I kind of love him. A LOT! Like Forever!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Monday, February 07, 2011
2 1/2 or 30 Months
Like Father Like Son...A picture says a thousand words, and this one is screaming a million...
This is how good potty training is going. We aren't "officially" trying to potty train the kid yet. Just getting him used to the equipment, and such. Kael now offically goes #1 on the toilet every night before his bath. Then, he gets to run around in his big boy underwear until bedtime. We are going to keep this up for about a month and then I think we will go for it. He has been doing this routine for about 2 weeks straight. He gets a star if he goes potty and it goes on his door and he gets a treat. It used to be a fruit snack, but Janice told me about her skittle jar, and I LOVE it and so does Kael. I bought a big bag of skittles and put it in a peanut jar. Now whenever Kael decides to go he gets 1 skittle for #1, and 2 for #2. He now has quite the collection of stars on his door also.
I have to say that this has actually been a lot of fun. I have cleaned up some accidents, but so far not so bad. Kael is trying really hard. I think he would be ready if he never fell in the toilet. Anyway. He is super excited about it, and so am I. We are going to take it slow for now.
I can't believe I have a 2 1/2 year old. His little personality is just growing each day. Along with his kisses that he is now obsessed with he loves group hugs.
His favorite songs are #1 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, #2 Popcorn Popping, and #3 Book of Mormon Stories. We have to sing all 3 every night before bed.
He LOVES cars now. He got a bunch of little cars and trucks for Christmas and they are a hit.
He LOVES Buzz Lightyear. However, we told Kael to go get his Buzz to play with because he was driving us crazy, he went into his bedroom and got his Buzz UNDERWEAR... He loves Underwear too.
He LOVES books. He can read "has memorized" a ton of words. My guess is about 30 when he is in the mood.
He can count to 10.
He can recognize most letters.
His favorite shape is a STAR. Then circles come in a close second.
He is repeating words now.
I think his favorite color is still red.
He loves to play Melmo "Elmo" on the computer.
He is putting 2 words together. His favorite phrase is "Where'd it go?".
He LOVES talking on the phone. He could talk to Grandma and Grandpa and cousins and Aunt's and Uncles and anyone who would listen to him all day long. He has his own little language and just loves to talk and talk.
Kael you amaze me everyday. You are learning so much so quickly and I'm so proud of you. You share your toys with everyone, just so they will be your friend. You are a true friend. You are so loving and kind. You teach me how to be a better person every day. Thanks for the gazillion kisses every night before bed. Thanks for the family hugs! Thanks for teaching your family what is important in this life. Love, laughter, friendship, and family.
WE LOVE YOU!
Love,
Mommy and Daddy
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Dreaming of Warmer Days
Yes, we are wearing shorts! It was 9 degrees outside yesterday and we are ready for some sun!
Kael's newest discovery is a kiss. It really is quite ridiculous. He isn't allowed to kiss on lips and not strangers. We were coming home from the doctors office and pharmacy yesterday and there was a nice elderly couple waiting with us, and were so sweet with Kael. When we were leaving he decided he needed to blow them a kiss good bye. He is such a kind boy. Now every night before bed he insists on kissing both of my cheeks before I'm allowed to leave. If he only gets one he wigs out and has to start all over again.
They are without a doubt the sweetest kisses EVER! Thanks buddy! Hope you get feeling better soon.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Productive Day
So, I feel accomplished today. Doctor's office in the morning. Worked for one hour. Then, completed my 6 month medicaid review. Then, filed my taxes by myself for the first time ever. (I'm beginning to feel like a grown up.) Now, Derek is working on his fafsa. The day would have been perfect had I gotten my dishes done, and dinner made before Derek got home from school. Too bad life isn't perfect. However, I am now going to work on those dishes, and take out the smelly trash. Life would really be perfect if trash just magically disappeared instead of piled up in trash bags on my kitchen floor...
hmmm....
Sad Day.
Kael got his first ear infection. :(
I'm so sick of being sick. Derek was sick for 3 weeks. Then last week Kael started, then Eden, and this last weekend I am sick. I think that is inevitably the rest of my life with children. I'm ok with this now, but it doesn't make it any less miserable.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Fondant Fun
I have wanted to play around with fondant for a very long time now and was never brave enough to try. I decided I wanted to try to maybe make Eden's 1st birthday cake in fondant so I thought I better try it out before the big day. I really wanted the cake to be a lady bug, but I don't have round cake pans and I didn't want to have to buy any. So, I looked on the internet and found tons of great ideas.
I call Eden my little lady bug, and she has pink lady bugs on the walls in her room, so that's how the lady bug came to mind.
