Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays

Let's see, where to begin....

Two weeks have passed and apart from the occasional outing with Bev, the children and I have been stuck at home. However, these past two weeks have been quite entertaining. When and 3 year old and a 1 year old start to get cabin fever, it makes for an interesting day. Kyan has taken it upon himself to empty his ENTIRE toy box in a span of about 30 minutes just to turn around and put everything back in. He does this periodically throughout the day. Kenna sees that as an invitation so she's going through all of the toys and pulling them out as Kyan is trying to put them back. This goes on for about 15 minutes until Kyan finally tells her to stop and then comes to get me to say Kenna is "being ugly". Now, I want to point out that Kenna absolutely refuses to be put in her exersaucer ever since she's become mobile, so there is no place for me to put her. So what do I do? I block of the way to the kitchen and let her crawl around the living room and tell Kyan to deal with the fact that she's going to get into his toys. How does Kyan respond? "Mommy, I don't fink so." Oh, the mind of a 3 year old.

Thursday September 9th was Bev's birthday. She didn't want to stay home and she didn't want us to stay home either. So we all loaded up and went to Ramstein. Why? I have no idea. Maybe because there is nothing else to do during the week. Plus, if we were going to go somewhere, we wanted Chase and Justin with us. Justin did a good job though. He sent Bev beautiful flower and, according to her, yummy chocolates. They ate supper with us that night. All in all, it was a good day.

Then Saturday rolls around and there yet another eventful day. Saturday was Christin's birthday and a busy day at the Moss house. Saturday evening was Bev's birthday dinner/party and we spent most of the day getting all the food ready and getting the house somewhat presentable. Everyone started arriving around 6 and by the time we started eating, we had about 20 people at our house. How in the world we were able to accommodate all those people, I'll never know. But we did it. After we finished eating I get a phone call from Coriell telling me to get on Skype. So, I do as I'm told and much to my surprise and excitement, Craig and Christin were at Coriell and Adam's house. So I got to see all of them. Unfortunately it wasn't a very long conversation because I had a bunch of people at my house, but I got to see them none the less. It was awesome. I miss them so much.

Tuesday September 14th was mama's birthday day. She was able to get on Skype before going to work and the kids and I got to talk to her for a few minutes and wish her a happy birthday. Chase and I were sneaky and sent her flowers at the office. Naturally, she cried. That wasn't our intention but we figured it would happen. All I can say is God bless technology. If we didn't have phones or Skype, I don't know what I would have done. Cards are nice but it's not the same as actually seeing or talking to that person. I am fortunate enough to have the technology to talk to my family. ALL of my family.

Thursday September 16th was Kenna's birthday. My little girl turned a year old. Most of the day and just back and looked at her and thanked God for letting me have her. He saved her life and she is a happy healthy little girl and I couldn't be more thankful. We didn't do a whole lot for her because she was only turning one and wouldn't remember any of it. We did get her a few presents though and she had her first popsicle. She also sat in her highchair and had "big people" food. Granted, she had more on her than in her but she had a good time. Bev had dinner with us and Justin came over later to watch Kenna open her presents. She liked the wrapping paper more than the actual presents. She would open her present and throw the actual present on the floor and just start playing with the paper. She had a good time though and that's all that matters.

Yesterday was her birthday party and again, we had a ton of people over at the house. Chase made his fabulous burgers and we just had a big cook out. I made chocolate cupcakes with purple icing. They weren't much to look at because I'm not gifted at cake decorating but everyone said they tasted good. We found out that Kenna is not the biggest fan of hot dogs (she gets that from her GiGi) but she loves German potato salad and chocolate cupcakes. She didn't do the typical "smash the cupcake into your face" but she did have it in many pieces before the night was over. She also had it all over her. But, she enjoyed the food and the people who were there and that's what's important. Once it started to get chilly we all went inside so she could open her presents from everyone and the rest from us. Let me tell you something, this little girl racked up. She got books, toys, a baby doll, a toy walker and a toy that grows with her. She should be quite content for at least a month^.^

After everyone left last night we were able to Skype with mom and dad. Never in my life have I seen a little boy get that excited about seeing his grandfather. As soon as daddy gets on the computer Kyan just screams, "BUDDY!!! IT'S MY BUDDY!!!" I love the bond that Kyan and daddy have. He has a special bond with my parents and he has a special bond with Chase's parents. But there's just something about daddy that just makes Kyan light up. It's precious. I was really happy to see daddy too. I haven't seen him in a while and it was just nice to see his face. He didn't even have to say anything and I would have been fine. I at least got to see him. He and I e-mail back and forth but it's not the same. So Skyping with mom and dad was a special treat for all of us. Chase hadn't gone to be yet either so he was able to talk with them as well. So we all had a great end to a great day.

I hope everyone has a great week. Love to all.