babies. we just had gg visit, and she sure enjoyed both of you. we went to idaho and stayed at a b&b that had a pool, and we had a lot of fun.
makena, you are three months and you smile nonstop, and you have the same smile as your sister, where you smile with your eyes. can someone really be that happy! I can't believe it! gg loved holding you, and you would just smile and coo at her. it was a treasure to watch.
giselle, you would read a book at night with her and she enjoyed that, but you are two and off running around. you asked gg when you saw her in the bath if she had milk in her boobs too. she got a kick out of that.
makena, you still won't take the bottle, and I am with you all the time. you don't seem to mind. you gave gg a parting gift by having a blow out on her lap. you eyes are looking blue, but deeper and darker.
giselle, you are so funny. the other day you asked if we were going to bingo night.you heard it on a cartoon, and you just repeat. it's cute. and you always ask why over and over and over. you went to the dentist and did so good. I can't believe you sat in the chair and let them clean your teeth! every day your hair is sticky with something, and you don't mind being a mess..and you like to dress yourself. the other day was nice and hot and you wore boots and your hat. pretty cute.
you had fun at the easter hunt this year, and since we don't let you have suckers, when the timer went off, you found every sucker in the field, and were so excited! you like the easter bunny this year, and we got a picture with him. makena, you are so enjoyable, I almost can't stand how much of a little blessing you are. I just eat you up. giselle and I kiss you nonstop. you love it and have started grabbing giselles hair. you found your little feet, and stand up so well. and you just smile your little face off. you went in the pool for the first time and loved it. funny, considering you don't like the bath. but happy you had fun! we are going to palm springs and vegas next week...hope we have a good trip!
we feel so blessed to have you two treasures!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
My Parents
Now that I have children of my own,
I realize the hard work and love it takes to be a parent.
and now I can appreciate every stage you went through with me, except you had four of us to handle.
and I want to say how proud and happy I am to call you mom and dad.
except mom, you didn't breastfeed us, and I think that is why we all had ear infections.
we sure were lucky to have you as our parents.
I can't imagine the work that went in to cooking and cleaning up after all of us, and you still do it. when you come here, or we stay at the house. maybe you treated us too good, because I don't like to clean much, and I could go days without seeing the vacuum. in fact, half the time I don't know where it is.
mom I don't know how you took us to germany at such a young age by yourself. traveling with toddlers is not easy, and you seemed to have me in dressed nice and took us everywhere. I can't seem to get the sticky knots out of Giselle's hair every day. I must have been an angel. It meant a lot to see oma and opa and spend time with them where you grew up. I appreciate hearing the stories of your growing up, as I can't imagine how hard it was to live in a refuge camp, and have your parents struggle to survive. I also can't imagine losing a sister who you never got to know. or leaving your family at 18 to move to the US. if you didn't, you would have never had the blind date with dad, and none of us would be here. it's amazing how life is meant to be. I am so glad you didn't end up with Dennis ;). We are all lucky to have siblings, and although I think we are all weird and very different, especially Maria :), it is a blessing to have siblings, and we all get along. it should make you realize you did something right to have us all get along.
I know over the last 35 years of my life, how much you have shaped me to be who I am. I am content and happy because I am loved by you both so much. I lucked out, you were never pushy to make me do things I didn't want to do, but supported me in the decisions I made, and you let me be a kid, and never pushed me to grow up too quick. you took us on many trips, and even camping and girl scout camp, which I know wasn't moms favorite, but you took me anyways. you spent many evenings helping me sell cookies door to door, and made me cabbage patch dolls and care bears. I know the time and love you spent making my childhood special. dad spent so much time with us playing tennis, which i never was good at, and helping us learn to drive a stick, racquetball, skiing, camping, running, swimming, soccer, and taking us to every river, and lake all around. and the trips in the van singing the beach boys will always be memorable. and not that you didn't have enough kids of your own, you always let us bring our friends. in fact, you were always a safe haven for all the neighborhood kids, who's own were sometimes homes were filled with alcohol, drugs, and unfit parents. even after the house was broken in to, you still allowed Jordan's friends to come over. thats something most grandparents wouldn't do. you must know how much you mean to all the friends that got to spend time at the house.
