It's Kimball time

It's time for this little guy to have a turn on the blog.

Tonight I let Kimball feed himself for the first time and I never realized how far it was possible to get food up the nose. He had fun and decided that spoons weren't all that necesary when he had hands that did the job much easier.

This is a picture I took about a month ago. He is just such a dang cute kid. We just can't get enough of him. I remember before he was born, I was really nervous that I wouldn't be able to love another baby as much as I love Addie. It is amazing how much your love grows. I really love it. Little Keembo is crawling and climbing everywhere now. He has 6 teeth and has the funniest fake laugh...well I don't know if you can really call it a laugh. It sounds more like a machine gun but it sure gets us laughing. No one can get Kimball laughing like Addie can. He thinks she is the greatest comedian ever. He also completely ADORES his Dad. He follows Ammon all around the house until Ammon picks him up to play.

Kimball is also at the stage where he puts everything in his mouth. A couple weeks ago, he was making a funny face and I could tell he had something in his mouth and when I went digging to find out what it was, this next picture is what I pulled out. This bug was pretty tramatized but think of the stories it has to tell.


We sure love this little guy with allour hearts. I can't believe he is going to be ONE in a couple of weeks. Wow this year has gone by fast.

Flashback Friday...back to the days...

Today's flashback is a family flashback. I thought I would share a glimpse of our growing up years.

I love this picture of Ammons family. I love Ammons stance and his karate outfit...at least I think it is a karate outfit. Maybe he just really liked to bear his chest and ripped open his shirt. I also love Hayley's (the youngest in the middle) overalls.

This is picture of my family building gumdrop towers. I love my big tough brother Denny's (the far left) muscle shirt. I am the one on the far right. Great hairstyles all around. Wow the 80's were great weren't they? ha ha ha

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Oh Addie Mae

Last week, our little Addison Mae turned 3 years old. Wow! She really got into her Birthday this year and had fun being treated like a queen for the whole day. It was so fun for Ammon and I to feel justified in spoiling her for the day. I couldn't wait for her to wake up and see her presents that we had been working on. We re-did a doll house for her and that was so much more work than I was expecting. It was kinda fun because I was able to live vicariously through her house since I can't paint any of the walls in my own house. I will have to post some more before/after pictures of that later. Ammon made her a chalk board and we got her some other gifts as well.

This is Addie eating her special birthday "barbie cereal." Growing up we never got cold cereal and if we did it was usually corn flakes. On our birthdays however, we could pick out a sugar coated cereal and I LOVED it. I thought it would be fun to pass that on as well. I wasn't anticipating how much Ammon would loved her Barbie cereal....no I'm not joking.

My mom made Addie a Sleeping Beauty dress. She has been wearing it everyday since.

I made a castle for her cake and it turned out better than I thought it would.

The next day, we did a princess tea party for some of her friends. I think they had fun.