Strawberry Picking

I wanted to do something fun with Kelbie over spring break since we spent most of it just hanging at home. We decided to go pick some strawberries and to invite the cousins. It was a good way to spend sometime with them before they leave for Australia.

We got a late start since Kelbie had speech in the morning so by the time we got there, the line to get in was a little crazy. It took us about 20 minutes to get parked and all three kids into the farm. Trystan hung out in the stroller, enjoying the sun and watching us pick strawberries. I took Brayden and Kelbie down the rows to get some strawberries. Brayden was a pro of course but Kelbie had never done it before. Brayden and I showed her ow to pull the strawberries off and she had fun doing so for about 10 strawberries. After that she wanted to just run up and down the rows and eat the strawberries, so I ended up picking most of our bucket, but she was having fun so it was okay.

After both of the kids baskets were full we headed inside to the market. I tangled all three kids while Nana got some vegetables and some other things. Brayden found the candy and picked out the ones he wanted which of course lead Kelbie to picking out her candy. Brayden tried to get her to pick certain candies and she was having nothing to do with it. She wanted to choose on her own. She ended up picking the banana runts. 

After the market we got them to sit down for a quick lunch before heading home. It was a fun trip and I think I will make it a regular thing. Kelbie walked pretty much the whole time and stayed with us without having to hold hands or be confined to a stroller. I was very proud of her listening while we were there.

Pictures to come. I have to get on my computer instead of the IPAD to do that, but you can check out facebook if you can't wait till they are on here.

Life of a 2.5 year old

I wish I could remember what it was like to be two. No cares in the world, getting to play all day,and having someone to do things for you. What can I say, Kelbie has the easy life. Even though she wakes up early every morning, she still takes an awesome nap and goes to bed at a normal time. As she watches her new favorite show ( I personally can't stand) Dora before heading to bed I thought I would document all her accomplishments and things she likes to do so when she has her own child and wonders if she was the same, she can look back on this and compare.

I have to say that my kid is pretty cute ( says every parent ) but she is at that age where listening is not her best skill. I swear I repeat  myself a million times a day. She does great at school, so maybe its just me. Since this issue has come about, we have decided its time to implement time outs. I wasn't sure when the right age was to start that, but it seems this age works. We have designated a corner where she sits for two minutes and then we explain to her why she was there. Needless to say she doesn't like it, but it seems to get the point across.

Her vocabulary has all of a sudden come together. Pretty much forming sentences. It's still hard for most to understand her, but I get 90% of what she says. It's also very cute to hear her pronounce the harder words like Popsicle. I was concerned that she wasn't putting words together like other kids her age. I knew it would come and I just thought it was because of her ear, so when she starting having conversations with me I was very happy. I'm not sure how many words she should have at this age but I would guess she has at least 100.

She is loving school and I am loving that she is learning and making new friends. I am excited for her next year when there will be more kids in her class, which I am also hoping will be a slight distraction from the new baby being here. She gets to go to chapel everyday, do some sort of art project, read new stories, and most days go to music class, which I think might be her favorite. She is always singing songs, but I can't seem to make out any of the words.

As she is about to become a BIG Sister I can tell she isn't completely sure what is going on. She gets upset when I can't carry her as much as I used too and I can't play certain games we used to play together. I bought her books and we ask her about it but she always says NO if asked about having a baby brother. Some of it could be the age. I know she will be a great big sister once brother gets her, I just really hope my mommies girl doesn't start to hate me when I can't give her 100% of my attention.

I might also add that she has no interest in potty training. We have had potties and underwear for about a year and still nothing. Now I am not totally forcing the issues so that could be some of it. About a month ago I bought her a princess potty seat that goes on the big potty in hopes that it might spark something. Nothing. Now she does like to sit on the potty, wipe and flush but nothing ever seems to come out. I am tempted to take the 3 day challenge over Easter weekend and see if we can get anywhere. My goal is to have her almost trained before baby gets here. That leaves me all of June and a week or two in July if my Easter weekend doesn't happen as planned.
I will end this post with some of her favorite things and things to do:
Princesses (Belle), playing outside, Minnie, riding her scooter, dressing up, crowns, picking out her own clothes, Word World, pillow fights with daddy, spinning, sliding, swinging, Popsicles, fruit, playing doctor, and showing us how she can be a big girl.

I am positive there are more, but I'm tired and my brain is about ready for bed. Until my next update on my spunky, crazy, loving 2 year old.

Baby Dos

I feel I haven't blogged at all about baby #2. I remember documenting so much more with Kelbie. Although I have been behind in blogging lately  more posts to come with everything going on these days.

So back to #2. I am almost 22 weeks and the time is flying by. Probably because I am chasing a two year old around on top of everything else.  Everything is looking good. Measure two weeks ahead (as I did with K) so I guess that means we have another big baby on our hands. I am feeling tons of movement early on and sometimes he kicks or punches so hard it makes me stop. I still only feel him when I am sitting down but it's a bunch when I do. 

I can not wait to get started on the nursery. I am trying to clear out all the baby girl stuff so we can. Get to work. We have a platform in the room now which will be coming down, also have some patch work that has to be done before the painting can begin. I am hoping to get started in April sometime. I have a feeling it is going to turn out very cool once we get done. I wish I would have been addicted to Pinterest when Kelbie was born because her room could have been a lot cooler. We are going with a vintage car theme with khaki and navy walls. Hoping this is a theme that can last awhile.

Lastly in case you haven't heard we have decided to name him Jaxon Charles. It was our boys name we had picked out with Kelbie and decided to stick with it. James wanted our boy to have the same initials as him (JCW). Jaxon was about the only J name we could agree on and I didn't want to spell it the traditional way since the name is so common, even though the spelling has become super popular too. Charles is my dads middle name. We figured since ere was no one to carry on his name that would be a good way to honor him ( we had a girls name to honor him too, but we won't be getting to use that).

Hopefully I will remember to post more so I can have everything documented. Until next time.