Seattle

Airplanes.Ferry boat Rides.Tugboats.Point Defiance Zoo.Seattle Aquarium.Orcas Island.Gig Harbor.Fresh Organic Washington Blueberries.Sakuras.Pikes Place Market.Westlake Center.Snoqualmie Falls.Bay.Space Needle.City Lights.Waterplanes.Trains.Buses.Green Grass.Owen Beach.Great Auntie's House.Family.BBQ.Mill Creek.Starbucks.Car rides.Mt. Constitution.Rustin Way Walks.Seals.Islands.Narrows Bridge.Apple picking.Movie night.Seattle Streets.Waterfront Dining.Touching Starfish.Ergo Rides.Seagulls.Beach Picnic.

Some of the words to describe Kayden's trip to Seattle, a little preview of all the fun he had! Journal of trip to follow after I get situated from returning home.

Kisses for Tatum!

A big smackaroo

Watching the garbage truck go by

Tatum trying to figure out if she likes tiny doggies!

Tatum came to play with Kayden this morning and they had so much fun! Tatum's mommy worked last night at the NICU so she needed to sleep, so Tatum came and played with Kayden for the morning. They ate breakfast together and they entertained themselves in the playroom for awhile, they had a dance party together and they had fun terrorizing Fifi. When it came time for naptime I was a little stumped on what to do, not sure how mommies of twins swing it....as I was trying to figure it out Josh called and said he was on his way to pick Tater up b/c his next meeting had cancelled and the power was out at his building from our storm last night. So I just entertained 2 tired babies until Josh arrived and then Kayden crashed. We had lots of fun watching you Tatum! Hope you have a great time in Cali and don't miss us too much while we are in WA!

14 months

At 14 months:

*You love to be outside, you go to the sliding glass door and beg to go out, makes me sad we live in the HEAT of AZ
*You give us cheesy grins that make my heart melt
*You whine a fake whine when I leave the room and you can't catch up to me fast enough
*You cry when daddy comes home on my client nights b/c you know that means mommy has to leave....my little mommy's boy;-)
*You love to walk to the mailbox and walk with such a little attitude b/c you think you are so big, and on the way is a FIRE HYDRANT!! This is the highlight of your walk to the mailbox and we always have to spend alot of time looking at it and talking about it.
*Your favorite book this month is probably Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear?
*Love your little people bus and you say "bus" over and over when we see one while we are driving (you also say bus to trucks and vans:-). You still love your pull toys, especially your pull duck and you also love your Melissa and Doug wooden stacker right now.
*Love climbing on anything and everything
*LOVE to dance to your music and you love it even more when mommy and daddy have a dance party with you (thank goodness no one has a hidden video camera in our house, they would get a huge laugh!! The things we do for our babies;-)
*You still don't like TV (mommy is NOT complaining about this one;-)
*Gets so excited when I say "wanna go to your play room?" and run down the hall
*Chooses b/t books or play using the sign and attempting the word and goes to either the playroom to play or your room to read
*You have the best belly laugh
*Point to your belly button and belly with excitement when we ask you where they are, also love making our noses honk (yes, mommy and daddy noses honk...didn't you know;-), and pointing to your ear
*You tell us you are "1" by holding up 1 finger
*Still nurse 4-5 times during the day and 1-2 times at night, and you still refuse milk. You won't even attempt to drink it now, before you would drink it and spit it out and try to scrape it off your tongue, now you see it and throw the sippy, fun times!
*You are a very picky eater, we waste a lot of food. Still loves blueberries, chicken and ground beef though!
*You love to sing songs, Itsy Bitsy spider is your favorite and you try to do the hand movements
*Your vocabulary is 25 words or more, of course not clear and you leave off the final sounds to many of the words...........
-Bus, Bird, Book, More, No, Bye, Hi, Daddy, Mommy, Mark, Grandma, dog, All done, bath, go, this, that, bush, where, duck, ball, vroom vroom, up, yeah, car
-signs=more, eat, drink, fresh diaper, baby, dog, all done, read, play, milk, want, sleep, hat, bath, no, yes
-you follow 1step commands with ease and are so proud when you complete your "task"
I'm sure I'm forgetting some but I have most of the words/signs you use often, you are a very verbal/linguistic little man baby boy! I love love love watching your language develop and you learning you can control your world through words! You get so excited when you learn a new word and realize it has meaning and that language = power!

Welcome Baby Maverick!

Kayden's very good friend Tula just became a big sister on Friday! My friend Christa popped out a 9 pound 2 ounce baby with no medication! She was in labor for less than 3 hours........she is my hero and I am SO jealous of her! I got to hold baby Maverick John Coppola on Saturday morning when he was about 16 hours old, I loved hearing his tiny newborn sounds and seeing his little froggy legs tucked up high and his brand new smell, brought back so many memories of a year ago. He is so precious and I love him already! Sunday Jaclyn and I went to hang out with Christa and her tiny baby and we got to see how cute Tula is with him and you can tell she is in love! Now I just have to get over her extremely easy labor so that I can continue being friends with her (just kidding Christa, you know I love you and I'm so happy that you did such an amazing job bringing him into the world!)

