Kennedy Family: Happy Birthday Ellie!!!

Friday, November 1, 2013

Happy Birthday Ellie!!!

Sweet little Ellie Bells is FOUR today! Holy cow. I really feel bad for her having her birthday the day after Halloween b/c there is so much prep and excitement leading up to Halloween that I feel like her birthday doesn't get all the attention it deserves. But she seems happy enough with it. She was so sad this morning when I told her that her family party wouldn't be until Sunday (Friday night is a difficult time to get everyone together) but once I started talking about everything we would decorate with for her party she cheered up. Maybe I will actually get stuff up here about her party this year!

With all three of the boys (except Charlie of course) they all went through horrible phases as three-year-olds. There never has been any terrible twos, but we definitely had the terrible threes. But I realized today once I thought about it that Ellie never did that. Sure, she had some times where she got a little sassy but nothing even remotely approaching the boys. Go Ellie!! She really is just a delightful little girl. She loves everyone and is so agreeable. She especially loves her brothers - she is so spoiled by them. Her and Tucker are best buddies and will play for hours together. And she is such a good helper with Charlie - she always offers to hold his hands up while I'm changing his diaper so he doesn't get all gross. She waits all day for Jeff to get home from work and she's always so excited on Friday nights when he tells her he doesn't have to go to work for two whole days.

I really just love this age...they are learning so much about the world around them and it's hilarious to see how they process it and how they put things together in their mind. I crack up all the time at the funny things Ellie says. Here is a sampling:

After going to change her clothes one day: "There. Now I'm comfy AND stylish"
Ellie: "We can get to Heaven in an airplane" Me: "No, it doesn't work that way. We can't just get there in an airplane" Ellie: "Maybe a hot air balloon"
After I told her that I was going to hide something of hers where she couldn't find it if she didn't listen to me: "I'm very clever you know"
When a very loud thunderstorm was going on after she was in bed she came out and said "That storm is wrecking my beauty sleep"
When Jeff was brushing her hair: "I told you to stop brushing my hair. Number one, it hurts. Number two, it's annoying." Jeff told her she was being a little bossy. She said "I"m not bossy, the boys are bossy. I'm a rock star"

My worst nightmare almost came true a week or so ago...she told Tucker to cut some of her hair and he did it. Luckily he just cut a tiny bit off the end of her braid, a little bit of her sideburns, and a bit off the front little section that now is super annoying b/c I can't put it back in a ponytail without clipping it back. But when I think about what could have happened I can't be too upset. Her hair is my absolute favorite thing - I love to brush it, I love to do fun things with it, I love to look at it! It's all the way down to her waist and I hope she always likes to keep it long.

I just love this little girl so much. One of my very favorite things is when I sing her a song at bedtime and she sings with me so sweetly. She really, really loves to sing and she's great at memorizing songs. If Jeff puts her to bed he sings her a long song with lots of words and she knows all the verses. If she hears something just a few times she will just memorize it. Her favorite songs on the radio are 'crazy songs' like Dynamite. But she also loves Primary songs. I was so impressed this year when she could sing the prophet song the whole way through all by herself. She also loves to play in her room - we keep most all of her toys in there so they stay nice instead of getting all crazy and messy in the playroom. She will just sit and play Little People forever and her and Tucker love to dress up their squishy toys together. It's so fun having a girl and I love that she is so girly and loves pretty things but also can hold her own with her brothers. She loves for me to paint her toenails and put 'sparkles' on them. She practically lives in her dress up clothes and loves all her jewelry.

She is just awesome, plain and simple. Totally, completely awesome. We love you Ellie!!!!

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Update on Us:

Jeff: He has been in fairly good health lately! That's a big deal for him during this time of year. He is extremely thankful that the inversion has left though - he has been finding it rather difficult to breathe for about a month so some good air is very appreciated! He still really loves his job - one of the higher ups actually hinted that he might want Jeff to be a manger over a different department but Jeff likes what he's doing so much that he didn't want to move. And my personal favorite thing - he decided a few weeks ago that he was going to do the dishes from now on. This is huge news. I am loving it!

Jaimee: I always have a hard time coming up with something to say about me.... it's just same old, same old. Anything I do think of to say really belongs more under one of the kids. Ooh, I am trying to do more crafty things lately. I miss having projects to work on. One biggy is trying to make these really complicated blankets for all of the kids. I had intended them to be Christmas presents but then I realized that it will probably take me a year to make them all, so I'm shooting for next year. I'm not exactly great at sewing so I am crossing my fingers that they will turn out.

Duncan: I am trying to find a good soccer team for him to join for the spring season. His coach from fall quit halfway through and the dad who took over for him isn't really into it. He really has had the worst luck with teams. It has been so nice having a kid who is old enough to really help out with the youngest one. There are a lot of times where I put him in charge of Charlie while I get something done and he is awesome at it. He took the test to try and get into the ALL program at school next year so we are waiting to hear on that. I think he will enjoy it if he gets in - but if not no big deal.

Dayton: He was SO excited to get to go to Scouts finally. He has such a hard time waiting for things that Duncan gets to do first. He absolutely loves Scouts and was super excited to get his Bobcat badge last week. He also really likes the choir he started - he moved up from the youngest group to the middle group in Jan. and I was a little worried that he wouldn't like it as well since the younger group does a lot of playing in their class but he still loves going. He is doing really well in school, especially in math. My mom got him Skylanders for Christmas and it's his favorite present ever I think. He spends almost all day on Sat. over at her house playing it.

Tucker: Apparently being good at math runs in the family because Tucker's teacher told me at the last parents teacher conference that he is super smart with numbers and did the best of all the kids at the 'what do you know' meeting before school started. He of course absolutely loves kindergarten. He got sick a couple of times at the beginning of the month and he was so so sad to have to miss school. I think he's a little sleep deprived since he goes to bed at the same time as the other boys but when they all share a room it's a little hard to do otherwise. At least he doesn't have to get up early in the morning.

Ellie: She is loving dance school so much! They had a little in-class recital in Dec. and I just had to laugh watching her. She did what she was supposed to every so often but the rest of the time she just was in her own little world and did whatever. At one point she just laid down on the floor and pretended to sleep. I asked her teacher if she was like that in class and she said pretty much. At least she doesn't disturb the other girls though. Hopefully she will catch on soon that she should follow along the whole time. She is turning into a major daddy's girl. I used to sing her a song at bedtime every night but for the past month or so she asks for Jeff every night. And on the weekend she is thrilled that he gets to 'stay home with her' instead of going to work. I am trying not to get my feelings hurt.

Charlie: I cannot believe that my sweet little boy is almost one!! It kind of makes me sad. Since he is our last one all of the milestones he hits are bittersweet for me. But I try to not dwell on that and just be happy about him. He is so dang cute! His hair is getting so long in the front and is short in back, just like Ellie's was - sort of a reverse mullet. He crawls super fast all over the place now and stand up for small bits of time. I think he tried to take one tiny step the other day, but nothing approaching walking yet. We thought for the longest time that he refused to eat any kind of baby food, but apparently it was just me trying to feed him that he objected to. Now that Jeff does it he eats like a champ. We decided to finally get serious about teaching him to sleep at night but it isn't going that well. With him still sleeping in our room it's a little more difficult than normal. I am hoping that someday soon I won't fall asleep at 9:30 every night watching TV.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Happy Birthday Ellie!!!

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