Singing bonds a family to each other. Singing makes memories. Singing helps us overcome difficulties. Singing makes us happy.
Happy children SING! =)
(http://www.housewifeintown.com/2011/10/sing-together-day-four.html)
I LOVE THIS! A friend pinned on Pinterest a blog that had a series going on called "31 days to happy children". I ran across this post and absolutely adored it. It reminded me of Kayden's new found love. Singing. You can ask him to sing and he will open his mouth up wide and say "ahhhhhhh". He LOVES when we sing to him. Of course, he has since day one. We sing ALL.THE.TIME. He is always around Nick singing, of course, but I also sing a lot to him. I have always sung to him while I rocked him but recently we have been singing a lot of the children songs with hand motions to them. I'm telling you, he LOVES them.
When we sing "5 Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed" He will jump up and down, put his hands on his head, "call the doctor" with his hand to his ear, and shake his finger "no,no,no". This was one that I have always sung to him in the morning because when I stayed home with him (and now on the weekends) I always brought him back to our bed for a little bit and this song would always pop into my head.
We sing "Itsy, Bitsy, Spider" and he puts his little fingers together when the spider is going up the spout, puts his hands above his head for the rain and sun... this is one of his favorites right now.
He has been doing "Patty Cake" for quite a while now with his favorite motion being "roll em up". He rolls EVERYTHING up! This was one of the first hand motions put to song that he learned besides the pointing of the finger in "5 little monkeys".
We also sing "Deep and Wide", which he has recently been spreading his arms out wide when we ask him where things are (cutest thing ever!) so he has started doing that when we sing Deep and Wide too.
Since he seems to pick things up quickly through song, I have also started singing the ABC song. He loves it, but I wish it had hand motions to it. Oh well, at least we are starting to expose him to the ABC's. I really want to find a song to the numbers also.
I hope his love for music stays with him the rest of his life. He absolutely loves music, and I love that! :)
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
CH- CH- CH- CHANGES!
For a girl who doesn't like change, There sure is a lot of it going on around here! I'm trying to think of it as a good thing getting it all over at once... but then I'm waiting for the complete melt down. I've had a couple moments, but not the big meltdown that I am just waiting to happen.
So what are all these changes you may ask:
1) Well obviously, we all know I started teaching 1st grade in August. I no longer stay at home with my precious boy. It has it's ups and downs. I have good days and bad days. I'm just trying to make it through the year.
2) Nick was presented with the opportunity to lead worship at a friends church called Mosaic. We are SOOOO excited about this! We've been ready for a change for a while, and this church seems to fit us perfectly! Nick played there one night and they decided to ask him if he would lead worship and be the one to help coordinate all of that. It's a beautiful church that has a diverse congregation and we felt welcomed from day one. It's a smaller church, which we are loving because we are really getting to know the people and form relationships. We both grew up at our other church, and it's the only church I have ever known, but we are excited for the change. However, that leads to our current housing situation....
3) We are BUYING and BUILDING a house!! Holy smokes! if you told me a year ago that we would be buying and owning our own home I would say you are crazy! It was a decision that I have struggled with and spent many hours going back and forth over. Thankfully, our old church that we have been renting our house from is going to let us live here until our house is finished. The date they are planning on having it finished is January 28th. He is going to try to get it done before Christmas but it just depends on a lot of different factors.... and things never go as planned in the building industry so we aren't going to hold out hope. We will be living right next to our friends who helped start Mosaic and whom we have known for a while. They have a 5 year old boy and a 1 1/2 year old little girl so we are excited that Kayden will have some kids to play with. It definitely all happened really fast... and that makes me so nervous but we both feel like this is where we are meant to be and it has been obvious that the Lord has had his hand on this plan the whole time.
Soooo.... two new jobs, a house, a new church.... I think that's about all the change I can handle for right now. Please don't throw any thing else at me! :) Thankfully we are so happy with all these changes and know that the Lord will hold, protect, carry and guide us through everything.
So what are all these changes you may ask:
1) Well obviously, we all know I started teaching 1st grade in August. I no longer stay at home with my precious boy. It has it's ups and downs. I have good days and bad days. I'm just trying to make it through the year.
2) Nick was presented with the opportunity to lead worship at a friends church called Mosaic. We are SOOOO excited about this! We've been ready for a change for a while, and this church seems to fit us perfectly! Nick played there one night and they decided to ask him if he would lead worship and be the one to help coordinate all of that. It's a beautiful church that has a diverse congregation and we felt welcomed from day one. It's a smaller church, which we are loving because we are really getting to know the people and form relationships. We both grew up at our other church, and it's the only church I have ever known, but we are excited for the change. However, that leads to our current housing situation....
