Heart Attacked!

The kids were extra excited about Valentine's Day this year. I think it was partly because at the end of January I checked out a bunch of books that were Valentine themed: Berenstein Bears, Arthur, etc. The kids even started making their own Valentines for grandparents and even Steve and I any chance they got. So the night before Valentine's Day we "heart attacked" the kids' room while they were sleeping.

It was fun to wake up to their squeals and laughter...

P.S. Kylee has a big bed now (pictured above) and is mostly potty-trained too. 

"Big Sister Boot Camp" is going pretty well so far.

Keep Smiling Berta!

Remember when Kylee got her new Monkey Berta?

Well, she still loves her!


Yesterday while I was getting lunch ready I noticed that Kylee had Berta by the neck and was hitting her head first into the fridge. It was sort of disturbing for me so I asked Kylee to be nice to Berta.

Kylee stopped and held Berta up to me (still holding her by the neck) and said,

"It's OK. Berta likes it. See? She's still smiling!"

Happy Valentine's Day from Cody!

Cody is all ready for his Valentine's Party at school on Monday!

We {Heart} Punxutawney Phil

Tonight in an effort to redeem our lame sick selves we decided to have some fun decorating cookies. Regardless of how we each felt about actually eating the treats by golly we were going to at least decorate them. 

Let's just say it was all in celebration of Groundhog Day. 

Cody was so excited this morning before school when he saw the baked cookies just waiting to be decorated. And poor Kylee was completely not herself a good portion of the day (about the time we pulled out the cookies she seemed to perk up...but only a bit, poor girl)

 Gotta have a cookie to celebrate the famous Groundhog.

Cody says this one says "Cody" written fancy 

Kylee liked nibbling on hers while decorating it.

I could tell she wasn't all the way herself yet because she didn't even eat one whole cookie by bedtime. 

 Cody chose chocolate blue frosting...? Hence the weird color.

Taking time out from nibbling her cookie to decorate it some more.

A small glimpse of a silly face. 

There's nothing like frosting to make you happy.

A volcano of love...? Steve said it represents how "his love erupts for me."

 I think he just wanted to load on the frosting because he ate it right after he made it :) ha ha

Tonight after singing songs at bedtime, telling Cody I loved him more than turquoise frosting, and giving Kylee her goodnight kiss Kylee said something in a super quiet whisper that I couldn't understand. Something about cookies. She had to say it again before I got it...

"I love you more than cookies."

I haven't done "I love you more..." with Kylee before. She came up with that one all by herself.

Happy Groundhog Day to ya!!

Big News for the Cramer's...

There are so many things I have wanted to update on but we haven't been very alive or well these days. We have had the flu at our house for quite a few days now...and just when I thought it was over Kylee threw up today! Looks like we are starting over again!

Let's just say that I am really grateful that I have a washer and dryer and that it can run constantly day and night for a week at a time (or longer?)

And now for a few bits of BIG news for our family...

First of all, we found out that we are having another

girl!

So fun! And now the name game begins. Only now we have two kids who are old enough to have opinions. I thought it was tricky enough between Steve and I to come up with a name. Now Cody and Kylee chime in with their "no way" or "yeah" in response to our name ideas. Kylee has even figured out that she can really bug Cody if he overhears her saying, "Cody likes the name Sally." She sure knows how to get a rise out of him. Pretty entertaining for the rest of us though!! And not only do we have a name to figure out, but we have a little girl who is currently the baby of the family who will have to scoot over a little and make some room for a new little Miss. Hmmm. Never had to figure out that one before. :)

Second bit of news is we have a

job!

Steve's first day of work is May 16th at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Hooray for not being unemployed!!! And now to find a house in MD so that we aren't homeless...and so we can move a few weeks before bundle of joy #3 is born. Some moments I feel like I am completely looney--graduating, new job, moving, and new baby? What?! I am just grateful that all of those things are GOOD changes! :) When we had our ultrasound a few weeks ago the technician was surprised to find out that we were possibly moving right before we had our baby. Steve said, "moving is a good thing! It means we will have a job!" SO TRUE. And we are so grateful for that! What a blessing!

And now for a little story:

The other night Cody was laying in bed and as I was saying good night he said, "Mom, did you know there's only 7 more days until the Super Bowl?"

(Hello! We live in Steelers Country! If this kids learns anything in Kindergarten it's how to be a Steelers fan!)

I said, "Yeah. Pretty cool."

(We aren't the best fans. We really are shameful for living in Pittsburgh, but I at least knew that the Steelers were going to be in the Super Bowl even if I couldn't tell you who the other team is...Don't worry! Steve's mom educated us on that one so I know now.)

Then I asked, "Do you know what the Super Bowl is?"

Cody, "Nope. What is it?"