It's beginning to look alot like.....

Christmas! Well maybe look like because of decorations but the weather isn't working in favor of Christmas. Gotta love Oklahoma. Here's a little bit of what we've been doing and our start to the holidays :)

With the weather being awesome and the fact that we live a block from a city park.... we've spent some time at the park! Kayden loves it!

Last week was the City Christmas Parade of Lights, so I took Kayden to go see. This kid loved it!!! This is the first year where he is actually animated about whats going on and it is so much fun to watch him! And we stood next to two little girls who screamed the whole time, so I'm sure that added to his excitement.

Then Friday one of my close girlfriends had a sweet baby girl!!!! This was her 4th, so she had decided to wait until birth to find out! With our two being 3 months apart, I think they might be BFF's!

Welcome sweet baby Allison Grace!

And this weekend Kayden and I layed down with his big teddy bear because he was refusing to take a nap...needless to say....the nap won.

Baby #2

Baby at 24 weeks

I saw my dr this morning and everything is right on track. Baby is growing and heartrate was strong. Can't ask for much more. I had to do the glucose screen which isn't a ton of fun, but as long as I pass it should be smooth sailing! I'll see my dr again in 4 weeks.

How far along: 25 weeks....only 15 more weeks! Eekk!!!
Total weight gain: -23
Best moments this month: I finally look pregnant. =)
Food cravings: I have a new found love of York Peppermint Patties
Gender: It's a Girl! Still working on a name
Labor signs: none
What I miss: still wine....the stress is getting to me
What I am looking forward to: 3rd trimester starts in 3 weeks!
Milestones: Baby is the size of a cauliflower. Baby is enjoying her sense of equilibrium. She knows which way is up and down.

Winter Pictures

Yes I am biased that my child is the cutest.....but he really is.
This weekend we had winter pictures done by Okie Girl Photography. She has a 4 year old of her own, so she fully understands the little quirks that come along with photographing a 2 year old. Needless to say the pictures aren't super cheesy cute, but they definitely show his little personality! ;) LOVE my child! Here are some of the best!

He's my favorite!!!

BIG Changes

With life there comes change... and I think its safe to say our family is in the midst of some BIG changes. No need to go into details, just need to focus on the two most important things in life: Kayden and his baby sister! So lets focus on them and only them. =)

Kayden is doing decent with the changes. He doesn't understand, but we're trying to keep him in a routine so he gets adjusted. Other than that, he's his ornery little self. Gotta love that little guy!

We had dinner out a couple of weeks ago.....this is from Kayden's viewpoint.

We made cookies!

Kayden has learned that the oven is hott and mom has to use oven mitts....

We went to the last tailgate of the season! Go Pokes!

I got lots of pictures of Mr. Kayden sleeping....he's just so cute I can't help myself!!!

If you look closely on his left hip, he's wearing daddy's badge. Daddy had it on and Kayden wanted to be just like him!

Can you find the sleeping baby???

Love this kid!

And Kayden got some new things!!


 

hahahaha....just kidding!!! Although it would have made this kids day!

a HUGE bear from RahRah

A new big boy bike! (Early Christmas present). Dad helped him put it together. I'll get more pics of him on it soon!

And our new big boy bed!!!

He LOVES it!

Baby #2
How far along: 24 weeks....only 4 more months!!!!

Total weight gain: -25 (you would think I'd gain weight at some point....not complaining too much though!)
Best moments this month: I finally look pregnant. =)
Food cravings: Twinkies....I found some store brand ones, not the same. Why did they stop making them now??????
Gender: It's a Girl! Now if we could just decide on a name.....
Labor signs: none
What I miss: Wine
What I am looking forward to: Nothing right now this is the dull part of pregnancy
Milestones: Baby is the size of a cantalope! Baby now has a pink glow, due to the capillaries that are forming.

Quick Recap

So I'm not even sure what has happened over the past week. It kinda runs together....so I'm recapping through pictures.

Kayden got his flu shot last week....And he didn't cry!!! He knew something was up when I set him on the table. And the way it works is I get to hold his arms and the nurse holds his leg. So I leaned over to distract him....the look on his face when he got poked was "what the heck is happening?" But the nurse was quick, I stood him up, he gave the nurse a high-five, and opened the door to leave! No tears! I was shocked! So of course, we headed to get ice cream :)

The next day we ended up back at the doctors....someone just had to get pink eye. Turd.

