Happy Birthday Kevin!

This past Saturday was Kevin’s birthday so of course we celebrated!  We are so incredibly thankful to have him as a husband/father in our family.  He is simply amazing!  I really see how easy I have it when I’m pregnant, he really helps me out a ton.  He even got up in the middle of the night to get a slug I found in the kitchen for me!  Gross – what is up with the slug?  Who knows, but he didn’t even complain.  We so love you so much Kevin and are so thankful you are in our lives!  We hope you had a good birthday and felt loved!

Sweet Miles is growing up WAY too fast.  We had our families over and grilled out on Saturday night and Miles continued to wow us with his walking skills.  He doesn’t turn one until June 29th!  Slow down kiddo! I didn’t get many pics of the evening.  Just a few.  Will sure loves his daddy and was thrilled to be celebrating daddy’s birthday.  This seemed to be the first birthday where he was genuinely excited that it was someone’s birthday (without thinking it was his own).  He was an excellent helper with daddy’s cards. Being that Kevin can be hard to buy for at times, everyone went in with me one one awesome gift for him.  I think he liked it!  The funny part was the “fake” gifts he opened.  I found a few random gift cards in my wallet – to places he could care less about and he opened those and was so funny about it!  Oh, thank you he said without missing a beat!  Funny guy! These 2 little boys are going to be great friends.  Will is currently obsessed with Miles – whom he actually refers to as “Chunky” and thinks it is so hilarious! Will had been sooo excited about the birthday cake!  He has a serious sweet tooth! Love the looks on Jeff & Kevin’s faces – there was a bit of a spray with his candle blowing!  Ha!  Yummy!

Easter Sunday

On Sunday, we went to church and celebrated what the true meaning of Easter is – our risen Lord!  What a sacrifice and a blessing for us all!  We put Will in a cute outfit that his Ally had bought him and he looked pretty handsome.  I have to say, I am thrilled that he will let us take pics of him right now! Will and his daddy!  What handsome men I have in my life!! Will and mommy.  Mommy isn’t overly thrilled with posting this, but my son is just precious so I’m choosing to post the chubby preggo faced pic anyway! Why not do one more hunt?  Ally brought some eggs over that had coins in them and we let him hunt one more time.  Hey – hunting eggs is just fun!  I loved watching him! Hope you all had a happy Easter, too!!

Hunt #2

On Saturday, we went to one of the local churches and did a hunt there, too.  They had other activities which ended up being a lot of fun.  We went with Will’s good friend Bryce.  They had a cookie decorating station.  Will took this very seriously!

Even better than decorating the cookie – eating the cookie!  Or more likely icing.  He ate the icing first! 

I had to post all 4 of these pics.  These two are a hoot!  Trying to take a smiling pic of both was hilarious!

This is sweet now.  I am sure one day they’ll look back and be embarrassed by holding hands.  Sweet friends!

I didn’t get many of the actual hunt.  By the time I got to a good spot- it was over!  But Will managed to scoop up some good ones!

I love this pic!  He can be so adorable and so cute.  Makes the tough times bearable!  Love my little man! They also had a petting zoo – so fun! So I am pretty sure the pic below is right after he picked up one of the baby chicks and then quickly dropped it.  The other kids were picking them so I think he though ok – then it felt weird, I guess! Actually I think this may be my favorite pic!  Such an amazing little boy!  Pure joy!!

Egg Hunt #1

Will had an Easter Egg hunt at his school this past Thursday.  I was a little worried because when I got there, he was cranky.  But when it was time to hunt, he was all about it.  Thank goodness.  Here are the kids all lined up ready to go! He was a pro.  Daddy had practiced with him the night before in the living room and he didn’t have any trouble hunting those eggs.  He went kind of the opposite direction of the rest of the group which was very strategic on his part.  Daddy would have been proud! He was very proud of his loot!  Easter fun!!

Belly Pic

So I have been terrible at journaling about this pregnancy.  I’ve been terrible about journaling about anything these days!  Chalk it up to being back to work full-time right now and tired all.the.time.  Hopefully my blogging will pick up after Tues…the end of busy season is near!  Here is a belly pic I took several weeks back.  So yes, I am bigger than this now!  This was at 24 weeks.  I am 27 weeks now.  Crazy!  Next week I’ll hit the third trimester.  I feel like I am carrying Kendall differently than Will.  Oh yes, not sure if I blogged that either.  Our baby girl has a name!  Kendall Elizabeth!  I love it.  KET!  Can’t wait to meet her!  She is a busy girl these days.  She’s moving all over the place and she’s causing some lower back pain.  I got her bedding in, I’ll have to post on the nursery once we get some stuff on the walls.  She’ll be here before we know it!  This one has gone much faster than the first one!  Exactly 3 months to go!

Valentine’s Program

Well, what else is new, I’m behind on posting!  Will had a Valentine’s program at his school.  I was thrilled because we got him to put on the pink shirt that he refused to wear for the big reveal. He looked really cute in it!  I tried getting a pic of him before school, and well that’s the best I got.  He now does the cheese face and it is cute but it is also a little exaggerated.  :)

Below he is in the front row looking over to the side.  He did fine.  He didn’t cry (I hid so he wouldn’t see me).  He also didn’t sing.  Not a single word.  Nor did he do a single motion.  Ah well.  At least he stayed up there!  That’s a lot better than several of the kids did.  He had his hand in his back pocket most of the time, which was kind of funny.  My Will Ryan.  A sweet mess. They had snacks in the room after their big performance.  He was into that part!  He sits by this cute girl Marley to his left.  He talks about her all the time.  And he talks about his friend Jack.  It is funny how at an early age they learn to gravitate towards certain friends. There is is again! That cheese face!!!!  I love my cheese face!!!

Big Boy Bed!

A few weeks ago, we bought Will a new bedroom suit!  He’s such a big boy now!  He loves his new bed and his train bedding.  It is so cute.  I need to decorate the room – the walls are really bare.  We painted it this slate blue color and I really like it.  It was a light brown/tan before and it was kind of boring.  It was time for something new. 

Transition.  Well, that was an interesting one.  I didn’t really put a whole lot of thought into how that would go.  I assumed it would be a little tricky getting him to stay put – but I wasn’t exactly prepared for it.  The first few nights I laid down with him.  It was a whole new experience and I am sure it was weird for him being all open.  Then on about the 4th night he thought mommy laying down with him was play time.  And mommy laid there for hours upon hours trying to get him to drift off to sleep.  Every time I thought he was out and I started to get up he’d pop up and say something heartbreaking like, stay mommy, I’ll scoot over mommy, stay in the covers mommy.

So then we realized we needed to teach him to sleep in his bed by himself.  I can’t lay there for hours every night.  So we did some tough love.  And it was tough.  :(  Pretty sure Will and I were both crying that first night.  He kept getting up and we kept putting him back.  Two nights of a little chaos was all, though.  By the third night, he was fine!  He’s been doing great every since!  And – even more surprising – he’s only had one accident since he moved into it. He can get up and tell us if he needs to go.  So that’s a bonus!  Our little boy is growing up!!