Big Owie!

Last Friday we were playing at Jac Jac's house and Kayden got a big owie. I'm always thankful when Jaclyn is around for his owies b/c I'm not good at it! I've never been good with blood and then blood and my baby just make me freak. I was nursing Breck on the couch and Kayden climbed behind me and his foot slipped on the coasters on the end table and his face planted into the wood frame on the couch. I grabbed him and saw his tooth had went THRU his lip:( Blood was everywhere and I couldn't even really look at it. Jaclyn came to the rescue, cleaned him up and talked to him calmly while. Thank goodness for nurse Jaclyn! It's healing pretty nicely and we haven't really been putting anything on it, just making sure it's clean. Crossing my fingers, toes, arms and legs and hoping he doesn't have a big scar on his pretty little face!

Talks with Kayden

Lately Kayden has been having some pretty funny conversations with me. Some things he has told me lately:

We are driving home from our ice cream date and randomly he said "Mommy I'm going to boom you" (something Kyle's friend Mike taught him, he makes a punching fist and "booms" you in the arm, leg, etc.....nice huh:). I said, "Oh you are, mommy is scared". He said "Yeah, you better worry about it." I couldn't stop laughing. How in the world does he know what worry means?!?

Yesterday I said "Kayden, your going to live with me forever, right?". Thinking he was 2 and would of course say yes. Instead he says "no" and laughs. I said, "your going to leave me? Your going to move out someday?", "Yes mommy, when I get big." said Kayden. I say "Oh really? Who are you going to live with then?" He said "Tula" Like it was the obvious answer. I said, "Really, like how mommy grew up and moved out of Namma's house and in with daddy?" He said "Uh, huh, yep". I said "Will you have babies that I get to be the grandma of and feed them lots of candy?" He said, "Uh huh, yep" and I could see his little mind thinking and taking in all of what we were talking about.

The other day when we were driving by Gilbert Mercy Hospital where Kayden was born I told him that was where he came out of my belly, like I always tell him when we drive by. This time he said "that where I come out of your belly mama?", I said "yes it is". He said, "Want 5 more come out". I said "you want 5 MORE babies to come out of mommy's belly??" He said, "yes, just like Brecken and me". So I guess he wantes a big family just like his mommy does:)

Today he was playing with his cars and he said they were having a car party. I said like a birthday party? He said, "no a wedding party". I said, "like Uncle Mark's going to have with Carrie" and he started laughing hysterically and said "Uncle Mark is funny, why he want to get married?". I said "bc Uncle Mark loves Carrie, and Carrie wants to be apart of our family" and he said "Carrie loves me" :) So I guess Carrie is marrying Mark b/c she loves Kayden so much in his mind. I must have made a very egocentric 2 year old....oh yeah, all 2 year olds are egocentric:) But then he decided to "marry" his dump truck to his fire truck:)

Baby Rolls

Are the cutest!! You are so rolly polly! I'm not used to having to lift rolls to clean under them but you have made me used to it! I have to lift your neck rolls and clean under them and your leg rolls too. It's a whole new world. I love your soft baby rolls so much and could just squeeze and hold you all day long. One of my favorite times with you is bathtime, you love a nice warm bath and coo and talk to me while we splash in the water. You get all relaxed and then love to nurse to sleep after you are smelling so fresh. You never cry during your bath unless you get to cold. Love you my rolly polly baby boy!

Family Picnic

We went on a family picnic the other day. It was Brecken's first picnic and he liked laying on the blanket looking around and kicking his little feet in the sunshine. You loved watching people fishing and feeding the ducks and going on a little discovery walk. You want to know what EVERYTHING is and ask us a million questions while we are out and about.

Such a boy!

This was you sleeping one day at Namma's house over Christmas! Daddy put you down for your nap and came out laughing and grabbed the camara and took this pic. Made everyone smile:)

2 and 1/2!

