Evan's Orchard

Yay for Fall! Fall is one of my favorite times of year just because of the pumpkin patch! I love going to the pumpkin patch and we will probably go several times because I love it so much! We took the boys the other day and Kayden loved it! He got to play in a big play place, go down the slide, go on a hay ride, feed some animals, and pick out a pumpkin! Such a fun time as family! I can't wait until both boys are old enough to enjoy it!!

Kayden is 2!!!

With all of the craziness of Mykah being born, we thrown in Kayden turning 2! Since Mykah was only about 2 weeks old on Kayden's birthday we decided to wait a couple weeks before we had a big birthday party for him. I couldn't stand waiting that long to celebrate his birthday though so we did some special things on his actual birthday and had a small family party. Nick had to work on Kayden's birthday so we still took him to daycare because I was still not able to do much with taking care of him. Once Nick got off work, we went to the grocery store and bought some cupcakes to take to daycare. We surprised him at daycare with cupcakes and let him stay to eat them with his friends. We then took him from daycare early and came home. Before we left for daycare we blew up a bunch of balloons and left them in the living room. When Kayden got home he freaked out when he saw all the balloons. He kept running through them all and yelling BALLOONS!!! It was so much fun! Then both of our families came over for spaghetti and presents to celebrate his birthday!

The next day we took Kayden to the Explorium. I wasn't as impressed with it as I thought I would be but Kayden loved the bubble room. There was also a big bug area and he spent a lot of time looking at the bugs as well. We then took him to Orange Leaf to enjoy some yummy frozen yogurt!

A couple weeks later we had a big Thomas the Train party for Kayden! We had some kids from church come over as long with some of his cousins. We decorated everything with choo choos and the kids played outside or in the play room. It was a fun time for Kayden and he enjoyed having his friends at his house. I really wanted to make his birthday extra special since he just had to go through this big change of adding a baby brother to his life.

1 month old

Sweet Mykah-
You are one month old and the time is just flying by so fast all ready. You are such a sweet baby and I just want to hold you all day long. You fit right into this family and we all love you so much. You are sleeping a lot right now and you do pretty well during the night. You usually wake up every 3 hours wanting to eat and you only stay awake for about 30 minutes after a feeding. I love your awake time because you just look all around trying to figure out this world and your family.

Your brother, Kayden, loves you so much. He is constantly in your face trying to kiss and hug you. He loves trying to put your paci back in your mouth and he is trying very hard to be gentle with you but sometimes he just gets really excited! He has not had any problems welcoming you into our family and for that I am grateful!

Through this first month, mommy has held you a lot and because of that you don't like lay down under your play mat and just play or to be in your swing. We are working on it though. Mommy just can't get enough of you and wants to hold you all the time before she goes back to work and can't. So I don't really care if you are spoiled or not! :)

I am so glad that God gave us you to add to our family. You are such a sweet boy and I can't wait to see how you grow and change the next couple of months. But just don't do it all too fast. Mommy is really enjoying having a baby again!

I love you sweet boy!
Mommy :)