Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Christmas Music Video!

Merry Christmas!
Here is our annual Calder, Rohbock, Naylor family Christmas music video. The one after is our personal one. Have a great holiday!
 





Wednesday, December 17, 2014

This month

December is always so much fun. So many activity options and excitement. It has also been fun to explain why we have Christmas to Myah. Whenever Myah hears a song talking about Bethlehem she tells me, "that's where Jesus was born!"
So here are our pictures of what we've been up to so far: 
Sugar Cookies!
Arts and crafts
Santa!

Quick story: Myah was so excited to tell Santa she wanted a "bikecycle." When we stepped through the gate after seeing Santa, Myah looked at me, very confused, and said, "where's my bikecycle?" She apparently had in her mind that immediately after she told Santa what she wanted, he would give it to her right then! She was bit peeved and her face said it all..."I've been jipped!"
Both in their elf hats they got from Santa.
...Sickness...
Reagan got a stomach bug involving vomit and diarrhea. Poor girl.
Then Justin and I got it the next week. (Myah snapped this gem of me.) Luckily Myah never caught it or the cold Reagan and I caught. 
Elf!
We opened a family gift from ourselves. The movie Elf! We had to open it early, of course. We are so excited to own it and Myah loved watching it!
Gingerbread House
While in the process of making our annual Calder family music video, Reagan got stuck here! We had moved the furniture around to have more space and she couldn't get to her blanket!
Boo!
 


Monday, December 1, 2014

The Tree!

Last Friday we had a great time decorating for Christmas. The girls loved getting the tree all pretty!
 Myah is a bit obsessed with taking pictures, so this one, the next one, and the stocking one are hers. Kind of fun to see things from her perspective!
 Myah's job is to plug the tree in every day. Beware: Don't even try to take her job.
 Reagan was AMAZED when Myah plugged in the tree for the first time.
 Terrible bum shot of me, but Reagan was helping me put the tree skirt on.
We are so excited for Christmas! The family time, parties, good feelings, and of course thinking more of Christ. God has blessed us so much in this past year that this month will be the cherry on the top! It has also been nice to use Santa bringing coal as a reminder for Myah to listen and be nice! I think she's a bit terrified she'll be getting coal instead of a new "bikecicle."


M & R

 Myah has been learning to write the letters and numbers. We're just beginning but it's so fun to watch her get so excited to write what she's learned.
 Reagan loves to read books! It's so fun to turn around and see her like this when she's gotten there all on her own. She turned 18 months old on Nov. 23rd. She basically in the 50th percentile for everything and did wonderfully at the doctor. Plus she didn't need any shots...yay!
 Myah and Reagan love their daddy! Here they were racing monster trucks with him.


Monday, November 17, 2014

Play Time

Myah has come such a long way with her shyness in the past 6 months. She used to never leave my side, even when we were at our family's houses and we were staying there! Now she loves nursery, loves playing with her cousins and friends, and doesn't have a problem leaving me (which is so nice! It was really out of control before!).
Myah also still cracks us up with the things she says. I know she gets a lot of phrases from movies and cartoons and I think it's hilarious that she remembers them so well. For instance, when she finished going potty one day, I happened to be in the bathroom with her so she looked at me while sitting on the potty and said, "You can do the honors!" Meaning to wipe her...um...thanks! She got the phrase from one of her shows called 'Justin Time'.
 
Something happened yesterday that shows Myah's great memory. It was Sunday and during nursery we went to the primary room for singing time. One of the Primary counselors came and sat behind the kids in Myah's direction (there were about 20 kids so we needed extra help) so Myah turned around and said hi. The counselor said "hi! What's your name?" Myah said, "My name is Myah! What's your name?" The counselor told her and that was that. Many hours later...like 7 hours... I was telling Justin about how I was impressed with Myah's full sentences and told him about this experience with the Primary counselor. Myah heard us and said, "and what was her name?" I told Myah I couldn't remember. Myah then said, "It was Barker." And indeed, it was Sis. Barker. 
 
Here are some pics of Myah with her friends:
With cousins Porter and Noah. (thanks for the pic Rachel)
With neighbor friends Haylee and Ayden.
Fort! (thanks for the pic Keeley)
Justin's sister, Katie and Nate live close now, so every two weeks we switch off watching each other's kids so we can have a date night (more like date afternoon)! The kids loved playing together when it was our turn to watch Porter and Savannah! 
Reagan has lately loved to lay down and try to cover herself up with her blankets. She'll lay down, cover herself, sit up, lay down, recover herself, etc. for a long time! I'll come in from another room and just find her laying there with her dog...so cute.
Reagan loves Elmo now. We have an Elmo learning game app on our Ipad that has an alphabet song on it that she loves to dance to. When it comes to the letter C and D though, she gets so excited to see the cat and dog (an animal lover) that she'll touch the Ipad in excitement and it makes the app close, so we have to keep starting it over. You can see in the video what I mean.

 Myah loves taking pictures. This was one she took of Reagan...besides the camera focusing on the couch, I'd say it turned out pretty cute.
Bedtime story (notice Reagan wearing Myah's boots. She's a bit obsessed with boots right now).
 
This video is of the bedtime songs. Both girls were singing this night.

Fort time at our house! There's something magical about a good fort.
 
 


Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Halloween!!!

We had a great Halloween this year. Snow White and our Kitty Cat had such a fun time trick-or-treating and Justin and I enjoyed seeing them having so much fun!
Earlier in the day we did some finger-painting with chocolate pudding. They loved it but it took some time for them to understand that it's ok for them to touch it, paint with it, and eat it!
 Carving/Painting Pumpkins
 (Left to right): Lindsey's, Reagan's, Myah's, Justin's