I've been wanting to write this post since you turned 2 and 1/2 on December 28th. But as a new mommy of 2 I'm finding it hard to find time to blog like I used to. Since this is my journal for myself and my kiddos I need to work harder at it because there is so much I don't want to forget!

I am still in awe that it's been 2 and a half years since you were born. It feels like you just arrived in my life, that I just became a first time mommy of a new baby. In these past 2 and a half years you have taught me so much about myself and I have probably changed about as much as you have in these past 2 and a half years. The change you make going from a woman to a mother is so undescribable. Having you has made me re-think every thing I do. You have made me a better person because I know you are watching everything I do, so now every action I take I think about if it is the mold I want to set for you. Every relationship I have I think twice as hard about if it's a good relationship for me to model the behavior I want you to replicate. Thank you so much for the gift you've given me, being your mommy has been the best thing I have done so far.

And on to the good stuff!

At 2 and a half you:

Have some amazing "Kaydenese". There are so many things you say that when I hear them I think I need to write them down b/c I don't want to forget your toddler "speak". Some recent ones: "mommy why does the baby crying make my head hurt?", "uh huh, yep, I know it", "I love mommy, I love daddy, I love Necken, I love didi", "let's go namma's way", "My loves it so much!", "who you talkin to?", "what you talking about?", "dat not right", "My go bye bye?", "why you do that mommy, why?"

Love sweets! You have your mommy's sweet tooth, something I tried really hard to avoid. After having Namma here for a month and then Christmas you are addicted to candy! We try to limit it as much as possible and only let you have some if you've ate a good meal. Gummy bears and starburst are your favorites which isn't a mommy thing, I'm all about chocolate:)

Trains are still your favorite toys. You love love love them. You bring them to bed with you and lay them all on their side to tuck them in at night. And you still like to make random things into trains, like animals, you love to put your animals in a safari train.

You also love your big firetruck G&G Hingst gave you, if the trains aren't in bed with you, then your BIG firetruck is. You lay it on it's side and cover it up to go to bed with you.....can't be too comfy.

You are sleeping worse than you were at 2:) At 2 you were in your bed until about 5am and now you usually come over to our bed at midnight. If daddy tries taking you back to your bed you usually make several trips back to our bed. Some nights daddy gives up and stays in your bed with you.

The biggest change at this stage is that you are a huge daddy's boy. Ever since your baby brother entered the picture you have switched from being a mama's boy to a daddy's boy. I never thought this day would come. You were such a mommy's boy I didn't think daddy could ever compete at all. But we are there and apart of me is very happy you two are bonding more than you ever have before, but another part of me is super sad about this transition. It is a huge sign to me that your growing up and I don't like it at all.

LOVE your Grandparents and Uncles and your future Auntie Carrie. You talk about "namma this, gampa that, uncle mart this" all day long. If we see something green you'll tell us all "dat Carrie's favorite", or something red "Dat Uncle Mart's favorite", etc. If we are on a walk you'll say "my want to go namma's way" or if you want frozen blueberries, "my want namma's kind". "My want to go see Gampa Hingst", etc. Gabe is another favorite, he is your cool big cousin and all he does is great according to you! It makes my heart happy that you love your family so much!

Still adjusting to being a big brother. This transition has been alot harder than I had imagined it would be. Apart of you loves him so much. But another part of you is still very sad that you aren't the only one anymore, that you have to share mommy and daddy and everyone else with this little person. You give him alot of kisses and hugs everyday but the next minute you'll tell us you don't like him. I don't even like writing about it because it makes me sad that you feel this way. But I do want to remember this transition time and be able to look back and watch how your relationship developed. I'm hoping I soon get to write that you and he are best friends and inseperable, until that time we are just giving you alot of positive reinforcement when things do go well with the 2 of you. You do love helping with him, you have picked out some pretty good outfits for him, you like helping give him a bath and scrubbing his feet and pouring water on him but you refuse to help change his diaper, you tell us "it's too high mommy"....I know the real reason, it's too stinky:)

