It finally happened!!

It finally happened! After waiting for two years, Kiki grew some hair!! Doesn't she look beautiful?

Actually, hubby and I got invited to a Halloween party last night. He knew about it, but I didn't. We showed up an hour after I was told about it. I had no costume, but hubby came as Dr. Evil. Luckily, my friend had a "hippie costume." She also had this wig, so I was able to go as Foxy Brown (so foxy with my prego belly:).

Halloween 2008

Well, Halloween was here again; it Minot it was a balmy fifty degrees. Now, considering that we usually have snow on the ground and are running from the cars to the door, this was a great Halloween! Savanna was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and I have to say, pulled it off quite well.

Kennedy was a monkey (as she is most of the time), and drew lots of "oohs" and "what a cute little boy!" from onlookers. The only problem was that she wanted to stop after each house and sample the goods. This trick-or treating thing was right up her alley! At one point, she just finally sat on the curb and started opening her candy. After a lolly-pop, tootsie roll, and a box of Dots, we were able to finally find a way to keep her out of the candy.

Fun was had by all and the parents are grateful that we don't have to survive this dreadful holiday (if you can call it that since it's not a "holy-day") again for another year!!!

Can you tell what we're having?

Well, if you look at the picture on the top left, you can see that we are having.....another girl. No, Andy says we are not going to try for a boy. I guess it's up to Gene & Clarence to carry on the Ulat name:)

The top left picture is her foot, and the bottom right is her hand. She is extremely active and butt-down right now. Only 18 weeks to go:)

I hesitate...

I hesitate to put these picture up for fear that some weird pervert will download them. On the other hand, if we ever lost these pictures I would hope that someone would have downloaded them so that I can get a copy when it comes time to embarrass her at her wedding. This is a Savanna Grace outfit. As you can see, she has fitted herself with a red string strappy heel, an upside down bikini top, and mommy's sunglasses. The accessories include a pair of princess undies and lavendar socks.

And we thought Kennedy was the crazy one!

Fall is here

Manual labor is cheap around here!! The girls and I got out our rakes yesterday. They helped rake the leaves into a pile and eventually to put them in a bag. In between, they jumped and played, and basically ruined all of the piles. This was a good day for mommy's heart!!!

Spring is gone

The bikes will be put away soon:(

Ocean City

As some of you know, my dad died of a brain tumor on August 16th. After the funeral, Andy and I took the girls to Ocean City for a much needed breather. My Aunt Kathy and her two kids went with us, along with my Aunt Ronnie and her daughter Kim's family. The girls had so much fun running on the beach with Daddy, playing in the sand with their second cousins, and eating a lot of sandy snacks. Later that night we went to the boardwalk to ride rides and pick up a few tasty treats (Boardwalk fries and funnel cakes) while we shopped for souveniers. My dad used to take us here as kids all of the time. It really felt like he was there with my kids having fun!

Kennedy got to ride a few rides with mommy and Savanna, but Savanna's the one who ventured out and rode all of the big-kid rides. She's not scared of anything these days!!!

Kennedy's birthday

Kennedy Elise Ulat turned two-years old on Sept. 7th. She got so many presents that she didn't know what to do with herself. She got an Elmo cake since she likes Elmo a bit, and a ham dinner. Her latest words/phrase are "I don't know," "OKAY!!!," and many other little sassy numbers. The other day I got her out of the bathtub and went to put on her pajamas. When she saw them, she started crying and screaming, "NO!!!" I asked her what was wrong, and she held up the PJ's saying, "Why'd you pick this? Why'd you pick this?" She proceeded to get out another set of PJ's, held them up to me through tears streaming down her face, and said "This one Mama!"

On the up side, she has learned (from her big sister) her numbers from 1-10, her ABC's, and how to sing "Where is Thumbkin." She makes us laugh everyday, and keeps me busy as she is in to EVERYTHING!

I scream!

Ice cream...it's a Ulat thing.

Sisters

Dear God,

Please take care of my little sister. I love her even when she's pulling my hair and kicking me in the face. I know one day we'll be best friends. I know one day we'll both get married to boys. I know one day we'll both have babies and sit together quietly while they play in the yard. For today, I'll just hold her so she knows I love her. I'll wrap my arms around her so she can know love. So she can know You.

Two peas in a pod

Dad thought #1: I'm hungry. I wonder what's for dinner.
Dad thought #2: My head's kinda cold.

Kennedy thought #1: I'm hungry. I wonder what's for dinner.
Kennedy thought #2: My head's kinda cold.

