Terrible twos??

I have dreaded Kaden hitting the terrible twos for about the last year. I heard so many things, "The terrible twos actually go from about 18 months til they are four...."....."tantrums for days that will make you question your sanity..."...uhhhhhh, oh crap! I have been waiting for Kaden to throw his first "real" tantrum and it happened about a week after his 2nd birthday. He screamed for about two minutes (if that) and then came to me softly crying. I totally ignored him (during the tantrum) and tried not to laugh. Kids get upset so easily! He doesn't throw tantrums very often, which is nice, and when he does, they don't last long at all, which is also nice. Kaden is learning not only new words every day, but also new phrases. It is weird for me to suddenly hear theses phrases from him since he was never a big talker. His favorite are:

"Oh NO!" (He got that one from me-I have been trying to say that instead of "oh crap!" so much)
"It's empty. All gone." (Have to be said together)
"WHOA! WHOA! WHOA!" (He says this when he is doing something "dangerous" like pretending to fall onto his uber soft mattress....haha)

And lately he has become Mr. Know-It-All. Last week I was teaching him the different names for things in our yard. He picked up a basketball, so I said, "Basketball." He said, "Buball!" Great! He grabbed a baseball, so I said, "Baseball." He said "bseball" (the bse part was really fast, which was so cute). Then, he picked up the football, so obviously I told him, "Football." He looked at me and then at the ball and said, "No. It's a ball!" That is now his favorite thing to say, "No. It's a....(fill in the blank with whatever he thinks it really is)."
He also loves saying, "No." Which I thought would really bug me, but it doesn't. Probably because he doesn't say it like some bratty, spoiled kid....just very matter-of-factly like he is teaching me the right name for whatever.
He also is very curious (I LOVE it!) and will ask either, "Those?" or "What's that?" and after you answer, he will point to something else and say, "And that?"...."And that?"....."And that?"...."And that?"
I have been teaching him who Santa is and he seems to get the concept!! YAY! He says, "Anna" for Santa. haha

Some other words he loves that you have to be his mom to understand:

dus (duck)
O's (Cheerio's)
ter (water)
nana (this could mean either a banana or a cookie)
ish (fish)
momo (Elmo)
ewas (ears)
lo? (hello? when on the phone)
eas (please, but he always does the sign for it as well)
Ew (not hard to understand, but he says it all the time lately, mainly when he helps me clean up and he picks up garbage or crumbs)
Oush (ouch-another one he says all. the time. and then he comes over for a hug. I love hugs from Kaden!)

There is tons more that he says, but I don't have all day to list everything. :) If this is as bad as the "terrible twos" get, I'll take it!!

CAAUUTE!

When I found out I was having a girl, I was oh so excited to be able to have a real life doll dress her up, paint her nails, and do her hair! The only problem was....

....cute as she was, she barely had enough hair (on top anyway) for the bow to stick to. So, I patiently waited...and waited....and waited....snuck her some prenatals....(totally kidding, please don't leave hate comments)....and waited until finally......

TA-DA!!!!!!! YAY! I realized yesterday that her hair was in her eyes when I don't do it curly. So, I held my breath and tried to do pigtails. Minus the wiggling, it went great! I was surprised by how much hair there was to work with, so I thought maybe I could try something a bit more involved.

I love having a girl. :D

Stats

I know I already posted Kaden's 2nd birthday party, but here are both his and Lexi's stats from their doctor's appointments. For Kaden:

Height: 36" (90%)
Weight: 27 lbs. (30%)


Lexi had her 9 month visit. Here are her stats:

Height: 28" (70%)
Weight: 17 lbs. 4 oz. (25%)

The doctor said that both kids are just long and skinny. :) I am glad Lexi shot up in height. She was staying in the 25%, so to have her go to the 70% was fantastic!

Happy 2nd birthday Kaden!

Kaden turned 2 on September 10th!! We had his party on the 12th and it was so. much. fun!

Of course, we did a Cars theme. :) This is some of the decorations. All of the kids got a goodie bag with a balloon to take home. :)

Instead of a cake, I made cupcakes for everyone! So much easier when you are dishing it up for 40 people.

Here is a close up of the cupcakes. :)

Kaden doesn't like cake, so for his "cake" I decorated a huge brownie!

He loved it (after we scraped off the frosting....yeah, I know, weird that a kid doesn't like frosting, but whatev).

