Kayden's 3rd Birthday!

Hard to believe our Big Man just turned 3 on the 10th!  We had two birthday parties for him, and here are some pictures.  Enjoy, and happy birthday k-man, we love you!!

 Birthday Party #1 w/ our family!!  Toy Story!!  Hannah even said "Buzz and Woody!"

 Blowing out his 3 candles!!

 Silly frosting boy!

 Sprinkler after the cupcakes, Hannah is not a fan, but she did better when Cousin Connor was holding her!

 Opening cards and presents, I think this was the one from Coralie and Dayton where he said "A MILLION DOLLARS!"  It was priceless, I got it on video, but will have to try and shorten it to get it on here!

 Mackenzie, Kayden, and Claire!

 Daddy's Girl!!  :)

 Birthday Party #2, Lightning and Mater!!  A few of Kayden's little friends came over for a pool party!  I had to leave for an emergency - but thank you to our friends for snapping these great pictures for me!!

 Blowing out his Lightning Candle, "another birthday for me? I like it!"  :) lol

 Just swinging!  Rick pushing Kayden and his girlfriend Mazzy!  :)

 POOL TIME!!  Mazzy, Kayden, and Paxson enjoying the refreshing water!

 Handsome Birthday Boy!

 Tearing into some more presents!  (look at Hannah's "humidty" curls, she sitting next to K.)

 Look at this!!

 Kayden and Mazz checking out the cards, I think this is his singing "Move It Move It" card, he loves it!

 Birthday morning, "A CINNAMON ROLL FOR ME???"

 Mommy and her birthday boy on his birthday!

 Big Boy Birthday = Big Boy Underwear!

 K and Hannah on his 2nd birthday and K and Hannah on his 3rd birthday!  What a difference a year makes

 Waking up on his 1st Birthday, w/ Waddles

Waking up on his 2nd Birthday w/ Nuk

Waking up on his 3rd Birthday!

The ABC's...by Kayden

Kayden is getting really good at his ABC's, he requested we record him last night on our way home! Here it is! (on cell phone video, hence the not so great quality!)

Checking In w/ Check Ups!

I'm trying to catch up on the blog! We did have both kids' check ups, so here are their new stats and their new pictures. We sure have the two cutest kids, EVER! :) hehe Hey it's our blog, I can write that! :)


Hannah Christene - 15 months old
Weight - 24 lbs 8 oz - 74th percentile
Height - 31 inches - 72nd percentile
Head Circumference - 48.2 cm - 96th percentile
(both of them, have never NOT been in the 90th percentile for their head size, lol!)
Hannah also had hear 6 week ENT post op appointment for surgery last week. She did fantastic, ears look great and she passed her hearing test this time! No ear infections since surgery, knock on wood...but that is a Hannah record! :)


attempting to get pictures of the two of them together, this is the outcome! lol

Kayden is actually starting to cry in this picture and Hannah is mid scream...couldn't tell could you! Ah the magic of pictures when they have their mouth's open, hehe

Kayden Anthony - 3 years old

Weight - 35 1/2 lbs - 84th percentile

Height - (they screwed that up and had his feet apart, so we'll have to measure him on our own)

Head Circumference - they don't measure after you turn 3!)
But he did have a vision and hearing test, and an abilities test and is at a 5 year old level for almost all of it. They were so surprised that he did so well for the hearing and vision, b/c they said "no 3 year olds usually sit still enough to finish it." Kayden did - so we were sure proud of him!

First Night of Swimming Lessons

Last night the kids BOTH started swimming lessons, we're going to have to get a better system down before tomorrow, b/c there was a certain little boy who did NOT want to get out and let his sister have her lessons. Since it was cold, I wussed out and made Eric take on the pool. Kayden's lesson was first and Hannah's was second. They both did really good, and Hannah was actually a fan of the water! They have it twice a week for 3 more weeks, I'm hoping for some SUN and HEAT for our next lesson! Here are some pictures!

look at what this cheeseball did w/ her swim bottom!! she is CRAZY!

just a SMIDGE excited to go to the pool for the first time this year!

K (in the middle of the picture, in the blue swim shirt) with Daddy

Hannah's turn in the water!! it was her first time in the pool!

Mommy - look at me!!!

Happy Monday!

Yesterday we took the kids to Lark Toys in Wabasha. They LOVED it!! www.larktoys.com Of course, anytime you take children to a toy store its inevitable that they are going to throw a fit and not want to leave. Luckily - we could easily distract them w/ "the next room!" After that we stopped in Wabasha and snapped some pics and let K walk around and check out the water! Here are some pictures.


Two cutest kiddos we've ever seen!


SOOOO CUTE!

The Carousal - all hand made - awesome! Kayden of course had to ride the DEER!

(another Kayden quote when we saw a plastic deer - "DEER - we should shoot him!" Gotta love our future hunter!)

Hannah kind of freaked out so I held her the rest of the time on it.

Such a model! ;)

lol - they aren't the best at posing w/ wooden signs!

Daddy and Kayden posing at the National Eagle Center

Family Picture! June 2011

The muscle pictures!

First he kisses each side

Second he does the tough guy pose

Then the super tough...."ahhhh"

Gotta love him!

A Swing Set for Kayden & Hannah!!!

We had a garage sale a few weeks ago and got rid of all of our baby stuff, the kids clothes that they have outgrown, baby toys, etc. And here is the result of all of the kids' "hard earned cash!"

I think they like it!

The best news...Mommy and Daddy put it together and didn't kill eachother, or hurt themselves! Daddy finished it w/ help from the neighbors, and we figured we put in about 7-9 hours putting it together! Here are some pictures!



two large boxes delivered by semi - and about 1000 pieces! lol
pretty sure Eric and I just stared at them for awhile before tearing into it.


just some of the pieces

step 1!

the backyard before

the work in progress

lots and lots and lots of pieces

Kayden loving the swing set!!

He's a happy happy boy!

loves the new swing, too!

big brother is super at climing the rock wall

little sister is super at keeping us on our toes!!

AFTER!

front

side

back

(and Eric's Charlie Brown tree)

Kayden Sayings

A few more Kayden sayings while I remember them! :) The kid is funny, he gets that from me! :) hehe

Last night at supper, "Mommy, sometimes I'm naughty right? But its okay, its okay Mommy." (insert his tilted head as he assures me its okay.

Whenever Hannah cries or just annoys him in general, "Hannah, you're ready for a nap. Night Night Hannah."

One day while we put him in big boy underwear in an attempt to potty train, (w/ a huge smirk) "I'm peeing in my pants Mommy!"

"Daggumit!" - Grandpa Chuck and Grandpa Loftus' famous quote they have passed down to him!

A friend of ours got pulled over - and Kayden saw it. "Look mom there's the wee-ooo-wee-ooo's (what he calls cops), and there's Stinky Nate!" (I swear K has x-ray vision, b/c I barely saw it as we drove by!)

We got the kids a swing set (a blog post to follow this afternoon) and Kayden keeps saying, "thank you for my swing set Mommy, I just love it!"

"I love you, you make me happy!" Seriously, this kid is going to make a great husband some day!

"Actually, its right there...I see my dip." My attempt to hide the chip dip from Kayden so only Eric and I could eat it. Fail.

"Mommy, are you going to work at the hoppital today, with the helitopper?"

"Mommy's truck...Daddy's truck is at work w/ lights!" whenever we say to go get in the truck, it's Mommy's...NOT Daddy's! :)

"Look at that bunny - he's saying hoppity hopp hopper!"