Thanksgiving in Houston

My sister Angie moved to Houston this year.  We drove to their house to celebrate Thanksgiving together.  The kids all had a blast:

Angie and I gave the girls facials and painted their nails:

 

The kids decorated Gingerbread Houses:

 Kenzie slept in this 2 foot by 2 foot tent!!!  I don't even know how she slept

15 Months

Aaron is 15 months old here are his stats:

Weight: 22lbs

Height: 30 inches

Head Circumference: 19 inches

All time favorite thing to put in his mouth is sand/dirt.  He eats it by the handful, as much as will fit in his mouth.

Loves playing outside.

Favorite food: cooked carrots, popsicles, pasta with a white sauce, grapes, clementines, mac and cheese

Loves dogs, shakes his head no

Signs: all done, bye-bye, please

Has learned he can push chairs around.  Now nothing is off limits.  This boy can get to everything.

Loves chewing phone chargers.  Aaron has ruined 2 new iphone chargers.

Mason is 4

Mason turned 4 today.  He is a sweet, active, boy.  Here are his stats:

Weight:  36lbs

Height:  40 inches

This is a list of his favorite things:

Superhero: Batman, Spiderman

Food:  chicken nuggets, root beer, meatloaf, and french fries,

Book:  Dinosaur

Friends: Gideon, Nash, Ava

Past time:  puzzles, reading books, digging in the back yard, playing with cars, and riding his bike

Mason has to know how everything works, and what it is made of.  He is always asking questions and corrects me if he believes I am wrong.

My favorite thing about him is he has a little lisp.  He uses the "th" sound instead of the "s"

He loves letters and spelling.  He can spell: Mason, Mom, Dad, Stop, and other random things. 

Mason's Birthday Party

At the age of 4 Mason had his first real birthday party.  We did a combined birthday party with his best friend Gideon.  Mason started out the day opening presents.  At noon all his friends showed up to party.

 My friend Cindy made the best Pirate Ship Cake I have ever seen:

 It was a great day full of friends, food, games and of course a pinata' 

Aaron is 1 year old

This kid just keeps growing.  

Weight: 20 lbs

Height: 30 inches
 He is almost walking.  He takes 4-5 steps, and walks along the furniture.  He prefers to crawl instead of walk most of the time.
He has 8 teeth (4 on top, 4 on bottom)
Loves playing in the toilet, and throwing things in it.
Sign's "all done" and "bye-bye"
Loves his siblings.  You spend your day crawling around following them.
Kenzie and Kaitlynn always love to play baby and use you as their baby, he loves it.
No bottles
Hand feed yourself everything
You have the most high pitched, ear piercing scream.  If anyone does something you don't like (take away the toilet bowl cleaner from you) you scream.  You are very stubborn.
You are now scared of strangers, and love being with your Mom.

Aaron 11 Months

Aaron is 11 months old

If I had to sum this adorable kid up using one word, it would be inquisitive.

He has to see, touch, eat, smell everything he sees. 

Unless he is sleeping, he is on the move.  He is very busy and rarely sits in one spot for long. 

He has 4 teeth (2 on top, 2 on bottom)

Sleeps through the night

Loves his binky and blanket

Waves goodbye

Crawls with legs straight, and his bum straight up in the air.

Says: Nana, Dada, Mama

 He has mastered stairs, he can go up and down.

You are by far my hardest child, but I love you to pieces.

Kate is 6

This adorable girl is 6.  She got to celebrate her birthday in Utah with lots of family.  

Weight:  45 lbs

Height: 44 inches

You are a joy to be around.  You are always looking for ways to make things fun.  You love to laugh and play.  You do not love doing chores.  Once you make up your mind you won't change.  A lot of times when I try to threaten you with an extra chore, you say I want to do an extra chore, and walk off and go play.  Your way of thinking blows my mind, but I am so glad you think about things, and decide what you want.  I love you to pieces.  I love your smile, laugh and silly ways.  I also love that you can fall asleep anywhere.  When you are tired, you just go to sleep.