Emily was nice enough to bring her bounce house for the kids. :) It was a huge hit! Thanks again M!

Kaden did really care about opening his presents, he just wanted what was in them. It worked out perfectly, though, because Liz loved opening presents and got plenty of practice for her upcoming birthday. :)

Shane's family

Emily, Halle, my little brother hiding and my mom

Kelly, Lexi with Stephanie, Danny, Liz (still helping unwrap presents) and Kaden loving all the new toys!

Kaden and Liz playing with all the new stuff

My little sister, Jacquelyn and her daughter, Taliyah, and my older sister, Suzanna, and her daughter, Mckayla.

My dad, Emily and Halle again (looking oh so interested....haha), and Yuki.

Josiah, my mom and her husband, Kent.

Stephanie and Lexi. It was so nice to not have to worry about Lexi during the party. Between everyone there, there was always someone waiting to hold and play with her. :) She absolutely loved it!

Kaden playing with all his new toys.

My friend Amy from England. She was such a big help during the party!

My brother-in-law, Derek, Big Ben, and Little Ben (both Ben's are from England). They were listening to Derek's highway patrol stories. :)

Me bringing in Kaden's birthday brownie

Kaden getting ready to blow out his candle! We had been practicing this for a couple of months and he was really good at it.

But everyone watching him made him shy, so Shane ended up blowing out the candle.

McKayla decided to dump her Nerds (that were in the goodie bag) all over the couch. I thought it was funny so, of course, I took a picture. :)

McKayla was very good about helping to clean all the Nerds up. :)

Thanksgiving Point and a wedding disaster

I am a bit behind in my posting, so enjoy a lot of posts today. I need to catch up before our fun weekend away because you KNOW I will have a lot of pictures to share! :) On August 29th, my 2nd best guy friend, Brent, got married. His reception was in Saratoga Springs (clear down south-if you missed my horrible car story about that day, click here), so we decided to go down early and take Kaden on his first pony ride at Thanksgiving Point! His friend Halle (and her mom, M) came, too, which is good since she is the pro at pony rides. :) He got to ride twice. The first time I walked next to him. He clung to me like white on rice....like he was going to DIE if he let go....like..ok, ok, you get the point. And since I totally baby him, I let him (I DID try to show him how to hold onto the saddle horn, but he wouldn't touch it).

Can you see the grip of death he has on my arm?

Halle the pro all by herself. :)

Lexi hanging out

This Clydesdale was massive! And he looked even bigger next to shortie Emily.

Halle and Kaden feeding their fingers corn to the chickens.

The adorable Lexi being ever so patient. She will be loving life once she can run around with the big kids.

Halle was trying to feed a goat leaves....but the leaf blew away at the last second.

Take 2, got it!

Shane had to get in the action of feeding the goat. Zoom in closely to see Lexi's face. haha

You can't really tell from this picture, but this was the most adorable baby goat!

The kiddos feeding more leaves to the animals.

After seeing the rest the animals, it was time for the 2nd pony ride before we left. I wanted to take Lexi since Kaden didn't enjoy it, but Shane said to let him try it this time (he doesn't baby Kaden).

Halle kept one hand in front of her and one in back. :) Her pony's mane was french braided really pretty.

Shane put Kaden's hands on the horn, then stood behind him so that Kaden thought he was all alone (sad...), but it worked!

Just as the ride came to an end, Kaden started really enjoying it! And he did it all by himself!! This is why God gave us husbands. :) Women are too compassionate. haha

After a yummy spaghetti dinner, we headed to the ring ceremony/reception. Kaden made sure to scream during the ring ceremony (and we were RIGHT next to the videographer) and then drank five glasses of ginger ale. The videographer said that he could take out the screaming easily and that Kaden wasn't even close to the worst that he's heard. Whew! Within 10 minutes of the reception starting, Lexi grabbed Shane's drink (PINK punch) and spilled it ALL OVER both her and Shane. Luckily I had her P.J.'s with me, so I went to clean her up as much as possible.

For those of you wondering, yes I did get the stain out perfectly! :)


Needless to say, we were so done after all that, so we took off early. Here is a pic of Brent's car on our way out. It was a fun day! Thanks to Emily and Jared and Halle for feeding and entertaining us! :)

Still bored....

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The website said to try it again with a different picture and see which celebs were repeats. I didn't get ANY repeats. Awesome.

Bored.....

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