Goodbye Gummy smile

You can see his teeth here!

Baby boy got his 2nd toofie on Sunday. His first tooth he got 2 weeks ago on Mother's day. That tooth, I had no idea he was getting it. Other than chewing a little more on toys he didn't act different at all. This time, he couldn't sleep and was obviously in pain. Our normally happy as can be baby was a little fussy and up several times at night. When you are a mama that is used to sleeping all night it is hard to be up all night! I was so used to it with Kayden, I never got more than 2 hours of sleep at a time. But this time....Breck loves his sleep. So that means mama gets sleep too! So I knew something was up when he was up crying in the night, poor little man! Well, on Sunday it popped thru. And now he is sleeping again:) yay! I'm sad to see his little baby gummy smile go. It's just one more sign of him getting bigger.
I'll try and get a pic of his toofies, they are still tiny so it's hard to see them well in pictures.

Love Him!!

How could I not? That smile is just too perfect!

For the past 3 years, 7 months.....

28 weeks pregnant with Brecken

36 weeks preggo with Kayden

I have been either pregnant or nursing. Crazy. Not sure what made me realize that. Maybe that Kayden is only a little over a month away from being 3! 3 years, 7 months since my body was my own. Some women don't like that. Or get anxious to "have their body back to themselves". Me the eternal mommy, who could probably be Michelle Duggar if Kyle would let me feels like once you become a mommy your body is never your own again. You will forever be a lap to sit on, a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold, a head to caress, a kiss to give, a hug to wrap around. You are not your own anymore. You are entertwined amongst those little people walking around holding onto your heart. So the fact that I've been pregnant or nursing for the past 3 years, 7 months actually just makes me smile. It is a long time but compared to a lifetime, it's not much at all. And to clarify further, 3 years, 7 months since I have had more than one alchoholic beverage:) Haha, 8 years ago as I turned 21 I would have never imagined that my "drinking" days would be over so soon!
Love you baby boys, so glad that you are the reason I don't get to claim my body as my own.

"Grandpa Hingst"

On Thursday we were playing outside and you were in your cozy coupe and Breck was in the red car. You were "in a car accident" and mommy was the police officer. I was writing you a ticket and asking you for your name, "Kayden" and I said, and your last name sir?, and you said "Grandpa Hingst". So we kept playing and I'd say "oh, okay Kayden Hingst" and model your actual name. You'd have another accident and I'd ask your name again and it would be "Grandpa Hingst" everytime we got to the last name part. I loved it!:) Too cute!

Good Morning!

What better way to wake up than baby Breck smiling and cooing on my left side and Kayden tickling my arm on my right. Sandwiched between my 2 favorites is the best. I just love my littles so much and I love snuggling with them in my bed!

Thank you!

Thank you Jesus, for blessing me with the opportunity to be at home with my babies. Because of that blessing today I got to ride on a big ship through the ocean to see Santa! All because of the imagination of my little guy. I also got told that I was Kayden's best friend:) And I got to listen to Breck giggle hysterically while Kayden pushed him in his swing on our swingset. What more could a mama or girl ask for?

6 months

Your 2nd type of food....sweet potatoes, not sure what to think of them!


Aww, baby boy. I told you take to take it slow on your mama. To not grow up very fast because I couldn't handle it. And you didn't listen! I turned around and my tiny newborn snuggled in my arms is now a big 6 month old, rolling all around, sitting up on your own, and eating big boy food. I think with your 2nd baby time goes 2x as fast, because you can't spend all day staring at them like you could with your first. You have other kiddos to chase around, so time just flies. Don't get me wrong baby boy, there are plenty of moments when I just stare at you. My eyes are drawn to your chubby little cheeks and your rolly little arms. There are many times when you fall asleep in my arms and I don't put you down. I just hold you, soak you in and stare into your sleepy eyes. Those are the moments of a lifetime, the ones I will never regret spending that way and the ones I can never get back. I love everything about you, your sweet baby smell, your calm way about you, your big, gorgeous smile, your contagious belly laugh. You are so special to me Brecken Cole. God made you just for our little family, he knew you belonged to us long before we did. You were made in His perfection and I thank Him everyday for you. We are just so very blessed that we "get" you for now. That we get to help you become the amazing person you are meant to be. I can already tell you will do big things baby boy. You have such a happy soul, people are drawn to you, you make them happy and that makes me happy.
At 6 months.....