dad, your character is one I truly look up to. you have shown by example on how to be a giving, caring, and honest person. I could only hope someday to be as good as you. I tried to marry someone like you, and I think I have. thank you for being such a good dad that I wanted to find someone just like you, that treats their family well, and loves their children. you do so much for others, and the church, and us that it's hard to find fault in you. although you do have selective hearing. and sometimes you need to leave since happy hour.
mom, I sure enjoy having coffee with you, and just being with you. I know some girls who don't like their mothers, and although I don't enjoy the casino as much as you, or smoking, I can't imagine anyone I would rather spend time with. the feeling of love surrounds you, and you are the heart of our family. I can't imagine life with out you. you must realize how much a part of me you are, and how happy I am knowing I have you. you are the comedian too. I enjoy all the stories of you and dad, and especially the one where he tore up your beautiful yard, and made it look like there was a gravesite with the raised grass. you two are very funny, and you should have your own honeymooners show.
you have also been the most loving grandparents to the girls.
forty years is a lot to celebrate. I hope you realize that we realize how amazing it is. even if we are in vegas on your anniversary, we will be celebrating there. for heavens sake you surely didn't let me forget it this year.
Now that I have children of my own,
I realize the hard work and love it takes to be a parent.
and now I can appreciate every stage you went through with me, except you had four of us to handle.
and I want to say how proud and happy I am to call you mom and dad.
except mom, you didn't breastfeed us, and I think that is why we all had ear infections.
we sure were lucky to have you as our parents.
I can't imagine the work that went in to cooking and cleaning up after all of us, and you still do it. when you come here, or we stay at the house. maybe you treated us too good, because I don't like to clean much, and I could go days without seeing the vacuum. in fact, half the time I don't know where it is.
mom I don't know how you took us to germany at such a young age by yourself. traveling with toddlers is not easy, and you seemed to have me in dressed nice and took us everywhere. I can't seem to get the sticky knots out of Giselle's hair every day. I must have been an angel. It meant a lot to see oma and opa and spend time with them where you grew up. I appreciate hearing the stories of your growing up, as I can't imagine how hard it was to live in a refuge camp, and have your parents struggle to survive. I also can't imagine losing a sister who you never got to know. or leaving your family at 18 to move to the US. if you didn't, you would have never had the blind date with dad, and none of us would be here. it's amazing how life is meant to be. I am so glad you didn't end up with Dennis ;). We are all lucky to have siblings, and although I think we are all weird and very different, especially Maria :), it is a blessing to have siblings, and we all get along. it should make you realize you did something right to have us all get along.
I know over the last 35 years of my life, how much you have shaped me to be who I am. I am content and happy because I am loved by you both so much. I lucked out, you were never pushy to make me do things I didn't want to do, but supported me in the decisions I made, and you let me be a kid, and never pushed me to grow up too quick. you took us on many trips, and even camping and girl scout camp, which I know wasn't moms favorite, but you took me anyways. you spent many evenings helping me sell cookies door to door, and made me cabbage patch dolls and care bears. I know the time and love you spent making my childhood special. dad spent so much time with us playing tennis, which i never was good at, and helping us learn to drive a stick, racquetball, skiing, camping, running, swimming, soccer, and taking us to every river, and lake all around. and the trips in the van singing the beach boys will always be memorable. and not that you didn't have enough kids of your own, you always let us bring our friends. in fact, you were always a safe haven for all the neighborhood kids, who's own were sometimes homes were filled with alcohol, drugs, and unfit parents. even after the house was broken in to, you still allowed Jordan's friends to come over. thats something most grandparents wouldn't do. you must know how much you mean to all the friends that got to spend time at the house.
dad, your character is one I truly look up to. you have shown by example on how to be a giving, caring, and honest person. I could only hope someday to be as good as you. I tried to marry someone like you, and I think I have. thank you for being such a good dad that I wanted to find someone just like you, that treats their family well, and loves their children. you do so much for others, and the church, and us that it's hard to find fault in you. although you do have selective hearing. and sometimes you need to leave since happy hour.
