Happy Birthday Slade!

This post is a week late, but better late than never, right? I just keep telling myself that...

Anyway, on November 9th, Slade turned 4! He is becoming quite the young man. There is so much to say about Slade!

• He is enjoying is preschool class and all the friends that he has made there.


• His favorite toys right now are Bumblebee from Transformers, RC cars, helicopters, dinosaurs, Spiderman and so many more!


• He spells his name wonderfully and loves to rhyme.


• He can count into the 30's on a good day.


• He LOVES to ride his bike!


• He loves doing "jobs" (chores) around the house for me.


• He asks to say the prayer but helps Daisy when its her turn.


• Loves being a Sunbeam and he did wonderfully in his first Primary program!


• He is always making Maylee laugh.


• He is Daisy's best friend.


• He tells me he loves me everyday along with hugs and kisses.


• His Dad is his hero and wants to be big and strong like him when he grows up.


• Thinks he can do everything himself and has to prove that he can :) (Like dressing himself, obviously)

Instead of having a birthday party this year, we celebrated his birthday with just our little family. We decorated the house and made him feel very special. Skylar was off that day so we picked up lunch and headed to the park. We then took him to Wal Mart and let him pick out a small gift. He was ecstatic! Later that day, we went to my parents house to celebrate his and Kayci's birthday's.

I could not imagine life without Slade. He brings such joy to our family! I love seeing his smile every morning and hearing his cute laugh. He is growing up way to fast but at the same time, I love watching him become his own little person and learn new things everyday. Love you Slade!

Maylee is 9 months!

Our sweet Maylee is 9 months old as of today! It amazes me how fast time seems to fly by and when I look back, I wonder if I took my time to cherish every moment possible that I had with them. Children grow up too fast!
Maylee's personality is starting to blossom a lot more and she is so much fun! Of course she is very much a girl and demands things to happen her way, right away. She loves to play with her dad on the floor but prefers mom all other times of the day. She still army crawls with an occasional knee crawl and she has started pulling herself up on the couch, chairs, toys and our legs. She has learned how to dance and it is the cutest thing! She says momma and dadda, waves hi and bye and loves to eat. She also loves to play with Slade and Daisy and tries to keep up with them all the time. Her hair is coming in beautifully and I'm excited about that! She has her two front bottom teeth and she had two upper teeth just pop through this weekend with more coming.
Now for her stats. She weighs a whopping 14lbs 8oz! A whole 1lb 6oz weight gain from her 6 month appointment which places her in the .5 percentile. Yep, point five. I was a little disappointed in that seeing how she was in the 10th %, but since she is moving quite a bit more, her Dr is not concerned. She is healthy and happy and doing what she should. Her height is 26 inches (8th %), and head circumference 17 inches (27th %). We love our sugar bug!

Halloween!

We had a great Halloween this year! Slade had a little party at his preschool on Thursday and learned a new song about a scary witch that he and Daisy sing all day long.
Friday night was our ward party and it started out wonderfully. The kids were doing a craft at the craft table when all of a sudden Slade throws up. After we cleaned up and ran out of there, Slade said his costume was choking him (Batman) but it was apparent that a hot dog did not agree with him :) He said that his tummy felt better and he was back to his normal self the next morning.
Saturday night we went to the Boretsky's home (2 houses away) for yummy food and fun. After we ate, we got the kids ready to Trick-or-Treat. The kids had a blast and after every house we stopped at, Slade would tell me his bag didn't have enough candy yet.
Sunday morning, I had the kids ready for church early and was about to get myself ready when Daisy throws up. We ended up skipping church. No more candy for the kids! The good thing is, is that the candy isn't very tempting after I've seen it thrown up.


Daisy was Thumbelina. She picked out every part of her costume and she did a great job! She really couldn't decide if she wanted to be Tinkerbell, Thumbelina, a ballerina or a princess...but decided last minute that she was in fact Thumbelina.


Daisy and Cale (spider) got to ride in the wagon!

BATMAN!!

I love how Slade is looking through the window. Good thing no one was home!

Kleven, Slade, Maylee, Cale, Kambri, Daisy and Ezra

I wasn't going to fight with her all night to keep a costume on, so my mom got her a ghost onesie and we called it good!

Slade shared candy with Dad, but he really didn't have a choice :)