Baby love

I love my baby......I know you are probably thinking...of course she does. But I mean really, I absolutely adore Deklan. I love his chunky cheeks, I love the way his face lights up when he sees me, I love the fact that sometimes all he wants it me to hold him. It is amazing to me the amount of love that I can feel for another person. Now, don't get me wrong, I love all of my children. But there is a special love for them when they are this little. Avery and Kaeden amaze me everyday with the things they are learning and doing, but they can be such stubborn little boogers sometimes!! Deklan just lays there and smiles and coos at me. I just have to say that I am soo grateful and amazed at this new little life that we have been blessed with. He is such a sweet little spirit. He is so patient with his older brothers. For the most part they pretty much leave him alone, but they do love to share stickers with him (by putting them all over his face) and give him hugs and kisses (which involves them placing most,if not all of their bodys on him when he is in his bouncy chair) and he just lays their cooing at them. It is funny to listen to who everyone thinks he looks like, and we get a lot of mixed results on that one. I don't think he really looks like either of the other two boys. I see a lot of my sister Amanda when I look at him. I love that each of my boys has their own distinct look while still looking like they are from the same family. I know this is kind of a random post, but I just had to put it out there. I am trying to get better at posting on here and just putting what I am thinking and feeling at the time.

Christmas morning pictures

Christmas Festivities

Since Christmas was on a Saturday this year and Todd's family was heading up to Cedar we decided to join them instead of staying in Vegas. We left on Friday after work to head up there. Luckily we were able to get off a little early s we got out of town around 6. The boys did really well in the car on the way up there, but Kaeden started not feeling well once we got there. Poor thing had a fever and a very upset tummy. Once we got the boys to bed we got everything wrapped and put out for the next day. The next morning the boys actually slept in. By the time Avery woke up Tyler and Anamarie's kids had pretty much finished opening their presents. We had to go in and wake Kaeden up (he still had a fever and wasn't feeling all that well). So we opened our gifts we headed over to Trudi, Tristen, and Katie's house to open the gifts they had made for everyone. Unfortunately I forgot the camera for the second half of the gift openings. The boys loved their gifts!

Later in the day we had scavenger hunt around town that Katie and Tristen put together. It was a lot of fun. I was on a team with my mother and father in law and my niece Jorgi. We won!! Woot Woot! lol. Surprising since I was the runner. We then went back and had dinner, played games, watched a movie and just hung out. We had an awesome Christmas this year and are so grateful to be able to spend it with family and friends.

(pictures to come in the next post)

Christmas Party

We had an awesome Christmas party this year. Todd sang in the program. I was unable to get pictures of him singing in between wrangling the children. lol But they sang beautifully. We did however get pictures of the boys with Santa.

Deklan slept through the entire ordeal (this seems to be his MO)

Kaeden may not look excited but he couldn't wait to see Santa

Avery was beside himself with happiness to see Santa. He was so funny, he had to whisper his list to Santa so that no one else could hear it.

Christmas Lights

We take the boys to the Ethel M Chocolate Factory to look at the christmas lights every year. This year Deklan and I were both sick so Todd took them along with his family. Here is a picture of the boys sitting in Santa's chair.

Adorable child

So this morning we went to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast as a treat for the boys. Kaeden being the silly boy that he is was making faces at me while we were eating. He was going from happy to sad and back again. I was recording him being silly and when I was done I noticed someone had walked up to the table. He was wearing a Sams Town jacket and proceeded to tell us that Kaeden was adorable. He was then asking where we were from. We told him that we lived right down the street. He said ok and then asked if we were going to the Rodeo at all. We told him that we would love to go but had never been able to or gotten tickets. He kind of stopped and thought for a minute and said ok, well, maybe we will be back to spread some holiday cheer. He came back about 15 min later and handed me 4 tickets to the Rodeo for Wednesday night!!!! We are soooo excited to go and hope that the boys will love seeing all of the animals. Who knew it would pay off to have such an adorable kid??? ha ha ha We should take him out in public more often!

Helpful brother

I walked into the living room the other day and found Kaeden sitting on the couch like this:

He says to me - "Alright, I am ready to feed baby Deklan!"

This was his angry nursing face. lol

So glad that I have boys who want to be soo helpful with their new brother.