mom, I sure enjoy having coffee with you, and just being with you. I know some girls who don't like their mothers, and although I don't enjoy the casino as much as you, or smoking, I can't imagine anyone I would rather spend time with. the feeling of love surrounds you, and you are the heart of our family. I can't imagine life with out you. you must realize how much a part of me you are, and how happy I am knowing I have you. you are the comedian too. I enjoy all the stories of you and dad, and especially the one where he tore up your beautiful yard, and made it look like there was a gravesite with the raised grass. you two are very funny, and you should have your own honeymooners show.
you have also been the most loving grandparents to the girls.
forty years is a lot to celebrate. I hope you realize that we realize how amazing it is. even if we are in vegas on your anniversary, we will be celebrating there. for heavens sake you surely didn't let me forget it this year.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
hi girls
I wrote a long post and it deleted, so I just haven't posted in a while, because I felt like I poured my heart out and it all was lost~ but alas I move on. makena, you are three months now...my little baby. I could just eat you up. I just sit and kiss you and sing to you and love you all day long. I can't get enough of you. I really have had a laid back approach to parenting this time, and so far so good. you sleep well, and you eat well, and you smile smile smile all day. you are so happy and calm and its incredibly irresistable. I seriously almost bite you :). but, you wont take a bottle..you gag, so freetime for me, is pretty much impossible. not that I mind, as this stage goes by so fast, but it's a little hard. you are so advance...of course:), you love to stand and you hold your head so well. you can sit in the play thing now and you look all around, and you talk and try to communitcate with me...agoo. agoo.you are in the 98% so you are bigger than most babies. giselle, my little girl, everytime I hear a song about how fast kids grow, I just want to cry. if i could bottle you up and hold you at each age I would. I just love everything about you and its hard to see you grow so fast. you are so loving to us, and you still grab our ears, and you like to put your nose against our face as comfort. you do it to the baby too. you are all over her. you leave wet marks in her hair, all sticky, from all your kisses. and then you step on her forehead and leave a shoeprint. I am just waking her up mom. I am just wanting her to be awake. I am just playing with her mom. you are all over her. it's cute, but always have to check that you dont smother her. you talk to her like she understands everything you say..makena I am so proud of you. it cracks me up. you took your stoller to home depot with your baby the other day. you love your babies too. and you insisted on getting hunter and auntie andrea a flower. you are very thoughtful. you had your school review, and they said you always worry when other kids are having a bad day and you try to make them feel better. that made me so proud how loving you are. we have been pretty active considering trying to do anything with a newborn and toddler is difficult. the feeding in the car, the crying in the carseat, the getting ready..it's all a challenge..wanting a snack, pooping the pants. literally all day it's just a crazy zoo, but I love it. not that our house is clean or I get anything done, but I love taking care of you both. most days, giselle you come up to my bed around5 when you wake up yelling for daddy...we sleep and feed till around 8, and go down for breakfast. giselle you "help" cook eggs and toast, while makena swings in her swing. I drink coffee after coffee, and we down breakfast, but giselle you usally don't eat and cry for pink cookies or something awful. then we play or color, or head to the community center to play, or to the zoo, or kidquest, or the farm, or the beach, or park...lots of fun and activity. then giselle you have school a few days a week, and I go to the gym to work out..sometimes its twenty minutes until makena has a blow out, and they dont change diapers, so off we go. then it's grocery shopping or me editing photos, or sleeping until my baby giselle gets out of school. I want daddy to pick me up. but when you get to the house,you are so excited to see me. and I always ask you to tell me all about school...what did you eat...who did you play with. you sometimes share...devin was not very nice to me..she is sick. anthony is my best friend...and you are always singing songs from music class with jason. then we eat and play and daddy reads you books (same ones over and over and over..the dinasaur one and one other one. you say your prayer and off to bed. unless its friday..you get to sleep in "mommy's bed"and you love that! you both are the loves of our lives...and we are so lucky.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
welcome to the family makena!
