10 months old!

Here's a cute video of my babies.  Can you believe I managed to keep both of these boys alive, together, for the last ten months!?!?  Yeah, me neither.  Between Kason trying to kill Daylen and me trying to NOT kill Kason, it's been interesting!!!

8 Months Old

I can't believe my baby is 8 months old already!  The time has flown- it seems to go by so much faster with Daylen than it did with Kason.  Probably because I can't give him any attention with Kason bouncing off the walls!!!
Daylen has been crawling for over a month (but has been army crawling since he was 4 1/2 months old!) and just started pulling himself up to standing a couple of weeks ago.  He will be walking in no time- which is CRAZY!  Kason didn't start crawling until he was almost 10 months old... and he didn't walk until he was almost one year old!!! 

Daylen is really starting to put on some weight even though he isn't so fond of solids yet. He hates anything homemade, which is a disappointment to me since I loved making all of Kason's baby food.  Daylen loves getting half an apple and just going to town on it.  He takes little bitty bites with his two bottom teeth and carves out almost the entire thing!

He can clap his hands and loves patting us on the arm and back.  Is there anything sweeter than little baby pats on your back?  NOPE!  Daylen loves his brother and just grins any time Kason is near.  (Other than when Kason is trying to decapitate him... seriously, Kason LOVES picking at and poking Daylen's head.  I can't keep him off it!)

Daylen is the world's easiest, most mellow baby!  I never thought Kason was particularly difficult as a baby... until little Day-Day came along!  Damien and I joke that Kason looks like Damien and acts like me- well Daylen DEFINITELY looks like me but acts like Damien.  We sure lucked out with our two boys!  Can't wait to see what our next baby will look like!!!  (BTW, I'm NOT pregnant and have no plans to become pregnant for a while!)

Reward

Meet "Elmo Fish", Kason's reward for going #2 in the potty.

While Kason has not had a #1 accident almost since we started, he HATES going #2 on the potty!!!  He will hold it until it is an emergency and then cry while he goes.  It's heartbreaking!  The Skittles and M&M's just weren't helping K overcome his pooping fears, but Elmo Fish is working wonders!  Kason "earned" Elmo Fish the other day when he finally pooped on the potty.  We packed him right up and went to PetSmart to get a "boldfeesh".  Since K wanted a blue one, we headed right to the betta fish.  Kason gets to feed Elmo Fish every time he poops.  No worries, the fish will be fine, Kason only goes once a day.


BTW- I finally gave in and put Kason in a pull up to sleep last night- I have been setting my alarm to wake him up to go around 2am so he doesn't have an accident- exhausting!  But this morning, HE WOKE UP DRY!!!  I will continue using the pull up until we're sure he's got it mastered, but I was totally impressed.

Now we just have to master the poop.  :)

Better late than never....

Sorry, this is a LONG post!


My big boy Kason turned two on March 11!!! We had a wonderful party with lots of family, but of course, I was too busy running around to even remember to take pics. You'll just have to take my word for it- it was killer!

Here's one pic of him clapping while everyone sang to him. Kason got Woody, Buzz and a helmet from Mommy and Daddy and a trike from his Grammy Robin! He LOVES his bike and asks to ride it ALL THE TIME! ("Bike? Ride? Bike? Ride?")

When Kason went to his pediatrician for his well check she was amazed by how tall he is. He is 39.5" tall, which is the size of an average 4 year old. The doc thinks Kason will be 6'6" or 6'7" based on his current height. Not too much of a surprise considering his daddy is 6'4" and I'm 5'11"!

