Love Takes Time

February was filled with lots...lots of Hockey. Kylor participated in a Hockey - Learn to Play program - he skated twice a week for four weeks. The first couple nights on the ice were a little...'sketchy'...to say the least. Picture extreme 4-year old meltdown! The third night of skating, Kylor was paired up with a mentor - Cole. Cole is a high school student who is an avid Hockey player - a Goalie, in fact. Kylor looked up to and adored Cole. We are so very thankful that Cole was brought into our World. Such a blessing it was to have such a positive role model for Kylor.

Mid-February, Damon and Kylor ventured to Wolf Point for Damon's cousin's wedding. They left on a Friday and returned on Monday. While, I know that Ky-Man had a great time dancing and playing, his mama sure missed him.

My dear friend Kylee returned home - she'll spend a few weeks in the Falls before her journey to Guam for THREE-WHOLE-YEARS! Sure going to miss my girl while she is gone!

The 'flu bug' hit half of our house in February. Damon and Kylor were down and out for a good couple of days until it passed. Blek!

Kason turned 15-Months old on the 23rd. 15-Months! Wow! What a Love he is! We've been trying to work on 'please'. He has 'thank you' down pat (has for some time). 'Please' is like pulling teeth. He is certainly not a child who speaks on demand. We'll get there. I'm confident!

I will be catching up again...soon. Until then - God Speed!

Addicted To Love

The year started off with a bang! I was blessed to share in the joyous occasion of my dear friend Kylee in her marriage to Cole! Kylee and Cole were married 1-1-11! What a perfect wedding date! The service was beautiful as was the bride! The party was a blast and many memories were made. I'll forever be grateful to Kylee and Cole for allowing me the honor of sharing in their most special day!

Just a few days after the wedding, Kylee, Cole and I had to say 'see you later' for now as they headed back home to New Jersey. I count down the days until I get to see them again.

Mountain West Bank had a successful annual party again this year! It was a fun night out for Damon and I - they always seem to come so few and far between.

January begins a month of 'birthday madness' in the Heck household. Damon turned another year on the 5th...I left another year behind on the 15th and Kylor turned 4 on the 18th! I can't believe it - 4-years old!!! I can remember the day of Ky's birth like it was yesterday. What an amazing little boy we have on our hands. In the past few months he's grown and matured so much. He thinks babies are an 'incredible miricle' (his words) and he continuously asks when his 'baby sister' will be in my tummy? (Can't guarantee that'll ever happen). He loves to watch Holmes on Holmes with Dad. Kylor loves - and loves with all of his heart! Kylor rocketed off the charts at his 4-year well child check-up. His height is in the 105th percentile and his weight is in the 90th percentile. Our little preemie (who entered this world at 4lbs 12.5oz) has sure come a long way! We are so lucky and blessed to have our Ky-Man - can't imagine life without him.

Bella...our little Bella girl. She's still a young kitty at heart! 10-years old and she's in wonderful health. Worst we've seen is a tooth extraction that took place in January. Poor little kitty had a bad, broken tooth. If that's the worst of it, I'm one happy mama. We sure love our Bella Ann!

Our 'walker boy' Kason has taken off! It took him some time to gain the confidence to take off on his own, but he worked at it and has now mastered the skill. BUT...the tantrums have started. I don't remember Ky having his first tantrum until he was almost 2-years old. Kason has started them at the ripe young age of 14-months. Wowzers! Tantrums aside, Kas is still a joy - a ball of cuteness - and mommy's little cuddler. I am proud to be his mama.

As January comes to an end, we look forward to the new changes and challenges that February has in store for us.

All The Things I Still Remember

Kylor was fortunate enough to get to attend the Christmas Stroll for the second year in a row with our Nelson family! He has such a good time with them – and Auntie Kristie is so much nicer than mom because she doesn’t ‘make’ Kylor sit on Santa’s lap.

Speaking of Santa…Santa made a surprise stop at the Nelson house. I was thankful that we were invited over for the visit. We had the ‘standard’ Kylor reaction to Santa, but by the end of the short visit, he was relaxing– just a bit. After Santa’s visit, it was nice to sit back, relax, visit and let the kids play!

