THREE MONTHS ALREADY & THREE YEARS

Where has the last three months gone? I can not believe that my baby girl is three months old already. She has changed so much in the past three months and I swear I missed it. I am with the kids everyday but still feel like time is flying by us. Our little Kenzie is still as sweet as ever. She is a SUPER good baby. She smiles every time you look at her and she just loves to watch everything that is going on. She it already outgrowing some of her adorable little baby clothes and I feel like she hardly got the chance to wear them. Now I am getting that itch to go out and buy her more cute little girly outfits but she still has a closet full of new clothes!



The boys all continue to wonderful with their little sister. Cameron still loves to hold her and she is always smiling at him. Calvin likes to get right in her face and talk to her. He also likes rolling her over onto her belly. If we weren't always watching him I think he would also pick her up and carry her around like his own little dolly. Clayton does not pay as much attention to Kenzie as his brothers but he does love to give her kisses and to tell you when she is crying.



Kenzie has adjusted to the chaos in this house very well. She can sleep through almost anything when she is tired and can really yell when she wants to get your attention. She has started sleeping through the night, some nights. This is great but I never know which night it is going to be. It seems like the days she is awake a lot and I am sure she will sleep all night she does not. Then other days she zonks out at 9 and does not make a peep till 6. She is just so amazing and wonderful. It amazes me everyday how much you can love your children, even when some days they can make you crazy!!!

Besides Kenzie being three months old, today is our three year anniversary. Three years - three more kids and now I wonder why we feel so busy. Hard to believe it has only been three years. Feels like forever. I have to say I could not be happier. I love my husband, my kids, our our crazy life. I would not trade it for the whole world.

Wonderful Weather

I don't think we could have asked for better weather this weekend. Felt like spring and I loved it. The kids seemed to enjoy it as well. Saturday we spent some time working on the leaves in the yard again. Today we hung out by Grandma Grace and Grandpa Dick. Got to spend some time with our cousins, Xavier & Isiah. We had a blast. Ate lunch, had ice cream, and played with all the fun toys by GG & Papa's. I wish I had some more pictures of the mess that became of the twins with their lil' drummies ice cream cones. I am not sure how it started but both Calvin and Clayton ended up with a lot of their drumsticks in their hair!!! After the ice cream encounter we headed outside to enjoy the weather some more and that proved to be a blast too. The boys even decided that they were so hot running around outside that for a short time they took their shirts off. It was so funny.

When we got home it was still beautiful out so we starting putting up the outdoor christmas lights. I know it is early for this but who can't take advantage of putting up x-mas lights in a short sleeve shirt! I promise I will not start turning them on until after Thanksgiving!!!

Sharing a few pictures again. Hope everyone has a great week!!

Xavier, Calvin, Kenzie, Clayton & Isiah

Clayton & Calvin & Kenzie

Clayton & Calvin

Clayton enjoying his ice cream

Calvin REALLY enjoying his ice cream!

Up North

I should be sleeping but instead decided to update everyone on our GREAT weekend. Thursday morning we piled the kids and everything I could fit into the van and went up north to the cabin for the weekend. We went with Grandma Jane and Grandpa Gerald. It was really nice and relaxing. I definitely needed it! I think we all did. I took naps two out of the three days up there and spent the rest of the time just enjoying some quality time with all four of the kids. Cameron got to try out his new bow (new/used) and go out hunting with Ben. Unfortunately they did not see anything. It was just a great, relaxing weekend. We even had our own little Halloween party.

Kenzie sticking her tongue out!!!

Cameron carving Grandma Jane's Pumpkin!

Ben teaching Cam to use his bow!

Cameron as a scary skeleton!

Clayton as Buzz Lightyear!

Calvin as the HULK!

Kenzie as a sleeping froggie!

Kenzie, Calvin, Clayton, Cameron! What a sight!

Kenzie all dressed up!

Grandma Grace bought this pretty dress for Kenzie and she has not had any formal affairs to wear it to. So we dressed her up in it and TOOK PICTURES. Kenzie loves the dress and I am just trying to find places to go that she can wear it.

Kenzie all dolled up!

Dressing up is exhausting!

Carving Pumpkins!!

We took on carving pumpkins with the kids yesterday. It was a big mess but also a lot of fun. Grandma Grace came over to assist and it went better then I expected. Cameron loves to carve so he cut open Kenzie, dug it out, and carved it for her. Grandma and I helped the twins with digging out their seeds and then they got to use these things that stick into the pumpkin like a potato head. These things work great and the little boys had a blast.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Clayton, Calvin & Cameron

Kenzie, Clayton, Cameron & Calvin with their pumpkins.

No computer in the bathroom!!

So as my title indicates if I had a computer in the bathroom I would be able to keep up with blogging better! The twins are in the potty training mode and Kenzie and I feel like we live in the bathroom. Poor little girl is spending her days waiting for her brothers in the bathroom which seems a bit backwards to me. Anyway, the update on potty training is that both of the boys are doing very well but it is a long process. Cal had the early lead but now Clayton is proving to be the Potty King. He is going every time I put him on and is dry most of the day. Yesterday Grandma Grace brought over new underwear for the boys and they were very excited. Calvin wanted to try on each of the pairs of underwear, one at a time. And Clayton put his on and then did not like them and wanted a pull up back on. Lets just say it turned out to be a really fun evening with underwear on all the kids heads!!




Other then that it has been busy around here as usual. Kenzie is growing up way to fast. She is smiling a lot and I almost got a laugh out of her yesterday. She is finally going to bed at a decent time and usually only gets up once. I am still having a blast dressing her up and really love all this pink. Cameron just finished up flag football and now has to decide if he is going to do soccer or football next year. Ben and I have been trying to get things ready for winter around here. We finally managed to clean out the garage so we can park the van in it and now we are trying to clean up the yard.

We are planning on carving our pumpkins this weekend and I hope to get some good pictures of this. It should be really fun!!!

Cameron with his new bike

(Great Aunt Diane & Uncle Jack won it and the car show/benefit

for MC and then gave it to Cam - He was so excited)

Kenzie starting to smile!




Clayton and his bear.

Kenzie & Calvin smiling!

Kenzie's Baptism

Kenzie's Baptism 9/27/09