makena, you are such a little blessing. I didn't realize I would love being a mommy to two so much. first, you are a sweet sweet baby, with such an easy going personality, that you are just so lovely to hold and cuddle up and love. you are so warm, and you curl your little body up, and put your legs like a frog, and lay on me, and I can't get enough of it. and your sister giselle, loves you so much, I just want to bottle up the beautiful relationship of you two. she treats you like she is your mommy, and cares for you. but there is a fine line between loving and smothering. she wants you so close, she almost sits on you when she sees you in the swing, or presses her face against yours so hard, that she doesn't realize how fragile you are. she tries to pick you up, and she always wants to hold you. she holds you for two seconds and says " I think her poop" or I think her hungry. and if you are crying in the car, she repeats what I say to you... but with sissy. sissy here...it's okay, were almost there, sissy's here. and you love watching her, and get a big smile when you see her. you started smiling at four weeks, and you rolled to your side right after birth. your legs are strong and you love to stand and press up, and you can hold your head up now too. you grew so fast, after two weeks you went from 21.25 inches to 22.5. you are trying to communicate now too, with your little cute voice, you concentrate so hard, and seem so happy to say ahhh, or just a little something to me. and I sing a lot to you and make funny noises, and you look at me as if I am interesting, but a little crazy. you raise your eyebrows, and give a cute little grin. you are so happy, and content, and calm, I didn't realize it could be this easy. I am so happy you are a good baby! you have your first cold and your poor little nose is plugged up, so trying to get you to eat/sleep has been difficult. lots of time in the shower in the middle of the night, and trying to unplug your nose w/the bulb thingy. and you don't even get too upset about that. you sleep a lot. giselle was up all the time, so this sleep all day thing is unreal. I try to wake you, and I even thought there was something wrong, because I am just not used to it.
you try really hard to breastfeed, and it is always a little hard to get you started, and I tried to introduce the bottle, and you gag and choke. I am hoping it gets easier for you, as you are attached at my side, which I love, but at some point, I need to get to the gym! you eat when you are awake whenever you want, which is usually every hour right now, so at some point, we need to use the bottle every once and awhile. you want nothing to do with the pacifier either.
you have made a beautiful light to our family, and we all have enjoyed you. don't want you to grow up, if I could keep you like this I would. but, I can't wait to watch you grow. we love you!!!
giselle, you have been such an amazing sister. you are so loving and I just thought you would be a little jealous, but you have welcomed her, and been so good about me holding her all the time, and feeding her. you crack me up, as you watch me and try to breastfeed your dolls, or you repeat everything we say about the baby, hi pupmkin, or right when you get home, hows the baby? when we were at the hospital, you asked where her mommy was...and I said I am her mommy and you said no your are my mommy. but that was it. you love being a big sister. sometimes if you want me and are crying, you yell to daddy..you take her. we took you skating for the first time at alki skate, and it was pretty amusing! lots of feet coming out from under you! and it was such a struggle, but you liked it! and you told daddy you wish you were bigger so you could skate. and you want to go back! we still go to the gymnastics place and you run and jump freely and enjoy that, and daddy took you swimming tonight. I have loved being home with you. right now your big thing is Why? you are almost potty trained, and the one thing you love to do is sleep with us, so we said when you go number two you can sleep in our bed, and you did it once, and were so proud of yourself, but haven't since, so we are waiting for you to get it. but, every friday we let you sleep with us, as we know you are growing so fast, and wont want to sleep with us eventually. so we love it! you talk up a storm, and sing songs to cartoons, like agent oso..ok, gotta run makena is fussing! love you!
you try really hard to breastfeed, and it is always a little hard to get you started, and I tried to introduce the bottle, and you gag and choke. I am hoping it gets easier for you, as you are attached at my side, which I love, but at some point, I need to get to the gym! you eat when you are awake whenever you want, which is usually every hour right now, so at some point, we need to use the bottle every once and awhile. you want nothing to do with the pacifier either.
you have made a beautiful light to our family, and we all have enjoyed you. don't want you to grow up, if I could keep you like this I would. but, I can't wait to watch you grow. we love you!!!