3) We are BUYING and BUILDING a house!! Holy smokes! if you told me a year ago that we would be buying and owning our own home I would say you are crazy! It was a decision that I have struggled with and spent many hours going back and forth over. Thankfully, our old church that we have been renting our house from is going to let us live here until our house is finished. The date they are planning on having it finished is January 28th. He is going to try to get it done before Christmas but it just depends on a lot of different factors.... and things never go as planned in the building industry so we aren't going to hold out hope. We will be living right next to our friends who helped start Mosaic and whom we have known for a while. They have a 5 year old boy and a 1 1/2 year old little girl so we are excited that Kayden will have some kids to play with. It definitely all happened really fast... and that makes me so nervous but we both feel like this is where we are meant to be and it has been obvious that the Lord has had his hand on this plan the whole time.
Soooo.... two new jobs, a house, a new church.... I think that's about all the change I can handle for right now. Please don't throw any thing else at me! :) Thankfully we are so happy with all these changes and know that the Lord will hold, protect, carry and guide us through everything.
12 month stats!
Kayden has his 1 year appointment and it was exactly like we thought.... skinny skinny minnie!!!
Length: 29 1/2 inches (50%)
Weight: 18.4 pounds (< 5th%)
She isn't too concerned about his weight. It kinda freaks me out, but both of us are skinny and were very skinny when we were little so I'm trying not to worry too much about it. She does not want us to give him anything other than whole milk because whole milk has more fat in it than 2% or reduced fat. We are also weaning off of formula and his bottle. She wasn't as concerned about the formula (because of the weight) as she was getting him off the bottle. She said we could put his formula in his sippy cup, but I'm pretty dead set on getting him off of both formula and bottle together. He's just not a very good eater though so we will just have to roll with the punches on this one. I'm hoping he will put on some weight but trying not to stress out about it too much.
Length: 29 1/2 inches (50%)
Weight: 18.4 pounds (< 5th%)
She isn't too concerned about his weight. It kinda freaks me out, but both of us are skinny and were very skinny when we were little so I'm trying not to worry too much about it. She does not want us to give him anything other than whole milk because whole milk has more fat in it than 2% or reduced fat. We are also weaning off of formula and his bottle. She wasn't as concerned about the formula (because of the weight) as she was getting him off the bottle. She said we could put his formula in his sippy cup, but I'm pretty dead set on getting him off of both formula and bottle together. He's just not a very good eater though so we will just have to roll with the punches on this one. I'm hoping he will put on some weight but trying not to stress out about it too much.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
1st birthday bash!
We had a wonderful day full of fun for Kayden's first birthday! I can't believe that one year ago today I was just meeting my sweet boy for the first time. We have had a wonderful year with him and are looking forward to many more years to come. He is such a sweet boy and I couldn't imagine my life without him!
Here are a couple pictures from the party... At the bottom there is a link to my facebook album to see all of the days activities :)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100306172185410.2575874.12931505&l=7e3751ae17&type=1
Here are a couple pictures from the party... At the bottom there is a link to my facebook album to see all of the days activities :)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10100306172185410.2575874.12931505&l=7e3751ae17&type=1
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
11 months old
Dear Kayden-
11 months old! Only one more month until you turn the big 1!! You have learned so much over the past couple of months that it just amazes me! You can stand on your own, say a couple words such as mama, dada, nana, no no, dog, and duck. You also say all done and more in sign language. You are slowly diminishing your bottles, now only taking about 3-4 a day and none at night. You sleep all on your own in your crib all through the nights. If someone asked mommy a couple months back if you would ever sleep in your crib, she would have said no..... but thankfully you finally learned how :)
This month mommy started back to work. You stay with mrs. stephanie and love playing with ellie and luke. You also get to go to church for Mother's day out and love playing with your friends there too. It's so weird to mommy that she doesn't know what your teachers look like or who they are, but I know you are in good hands. Nana drops you off and daddy picks you up and they say you are doing great there. Mommy misses you so much every day and hates having to drop you off. I wish I could stay with you all day. I LOVE coming home to you and seeing the big smile on your face when you see me though. It makes it all worth it. You are just the sweetest little boy!
You love playing with toys and books now. You will just sit in the floor and play with your toys without a care in the world. You love playing peek a boo and patty cake and we have started itsy bitsy spider. You love being outside, and when we say let's go bye bye your face lights up! You don't like to be in one place too long so going outside is a nice break for you. You love to go out back and see Skye, as long as he doesn't bark or howl at you.