My dear friend Kylee came home…not only for the holidays but also to prep and get ready for her January 1st wedding. I sure do miss my girl when she is gone!

Kason and I came down with the ‘crud’ mid-December. We both spent a couple of days home, sick and in bed. Thank goodness for good meds to help us mend! Unfortunately, my ‘crud’ got in the way of my dear Kylee’s bachelorette party. I was able to go for a couple of hours, but I was bummed that I wasn’t able to celebrate with her to the full extent and into the wee hours of the morning.

Kylor had round ‘2’ at the dentist. It went as well as round ‘1’ and that can be summed up as ‘terrible’! The dentist suggested that we try and get him into a Pediatric dentist (the closest one is an hour away) and advised that in his case (considering the way he reacts), there is a good chance hat the Pediatric dentist may have to resort to some children’s Valium to get him thru it. Poor Kylor.

Kylee, Kristie & Amber = Jaker’s night! And celebrating Kylee’s birthday!

Kylor is such a pumpkin. He wants everything. He sees an advertisement for a new toy and it gets added to his ‘birthday’ wish list. I finally said, ‘Kylor, Christmas comes before your birthday. What do you want for Christmas?’ Here is where the fear of Santa comes in…Ky’s response was always, ‘I don’t want anything for Christmas. I don’t want Santa to come to my house!’ We aren’t sure how to get him over his fear of Santa.

Kason is a mover and a shaker – pulling himself up…walking along furniture. I know that he has what it takes to walk on his own, but he just doesn’t have enough confidence in himself. He loves to sing and play ‘Pat-a-Cake’. He does the actions and chants ‘Pat-y, Pat-y, Pat-y’ over and over again. Such a cute stinker!

We had a beautiful Christmas filled with love and laughter – kids certainlymake Christmas fun! Their joy and excitement can’t be put into words. Kylor was ‘good to go’ once Christmas morning had come – as he knew he was in the clear from Santa and wouldn’t have to chance seeing him again for another year. The boys were spoiled and mom and dad enjoyed every secondof it!

Happy New Year!

Create The Future

November brought lots of hunting time into Damon’s world! He was able to score his elk and deer this season. He and Kylor sure enjoy their ‘elk treats’.

Kylor and I got to spend an afternoon with friends Kristie, Kyla and Garrett doing Christmas crafts at the C M Russell Museum. This was the first craft ‘fair’ we have attended and Ky had a blast!

November brought some ‘firsts’ for Kas-a-Roo…We celebrated Kason’s first birthday! My baby turned one! The joy he and Kylor have brought into our lives is indescribable. Still can’t figure out where the time goes. Kason got his first haircut – getting all trimmed up certainly took away his ‘baby’ look. He’s not only entered into the‘toddler’ age / stage, but he looks like one too!!!



I enjoyed a nice vacation towards the end of November. I took some time off to celebrate my Roo and spend his first birthday with him. After a lovely Thanksgiving holiday surrounded by wonderful family, my Aunt Sharonand I spent our annual three shopping days – post-Thanksgiving. Sure do enjoy our tradition!

Toodles!

Our World...

Whoosh! And with a quick whip of the wind, October was here and gone.

October brings the What Women Want Expo – a good occasion for a girl’s weekend. Comedy night and browsing with girlfriends. Good times!

FINALLY! We have a fixed home! And as Kylor puts it, mom can ‘chill-ax’.

We had our third annual pictures with our dear friend Cindy Cieluch. We took many photos at a beautiful location. We eagerly anticipate seeing the outcome – Cindy is so incredibly talented. It’s amazing how Cindy can get Damon to relax and take pictures – thank goodness for her!

And they are off – a hunting they will go – Dad and Damon started their annual hunting trips and were able to score a 5-point bull elk quite early in the season.