I made a marshmellow fondant and used food coloring to dye it, and a buttercream frosting to hold the cake in place (recipe on back of powdered sugar), and a chocolate devil's food cake. The lady bug on top of the cake is all fondant. I rolled out tootsie rolls for the dots on the bug. I think I would have just used fondant next time. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dye the fondant brown, but I was successful and did the rest of the cake with brown fondant. I like how it turned out.
Easy, yes. Time consuming, yes. Two year old trying to get in the way, impossible. ;) (Kael smooshed part of the cake while it was cooling. Miraculously the fondant held it together.)
I felt like a little kid playing with playdough. I think I will stick to cupcakes for her birthday though even though I had a ton of fun making this cake.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Nursery
It's sad when Kael wants to stay with his nursery leaders more than me. When I go to pick him up with Derek and he sees me he either holds on to the nursery leader or runs away yelling NOOOOOOOOOOO!
At least the kid likes nursery.
One Day We Will Get There
Forewarning:
(A little too descriptive for some probably.)So a couple of nights ago I was putting the kids in the bath and casually mentioned to Kael that if he wanted to go pee in the potty that would be awesome. Well come to find out he did. He shoved me out of the way in our tiny bathroom and went to work. I was NOT allowed to help him on the big potty and he did NOT want to use his little stool to step up on. He climbed on the toilet and mind you he puts ALL the seats up and refuses to sit on the seat. He got very serious and the next thing I know he is grunting like he is trying to go #2, and before I know it he is peeing in the potty. YAY! I was clapping and so happy and told him he could have a treat for going. We store the toilet paper on the top of our cabinets so Kael doesn't throw it all in the toilet and flush it, and he LOVES to flush toilet paper so I thought it would be a good reward. As soon as I stood up to get the toilet paper HE FELL IN! Completely. WORST NIGHTMARE coming true before my eyes with potty training. He started crying and screaming. I got him out and calmed him down, but pretty for certain he won't be going pee for a while now. He got to get treats for peeing and that made him super excited, and he got to throw toilet paper in the toilet. Not bad for peeing in the potty, but not so cool falling in.
What am I to do with the kid? I got him to try again the next night and he did sit for a while and tried and got two small drops out. It was impressive that he got back up there. He still is way scared and won't do it on his own anymore now though. I have a feeling it is going to be a long road. I'm trying not to push him, but I know he is close to being ready.
I have been letting him wear Buzz Lightyear underwear once a day until he pees in it. Ya gross I know, but he LOVES his underwear. He is starting to understand that is isn't ok to pee in underwear though. He always seems to pee on the tile in the hall which is easy to clean and honestly I don't really care as long as it isn't on the carpet, but he just stands there now and goes "Uh oh"! Where I let him try underwear once about 2 months ago and he peed and it didn't even phase him.
He is learning and that makes me happy. I'm not pushing it, but I hope it isn't too much longer until he is ready.
Go Kael go!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Eden at 10 Months
Can she get any cuter? I submit that she cannot! =) This is a couple days early, but hey I'm blogging now so why not? Eden has been sick for a long time. It is quite ridiculous actually. I still don't know to this day if it was just teething or really a cold of some sort. Let's just say it made for a grumpy girl and sleepless nights. Her usual joyful self during the daytime hours was not around very much. It was replaced by a whinny and clingy child. She is finally getting back to her old self and last night she slept for the longest in a while. She refused to eat solid food for about 3 days and only about 2 days ago slowly has been getting back to eating food. The only thing I could get her to eat for little puffs. She loves to self feed herself. She still refuses a bottle or sippy cup. I even put juice in her sippy cup. I was afraid she would get dehydrated and finally started using a medicine dropper to put juice in her and she still hated that. The other day I let her use a cup with water in it and low and behold that finally did the trick. She is very independent like Kael was.
Just yesterday I noticed for certain she FINALLY got her second tooth on the bottom. It only was a month and a half behind the first tooth. Can I just say I severely dislike teething! I also noticed that it looks like one of her top teeth might be coming soon. When I say coming soon it will probably be another month or so with the way my kids teethe. The second picture shows her cute little tooth if you want a peek. :)
She is my angel and believe it or not I will miss holding her in the middle of the night when she actually learns to sleep. I won't miss her crying though. ;)
She says mama and dada pretty good now. She claps for herself and expects everyone else to clap for her too. She waves hi and bye. She LOVES Kael to pieces and still follows him everywhere. She is trying desperately to stand, but refuses to try to walk, and gets grumpy about it. She crawls SO FAST now.
