Cap Cutie

Mummi made this hat hoping to have a granddaughter someday. We had a little photo shoot with it. We just love this little girl. Thanks Mummi for the cute hat.

Buddies

Kaleb loves his neighbor buddy Chase. When they see each outside they start squealing and run to each other. At church they love to hang out together and they hold hands and walk down to Nursery after Sacrament. It really is so cute to see them together. Most of the time it is a love hate relationship. One minute they are doing great then they start beating on each other and cry, but if you separate them they cry cause they want to continue to play.

The other day Chase was over playing and so we got a couple of Spider Man shooting web. They have so much fun together.

4 months old

Our little Kaija is now 4 Months old. I can't believe how time has flown, and how big she is. She is a chunk and is not a little baby anymore. I held the neighbors baby this morning, and it was like picking up a feather compared to Kaija. Hope she has her Dad's metabolism and not mine when she gets older.

3 Reasons Why

I would love to have Kaleb potty trained and I have attempted a few times to start with him. Here are 3 reasons so far why it is not working.



1st reason. HAT:

I try about 6 months or so ago because Kaleb would come up to me and tell me that he is poopie so maybe he is ready?? I buy him this potty at Ikea cause it is dirt cheap. Bring it home and try to get Kaleb to sit on it but he just wears it as a HAT.

2nd reason. ROCKETS:

I try again I think shortly after Kaija is born and I see this Cars potty at Walmart and it is not to expensive and he like the Cars movie so I think yeah he will want to sit on this. So he is excited and he does not want to sit on it but I convince him to. He actually pees cause I had the tub water running and he gets a treat. I get him to sit on it one more time then he likes to pretend it is a ROCKET.
3rd reason. HIS DAD/MASK:

I buy Kaleb cool SpiderMan, IronMan and BatMan underwear and tell him that if he is a big boy he needs to go potty in the toilet and he can wear the fun underwear. Well Mikko shows Kaleb how to do this with the underwear and now he just wants to wear them as a MASKS!! Thanks honey. Oh well we will try again in a few months.

Cute Noises

Finally captured Kaija lauging. I have to take video from the side otherwise she just stops and stares at the camera.

Bubbles

Kaija like to blow bubbles lately. It is really cute. I was trying to get a picture of her blowing the bubbles but of course I pull out the camera and she stops whatever she is doing and just stares at the camera. I wonder if that would work while she is crying. Maybe I will start taking pictures while she cries to see if she will stop. If you click on the photos you can see the frothy spit around her mouth!

Spider Man does Sleep

Went to the Kid to Kid Halloween costume sale with Kaleb and we found a Spider Man costume. It was a little big but Kaleb wanted to wear the mask really bad. I let him and I still had to run two more errands but he would not take off the mask. He got lots of comments and looks from people in the stores. I was surprised he would even wear it. But as you can see he would not take it off and Spider Man fell asleep in the car on the way home. He continued to wear it all day. I hid it that night after he went to sleep!

Strong Men

Labor day weekend we spent most of the time still cleaning and organizing our house since we put it on the market but we got a little bit of fun in. We borrowed Pekka's key and used the pool at his townhouse.
The boys were trying to prove how tough they are.

This is only the second time that we have taken Kaija into the pool she is just too little to be out in the sun.

Third Month Sort Of

Seriously, me trying to keep up with this blog now that we have two kids is a joke. And as I was putting this together, I feel bad that I just don't take as many pictures of Kaija as I did Kaleb. I hope to get better.
So Kaleb wanted to put my socks on the other day, he then hopped up onto the ottoman to show off his wonderful new trend.

Kaija is growing up so fast, she can already sit up in the bumbo pretty well.

I already slacked on taking a picture of Kaija every month. This is a little over the 3 month mark, but it's pretty close. She is smiling all the time and she loves to babble and laugh.

Mikko loves this picture he think it is funny. I think she looks like a little alien.

Our cute little children. KB likes to sit up in this chair that is in Kaija's room, and then he tells me that he wants Kaija to sit by him. Then he says, "Take a picture Mom".

Kaleb had a fight with the stairs last week, and the stairs won. I did not see what he was doing, but he fell down the stairs and skinned his face up. Poor kid.

Love them. Hoping that Kaija keeps these pretty blue eyes.

Quiet Book

So here are 8 of the 20 pages of the quiet book I finally finished, well 99% finished.

So here is the deal back in June I decided I wanted to get a quiet book for Kaleb for church since he has decided that he can't be still for an hour and really why do we think that toddlers should hold still for an hour. Anyways, I search the Internet to buy one, but couldn't fine any, but found a lady who sold kits. Well on her site it said completed pages, that to me means done like what is shown. But all it was is 10 pages printed on pellon. I still needed to color, assemble and sew. So for some stupid reason I buy 2 kits because I felt stupid that I was at this ladies house and I did not realize how hard it was going to be, so I could not back out. OK that was 35 bucks a kit, but then you have to reinforce the pages, so I end of buying a bunch of extra pellon and wonder how to accomplish that. So I go to Kanab thinking that I will have time to do it down there, but all I accomplish is spraying the pages with starch and ironing them.

So in the past two months I got them colored and made many trips to the store to get felt, fabric markers and crayons, eyelets, shoelaces, ribbon, Velcro and probably more that I am forgetting. I asked the lady how much it would cost if I just paid her to make them and she said she charges $150 a book. Believe me, now I know why she charges that much!!

This last weekend we sent Kaleb to Grandparents house so I could do the sewing, and it took me three days, some bad words and watch a bunch of episodes of Buffy to get it all done.
So my advice for anyone who wants to make a quiet book........ do it if you want to dump a lot of money and time in it and do it before you actually HAVE children, it will be easier.

Kaleb and Kaija will have to play with these for years so that we get our moneys worth!!

Blessing Day

We finally had Kaija blessed. She looked so adorable and the blessing by her father was beautiful and we had a wonderful day with our families.

Again me trying to get a shot of her smiling. I borrowed the dress from a neighbor it was so cute.

Our cute little but big family. Kaija did not stay little for long.

Mummi and Pappa with their first grand daughter and 2nd grand child.

Grandma and Grandpa Brown with number 38 grandchild and they love everyone of them. Mom and Dad stayed with us the whole week. They had the booksellers convention and Rhen's wedding to go to. We were glad that they could stay with us. Mom was great help with cooking for the lunch and she provided the meat and my dad helped us put in a bunch of gravel in our landscape. Thanks Mom and Dad!!

Pics by Kaleb

Neither Mikko or I took many pictures at the lunch we had after Kaija's blessing. But Kaleb got a hold of the camera after most people had left. He was loving taking these photos and he did not do too bad of a job.

FOR LORI

My friend Lori gave Kaija this adorable outfit. She said that she wanted proof that I would use all these pieces together because this is the way the outfit is supposed to be. It's bold but so is Lori. I think it is cute. Can't get the booties to stay on but they are darling.

Mmmmm Flour & Dancing

Here is a still shot of my dancing family.

I was making cookies and Kaleb wanted to try out the flour for some odd reason. Well the outcome was this and he loved it. I don't know why, but he is a crazy kid.

Dancing Family

We had Kaija dancing on the counter so of course Kaleb had to get on the counter too. This is the evidence. I think my family is so cute. If you look closely KB hangs his tongue out lately.