Katelynn's morning struggle

I have this love hate relationship with getting Katelynn dressed in the morning. She is going through this faze where she only wants to wear dresses to school. I suppose this all started when it was too cold to wear shorts so she moved on to dresses. Which is fine that she wants to wear a dress, it makes her feel like a pretty princess and as she says "it's perfect". At first she didn't care what dress it was as long as it was a dress. Now she is even picky about what dress she wears. It has come to a point when she comes into school wearing pants and a longsleeve shirt Joseph's teacher knows it's been a bad morning. When I make her wear pants it's a struggle to get her out the door to school. I suppose it's because Katelynn says her outfit "isn't perfect for me" she must not be ready to make her appearance until her outfit is perfect. I should have known she was going to be picky when at the age of 2 she would stand in her closet contemplating what to wear. I kid you not, if I don't give her a choice of 2 outfits she will stand in her closet thinking about what she wants to wear.

So I'll leave you with a few pictures of what Katelynn would wear if she dressed herself.

Joseph get's his teeth pulled

On Monday Joseph had his teeth pulled by the dentist. This all happend because on Aug 5th Joseph was chasing Katelynn and knocked his teeth. Of course Jason was gone on a business trip (accidents like this always happen when he is gone) and I'm in panic mode. I'm able to reach Jason and he tells me to put ice on it. Thankfully we were going to the regular Dr on Wednesday for Joseph's 5 year check up. I had Dr. Harmon look at them for an abses and he didn't see one. His gums were swollen for several days but they were looking better.
A week later Joseph was complaining that they hurt so I took him into the dentist and she said they needed to be pulled but wanted to do it by a pediatric dentist so Joseph would be more comfortable. When I called to make the appt. they said we could do it that day ( I was shocked) but I said no I don't think he was prepared for it, actually I wasn't. So five days later we went to Dr. Windingham and he pulled Joseph's teeth. From the x-ray they thought his teeth had actually been damaged twice but from my knowledge Joseph had only bled once so who knows. Nevermind, Jason just reminded me that Joseph fell in a furniture store when I was pregnant with Katelynn and hit his front two teeth. That mystery is solved!
The overall experience was a little traumatic for Joseph but when it was all over he said he liked the Dr. I was able to stay with him during the evaluation and the laughing gas but had to leave during the extraction. By the time I left it took about 15 minutes to pull the teeth. The next day Joseph proudly showed anyone who would look including his teacher and the librarian.

Joseph on the car ride home

Dr. W pulled his teeth like this

Joseph's tooth box

One of the teeth pulled

Breakfast in bed

Yesterday, Joseph was the first to wake up just before 8am and he asked me what I was going to have for breakfast. I told him cereal, the next thing I knew he brought me breakfast in bed! He has such a serving and kind heart. He got himself breakfast and we ate it together in bed, it's times like this that you treasure. Katelynn woke up around 8:30am and he got her breakfast as well.
The kids don't normally sleep in this long, they are early risers usually by 7am if not earlier. With Jason out of town this week I still wanted to continue are routine of going to the walking track and park. I was impressed with Katelynn she walked 3/4 a mile and then hopped in the stroller, Joseph rode his bike the whole way around. After we were done walking/riding bikes we headed over to the park and the kids played until just before dark. Katelynn and a boy her age were chasing eachother and Joseph found some big kids to play with, they had alot of fun. Needless to say they were exhausted.

Katelynn

Well, our week has started out with a bang. Joseph was closing the door to the car this morning and Katelynn's fingers were shut in the door. She was screaming and Jason started saying oh oh oh pretty loud (thank goodness nobody was nearby, I still am laughing about his reaction as I type). Luckily the door wasn't locked yet so Jason was able to open it right away. Joseph felt horrible but I let him know it was an accident and that sister would be ok. We went and got her some ice and asked a nurse at church what she thought. She didn't think it looked broken and that the best thing we could do is put ice on it. Jason took Katelynn home to give her a pain reliever and keep ice on it until after church when they came back to pick us up. Katelynn was in a much better mood by now but she was still favoring her hurt hand. We kept asking her if she could bend it or straighten her finger but she never wanted to. Jason finally bribed her with animal crackers if she would make a fist with both hands, she did immediately. Jason was happy that her finger didn't look broken. It is still pretty swollen compared to her other fingers but it should go down soon and there is only a small area of black and blue at her first joint. She is using her hand more as time passes and with no time she will be back to normal.

The big 5

For Joseph's birthday he got a big boy bike. He was so excited he had wanted it since we took him to Wally world to try it out for size. The day of his birthday my dad and Katelynn wrapped his helmet. When he opened it he went straight to his money and started counting to see if he could get a Spiderman bike.

Little did he know a surprise was waiting for him downstairs. We told him to grab his money and we would go to the store to get the bike he wanted. Jason told Joseph to go into the office and grab his keys. Papa was waiting downstairs with the video camera so we could capture the moment. The look on his face when he saw the bike was priceless, he was so excited.

He had to wait to ride his bike because it had a flat but once Jason fixed it he got on a rode in the driveway. Our driveway isn't the best to learn how to ride a bike on so we took him to the park Monday night. He picked up quickly how to ride and zoomed off. Below is a picture of Katelynn trying to keep up with Joseph. We are going to make it a nightly routine to head to the walking track to let Joseph ride his bike and get some family exercise. We took Katelynn's tricycle last night but she prefers to run. I love it because when we get home we take baths, read books, and they are out like a light!