Sunday, March 25, 2012

Sibling Bonding

Having three kids is a wonderful, busy and often exhausting experience.  I get so much love from these three babies of mine.  It seems like Kayda and Dillon are getting so mature now. 

Kayda is totally ready for kindergarten.  I'm so exciting for going in to work in her class and walking her to the school bus and back home at the end of the day.  She is back into her dress kick again, maybe I need to take pictures of her in her many, many dresses.  She doesn't want to wear anything else...ever.  I'm not sure how I ended up with a girl that loves to dress up so much but she looks so goregous I can't help but encourage her.  She is working on reading, she picks it up very quickly and can count to 100, we're working on adding and subtracting now.

Dillon is getting so smart!  Grandma G and I went in to work in the preschool for a center day where each person runs a station.  I was running a station where the kids were given a worksheet, they were supposed to read the number and color that many of a certain picture.  For instance, there might be the number three with four cows next to it.  They had to leave on of those cows blank.  Dillon was one of two "bumblees" (kids who turned 4 this school year) that could do this without help.  He's writing his letters and is such a good student.  I am so glad that both of my children follow directions and focus when a task is presented to them.  We are constantly being told how wonderful they are.  (We have parent conferences Tuesday for Kayda, SO excited!) 

Carson is on fast forward, he's as big as Kayda and Dillon were at a year,keep in mind he's 7 months old.  He's doing his little army crawl, cruising the couches, getting himself from stomach to sitting, pulling himself up to standing on just about everything, crawling up a step from the family room to the kitchen at Grandma and Papa G's, and he mimicks how you play with things (we were playing a drum and he proceeded to play the drum right after us).  He is back to loving baby food, though he is much more interested in our food.  He loves to go upside down an d "fly", he smiles at pretty much everyone, he is fascinated by animals and his big brother and sister. 

 Kayda and Dillon can get Carson to smile even if he's mid cry. He wants to be playing with them all the time. A favorite play place of theirs is Uncle Justin's couch. They love all the pillows. Don't worry Uncle Justin, we're being careful with it.

 Here's Carson sleeping on me, he is SO cute!

 Carson wants to play trains too!
 But that doesn't mean big brother and sister always want him to...

 Well hello beautiful blue eyes!
He wants to stand up ALL the time!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

A couple of pictures

I feel bad that so many posts seem to be about Carson but of course when they're that little they change so fast so that's too bad.  I'm sure it'll even back out eventually.  This little man is MOVING.  He army crawls really fast and is starting to get into everything!  He now has 4 teeth (as of about a week ago).  He loves to slide himself off the couch on his tummy (you just have to hold your hand behind him so he doesn't topple backwards).  His favorite thing is to stand up and play with things.  He also really enjoys holding your hands and walking.  He actually takes steps though he's nowhere near doing it on his own.  He is such a happy little boy!  He ADORES his siblings.  He definitely prefers to play with them right around him, he'll get upset if theyr'e too far away from him.   Kayda and Dillon adore him too.  It's really cute when they're not fighting about who Carson's looking at. 

He's already such a great little helper!  Who knew an almost 7 month old baby could help unload the dishwasher!