Weston's Blessing

We gave Weston James his blessing on April 4th at home here in Olympia.  He got to wear the same outfit Kallen wore, which my Mom made for them.  It is so cute, I wish I had some better pictures of it to show it off.  I wasn't able to take many pictures because Weston was in a very, very bad mood.  In fact, he screamed at the top of his lungs the entire time while Tyson gave him his blessing. This was pretty shocking because Wes is such a mild kid.  

After the blessing, he was still in a cranky mood and didn't want to take any pictures...and I mean any!  Poor kid.  I think we just timed his blessing poorly because it fell right around his nap time.  However, we didn't have much of a choice, because we did it between conference sessions.  Oh well, at least I got a few pictures.

Even though he was grumpy, he did give a few smiles.  He is such a precious little boy.  He loves to give us these big open mouthed smiles. 

Of course, Grandpa Hill was able to make him smile.  No kid can resist smiling when Grandpa Hill is around.

Easter...Only 2 Months Late

For Easter we went down and visited Grandma and Grandpa Hill.  We started off decorating Easter Eggs.  I was surprised that Kallen really enjoyed this.  I didn't think he would, but he loved it and probably could have decorated dozens and dozens of eggs if we let him.  

Hi favorite color was blue...but if there had been a green dye, he probably would have loved that one even more.  Green is his favorite color.

Some of the finished product.

Besides dying eggs, what else is necessary at Easter?  To take pictures of your Easter clothes of course. Neither Kallen or Weston were very good models.  They didn't want to take pictures at all, which is why you see these sullen faces instead of happy smiling faces.  I think I might need to start bribing them to smile from now on.  I always thought it was funny when my sister-in-law Christy would bribe her kids with candy in order for them to smile in pictures.  Now i get it.  I'm not above bribing...nope.

The brothers regard each other.

We were lucky to have most of Tyson's family down there at Easter.  So the cousins all got to take a picture together.  Well,at least the cousins that are all babies.  This is Gavin, Emily and Weston (the used car salesman).  They are all a month apart--Emily being the oldest.  Don't they all look so cute?  I'm glad that at least Emily decided to smile.  I think this picture is so funny, Wes is so huge compared to the others.  I think he could eat the other two in a second. 

Ahhh...now the loot.  I got a little carried away with Easter this year and kept buying the boys stuff.  I couldn't help it.  Kallen loves play doh now, so I got him a set with a Mr. Potato Head. He also got some more Thomas the Train track...because you can never have enough.  Some more coloring paper and coloring books for his Magic Markers, a new puppy, Resurrection Eggs (These are pretty cool.  You should check them out for an Easter FHE), and some other random little stuff.  Weston got a monkey, some teething rings and some bubbles.  These boys scored!

Of course the first thing Kallen went for is the chocolate.  The kid absolutely loves chocolate now and asks for it all the time.  His favorite is Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, which is bad, because those are my favorite too.  Now I have to share them with him.

Kallen also got to do an Easter Egg hunt down there, but he didn't get into it that much.  He had more fun just playing outside.  I had to struggle to even get him to notice the multi-colored eggs lying around.  Oh well...maybe next year.

From Kallen's perspecitve:  "Okay Mom, I found some eggs...now take your silly picture.  Can I go play now?"

"Let's put all the eggs in a small pile on the grass.  Yep...that is fun."

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter.  We had a lot of fun!

Crazy Hair

This is our son Kallen...he has some long crazy hair.  

Well, actually he had long crazy hair about 3 months ago, but I never got around to posting these and I had to because I thought they were so funny.  I don't think Kallen thinks much of his crazy hair either.

But he is much better now because he got a haircut.  However, now that it has been 3 months, I think he needs another haircut. 

Hi Everyone.  Sorry I haven't posted for 2 months, but I will soon.  I just need to get our pictures downloaded.  In the mean time, you can enjoy this video.  Kallen and I have really enjoyed this music video by Jon Schmidt, so we thought you would too.  Kallen loves it and keeps asking, "last time, last time".  We've already seen it 4 times this morning.  He thinks the Piano is singing.

Weston Update

Weston is now over 2 months old.  Where did those two months go?  With Kallen I felt like each day just dragged by at the beginning, but with Weston they've flown.  It still seems weird for me to think that I'm a mother of two boys now.  Sometimes when I sit back and think about life, I realize that at times, I still think of myself as this young college student who doesn't have any responsiblities...and definitely no kids.  So it seems weird to think that I have two kids. Then again, when I think about life without them it seems even weirder.  It's crazy to think that two months ago, there wasn't a Weston in our lives.  Funny how short two months can seem, but at the same time how long it can be too.  I can't imagine our lives without Weston anymore.  It is almost as if we've always had him with us.  In just a short two months, this little boy has definitely become part of our family and I love him very much. 

