Happy 1st Birthday Keenan Alexander!

My sweet baby boy is 1 today. I cannot believe an entire year has passed. I'm just not sure where the time went. Keenan is such a big boy and all of these milestones are so bittersweet. I love watching him make new discoveries but hate seeing him grow because I know he's our last. We are doing cake tonight with just the 4 of us so I'll post pictures later of that as well.

And here are the cake pictures. He destroyed his mini cake. He was all about it and loved it!!

Halloween sneak peek

Today we went to a Halloween party so I figured I'd give you a sneak peek of the kids in the their costumes. With all the craziness on Halloween day who knows if I'll be able to get any good shots! The first picture is my goddaughter Grace. It was her 5th birthday party. Isn't she so pretty?! When Grace and Cayden were younger a lot of people thought they looked alike (including me). Amber - I know you'll be reading this - hope you don't mind me putting Grace's picture here.

Grace, the birthday girl



Cayden the Zebra - of course my daughter choose an animal costume!


Keenan the Octopus. Have you ever seen anything so cute?

Rain, rain, go away!

There is a lot of rain in the forecast and it's disturbing me. Keenan's party is next Saturday and it's outdoors at a local park. I will be so upset if it rains! We are having too many people to have it at our house and if it rains we'll have to cram them all in! So if you are the praying time just say a little prayer that it does not rain on the 27th. And if you are not the praying type just think super good thoughts; beautiful fall weather, no rain!!!!!!

Pumpkin picking fun!

Well we've headed to the pumpkin patch two times this year already. Once to meet up with friends I haven't seen in years and years. The second time was to follow tradition at a pumpkin patch we've been going to since Cayden's first October. It was a bummer though because the 1st time it was way too hot and the second time the sunflowers were all dead at our regular place and that's what we were really going for. I have pumpkin patch pictures of Cayden from every year but I can get those anywhere. I also have a picture of her head next to a giant sunflower every year and our traditional location is the only place that has them. Damn the heat!

Anyway my little girl has grown so quickly. 4 pumpkin patch years in review:

Cayden's 1st year, 8 months old

Cayden's 2nd year, 20 months old

Cayden's 3rd year, 2 years 8 months old

This year, 3 1/2 years old!


And speaking of growing...I cannot believe Keenan is almost one. Here are some shots of his pumpkin patch adventures from this year:

How to embarrass your parents

Cayden strikes again. I swear this kid knows just how to embarrass her parents. Cayden has super senses. She smells EVERYTHING and hears EVERYTHING. We constantly hear "what's that noise??" or "what's that smell?" and have to strain our senses to figure out what she's talking about. And there always is some sound or smell but no normal person would have even noticed unless it was pointed out.

On Wednesday we went to the mall. We had a 3 year old crisis alert when Cayden's Cinderella dress up costume ripped. The thing was 2 years old and way past it's prime so it really wasn't a big deal but to a 3 year old who had just decided to wear it, it was a crisis. So we get out of the car and we are in the parking lot walking when she says:

"What's that smell?? I think maybe I farted."

As Eric and I look at each other, shake our heads, and my mouth opens to chastise her I hear chuckling. I look over and there is this family getting their child in the car and the dad is just cracking up. I wanted to go climb under the closest car! I swear we teach this kid the proper manners. In fact people always comment on her manners because even in the most stressful situations (like a child snatching another toy from her etc) she will use "Please" and "Thank you" and her favorite which is "excuse me". So why she decided to announce she farted in the parking lot is beyond me. Good thing you cannot die of embarrassment or I would have been dead a long time ago!

How to get another sibling when Daddy says NO

I swear Cayden cracks me up daily. The way her 3 year old mind works is just hilarious. She is constantly asking for another sibling. Although she loves Keenan she desperately wants a baby sister. We always tell her that we are not having any more babies. I never fail to mention that we are not having any more babies because Daddy said no. So yesterday Cayden and I were watching a baby story on TLC when all of a sudden her eyes light up, she gets this huge smiles and says to me:

"Mommy I think you should be sneaky and I should be sneaky. We should leave Daddy home and go to the doctors and get a new baby put in you. Then when we get home we'll tell Daddy surprise we are having another baby and he'll freak out!"

Where does this kid come up with this stuff ?