-you weight 20 pounds! Helping mommy get buff!
-you can sit up, although you will still fall back or to the sides sometimes if you decide you want to reach for something
-roll, squirm and move all around to get to where you want
-eat once a day, 1-2 ice cubes of food. (just started at 6 months, so far you've had bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, apples, and bananas) You get very messy when you eat and usually go right in the bath!
-have one tiny tooth that popped through on Monday, May 10th. Didn't even know you were teething, not extra fussy at all.
-are a very happy baby! Smiles, giggles and laughs fill your day
-Coo and goo alot. Say Mama and dada but don't attach meaning to them yet. Say the G, K and B sound too.
-love to swing in your swing on our big swing set. Love it even more if brother is the one pushing you! You just laugh and laugh in that swing!
-Love your bath!
-Love Fifi, get really excited when she gets close to you, like to pet and touch her
-Like to be read to and look at books, can sit through brother's big boy books and bat at the pages and try and pull the book into your mouth.
-are good on car rides!! (yay!!! this is very exciting to mommy!)
-Love to play outside on a blanket with some toys, grabbing at the grass, looking at the trees.
-Like going on walks in the Ergo or in our double jogging stroller with brother sitting next to you.
-Love your jumperoo, jump like crazy in it. Your already at the top of the slots and are barely not too tall for it! Won't be able to use it for much longer at all.
-wear 6-12 month clothes and they fit you JUST right, won't fit much longer!
-Wear size 3 pamper diapers
-Nurse on demand about every 3-4 hours a day and sometimes once during the night
-sleep in your crib during naps and in bed curled up next to mommy at night
-love happy baby organic puffs, starting to figure out the pincher grasp to get them into your mouth:)
-LOVE mum mums!

You are just a delight Breck. We all love you to pieces and are having so much fun watching you grow! Love you to the moon and back a million times little man!

Even Ogres co-sleep:-)

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One more baby and this is what our bed will look like! Kayden was sleeping in his bed until around 5am or so before baby Breck arrived. Well.....he knows Breck is in our bed and of course doesn't want to be left out (and how can I blame him, I would be bummed too if I knew the whole family was in a big comfy bed except for me). So of course when his little feet come trampling into our room around midnight or 2am or 4am or if we are lucky 7am, we let him sleep in the middle. I know it is just for a short time in our life as a little family with itty bitties so we don't mind. "Let them be little, let them sleep in the middle":) It does get pretty cramped with Daddy, Mommy, Breck and Kayden but we are looking into investing in a bigger bed to give us all more spreading room.
Our morning snuggles are the best. Kayden is on my right side, Breck is on my left and I get to be in the middle of my 2 favortie boys. I wake up to a big smile from Breck and a tickle from Kayden. Pretty sure there is no better way to start your day!

My 3rd Mother's Day!

I really can't believe that I've been a mommy now for almost 3 years. I dreamed of becoming a mom as long as I can remember. I played with dolls and had entire imaginary families. I remember wondering what my babies would look like, imagining being pregnant and feeling that tiny life within my own. I couldn't wait to have babies all to myself. Babies that were attached to me the most, wanted me when they were sad or happy or just saw me in a room. I couldn't wait to be that person to a little life. And now, I'm that person to 2 little lives. Two littles smile when I walk in the room, look for my face when they wake from a nap and kiss me before drifting off into dreamland. And it's better. Better than I could have ever pictured in my mind. Better than any mommy could have ever described. It is the best feeling ever. Being a mommy is what I was meant to do. I am sure it is why God put me here. To take care of these little souls, hold them, rock them, and smother them in kisses. Give them all the love I have to give and then give more. And somehow you always find more as a mother, even on the really long, tiring days, they just have to look at you a certain way and your scoul turns to a giggle and you can't help but scoop them up into your arms.

This year was also my first mother's day with my amazing little Breck. He of course brought me tons of smiles that day and was his happy little self the whole day through (even on the 3.5 hour drive home that night....and he cut his first tooth th next day and we never would have even known he was teething!?!?)! This year I also got to spend Mother's day with the person that made me want to be a mom, my mom. I couldn't have asked for a better mom. After being a mom and truely knowing all a mother does for her children, you love your mom in a whole new way because they did all you do for your children for you. There is nothing like a mom.

The day started with Starbucks of course, a nice lunch out with the fam, and then we went to Rachelle's graduation from Kearney Catholic. Afterwards we got to spend the afternoon with the whole family at Janine's house eating lots of yummy food. Being around my mom and aunties, the best moms I know made Mother's day complete.

And the presents.....Kayden made me a flower arrangement at my dad's work with grandma at a little workshop for kiddos and I LOVE it because he made it and Kyle finally ordered me my necklace! My neck no longer feels naked (yay!!), I now have my 2 littles close to my heart always. And my mama got me a hanging flower pot and a gift card. So I was a very spoiled girl on mother's day. It was a fantastic day with fabulous people!

