Happy Birthday Kate

Yesterday was Kate's birthday. I think she had a very good day. We started with singing to her and we ended with singing to her. By the end of the day she was requesting the song. It was cute. She thought we were nuts when we first sang it to her in the morning. You should have seen her face. I wish I would have had a camera. She always wakes us up and we're always slow to get out of bed but yesterday when she woke us up we were singing and she wasn't so sure what to think of that.

After the present opening. We're all exhausted and sunburnt from the triathalon. Did I forget to mention that we celebrated on Saturday? Yeah, it was a long day with the triathlon in the am, no naps for the kiddos and lots of presents. It was fun though!

The number one, all time cutest costume EVER and I'm so excited she got it!

Look at the big girl on her trike! Chris lowered the seat so she can reach the pedals after this picture was taken. She loves it. She puts her stuffed animals on the seat behind her and asks to be pushed everywhere. Yesterday she had her friend Hannah over and Hannah was playing on the trike. So, I put Kate on the step just behind the seat and pushed them around for a bit. Then later in the day Kate went and sat on the step and said "Hannah! Come here Hannah!" She wanted Hannah to sit on the seat. Then today I caught her sitting behind Elmo and scooting around on it. So cute. Hours of fun entertainment.

Ok, so the suprise hit of the birthday presents was this little stuffed Nemo I found at a consignment sale. She is OBESESSED with Nemo. Now she can take Nemo everywhere...and she does!

Here's her reaction to her cake. I think this picture may need to be framed someday. We combined the celebration of Kate's birthday with Grandpa Carson's so I made them two cakes. We put two candles on Kate's and several on Grandpa's but they were on the same tray so when we brought them to her I think she just saw this ball of flames sitting in front of her. She wasn't too happy. Classic though.

Then today I took Kate to her 2 year well check. 75th percentile in both height and weight. She's a happy, healthy little girl. She didn't even cry that much when she got her shots. I love that girl. When I took Chase a couple of weeks ago they asked if I wanted Kate to have a flu shot and I told them I would just wait for her appointment. Well, on the door this morning I noticed a sign saying that they were all out of flu shots. Great. So I was chatting with the nurse and I mentioned that I wished I would have gotten her one a few weeks ago. Then the nurse said that they thought they were all out but then this morning she found one more vial in the back of their fridge! Yeah! So, Kate got her flu shot today. I was so happy.

Oh, one more side note. Noodles are "loodloos" and pictures are "tipurs." There's one more but I can't think of it right now. I just love hearing her say them. I'm gonna be sad when she starts saying them correctly.

Also, yesterday Chase started doing a little army crawl thing! Watch out Kate, Bubba's gonna be chasing after you soon!

Chase updates

I feel like it's been a long time since I blogged about Chase. So, here's a bunch if pictures from the last few weeks. He really is such a happy, content little boy. He definitely is a Momma's boy - if he's even remotely uncomfortable for any reason he wants his Mommy. He even says "ma ma." (only when he's really whiney though.) I took him in to the Dr. a couple of weeks ago for his six month checkup. He's 18lbs 6oz!

See what I mean? Isn't that just the most adorable smile? Oooh, I could just eat it up! He's soooo close to crawling. He can get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. He's been doing that for a few weeks now so I know its just any day he's gonna take off on me and I'll never be able to catch him again.

They adore each other. It's so great to see them getting along. Now, I if I could just get the two of them to smile at the same time...

Hey there's one! We're just enjoying the beautiful weather after it finally stopped raining. Good for the grass though. I totally got covered in tiny little spiders when I took this picture. It was pretty gross.

Oh my, he loves his bath time. I've never seen a kid splash as much as he does. This was his first bath with sister. I was a little scared to just put him in the tub with her so I put his tub inside the big tub and they played together that way. They loved it. It was bathtime chaos for a while. I mean chaos! Wow, I don't know how you moms handle more than two kids! Whew...

Oh goodness, isn't he a charmer? He really is a ladies man. I'm gonna have to watch out for him when he gets older. I love his hair in this picture. It's so fuzzy and cute. This is his first tie too. I found it at a consignment sale of all places. (5 ties for $10!)

This is Kate's "popcorn." It was the only way I could get her to smile. So, I started singing "I looked out the window and what did I see?" and she started doing the popcorn movement. So cute.

Well, that's Chase's last month or so in a nutshell. He's such a cute little boy and a great blessing to our family. We love both our children so much and we can't imagine our lives without them.

What's going on here??

I don't know what's happened to my sweet little girl, but something has come over her. Today she got up at about 6 am (so not cool). At about 11 I went for a run with both kiddos in the stroller. We always stop at a park and play for a little while and then run back home. Well, when we stopped at the park she was sleeping, so we turned around and went home. (I figured Chase isn't quite old enough to know I passed up the playground). Kate NEVER falls asleep in the stroller. She hasn't done that for ages.

So we get home and she's still sleeping. I pick her up and she's still sleeping. I lay her down in her bed still sleeping. I turn around to walk out and she starts crying. I kept walking though thinking maybe she'd fall back asleep (after all, she did wake up an hour and a half earlier than usual).

So then she comes out into the living room and I'm like, alright, let's do lunch, watch Clifford and then go take a nap. I explained this plan to her multiple times - after Clifford we're going to take a nap. Over and over and over. So after Clifford I picked her up, carried her to her room and laid her down. The second I turn to walk away she starts crying. Now, I'm thinking I explained this to her so she knows it's nap time. I know she's tired. I'm gonna let her cry while I go shower and hopefully she'll fall asleep. (Chase is sound asleep in his room, by the way).

I can still hear her crying (well, screaming actually) when I get out of the shower. Plus, I hear Chase starting to stir in his room because of all the screaming. So, I go to Kate's room and tell her it's nap time and try to lay her back down. She's clinging to me so I think maybe she needs some cuddle time. So, I lay down in bed with her which usually helps her to fall asleep pretty quickly. Well, twenty minutes later, she's sitting up playing with her baby doll. So, I take the baby doll away. Not cool. She starts crying and crying and crying. So, I get her the baby doll back and I leave the room.

Screaming, screaming, screaming. I'm gonna lose it so I head outside for some fresh air. A few minutes later I come back into the house and it's all quiet. It took a whole hour to get the kid to sleep. At least I got her to sleep today. She hasn't taken a nap for three days now. I wonder how long she'll sleep? Now Chase is awake. Sigh...I do need to post on his 6 month checkup so hopefully I'll get to that soon. Maybe tomorrow during naptime? :)

I learned something new today. Apparently naps are overrated and two year olds do not need them. Thanks for teaching me that Kate.