She eats anything and everything on my floor, which is annoying because my carpet is like cement and EVERYTHING shows up on it, so she is always putting the grossest things in her mouth. I found a dried old pea in her mouth once.
And what the heck? Where did time go? I just realized she is turning 1 in two months?! So not possible. Slow down time! I think we will keep her 1st birthday low key. Cupcakes anyone? So, excited, but not ready for it to happen. Love you Eden. You impress me everyday! Now, please sleep at night for Mom's sake.
A Bit About Kael
So, Kael has been learning so much lately and is turning into quite the silly boy. The other day I was on the computer and he was sitting on my lap. We started having a staring contest. I had a very serious face on I guess because Kael looked at me with a big grin then all of a sudden changed into the most serious face he has ever made. He just stared at me until I couldn't help but to laugh. Then he burst into a hysterical laugh himself. Then we just did this over and over. He waited for me to laugh most of the time, but then it just became ridiculous. He always knows how to make me laugh or smile. He is so sweet.
He has been watching a lot of seseme street lately and is allowed to play games on the internet. He is now able to count to 10 with help and can recognize the numbers. He also can say most of the alphabet with help and can recognize about 10 of the letters. It is pretty awesome. Whenever he wants to play a seseme street game on the computer he comes over and says "Melmo." For Elmo. His vocabulary is picking up so much every day.
He also loves his Buzz Lightyear he got for Christmas. Sometimes he goes around and shows us his Buzz and says it "Buuuuu" Can't quite get the z part yet, but man he is getting good. He still has his own little language when he can't speak fast enough, but slowly he is putting words together. He can now say things like "Help please." "More please". He really is quite the little gentleman using manners saying thank you and please. He also is super great at sharing his toys with friends.
He impresses me more and more every day.
Big Boy Bed
That's right folks, Kael is officially in a big boy bed. We kept him in his crib for as long as possible. He climbed out of his crib a total of 5 times in the last 6 months and never got hurt, so we decided to keep him in it as long as possible. About 3 nights ago Kael had the urge to climb out of it 5 times in one night. About 4 times before he fell asleep and then once at 3 am. I was feeding Eden on the couch in the living room at 3 am and heard a door knocking. I figured it was Kael, and then all of a sudden his little face peered around the corner and scared me to death. This was my determining factor. He had never climbed out of his crib in the middle of the night.The first night in his big boy bed was an adventure for sure. He kept getting out and playing about 3 times before he stayed in bed. He goes to bed at 7 and surprisingly he was asleep by 8. I thought not bad for his first time. He woke up screaming 3 times in the middle of the night. I think he either wasn't sure where he was, or was afraid he was going to fall out of bed. He calmed down each time and one time I even laid by him for a while.
Nap time was a different story. His room was still bright so he thought he could play. I think I put him back in bed about 5 times. Time out twice. Then finally slept by him on his bed in a death grip until he fell asleep an hour after nap time was suppose to happen. Grrr. We will see how today's nap goes.
Last night wasn't too bad except one of the times I told him to go back to bed through the door and he ran in the dark into his bed. He finally went to sleep after that happened. It was a little sad, but mostly funny.
So, here we go big boy Kael! Crazy.
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Kael at 29 Months
Time sure flies when you are having fun. That is the best expression I can think of for raising kids. I can't believe that Kael is 2 years and 5 months old. Where did my baby boy go? I look at pictures of when he was a baby and think of how much he has grown and changed and I can't believe that I have been the person right beside him the entire way.
We have been working hard with Kael's speech. I am very impressed with how quickly he is learning. I cut back on my work hours back in November and only work about an hour a day now instead of 4. I think this has helped Kael the most. If you know Kael, you know that he goes 1000 miles per hour every second until his eyes are closed and he is laying asleep in his crib. I think this mileage is going to continue until his body is whithered an old around 100. ;) He certainly keeps me on my toes, and teaches me to enjoy every second of life.
I'm so grateful to my brothers for the job they have provided me and let me work as I can. I have been so blessed and it has taken a huge burden off of my life to not have to stress about going somewhere to work and having a babysitter. I don't think that I thank them enough, but they deserve more than I can give them. I love being able to be at home with my kids. It is the most rewarding experience in my life to see them grow every day.
Back to Kael.
He now says so many words. We have worked with animal names and the sounds they make. He has mastered farm animals. He can count with me to 10. He can say letter names. He knows his body parts. He loves to draw circles, but his new favorite shape for mom to draw is a STAR. We have cut back on TV a TON. He now watches a 30 minute show once a day and is allowed 30 minutes of sesame street on the computer. This is average so days when someone named Eden decides not to sleep at night, I usually cave and let him watch something longer in the morning. This has helped Kael's attention span so much! He still throws a lot of tantrums, but with his communication getting better, and not so wired to the tv, life is so much better! Now if the blasted snow would melt for a couple of days I could get him outside more. He would play in the snow every day, but I am already getting tired of how long it takes to get dressed and undressed to go outside. I'm not complaining promise, I still like the snow.
