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!