Sunday Funday... Wellllll

I got the boys up for church this morning and we headed out the door. We looked so cute that I had to snap a quick picture. We then headed to @cademy to get Bill some shoes (from the boys) for his birthday. We then looked at guns and ended up buying our first .22 ever. We are going to give it to the boys since we are working on my mom's land so that we can go down there to shoot and play. Just kind of a get-a-way for our family. Anyway. I am so nervous around guns but I like this one and I think the boys are really going to like going down to the land. We then headed to lunch with mom and dad. I stopped on the way home at Carters for a quick exchange and then we headed home. Bill started on the outside and I started on the inside. WOW!! The house and yard looks great. We are all ready for the big bday party. I almost thought the party was today since the place is looking so good. Now we just have to maintain until Saturday. I also was able to go for another walk/run down at the park. Two days in a row and I am feeling so good.

Going to be a short week..... Getting ready for Bill's birthday and then Vegas!!

Saturday Night Bonfire

Saturday night I set out on a little walk/run down at our neighborhood park. I walked down to the park and then when I got there I walked one minute and ran one minute until I got to 30 minutes and then I walked back. It felt really good. I just feel like my tummy is getting a little flabby since I stopped breast feeding. I am not the best eater so I have no choice but to exercise. But tonight it felt great. No pain in my body.

When I got home, this is what I found on my back porch. My honey had started a little fire and he and KK were hanging out. Super Cute!!

Me and my boy!!

He didn't last very long because he was ready for bed. I went and put him in bed and Bill and I sat and drank a beer and hung out. It was kind of nice to relax. We got a little cold out there. We are such wimps. Now we are inside looking for something on TV. Lately we have been unable to find anything good.

7 Months Old

Another month gone by.... I swear I think time is flying these days. I really liked all of the changes. Kiernan sits and plays by himself for long stretches. He is sitting up very well. He no longer will sit in the bouncer while I shower. He turns over and tries to crawl out the back. He likes squash, green beans and sweet potatoes. Not so much on carrots and peas. He likes bananas, pears, apples, peaches and prunes. He also loves cereal.

He has two bottom teeth and has the top left tooth with the right one peaking through. KK seems to be getting less fussy. He lights up when I come to get him for daycare. He loves to watch the dogs turn circles around him and he loves his brothers. His personality is showing and is recognizing different items. He is reaching for his bottle. He goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:00, sleeps til 5:00am (when I give him 6oz) and then continues to sleep til around 7:00am. He soaks his bed every morning when I got to get him. Guess his bladder is big!!

He got to share his 7 month birthday with one of his favorite cousins, Rocco!! Rocco was performing so well for the cameras while KK was over the photo shoot.

Happy 3rd birthday Roc and Happy 7 months to KK!!

Nurse's Elbow

Google it! I did. Yesterday I got the dreaded phone call that would make any parent's heart stop. Kiernan daycare calls and says that Kiernan's right arm is not responding and he cries if you try to move it. WHAT!!!???!!! My whole body went numb. I felt heat just release throughout my body. Never really felt anything like it before. I was about 5 minutes away and I think I made it there in 2.5 minutes. I walked in and he didn't respond to me like normal. He just seemed a little blah. I sat him on the floor and did my own mommy testing and sure enough his right arm would respond. I took his shirt off and he really cried when I got his arm out. No bruising and it really didn't look different from his left arm except that is was just sort of hanging there. I immediately called the doctor and I asked the guy about KK's arm and if I should bring him there or take him to the ER. His response was I can't help you I can only schedule you an appointment. UGH!!! Man buddy you got your job down. I was so annoyed. He scheduled me in at 4:00.... it was only 1:00pm. So I explained that let's put him down for a nap and then I will get him and take him in. Well as I was explaining this the guy calls back and somehow found me an appointment RIGHT NOW. Well thank you sir.

