It's a boy

So I know I haven't even posted that I am pregnant up to this point on the blog. I am 19.5 weeks and we are having another boy. Way excited. We feel like it will be the best thing for Brielle and Keiton. I think Brielle will be more likely to jump in and play with her two younger brothers as well as boss, mother, and discipline them, then Keiton jumping in an playing with two sisters. Also there will be less comparison for Brielle and she can be her own self with out so much sibling rivalry.

This little guy's birthday is going to be sandwiched between Brielle and Keitons and crazy of crazys the three of them will go to nursery for about 3 months together.

3, 2 and under here we come!

 I think my kids had more fun in the fall then any other time of year in our yard. It was a long warm season.

Then from Thursday to Sunday we got a huge dump. 22 inches. The kids like to watch it fall from the window but haven't decided that it's fun to play in yet.

prayers

Brielle is our little prayer reminder and 9 out of 10 times she will be the first to fold her arms and remind us to pray. She likes it some much she wants to pray every time a second serving or a new dish is brought to the table. She constantly asks why if I tell her we already prayed, so sometimes we just pray again.

Keiton is trying to say a lot more words and makes the animal sound moo for cow. Most of his attempts no one would catch but me. He is starting to be more obedient and even has stopped his bike before it went in the road and turned around and come back home when asked. yeah progress!

words

Keiton is starting to slowly add to his vocabulary. He says; baby, daddy, mommy, more, the inflections of -here you go, hi, stuck and eye.

 Keiton has banged his lip a few times. He is starting to have an interested in a baby doll and Brielle's special teddy which has caused a lot of contention.

Keiton is our "little adrenaline freak" as my dad would say. He take his bike to the top of our hill in are back yard and speeds down it on his bike. He has had a few biffs but just gets back on and rides down again. Sometimes Brielle is the helper and pushes Keiton on his bike back up the hill but usually he just screams stuck and wants mom or dad to help him get back to the top of the hill. He also likes to venture as far away from mom as fast as possible as soon as I let him out the front door.

One day I let them out of the car after a grocery shopping trip and when inside to put the perishables away and when I came back out they both were gone I couldn't see them anywhere and started to panic. I was running around and screaming their names. Finally I found them 3 houses down playing in their toy house. I now know I can't let them out of my sight for more then a min.

We tried on Brielle's Halloween costume to make sure it fit and she fell in love with it. She kept her hood on all evening and the next morning she found her costume and hugged it and started carrying it around. She loved it so much I felt we had to go and do something so she could stay in it. Our local grocery store had a little activity that the kids had a good time going to. Keiton's costume didn't fit so we scrambled and pulled together a cowboy costume and we carried most of the costume around the rest of the evening because he didn't want to wear it. I think Brielle was able to handle her hood all night because she has a cowboy hat of Dave's that she puts on and off all day. She really loves those hats.

Brielle changed her own poppy diaper this week. I went in after her nap and she was sitting without her pants or diaper, on the floor. In the middle of the room was the poppy diaper with one dirty wipe and scattered around the rest of the room was every last wipe that had been left in the container, all with some pop on them. When I checked her she had very little residua on her bum and non on her hands. I did find some on her coat, the carpet and the humidifier. She has sense undressed and taken her diaper off a few other times, non others quite like this first time.

Brielle has been more consistent with going the potty in the toilet. I think if I was consistent with asking her if she wanted to go she'd have it down within a week. Her favorite time to go is when daddy is using the restroom and they commiserate together and laugh at each other's bodily noises. I think they are having a lot of quality bonding time.

Brielle is also obsessed with getting her own drink and oven drinks for Keiton as well. It seems like more offten then not we have water all over our floor.

We had a first case of croup and it was a scary night but luckily we got a steroid pill and we only had one night of it.

One of my craziest days so far!

   So Keiton fell of the front porch into my flower bed and landed on a mysterious metal post sticking out of the ground. The cut was between his nose and upper lip.down through is upper lip. It bleed a ton and I wasn't sure if it when all the way through the skin into his mouth or how bad it really was. With screaming baby in tow I call sabina to get advice and she tells me to call her back when Keiton has calmed down because she can't hear anything. After I get him calm and the bleeding stops I call her back and talk through wither I should take him in to see if he needs stitches. I decide I think hes ok but go over to ask my neighbor for a second opinion. She thinks he's fine but give me some vitamin E oil gel pills to help with the healing. I bring them home and through them on the kitchen counter and go to change Keitons diaper when I come out Brielle has several of these gel caps in her mouth and half of them are gone. I pull out what she has and try to wash her mouth out and call poison control to make sure shes going to be ok. Luckily there are no bad side effects of over dosing on vitamin E other then they said maybe diarrhea. 

