Kaylee is now 8 months old! She is such a big girl and yet in my mind is still my little baby! :) I guess that is how it always is with your second child! She is a very laid back girl! Very different then Brody was at this age! She loves to go shopping with me and will fall asleep in her stroller!! Wow that is great! :) She is always aware of her surroundings and loves it when Ja, Brody or I come in the room! Brody and I usually go and get her in the morning and she gets so excited to see both of us! She is now doing two signs which I love!!!!! She does all done and more! It is so cute to see her doing these! I love doing the signs with them and really think it helps know what they want. I know that there are people out there that say it slows down their speech, but in our experience with Brody it helped him learn the meaning of the words and when to use them. He is a big talker and I believe it help speed up his language. After they get the signs down you encourage them to say the words while doing the sign. It helps take aways a lot of frustration on their part and on ours! Anyways....
Kaylee is starting to like to move around to get things and is trying to start crawling but I think she has a ways to go until she does. Like I said she is a laid back little girl and with the constant entertainment from Brody who needs to go get anything to play with! She now only eats big people food and refuses to eat baby food anymore! If we put a bite of baby food in her mouth she puts her hands up and says all done and will push away the spoon! :) This is the time that I really don't like because now I have to be creative and think about good nutritious things that she will be able to eat! She is so fun and we can't imagine our lives without her!

Taking her monthly pictures in her chair are not that easy anymore!! :)

I am afraid that we have a VERY picky eater on our hands with Brody. Picky or stubborn I don't know but I also have to be creative with what he eats. :) It can make for some fun dinners and lunches! Of coures he likes the normal kid food and mac and cheese is his all time favorite! However I try to get him to try new things and to eat food that is good for him, we call it brain food. We play games at dinner to get him to eat and often times we bribe him with a little treat if he eats a good dinner like a pumpkin, starbursts or something along those lines. Some of his favorite things right now are in the picture above. He loves the Mickey Mouse apples! They are freeze dried apples with nothing else in them so I love that! He refuses to eat real apples so these are a good alternative. You can find them by the raisins. They are also a good on the go snack that I feel is good for them! He also loves the Mickey Mouse cheese. Yes I know it is just cheese cut out like Mickey Mouse and over priced because of it, but sometimes I just don't care as long as he eats it! :) I love the idea of the snacks with the letters on it!! It is a fun thing for them to eat and get to practice learning their letters!

My mom and dad watched Brody and Kaylee while we were gone on Sunday night and they did some pumpkin stamping! It was such a cute idea I thought I would share it with you so that you can do it with your kids. A great rainy day activity! Brody helped take the seeds out and the next day we did this with them......

We painted a pumpkin that I drew and glued the seeds on it. What a cute idea, thanks Marmee!
I cut the pumpkin out after it dried and it looks really cute! Brody had a great time doing it as well!!

One thing Brody loves to do is play Ja's trumpet! This will entertain him for hours and I must say he is really good at it! No he does not play songs, he just blows in it as hard as he can and wow he can really do it good for an almost 3 year old!! We have taken him to some football games and he really likes to see the football players and the band. He came home and told me that he wants a tuba from Santa. :) hahah I said they are to expensive for Santa. :)

Our new nephew was born last week and we are so excited to welcome Luke into our family! Congratulations Heather and Drew on a very cute baby boy!!! We can't wait to meet him!! Brody has really liked looking at all the pictures of "baby Luke" as he calls him and keeps telling us that he was in Aunt Heathers tummy and the doctor got him out!

A Visit to my sisters house!

This past weekend we were able to go and visit my sister, Eric and Drew! We all had a great time and enjoyed spending time together and celebrating my sisters Birthday!

Here we are playing on their really cool play ground in their back yard! One day Drew will love coming out here and making it his fort!

We were able to go to a really fun park and enjoy the nice weather! Brody had a blast swinging, running around and eating a yummy picnic lunch! Drew thought Jason was so funny here! He was just bouncing in his bouncer and laughing so hard! It was really cute to watch! Funny how something so small can get babies to laugh so hard! There is nothing cutter then a baby laughing!! :) We came at a time where Amy and Eric had sold their old furniture and their new furniture should be in any day now. So we brought our camping chairs and sat in those in the living room! :)

We painted some pumpkins while we were there. Brody had a good time and is so proud of his pumpkin that he did! This is a fun project for little kids! Good idea Amy!