You and mommy have started a weekly date night:) (daddy is very jealous!). Since Breck has arrived you really miss our alone time. If we are going somewhere you'll tell me "don't want my baby to go, just mommy and me" and most of the time your baby does get to go so our compromise is having a date once a week where it is just you and me. You get to pick what we do, sometimes you'll pick Starbucks, sometimes you'll pick Krispy Kreme donuts, and last week you picked a make your own yogurt place. You get very excited for our date night and tell daddy "ha ha, you can't go just mommy and me" and I smile:)

Love your friends. Since Breck has been born we don't get out as much as we used to but you still love your friends. You talk about them alot, say thank you to Jesus for them every night and get very excited if we are going to see them or they are coming to your house.

Love climbing, going down the slide and playing at the park. And love digging in the sand and building things with sand toys.

Have gotten really good at riding your bike and scooter, your gross motor skills are advancing very nicely :)

Love to sing songs, "Dinah won't you blow" is one of your favorites right now (imagine that, a train song:)

You still take one nap a day. Sometimes you fight it and a few days you've even refused it but you still need it. Usually go down between 1 and 2 and sleep for 2-3 hours.

We love you to the moon and back 1000 times little man. Thank you so much for making me smile a million times a day. You are the best part of me and I feel so forever blessed to be the one you call mommy!

Christmas 2009

We celebrated our little family Christmas Wednesday night before we flew out on Friday. We headed out for a family walk and when we got back home Santa had arrived with Kayden's Santa presents from Kyle and I.....pretty sure we can't do this again bc he'll be to savy for our trickery but we took advantage of his age and winged it this year. Santa was sure to leave a note to tell him he came early to deliver some of the presents that he wouldn't be able to fit on the plane when he was at Namma's house.
For Christmas we headed back to the Midwest like we have every year. This year I was pretty nervous b/c Brecken was so tiny and Kayden is a very active toddler. But to my surprise my little men traveled well. Getting ready to go was not a walk in the park, nursing a newborn and entertaining a toddler doesn't make for a clear mind to pack everything needed and find the time to pack! But alas, we got on the plane and Truitt picked us up in Denver. It was SO nice to spend some time with Carly and her family and meet her twinsies and introduce Brecken to them. Paige is a very active little girl and plays pretty "rough". Kayden loved it! She didn't cry when he'd tackle her, she'd laugh instead, they were two peas in a pod wrestling around their house. Of course, Paige did show me her love for shoes and her princess dancing she does:) The twins are probably the happiest babies I have ever met, always laughing and smiling and stole my heart instantly! I love them all so much and wish we lived closer so we could play together often!
On Saturday my awesome bro drove ALL the way to Denver to pick us up. I had asked him prior to booking the flight if he would do it and without hesitation he said yes, such a great gift to give me a chance to catch up with a dear friend. Thanks Mark, you are the awesomest! The boys did great on the drive to Kearney and Mark only drove off once while I was still nursing Brecken:)
Christmas was full of baking, games, late night chats, playing with the family and SNOW!! A major snowstorm made us head to Kearney early and postpone the Hingst family Christmas until New Year's day. We are happy we made that decision b/c Milford lost electricity and the Hingst house got down into the 50s that day, way too cold for a tiny bebe!
Kayden left out cookies and milk for santa and carrots for the reindeer, I love how much he "gets" Christmas and Santa now and how much joy it brings to everyone's holiday! Christmas really is for the little ones and I love having little ones around to enjoy it with!
Over Christmas I was blessed with a cold (so were the boys), laryngitis (totally lost my voice for 2 days), and the stomach flu (on the day we had scheduled Brecken's baptism so we had to cancel it:( Somehow we still had a great Christmas but I was super bummed to be sick for a week of our trip! Guess the NE germs are foreign to me now and I easily picked them up.