catching up on the week

whew.....not quite sure how Cris kept up with daily blog posts for six months (he is, indeed, some sort of superhuman), but I can barely keep up weekly! haha!
so, when last you saw the Stickley gang, we were scrambling up some rocks...let's just say the rest of the week has not been nearly as fun or adventurous :)

Cris left for his backpacking trip this week (spending a week at glacier national park with some other outdoorsy-type-fellows). This is giving Laura and I a trial at our first week without daddy.
The first major event of the week was nova (who has struggled with some serious constipation issues) stating adamantly that she was not going to poop until her daddy was here to help her. hmmm.....this could get interesting!
Fortunately, we have already successfully worked through that little issue, and survived her first potty incident without her "prince" there to help her! (sorry nova, you are really really going to hate this blog when you are about 13 years old!! heeehee!!!)

cute pic of the girls when we were hanging out in downtown denver last month...

Our resilient little jbug has been struggling a bit. She acts tough, but i think the stress of the upcoming changes really affects her, and by the time bedtime rolls around she is a gigantic ball of stressed-out, irrational tears. It has been frustrating for both of us, as I am having a hard time figuring out to handle her bedtime tantrums. These seem to get sigfnicantly worse when she senses things are changing, and i think she knows big changes are ahead.

Other than bedtime, however, Juneau is such a ridiculously fun and funny kid, and three years old is just about the best age ever :)

Here you can see her enjoying a gigantic bowl of Pho (one of her very favorite treats) The day after Laura (and her brother kirk, who helped her with the long drive from Ohio to Colorado) arrived, Cris took the gang up to the top of Pike's Peak.

ahhhh.....gotta love Juneau's ridiculous posing for the camera! Laura and Kirk with the girls....super adorable! beautiful view of colorado springs Laura and the girls! have i mentioned that we LOOVVEEE her?!!! ADDENDUM!!!

I must immediately take back the part about the rest of our week not being as adventurous!!! Laura just called me at work because she and the girls are all locked up tight inside the house, because the neighbor's house is currently surrounded by a SWAT teams with their weapons pulled, looking through the windows, and shooting tear gas in through the windows! the streets are all closed off, and there are news reporters swarming, and a detective knocking on the front dooor!!!!!! apparently the guy they are looking for is wanted for murder???!