So I loaded him up and set out to the doctors. It took what I felt was an eternity but finally they called me back. We got his weight and headed to a room. We sat there forever. As we were sitting there KK started to use his right hand a little to reach for things. Finally the doctor came in and she checked his arm. She pressed around and sure enough when she hit his elbow he screamed. She said yep Nurse's Elbow. What is that? She said all four of my kids had it. What? I have never heard of this. She said his radius had come out of place. Basically it's like your shoulder popping out of socket. She asked if she could try to put it back in place and I said yeah please help me. She pressed on his arm and kind of turn it like you would raise your hand and POP right back in place. Immediately he reached with the hand. AMAZING. No pain!! She said he wouldn't even be sore. She told me one of her kids has it happen a lot and it is a pain. Another one of her kids it happened once and never again. That is what I am hoping for.

Isn't God crazy... out of all of the doctors that day I got her. A mom whose all four kids have had this happen to them. I am so thankful. He slept for an hour after we left and I drove around to make sure he got a good nap in. I haven't seen any changes in him since. He is all back to normal.

Loving this Stage

First of all, it was my wonderful niece, Jillian's, birthday on Friday so I spoiled her and took her to Chucky Cheeeese on Saturday and then the kids all wanted to spend the night. I had a horrible stomach bug but I couldn't break the little 5 year olds heart. So I let them tear the house apart. (this is super hard for me because I am crazy OCD with the home) But here they are with all their blankets watching a little VeggieTales. All went well and Ash even took all 5 kids (minus Roy) to church on Sunday morning so I could recover from my sickness. What a Saint!! I had to show a few pictures of my little man playing with Gavin. I swear I can already see a special little bond forming between the two. Kiernan is always looking for him and Gavin is always asking where he is and when can we pick him up from his school.

Gavin found some fun glasses and began playing with KK. He was cracking up laughing.

He finally sat still enough and Gavin was able to get him to model the glasses.

Kiernan is at a great stage for me right now. He is able to sit up and I have made a little area for him with all of his toys and he plays and plays. He picks up toys and inspects them, puts them in his mouth and then sets them back down and moves on to the next toy.

Look at that tooth!!

Melts My Heart

Gavin has been into paper and markers lately. He asks for BLANK white paper from my desk. He has since found these glitter markers Bill brought. (GRRR!!!) But when he comes screaming in the room to show me his finish products and hands me his masterpieces, I can't help but have a huge smile on my face. He is such a love bug. He had shifted and was calling me Summer quite often but now he has switched back to mom. When he is being silly he calls me M-O-M and spells it out since he is learning how to spell and read. So I have been calling him G-A-V-I-N. He makes me laugh.

Week OFF from Work!!!!!

Bill and I have never been able to take a Monday thru Friday work break. Leaving the company alone for a full week is just tough and creates more headaches than the time off is worth. But this winter Bill and I thought the company could manage and we had good people in place that could keep things going. We gave the guys off on Monday and then met with them Tuesday morning to go over the week's plan and then we started our vacation. The boys got there at noon and we celebrated Christmas. The next day we headed off to Dallas to visit everyone favorite: Uncle John. This house and this uncle is any little boy's dream. They have everything "boy" you can think of. They live on a lake, they shoot guns, they have a pool table, a wii, a toy drawer, big dogs, a farm and a boat. The only thing is they don't do babies. :) But they love us so much that KK get included. I just have to keep him from crying. The pressure was on. Here is the one and only time Uncle John held KK the entire week. Bill grabbed the camera to make sure we remembered it. He even got the screaming monkey and played and entertained Kiernan.

On Wednesday we were invited to Bill's cousin Kim's house. They had their whole family there and we had such a wonderful time. They had great food. They were so nice and included the boys in their gift exchange. Jimmy was playing around with the wrapping paper.

They have four girls between the two of them and they were so nice. Roy and Gavin played games with them.

Here the boys are checking out their loot.

Kathy, Bill's other cousin, got in a little KK time. She passed him off just in time for him to spit up on Daddy. She must have known. Good thing because I would have felt bad.

Here I am hanging out with my boy.