Kael loves talking to his grandparents on the telephone. He loves talking to anyone on the phone actually. He loves to play with the cars he got for Christmas. He loves to tickle and be tickled. His new love before bedtime is being shot to the moon, or going to Albequerque (sp?). Basically launched into the air onto the couch... Kael gives the sweetest kisses on the cheek and loves to hug and cuddle.
His new obsession is hugging EVERYONE. He really is the kindest, most loving spirit I know. He teaches me unconditional love every day.
I LOVE YOU KAEL!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
A Little About Eden
She is SO stubborn! Lately she is so persistent that she needs to stand or walk and refuses to sit down or to crawl. She really doesn't have that great of balance, but she is determined. I have learned that Eden will NOT do something unless she is ready. She took so long to sit up, to crawl, etc. However, once she decided she wanted to do it, (sit, crawl) she took off in a matter of days.This being said, today Eden stood by herself without holding on to anything for the first time. She has been whining all day, but she did it! She is persistent, stubborn, and determined. I am so in love with this little girl, and she shows me who is boss every day!
I'm so grateful for her because she teaches me so much. I love that she is persistent, stubborn, and determined. She is also the sweetest, most loving girl. I hope she keeps these attributes throughout her life. She amazes me every day and I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
I LOVE YOU EDEN!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Christmas Videos
Eden got a car/walker from Santa. I think Santa wanted to help her learn how to walk so her poor knees won't be so bruised from our hard cement floors. She was super cute and loved it at first sight.
Kael's Santa present was a trampoline. He has LOVED jumping on it every day. I also think Santa was hoping it would help him burn some extra energy off during the winter months to help his mom out. He got some cars in his stocking, a ball, and some candy (dots). He LOVES candy.
Christmas 2010
December as usual is a crazy month. Derek's finals were intense, and December 17th at 5 pm was a joyous occasion to be finished with the first portion of year 1 of medical school. Derek flew to California the next morning bright and early to visit with his cousin Andrew who just got off his mission from Hungary. The kids and I made another ginger bread house because they are just too fun, and Kael loves eating the candy. :)
We spent the next week enjoying having Derek with us and getting ready for Christmas. We did lots of cooking and cleaning, and watching movies at home. Lots of Garfield's Christmas, and Claymation Christmas, Kael's favorite Christmas shows.
Christmas morning was absolutely amazing. I loved seeing the kids enjoy the day and the surprise and excitement! Derek's Mom and Sister's family came over for a couple hours in the afternoon and it was so much fun to see everyone. We ate TONS of yummy food, and Kael went around hugging everyone about 100 times each. It got to the point it was almost embarrassing. He is such a sweet spirit and loves everyone so much. We are only now getting around to getting our Christmas letter done, and we got a family picture taken on Christmas day, so our update should be coming soon.
We love and miss you all and hope you all had a fabulous Christmas just like us and were spoiled as much as we were!
Monday, December 27, 2010
United States Air Force
On December 21, 2010, Derek was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. This was a big day for us. He has worked really hard to get to this point, and now we have so many more years of hard work ahead of us. Derek will have his first choice of residencies as an air force residency, which we will more than likely do, and then he will have 4 years of active duty and 4 years of inactive duty. This all begins when he is done with medical school.
On May 31, 2011 he will go for officer's training in Alabama for 5 weeks. This will be the longest he will be away and the first of many experiences of having him away from us. I know this is what Heavenly Father wants for our family. I'm so full of emotions. I'm so grateful to Derek for wanting to serve our country. Grateful he is doing this for our family so we won't have as much "financial" debt from medical school. So nervous to have him away for so long. And just happy that we have reached another huge point in our lives. I am excited to see where this brings our family, and I know with Heavenly Father guiding us that we are doing what we are suppose to, so we will be taken care of.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
She's 9 Months
9 Month Appointment:
Weight: 16 lbs 10 oz = 25%
Length: 26.7 inch = 45%
Head Circumference: 44.5 cm =70%
Eden at 9 months:
SHE CRAWLS.
Yay! And Oh Crap! She can get around to anywhere she wants now. It's a little scary. Her absolute favorite place to crawl to?
Kael's room.
His room has SO many toys and she thinks they are all hers. It has been fun seeing her get into all kinds of trouble. She also loves to crawl into the bathroom when I leave the door open, which is totally gross. My bathroom is clean, but I have no idea about the floors. Yikes! Ew, I know I know, I'll shut the door.
