly prayers consist of thanking Heavenly Father for everyone in the room - usually twice, and then thanking Him for every individual item on our plates, plus the plate, sippie, and often the door and windows in the room.
In the car on the way home one evening...
Mom: The sun is going down that means it's almost time for bed
Anna: The sun is bwight in my eyes
Mom: Don't look at the sun, it'll hurt your eyes
Anna: I looking I looking...mama it's bwight
Mom: Well, why did you look at it?
Anna: Because why
Popular Phrase during potty training:
"I knew there was some pee in there!!"
AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE:
We'd just gotten back from swimming at a friend's pool and I asked Annalyn to take off her wet swimsuit so we could have a bath. She complied. I looked over about a minute later and she was on a barstool, stark naked, hands behind her back putting a piece of pull and peel licorice in her bum crack...
Mom: "Annalyn, what are you doing?"
Annalyn: "I'm taking my temperature."
(Abigail had a fever that morning and she'd watched me take her temp. with a rectal thermometer. HAHAHA)
Annalyn came up to me yesterday (10/17/11) and said:
"Mom, X is for Xylophone. Bet you didn't know that!"
Annalyn knows her alphabet and will sing it for you if you give her a gummy worm.
She knows about 1/2 the letters by sight and can write and A and a C by herself (at least mom can tell that's what she's writing)
Trav started teaching her math - she knows 1+1=2 and 2+2=4 (which she will also show you if you give her a gummy worm ;-)
Everytime we ask Annalyn to pick the song for Family Home Evening she immediately starts singing "Wing awound da Wosie, a pocket pull of Posies..."
Her favorite pastime right now is to have PICNICS! I am constantly finding her in a corner of the house or out back with the picnic blanket, her tea set from Grandma O., her play food and her stuffed animals. She invites me to join sometimes but only if I bring "real food." So cute!
All of our neighbors have dogs (we're surrounded) and Annalyn's other favorite pastime is to stand by the fence out back and make Riley (the chihuahua next door) bark. The other day I poked my head out the back door and said:
"Anna honey, what are you doing?"
"Bugging Riley. I'll come in in a minute."
LIFE IS WONDERFUL! ANNALYN FILLS OUR DAYS WITH LOTS OF LAUGHS AND TONS OF HUGS! COME VISIT US! SHE'LL MAKE YOUR DAY TOO!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Oh what do babysitters teach our children?
We went on a date a few evenings ago - always nice to get out for a few minutes - and upon returning home we discovered Annalyn had a new talent. All we can figure is that the babysitter must have had a dance party with Anna because she definitely didn't learn to dance like that from Travis. And though some might disagree, I'm pretty sure I don't look like that when I dance.
Sorry the music is so quiet, but hope you enjoy the entertainment! We sure do! What a doll!
Tribute to Conference - Annalyn style!
It was so fun to watch Annalyn recognize who was speaking during General Conference last weekend. Her favorite is "Eyring Eyring!" (she loved his glasses) and President Uchtdorf she nicknamed "Ucheeedorfeee!"
Abigail seemed to have a special connection to Elder Perry. She had just woken up from a nap and Elder Perry's face was largely magnified on our iMac screen. I'm wondering if she thought he was skyping with us...whatever the reason she was smiling and cooing - eyes locked on him the whole time. SO CUTE!
We are so grateful for technology that allows us to watch conference in real time - even though we no longer live in the Idaho/Utah bubble! What a great weekend!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Welcome baby #2 (and the rest of our lives for the last 6+ months)
Our Beautiful Baby!
Abigail Ann Oldham
Born June 20, 2011
6:03pm
8lb. 5oz.
19 inches
(sorry it took me so stinkin' long to post - pathetic really)
We are now a family of 4!
Our beautiful girls!
Annalyn and Abigail!
So much personality in such a tiny body!
If she's anything like her sister, that personality will just get bigger and bigger!
Sisters!
Our little BOXER! She keeps her little fists up like that all the time!
Now for the rest of what we've been up to ~ SINCE NOVEMBER
(hopefully in a nutshell...or as close as I can make it):
4) Our garden didn't yield much and is now dead - pat on the back for our first attempt I guess.