Here we all are painting them pumpkins! We had a great time while we were there!

Family fun at the Park!

We went to our favorite neighborhood park that other night. It was so much fun to get out and enjoy the very nice weather! Brody has a blast and is becoming more and more brave every time we go!! Kaylee really enjoyed swinging and watching Brody play. She did get to slide too and really liked that. :)

There is not much going on around our house besides the normal every day activities. So there is not really much to post about besides our family adventures at the park. :)

Having fun!

So what do you do on a rainy day? You get out all your stuffed animals and put them on the train! :) We have been stuck inside a lot lately because of teething, sickness, and rain. So we were being a little creative with our pretend play! I never really realized how many stuffed animals we have in our house until we lined them all up. This is not even all of Brody's, just some of his favorites.

This little girl loves her stuffed animals just like her brother! She loves playing with them, feeling them and sometimes biting on them! :) She is getting her two bottom teeth in and has been a little fussy so I was glad this kept her in a good mood for awhile!

Since the sun was out on Saturday we decided to play outside with some chocolate pudding! Can it get much better then that! He helped me make it and really liked playing with it! He didn't really want to eat it while he was playing with it though. What a funny little boy, who does not like eating chocolate pudding?

Getting all messy and enjoying his "mud bath".

Him and Daddy decided to do some face painting and have a little pudding fight. :) Glad we did it outside!

7 months old, and asking about God

Where does the time go? Kaylee turned 7 months old on the 12th and is growing up way to fast! I remember this time going fast when Brody was a baby, but it seems like she is growing up even faster! Our little baby girl is such a joy to be around! She loves being able to sit up and watch what is going on around her. She enjoys playing with her toys and gets very frustrated when they go out of her reach. She will sometimes scoot on her bottom to go and get some of the toys, or roll around from her back to her stomach until she can reach them. It is funny to watch! She likes to pull up on your arm and practice standing up. She is very interested in the touchy feely books now and really likes to feel them not just eat them! :) She is a true joy and blessing in our lives!


We were playing in Brody's room the other day and he was talking about how he had asked God into his heart. I asked him what he had said and he said this-
"I talked really quietly and said God will you come into my heart".
I just wanted to give him a big old kiss right then and there! :) This all came from him asking Ja and I why we had to go to church one Sunday morning. We told him that we go to worship and learn more about God. Then the typical "why" questions started coming. We told him that Daddy and I have Jesus in our hearts and that Jesus wants to come into his heart too. ----
So as we were playing in his room he wanted to listen to mine and Kaylee's heart to see if he could hear God in there!!!!! :) (picture above!) Don't you just love the way a child thinks! It is our prayer that him and Kaylee will both accept God into their hearts and walk with Him through their lives! I wanted to write this story down so that when he accepts Jesus into his heart and knows what he is doing, I can share this story with him!

Reading a book together.

Labor Day Weekend-

I just think this picture (below) is too funny! My Dad has always been an OSU fan and Graduated from there. So of course growing up we were surrounded with OSU games, colors, and we even visited the campus and went to a couple of games. HOWEVER I was never really into sports (still am not but try to act more interested for my husbands sake!) (I went to a college that did not have football.) :) So when I married a man who is an OU fan - I of course jumped on the band wagon and rooted for his team. (Sorry Dad!!) So here we are on game day sporting our team colors proudly.

We were able to go to my grandparents house this past Labor Day weekend with my whole family! It was really good to see them and have the kids play at their house. We were able to do some shopping at the outlets, ride the Dart train to Downtown Dallas, and eat lots of yummy food-- all while juggling three kids schedules!

Here Kaylee and Drew are entertaining each other and watching each others every move. It was fun to watch them with each other!

We loved being able to see our nephew Drew while we were there! He is getting so big and is so cute! Looks like both him and Kaylee will have blonde hair and big blue eyes! :)

We got to ride the Dart train while we were there and you can guess that Brody just LOVED it! He was so excited to be going on it and had never ridden on a fast train like that before.

As you can see Drew was a little tired and thought it was a good time for a nap.........

............so did Kaylee!!!

Here are Brody and Micaw (my grandpa) on the train looking at all the sites out the window. He did not stop looking out the window the whole time!

