Nerf Wars

We've been having fun and having battle with our nerf guns lately. So we've had to spend some time practicing out skills. Gotta get the reflexes in tip top shape for our wars with friends. Never give up!

Clearly we are pretty intense. So you better watch your backs. We take no prisoners.

We've upgraded from milk

I finally got Parker started on "big boy" food:) I seem to be doing things so much slower with him that I did with the other two. Part of it is laziness, but really, I just want this handsome little man to freeze. So. Stinking. Cute. And lovable. I don't want him to change, or grow up, or talk back. Ever. Oh well, wishful thinking. And I'm sure I would eventually tire of 330 am feedings and changing his diaper. But for now, I'm perfectly content and don't want this to change.

Moving on....the nuts and bolts of the post. I started Parker on baby food (a couple of weeks ago...baby steps, I'm getting caught up!) He's had cereal and oatmeal and loves them both, but he's never had anything that doesn't taste like cardboard:) We started with peas. Mostly because it's probably the most disgusting of all the options (in my opinion). He didn't love them, but he didn't really hate them either. Since then, he's also had green beans and squash. He seems to really like those......so peas are really the only dislike so far. Again, can't really blame him here, but that's why I started there. It only gets better. So, to the pictures.....

Warning: there are probably far more pictures than are necessary for a baby food post. But I can't help it. He is so darn cute. I can't take enough pictures. And those blue eyes....don't even get me started on those eyes. I love them. Besides, I don't think any of the grandparents are complaining (at least I know my mom isn't:))

Hello sunshine

We have been blessed with a mild winter so far this year. It has been amazing! Good for the soul:) Lots of chances to get outside and enjoy the fresh air. That's one thing that makes this momma happy. Since it has been so nice, we've been trying to take advantage whenever we can to get outside (i.e. when daddy's home because Parker doesn't sit up on his own yet and it's hard for mommy to corral the other two when I have to hold on to him!). This means park days! Love that we've been able to go to the park in January and February. The kids love it too:)

Hair cut

Hello all! Did you miss me?? It's only been a month since I did my last blog post:) Oh well, that's life I guess. Just lots of stuff going on.....

Anyways, I will do a bit of catching up (mostly because I have some cute pictures of our kiddos). So this happened way back in January. Little miss got her first hair cut. I've been putting off cutting her hair because I want it to grow longer. But, it was time. My fabulous friend, and hair dresser, Sage, said that her hair would thicken up and even out a bit if we finally gave it a trim. Yes please! So hair cut it was. We were over at Sage's house one day for a play date (gotta love multi-tasking:)) and she did a little trim job on Kamdyn.

Kamdyn wasn't real sure what in the world we were doing to her, and I had to give her some fruit snacks to keep her happy during the cut. This girl loves her food:)

And that's that. I must say, I feel like her hair has come a long way since that cut:) It's all mostly one length (which is always a bonus) and it's getting a little bit thicker. So cute. It's getting longer now too. I always have to pull it out of her face. Pretty fun. It's making me brush up on my "hair styling" skills. Thank goodness for pintrest! And that I have some time to work on it as I go!

She's fierce

Let me start this post off by saying this wasn't originally my idea. But it was an awesome idea. I saw it on facebook, so I just used it:)

I surprised Brian with a nerf gun one weekend. He's always wanting to get one, but I usually just say no, there are far better things we could use our money on. But about a month ago, I saw this picture on facebook. It was a picture of a note a nerf gun from a wife. Genius. I knew I had to do this for B. He would be in heaven. So, he went to the Y one Saturday, and I got everything all ready. When he walked into the house, he saw a note on the floor with a nerf gun.

It said:

Welcome home babe.

3 things:

1: our bedroom and the bathrooms are off limits

2: This is all the extra ammo you get

3: Learn fast, you are under attack as of right now!

I was waiting around the corner to get him when he walked in. He walked in, but he hadn't picked up the gun! I shot him anyways:) He asked where his gun was......I informed him that it was sitting right next to the note.......so funny....we have so many toys laying all over the place, he didn't even notice it was a nerf gun. He just thought it was another toy in the kitchen. So he found it and we started a war.

It didn't last as long as I would have liked it to. It was a ton of fun, but Parker was ticked and screaming and Kamdyn wasn't much of a fan of mommy and daddy shooting each other with foam darts. Plus, it was kind of hard to avoid hitting the cute kids running around trying to see what we were doing. But it was awesome regardless. It wasn't the last fight, and and I know there are many more in our future:)

Anyways,

The title of this post is clearly about Kamdyn. So now I will get to the point of it. I just had to throw in a little backgroud there:) The next morning we were playing around with the guns and we enlisted the help of the kids. So Eli started shooting daddy, and Kamdyn started shooting me. She soon learned to love those little nerf guns. And got really good at loading them too. She was cracking us up though, because even after we were done, she just wanted to run through the house. She kept pretending to shoot them (even though they are too hard to work them by themselves). Pretty funny to see that little pint size pixie running at you with a nerf gun.

Look out world, she's fierce. And not afraid to use this gun.
Better watch your backs when you come over for a visit:)

PS. We don't teach our kids that it's okay to shoot people or point guns at them. But a little nerf gun action is hard to resist!

What your toilet paper says about you

Do you know what your toilet paper says about you?? Several weeks ago, I saw this picture on facebook. It's hilarious. You should check it out and see if it's accurate:)For the record, we have our toilet paper over the top (the first picture).

BUT......

this is what our toilet paper looks like a lot of the time.....
So what's that say about us???

You have a toddler in the house who seems to find the hilarity (that you just can't ever seem to find!!!) of pulling as much toilet paper off the roll as humanly possible before you are caught.

So annoying.....this ticks mommy off. But apparently the wrath of mommy doesn't really matter much (or maybe my wrath just isn't scary enough) because this still happens weekly in our house.

What 3 year old, train loving kid wouldn't love this!?!

Our kids are seriously spoiled. But, I'm so thankful that they have all their grandparents here to spoil and love on them. And they are grandparents, it's what they are for, spoiling:) Besides that, everyone deserves to be spoiled a bit sometime. This time it was Eli. His papa had asked us if he could build a train track to go along the top of Eli's ceiling. He knows (and shares, and quite possibly feeds) Eli's love for trains. Brian said it was up to me, I said sure, why not. So Mark got to work. And man did he do awesome! Pretty sure this ended up being much more elaborate than he intended:), but it is amazing. If I loved trains, it would probably be like Heaven on earth for me, especially if I was three. He told Eli about it a couple of months ago, and since then Eli has been asking about the train papa was going to build him to go on his ceiling. Well, Mark finished it up right before his and Mary's annual vacation and they put it about 2 weeks ago. Not even kidding. Coolest. Thing. Ever. Eli thinks so too:) He gets to push the big red button and his train runs along his track up by his ceiling. Mommy and daddy also have a "parental control" button in the back unfinished room so we can turn it off so he's not running his train whenever he feels like it. Definitely a good idea (however as I right this, I am remembering I forgot to "charge" his train when I put him in there for naps.....I take it as a good sign I haven't heard it yet:)) Anyways, the pictures won't even do this train track justice, but at least you will get the idea. Thanks Mark for making Eli's month (quite possibly his year:))!!