giselle, you have been such an amazing sister. you are so loving and I just thought you would be a little jealous, but you have welcomed her, and been so good about me holding her all the time, and feeding her. you crack me up, as you watch me and try to breastfeed your dolls, or you repeat everything we say about the baby, hi pupmkin, or right when you get home, hows the baby? when we were at the hospital, you asked where her mommy was...and I said I am her mommy and you said no your are my mommy. but that was it. you love being a big sister. sometimes if you want me and are crying, you yell to daddy..you take her. we took you skating for the first time at alki skate, and it was pretty amusing! lots of feet coming out from under you! and it was such a struggle, but you liked it! and you told daddy you wish you were bigger so you could skate. and you want to go back! we still go to the gymnastics place and you run and jump freely and enjoy that, and daddy took you swimming tonight. I have loved being home with you. right now your big thing is Why? you are almost potty trained, and the one thing you love to do is sleep with us, so we said when you go number two you can sleep in our bed, and you did it once, and were so proud of yourself, but haven't since, so we are waiting for you to get it. but, every friday we let you sleep with us, as we know you are growing so fast, and wont want to sleep with us eventually. so we love it! you talk up a storm, and sing songs to cartoons, like agent oso..ok, gotta run makena is fussing! love you!
Friday, January 6, 2012
hi love
I have so enjoyed being home with you after being laid off in November. I really couldn't imagine a better life. I am so in love with you, and just absolutely love spending time with you. you are a peach, and you smile is to die for. anyways, I just feel blessed to spend time with you. especially before your sister comes. any day now! you saw my belly move today as you put a toy on it, and it moved. you seem excited about baby, and I am excited for you to have a sister, but there is a part of me that will miss it just being you and me. this time has been so precious. you are my first born, and you and I will always have a close bond. I spent so much time with you, and now I have to share it with your sister. I know my heart will grow, but I do know it will be hard to feed a newborn and change her and make sure I am giving you as much attention. I know you will be a big help, but know that I know it will be hard for both of us. I am hoping we can take special moments of you and me time and dates out, so you know how special and important you are to me. my heart is filled with joy, and you are such a blessing, I just can't believe we will be blessed with a sister for you too. you have started to repeat all of my words that I say to you..it's pretty funny. I will say don't go in the road, and you repeat so I don't get ran over. or make sure you brush your teeth, "so I don't get cabities?" or you need to put your seat belt on, "so the polizie?" yes honey, you are learning. the other day you said I am your mommy and daddy is your daddy, and lucy (your dog) is your friend. it was pretty cute. and you were playing in your play kitchen and you were carrying your baby and said mammas here, and then you put her in the microwave. hmmmm.
you had a nice christmas this year, and enjoyed opening presents. it was fun for us to watch you. you had your elf on the shelf that you would look for every day, and you knew you couldn't touch him. and you would tell me not to touch him, and you thought if you did santa would bring you "cold". thats what your uncle told you. and we did a lot of christmas activities...we went to the issaquah zoo w/reindeer and you saw santa, you still are afraid of him. you get so excited to see him, and talk all about him, then we get up there and you don't want to see him, but you definitely want the candy cane, so you make us go with you. we went to see lots of lights, and you would get so excited when you saw lights " look mommy look at all THAT lights!!!!" and we went to stanwood beach for this amazing christmas celebration with a train, and lights, and mini donuts, and ponies, and jesus. you loved it. and we went to church and you saw grandpa singing. you had your first preformance at school, and you had rudolphs nose and antlers on, you were very cute. and you stood there holding one of the older kids hand, and put your other hand in your mouth the whole time. but sometimes you love to sing, and we put a video on youtube of you singing jesus loves me, and so many people have went to see you sing your heart out, it's adorable. and at little gym today, you were the only one singing so loud to twinkle little star. you are two and a half now and still working on potty training, you do amazing peeing but freak out about number two, and you still love your pacifier. so, a few things we are working on, but other than that you are doing amazing. you know your shapes and colors, and you can count in german and spanish, and you know who mommy's mommy is and daddy's mommy and you know who my brother and sister are, and you know your whole name is giselle rose hoven and you say sonja elisabet hoven and andrew russell hoven. you are talking up a storm, and I love when you first wake up, and just say what you are randomly dreaming about. you just start going and don't stop. it's funny. love you baby!
