Finger Painting

I will openly admit I have been a slacker mom for the past 9 months or so. You'd think I would have been preggers, moved and then had a baby or something! Poor Blakers has unfortunately been a rather bored kid (which led to him becoming rather adventurous in his effort to find entertainment). So I decided to try to win the Mother of the Year award and to start letting him do some of the stuff his sisters did when they were his age. Unfortunately I have forgotten a majority of the fun things we used to do but finger painting was one I remembered. The kid loved it. Yep we had paint everywhere but it was worth it to see the excitement in his eyes. Any other suggestion on fun things I can do to keep my precocious child busy will be greatly appreciated!

Only a small amount was eaten. Guess its a good thing Crayola makes non-toxic paint!

This kid is a NUT! He is so much fun! His personality has exploded these past couple months. He is obsessed with trucks. Driving down the road all I hear his him screaming TRUCKS, TRUCKS. He will continue to shout it out until he gets a response from me that I see the truck. It doesn't matter if its a pick-up truck, delivery truck or a semi, he loves anything truck. He is also fascinated by diggers, tractors and any construction vehicle. It is so nice that he has developed a love for something because it has really help in keeping him occupied.

In addition to trucks, he has also developed a talent for climbing. He climbs on any and everything. This upside down pretend ironing board is one of his favorites. One day he has used an inverted laundry basket to climb on my desk then try to climb on top of the fridge (in an effort to get to our cell phone chargers). I took that away and put up all the laundry baskets. The next day he figured out he could do this with the ironing board and I again caught him trying to climb on top of the fridge. He's also used mixing bowl, pumpkins, phone books etc to help him get where he wants to go. As I've said a million times before, each day is a new one at our house!

2 months

Wow, where have these past two months gone? I cant believe our Kai is already 2 months. He has been terrific lately. There was about a month where I was ready to trade him in. He had a nasty case of thrush that took over three weeks to clear up and during all of this we were trying to get his reflux issues worked out. Finally he is healthy and a whole lot happier. I love it when my babies finally start to smile and respond. He has been such a fun kiddo!

Kai is our little peanut. He was born smaller than the girls but bigger than Blake. At two months he is my smallest kiddo by far. He is only in the 25% for weight. Tony and I are both rather large people so who'd have ever guessed we'd have such a featherweight. I sure hope he outgrows it! Of course his head is significantly larger ... shocker I know!

I love this picture. It makes him look at chubby and squishy. He is chubbier than he was but compared to his sisters (especially Aliya) he's a bean. Chunk up little dude!

Halloween

This Halloween was a ton of fun. I wish I had gotten pictures of our wards Trunk or Treat party because that was when the kids were in their full costumes and the cutest but I was in charge of the activity so no pics were taken (I could put blame on Tony for not taking pics but I figure he got the kiddos all dressed AND to the church relatively on time so he did more than enough)!

Aliya wanted to be a cowgirl, Blake was a cowboy and Taeya was Selina Gomez (one of Disney's pop stars). For our trunk or treat Blake had on his boots, Wranglers, chaps, belt, hat and cowboy shirt. Unfortunately his butt is so skinny the weight of his chaps and belt kept pulling his pants down. It was pretty cute to watch him walking around w/ his diaper hanging out. Tae had on a full black wig that she insisted on (she also picked out her costume ... again I tried to nudge her in a different direction but she loved this red plaid outfit). And lucky Kai had on a pumpkin hat.

On Halloween night we had a houseful of adults and few kids. My parents had just flown in for Kai's blessing, Tony's mom and brother Matt had been in town since early Thursday a.m. and Colby and Steph came to enjoy the kiddos.

Colby and Steph were the only adults fun enough to dress up. Frankly I was too tired to dressup by the time I got kids ready!

For weeks Steph and Aliya had talked about being cowgirls together. Aliya was so excited to be 'twins' with Aunt Steph!

For Halloween night we decided to forgo Blakes chaps and just wear the hat, boots, belt and Wranglers. I was shocked he left the hat on but he looked darling. I think it helped that the kid had a sucker in his hand the entire time!

Blake ended the night in a rather festive costume! Tony had taken Blakers to give him a bath and later he came streakin' out dressed like this. Needless to say this was the highlight of our evening. Too stinkin' cute!

Are you ready for some football?

I had some of Tony's old jerseys out for Kai's photo shoot w/ Steph and the girls had fun trying them on. It was fun to see how HUGE they were on the girls yet how well it still fit Tony. Seeing them in his jerseys brought back so many fun memories from early in our marriage. It is crazy to think that one day our little boys may be big enough to fit in their dads old jerseys (I am hoping they'll be bigger than their dad but so far our boys are runts).

WWF nights are frequent at our house. I dont know what Tony will do when he cant wrestle all three (soon to be four) at once. Our house is loud and chaotic during these episodes but a ton of fun!