Monday, September 30, 2013

Most days, it's a good thing they're cute



Friday, September 27, 2013

fun at the park

I finally brought my camera to the park.  The kids were such hams.  I have wayy more pictures, but I tried to cut them down so it wouldn't be such a long post of pictures.










Thursday, September 26, 2013

Throwback Thursday


 Casen at 7 months.  I can't believe he was once this little!  It reaffirms how completely different looking he and his sister are.  And reminds me it's time to get Arya started on a sippy cup.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

I was in the kitchen cooking dinner and heard lots of giggling coming from Arya.  I didn't think much of it because she is the happiest baby on the planet.  I came in to check on things a few minutes later and find this


I took all this stuff out of her little onesie.  Casen thought he was pretty hilarious.  I never imagined at this young these two would already start in (and i have a feeling Casen will be able to talk her into just about anything.)


I'm behind in this post.  Arya started crawling about a week after she turned 7 months.  This was the very beginning of her getting the hang of it :)  Now she's cruising and wants more then anything to pull herself up to things.  She gets one leg up and the other leg she can get to her knee, so I fear it won't be long.


Thursday, September 19, 2013

Pocahontas State Park

At Caleb's new job he gets Wednesday and Thursdays off instead of the weekends.  It works out well doing things as a family not on weekends when everywhere is so busy.  We finally had a day not in the 90s so we decided to head to the state park.  We were kind of bummed when we got there because most stuff was closed for the season...not sure why the water park is closed when its still this hot out, but we still found some pretty fun stuff.

First we had a picnic






Then we went to go check out the nature center, which was closed, but we did find an amphitheater.  Apparently they do a summer concert series that we missed in July and August...it didn't look like much, but apparently Scotty McCreery, Trace Adkins, and O.A.R. were there a couple weeks ago.

Since it was completely empty and no one there, they did some exploring :)


Checking out backstage

And then Casen decided "it was getting really really hot which was making him really really thirsty."

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Not the greatest pictures, but this is Arya's newest attempt at crawling.  Putting those little knees down would be so much easier!




Wednesday, September 11, 2013

7 months

7 months....when did that happen

I shouldn't already be writing Arya's 7 month update.  She's too little for that.  She's supposed to stay my baby forever :)  I couldn't wait for Casen to get bigger and loved watching him grow, but since Arya is our last, this growing up thing is no fun...well it kind of is with all the personality that comes with it, but she can't!

At 7 months she:

- Weighs 16 lbs (20th percentile)  She looks like a little chunker so I was surprised she's so little on the charts.
- 28 inches long (95th percentile!)  How to I end up with such long babies
- Still scooting, she does want to crawl so bad, but she's not there yet.
- Saying mama
- She claps, high fives, and waves.  Her favorite is clapping though.  She is pretty proud of herself.
- She has one tooth that we see.  I'm guessing that second bottom one isn't too far behind, but who knows.
- She now loves baby food (and whatever dada gets away with giving her, especially icecream.)  She says mmm when she sees someone eating and gets upset if she doesn't get a piece of whatever it is.
- Right now she has THE cutest raspy little voice, that I kinda hope sticks.  She's had it for a couple months now so it's a possibility.
- Still in 6-9 month clothes and has moved up to size 3 diapers.
- Still not sleeping through the night.  On good nights I get an 11-4:30 stretch.
- She'll still laugh at just about anything Casen says or does.


We're biased, but we think she's the cutest....cuz she is :D








Monday, September 9, 2013

It wasn't pretty, but a win is a win!  I had some pretty cute good luck charms working for me :)  We love football in this house.  Casen wakes in the morning saying, "Guess what today is?  Foootballl is todayy." Now, if only Caleb got Sundays off so we could watch it together instead of doing phone conferences.




Friday, September 6, 2013

3 Years, 6 Months

I tried to get some photos yesterday, with promises of candy if they behaved, but Casen wiped out on the way there and ended up with bloody knees and skinned palms and once we got out there the little miss had already had enough.  Then of course we spotted crickets and turkeys at the pond and it continued to go downhill.
We tried anyways...maybe we will try again so we can actually get some smiles.








Thursday, September 5, 2013

County Fair

Caleb heard about a county fair on his way to work a few days ago so we checked into it.  It's a small little fair that's only been running 4 years, but Wednesday was free admission so we decided to give it a shot :)  It was definitely small town country, but a little refreshing when you live in the city.  I forgot the camera so I just got a few phone pics, but Casen had a good time.  He didn't want to do any rides so we just checked out the tons of tractors, monster truck, petting zoo, a few exhibits and shows, and of course, his favorite "wave guy."

Watching the motorcycles in the ball




My phone was not cooperating for this one.  There's a camel in the background.  They were doing camel rides instead of pony rides, (only fitting since it was hump dayyy for anyone who knows Casen's obsession with Geico.)  

Tuesday, September 3, 2013


Seriously, how can you not love that face