Santa!

I was so excited to take the kids to see Santa this year. Aaron and I have really been talking him up to the kids - especially now that Elf on the Shelf has debuted in our house (which is another post). My mom's hospital has a yearly Christmas celebration so that was our first Christmas experience of the year. 

Here are a few pictures of the visit with a short video at the end. Blake was hilarious because he went up to Santa and then saw a fake present and grabbed it and thought it was his!

Blog Hiatus

Well here I go again...another short hiatus from blogging. Life has yet to slow down these past few weeks. School is still in full force. I do have to brag about my A on my finance test. I studied almost 7 hours for it so I think it paid off. My other class doesn't have test but a lot of work outside of class. After next week we will be half way through the semester!!
Last weekend my girlfriends and I had a nice weekend away. We headed to Nashville on Friday after work to celebrate all of us turning 30 this year. It was so great to spend time with my girls who mean so much to me but I don't get to see a lot of. We all went to school together since we were in middle school so we are a pretty close group. You never realize how much you miss people until you spend some time with them. We had a great weekend but we can all tell that we are getting older!
On the 12th, we went out to eat for Aaron's birthday. I am such a slacker because I normally post on the day of someone's birthday, at least a picture. I actually went to eat with the family and then went to class from 7:30-9:30 so I kind of have an excuse :) We celebrated again this past weekend and some family came over for pizza (Aaron's fav) and Saturday we played poker until 2am. Kristin, Jeremy, Jonathan, Aaron, and I played and I think Jonathan came out the big winner for the night!
My grandmother, who I have talked about just recently, is doing better. Her memory will never be the same but she is starting to eat more and getting a little more strength each day. She recently moved to a different place so I know it will be so much better for her. We can already tell a huge difference in her.

We are also still battling Strep in this house. Kylie had it first and then Blake. Kylie had a temperature yesterday and was up all night so we took her back to the doctor today and she still has it!! Uggg! I am just afraid at this rate that she is a carrier or even worse will have to get her tonsils out :( Hopefully her new medicine will make her better very soon and hopefully Blake won't get it again! Grandpa Roger has been a lifesaver and has kept them this whole time they have been sick. Thank you, PopPop!!
I also was one of the lucky ones who got the new iPhone 4s on Friday! I was due for an upgrade so I decided to go for it. I LOVE it...especially the camera on it. Some of the pictures below are from the phone and you can't even tell. A-Mazing!

This weekend we also discovered a new song that Kylie and Blake sing at school. Kylie was humming a song that I thought sounded familiar and I finally realized what it was. Baby Bumble Bee! I loved that song when I was little! So with my new phone, I used the video to get her singing it. Remember with the iPhone 4 there is a camera on the front of the phone so you can see yourself and you can tell she is watching herself sing. So cute! You can ignore my awful singing :) Be sure to mute my playlist so you can hear her cute little voice. At this rate I think she is going to be a professional singer!!

I captured this picture this morning. Kylie and Daddy were sleeping the same way and I thought it was so cute!

2 Cute Videos

Below are two very cute videos of Kylie Rose. The first video is her performing Roll Call from Micky Mouse Clubhouse. She says everyone's name and she is so excited about it! Don't forget to mute my playlist on the bottom of my blog to hear her sweet voice!

 

Roll Call from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

This video is of Kylie when she should be taking a nap. She decided to stand up in her bed and perform for us. This video is from my phone looking at the video monitor. I think we have our hands full!

Happy Birthday, Kylie Rose!

Happy Birthday, Kylie Rose!

Today is Kylie's 2nd Birthday! It doesn't seem like it has been two years. She is such a little diva but the sweetest little girl.

Here are some interesting things about Kylie right now. I will be doing another post on all of her favorite things so this is just a brief summary.

- You love you big brother. Anytime he does something, you have to be right behind him and do it as well. Monkey See, Monkey Do.

- Even though you love to wrestle with your brother, you are a little diva. You even shake your butt when you run!

- You are very attached to one of your babies, your blankie and your paci (yes you still love your paci). You must have all three of them when you go to bed at night or when you don't feel well.

- You are talking so good. Your favorite thing to do is sing and some of your favorite songs are Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle, ABC Song, and You Are My Sunshine. See video below for proof!

- You love to dance. Whenever you hear music, you start to shake your little butt.