5) We bought some bunkbeds! Annalyn now has a big-girl bed. She is still adjusting to sleeping in a new room We're still working on that, but when it's all done it'll be a cute girlie room for Annalyn with room for Abigail when she's ready!
6) My sister came to visit! Hannah came to stay for 9 days at the end of March. Great to have some family join us in TX and loved catching up on some scrapbooking with Hannah for great company! Thanks for coming down girl!
7) Annalyn turned 2! Our gorgeous April Fools baby isn't a baby anymore. Instead of a party we took her camping for her special day. Aunt Hannah came with us too. Not real camping because of course I was pregnant, but we went to a little place called Jellystone Park about 40 minutes from here and stayed the night in a cabin. Annalyn got to meet Yogi Bear, swim in the pool and go on watersides, play in comfy land, and cook over a fire! She's talked about it ever since and keeps asking to "go back a Yogi Bear park?"
Happy Birthday Sweet Girl! What a great 2 years it's been!
8) My 2nd attempt at a birthday cake for Annalyn - I think it turned out much better than year #1. You can judge for yourself. Annalyn seemed to like it. Thanks Hannah for helping me with it! Annalyn liked the castle (she called it a temple). My favorite part was the teddy grahams tubing in the mote!
Last year's cake...oh the joys of a 98 cent cake mix!
9) 2 week trip to Idaho in May! Trav was working on assignment up there and Annalyn and I were lonely. It was wonderful to see Daddy! Thanks to the Rawsons and Oldhams for a wonderful time! It was so nice to relax before heading home to get ready for Abigail to come. However, I vowed I would never fly when I'm that pregnant ever again ;-) Someone remind me that I said that if I ever get crazy notion to try it again.
Favorite pic of from the trip - Good ol' Jensen's Grove Blackfoot, ID!
10) Daddy came home! We sure miss him when he has to travel!
11) ABIGAIL ANN WAS BORN! Labor was much easier than my 1st time around - epidural worked the first time which was a major plus! Natural delivery after only 9 hours of labor (better than 14 hours with Annalyn). Wonderful doctor & nurses! Don't think I'd call labor an enjoyable experience, but this was as close as I think you could come. What a wonderful moment in our lives!
12) I'm no longer PREGNANT! I do love being pregnant, but I REALLY love it when I'm done! 20 WEEKS
40 WEEKS
13) My brother got married...FINALLY! We made the trip to San Diego, California for Jed's wedding when Abigail was just 4 weeks old. Wonderful whirlwind trip, but so glad we were there to be part of it! It was a perfect day. Congrats to my Jedee and my new sister Michelle! I haven't seen a happier more beautiful couple in my life (besides me and my sweetheart of course :-). Love you guys!
Pretty one of Aunt Hannah with Abby!
14) Abigail's blessing and a visit from the other Oldhams! Abby was blessed on August 7th and Trav's parents came in for it. Thanks to Jeff, Nell, Kaitlyn, and Will for coming from San Antonio. And another thanks to Jared, Melissa and their family for driving down from Austin. We loved sharing such a special day with y'all! And a HUGE THANKS to Aunt Nyla for sewing the blessing dress! Gorgeous!
Travis with his girls!
Daddy's Girl!
Annalyn especially loved spending the week with Grandpa and Grandma O! She had more trips to the park than I've given her in the last 6 weeks combined. Several trips to the pool and some long-overdue work around the house and then the week was over. It flew by, but we are so grateful for the time we did have! WE LOVE AND MISS YOU GRANDPA AND GRANDMA O!
15) We bought a new computer! Finally after almost a year of saving and waiting and dealing with our old dinosaur! Our new mac is set up and working. (Can I blame my absence from the blogging world on how slow and awful our old computer was?) Well, even if that sounds like a cop out, I've had the new computer for only a couple days and I'm updating. Obviously the computer had something to do with it.
16) We've spent a lot of time swimming - Texas is hot!
And for the most part I think that catches us up. Whew!
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