Kaiden and the dog door

Yes, kaiden is dog door trained, we are so proud. He goes missing out on the deck any chance he gets. The dogs are not happy we had to cut off their constant access to the backyard so Kaiden stays in the house.

Kaiden and the dog door

I love rich chocolatey ovaltein!!

After trying every milk combination possible. Hot and cold plain milk, chocolate, and strawberry (both hot and cold), soy milk, rice milk, smoothies made with milk and yogurt, we finally found something that Kaiden will drink. Ovaltein! Thank goodness Grandma was here and she drinks ovaltein and decided to give it a shot. I am happy to announce that I am done breastfeeding and Kaiden is on whole milk with ovaltein!

More ovaltein please!

Kaiden walking!

I forgot to add the video of Kaiden walking:

Kaiden in Pictures!

Kaidens first snowfall, here is Daddy with the kids back in December:
Here is Kaiden in the snow. This is the one picture of him smiling sitting in the snow because shortly after he decided he hated the cold!

Here is Kaiden in the wagon at zoo lights. He HATED it. He hated having to be bundled up in all the clothes and he hated the cold. He was not amused by the lights at all.

This is kind of out of order, but I love this pic of Kaiden climbing into the dishwasher at Nana's house:

Reminds me of Simba from the lion king roaring on pride rock :)

Here he is on his first plane ride:

He loved looking out he window:

Here is Kaiden on Christmas morning. he was not that impressed with the presents, but he loved the paper:

He does love his little glow sea horse.

Birthday boy:

Kaidens first birthday party

Sleeping after the party


Trying to climb up the slide

Playing on the deck:

And here is a little video of Kaiden playing on our slide out on the deck. He goes down the slide head first, something Makaylee still wont do. Heck, when we bought the play system makaylee wouldnt go down the big slide for at least two months!

I am alive

I am working on some new posts, I promise.

The kids are healthy.

Makaylee is learning to read, yes I said read. She tells us she is a genius. And I am partial, but I think she is :)

She is also finally pooping in the potty. It is a fight every time, but she is starting to do it.

Kaiden is walking. Not a full time walker, but deffinetly on the way.

He is also starting to talk. I think now that he is mastering the physical development, he has started to move onto mental because all of a sudden he has several new words. Mama, Dada, All done, More, uh-oh, and weeeee (that one he picked up from Makaylee). Not bad for just turning one!

Puppy love

Climbing into the dishwasher

Christmas carols

Sharing a tooth brush

Testing

So I am just playing around with my new blackberry and wanted to show all my new tricks to keep you better updated. Pictures and post straight from my phone! Look at me go.

Trying to escape down stairs

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

That's what little boys our made of. Well, our little boy is made of some kind of indestructible force. We call him tank. NOTHING stops him. He can climb over, crawl through, climb up or under anything he needs to. He is already trying to reach the door handles in the rooms. Yesterday he climbed up onto the coffee table. He can climb out the dog door onto the deck, open half the cupboards in the kitchen despite the child proof locks that stop Makaylee. Just tonight he was trying to climb onto Makaylee's cute little pink play kitchen. He opens the toilet if he has the opportunity and plays with the water. This has happened twice. Having a potty training toddler and a tank who wants nothing more than to play with the water in the toilet is very difficult! Two days ago he pulled a large can of pumpkin puree onto the top of his foot. I was panicked thinking he might have broken his foot, and picked up my phone to call Mike to come home ASAP and as soon as I grabbed the phone he started cooing at it and reaching for the phone. All thoughts of pain forgotten. Every night I find a new bruise or mark on him, and he rarely cries. I am finally starting to feel the pain so many of my friends go through who have boys! Kaiden (aka Tank) reminds me of a post my friend Andi wrote about her little mad man Falco. Check it out here. Kaiden is trying to destroy my home or my sanity. Which will survive??

On the other hand I am learning first hand how totally and completely different girls are vs. boys! I think I have the ideal candidates for a study on nature vs. nurture and development of the sexes. How can two kids who have the same parents, raised in the same home only 21 months apart be sooooooooo different. Boys vs. Girls. Makaylee is gentle, she is content to cuddle up on the couch and read books, or watch TV. If we tell her no, she usually listens, she is not a risk taker in the slightest, and she HATES messes. So, the complete opposite of Kaiden! I guess what they say about opposites attracting must be true. Because Makaylee looks and acts just like me and Kaiden looks and acts just like Mike. So, does this mean they will get along or not? Does the whole opposite attract thing work for siblings? Maybe they will level one another out! A parent can hope right??