you had a nice christmas this year, and enjoyed opening presents. it was fun for us to watch you. you had your elf on the shelf that you would look for every day, and you knew you couldn't touch him. and you would tell me not to touch him, and you thought if you did santa would bring you "cold". thats what your uncle told you. and we did a lot of christmas activities...we went to the issaquah zoo w/reindeer and you saw santa, you still are afraid of him. you get so excited to see him, and talk all about him, then we get up there and you don't want to see him, but you definitely want the candy cane, so you make us go with you. we went to see lots of lights, and you would get so excited when you saw lights " look mommy look at all THAT lights!!!!" and we went to stanwood beach for this amazing christmas celebration with a train, and lights, and mini donuts, and ponies, and jesus. you loved it. and we went to church and you saw grandpa singing. you had your first preformance at school, and you had rudolphs nose and antlers on, you were very cute. and you stood there holding one of the older kids hand, and put your other hand in your mouth the whole time. but sometimes you love to sing, and we put a video on youtube of you singing jesus loves me, and so many people have went to see you sing your heart out, it's adorable. and at little gym today, you were the only one singing so loud to twinkle little star. you are two and a half now and still working on potty training, you do amazing peeing but freak out about number two, and you still love your pacifier. so, a few things we are working on, but other than that you are doing amazing. you know your shapes and colors, and you can count in german and spanish, and you know who mommy's mommy is and daddy's mommy and you know who my brother and sister are, and you know your whole name is giselle rose hoven and you say sonja elisabet hoven and andrew russell hoven. you are talking up a storm, and I love when you first wake up, and just say what you are randomly dreaming about. you just start going and don't stop. it's funny. love you baby!
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Hawaii
Hi sweety
I wanted to write about our trip to Hawaii we just got back and today is Saturday December the 3rd. Right now your mom is pragnant with your sister and we are excited to meet her. You are finally starting to understand a little bit that you will soon have a sister. You have kissed Mommy's belly a couple of times and just last night you were pointing to your belly and saying you had a baby in there - silly girl! This morning we went downstairs and you watched Mickey Mouse and Little Einstiens for a little bit.
We went to Hawaii for two weeks this was your second time in Hawaii. We went there for your Uncle Tom and Aunt Andrea's wedding they rented a cool house with a pool and a hottub we also spent a lot of time with your Oma and Pappa. You really loved to go in the water this trip you started swimming around with your life jacket and you jumped into the pool from the edge trying to jump farther each time. You also loved to go into the "bathtub" as you called it but it was really the hottub at the hotel. You also liked to go down to the beach and play in the sand your favorite thing to do was destroy sand catles. On the last day we were in Hawaii you met a 7 year old little girl and had a fund time playing with her at the beach.
I wanted to write about our trip to Hawaii we just got back and today is Saturday December the 3rd. Right now your mom is pragnant with your sister and we are excited to meet her. You are finally starting to understand a little bit that you will soon have a sister. You have kissed Mommy's belly a couple of times and just last night you were pointing to your belly and saying you had a baby in there - silly girl! This morning we went downstairs and you watched Mickey Mouse and Little Einstiens for a little bit.
We went to Hawaii for two weeks this was your second time in Hawaii. We went there for your Uncle Tom and Aunt Andrea's wedding they rented a cool house with a pool and a hottub we also spent a lot of time with your Oma and Pappa. You really loved to go in the water this trip you started swimming around with your life jacket and you jumped into the pool from the edge trying to jump farther each time. You also loved to go into the "bathtub" as you called it but it was really the hottub at the hotel. You also liked to go down to the beach and play in the sand your favorite thing to do was destroy sand catles. On the last day we were in Hawaii you met a 7 year old little girl and had a fund time playing with her at the beach.
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