My favorite!

One of my favorite times of day with you Kayden is our bedtime routine. Daddy does the bath and then I get you. You give Daddy and Fifi a kiss goodnight and we walk to your bedroom, we sit in our chair and you grab your prayer bear. We say our prayers together and you end with "Amen" (you even do this in church now when we say the Our Father and everyone loves hearing you say it!). After prayers we read "Goodnight Moon" and while we are reading it you say Goodnight to all the items in the book, the combs, the moon, etc. After our story we have to say goodnight to everyone, you say everyone's name with me "Night Night...." We go through our whole family (grandma and grandpa, Uncle Mark and Uncle Kurt, cousin Gabe, etc.) and then you say Night night to your friends, "Night Night Tula, Maverick, Tatum, Audrey and Baby Izzie, Camila and Jake" and after each persons name you ask "where" you ask this every night and every night I tell you they are at home sleeping with their mommies and daddies. After the night nights we sing our songs, it is always the same songs "Hush little baby, rock-a-bye-baby, twinkle twinkle little star, 5 little monkeys and the I love you song". When you were tiny I tried to switch up the songs and you would open your eyes wide as if to tell me I was doing it wrong, so these have been our songs since you were born. When we get to twinkle twinkle you do the star motion with your hand and if your still awake enough for 5 little monkeys you have to make the monkey noise and "bonk your head" at that point in the song. After our songs we snuggle, nurse and rock until you are asleep. I love this time with you, I love our routine, how I'm the only one that can do it and the snuggles after we are quiet. I love rocking you to sleep, I love that I have this special time with you because I know not long from now you'll be too big to be rocked and I will miss these days so much. XOXOXO my little man!! I love you so much!

Fun Sunday

He kept asking for "more" sand to be

poured on him

On Sunday we took a walk to Fulton ranch and decided to stop at a different park than we usually do b/c the normal one had a bday party at it and was super busy. The park we went to was empty so we had it all to ourselves. Kayden had so much fun playing with mommy and daddy and Fifi in the green grass and sand. I always thought once I was a stay-at-home mom that weekends wouldn't be as exciting as they were when I worked 5 days a week, b/c I'd have everyday off. But I still love weekends because we are all together as a family and I love seeing Kayden with his daddy!

Lunch Date

Last Monday Kayden and Tula had a lunch date, macNcheese, veggies and berries was the fancy course they dined on. They thought it was so fun to eat at the little table together and be big kids.

My Buddy

Playing airplanes with Jax

Jax went missing for awhile and Kayden was distraught over where he was, he looked for him everyday and daddy ended up finding him in the back of his bike trailor (I was just about to go to Build a bear and replace Jax!) Since the reunion, Jax has become Kayden's buddy, he takes him everywhere with him, reads him books, builds towers with him, dresses him in his clothes and wants me to put a diaper on him. He loves his monkey buddy sooo much! It is adorable to watch and melts my heart when he is showing Jax something and he puts Jax's stuffed hand on the object or picture and tells him about it. I don't know if he loves Jax b/c he made him with Grandma and Grandpa at Build-a-bear or b/c he is a monkey or what but he is his favorite stuffed animal and he can't get enough of him. Riding in his cozy coupe is another favorite for Jax and Kayden, as well as riding on his rocking horse together.

Shades!

We got Kayden some cool new shades on Saturday and he loves wearing them. Yesterday when we went to the park he had to put them on and wore them the whole time we were there. He thinks he is so cool with his shades on. He also is obsessed with the bubble blower G&G Westerbuhr sent him for Valentine's day, he has to take it to the park everytime we go and blows bubbles forever, he is pretty popular at the park with his cool bubble blower and his little doggie (who still has to come up on the equipment with him and goes down the slide with him:-)

Dancing Cuties!

Valentine's Party

Our mommy group-wow how the babies have grown!

Kayden giving Tula her playdough

Handing his sweetheart a flower

Loving baby Maverick as usual!

Playing at the party

Audrey after she pulled Kayden's breakfast over to her:-)

Kayden & Audrey eating breakfast together at

his little table! Such big kids already!

On Friday we had a pre-valentine's party at our friend's Jake and Samantha's house. That morning Audrey came to play bright and early at 7am and Kayden was still sleeping. Audrey's parents had an appointment so we got her all to ourselves for the morning. Kayden woke up to Audrey and I coming to get him and he instantly smiled to see his friend there. He got out of bed and went running towards his playroom with her. They played and ate breakfast together, Audrey is a big eater so after she was done with her breakfast she slid Kayden's plate over in front of her and had his for breakfast too (I couldn't stop laughing:-). We headed to the Valentine's party and the kiddos had lots of fun playing with Jake's fun toys and eating yummy snacks. They also had a little valentine exchange and it was funny watching them give treats to their friends. Kayden gave all the girls a flower and the girls and boys a doggie or kitty valentine with playdough, I was surprised at how well he did with giving his friends the valentine, he would find whatever friend I told him it was for and hand them the valentine:-)

Thanks for letting us watch your baby Auntie Sara and Uncle Preston, we loved having her and she is welcome anytime!