Clouds

I asked Savanna the other day, what should we talk about? She says, "Let's talk about clouds!" "What about clouds should we talk about?" She says, "Let's talk about how you collect them."

Now, as an adult I'm thinking...collecting clouds is impossible. Let's see where she's going with this. "How do we collect clouds?" She says, "We could find a great big hill and climb all the way to the top. When, we get there, and if we make ourselves really tall, we can reach way up and pull them down. Then we can collect a bunch."

Lesson for mommy: To a four-year old, nothing's impossible.

Sometimes we're helpful...

Sometimes we're not!!!

Father Stan

In early May, our family was lessened by one. Our parish priest, Father Stan, PCS'd to another base. To say goodbye, out parish had a going away dinner, and Father insisted that all of the children dress up as Polish nobility (he is Polish). Well, to Savanna, if you say princess, then she's planning her outfit for days. In this case, it was weeks. We had to curl her hair, and although it isn't pictured here, she got to wear mommy's tiara.

This was also a sad occasion since Father baptised both of my babies, and to him they were his children. Savanna bawled and bawled and bawled. It's very upsetting to have a crying princess. They are inconsolable! Not only that, their tiaras wind up being on crooked, and that makes them even more inconsolable.

LFA Luau

Well, Andy just pulled his Last and Final Alert. He won't be going down in the hole anymore for as long as we all shall live (I hope I'm not eating those words later). To celebrate, Savanna Grace decided we needed a party. That's different than a get-together because we are celebrating (she just learned that everytime we get together with someone it's not necessarily a party!).

So Andy came home today from Juliet (one of his sites), and we threw a lei on him. We also made him wear a grass skirt! This was better, I think, than what he was already wearing. Because it was his last alert, the guys handcuffed him, threw him in the shower and poured pancake batter all over him. Then he had to go outside in the freezing cold. Since we got snow yesterday (yes...I know), it wasn't pleasant. Anyway, Savanna and Kennedy had their own balloon experiences. Savanna put one in each and waved them until the were hitting her in the head. Kennedy kicked them everywhere and threw them at Savanna. (Mom, don't read the next part). Mommy had enough of the balloons after blowing up all ten last night. It also reminded me that I guess I haven't fully healed from surgery. I guess exerting all of that pressure makes blood vessels angry enough to cause pain all the next day. Either way, we're all done with alerts! Yeah!!!!

Good times!

Savanna is so excited for two reasons today. First, she had no cavities at the dentist so her name got put into a drawing for a shirt. We found out last week that she won the shirt, and got her name in the Sunday paper (Minot...not a lot of big news around here). Second, she got this umbrella from a local book store, and we've had more rain than snow lately! Spring is a comin'! Just ask the birds around here. Kennedy hasn't given them a break all week. As soon as she spies a flock, she runs at them waving and screaming, "HI BIRDS!!!" They can't get away fast enough. We also saw a snake in the yard last week. It crossed right between Kennedy and me, with its head upright. I freaked out (calmly), while Kennedy just laughed and pointed as if to say, "He looks like he'd be fun to eat!"

Savanna has finally gotten a chance to ride the bike Santa got her. She's getting so big!! Thursday we rode all around the block and to the park with some friends. It's a Dora bike with a cool bell that tells the Dakrats to get out of the way!!

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

The girls read "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus." Well, we had to build a bus after that!! You can't see it, but there are two chairs in the bus and four paper plate wheels. Both vroomed and vroomed until Savanna got pulled over by mommy for going too fast!

Here is Kennedy on Easter afternoon. She has changed dresses since the morning dress had stains on it from her first taste of candy. This dress is from Mimi too! Notice that it too already has a stain. We caught her sitting on the table with about 7 jellybeans that she had managed to stuff into her mouth. Who brought the jellybeans?

Savanna had a great time hunting eggs! Dad and Brandon hid some eggs out back (notice no snow), and the kids went crazy. We also put out some cascarones (confetti filled eggs) that they enjoyed cracking over heads. They were joined by Bailey, Braelynn, David, and Dominic in their quest for the most eggs.

Savanna is in a different dress than from the morning (at mommy's insistance). Mimi bought her this, and we are craving spring. This dress definitely shouted spring!

Easter morning

Well, this is a little late in coming, but here are my girls the morning of Easter. Both were excited to attend mass. What's not to love? They get to dress up in pretty dresses and have everyone coo over them! That Jesus thing is important too (hopefully that love will come in time:).

They aren't the best pictures here, but it's really hard to keep these two from wiggling away from a posed shot! Hope everyone had a great Easter as well!