Baptized

Our baby boy was baptized on Saturday at the Newman Center in Kearney, NE. By my Great Uncle, Fr. Bob Krystosek. It means so much to me that Fr. was able to baptize him. I couldn't ask for a more special person to baptize my baby boy. His Godparents are Uncle Kurt and Cousin Erica and he was surrounded by our great, wonderful family. Mommy decided I wanted him to still wear Kayden's baptism outfit, even though it was VERY tight on him. It's kind of a tradition to have all your kids wear the same gown in our family. The boys and I all wore the same gown...or should I say dress:) Yes, they wore a dress. Kyle would NOT allow our boys to wear a dress. Tradition or not. So we got Kayden a little tuxish looking outfit and planned on all our boys wearing that. Then the girls can wear my (and my brother's haha!) dress. Well...I ended up with the tummy flu at Christmas when we were supposed to baptize Breck. So now it was 4 months later and 4 months of growth, on top of Breck already being a bigger baby than Kayden was....and we had to SQUISH him into that outfit. I thought really hard about buying a new one. But decided I really wanted them to wear the same thing, squished or not. So they did:)
Fr. poured the water on his forehead and it went right into his eyes. Of course you'd think he'd scream...nope. Not baby Breck. He just looked at me with his big, innocent, trusting eyes as if to say, your holding me while this happens mommy so I'm guessing it's ok.
I'm so happy my baby is now baptized in the Holy Spirit and apart of our church. My Faith is at the center of everything I do and I can't wait to teach him all about his church and Jesus.

Guess I'll go eat worms!

Uncle Mark pretended to eat worms when we were fishing and then Kayden promptly LICKED a worm. Mommy freaked and Kayden thought it was hilarious! EWWW, EWWW, Double EWWW!

Fishermen

On Saturday we went fishing at Cottonmill. Kayden had so much fun with the worms, fishing poles, and catching fish. His uncles and daddy taught him all about hooking a worm and casting and all that other fun fisherman stuff. At first he caught a tiny fish, he would touch it and thought it was cool. Then he caught a BIG fish, and did not want to get too close to it, "mommy I cared (scared)". He wouldn't hold it or touch it.

Farmer Kayden

A Great Day!

On Monday the boys and I met Amity and her boys at the Omaha zoo. It is the best zoo. They say it's #2 to San Diego's zoo. But I've been to both alot and I have to disagree. Omaha's zoo is the best. San Diego's has amazing weather, I'll give it that. And a great assortment of animals. But Omaha's zoo is better. It has amazing habitats for the animals and a huge assortment of animals. We were there for 6 hours and didn't even get to one of the biggest exhibits, the desert (but we have lived in the desert for the past 5 years...so it was the exhibit I was most okay with missing). Go Omaha for having such a great zoo. So happy we are now a short drive from it! Hope to visit it alot this summer!
Kayden loved the petting zoo and ran to see all the animals, no fear at all. He could spend hours at each animal exhibit and LOVED the aquarium. Breck loved the aquarium too, his favorite part for sure. Cole and Kayden finally started to act like "Friends" at the end of our day but hopefully with more visits they will realize they love eachother as much as Amity and I love eachother! Breck was bigger than Carsen and 6 months younger than him:) So when they were both in my jogging stroller I got the "how old are your twins", "your so lucky to get twins" comments ALOT. Sometimes I'd set them straight...but most of the time pushing "twins" and chasing Kayden I just smiled and nodded.

We're going on a bug hunt....

Heather, Gabe and Kayden

Buddies!

It's going to be lots of fun! Kayden is now a bug lover. Thanks to my lovely mother who got him his very own bug catcher. He is now obsessed with bug hunting. Finding those creepy, crawly little critters and trapping them in his little catcher. Feeding them "grass" and then wondering why they aren't alive the next day. So not only do I have to deal with creepy, crawly bugs that I'm terrified of, I also have to try and figure out how to explain to my adorable, innocent little man why they aren't moving the next day. Thanks mom.
I'm just kidding, sort of :). I am not a bug fan, as everyone knows (including my mother) but I do know little kids and of course little boys like bugs. They are interesting, and most importantly smaller than them, which they love. He loves looking at them, learning about them, comparing them, contrasting them and "taking care of them". And I do love how much it's making his little lightbulbs turn on by all the exciting knowledge he is gaining about those icky little things. But I do wish my mother lived next door to go on all the bug hunts with him and so he could scatter grass clippings through out her house! The other day when I was sweeping it was ridiculous how much grass was in my house....my mother's response "oh Kaisha, it's just a little grass"..does she not know her clean freak daughter?? Just a little grass?!?

In Nebraska last Sunday, Auntie Heather was the COOL aunt b/c she took Kayden and Gabe on a bug hunt. They rolled over bricks and found worms, slugs, ants and grubs under the rocks. EWWW! Is all this mama can say! I wish I could be that cool. And maybe after having a boy for 7 years like Heather has I'll get there. But at this moment bugs are not this mamas thing. I will "pretend" to enjoy them for Kayden's sake...but the moment he brings me a spider the pretending is over!

Yummy!

On May 2, 2010 Breck had his first solids! Well...if you can call mashed up banana with water a solid:). He is no longer a 100% breastfed baby. He no longer relies on only me for his nourishment. I was sad. But, he loved them. I knew he would. He ate his whole serving and opened wide for his bites and tried to "help" me feed him. And now he's had sweet potatoes and peas too. My baby is loving all these new tastes and mommy is back on the making babyfood spree. It seems like just yesterday I was making babyfood for Kayden.....but it's been almost 2 years since I had to puree his food, freeze it in cubes and then feed him with a little spoon. Baby boy, please go slowly, mama can't handle you growing up so fast!