Happy Thanksgiving 2011!

Happy Thanksgiving 2011! We have had a wonderful one and have so much to be thankful for! We have a wonderful and healthy family and that's enough! I hope everyone had a wonderful day!

Our sweet baby! This was his first Thanksgiving and he is 9 months old today! He is pulling up on everything and wants to just let go and walk! He wants so badly to keep up with his big brother!

Our big boy! I can't believe we will be celebrating his 3rd birthday in just a few weeks!!! He has grown so much and makes us smile everyday!

I love our family so much and am so thankful for them!

Now bring on Christmas!!!!!!

Update

So, I thought I would give a quick update. The pictures say 99.9% so I will give you the other .1%, which is mainly a potty training update. I will say that we pretty much have tee teeing in the potty down. We do have a few rough times but we are in underwear all day with the exception of naptime and bedtime. It is so nice to only have to worry about one size of diapers! We are having difficulty with pooping in the potty but we will get there and will take any advice to help! We are so proud of Hudsen!

If you remember from my last post that I did a sticker board and that worked perfectly! He really enjoyed putting the stickers on the board after every potty! We did a couple of incentives.......for 10 stickers he got a prize. The first day was a balloon and the second day was a smoothie! Then we did a prize for staying dry all day and we still do but just not everyday. It is usually a smoothie on Friday or Saturday!


This is our balloon prize! He was so proud!



This was his smoothie prize! That is spilled juice on his pants.......he was dry all day!

Nolen loves his little snacks! He is so close to getting a tooth, which is so foreign to us because Hudsen got his first tooth at 16 1/2 months.

Nolen has found the stairs and likes to climb them.

We got Hudsen a Christmas tree for his room and put it up on Tuesday! He LOVES it!

We made reindeer ornaments yesterday and put it on his tree! We had so much fun! We made two for his tree and four for our big tree!

Halloween, Fun, & Potty Time

Halloween 2011

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! Hudsen picked out his Woody costume and Nolen wore the same Monkey costume that Hudsen did on his first Halloween! We carved our pumpkins the night before and then on Monday, Tim took Hudsen trick-or-treating and Nolen and I stayed at the house to hand out candy! We had fun and saw lots of cute costumes. When Tim and Hudsen got home i had a hard time figuring out which one had more fun! Tim said that there were a lot more homes decorated this year and Hudsen had a blast!

Nolen's 1st Halloween!



Our pumpkins! I do the cleaning out and Tim does the carving!

Carving pumpkins!

Opening Halloween treats!

Fun Time!!

Future UNLV baseball star!!

Potty Time!

I have begun the task of potty training! I was going to wait until the week of Thanksgiving but woke up yesterday with the feeling that we needed to go ahead and get started. We had a couple of accidents yesterday and a couple of accidents today! Not too bad! Hudsen has been really interested in stickers lately so I decided to make a sticker board. Every time he goes in the big potty he gets to put a sticker on the board with a big prize of getting to pick out a balloon! Please pray for us and I will keep you posted!

Here is the board that is in our bathroom!

The big boy with his board and yes he has a sticker on it!!!! Yay Hudsen! At this point today he has two stickers and has been asleep for almost two hours so not bad for today!

This board gets to go to Grandma and Bompa's house since they will be helping with this task!

We have been having lots of fun and are looking forward to the holidays! Again, keep us in your prayers that potty training goes smoothly and I will keep you updated!

Have a Great Week!

33 and 8!

I turned 33 years young this month so Happy Birthday to me! It started with a "Happy Birthday Mommy" from Hudsen which of course melted my heart! Ellen made a wonderful dinner and it ended with Hudsen and Nolen helping me blow out my candles and open presents! It was wonderful!

Ellen made another amazing cake! Hudsen picked out the design and helped make it too!

Gerard got off work early and was able to join us!

Since Elizabeth didn't get to make the birthday dinner, she came over the next night and got some love from the boys!

Cheering on the Rangers!! Go Rangers......One more!!!








8 Months!

Nolen was 8 months old this month! He is such a sweetie! He is pretty much always happy. He will eat anything and a lot! He loves food and hopefully that will encourage Hudsen to eventually eat some new things! He is still just army crawling but has been getting on all fours and rocking.

We are looking forward to Halloween and carving pumpkins. Hudsen is really excited about trick-or-treating and all the Halloween decorations!

We truly are blessed!

Have a great week!

Krysha

Pumpkin Patch and SuperBoys!

Pumpkin Patch 2011:

We went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday evening and had so much fun. Grandma and Bompa joined us and we finished the evening with dinner! It was a wonderful evening! I just love this time of year! I love the colors and all the scents associated with fall! Halloween is turning into a fun holiday at our house. Hudsen is so excited about trick-or-treating and loves to look at all the houses that are decorated with Halloween Stuff!! I also love that it starts cooling down and you find yourself indoors spending lots of fun time with family!!!





Getting Nolen acquainted with the pumpkins!

Riding the choo choo train!!

Bompa showing Hudsen how to throw the magnet darts. Hudsen would start to throw it and then run up and just place it on the pumpkin. It was too cute!

Our prize for winning (playing) a few games! He could care less about the pumpkins once he saw the bat!

All Smiles!!!

My SuperBoys!!!

Nanny's Visit! We had so much fun with my mom! She wasn't here long enough but we enjoyed her while she was here!! The boys love their Nanny!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!!!

Love-

Krysha

7 & Baseball-Updated

I posted this last week with the title of 5 & Baseball. It appears that I am either losing my mind or really not wanting my baby to get bigger. I am going with the latter! Anyway, here is the same post but updated since Nolen is 7 months!




Look at me, I am 7 months old! I love all my food and especially the vegetables. I am always happy.......unless I am hungry! I love to have my bottom cleaned and laugh a lot! I love my brother and watching him play! He loves to make me laugh! I am now crawling (army style) and keep everybody busy! I love all my toys and love to chew on my cold teething toys! Until next month.........





The classic sibling picture!! These boys do love each other!!



This boy LOVES baseball!!!! He is a Natural!





We officially have another baseball lover in our house........not that I am surprised!!!! He always makes a b-line for the baseballs........or the cat food!!!!!

We are doing great!! My mom is visiting this weekend and we are soooo excited! Now that Nolen is mobile, we stay VERY busy!!

Have a great rest of your week!

Love-

Krysha