Here before too long, we will be writing your 1 year letter! I can't believe that you have been in our lives for almost a year. I still remember seeing you for the first time and you being that little bitty 6 pound baby. My my how much you have grown! I love you sweet boy and can't wait to see what the rest of the month hold for us!
I love you!
Mommy
11 months old! Only one more month until you turn the big 1!! You have learned so much over the past couple of months that it just amazes me! You can stand on your own, say a couple words such as mama, dada, nana, no no, dog, and duck. You also say all done and more in sign language. You are slowly diminishing your bottles, now only taking about 3-4 a day and none at night. You sleep all on your own in your crib all through the nights. If someone asked mommy a couple months back if you would ever sleep in your crib, she would have said no..... but thankfully you finally learned how :)
This month mommy started back to work. You stay with mrs. stephanie and love playing with ellie and luke. You also get to go to church for Mother's day out and love playing with your friends there too. It's so weird to mommy that she doesn't know what your teachers look like or who they are, but I know you are in good hands. Nana drops you off and daddy picks you up and they say you are doing great there. Mommy misses you so much every day and hates having to drop you off. I wish I could stay with you all day. I LOVE coming home to you and seeing the big smile on your face when you see me though. It makes it all worth it. You are just the sweetest little boy!
You love playing with toys and books now. You will just sit in the floor and play with your toys without a care in the world. You love playing peek a boo and patty cake and we have started itsy bitsy spider. You love being outside, and when we say let's go bye bye your face lights up! You don't like to be in one place too long so going outside is a nice break for you. You love to go out back and see Skye, as long as he doesn't bark or howl at you.
Here before too long, we will be writing your 1 year letter! I can't believe that you have been in our lives for almost a year. I still remember seeing you for the first time and you being that little bitty 6 pound baby. My my how much you have grown! I love you sweet boy and can't wait to see what the rest of the month hold for us!
I love you!
Mommy
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Kayden's First Steps
Kayden has been trying to walk for a little while now. He would cruise all over the place, but once you put him out there on his own, he would get scared and sit down. He can stand for quite a while on his own, and will sit down without falling. Today, I was just putting him down on the floor and he decided he wanted to stand rather than sit. I stood him up right on the floor and usually he would just sit down. However, he decided he was going to walk to nick. He balanced himself on his own, and then took 5 steps to nick! We were SHOCKED!! We kept trying to get him to take that many again, but the most we have been able to get since are three. He is getting there though and I can't believe that very soon, we will have a toddler!
Friday, August 5, 2011
Sleeping (I feel like this is the title of 2/3rds of my posts!)
FINALLY!!!! I am happy to report that as of 3 nights ago, Kayden will actually lay down and go to sleep at night time. He will fuss for just a second when I lay him down but then he will just stop crying and will go back and forth from laying down to sitting to standing and continues doing that until he finally caves, lays down, and goes to sleep. It's usually about a 5 minutes process. I'm just thankful he doesn't cry anymore when we put him in his bed!
However, he still wakes up in the middle of the night and does not put himself back to sleep. I end up going to get him and put him in the bed with us. I can't figure out why he can't put himself back to sleep in the middle of the night but he can when we first put him down. So, that will be our next step.
I tried just putting him down for naps today too. That didn't work. Oh well, I'll take what I can get at this point!
I start back to work next Thursday. As many know, we had no where for Kayden to go on Thursdays and that was pretty stressful for me! Luckily, I got an email from our church's Mother's Day Out coordinator and they still had a spot open for Thursday's. They start August 16 so my mom is going to take off this Thursday (also the first day of school) and then he will start going there on Thursdays! I'm so thankful that this worked out because I was getting worried!! :)
However, he still wakes up in the middle of the night and does not put himself back to sleep. I end up going to get him and put him in the bed with us. I can't figure out why he can't put himself back to sleep in the middle of the night but he can when we first put him down. So, that will be our next step.
I tried just putting him down for naps today too. That didn't work. Oh well, I'll take what I can get at this point!
I start back to work next Thursday. As many know, we had no where for Kayden to go on Thursdays and that was pretty stressful for me! Luckily, I got an email from our church's Mother's Day Out coordinator and they still had a spot open for Thursday's. They start August 16 so my mom is going to take off this Thursday (also the first day of school) and then he will start going there on Thursdays! I'm so thankful that this worked out because I was getting worried!! :)
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