Kason has been such a good big brother. He lets Daylen pull his hair and he is constantly trying to entertain "Day-Day". In the morning, Kason runs all over trying to find Daylen and asking "Day-Day awake?". When he finally finds his little brother (usually in his exersaucer so I can make breakfast) he yells "Morning Day-Day!". I love that Kason is finally expanding his language skills!
And even though we took away his binky a few months ago, every once in a while this ball of energy gives me a pretty good nap. Naptime is my favorite time of the day. I feel like I hit the lotto when he actually takes a nap longer than 45 minutes!
We're working on potty training right now.  I started last Wednesday, May 2, and he is already accident-free during the day!!!  He can't quite hold it all night long but we are working on it.  I love this big boy!!!

THIS little man is almost seven months old! 

I started him on solids about a month ago, but it has taken a while for him to accept them!  He is PICKY.!!

  I finally threw in the towel and started weaning about a month ago, too.  I'm tired of pumping all the time and worrying about him being hungry!  It was definitely hard to do since I have worked so hard to make it happen, but I think both baby and I will be happier now.  I know for sure baby is because about a week after I started upping the formula he began sleeping 10+ hours each night.  Love him!
Daylen also just started CRAWLING!  Can you believe it??  Kason didn't crawl until he was 9 months old!!!

 It amazes me how different these boys are...

 Kason is very intense and BUSY BUSY BUSY.  He needs constant entertainment.  Daylen is already on the go but surprisingly easy.  He is pretty happy just hanging out.


 Last month we took a trip to California to visit friends and family.  The plane ride over there was pretty hairy- Kason was not happy about waking up 3 hours early!  Daylen was an angel... of course...  :)  We stayed with my mom and were able to spend a lot of time with her and my stepdad, Mike.  My dad drove up from Phoenix for a few days and then my wonderful cousins drove up from the LA area to hang out.  My sister and her beautiful family live about 3 minutes away from my mom, so the boys got to hang out with their cousins a TON.    My mom has a beautiful back yard that Kason took full advantage of.  I didn't take any pics (D'oh!) but here he is playing in her sandbox: 

 

Here's a pic of all the California Cousins:

We miss everyone already!!!!
*but we especially miss the cousins that we didn't get to see.  We love and miss you, Kit-Kat, Chocolate Chip, Baby Ruth and yes, Mr. Goodbar!!!!

4 Months old

My baby boy Daylen is four months old! We always think he is so small and delicate, but we tend to forget how big and husky Kason was/is! Our delicate little Daylen is in the 95 percentile for height and 50-75 percentile for weight. He's not so small or delicate after all!

Here are his stats:
Height: 27" (Kason at this age was 28")
Weight: 15 lbs (Kason was 18 lbs 13 oz!)

Daylen must remember Kason from heaven because no one can get him to smile like Kason can! He LOVES his big brother and already idolizes him. Kason rolls on him, pulls his arms, legs, head, but through all that Daylen just grins at Kason with pure adoration. I hope they continue to love each other for a long time, otherwise Daylen is in for some trouble!

Kason's birthday is next month and we are having a big family birthday party, so I have been scouting ideas on Pinterest. One idea I LOVED was a rainbow cake. I like to use my giant cupcake mold so Kason can have a cake all to himself to destroy, but I wasn't sure how the rainbow cake would transfer. I decided to test it out today during naptime. I ordered some fabulous gel food colors online to get the right hues.

The batter looked amazing and delicious!
I poured one color right on top of the other into the mold. I had leftover batter so I decided to make a simple single layer cake as well. Good thing I did!!! I actually read the directions on the cake box and they specifically said to only grease the bottom of the pan. I knew better, but was influenced by LC's cake post a few weeks ago and didn't flour the pan as well! As a result my giant cupcake was a giant flop. Only half came out of the pan when I overturned it. :( Oh well, lesson learned for when I make it in a few weeks. On the bright side, the colors inside the cake were marvelous! Here's the single layer cake I made:

Kason was a huge help. Can you imagine anything worse than a boisterous almost-two-year-old in a kitchen filled with rainbow dyed cake batter bowls?

Here's the finished product. It was delicious AND turned out pretty cool! I can't wait to do it on a larger scale next month.

Day Day helped me in the kitchen, too!