Halloween

Just quick pics for those interested. These are not the best pics, just the ones I took with my cell, I just wanted to share my little snow white and dopey. Makaylee made and excellent snow white. I have video of her trick or treating at the mall. She had a BLAST and loved it. These pics were taken at the Halloween party we went to the week before Halloween.



Is everyone impressed with my sewing skills on Dopey? That is right, I could not find a Dopey costume to purchase for kaiden, so I decided that I could make one by myself. I have to say, I was really happy with how it turned out. Mike kept telling me I should send it to his Mom for her to make it. But I was determined. So here is our little Dopey:

Don't forget to VOTE!!!!!

Vote Obama!

Iron Cupcake Earth Challenge

Just wanted to post a link to my baking blog so you guys can see my cupcake creation, check it out Cupcake Delights. Voting starts this weekend on Sunday, so I would LOVE for you guys to vote for me!

video's as promised :)

Last year at the pumpkin patch it started raining and Makaylee and Bailey had a BLAST jumping in the mud puddles. Time for a flash back video:




So when we told Makaylee we were going to the pumpkin patch she kept talking about jumping in the puddles. We have a DVD of video's of Makaylee and she loves to watch it, so she has seen that same video several times. On Saturday she did not seem interested in jumping. But on Sunday she said she wanted to jump in the mud. Well in the past year Makaylee has developed a fear of being dirty. We call her our little ocd girl. Don't get me wrong, she has NO problem with toys being all over the place. But heaven forbid she gets dirt on her hands, or her face or hands are sticky. We have two dogs that shed and if she has dog hair on her feet she freaks out and sits down to brush it off. The only exception to this is Chocolate. If she is helping me bake she gets chocolate all over herself and she has NO problem with this. Back to the point. So this is what happened at the Pumpkin patch when she tried to jump in the mud:








And just to give fair share, here is Kaiden enjoying the hay:

The Pumpkin Patch

We had a great weekend. We went to the pumpkin patch. Makaylee LOVED the pumpking patch, so we ended up going both days. They had a pumpkin patch, corn maze, hay bales to play on, animals and a childrens activity barn. We got some wonderful pictures. Makaylee loved walking around looking at the pumpkins. The activity barn was a ton of fun! They had a bunch of pans and buckets to bang on which was okay fun. But Makaylee LOVED the rubber duck races. They set up some gutters upside down on a platform and had water pumps on one end to "race" the ducks to the other end by pumping. Of course Makaylee kind of enjoyed the pumping, but she loved watching the ducks fall off the edge into the bucket of water. Also playing with the ducks in the water. We walked over and saw some animals and overall had a great day. The next day we asked Makaylee what she wanted to do and she said she wanted to go to the pumpkin patch. So, we went ahead and went back. I have some video's to share of the pumpkin patch, but youtube is down right now, so I will do that another day. But here are some great pictures:

Look, everyone is looking at the camera and smiling!

Happy boy sitting on a pile of pumpkins
Makaylee and Daddy smiling. This is her new cheese smile when we tell her to look at the camera and smile. Not sincere, but still cute!
Both the kids. Please smile at the same time. Come on kids, please! Well, look at the camera at the same time okay??
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pic of him.
Hey look, a giant spider!

Smiling with Daddy

Cheese ball fake smile

Look at the tounge ;) He kept trying to get down to crawl

Kaiden likes the hooters girls ;)

We went out to lunch the other day with some friends. Their little boy who was 5 wanted to get his picture taken with the Hooters Girls, so that is where we went. Unfortunatly he was too shy to actually take the picture, but Kaiden was happy to step in. He gave us a big smile. Cute pic! I am sure he will appreciate this later in life:

Pictures!!!!!!!!!!

So I am waaaaaaaaaay behind on updating everyone on the kids. So here is a post of pics. My adorable kids over and over again :)

Happy Girl

Happy Boy:

Look Mom: One hand!
Reading books with Dad
They each can play with their own side:
Building a "Kaylee House" with blocks
Sleeping

Bath time!

Loves his giraffe
Playing on the deck!
Cheese grin
Kisses from Honey


They both smiled together!

Kisses from sister
Still cuddles with the binkie
Look Mom, I can stand! No Hands!
THis tooth hurts mom!



Making a protein shake with Dada

Hi Mom!

Makaylee is an octopus
Makaylee and Falco at the aquarium in Seattle