Our life-

We went outside today to attempt to get a good picture of the two of them together. Ha! This is the best picture that I got of them both together! :) It does make me laugh!!! Brody loves Kaylee and since she was not to sure about the leaves when she first sat down he decided to put them on her head so that she would get used to them! What a silly little BOY! :)

I do not have a fancy camera (one day I will ) so getting a good picture of this little guy is hard to come by! However I really like this one!

I have noticed that lately Brody and Kaylee have been playing a lot with each other! He will "come and get her" and when he does she will just laugh the whole time and try to get away from him. It is very cute to watch! I pulled out Brody's old house so that Kaylee could play with it and they both have been having a ball playing with it! I love any toy that will entertain both kids at the same time! :) I pray that they will be best friends their whole lives!!

Our little girl is now 9 months old! Wow! She has learned so much and is getting to be a big girl! She is now on the move and is crawling everywhere! One day she just got up on her knees and decided to come after me into the kitchen and the rest is history! :) That has been a big change around our house, not only for Ja and I but for Brody as well. He is learning really quickly that he has to pick up his toys or she will get them! I always knew that she would start crawling just in time for her to be really good at it when we put up our Christmas tree. :)*

She is also standing up a lot and pulling up on everything! She can sign "all done" and sometimes "more". She is eating everything and anything that we give her and has loved everything that she has tried except cranberry sauce! :) She loves to read books and can turn the pages on her own and really likes the books with the flaps. She is now saying dada and waves bye bye, she can also say hi, all done, baba, gaga. She knows the meaning of no and will look at you when she knows she is not supposed to do something. She loves to play patty cake and clap her hands!!

I have had many people ask me if she pulls out her bows. She will not pull them out if she is wearing a head band, but if I just put the bow in her hair then she will pull it out eventually. She hates getting in her car seat unless Brody is already in the car distracting her with whatever he is doing! She is now drinking most of her milk except at night, out of a sippy cup and is starting to really enjoy dropping her cup and letting me pick it up at meal times! :) She now knows what some of her toys are like: book, ball, blocks, doll, and house and will crawl to get them when we ask her to. Seeing her learn all these things is so exciting and at the same time a little sad knowing that our baby is growing up!! :) We praise the Lord for giving her to us!!

If you are looking for a fun toy to give your little one for Christmas I recommend this one! Yes it does take up some room, but it has some fun things for them to play with on it!

Last weekend our nephew Traber Jackson was born. We were able to go up to the hospital when he was born! I just love this picture of Lilly and Brody watching Traber get weighed and have his first bath!

Here is the proud daddy holding his baby boy. :)

Here I am getting to hold him for the first time! Let me tell you he is a cutie!

Brody and Ja are checking him out. Brody wanted to give Traber a toy so of course we had to get him a train. It is a fun toy that makes all kids of train noises. Brody wanted to keep it as his own...... I know that when Traber starts to play with it Brody will want to play with it with him. :)

Kaylee is getting a good look at Traber here. She really wanted to reach out at him and grab his face. :) I guess it is her way of saying hi welcome to the world! :)
We are so excited that Traber is now in our family!! Congratulations Jeremy and Brandy!

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween this year Brody was a UPS man and Kaylee was Tinkerbell (or a fairy). It was a lot of fun dressing them and letting Brody pick out his own costume. Brody went through a stage of getting really bored while riding in the car. So I started pointing out all the different trucks that went by and we would talk about them. This way it kept his interest and he would (and still does) look for all the different kinds of trucks. So when we let him pick out his costume we were not surprised that he picked the UPS man outfit since we always see the trucks drive by! It is my favorite outfit that he has worn and I think his as well. :) I loved being able to make a tu-tu for Kaylee! I found the wings at a sale and thought it would be fun to make her a fairy. I added some tulle, some iron on hearts to her shirt, and a fun little head peace to make her outfit complete. :) I love how it turned out!

We went over to Grandma and Grandpa's house to let them see the kids outfits, spend time with them and to see Lilly. It was fun making a day out of Halloween.

Here are all the kids wearing their Halloween outfits. Lilly is a cute little cat!! Holly made her outfit and did a really good job on it! I know that all the kids are not looking at the camera, but you take what you can get with three kids! :)

I think this picture is so cute of Lilly! She is purring like a kitty cat! :) It is fun to watch her and Brody because they are noticing each other more and more every time we see them.

Brody and Kaylee with Grandma and Grandpa. :)

We then made our way to my Grandparents house to show them the kiddos. Here is Gammy chasing Brody around. :) I think this is such a sweet picture!

Gammy comforting Kaylee on her lap. :)

After the kids took naps we went over to my parents house for a yummy dinner and some trick-or-treating. :)

Marmee and Pops with the kiddos before Pops and Ja took Brody trick-or-treating.

Aren't these fun pumpkins that my mom has! They look so cute from the road!

Brody was so excited to go trick-or-treating and came home ready to look at all of his candy. It brought back memories of my sister and I always coming home and dumping the candy on the floor so we could see all that we got and let my parents go through it to make sure nothing had been opened.

I just love this picture!!

Brother and Sister! We had a great Halloween!