Congrats Coppola family, you are the sweetest little family of 4 now! We are so excited to get to know baby Maverick better!
Love ya!

Children's Museum!

The crazy curtain I had fun running through!

Taking my friend Camila for a ride!

My turn!

Playing in the kitchen with my friends!

Tunnel I had fun climbing through!

Today we went to the Children's museum with friends from our playgroup. I wasn't sure if Kayden was old enough yet for it but wanted to check it out. And......yep, my baby is definetely old enough for things like the Children's museum. When did that happen? When did he become this big boy that can go to all these fun places? I'm not complaining b/c he is so fun right now and we get to go do fun, exciting new things and I get to discover the world all over again through my little man's innocent, hungry little eyes. But I can't believe he is there already! I feel like it happened over night. On our ride to the museum (it was 35 minutes!) Kayden started saying bus when he saw a school bus and then every truck or van that went by he'd point to and say "bus". He also saw a city bus and loved announcing it to
me:-) Once we arrived at the museum we headed up to the 0-3 section and he had fun exploring the balls, the air machine, the wagon, all the fun toys and the little play kitchen area. I love watching him learn to play imaginitively. He will pretend to eat play food or drink from a cup or eat off a spoon and then wants me to join in too. I had to step out of the area to get a wipe to wash his feet off and he came with me and realized that there was life outside of the 0-3 room and he went running. He was so excited to go to the other rooms! We went in a room w/ groceries and he pretended to sweep the floor, then he headed into the room with all the ball devices and we dropped balls down different shapes and watched what they did, and he ate a pretend ice cream cone that big kids made for him. Off we went to the first floor to see the crazy tents with holes and then up the stairs he climbed to the second floor and he rode on a trike while mommy pushed him. He loved the Children's museum and I loved watching him so excited and happy. I am so lucky that I get to be with him everyday and watch his little eyes light up the way they do when we are off on our little adventures. So...of course we had to buy a membership! I'm sure you'll see future CM pictures soon because we had so much fun we'll have to go back soon!

Mmmmm

Uncle Kurt's Visit!

Uncle Kurt came to visit Kayden with his friend Corey. They came down to see Kayden and get some golfing in on the fun, expensive courses when they are cheaper b/c Arizonians don't want to play golf when it is 110 degrees! So they golfed at Ocotillo, TPC-Scottsdale and The Duke golfcourses. Daddy got to go w/ them yesterday to the Duke course and they said it was nice but the other golfers were much older and very slow. Kayden had fun playing in the pool with the boys and having extra people to laugh at his funny ways. Friday night we all went with Brian, Montessa and Gavriel to San Tan Flat's for dinner and ate outside and listened to the band. Kayden loved running around and looking at all the fun stuff and wearing his mommy out from chasing him. He also loved dancing to the music and shaking his little bootie. The dance floor before the band started was covered w/ kids and he wanted to run in the mix of em and mommy had to jump in and rescue her baby b/c they weren't to the age where they would realize they needed to be careful of the baby. He also loved dancing on the table and running from mommy to Uncle Kurt. Saturday night we went to the baseball game, the d-backs played the Marlins and we beat them which always makes a game more fun to watch! Kayden once again found a lady in the stands to flirt with that entertained him for quite awhile. He even fell asleep towards the end of the game! One morning when Kayden and I were in bed he heard Uncle Kurt up in the bathroom so he wanted to get down and he ran to say hi and sadly noticed he had just gotten up for a potty break and wasn't up for the morning. He went to the room and was asking "where" and "more" over and over:( On Friday when he and I went to Starbucks he was enjoying chatting with the "men" at Starbucks and didn't want to leave so I said "let's go home and see Uncle Kurt and Corey" and he ran to the door to go! Darn it....now that they are gone I have to figure out how to get him to want to go home:-) Oh yes, and I can't forget, we got Uncle Kurt to go shopping! Yep, the boy that has had a gift card to the Buckle for a year or so and hasn't used it b/c he hates going to the mall........actually spent a day at the Scottsdale mall with me! He was sad though b/c I thought SFS had a Buckle store but they don't so we should have went to the Chandler mall to let him actually use his gift card.
I can tell Kayden misses his company, when he comes out of a room he runs to check if they are in the living room and seems a bit sad to realize they have left. Thanks so much for coming to see us Uncle Kurt! We had a ton of fun while you were here! Hope your first day back at college tomorrow goes great! We are so proud of you for doing so well in college and being on the Dean's list! Hope this semester goes great too!!