We walked around Downtown for awhile seeing all the sites and smelling all the good food that is down there!

We were able to see Uncle John and Jerry while we were there and Brody had a great time with them. Here they are looking at the Locust that were out that night.

Showing me the locust that he had found in their back yard.

We are so glad that we were able to go and can't wait to go back again!!

A morning with Kaylee-

What do Kaylee and I do while big brother is at Preschool......

After we drop Brody off at preschool we come back home and Kaylee normally takes a morning nap while I run around the house trying to get some things done so that I can play with her when she wakes up! If I get all my things done in the morning then I can do whatever I want while they are both taking their afternoon nap. :) Today Kaylee and I worked on building her leg muscles by practicing standing up. She is pretty good at this and stood for awhile. (She did not pull up- I put her like this... but she liked it).

We then played in her room for awhile. I think she likes getting my undivided attention for awhile! :)

We then worked on getting her to move or at least reach for some things. She really liked playing with this and I kept moving it farther back to try and get her to move to it. She really reached for it but did not want to get on her knees and get it. I am sure that will come soon enough!

Then we went and picked up Big Brother and they played together when we got home. :)

First day of Preschool!

Today was Brody's first day of Preschool!!! Man oh man I can't believe that my baby boy is going to preschool!

We went to his school to see his teachers and his classroom the other night. It was fun to see what he is going to be doing this year and all the fun activities that they have planned for him! We were very impressed with his teachers and the school itself!

We have been talking about going to preschool all summer and preparing Brody for it. We wanted him to know a little bit of what to expect and what was expected out of him. He has been very excited about it and was ready to go meet the friends in his class and be a big boy by going to preschool.

Today went Great! He walked into his room no problem, hung up his backpack, gave me a high five at the door, got a squirt of hand sanitizer (I liked that part) before he went into the room and was off to explore everything in the room! What a change from where we were last year at this time when we would leave him at Sunday School! :)

Here he is in his classroom. You can tell that he is exploring here.. probably looking to see if there are any trains anywhere! :) When we were looking at his class schedule we saw that he will be busy from the time he gets there to the time we pick him up! It is very scheduled and organized and I like that a lot! He does not eat lunch or take a nap there. This particular preschool does it a little different than others.

When we picked him up he said he had a fun time and he liked going to music class. What a cute little boy!!

Daddy and Brody after his first day of preschool!

6 Months, Trains, Soccer, and Swimming!

Kaylee is now 6 months old!! Wow has it really been half of a year since she was born!!!?? She is growing up way too fast! We need both of our kids to just stop growing for a little while!!!! :) She is now sitting up on her own like a pro, and is really into playing with toys! Her favorite thing to do however is watch Brody play!! She is now getting to the point where she notices when we leave the room and does not like it one bit! Brody is funny- if we leave the room for a minute and she starts crying he will go over to her and tell her that it is ok he is right here!! :) He then always tries to distract her with a toy or by being silly!! Man that little boy watches our every move!! :) It is our prayer that they will always be able to play that good with each other!!! Kaylee is eating all kinds of baby food now and loves anything and everything that we give to her! :) She is working on using a sippy cup and is getting really good at it. One thing I have noticed is that she loves getting her picture taken!! :) We love you Kaylee Jo -

6 months

Brody and Kaylee got to go to one of Brody's favorite places with Daddy--- Bass Pro! Here they are riding the boat.

I can not tell you how many times in one day I hear the word "train". He is not really into playing with his trains anymore, he is now into making EVERYTHING else into a train!!!! In the picture above we were making a train from his blocks for all of his animals to ride on! Then if you look behind him - the house, step stool and tool bench was also pushed together to make a train! Today I fixed my hair on the pillow train that he made in the living room!! It is so fun to watch him use his imagination and pretend play!

Here he is after his last soccer practice! He did such a great job and can kick the ball really good.

We got to go swimming with my mom at a family friends pool! We had a blast and really liked putting those swimming lesson skills to good use!

Kaylee just had enough swimming and needed to take a nap in the shade!

Brother and Sister

He said a funny thing to me the other day-

Brody -"Mommy, water makes me sad."

Me - "Why does water make you sad Brody?"

Brody- "Because I like juice."

What a little ham!

Practicing his golf swing with daddy!