Halloween rocked our world with loads of cuteness! Kylor was a pumpkin and Kason was a white tiger cub. They were overflowing in cuteness! We didn’t do the whole trick-or-treat skeptical this year – Kylor still doesn’t care about that. A visit to Auntie Sharon’s, Grandpa Don’s, Grandma Julie’s and Papa Jule’s and the evening was as good as gone. Kylor loved reminding ALL of the trick-or-treaters that rang the door bell that, ‘you have to say trick-or-treat to get candy!’

Boo!

To Feel This Way!

We got to go to the pool! Even after 3-weeks of swimming lessons in June, Kylor had absolutely NO interest in swimming in the pool. We couldn't coax or bribe him for anything in the World. Instead, Ky sat on the second step of the pool and splashed with his hands. Kason, on the other hand, LOVED the water - he was a little water bug! The only thing that enabled us to get him out of the water was nap-time...and he was exhausted!

Labor Day weekend we were involved in a VERY unfortunate accident. In the wee hours of September 5th (3:00 am), our home was hit by a drunk, teenage driver. Fortunately, nobody was killed! The accident took out a tree and put a 3X3 hole in the front corner of our home as well as totaled the car owned by the parents' of the young driver. Quite the terrifying thing to wake up to out of a deep sleep. Upon incident, the teenager took off on foot, but was later brought back to the scene by some good samaritans. We spent the month of September in an Insurance disaster (as the other party declined the claim). We are hoping to get things squared away in October and be on the road to healing our home (and our emotions).

On the 6th, Damon and I celebrated 7-years of wedding bliss together! I look back and can't believe it's been 7-years - it sure has flown by! We've been so blessed in our years together - we have a nice home and two beautiful boys. We couldn't be happier! Here's to the next 50-years together!!!

Mid-September we had our very-first-ever trip to the Emergency Room...with our 3-year old. It was a Saturday afternoon, we all went our separate ways to take an afternoon nap. Mom and Kason in Mom's room, Dad on the couch and Kylor in his own room. Kylor, however, decided that he just wasn't tired so instead he used his designated nap-time to jump (or as he puts it- FALL) on his bed. We woke up to a loud 'boom!' (took us back to September 5th - waking up to a 'boom!' will NEVER be the same again). Kylor fell, hit his head on his headboard and the headboard hit the wall upon impact! An Emergency Room visit and 3-hours of our Saturday afternoon later, we walked away with 7-staples in the back of Ky's head. Lesson learned: NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED!!!

After the house incident and the staples, we were gladly ready for the black cloud hovering over us to move on!

More Kylor news...after 3-years with his ear tubes, we had them removed in August, spent the month of September healing and got the 'green light' to be tube free from here on out! Kylor couldn't be happier to take a bath without the hassle of ear plugs. Kylor, my little man, is just that - a little man. One afternoon he was telling me a story. I couldn't even recall what the story was about because (I'll be honest), I just wasn't paying much attention (he's a talker...and I get 'bad-mom-of-the-year' award for not listening to every single little thing that mutters out of his mouth). I ended up giving him a generic response to his story by saying, 'Oh.' Kylor looked at me, put his hand on his hip and proceeded to let me know that, 'O is a letter! At least say okay!' Well - okay, then! I get the giggles over watching Ky bop around the house singing Sugarland's version of 'stuck like glue. you and me baby, we're stuck like glue'. He bounces his little head in his own cute little way as he walks around signing the chorus over and over and over again.

Kason...Mr. Kason...Smiley John...Kas-a-roo...turned 10-months old!(sniff, sniff) What a little pumpkin he is. He was a whopping 22 lbs and 30 inches - such a big difference considering Kylor was a preemie. Not sure if Kason will be a crawler or not - her prefers to 'scoot' on his butt or inch around like a centipede. The poor guy worked on his two, top, front teeth for a good 6-weeks before they finally cut thru the gums. I felt so sorry for him. They were visible, but just wouldn't break the surface. We went through a lot of Tylenol and Motrin with teething tables or Ora-Gel.

We held a 'second annual' garage sale in late September. It's so muchwork...but once again, we did really, really well - so it totally ended up being worth it. Now we just need to schedule a time for the Salvation Army to come and take away the rest of our JUNK!

Smile!!!