On Friday, Uncle John took me and the boys to the FARM!! The trip was a little long but once we got there it was all worth it. I took the boys on a nature hike and we found coyote tracks. The boys were curious and having a blast until we can upon some random bones and then they got scared and were ready to head back. They stayed right by my side. I was thinking come on kiddos if something comes to get us you really think that I could protect us. Glad they are so trusting to me.

Roy and I spent most of the day we the 22 in our hand. We started out a little rusty but then we started hitting all of our targets. Roy shot at least 150 bullets.

Here we are checking out our hits. We found some bottles to shatter and some metal to hit. Roy set up his coke cup that was half full too. When he hit it the coke sprayed everywhere. It was so fun!!

I must say I am a pretty good shot. Bill was calling me Annie Oakley. I really enjoyed shooting this gun. It was very light weight, has a scope on it, no kick at all and the shot is not loud at all.

The neighbor came by and asked if we wanted to go and feed his cows. The boys loved that and even walked out to take a picture with them.

We finally got KK down for a nap and laid him in the truck with the windows down. Uncle John pulled out the Judge and when we all least expected it, Fired it!! It felt like the shot heard round the world. My ears were ringing and I think I even felt the ground shake. I decided to shoot it and then Bill shot it. I didn't like that one as much. It scared me but a neat gun. It shoots a shot gun shell and spray tons of tiny little bullets.

This is where I found Gavin most of the day. He loves to fish. Uncle John gave him his own fishing pole that is just his size and he knows how to operate.

KK even got in on the action.

He even caught his first fish. I absolutely love this picture.

How many guys does it take to fix the fishing pole?

Five buddies hangin' out doing boy stuff. They are still talking about this day almost a week later.

Day After... Our REAL Christmas!

The boys got to the house a little before noon time. We waited for Ashley and the kids to get there and then the mayhem began. Grammie and Poppy spoil the kids. They got them so much fun stuff. Roy liked his drawing pad for cars. He got an Xbox 36@ Kinect. That thing is so cool. It is an actual camera and puts you on the screen.

Daddy got a dog tag-cross necklace from the boys and a new watch.

This picture makes me so happy. Do you think Gavin liked this skateboard?

Gavin loves playing outside. He also got a new big boy bike.

One of my favorite things to do for Ashley's kids is get them their own personal stool. I think Hadleigh is impressed with it.

I finally made all the boys gather around the tree after all the presents were open to catch a quick 2011 Christmas family picture.

We had a great time and it seemed this year the boys really liked their gifts. That always makes me happy since I brainstorm all year for the perfect gifts! :) Success....

Christmas Day

We did not have the kiddos on Christmas Day this year so we got up super early and went to Ashley's to watch the kids open all their loot. KK got his first gift. It was a dino popper. He loves it. He will sit and watch it forever. He can't exactly grab the balls yet but he will get there. Ashley made us French toast and hot chocolate. DELICIOUS!! Then we headed over to Mom and dad's to eat and visit with the family. I grabbed a quick shot of our little family's first Christmas.

We set Kiernan and Hadleigh down to play together. Can you tell they are getting some teeth? Looks like their gums have got them in chew mode.

All was going well until Hadleigh decided to start beating on the top of KK's head. Guess she thought it was a drum since he doesn't have any hair. Kiernan became agitated very quickly and we had to have Jillian come in and separate the two.

The best part of the afternoon was when Jillian and Rocco began to perform. They danced around and sang songs together. Both of them were not being shy at all and singing at the top of their lungs. They had the whole family rolling in laughter.

GG came down and is looking and doing great since her surgery.

Mom was Santa and delivered all the goodies.

Finally when we got home we went next door to visit. We had more turkey and I ate four tamales. They were amazing. Rosa loves to mess with Kiernan but KK always seems to cry with her. She gets her feelings hurt but always comes back for more. She absolutely loves him.

But his favorite is Mr Jesse. He will spend hours in his arms. He laughs and plays. Usually he falls asleep in his arms and I leave and go do some chores around the house and he brings him over once he is awake. This is one of my favorite pictures of the two of them.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas. I will post pictures of the day after when we got the boys and the presents really started to pour in!