Sunday we headed to Norman for cousin Alex's birthday. He's 10! Two whole hands! Kayden enjoyed stealing his presents and trying to open them....it was funny.

Then the week started....

And I got pink eye!!! This picture was on day 1. Day 2, my fat fingers spread it to the other eye. Needless to say I'm on day 7, still on eye drops, still wearing glasses, and still have slightly pink eyes. THIS SUCKS!!!

The rest of the week was dull...

Saturday was game day. Brett worked ridiculous hours. Kayden and I attempted to go visit (I had student tailgate section). So we went to lunch, did some shopping, and took a nap!

Passed out cold

The rest are just random pictures.

My sweetie!

Not sure why...but he put the pillow on himself

Love my buddy!

This guy can be cute when he sleeps too!

Baby #2

So I got to go back to the radiologist for a follow up ultrasound. Thankfully baby was cooperative and in 10 minutes the tech was done. We still couldn't get a clear profile picture, but it was sweet to see baby moving around.

sweet sweet baby

And finally!!! My pudge is starting to look like a baby! (at least from the side)

How far along: 21 weeks
Total weight gain: -20
Best moments this month: My baby moves!!! I can feel baby daily which makes me smile!
Food cravings: Arby's roast beef
Gender: We know!! And soon you will too!!! Hold your horses people, you'll find out soon enough.
Labor signs: none
What I miss: Not sure I miss anything just yet....
What I am looking forward to: Telling everyone the gender! Soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Milestones: Baby is the size of a Pomegranate. Baby is preparing its digestive system by manufacturing meconium aka the first poop. ;)

Pink Eye for my Stink Eye

Yup! You guessed it! Kayden has pink eye....and not just in one eye, but both. Good thing we went to the doctor before the weekend started. Now we just have to do eye drops, 3x's a day for 7 days! This shall be fun.....

Happy Halloween and Boo!!!

We expanded halloween over several days and events, here's a little recap of our fun :)

Sunday we carved pumpkins! We cut the tops off of the pumpkins and cleaned out the guts....we tried to get Kayden to touch the guts but he wouldn't have anything to do with it! However once we got our little carving kit out which had a special little scooper, Kayden seemed more interested. He didn't touch any of the guts, but his scoop found some seeds. Lol. My kooky little child. Then someone got cranky and needed a nap. So.....Kayden napped and Brett and I carved. It was perfect! When Kayden got up he had three pumpkins all carved! Dad even carved a special one just for Kayden! He loves the pumpkins. He comes home and wants the lights turned on inside them.

Cleaning out the pumpkin

Get those yucky guts out daddy!

Dad's pumpkin

Mom's pumpkin

Kayden's pumpkin

We did pretty good!

Showing off his pumpkins

Tuesday was mom's work event, the 22nd Annual Halloween Fest. Dad brought Kayden to do some trick or treating downtown. Well someone wasn't a fan of their costume and wanted nothing to do with it. So he stripped down to his shorts and tshirt. Then he was only compliant if he had a piece of candy....... Needless to say he and dad left shortly thereafter. He got a couple of pieces of candy but it just wasn't his cup of tea. Guess we'll try again next year when he's older.

The only picture we got of Kayden in his race car driver costume.

Wednesday was Halloween!!! Daycare was having a party for all the kids that afternoon. I couldn't attend, so I just sent his costume with him. And much to my surprise....he wore it for 2 hours!!! I guess having his friends dressed up helps. They had treats and goodies and from the sounds of it had a great time. Sad that I couldn't go, but its not the end of the world. After daycare we decided not to go trick or treating since Kayden doesn't really get it and mom and dad didn't need any more candy. So we went out to dinner and came home just as it got dark. So we grabbed our glow in the dark bubbles from OB and Lanny and headed outside. Kayden LOVED them!!! The bubbles didn't glow much, but the bottle and the solution sure did!

Glow in the dark bubbles!

Bubbles!!!

As simple as our festivities were, Kayden got to enjoy Halloween and we got our share of candy. We hope you had as much fun as we did!