Nursery

For some reason, with baby number 2 I am way less motivated to get the nursery together. I feel there are a few contributing factors to that, but we started making some progress last weekend, so hopefully by June it will be finished.

We have had a theme decided since we found out were were having a boy. It was actually something James and I both agreed on. This was huge considering he basically had no say in Kelbie's room. We are going with a Vintage Truck/Car theme. Color scheme will be Navy, Khaki, Red and some Green and White. I really think it is going to come together nicely once we finally get the walls done and I can start decorating.

We tore down the platform that was in his room. It was been in that house for probably 20 years. Sentimental but it needed to go. Now that its down there is a lot if patching on the walls and ceiling before paint can go on the walls. Not to mention we have to get new carpet for at least that room. I hope my vision will come together in the room like it is in my head.

Hobby Lobby has become my best friend for finding the things I need to decorate, although I haven't purchased anything yet, but I know its there and just need a sale to happen so I can get it all. Here are a few Pinterest ideas that I will be using in his room. Although I am sure his room wont look as good as they do on Pinterest but I sure can try. I think my favorite part of his room is going to be his dresser which I will post pictures of once the art teacher at my school gets done with it.



Funny that his name is actually in this picture except spelled different.
We have a vintage red pick up truck to hang his name from.




I have a few old license plates that I am going to hang up like this,
along with the frame and sign.



I think this is my favorite because there are so many signs I like at
Hobby Lobby and this is a good way to incorporate them all together.

So this is my vision which I have faith will come together close to this. Now I just need to find some vintage truck or car fabric that I like that I can use for the bumpers and curtians.

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.

It's a....

BOY!

James was hoping for a boy and he got it. I had a feeling that we were having a boy this time around. I had somewhat gotten my hopes up for another girl because we have everything for a girl. All of our stuff is for a girl. Its okay, we are looking forward to having one of each and the differences that they will have. I am not sure how Kelbie will react as she still doesn't quite understand what is going on, but I know she will be a great BIG SISTER. We can't wait to meet our little prince in July.

Words

For those of you who know or don't know, Kelbie has been taking speech for over a year now. We started at this one place for about 3 months and I hated it. We moved to a different location that only has 2 therapists, Karen and Lindsey. Karen worked with Kelbie up until about a month ago when she had to change her schedule and now Lindsey is her therapist. I have noticed such a huge change in her vocabulary over the last few months. Some if it I think is due to the tube she had put in over the summer which helped with all the fluid she was having in her ear ( I am thinking we might need a new one put in when we go back next week). Anyways the whole point of this post is the excitement I have for all the new words I hear her say. I am sure there are many more then I can think of, but I can actually understand about 90% of what she is saying and asking for. I am hoping this is the same at school, but I have not heard anything about her speaking from her teacher. She still isn't making full sentences like some kids her age but we are getting there. We also have to work on the end sounds of her words. She doesn't quite get that you have to say the end syllable of the word as well. Just had to share how happy I was that she is now finally saying more then about 10 words and isn't using only sign language to communicate. Here is the words I can think of off the top of my head that she can now say and for the most part we understand.

Hi
Bye
Nane (Nana)
Momma
Dada
Gr- Dada
Milk
Juice
Water
Snack
Minnie
Night
Bed
Bad
Jersey
Lizzie
Indy (Indiana)
Ol (Oliver)
Outside
Bath
Baby
Show
Fruit
Nana (Banana)
Chalk
Up
More
Please
Thank You
Car
Love You
Book
Play
No
Belle
Bella
Truck
Train
Dog
Cat
Meow
School
Hot
Ella (Cinderella)
Daisy
Wait
Swing
Slide
Candy
Cupcake
Cup
Bowl
Spoon
Oh-No
Uh-Oh
Bike
Eww
Pillow
Blanket
Yellow
Pink
Green
Blue
Red
Purple
Me

(We are also working on Brayden and Trystan, but you can't quite make them out yet)
*I am sure there are more but these are the ones that come to mind. She also doesn't say these completely correct but like I said we are working on it and we can at least understand the words now. Hoping to have complete words and short sentences by summer.

Christmas 2012

I am a little behind on blogging these days. I just can't find the energy to do much plus I never turn our computer on now that I have my ipad. We had another low key Christmas. I kinda like it that way. Now if I could just make the shopping for Christmas low key I would be ten times happier.

We spent Christmas morning at our house this year and headed over to my parents house for Christmas night. I would say dinner but we opted for snack and sandwiches instead of dinner this year. With 3 kids it is easier to do presents first and let them snack during it all.

Kelbie is still young enough that she doesn't know on Christmas morning you go straight to the gifts, instead she came to my room and we watch some Disney Junior until about 7am then we finally decided to wake daddy up and let Kelbie open presents. I thought she would be excited about all the stuff she got from Santa this year, but the hit was her Mini Cooper. This was a gift I contemplated a lot. I wasn't sure she was old enough to get what she was supposed to do with it but when it was on sale for almost $100 less then what it normally was, I couldn't pass it up. Santa did good this year, she like pretty much everything.

Between us and Santa, Kelbie made out pretty well. She got the Mini Cooper, puzzles, games, a bath tub for her doll, finger paint, a Minnie pillow for her bed and a few other things. She spent the rest of the day trying to figure out her Mini (which we still have not mastered yet). James got 2 Texans shirts since he had already received his gift the month before for her birthday. James did surprise me with an ipad mini, which was the best gift. He did it all on his own and I had no idea. I usually do my own shopping for Christmas. Now he has standards to live up too. j/k!

Once we got over to my parents house Kelbie received many more gifts. She got a picnic set, a Minnie purse from Disney, a scooter and helmet, a movie, and some kitchen stuff. James and I both got vacuums. He got a shop vac and I got a new vacuum that I had been talking non-stop about since the end of November. I hated our old vacuum and with 4 animals, a toddler and a baby on the way I needed something that would pick up everything off the floor. Needless to say the new vacuum is amazing.

Overall we had a good Christmas. Now we are just waiting for the weather to get a bit warmer and the sun to come out so Kelbie can you all her new outside toys. Until next Christmas!

Trying on her santa hat

Testing out Santa's cookies to make sure they taste okay

OH-NO did I just eat Santa's cookies

Santa Came!

Her favorite gifts. Mini Copper and Minnie pillow

Checking out her stocking

Jewelry

Fishing puzzle

Daddy had to try the Mini as well

James and I with our Vacuums

Merry Christmas 2012 from the Willyards