He's on the move....kind of

The past week Braden has started to crawl....not the "up on all fours, one after the other" thing, it's more of an "army crawl with butt in the air" thing. You can tell he just wants to go and if he's in the mood he is very determined and can actually get from point A to point B. Here's some pictures of one of the events.

There's the desired object, come and get it little buddy! (Sometimes it takes awhile to get from that point A to point B because Mr. Smiley needs to stop and smile.)

Look at those rolls!

Here's the butt thing, too cute and very funny when in action!

So there it is, not officially a "crawler" but he's working on it.

What's Alexa up to?

Here is a picture of Alexa playing one of our new favorite games, Memory. She got two different kinds for Christmas and it has been one of her favorite past times, an obsession really. She is really good at it too, she almost always wins when she plays with Daddy and Mommy! :)

Other things that Alexa has been doing over the past month:

*Counts to 20

*Can count backwards from 3 to 1 (randomly started doing that one day)

*Has been talking in Spanish (not sure what she is saying, but I'm pretty sure it's Spanish....I should really ask her Spanish teacher what they are learning)

*We have been working on her letters and she can recognize and pick out about half the alphabet.

*Sleeping GREAT in her new big girl bed.

*And of course is still busy swimming, building with Daddy at Lowe's, practicing her gymnastics, and cooking lots of good meals in her little kitchen.

Randoms from the weekend

Here are just some random pictures from the weekend.

Alexa in a hat she found while we were cleaning out her room to fit her big bed in there. She made all four of us wear her hats.

Here's Braden in his hat that he had to wear, he actually liked wearing it.

Here's Alexa patiently waiting for her big girl bed.


Braden looking at himself in the mirror.....a pink princess mirror.

Alexa wanted to share her water with Braden and he was more than happy to take it and chew on it.

Alexa forgot her sunglasses so she wore daddy's.

I know this is like the hundredth picture like this that I have shared but it's just so funny. This one was from his first bite of pears.

New Beds

We FINALLY got the kids rooms all switch around and now they each have new beds! We actually have had Alexa's new bed sitting downstairs since before Braden was even born but we (as in me) just weren't ready to move up to the next stage. But now we realized that Braden REALLY should have a bed of his own. Where has he been sleeping the past 5 1/2 months you ask? It's been a combination of bassinets, swing, pack-n-play, our bed, and Alexa's bed when not in use. Disturbing huh? He'll get used to it though, after all he IS a second child and that's just how it goes right? (Even though I said I would NEVER do anything different with him as we did Alexa....HA)

So anyway Alexa is now in her big girl bed. So far she has only took one nap in there because we set it up yesterday and she spent the night at Gramma's house last night so as far as actually sleeping in it at night we have no idea how that is going to go, but she did great during her nap. Didn't try to get out, didn't fall out...I would consider it pretty successful. I just can't believe our baby girl is in a big bed, once again I took this much harder than anyone else in the household. I had to fight back tears as I watched her sleep (yes, I watched her sleep) and that was in between bouts of crazy, irrational thoughts about her falling out, getting tangled in the sheets, and getting trapped in between the bed rails and bed. Let's just hope tonight goes as well as the nap did....I'll be watching, but only because I want to be able to give you all a full update on here of course! :)


Doesn't she just look so little in there? She actually LOVES it though, thank goodness I probably would have been easily convinced if she asked for her crib back.

This also means Braden finally has a bed to call his own AND we also finally got to break out the cute bedding that we bought like a year ago. He has also only taken one nap in there today but it went great as well. I think he slept much better than usual and much longer. We always tell him he needs to learn to take better naps....who would have known all he needed was an actual bed for that?! :)

Yes he is not actually sleeping in these pictures, they are right after he woke up. Any other moms out there will understand, not even a picture is worth waking a baby up from their nap!

Where are you teeth?

If you have seen Braden at all in the past oh about a month or so, this is what you saw. Actually much of the day now is spent with BOTH fists crammed into his little mouth. Of course most of the day I have the camera either in my pocket or sitting right next to me but of course not when I actually am trying to get a picture of little Braden with both of his hands about 75% of the way in his mouth. So whenever I see him doing this I say "stay right like that, mommy has to get the camera!" HA yeah right. He must have hearing like his sister.....but anyway I WILL get a picture of it because it truly is amazing, sometimes I actually wonder what would happen if they got stuck in there. So the wait is still on for the first little tooth to pop through, from the mouth of our trusty doc "it could be in 3 days or it could be in 3 months." Thanks, that helps a lot. However from my expert opinion.....what am I saying, I have no expert opinion. I just hope for Braden's sake that something comes pretty soon. His little gums are swollen, he has been feeling feverish lately and just not his happy self 100% of the time, I think we're down to like 85%. Tonight however I did see 2 tiny little white specs on his bottom gums, YAY!

So as Matt and I were talking about this tonight I asked, "When did Alexa get her first tooth?" And Matt says, "I don't remember, do you?" and I realized I didn't remember either. How could we possibly forget such a big thing in her life? Almost EVERYTHING Alexa did I was like 'I'm never going to forget that this is what she did and this is when she did it, but I will write it down anyway just to have it written down.' Well it's a good thing I did that, huh!?! Isn't is funny how we as parents think that we will never forget anything that our little kids do? What makes it really funny is I can honestly not even remember what Alexa and I had for lunch yesterday so why would I ever think I could possibly remember everything that both of our children do as they grow up. Apparently now I know for the record that this is not my "gift" and I must always write everything down.

The Little Mermaid

Here's some pictures of our little swimmer in action. The pictures didn't turn out that great but you get the idea. She loves going there, I always remind her on Friday nights that we get to go in the morning and then that's all she can talk about. After 2 weeks she pretty much has all the basics down....kicking, blowing bubbles, floating on her back and going all the way under the water! She gets herself extremely tired after only 30 minutes, we can always count on a nice good nap on swim days.

A few pictures

Being home with the kids I realize I take A LOT more pictures than I have in the past. In an average month I probably take about 400 pictures, sometimes a little less sometimes a bunch more. :) Of course I think they are all worthy of making it into our blog but realistically it just can't happen. So here are a few from last week I thought I would share....

Here's Braden playing in his seat when we went to watch Alexa swim.

So I thought the -23 was bad, then this is what we woke up to the very next morning.

Thank goodness it's in the 30s this week, what a heat wave.

(Are you ready to come home yet Papa and Nana???)

This is Braden with his first bite of peaches.....I feel like I'm torturing him or something.

We have since moved onto squash which he loves, go figure.


Here is Alexa being her princess self, most days this is how she is walking around the house.

Alexa and Mommy

This is our little chef Alexa, she LOVES playing in her new kitchen she got from Santa.