Tumbling

Jacey started tumbling in September. She loves it and insits on practicing every day, all day.

This particular day she decided to spend her time practicing hand stands. Typically it's cartwheels :-) The problem with cartwheel pictures is she moves too fast and the pictures turn out blurry. I'll have to keep trying :-)

(Please ignore the messy house,lol. I was attempting to organize 4 years worth of clothes.)

Keely had to get in on the action to :-)

Milestones

Thad's dad turned 64 this year. We celebrated by having a party at Clint and Shawna's house. We actually had everyone in the family there. That hasn't happened in a long time. It was fun having everyone together at the same time :-)

That same night, Jacey lost her first tooth. It had been loose for awhile. I was afraid she was going to swallow it so Thad tied some dental floss around it and yanked it out. She was so good and didn't complain once, not even when it started bleeding. She was so excited to loose her first tooth. Four years old seemed a bit early to me but then again she did get her first two teeth when she was only 3 months old.

The tooth fairy left her money under her pillow and when she woke up she ran in and said "Mommy, Mommy, the tooth fairy left me one monies". She was so excited!!!!

Such a tiny little tooth

Camden turned three months old the end of September. He is such a good baby. He can now hold his head up, rolls over from his tummy to his back and tries really hard to roll over from his back to his tummy. So far he just makes it onto his side and just sits there. He loves to laugh. Anytime I change his clothes he laughs hysterically. One of these times I'll post a video of it. It is the cutest thing ever!!!!

He LOVES the bath and absolutely loves it when Jacey plays with him. She'll sing to him in the bath and he just laughs and laughs. He started teething the beginning of September which has made him pretty miserable. It makes me so sad to see him in pain. He is constantly trying to eat his fist. He loves to lay on his back on his mat and play with his toys. He will sit there forever and just talk to himself. Many times he has fallen asleep just laying there :-)

First Day of School and Birthday's

People ask me all the time "Is Jacey in Kindergarten or 1st grade?". Umm, neither :-)

She's only 4 years old. Just extremely tall for her age. She is a Mason, remember :-)

This is her second year in pre-school with Miss Kerry and she loves it. Jacey's 1st day of school just happened to fall on Thad's birthday this year. I went and bought some Sprinkles cupcakes and we surprised him for his birthday. The cupcakes were a hit with everyone :-)

My birthday was the day after Thad's so to celebrate both birthday's Thad and I went to dinner (on the 8th). It's a good thing I planned it and made him go since that was all the birthday gift I was going to get, lol. As I told Thad, a shout out on Facebook does not count as a Happy Birthday. After 6 years I think I have finally learned my lesson. If I want a Happy Birthday and presents I just need to get a babysitter and go on a shopping spree all by myself :-)

We had dinner at the Kona Grill. I got the Macadamia encrusted chicken and it was soooo good.

I won't mention how extremely old I turned this year but it was a milestone (in my opinion) so I'm going to force Thad to take me to New York sometime this year as a belated celebration!!!!

6 year Anniversary

For our 6 year Anniversary I decided to drag my work-a-holic husband to California for the weekend. My mom was kind enough to watch all of the kids for us so we could actually spend some quality "alone" time together. Too bad Thad's phone (his baby) had to come with us :-)

We stayed at the Marriott Coronado Island Resort, courtesy of Price line :-)

It was so nice to just sit back and relax and not have anything to do or anywhere to be. We spent one day at the beach, went to Kono's (our favorite breakfast place), lay around by the pool sipping daiquiri's and rented a powerboat to cruise the bay in and spent a fortune at a steak house the concierge recommended. I do have to say my Kobe beef burger was money well spent!!!

Some how with all the picture taking I did, Thad and I never actually ended up in any pictures together :-(

Dance and milestones

In August Jacey started dance and tumbling. This is her first year doing anything like this. The only "classes" she's ever taken are swim lessons. She is ALWAYS dancing around the house so I figured she might as well take some classes. She was a little nervous at first but now she LOVES it.

Camden at 2 months:

12.5lbs

23.5 inches long

Smiles all the time!!!!!!

Sleeps 10-12 hours every night

Loves to lay on his mat and stare up at his toys

(Camden and Grandpa Huffaker)
Jacey just loves her baby brother. She is such a good helper!!!!

All ready to go to church :-)

Happy Birthday Part 2

Gina and I decided to have a combined birthday party this year for Keely and Blaine since their birthday's are so close together. We were originally going to borrow a "bouncer" from one of my friends and then just do cake and ice cream after they were done playing. The day of the party, I found out the bouncer we were going to borrow was broken. Needless to say Gina and I were in a bit of a panic since we had several 2year olds coming over and nothing to entertain them with. We decided to go ahead and rent one.

If we had know that a huge thunderstorm was going to be rolling in right smack dab in the middle of our party we obviously would have made a different choice. Oh well. The kids had a blast playing in the rain. The funniest thing though was that Keely and Blaine wanted absolutely nothing to do with the bouncer. They didn't even go on it once. At least the other kids had fun .

Jackson borrowed his parents popcorn maker and the kids LOVED it!!!!

Playing in the rain

Camden and Daddy

Baby sitting on the bouncer :-)

Keely was so excited to blow out her candles. Blaine...not so much :-)

Gina made them each their own cakes

Ready, set, blow!!!!

Delicately removing the candles, lol.

Hmm. I think I'll take just a tiny taste.

Okay, maybe one more lick.

Okay, now a bite.

Mmm, almost as good as the cupcakes!!!

Jackson had to show her how it was done.

Opening presents. Ooooh, more shoes. Yea!!!

Oh boy, what is this????

Yeah, my very own dolly. No more stealing Jacey's :-)

Oooh another movie.

When she opened this she broke out in song "Dora, Dora, Dora the explora". So cute.

Her favorite gift was the stroller Gina got her for her dolly. All of the kids were fighting over it, even the boys :-)

Here goes the little Mommy.

Pooped out after a long day.

The closest Keely got to going in the bouncer.

A few more tidbits I forgot to write in the first birthday post:

Keely is 35" tall and although she's got some chubbs she is soooo strong.

I'll find her trying to lift the heaviest things sometimes.

Keely is little miss independent. She will not let me do anything for her. Her favorite phrase right now is "NO HELP Mommy, No Help". She gets mad when I try and help her.

Usually this pertains to buckling her own car seat and getting dressed/putting on her own shoes. She can do it by herself and gets soooo mad when I try and help her. If I'm in a hurry it about drives me insane to have to sit there and wait for her to take her sweet old time. If I do it for her anyway she will throw a fit the whole car ride. So not fun. A few more Keelyism's are "What happened?" Anytime someone is crying (especially at church) she asks what happened, over and over and over.....

She also is constantly asking me "What's that???" I'm trying really hard to just find it cute and not get annoyed at it being asked for the 100th time :-)

We finally got her down to only having her "binky" at nap & bedtime. That was a huge feat in itself. I'll have to work on removing it permanently. Now that it's not in her mouth 24/7 she's talking a lot more. Yeah!!!!

I think she is ready to be potty trained. I'm just not ready to do it :-) She tells me all the time she has to go potty. The problem is, she'll pee her diaper, take it off and then hop on the toilet. She's got it just a tad bit backwards. This is making for lots of waisted diapers :-(