Caid Quotes

We had been running errands all day and the last one was to Target. (We may end up at Target about once a week.) As we pulled in, Caid yells "Awww. Now we're back to normal!"

After I turned Dora on for her one day, Caid looked at me and in all seriousness, says "Mom, you're a good mom."

During a visit from our Home Teachers, Caid farted. It was pretty quiet so I tried to hold in my smile and continued listening to them talking. Then she goes, "It was me! I farted!"

Caid was acting up during church. (Surprise, surprise.) I took her out in the foyer and asked if I needed to take her home for a nap. "No, I'm calming down. (Huff, phew.) See, I take deep breaths."

Me and Zach were fighting over who was her best friend. She finally started yelling over us "Guys, guys, guys! You all my best friends!"

I had to go to the dr. and get a mole removed. Caid sometimes gets boobs confused with other body parts. I told her I was going to the dr. to have a mole cut off. As soon as I got home she ran up and asked "Did the dr. cut your boobs off?"

Christmas 2010

Christmas is 100x more fun now that I have kids! Caid was too young last year so she didn't really know what to expect this year, but I think she liked it. But since there were presents she figured it was her birthday and would get really mad if you tried to tell her otherwise. I didn't take any pictures of our Rideout Christmas Eve Eve, but I did take my camera and left it there so I also didn't get any pictures of our Eldredge Christmas Eve or even Christmas morning. I took a few on my phone just to make sure we knew we did celebrate this year.

Zach decided he wanted to start a new tradition of doing a new puzzle on Christmas Eve. It was really fun until 4 1/2 hours later when we were just finishing, and couldn't find the last piece. We did eventually find it under the couch.

Caid didn't know what it meant to ask Santa for something. She didn't know who or what the big deal was. We got her a few fun things we knew she'd like and figured we were good. Three days before Christmas she had a dr appt and one of the nurses asked what she wanted for Christmas. Without hesitation she answered "A mermaid sleeping bag." What?! Where did this decision come from? And that's all she could talk about until Christmas day. Luckily the big guy came through for us. (And UPS who showed up at 4 o'clock on Christmas Eve.)

All Jordy got for Christmas was her two front teeth! (Haha so clever!)

And Christmas day she discovered marshmallows!

Merry Christmas!! We had a great holiday season! Both kids are wiped out and napping, so it may only be 5 o'clock on Christmas night, but I've already taken down the tree and all the decorations and even had time to blog about it.

Sugar Cookies

We had a fun night of pizza and sugar cookies with the Rideout cousins. Obviously Franklin hasn't heard the story of the Little Red Hen. As you can see, he didn't help at all but he still ate them all when we got home!

9 Months

Weight: 17 lbs (25-50th percentile)
Height: 27.5 inches (50-75th percentile)
*loves to crawl wherever Caid is and steal her food
*pulling on Christmas tree, XBox, computer, pulls everything off the shelves on the desk--basically into everything!
*happy screams
*loves Franklin
*pulls herself standing to furniture and shakes her bum

This has been a traumatic week for Jord. Monday she had a checkup and flu shot. Tuesday she was sick from her flu shot and broke out in a terrible diaper rash so back to the dr for medicine. Friday she got her ears pierced. When we got home from getting her ears pierced her mean mom slammed her foot in the car door. (And I think I cried as hard as she did I felt so bad! Luckily it just bled and ripped a little skin off. No broken bones.) And Saturday not one, but both bottom teeth finally broke thru!! Don't worry Jordy, Santa will be here next week to spoil you!

I'm not mailing out cards this year so feel free to print and post on your fridge! :) jk
Merry Christmas from the Rideouts!!

Ear Piercing

I almost can't even stand to look at this first picture. But she was more mad that I was holding her still than about the piercing. So while Caid has been potty training we made a deal with her that once she can go a few days without accidents, we would take her to get her ears pierced. So today was that day. Zach had the morning off so we loaded up and went to the mall (which was a madhouse!) We got to the store, got in the chair, and I made the mistake of warning Caid that it might hurt a little bit. And she lost it. She started crying and screaming that she didn't want it done. So I figured that since we were already there, I'd get Jordyn's done instead. Zach has never gone to the girls' dr. appts before because he doesn't want to watch them get shots (even though he gives Caid her shots everyday) so it was torture for him to watch Jordyn cry and he refuses to go back when Caid gets hers done.Jordyn recovered quickly and looks adorable. But as I was laying her down for her nap, I noticed one of the earring backs was missing. I ran back to the crazy packed mall and finally found a parking spot. I went in and told her I got home and one of the backs was missing. She didn't say one word to me, just rolled her eyes and handed me an earring back. Customer Service people!! (So who cares if I got home and found the other back in Jordyn's jacket. The worker didn't have to be such a brat!)
And maybe one of these days Caid will decide she is ready...

First Tennis Lesson

Not very successful but at least she had fun and looked cute doing it!!

Last night we were sung to sleep with the sweet lullabye of "Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you? Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?..." over and over and over from Caidence. And every time she is "on the phone" she is talking to either Rachel or Chandler. At least she has great taste in shows!

Live Nativity

I was on the committee for the Ward Christmas party this year. We wanted to do something different than the usual dinner and reading the Nativity story. We heard about the Live Nativity that they do every year out in Riverton and found out that you can rent the animals. We read the Nativity story, but had all the kids dressed as angels or shepherds and had a manger built, AND we had a donkey, sheep, goats, and a camel. It turned out wonderful and heard it was the best Christmas party they had been to from a lot of people...

But my dad came home from church today with the inside scoop. He was talking to the Bishop and found out what had happened the day after the party:

This weekend was Stake Conference so there was a crew that went in to clean the church. When they got there, they noticed camel poo smeared on the carpet. They called the head of the cleanup and told him to come look at the church. He then called the Stake President who happens to be in his Ward and told him to come down and look at his church building. Well, at this point there is a member of our Ward that works at the Church Office Building who had been to the party and was hearing people all over the Church Office Building talking about some Ward that had a party with camels and had camel crap all over their church. So the Stake President, Pres. Mantyla, calls our Bishop and asks if he has a minute to talk. He says "So I hear you had a party last night." Bishop: "Yeah we did." Pres.: "And I hear there's camel poop on the carpet?" Bishop: "Yeah we have someone coming to clean the carpets today." Pres: "So you had a camel in the church?" Bishop: "President, I looked through the entire handbook and nowhere did it say no livestock were allowed in the church." Pres.: "Well, you're right. I couldn't find it anywhere in the handbook either."

My dad said the Bishop was laughing through the entire story. Only our Bishop would let us get away with something like this.