First off we hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Ours started at 7:00am when the kids got up and went to the living room to find a ball pit for then to play in. This was Hayden's first Christmas so it was extra special for us. Brea was not 100% sure what was supposed to happen but she figured it real quick. Hayden loved tearing off the wrapping paper but then just wanted to play with it. Go figure... you spend good money on toys and all they want to play with is the packaging.
December 2008
Dear Family and Friends,
What a year it has been for the Curry Family. Our year started with Brea’s first birthday. We had a Tinkerbell Party at the Denver Children’s Museum. It was so much fun to watch her play with her little friends. Thanks to everyone who came, we appreciate your love and support.
On March 20th we welcomed Hayden Tanner Curry to our family. He weighed in at 8 pounds 3 ounces. For those of you who don’t know we had Hayden at home with a midwife. It was an eye opening, one of a kind… boy, Elton is glad he’s a man… experience.
On May 5th Elton and Brook celebrated their 1st wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful dinner of Pasta Marinara delivered from Pizza Hut as we were in the middle of moving into our new apartment. We ate on the floor with the Brea & Hayden… it was the best anniversary ever. Also in May Brook’s mom Kathy had the chance to come out to Denver and spend a week with us (really she just came to see the kids). We had a wonderful time and were sad to see her go home.
June was the month of the “biggest surprise of all”. We found out that we were having another baby. We are not sure what keeps causing us to get pregnant… but we are looking in to it. Our new baby girl will arrive in February 2009.
July was a big month for us. Elton started a new job with Integra Telecommunications here in Denver. He enjoys the fact that he learns something new every day. Kelson turned 17 on July 9th. He is currently living in Fort Collins, Colorado with his father. Brook celebrated her 34th birthday on the 24th… for those of you who are counting… this was the 3rd year in a row that she has been pregnant for her birthday… and Thanksgiving… and Christmas… and New Years… really people, how does this keep happening?
August was Nolan’s month. He turned 14 finally… something he had been looking forward to for years. He also started his freshman year of high school at MESA a school of the arts here in Denver. He is doing really well and seems to be finding his groove.
Elton’s birthday came right on schedule, September 21st. He also turned 34 but won’t admit to it… and if he does… he says he’s like a fine wine… you know they get better with age….
October and November were mile stone months for Hayden. He cut 2 teeth, started holding his own bottle, figured out that chasing Brea was the best thing in the world (he doesn’t crawl yet… but he is the fastest army crawler we have ever seen), started sitting up all be himself and now pulls himself up on anything he can. He is a fun little guy to have around. We also had the pleasure of spending Thanksgiving with Elton’s parents and family. Dinner was fabulous. A huge thanks to Elton’s mom Gail for all the hard work, great food and fantastic company.
And now that the year is coming to a close, we want to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We send you our love and warmest wishes,
Elton, Brook, Kelson, Nolan, Brea, Hayden & baby Payton (due 2.21.2009)
A friend sent me an email with 10 reasons why she is neurotic and I laughed so hard I just had to share mine.
I know I’m neurotic because:
1. The toilet paper has to roll off the top of the roll …. I have been known to change it at other people’s homes, restaurants, offices… you get it I’m sure.
2. The dishwasher doesn’t always clean the dishes, so all dishes MUST be scrubbed with soap before they go into the dishwasher.
3. There is only one way to load the dishwasher… that would be my way… everything has to be in neat rows from largest to smallest and the silverware cannot be touching each other .
4. If I’m folding laundry and I drop something on the floor… it has to be rewashed. (I am working on this one)
5. When I eat candy like jelly beans or skittles I eat all the like kinds first and then the ones without mates. Orange with orange, cherry with cherry….. grape… lime… lemon
6. If I have note, a paper, basically anything that I have written and someone else writes on it…. I have to rewrite it so only my handwriting is on it.
7. I hate to touch coins… they are so gross… I have to wash my hands because I feel like I have funk on me.
8. I have a nighttime routine… pee, brush teeth, floss, put on chap stick, get a drink and last but not least put lotion on my hands and feet. I do the same thing every night .
9. I detest drinking tab water… it smells funny, it taste funny… I only like reverse osmosis processed water… and yes I can tell the difference.
10. I eat cereal with a fork…. I hate milk it is slimy and leaves fur on my teeth.
Our not-so-little family seemed to have the busiest November. Hayden by far was the busiest. In the last month he started holding his own bottle, sitting up all by himself, pulling himself to stand next to whatever objects he can find, cut his second tooth and has started sleeping through the night. He still is not actually crawling but he is the fastest "army crawler" I have ever seen. We have also given up on trying to feed him baby food as he WILL NOT eat it. He loves anything that has cinnamon and sugar on it and will eat a whole adult serving of cream of wheat if you will let him.
Nolan was also very busy this month. He had his first trimester self lead parent teacher conference. It went MUCH better than I expected. ( this was the re-building trimester for him since he moved back and had to re-acclimate to a *non- traditional school and a living back at home) His school does this awesome program for the new freshman class. They have a partnership with Outward Bound and take all the kids to Leadville Colorado and do a 4 day team building event. There are not modern accommodations and they have to sleep in team made tarp tents. There is a tree suspended ropes course that is 30 feet from the ground that the students need to complete for self confidence as well as many other team projects that help them learn skills that will help them in “the real world”. He had a lot of fun and can’t wait to do it again his senior year. The day after he got back he had to go get an ingrown toenail permanently removed (not a lot of fun for him) and a few days later had his teeth cleaned. He also had another hearing test to make sure the tube he had put in his ear is working. I’m excited to announce that he has regained all the lost hearing in his right ear.
I had my 26 week check up and all is well. I am on the official days until I will never have to be pregnant again countdown…. 84 days…. But who’s counting.
Brea, well other than a bit of shopping with Daddy and Mommy her month was pretty slow.
Kelson is neck deep in studying for the last 2 GED test that he needs to complete so he can move back to Fort Collins. ( For those of you who don’t know Kelson dropped out of high school…. I not happy about it, but what can you do other than help him get his GED so he can be a productive part of society) He also has a great job at Safeway and that is keep him busy and out of trouble.
Elton has been working tons of overtime at his job and that is both good and bad… good because his pay checks are awesome… bad because he is not getting home until after the babies go to bed… but I really can’t complain.
We went to Elton’s parents for Thanksgiving and that was really a lot of fun. We got to meet Art’s ( Elton’s stepfather) daughter Mia and her husband. They are good people. Ron (Elton’s brother) also made it down from Breckinridge to join the festivities. It was good to see him as we had not seen him in almost a year. The kids had a great time hanging out and dinner was delicious.
Also thanks to Art and Gail for the wonderful baby basket and gifts for Hayden and Brea.
