Soaking up the sun

Camden has been finding all sorts of new places to play/get stuck! He has no reverse yet to he often will scoot himself between two objects so that he gets stuck! This however was just a challenge to get into and then fun to play in! Camden started crawling today.... for a while at least.... army crawl is still WAY faster. I am sure over the course of the next few days he will discover that crawling really is easier to do all of the time.

Today was beautiful so we spent lots of time outside. Camden even joined us.... MUCH better than looking out from the window. He loved it. He crawled and rolled around squealing with delight. The grass didn't bother him at all, he was just happy to be where his older brother and sister were.

I just got Keaton this mitt, which he loves, but today he found that it makes a great hat!

Taking orders. I ordered everything I can think of and the only thing that he didn't have was zucchini (one of the only things he doesn't care for).

Deciding that he needed a hat in order to work the drive-up window.

Everything with wheels right now is a "choo-choo" to Tiana.... if it is more than one car/truck/train/etc it is a "choo choo wain".

Keaton's favorite saying, "well, not exactly".

Mommy: Did you finish your milk?

Keaton: "well, not exactly"

Mommy: Did you raise your hand for any children's questions?

Keaton: "well, not exactly"

You get the picture. In other words, a nice way of saying No!

Growing Up

As I was rocking Camden to sleep last night it just struck me how big he is getting. I don't regret taking tons of photos of my kids because every time I blink it seems that they get a little more grown up. Keaton just no longer seems like a toddler.... Tiana is going to be TWO this spring and my baby is almost crawling! Where did the time go. I enjoy it, don't take it for granted, and take lots of photos and it still seems to fly by.

Camden is loving to eat anything that makes him feel like he is big. He love love loves those little baby cookies.... makes a huge mess but loves every bite... or lick!

Look at his hair.... he just may be cruising for a hair cut before his big brother! Keaton got his first one at about 8 1/2 months and Camden is going to need a trim by then for sure. He already has hair hanging over his ears!
His new look. He loves the feel of his two bottom teeth on his lip.

There has GOT to be a better way to play with this... much better, thanks Mommy! He hasn't quite figured out how to get up by himself but he loves to stand or be on his knees if we can help him get up there.

Two of my cute little Valentines!

Cute new skirt I made. Tiana LOVES it... no big surprise there! It is pink and has ruffles..... automatically makes it CUTE in her book!

This is the coolest fabric that I found at Fabric Depot in Portland.... my favorite fabric store. All I had to do is sew the ends together and put in some elastic.

It will be so cute this summer with a little t-shirt or tank top.

We have had some nice enough weather around here to have the kids play outside. Camden of course is.... kind-of.... content to watch at the window. He would really love to go outside with them but because I have been fighting a sinus infection I haven't really wanted to go outside with him.

As long as they come up to say hi to him at the window every once and a while, he is happy to watch.

More of his new little look.

A couple evenings ago he was so very cuddly. Both Daddy and Mommy soaked it up. It doesn't happen all that much anymore now that he is getting bigger. We were shocked how much he looks like his Uncle Ryan and Uncle Tom in this photo. I totally see Uncle Ryan in his eyes and hair-line.

Camden's TEETH

Yes, plural! He was giving me his great-big-huge-light-up-his-whole-face grin this morning when I thought.... hmmm that looks like he has TWO teeth! Sure enough! The other bottom one is through!

I was making breakfast this morning when I realized that Keaton was taking a LONG time in the bathroom (rarely a good thing). I hollered at him to come out and he replied "umm, well, I think I locked myself in the bathroom". Good thing Daddy found the key last week. He informed me that he was "very surprised when the door was locked".

Tiana, all girl that she is, gets VERY excited to wear her utterbye (butterfly) pj's. And we often hear "uuuuuggg, heaby" when she thinks something is too heavy for her to carry!

Happy Valentine's Day

Since we have all been sick this week I never got around to getting these in to get printed up! So here they are, Happy Valentine's Day!

Sewing for Summer

I completed 2 more summer dresses for Tiana today! These were easy ones that I really don't know why I have taken so long to try. I got two t-shirts from Old Navy, cut them off below the arms and sewed on some knit that I found. I am in LOVE with knit fabrics. It is so hard to find cute prints so I get them when I see them. Hobby Lobby has oh so many beautiful coordinating prints. I will have to get a few for next winter to go on the bottom of a long sleeve shirt. These turned out so cute and comfy. She loves them.

Close up of the flower detail. This probably took me as long as sewing the entire dress together!

I wasn't going to add anything to the top of this one until my Mom suggested buttons. It sure dresses it up and wow did it sure impressed Tiana!

Fun Fun! My next round of sewing needs to be all cut out so that is what I will be doing for the next few days.

Monkey Bizness

Last Friday we met Anna with Jace and Lily, Krystal with Kason, Shanna with Remington and Grandma at Monkey Bizness (an indoor play place in Boise). Anna and I often meet there with the kids to have them run some energy off. The kids get along WONDERFUL and have a blast. This time I remembered my camera.

Camden hanging out watching everything going on around him.

Keaton had the courage to go down the BIG slide all by himself. It was so cute because he went down with a FORCED smile on his face. He is still talking about it even though he old went down twice.
Then surprise surprise, my daughter, you know, the timid one, the one that if someone looks at her wrong she falls apart.... the one who says everything is SCARY..... well she loved this slide too. I took her down a few times with me but she wanted to go by herself!

Tiana, very unlike Keaton, had a look of PURE TERROR on her face the entire way down. However it didn't stop her from wanting to go down again.... and again.... until we just told her she had to be done.

Cute girls. They just love playing together.

I have been busy on the sewing machine lately. I know that my sewing time will be limited as soon as my photography gets busy again this spring, so I am taking full advantage of this slow time. My goal is to use up some of the fabric that I have leftover from other projects. So you will be seeing some familiar pieces. Love these two outfits.

Of course, I must have spring fever because all of my projects are for outfits for this summer.

Sharing Means.....

Well right now in this household, sharing is not quite so easily defined. Sharing is all about pecking order! To Keaton sharing means persuading Tiana to give him whatever he wants. To Tiana it means taking what Camden has (he is sharing with her). To Camden, well, it means using whatever he is given that nobody else wants.... which is perfectly fine by him still.

Yesterday the kids were playing in the backyard and I was watching from the window. Keaton was sharing his baseball knowledge with Tiana. Daddy had just taught him how to stand when batting so he chased Tiana all around the yard trying to give her the bat. This in and of itself caught my eye since it just doesn't look good when Keaton is yelling "Hey Hey" while holding a bat out and chasing his sister! Pretty soon though she stopped and took the bat from him (after realizing that he wasn't playing a game of chase and he wasn't going to hit her with it). Keaton then proceeds in trying to show her the correct baseball stance! He bends over and spreads her legs apart, tells her to bend her knees..... all very seriously mind you..... all the while Tiana is bopping him on the head with the bat with a huge grin on her face! Don't need to know a specific stance to just annoy your brother. She then drops the bat and off she goes! Keaton throws up his hands and decides to wait until his brother gets bigger!

Sharing is definitely a work in progress in this house.... however, when it comes to germs.... we have that sharing down PERFECT! Lots of kisses makes sharing germs very easy!