10 months old

I was a bit of a slacker getting Kai to his 9 month pediatrician checkup. He didn't actually make it until he was almost 10 months. The only shot he had to get this time was the flu shot. He weighed almost 18 lbs and was 28 inches long. He has been my smallest baby so far. He is in the 10th percentile for weight and 20th percentile for height. He is very vocal and is making sounds that sometimes sound like words. His hair is growing like crazy and it's almost time for his first haircut. He is such a good little sleeper! Still sleeping 12 hours a night and taking 2 naps during the day. That makes me a very happy and rested momma! =)

Kai is crawling all over the place. He stands on his own but has not taken any steps yet. He still is such a calm, happy, very chill baby. Poor little guy has the swine flu right now. Yuck! =( We have all been sick for the past week and a half. He is the last one in our family to get it. So he is not his happy old self right now.


Here he is showing off his new standing skills!
Bath time is Kai's favorite part of the day. Such a little FISH!Kai has really been starting to play and interact so much with Noah and Eli. It's been so cute watching him try and keep up with those two crazy boys.Kai puts up with a lot from his brothers. So we were playing with our Halloween face paints and Eli painted his own face and then insisted on painting Kai's face. Kai sat there very patiently while Eli used Kai's face as his canvas.(remember this is my child who colors on everything!)
I can't believe this little guy is almost 1! We all love you so much Kai =)

Happy Halloween!

Yay Visitors!

Last week we had my grandparents and aunt Diane flew all the way to Ohio to visit us. I am so happy they came. We never have any visitors come out to see us! We had a nice relaxing time with them.

While my grandparents were here Chance and Jessica came down from Toleda for a few days. And they introduced us to the newest member of their family. This cute little lab puppy they named Pablo. They made up this hillarious song that chance sang while Jessica walked in hold Pablo like on the Lion king. It was So funny!

We went to Devine Farms while everyone was here. This is the fun pumpkin place we go to every year.

There was a pretty competitive monolopy game that went on for about 3 hours. Grandma and jessica ended up calling a tie between them.While we played monolopy my mom made some delicious homemade doughnuts..yummy!
Thanks for coming to visit guys!

Soccer season comes to an end.

The kids had their last soccer game a week ago. It was such a fun summer of playing soccer most saturday mornings.
On the last day of soccer we did an afternoon game and then had pizza and handed out trophies. The boys felt pretty special =)
Kristi was so funny and made all the boys come up and shake her hand when she handed them their trophies. Thanks so much Kristi for organizing this, it was so fun! I hope you guys don't move so we can do it again next summer!!
Here is pictures from the last soccer game..We had my parents, my sister mollie, My brother chance and sister in-law jessica all come to watch the boys.
Speaking of Chance and Jessica, they just moved to Toledo Ohio which is only about 2 1/2 hours north of here. Chance just got a job as a news anchor/reporter at the television station there. So they just moved here from Utah and we are so stoked they are so close!! So if anyone goes up north to toledo make sure you check out chance on the 6:00 news =)


I caught a picture of Noah scoring a goal!
Sometimes it turned into more of tackle football than soccer =)
The proud parents


Bye Bye soccer for now!

Preschool

Preschool has started once again. This year Eli gets to go also! They are both in the same preschool at my friends house, which is the same preschool Noah did last year. Raquel runs a little preschool out of her basement. She is so great and Noah and Eli just love her and love going to preschool. Noah misses the deadline by a few months to start kindergarten, which I was bummed about because I feel like he is so ready to start going to school more. Raquel's preschool is 2 mornings a week, so 2 mornings a week me and Kai get the morning all to ourselves!

I have another friend kristen who lives not far from us and she and I were talking one day and I had mentioned how much Noah loved preschool and I wish he was old enough to go to kindergarten so he could be at school more. Well Kristen has a 4 year old daughter that she was going to do her own little preschool with 2 mornings a week and she invited Noah and another little girl to join them. So Noah now gets to do 2 different preschools and he gets to go 4 days a week, which he loves! I have some great friends here, Thank you so much to Raquel and Kristen for stimulating my children's brains! =)
Yes, I am that nerdy that I dressed them all alike on their first day of preschool. =)
Aren't they some handsome little boys I have!!

Miss Raquel and her preschool kids on their first day of school
Here is Miss Kristen, Noah, Willow, and Hannah

playing catch up!!

My excuses for being a blogging slacker.
*We have a had a few CRAZY BUSY months!!

*sick kids and a not sleeping, teething baby =(

*I have had a broken laptop that has been a joke to try and fix .It keeps breaking, getting fixed and then breaking again, and as of yesterdayit is working FOR NOW! So now maybe i can upload some pictures now and catch up on all the things i want to blog about. As long as my computer stays healthy, I can play catch up.

Happy Birthday Eli!!

I am a little late posting this ,but better late than never. =)
My little boy Eli turned 3 on July 20th! It is so hard to believe that he is already 3!

We had a birthday party planned at our house and an unfortunate series of events at my house (one including half of my deck collapsing) lead us to change plans last minute and have the party at the tuttle pool that we always go to. Usually you have to give a 3 day notice to the pool for a party, but since my sister mollie is a lifeguard there they let us do the party with less than 24 hour notice. Thanks mollie for pulling some strings for us!
It was a lot of fun and we had a great turn out! We had a Curious George themed party with pizza, cupcakes, a pinata and of course pool fun! We did it around dinner time so a lot of the dad's were able to come and hang out at the pool and have pizza and cupcakes with us. It was a family fun night celebrating my big boy's 3rd birthday! =)

After the party we came home and the boys played with Eli's new presents .His favorite gift was his new spider man man bike from his grandma & grandpa walser. (my parents)

No more tricycle for this big boy!

Thanks everyone that came, we had so much fun!!

Eli's Stats:

Weight: 36 lbs.

Height: 37 inches...just over 3 ft. tall

He is a pretty good eater, not to picky. Some of his favorites are strawberries, rice, anything chicken and Nato which is this Japanese sticky bean type food. He seriously would eat Nato for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He recently had Sushi at Kentas parents house and he loved that to! I guess has some Japanese genes is him or something =)

He is very much into trains and cars still. He loves playing super hero's and flying off the furniture. He is so funny and is always copying his big brother and has to do anything he is doing or says anything he says. I guess you could say he is Noah's little shadow. Noah and him play really well together. They are definitely best friends. The two of them can also fight a lot but it is always over the same toy or something like that.

Eli is such a good big brother to Kai also. Eli is always the first person up in the morning and as soon as he hears Kai wake up he goes and crawls in his crib with him and plays with him for a while. He always calls Kai "baby Kai" not just Kai but "baby Kai". It's pretty cute.=)

Eli is the comedian of the family. He is always doing something that makes us laugh and smile, or else he is doing something that makes us so angry such as coloring on walls or doors (yes, he still does that! GRRRRRRR!!!!!)

Eli gets to start preschool in a few weeks now that he is 3. I have Noah and him in the same preschool class and they are both so excited!

Happy birthday Eli, we love you so much and we cant wait to see how you grow over this next year and hopefully STOP coloring on everything! =)