Why?

  Brielle,

   I can't believe I am at the Why stage of life. It's not full fledge but it's coming and I here this question from Brielle when I've told her she can't do something several times a day. I'm not sure she understands what she is asking but somewhere she learned that this is a way to responds when mommy says no.

   Brielle is literally OCD about opening and closing doors. I think if we had not decided it was best to lock Sabina's back door during parts of the day she would have opened and closed it at least a 100 times.  She can open about any knob or pull down door. Luckily our front door she has not figured out how to open and our back doors are sliding glass doors that she can't open. She will open and close the door and Keiton and he is left behind crying.

Brielle has mastered the recognition of B and r and we are working on i. We did however teach her the wrong sound for r and are trying to re-teach that one. I have really struggled to know how to approach the teaching of letters and have changed tactics a couple of times. I love the fact that she can excitedly exclaim Ba as we drive by some sign that has a B in it or she will look at books and point out all the B's and r's. She has become vary aware of letters.

Brielle often puts her own shoes on an takes them off. She is very interested in zippers and other fasteners, buttons, snaps, safety buckles and clips.

  Brielle is liking the idea of bed and nap time and will at times go in and start to put herself to bed. climb up on here bed lay down on her pillow and suck on her blanket and wait for me to put her other blanket on on point to her music. 

Ketion,

   He is starting to point at body parts but he only knows eye, nose, and ears and never seems to remember which one is which.

  He has picked up a few more sign language words (eat, drink) and often will go through all the ones he knows trying to communicate and get what he wants.  He is constantly signing please enthusiastically with both hands and pointing (usually to the kitchen).

  He has finally decided he has an appetite and can be a bottomless pit. He will sit and eat 4 pancakes + milk, banana, and eggs.

  He loves to go outside and still is constantly asking me to put his shoes on.

Life

Brielle says new words everyday and is starting to put them together. She has said more please and today while we were coming out of church I got stuck behind someone talking and blocking the hall way. She used here little hands to gesture me to come and said "come on momma" so sweet:)

Brielle is becoming my little dancer and loves to get wiggling and moving whenever there is music. I love that Keiton is catching on and really trying to boggie as well.

We have started some casual potty training and Brielle has successfully gone poo in her new little toilet. We will start a little more serious when we head to Sabina's for a few days so Keiton has a distraction and isn't cramed in the bathroom with brielle and I trying to sandwich Brielle by closing the lid ontop of her.

We are also doing some learning and Brielle is starting to recognize the letter b and the sound it makes and like me to help her write it.

She also loves to point to her body parts and knows a ton of them from eye brows to belly button and elbows.

Keiton has a little bit or maybe a LOT a bit of a fetish for shoes right now and is constantly bringing me shoes to put on him even if he already as two shoes on, he can often be found with just one shoe or two miss matching shoes. Often I will go to get him out of his crib and he is screaming and pointing at his shoes. He is taking after my dad how always wants shoes on his feet.

Keiton is starting to eat better and only wants to feed himself. But is still very picky

Keiton is my tantrum man, throwing himself on the floor and flinging on to his back while screaming. It is quite funny! Luckily they are short lived.

Keiton can say a few words momma dadd, bottle, his favorite hi, and points to a lot of things that sound like dog or duck.

He can point to his nose:)

He loves to be involved in everything Brielle is doing and often pushes her out of the way to get what she had. He is a big tease and does things he knows will get you upset. He loves to copy Brielle and has been spending a decent amount of time trying to figure out how to jump.

End of summer

 Dave built us stairs off the deck that has been really nice to have. We just need to add a railing, make a path to the other set of steps and fix the other set of steps.

 Keiton has become quite the climber and loves to be up on top of something.

 Keiton and his boots. He is way into shoes and is constantly bringing me shoes he finds for me to put on his feet even when he already has shoes on.

 Keitons curles

 Our big boy no more curles

 I didn't save the curls but I wanted a picture of his little blond locks!

Kids sporting Dave's fishing hats

Similarities

 Do you see any similarities?