My Kids

Braxton, 5 months
Braxton is getting so big!  I can't believe how fast time flies.  He's 5 months old and the happiest baby ever!  He loves to smile as much as I love making him smile.  He loves watching his big sister and thinks she's pretty funny most of the time, even when she's harassing him - with love, of course. 

He started rolling over a few weeks ago but then starts crying because he hates being on his tummy.  He sleeps through the night and has been since about 2 1/2 months. I've been blessed with good sleepers!  Thank goodness! He's a thumb sucker - it's adorable but I'm not sure I'm crazy about the idea of breaking this habit in the future.

Braxton is pretty much the best baby ever.  He hardly ever cries and is just so mellow.  And I just love this little guy so much.

He is 3 1/2 months here and super handsome!

Braxton at 2 months old and all ready for church (Jake is not ready for church...)

I came downstairs one morning and found Braxton like this... Kaylee was being super helpful by putting a scarf thing around his head

Kaylee, 2 years old
Oh where do I begin with this child?  We call her our little tornado because she is so energetic and somewhat destructive - a tornado describes her perfectly!  I have a hard time keeping up with her.  But she keeps me laughing (or wanting to pull my hair out :)) especially since she's talking so much lately.  I feel like in just the last month or so her talking has gotten so much better.  I can actually carry on a conversation with her now. She surprises me with the things she says but what's even better is her facial expressions while she talks to you - she's so expressive and it's hilarious!

She loves to wear her tutu.  Its not uncommon to wake Kaylee up in the mornings and find her sleeping in her tutu.  Or for her to randomly put it on in the day over her clothes.  She thinks she's a princess in it.

She's also started pretending a lot.  She pretends to be cooking with her playdough - she often asks me to open the oven for her to put a playdough pie in there and then we pretend to eat it.  She carries her doll around everywhere lately, pretending to be a good little mommy.  She says that monsters are coming and that we need to hide. My favorite though was this morning in the bathtub - she was a mermaid princess. 

I just recently potty trained her.  She's doing so well!  And I am so excited to have her out of diapers. I'm not sure how I'm going to break her of the "go potty, I get treat!" thing but that's okay for now.

The "Terrible Twos" is definitely pretty terrible at times.  She's a sassy, temper tantrum throwing girl who tests my patience every day but she can also be so sweet and so fun. She's so helpful with Braxton and just loves him to pieces.  I sometimes find her reading a story to him.  One of the first things she says in the morning is that she wants to say hi to Braxton and then goes in and gives him a hug and kiss good morning.  But before she asks to say hi to Brax, she asks where her daddy is and when I tell her he's at work, she says "again?" She loves her daddy and loves helping him with all of his projects whenever she can.

Kaylee helping Daddy put together our desk

 I just can't believe that Kaylee and even Braxton are growing up so fast!  I almost started crying the other day when Kaylee starting pedaling her tricycle (she always just uses her feet to push herself around), it seems like such a simple and silly thing but she looked so big!  And then when I was folding laundry and saw her "big girl underwear"...  She's not my baby anymore - she's getting big and I want to slow time down.  Even Braxton rolling over or when he grows out of his clothes -  I just want to scream STOP!  I love to see them experience and learn new things but I also miss the stages they are growing out of.  

Jake and I feel really blessed to be parents to these two special kids.  I pray every day to be able to be a better mom because these two deserve the best.  I love them so much and am so grateful (most days) to be able to be home with them every day.