Our Weekend!

What a big weekend for the Big Guy! Friday was a gorgeous day and we took Kayden to the park. Daddy got off early, and Mommy was home getting ready for her big dance show. Kayden went on his first swing, and we took him down the slide...not overly impressed w/ the slides at this park, we'll try more later! Friday he stayed up until 9:30 watching Eric try and get a gate on our stairs. We are still in the process, its an extra wide area and the trim on the wall is throwing everything off, so we still can't put Kayden down or he'll scoot away!

Friday night he also slept STRAIT THROUGH THE NIGHT! Now he's done this a couple times, but its been here or there the past week or two. But the craziest part about it, we had the biggest, loudest thunderstorms we've had in a long, long time. They woke Eric and I up a couple times. But lil' man slept until just about 8:00!

Saturday was my Spring Dance Show - I am done w/ dance for the year. We have a couple misc. performances in May, but I am OH so thankful to be done. I'll miss the girls, and seeing my assistants so much during the week, but it will be so nice to be home w/ Eric and K every night!! The show went so great, the girls looked so cute, and I even got flowers & a thank you card, and lots of hugs, so that makes it all worth it! I had lots of people helping - so if any of them are reading the blog - THANK YOU! I really appreciate everyone who helped out!

Then Saturday after my dance show we hung out at G-ma & G-pa Loftus' with the fam. Kayden loved watching and playing w/ his little girl cousins. Sam & Charlie love playing w/ him and he could watch them for hours, he even danced w/ Sam! Kristie & Brandon were home, so Kayden got to show off all the new stuff he does! And then Sam was at the top of the stairs and Eric and K were downstairs, he wanted to check Sam out, but she kept leaving. Aunt Kristie then sat at the top of the stairs, and with Dad standing watch inches behind him our little dare devil crawled up an entire flight of stairs.
Hi...did we hit toddler-hood and no one told me!?!?!?!?

Kayden apparently also tried M&M's sometime recently...Eric keeps telling him "its a secret, don't tell Mom." But he likes them, thanks Eric!!
And then today I made him an actual plate of food, and he ate it all like a big boy!! Grilled Cheese sandwich, grapes, puffs, Cheerios, and we washed it down with some Strawberry Apple Banana fruit & a shot of Gerber Yogurt Juice! Oh to be a growing boy!

And if I can just blog on a tangent here! So Kayden "gets" into his food. So I figured I'd buy a divided bowl w/ a suction cup on the bottom, that way I don't have food from one end of my kitchen to the other. So I make his cute little lunch today, and suction cup the cute little brand new plate to the high chair, and the damn thing doesn't suction!!! Kayden would lift up the corner, and then laugh at the disgust in my face. So my grilled cheese was eaten cold, as I was holding down lil' man's plate. Thanks Babies R Us for this awesome, non-working, SUCKtion bowl. I am done ranting now, thank you!

We'll post pics from the weekend soon!

Here Comes Trouble...Someone's Walking!

Guess who decided he was a big shot yesterday?? Mr. Kayden....I had him playing with one of his toys, this thing that he walks behind. He decided that he could walk! All by himself! I was so proud of him, but now I am panicked that my baby isn't a baby anymore! I managed to get a video on the camera, I'll put that on here later. I got one on the phone - but NO idea how to do that! Then last night I stood behind him and he pushed it all the way from the window to the couch! My mom and Aunt Coralie were standing behind the couch and watched it all. So proud of my little man! Here is a video...and no I am not helping him, just making sure he didn't get any more stitches on his "lil" head. :)

Connor & Kayden...Jumping Machines

Here is a video of Connor and Kayden jumping like crazy fools, listen to Connor yell... "Go Big Kayden...Go Big Kayden..." It's hilarious, PS - Connor got tired and stopped before "Big Kayden."

Dance!

My dancers competed this past weekend in the Rochester United We Dance Competition. The Middle Kix took home another 2nd place, out of 6 teams. The Mini Kix took home 4th place, out of 7 very good teams! Way to go girls!

Here's Kayden and his best buddy, Brekken, going to be causing some trouble at my dance shows for the next 10 years!!

And here is a video Eric took of them announcing our 2nd place award...he stopped it when I dropped the award...mid-air, LOL - watch the dancer's face who caught it, and mine. It was priceless. Leave it to me!

Dance! - Shane Sparks

My love #3 love behind my boys and my family.