- We go in a couple of weeks for your yearly check-up but here are some of your stats that I know:

- You weigh around 33 lbs

- You wear a size 5 diaper

- You are wearing 3T and some 2T clothes

- You wear a size 7 shoe

- You loved swimming in Nana and Papa's pool this summer.

- You recently started at the same daycare as Blake and you love it.

- You go to bed around 8-8:30 and sleep until 7ish.

- You love all kids of foods but some of your favorites include: grilled chicken, rice, beans (funny that these are the key ingredients used at Qdoba), crackers, milk, apple juice, any kind of pasta and anything that mommy and daddy are eating.

- Everyone says that you look just like me. I will take that as a compliment.

Here are some pictures of when Kylie was born. I love looking at them and remembering how little she was! She actually wasn't too little since she weighed 10lbs when she was born!

This was Kylie last year on her birthday.

This was Kylie this morning before daddy took her to daycare. We sang happy birthday with two candles in her sausage biscuit which she loved.

And we had a birthday celebration dinner at Chuck E Cheese tonight and here are a few pictures from the night.

Lastly, here is a video of the kids one night this week. Beware I also sing a bit with the kids. There is also a brief fight fight because Blake wants to sing it my himself. Love these kids! (Be sure to mute my playlist below to hear the kids sing)

Happy Birthday! from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

Monthly Catch-Up

So I have been incognito lately. You would think I have so much extra time since I am not taking a class right now but I think it makes me even more busy because I am trying to do all of the stuff around the house that I can't do when I am taking classes. I have gotten a lot of stuff done but I still have many things on my 'to do' list.

 

So what's been happening around the Thacker household?

• The kids have absolutely LOVED swimming in Nana and Papa's pool. There are many pictures and videos to prove that including this video from tonight.

Blake's Summer! from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

- Kristin, Megan and I got to go to the NKOTBSB concert and it was awesome! I felt like I was 13 again.

- One of my best friends is getting married in a couple of weeks and we had a little party for her a couple of weeks ago. It was great seeing many great friends.

- We had a family trip to Cincinnati and went to a water park and the kids had a blast.

- Blake had his check-up at the ENT and his hearing test results were great! Thank God!

- Kylie has turned into my little singer. She loves to sing Twinkle, Twinkle and Happy Birthday.

- Speaking of Happy Birthday, the big one for me is just 9 days away...Oh goodness.

- My job has been crazy busy, but I still love it.

- We made one more trip to the zoo and one to Chuck E Cheese with Blake's class. Both were so much fun!

- I finally started and finished Blake's big boy room! I painted last Friday after work and finished putting his room together on Saturday. I love it and so does he! I still need to put things on the wall but I will take pictures soon and post.

- School starts in 2 weeks and I am taking 2 classes which I have not done yet since being in the program. I'm a little sad knowing I will be away from the kids 2 nights a week.

- Aaron has ONE more class left and then he is DONE! I'm so happy for him and of course very jealous :)

 

And here are some pictures from the past few weeks. Of course I have been keeping up my other One Frame a Day Blog with some of these so if you follow us on that blog, some of these are duplicates.

I think the kids look so much alike in the next two pictures!  You can definitely tell they are brother and sister. Look at those smiles!

Visiting Daddy at work...

Kylie's Birthday is a little over a month away. I cannot believe that she is turning 2! I have already started the planning :) She is also starting at Blake's daycare next week and I know I am going to cry when I drop her off. I know she is going to love it!

For some reason I think I will do better updating the blog when classes start. It will be my excuse to get away from school work for a minute. I am making a promise now to update the blog more often :) Maybe I should show Aaron how to update the blog since he will have so much time on his hands.....I won't hold my breath.

Happy 4th!

This weekend was great. We got to do a little bit of everything including a quick trip to the zoo, sliding, swinging, swimming and of course playing.

Here are a few videos and pictures from our weekend -

Blake is such a big boy! He will jump (more like step) into the pool and swim all by himself! Of course this is with his swimmies on.

Blake Swimming from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

And of course I had to put a video of Blake sliding down the slide.

Blake Sliding from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

My little bubble guppy.

And a cute little girl in a cute littel suit.

Daddy telling the kids all about the snakes at the zoo.

Whatever this creature is...

The kids watching fireworks on Sunday night.

And all of them watching fireworks on Monday night.

I hope you all had a great 4th!

Wordless Wednesday...almost

Nemo! from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

The Look

I have to share this adorable video of my cute little kiddies. This is what we call 'The Look' in action.

The Look from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.