Our little 3 month old (little video at the end)

3 months already?! Time flies so fast. 

I seriously love this little guy more and more every single day! He is SUCH a good baby and the sweetest little cuddly guy! We sure love him.

Things we love about Kayden at 3 months

This little boy has been such a joy and blessing to our little family. He's so easy going and such a happy kid. He usually only cries if he gets really hungry or really tired and each of those things is easily taken care of. He smiles ANYTIME you make eye contact with him and gets so excited when anybody holds or talks to him. Probably my favorite thing in the whole world is when Justin and him look at each other and start smiling and giggling. Seriously makes my life complete.

This kid is a champion sleeper: he goes to bed about 9pm (wish I could say the same for myself) and sleeps 5-6 hours before waking up to eat (after which he snacks every hour or two) But he takes REALLY good naps and probably sleeps 16-17 hours total every day. He'll still sleep absolutely anywhere: his swing, his bed, my bed, the floor, his car seat, the baby bjorn, and best of all Mom or Dad's arms. He really does love the Baby Bjorn carrier. Anytime I really need to get something done or want to go for a walk I'll put him in it and he almost always falls right asleep and stays asleep till I take him out, which has been a huge blessing.

Eating is also something he LOVES to do which has been kind of hard, but with a little help from formula (2 oz at lunch and 2 oz at bedtime) he stays pretty content. I kind of struggle with letting him have a bottle (I actually cried a lot), but it keeps me from being a crazy stressed out mommy so we're ok with it now.

We're also loving all the crazy red hair. Anytime a stranger sees him, seriously the first thing they all say is "Wow! Look at all that hair!" which is shortly followed by "Oh my goodness is it red?" He really does have a ton of hair though and it's been so much fun to play with. I hope he has a sister someday with this much hair. (:

We're so grateful for our two little blessings from heaven and I thank my Heavenly Father every day for entrusting me to be their Mother. I don't always know what I'm doing and I'm far from perfect, but I'm trying my hardest to be a good Mom and hopefully these awesome kiddos don't turn out too worse for the wear.

 

A cute (but kind of long!!!) video of Kayden smiling, cooing and eating his hands yesterday.

Pictures

He's getting SO big!

We got a toy for Kayden that he can lay under and play with. This is him playing with it...Oh wait, no this is JUSTIN playing with it...Justin is in love with it.

Trip to Cali (from August)

5 Days in California: Playing on the beach with Family

I absolutely loved it. 

The whole week I kept thinking, "wow, vacation is definitely different when you're the parent." It was kinda crazy at times with a 6 week old and an almost-two-year-old, but it was SO much fun to get to spend some time with my family.
Grandma and Grandpa got us a suite so that we could have Justin sleeping in his own room. This was an awesome break, since all 4 of us had been sleeping in the same room for the last few weeks in Joseph City. I always sleep better when there's a wall in between me and all the little sleeping noises that come from my cute boys.

Kayden slept SO good

We were excited to get to spend some time with Sophie, Kinzi & Phil. Justin loved Kinzi (when he wasn't trying to steal toys from her). They had a lot of fun sitting across from each other during meals. Kinzi shared her food with Justin then they took turns trying to throw it or just giggling and making faces at each other. It was pretty cute.

Justin really loves his Grandma

Grandma & Grandpa enjoying a morning walk on the beach. (while the rest of us slept in)

COSTCO! There was one just down the street that we picked up some nice boards at. Dad took this picture of everyone except Phil...he wondered off somewhere...

Part of the awesome looking but never-ending stairs. The stroller made quite a few trips up and down these. And I was super impressed that Justin climbed the entire thing quite a few times.

Justin wasn't sure how he felt about the water...ok he felt fine about it as long as it didn't touch him or get close to his toys. He absolutely adored playing in the sand though. On the last day of our trip he ended up following Kinzi into the water after which we couldn't get him out. I stood out there for almost 3 hours just holding his hands and letting him enjoy the waves. (I was planning on spending all of this time sitting with the boys under the umbrella so I'd neglected to apply very much sunscreen and got a lovely burn to travel home with. Thankfully Justin didn't get burned at all. I was really worried about his light skin, but he was a trooper and put up with me spraying him down with some SPF60 quite often)

This is where Kayden spent the majority of the trip. He loves the baby bjorn (and so do I)!!!

I remember as a kid that Mom was never particularly impressed when we came home with stick on tattoos. Imagine my surprise during dinner at King's when I look over and she's putting one on my child! I wish I would have gotten a picture of the look on Kinzi's face after Sophie put one on her. Kinzi burst into tears when she realized she couldn't pull it off, and kept screaming until they got it washed off. It was pretty funny, and something I would have expected more from Justin than Kinzi.

My handsome snorkler

Kinzi & Grandpa

Can I say how much I love my Mother? She brought a kite and was helping Justin fly it. I enjoyed watching him fly it with her, but I think my favorite part was when she was running around flying it by herself.

Grandma also bought these awesome/weird/gross orange washable bubbles that made pretty sweet prints all over the sand. They made a huge mess, but Justin had quite a bit of fun with them. So did Uncle David... (:

I can't believe how tall Spencer is getting. He'll be a freshman next year and has grown up a ton!

Great Grandma

Can I just say how much I absolutely love my Grandma?

Great Grandma with her 82nd GREAT grandchild

She is amazing.
She is kind, sweet, generous, beautiful, well-spoken, vibrant, intelligent, thoughtful, a wonderful cook, and happens to have raised an amazing daughter that I get to call "mom"
I don't know how she does it all.

Back Home Again

It was so wonderful to have a 7week break from school and  we loved getting to spend it visiting family in Arizona. Things we loved while we were there: the big backyards at Grandparents houses, all the crazy fun on the trampolines, hugs and kisses from Grandmas, Grandpas, Aunts and Uncles, wonderful meals made by wonderful grandmas, never ending sunshine, AC/swamp coolers, vacationing in CA, lots of willing babysitters, getting to go to the temple together, yummy Mexican and Chinese restaurants, getting to see people we hadn't seen for a while, the extra income the Pizza store provided, and just getting to enjoy being with family.

We are glad to be home again though, and ready to start Jason's very last semester before he graduates!!! Anyone who knows Jason very well, knows that school is not his idea of fun...but I am so proud of him though and how hard he's worked to get to this point.

We drove 13 hours straight to get from Joseph City to Rexburg, and let me just say that I am so grateful that will be our last time making that trip in this direction. It was so fun to finally get home and even more fun to watch Justin reunite with all of his long lost toys. It was super hard to get him to put them away and go to bed. I think he was afraid they might not still be there when he woke up.
  

Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday:

Justin was finally starting to feel better from his cold/sinus infection so we let him play at the park down the street for a bit. He was one happy little guy.

I sure love my boys!