Jack and the Seadoo

Jack loves driving the Seadoo at the Lake. However, we do believe he now doesn't like the innertube. We went on a ride on Sunday morning and unfortunately, Jack and Jeff fell off together, backwards, so mom bailed too. Jack screamed and kept telling me he wanted to go home. Poor Jack. Unfortunately for him, dad and mom will make him get back on the tube next time we are down there. Let's hope we don't fall off!

Great Grandparents

I just wanted to post a couple of pictures of the Great-

Grandparents with the grandkids. I think

Grandma said it best, "My cup runneth over!" I do believe they had a good weekend with the grandbabies!

Hailey Paige Beisser and Ainsley

This weekend I finally met my new niece, Hailey. The girls are exactly 6 weeks apart to the time! We had a wonderful weekend seeing Kelly, the great-grandparents, grandparents, and Matt. It is amazing to think that Ainsley is 11 weeks old this week and Hailey is 5 weeks old. The picture on the left shows Ainsley in the hairbow and Hailey to her right. I can't wait to watch these girls grow up!! What fun it will be!

Wacky, Wild Day

After leaving the Lake this afternoon after a wonderful weekend with family, meeting my new neice Hailey, and seeing great-grandma and grandpa, which I will blog about later, we encountered huge thuderstorms. Here we were, just riding along, listening to the NASCAR race (go Junior!) when the radio station started in on severe thunderstorm warnings. Now, we drive 54 alot when we go to the lake, but we just aren't familar with the counties. We can see the thunderstorms, but really don't know where they are located. After numerous interruptions, which really was begining to irritate us, I finally pull out a map of Missouri to see where these counties they were talking about were located. Low and behold, we were headed right toward them. We talk about it for a minute and decide to head on because we were hoping they would pass before we reached the really bad part. Then we hear yet another warning, but this time it was a TORNADO WARNING. We listened to the information again and realized we were headed right toward it. What are we to do? Here we have our two kids, a dog, and a car full of stuff, really don't know where we are in relation to the storm and have no radar in the car. I really wish with today's technology we had weather radios in cars and now I really would like a radar in my car so I could see the storm. It is amazing what we rely upon when in these situations.

A couple of minutes later we enter a town called Weaubleau, Missouri--approximately 4 miles east of the 54/13 interchange. As we enter town we hear the tornado sirens. We start to look around as to where to stop, but we have no idea and just follow the other cars out of town. We listen to the radio, look at the map and decide to go ahead because it seemed the storm was north of us. However, we were WRONG. No more than a mile out of town we see this ominous wall cloud in front of us and it kinda seems like it is rotating. We begin to realize THIS was a tornado. We turn to go back into town where we stop at a Shell gas station. I run inside and ask the ladies where is the storm shelter. They then tell me to get my family and come into the store and get into the cooler. Needless to say, I was SCARED! We had to get the kids out of the car and of course both were sleeping, and leave Roxy in the car. We felt terrible for her, but we made it out okay. We stayed at the station for about 45 minutes before getting back into the car. The ladies at the Shell station were wonderful! We later found out the Baptist church across the street and down a little is the storm shelter--just so you know if you are ever in Weaubleau, Missouri, you know where the local storm shelter is located.

We met another family from Lawrence while during this adventure. We both had two little kids and had been visinting the lake for the weekend and also really didn't feel like hitting the ditches with the kids. We also met another wonderful lady and her three kids. She was so nice--she bought Jack a sucker and chips because he was so scared. The people in the town were so friendly and welcoming. We called our families and let them know we were okay. Of course they were happy and scared (we had just called my parents to let them know what was happening in case we were stuck in the cooler in the Shell station because of the tornado and our phone lost signal for a bit so they were a bit more scared), but also asked if we took any pictures and of course I didn't because it was just scary. I can't really describe it but a large cloud touching the ground and rotating around. Fortunately, I don't believe there was any damage, but now I can saw I have seen a tornado. By the time we got to Highway 13 we saw the sun again--all the way up to Kansas City. I couldn't believe how nice it was to see the sun!

Happy Father's Day!!!

After yet another storm night we will be heading this weekend to the Lake for Father's Day weekend. Ainsley will meet her Great-Grandma and Grandpa Doty this weekend before they take off for their summer vacation. We will also get to finally meet my neice (cousin) Hailey for the first time! I'm so excited to be an Aunt. Finally a kid I can spoil and send back home to mom and dad. I can't wait for the day that Hailey will come and visit and play with Jack and Ainsley by herself. My aunts and uncles used to take Rob and I for up to a week during the summer doing all sorts of fun stuff. I remember before my cousins Jeff and Amy were born my Aunt Shirley taking us to Oceans of Fun and Kaledescope here in KC. My other Aunts--Joan and Nola would take all of us cousins to Worlds of Fun, the diner in Forest City, and the city pool in Oregon, MO. Those were the fun and easy days! I only hope I get to make those memories with my neice.

I hope all the men with kids out there have a wonderful Father's Day!

Potty Training Updae

I kept both kids home yesterday because I wanted to concentrate with Jack on potty training. On Wednesday night, Jack and I visited Target to find toys, aka--bribes--for potty training. We purchased everything from paratroopers to trucks to trains to dvds. We were very successful yesterday! We also made a potty chart so everytime he tells mommy or daddy he receives a stickers. After he receives a designated amount he receives a toys. Yesterday he was so successful he received three toys!!! He still won't poop in the toilet, but he is now telling me as soon as he has finished--Hey, that's progress for us! We'll take anything right now! I'm hoping he will have this down pretty soon. Keeping our (yours too!) crossed...

Ainsley's 2 month Check-Up

Yesterday was Ainsley's two month checkup. She received her 3 shots and an oral vaccine. She's a bleeder with the shots, but she doesn't scream as much as Jack does!

Weight: 1o lbs. 5 oz (50th percentile)

Length: 23 inches (75th percentile)

She smiles, she coos, she SLEEPS!! It is amazing, she looks like Jack, but they have completely different personalities. He was always nursing and awake--I mean he never slept! Ainsley eats regularly, just not constant and sleeps! Now, I know the blog name is never wake a sleeping baby, but sometimes I have to a night or she will sleep all night and I will have tons of pain since I am still nursing!!! Our family has decided Jack has Jeff's sleeping habits and Ainsley has my sleeping habits. I forsee the future: the girls sleeping in and the boys out playing on the weekends at the crack of dawn--Oh yea--that has already happened!

My kids are amazing--I can be having a rotten day and just a smile or a lion kiss will completely change my mood. I love you two!

Jack at 2 months

Ainsley at 2 months

My kids are amazing--I can be having a rotten day, but a smile or a lion kiss will completely change my moode. I love you two!! I have a friend, Janel, who said, "Keep a camera around because they change so much". Man she was right. Thanks for telling me because our camera is always out!