Words: She is really starting to babble now. It is so stinking cute. She can say MaMa when she is mad, and sometimes even when she is just really talkative. It is the sweetest! She can say DaDa every once in a while too. Her favorite sound is just plain old ba ba ba ba ba. I love it and it makes me laugh.
She loves to clap her hands and give high fives! It's pretty amazing. ;)
She SITS great now. This took her so long to get stable with.
She can pull herself up in her crib to stand. Oh this got scary. I was hoping I could wait until Derek was done with finals to lower her crib to the bottom because she kept sitting and kneeling in her crib, but finally she stood and made me a nervous wreck, so I had to stop Derek's hard core studying to lower the crib that day.
She loves to KNEEL. Her poor knees are bruised from our cement floors. Our carpet is junk. I feel so bad, but hopefully she'll learn to walk quickly because of this. It is so cute seeing her kneel and bounce her bum.
She is learning so much every day and brings us so much joy.
She LOVES her brother. She is his tag along. Poor Kael is doing pretty good putting up with it. Where ever Kael is you can be sure Eden is a few feet behind crawling as fast as she can to keep up. They are finally fighting over toys already, but Kael is learning quickly and he is so sweet to share with her.
Kael loves having Eden in his crib with her. It has become a nightly routine to have her in his crib where he can tuck her in and say night night. She loves it and usually gets squished and tickled.
Eden is still a picky eater. The only vegetable I can get her to eat is sweet potatoes and not very much when I try. As long as she is growing, Oh Well. She still refuses to use a sippy cup or bottle or anything, and I offically have 3 months before I want her good at a cup of some sort. Any ideas??? Kael could drink from a regular cup when he was 4 months old!
She sleeps at night for the most part now! HOORAY! Oh this is the best stress reliever in my life! Sleep is vital to my good mood I think. I don't mind getting up with my kids, (which I still do A LOT), but to not have to feed her two or three times at night has become awesome. She still cries out at least once a night, but I can usually put her pacifier in her mouth and comfort her for a while and she either cries for 15 minutes or just goes back to bed. She eats at 7 and then goes to bed great, and usually wakes up at 6 or 6:30 to eat again.
Eden, we love you! Slow down growing up! You are such a joy to our family. I'm glad you came when you did! Keep learning, and exploring, and being you! You are so opinionated, but in such a good way as well! Love you little lady bug!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Big Man
I have to say I was impressed with how this event turned out. The University Student Apartments hosted an activity for each village to see Santa. I think the whole process took about 40 minutes. Perfect for my little wiggle kids. They had donuts, coloring pages, and Frosty the Snowman movie playing to entertain the kids while they waited their turn. Kael however was not interested in any of it. He was so excited to be in a room full of people he just started going crazy with excitement and standing by a bunch of older boys.
Kael was more interested in the candy cane they gave him than looking at Santa. He wouldn't look at him at all! I think he was a bit nervous, and the candy cane helped him out a bit.
Eden wanted nothing to do with Santa at all. She took one look at him and screamed. And Kael just wanted the candy cane still.
Eden: "Get me away from this hairy guy!" ;)
Sunday, December 05, 2010
First Tooth
Just want to write the Eden FINALLY has a tooth that popped through. Really and truly this time. It wasn't there last night as I put oragel on her gums last night from her screaming most of the night, but I felt it after church today. No pictures because it wouldn't show up, but I felt it, and I'm so grateful for ONE down and many more to go. Way to go Eden!
Family Home Evening Gingerbread House
Kael loved decorating as much as he loved he loved eating the candy. Eden enjoyed the gingerbread tree. We sure had fun, and it only took about 20 minutes total. We do everything SUPER fast around here.
What we do for fun when Dad is Home.
The video of them driving around the house is so cute. I think I'll put it on You Tube.
The Tree
Here is our REAL christmas tree. It smells so good! It has been a lot of work with vacuming up all the needles, but so worth it for the smell!
And, Kael's stocking ornament from Grandma and Grandpa Heaton. Eden's is up too, I just don't have a picture. Kael helped me hang his.
Sledding and more Snow
The HUGE sled. We can all go as a family on that thing!
Kael making me climb in a tunnel with him. We really got stuck good, so I took a picture.
We are coming to love the snow here. It is finally melting a bit and I can honestly say I'd be ok with another snow storm soon. I probably won't be ready for one in Feb. or March though. :) We bought a sled for Kael, and Derek said the description was a 2 person one and when we actually saw it, it is a 3 person Big Man sled.
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