Tatum's Big day!

Kayden's friend Tatum turned one on Monday and we went to her fun birthday on Saturday. Kayden had so much fun watching Tatum unwrap her presents and helping her explore her new toys. I can't believe that Tatum is one already! I remember meeting her at the zoo way back in the fall and she was a tiny baby in her mommy's Ergo. I remember sitting on a bench with Christa and Jaclyn and the 3 of us nursing our little peanuts while the zoo crowd passed by (I still wish we had a picture of that girls, it was a classic nursing, mommy moment!). Happy 1st birthday Tatum! So glad we got to be apart of your big day!

While the daddies are away....

The mommies and the babies will play;-) Daddy went to KC on Monday for work and Christa's hubby John just happened to be out of town for work too...so we mommies decided we needed to entertain eachother. On Monday Kayden and I were at a playdate at Maria's house and when we got home Christa came over and we had Old Chicago pizza (yes daddy, mommy had your favorite without you;-) While Christa and I were eating dinner the babies were playing in the family room and we look over to see Tula wrapping her arm around Kayden and Kayden reciprocated and wrapped his arm around Tula.......then he leaned in for the big smooch and the not so steady babies toppled to the ground on top of eachother. It is so fun watching them become such great friends and I can't wait to tell them all about how they used to play when they were tiny. After dinner we took the babies for a walk to the park in Kayden's red wagon (and Kayden told Tula she needs to be a Husker fan;-) and let them swing on the swings. On Tuesday we met for lunch at the Cheesecake factory and then walked around the mall. And today we went to Megan's for a swim and then out for ice cream with Maria and Emma. We have been busy these three days but it was so nice to have other adults to talk to because if I would have stayed home for three days I think I would have forgotten anything but babytalk! Today is Wednesday and daddy was supposed to be back tonight but his flight was messed up because of the storms so he is stuck in KC for another night and Kayden is definetely missing his daddy! And daddy missed his baby doing "so big" for the first time. Out of the blue yesterday he started doing "so big" and today I caught it on video (see below). Our baby is such a little ham, I am so in love! Come home soon daddy!

SO BIG

Kayden & Mikayla playing

Already?

Belly shot on June 12, 2008

I can't believe it is already June again! It seems like just yesterday I was waddling around huge (I still can't believe how big I actually got!) preggo excited to meet my little man. At this time last year I was getting up at 5am to walk every morning because my internal thermostat was way off and when it was 80 it felt like 110 so an 8am walk was not an option. I was eating watermelon and ice cream like crazy and starting each morning with my kick counts. My new favorite feeling was Kayden swishing around in my belly. I was going to doctor appointments once a week hoping that they would tell me I was dialated and effaced (no such luck there!). But Mr. Kayden was cozy in my belly and very content to stay there despite his mommy's anxiety to get to hold him. And now it is a year later and I'm preparing for his birthday to celebrate the most important, amazing little person I got to bring into this world last year. Now he is eating the watermelon and has even tasted ice cream, now he joins me on my walks and talks to the birdies and the doggies. I'm hoping June goes very slowly so I get to enjoy every last minute of my baby before he turns one, I know he'll still be my baby after he is a year old but he will have hit his first big milestone after June 28th.

Dark sky in K-town!

The Tornado that hit Kearney!

This is one of the tornadoes that hit Grammie and Grampies town! I can remember hearing the tornado sirens going off throughout my childhood and hiding out in the basement with the radio on and "knowing" Kearney can't be hit by a tornado because the Native Americans said so....supposedly because of the landscape Kearney had never been hit by a tornado. But I guess the landscape didn't really protect us and Grammie wasn't scared without reason (my mom is a HUGE whimp in storms) because 6 tornadoes hit my hometown! I talked to my mom the night the tornadoes hit and she told me they had tornadoes in tonw......but I thought she probably meant big winds b/c grammie is known to blow storms up into something more than they really are (sorry mom, you know I'm right;-). So when my cousin Brian called to express the shock of seeing Kearney, NE on national news for the horrible storm they went through I was in shock that my mom was correct in using the word tornadoes! So we are super glad that grammie, grampie, the doggies, Uncles, Aunties and cousins are all safe and sound and the houses were untouched. God must have been watching over our little family and keeping them all safe and sound for us!

Bye Bye Paci

This is the last picture I have of him using his paci, we were at Sheila & Andrea's birthday party and it was WAY past his bedtime so he was using it till we could get out the door.....I might have to pop it back in for a better last pic!

Kayden used his paci for the last time on Thursday, May 29th. That night it dropped behind our bed and I can't reach it without moving the bed so I decided to see how long we could go without it and so far it is Sunday and he doesn't miss it. He was only using it for naps and to help himself fall asleep at bedtime but wasn't sucking on it through the night. I'd also bring it with me so if I pushed him too far past his naptime or he was really upset in the car he could soothe himself a little. He never was a huge fan of the paci, it worked to soothe him and give me a rest from his love to suck but he didn't ever "need" it. I'm so happy it was so easy to get rid of the paci....Uncle Mark was a paci addict and I remember the extreme measures my mom had to go through to get rid of his paci-we had a paci throwing ceremony into the "big" trashcan in the neighborhood and he got a battery powered car he could ride on to celebrate him being a "big boy". I will miss that little paci sucking face because it reminds me of the baby look but yeah for my big boy doing okay without his paci!