Okay, now for the updates:  I took Weston to his two-month appointment last week and the doctor thought he was looking at a 6-month-old.  He joked at how crazy it was that Weston doubled his weight since birth...from 8 pounds to 16 pounds!  Can you imagine doubling your weight in only two months?  He also said that since Weston was so large, its obvious that he isn't needing tons of food, so he told me that we could start to try and have him sleep through the night.  Crazy huh?  I kind of feel bad making the poor kid cry it out at 2-months-old, so we decided to drop his feeding at 2:00 and see if he would go to bed a little earlier.  Then we could slowly try to get him to drop his last feeding.  So far, it has been going pretty good.  He goes to bed by 9:30 or 10:00 now and usually only wakes up around 3:30 or 4:00.  And the good news is, last night the little guy slept until 5:45!  Can you believe it?  I kept waking up every half an hour thinking he'd be waking up, but he just kept sleeping.   I'm really hoping this will be a common routine of his and not just a one-time fluke.

Our little Chunky Monkey is so large!  Like I said, they weighed him and he was over 16 pounds and 4 ounces.  He wasn't even on the charts but hovering far above the 100 % line.  So silly.  The good news is his head and height are pretty standard...well, they are in the 90th percentile, but that is better than his weight.  I figure just like Kallen, the little guy will continue to be chunky for the first year and then just stop gaining any weight the following year. I was curious to see how Weston compared to Kallen at this age, so I looked up Kallen's weight at 2 months.  He only weighed 14 pounds, so Weston is even bigger than Kallen was.  Crazy little monkey.

Little Wes has also been smiling for the past month, but I've never been able to get a picture of him.  So today, while Tyson was home for lunch, I got some.  Weston loves to smile for his Daddy.

He has also discovered his hands this past week.  I don't know if he realizes they are hands, but he has started chewing on them.  I think its pretty cute.

A picture of his chunkiness in all his 16 pound glory.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Did any of you know that March 2nd is Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss'sBirthday? 

I always thought that it would be cool to be the type of Mom who celebrates crazy holiday's with her kids.  And isn't this the perfect holiday?  I love to read, and so does Kallen. Perfect.  Plus, Kallen loves his Dr. Seuss books, so maybe we'll read some of his favorites today.  

I also think it would be fun to do some special Dr. Seuss activites with him and also have fun with dinner tonight.  

I'm thinking Green Eggs and Ham...then again, we might just have green eggs and no ham.  I don't really like Ham very much and second...we don't have any Ham right now.  So we'll just be sticking to the green eggs.  Sounds kind of fun though huh?  

A great website that I found is www.seussville.com.  There are all sorts of things to do.  Just go to the Playground section.  I think the activity book you can print off seems super cool.  Kallen is too little to get a lot out of it, but I figure he'll like looking at it and coloring some of the pages anyway.  So we'll be doing that later.  

I hope you all can get in the spirit of Dr. Seuss.  Go and have some fun!

Some New Pictures of Weston

I didn't have any new pictures of Weston up, so I thought I'd post some.  Look at what a little chunk he has become!  He is now only 8 weeks old, and weighs over 13 pounds.  I think he stores all those pounds in his cheeks.  What do you think?

He is getting so big and strong.  He now can hold up his head like a pro. 

Snugging with Daddy.
He has started smiling during the past 2 weeks, however, I can never get him to smile when I try to take a picture.  This was as close as I could get.  

The Joys of Having a Two-Year-Old

It is such a wonderful thing to have a two-year-old in the house.  Not only have the tantrums increased and Kallen's use of the word "no" and "bye bye", but our little toddler has also increased the amount of messes he makes around the house.  For instance.  Check out the pictures below.

Can you tell what this picture is of?  No?  Well, it is a picture of our laundry closet's door. Kallen has so craftily put his own mark on the doors with a blue coloring crayon.  

Here he is with a big cheesy smile on his face.  He was so proud of his artwork.

I thought it was pretty cute too, until I tried washing the stuff off and realized that crayons don't come off walls or doors very easily.  Hmmm, now I understand why this a bad thing. Well...I guess we won't be getting back our deposit when we move.  Let's hope they don't notice.  :)

Here is another example of the messes Kallen has been making lately.  I should have known the little guy was up to something when I couldn't hear him for a few minutes.  That always means he's up to something he shouldn't be. 

At least all that toilet paper didn't go to waste.  We've all had colds for a few weeks now, so Kallen decided to use the extra toilet paper to blow his nose. Silly squirt.