I know - we are a cute couple! ;) lol

The butt shot, the face shot they got of me dancing was HORRIBLE. You know its bad if I put this on here, lol

This is my last week of dance for the year, and last weekend we had another huge competition and then a Shane Sparks event. For those who are like "who the heck is Shane Sparks" - here is a bio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Sparks

He came to Rochester and put on a Master Class. Myself and a couple of dancers attended. The dancers were nice enough to make me dance, and subsequently make a fool of myself, oh well - all in good fun. Here are some pictures from the event. He even pulled one of younger dancers on stage b/c she was doing such a good job!

Happy Easter!

Here are a couple pictures from Easter! When you look at picture attempts of the 3 of them...just start singing circus music to yourself. That's what we hear everytime we have them all together and are trying to get a picture, or just go out in public! lol

Hope everyone had a happy Easter!


Connor and Kayden all dressed up for Easter!


The boys loved the singing and dancing bunny!


We found one!

Connor and Eric hunting for eggs

Easter egg hunt!

Look...my first egg!

Easter egg hunt!

Kayden as the Easter bunny!

Someone didn't like the ears I put on him!

We brought our Easter basket from our house too!

The Easter bunny left K-man an awesome basket at G-ma & G-pa Lind's!

G-ma & G-pa Lind w/ the kiddos

Right before madness happened....lol

The 3 stooges

Family picture

New Blog Stuff

So I am pretty proud of myself...I think I figured out the blog...give me your opinions. Do you like the layout / background?? I just kind of threw some stuff together, hope it looks okay.

Justin, I hope you are proud of me. PS - if I need to change it again, I'll probably have to call you! :)

9 Months Old!

Hard to believe our little K-man is 9 months old already. He's changed so much and keeps us entertained on a daily basis. We are pretty excited for Spring to come so we can actually be outside and play and go for walks.

Here are some recent pics and a few of his stats. His doctor absolutely loves him, he always flirts with her and she said he's a perfect baby, everything looks good. I told her she is more then welcome to stop by our house at some of his 4am wake up calls.

Stats from his 9 month check up...and the best part...NO shots!

21 pounds (68th%)

28 inches long (49th%)

48 cm head circumference...yep - full of brains, 98th% :) lol

Kayden can now. . . . .

~do the Army "stay low" crawl, he can also actually crawl when he feels like it

~wave bye-bye (thanks to the creepy Easter bunny teaching him)

~go from laying down to sitting up...workin' his abs!

~pulls himself up on everything, and then balances on one hand to try and be tricky!

~goes from sitting on the floor to pushing his butt strait up in the air (this one cracks me up)
~follows us wherever we go...see, told you we didn't need a puppy

~cruises on his 4 wheeler until we get tired of pushing him

~can jump so hard in his jumper it sounds like the floor is caving in

~eat regular food...we're starting slow, crackers, Cheerios, yogurt, jello, pudding, real veggies, etc.

~says dadada

~has 2 bottom teeth, and 2 top teeth on their way

~has had 2 ear infections, 1 viral sore throat, and about 45 different strains of a cold with a runny nose (he lovingly has shared all 45 strains with his mommy)

Somebunny has a new best friend! He didn't want to leave...he kept petting him and pulling on his ears, and then he waved bye bye to him about 20 times. We've been trying it with him for weeks and all he needed was to have the Easter Bunny wave at him!

G-ma & G-pa Loftus bought Daddy this bag of 100 balls for Kayden . We got them out and Eric pulled everyone out and tossed at K. He was kind of like...hmm....whatever. But then he did have some fun with them. We are going to get one of those cheap plastic pools and put them in for him to chuck around.

Mr. Tough Guy decided that he was strong enough to pull down his play mat on himself, as well as his basketball hoop. Then he just laughed at me and laid there and played with it all on top of him!

Nice butt - here's a shot of a 'real' crawl!

Yeah! Spring...time for our 1st walk with Mommy! K-man and Daddy have been on a couple walks!

A Day in the Life of No Nappin' K-Man

Morning Mommy! We don't need to take a nap today...

...I said...I am not taking a nap today...

unless I happen to fall asleep in my jumper, but if you try and move me...

I will not sleep...

instead I will talk to myself, turn my music on, crawl around my crib, and lastly try to tear it apart.

BECAUSE...I told you, I didn't need a nap today!

XOXOXOX ~ Love, Kayden

April Fool You!

Conveniently enough on April Fool's, our little man woke up w/ a sweet hair do. You can kinda tell in this first picture, but his hair is light - but it was a pretty big rooster tail!




Come on Mom....hurry up already!


Trying actual green beans!!

Yummy...someone loves crackers!

Just cruisin' on my wheeler (video will be on soon)

Cuddle time w/ Mommy

All ready for bed!