The subject of this blog is a phrase I have heard several
times in regards to there not being a blog for a month or 2 or 6. its not said in a friendly voice. . . Much has changed since august, so I will try
to outline what occurred in each month since then. Truth be told the Company I worked for IPO’ed
in October which made the time leading up to it less than ideal for blogging
and the time since not a lot better, due to sleep deprivation, never wanting to
see a keyboard unless its necessary, and a few other side effects. Thankfully it couldn’t steal my hair any more
than nature had already started doing, so I have that going for me. Anyway, here’s a synopses by month
September – In September we started to notice a real uptick
in kinsley’s words, which was neat. Of
course this meant that there were three females in the house vying for a
limited amount of time to speak, but thankfully I am really good at not
talking. OCCASIONALLY, that may be due to my addiction to learning which lela
would call my addiction to reading twitter facts about the Hawkeyes, but
generally its due to my willingness to do whatever it takes to make this family
run, don’t listen to her. I made my 3rd
trip of the year to The Printers of the year for our pending IPO this month
also. For those of you not fluent in
accounting nerd, The Printers are a place where they print things. I know, shocking. Well they help you get awesome 400 page
documents ready to file with the SEC (the regulatory agency, not the conference
devoted to cheating). They are magical
places where you spent 20+ hrs straight, with immeasurable amounts of food and
drink – sort of like casino’s but with windows so you can see the outside
existing and also without the potential loss of anything other than hair. And a few other things. Anyway, emma was in soccer in the fall. She did a bit better than previous tries,
she’s getting there but is still a bit on the timid side.
October – Emma coins the term “Stand behind your horse,
Kinsley”. Of course I am pretty sure she
meant to hold her horses, but she still says that saying to this day. The Company I actually worked for IPO’ed that
month, a bunch of us got to go watch the bell ringing which was a great
experience, but New York and I were ready to break up for awhile. The Casa de Huebner just doesn’t flow quite
the same when one of us has to travel.
Lela and I went to our first Hawkeye football game in a few years, the
Hawkeyes rewarded us with a win in OT.
We still haven’t seen a home loss together, so any time the Hawkeyes are
in need of a win the should call us and give us free tickets. No seriously. I tried to get the girls addicted to What Does the Fox say, which was successful, but they eventually figured out it was annoying. I mean I thought it was funny but females apparently disagree
November – we took emma to her first Sporting KC game. It was super cold and of course went into OT
and it was late so we couldn’t stay, but emma seemed to enjoy it. not surprisingly there were the many annoying
fans (many of which annoyed me more than emma) but it was great. I look forward to taking emma to her first
hawkeye game in the next couple years, which inevitably will be worse Thanksgiving is in there obviously too. On top of the usual t giving festivities we headed
to Disney on ice on our way back. Please
note, Disney on ice was at the same time as the ohio state/Michigan game that
came down to a 2 pt conversion and we were driving as Auburn took Bama’s field
goal back for a touchdown. These are the
things we do for our kids, such sacrifice!
December – this was the first year emma really, really got Christmas. Our Elf on the Shelf, Gabby, was spoken of
frequently, htough I am not totally convinced she aided in better
behavior. Kinsley seemed to like the
concept too, she at least got into trying to find gabby every morning. our street does a pretty good job of lighting
up their trees at the very least, and every night the girls were excited to see
the lights. Of course I took the lights
down fairly early after Christmas so as to not be doing it on a bitter cold day
, so we had to explain to emma (who was very disappointed) that some people are
just rebels and leave them up. She didn't
like it. we still didn't bite the bullet
this year with a real tree, we figured we’d get one last year out of our fake
tree. Anyway, Christmas was a ton of
fun, the cousins had a blast together and its really fun watching them get to
experience this stuff together. Emma did
go back to school and told her teacher that santa didn't come because grandma
didn't go to bed as she woke up and saw grandma on the couch. She never informed us of this and of course,
Santa did come, so sometime I worry that she is going to tell some random story
that is going to end with me in jail.
January – Kinsley’s bday.
It is really hard to believe that Kinsley is 2, she is still our little
peanut (generally around 10th percentile in most advanced metrics,
or whatever it is the doctors measure her on) but she makes up for her lack of
size with pizzazz. She’s very active and
doesn’t take crap from anybody, I have seen many occasions where she throws an
arm bar at another little person who gets up in her grill. Not that you want your child to be mean to
other kids, but its somewhat amusing to see her request space in that
manner. Her and emma have really built a
bond too, when one is away they seem to be so lost without each other. Since Kinsley’s 2nd birthday she
seems to be talking like crazy, even more than in the fall. She has sentences now and is really good at
communicating most things. MOST, as in
not when there is an emergency like when she really wants some pistaccios, you
know the important stuff. One of my
favorite parts of the day is when Kinsley wakes up she yells “MOMMY IM UP!!!!”.
February – nothing too much as far as activity. My company was releasing Earnings which meant
there wasn’t a ton of free time and lela was busy with year end crap too. We did ge out in the couple small snow storms
and get to play. The girls are not made
for the snow, they generally come out with me while I shovel for about 15
minutes and then want to go inside to get hot cocoa. Not that I blame them, but isn’t shoveling snow
almost as fun as hanging out in a warm house?
Emma is also more and more sure of her funniness - she loves to say things and then just
smile. “End of Story daddy” (a saying that she hears from her teacher at
daycare), “Really daddy I don’t think so”, “Actually” (I say actually a lot, I
admit it), “that’s not really fair to me”, “ do it to me!!” (whenever we are
lifting Kinsley up or doing something that is much harder to do with a 4 yr
old) are a few things we hear frequently
with emma. I have broken up with college
basketball at least 6 times also due to the hawkeye’s late season swoon.
Anyway in general the girls are great. I mean we did have a weekend where we
discussed the viability of duck taping your child at nap time, but you’ll have
that with rice fueled little people.
Emma is a great kid, she loves to do things like color (which is the
last thing I would have ever done as a child) but she is also a very physical
kid, which is fine. She’s no boy (there
is a noticeable difference) but she’s not a princess which is just how we would
want her if we could choose (of course we choose nothing with emma, she
dictates). Kinsley is non stop laughs,
she loves to play with babies, even if it mostly means just taking off all
there clothes. She also comes home most
nights and requests that I put basketball on, which makes me happy, maybe we
will have some ballers in the house.
I am going to get some pictures up this week, we are back on
the saddle, I promise.
