1st T-ball game and a Birthday celebration!!

Wade had his very first T-ball practice/game on Saturday. To say he was excited is a understatement. He could not wait to play in his first game but he was also so excited because all of his grandparents were going to be there and Ashley and Zach. 

Josh and Chase's Dad-Jeff are the coaches and they did a great job. Of course it was a little crazy because it was the first game but it was so cute. They practiced for 30 minutes by doing stations and then they "played" for 30 minutes. My favorite part of the entire game is when anyone would hit the ball and the ENTIRE team would leave their spots and run and dive or tackle for the ball. It was so funny. Next week's practice may consist of "staying in their spots!!" Wade is playing with his best friend Chase and his other really good friend Ben. I got some great videos but here are some of my favorite pictures.

And yes my almost 4 year old wore his hat either sideways or backwards the entire time...he is just like Josh!!

We had a great day after the game. We went back to my parents house and we all walked to downtown Apex for lunch and a little shopping. I love that they moved so close to downtown. It was Wade's little family birthday celebration. After lunch he got ice cream and was thrilled! After a couple of hours downtown we went back to our house and Wade got to open his Easter gifts and birthday gifts from Nana and Poppy. He loved them and has not stopped playing with his new Ninja Turtle stuff all week.

I have this exact same picture of Wade when he was 15 months. She is only a month younger but looks so much smaller than he did :)

 Here is one happy little boy because he is getting ready to open up his birthday presents from Nana and Poppy. I wish I would have gotten a better picture of them with him while opening his gifts.

Easter Egg Hunt and the Easter Bunny

The weekend before Easter we took the kids to a Easter Egg hunt at our friends church. WK didn't really have a clue what was going on but Wade was so excited about the candy!! I have a picture of Wade when he was almost one sitting in a Easter egg pile just like this. Westin Kate is just a couple of months older than he was. 

The Monday before Spring break (3-25-13) was Wade's birthday celebration at school. He of course picked out Ninja Turtle plates and cupcakes to share with his friends.

Not so sure about this Easter Egg hunt :) I love the next picture-she LOVES to sit like this!!

Good Friday we took the kids to see the Easter Bunny. I wanted to take them when Josh was off. Wade of course did great and smiled and WK actually did pretty good too. She would not give us a smile but she didn't cry either. I LOVE this first picture of her little face. She is looking at us like-get me out of here :) Then she decides to look up at him and see what he is all about. I can't believe that she was only 8 weeks old last year when we took them. Wade told him he wanted a chocolate bunny for Easter!!

After seeing the Easter Bunny we let the kids ride the little train in the mall. Look at Josh's face in the 2nd picture. He is saying "how did I get stuck on this thing with all the kids!!" Guilty by association we told him. They all had a great time and WK was worn out and fell asleep on the way home. Now that she is almost 14 months we have been working hard to drop her morning nap. We are almost there but she is SO tired by 12-1pm. She usually makes it until then and has been napping like a champ taking 3 hour naps most days. 

And here is a random picture of my kiddo's having their favorite snack...an apple! Of course WK wants to eat hers just like her big brother.

Pictures!!

We got our pictures back last week and I was pretty happy with them. Of course I like the ones of just the kids better :) Here are a few of my favorites...

A little update...

Last Saturday we had our family pictures taken. I decided to get there a few minutes early and take just a couple of the kids. They loved seeing the horse and donkey and we even brought some carrots and Wade fed them. I can't wait to see our pictures. We used a new photographer and I think she did a great job!! Can't wait to share the professional ones. 

 This little girl is standing so well and walking pretty good these days. She doesn't go too far yet because she realizes she can crawl faster but each day she is walking a little more! She looks like a hot mess in these pictures because I was getting ready to change her clothes. She is getting to be such a funny big girl.

 She loves to "talk" on the phone. She basically speaks about three sentences in Chinese and then you may hear "Dada" Ha...we joke that she is fluent in another language-her own language!!

We had one happy little boy this week when Daddy found all his old Ninja Turtles stuff in the attic. Wade has had so much fun playing with them. Thanks Nana for saving them for us!! I love that Wade still calls them "Engine Turtles." Wade has been SO sweet lately so I have to brag on him a bit. Every time Josh and I leave or even just run outside for a minute I hear "Love you Mom!" or "Love you Dad!" Then he will say "kiss and a hug!" I wish I could just bottle him up and keep him this age forever :)

Hoping that this doesn't count as child labor...We HAD to mop the floors and clean up some last weekend and this crazy one year old that we call WK was getting into EVERYTHING. So here is plan B. It only lasted for a bit but we got the floors cleaned. 

 We have a busy weekend planned but we are staying home which is nice. I have a girls night tonight!!!!!! Clearly it has been awhile since this Momma has gotten out so to say I am excited about eating a meal that I didn't have to cook is a understatement. Plus I don't have to clean up after anyone-it doesn't get much better than that these days :)  Tomorrow Wade has a Easter Egg hunt at a friends Church and then we are all going to nap/clean up and then its work time for me. If it ever gets warm again our back yard is needing some attention so that is also on the plan. Next weekend Wade starts T-ball and we are so excited. And guess who the head coach is....Josh!!! He signed up for assistant but I guess everyone else did to so they bumped him to head coach. I know he will do great and Wade is thrilled. Hoping it warms up so we don't freeze at his first game. 

Walking!!

Westin Kate has really taken her sweet time with walking but this week she has really started doing it more. I haven't rushed her at all because I know what happens when sweet little babies start walking...they turn into crazy wild toddlers. I am excited because this means that she won't have her little hands all over floors and playgrounds once she gets the hang of it. I completely forgot to post this video but this was exactly one month ago (funny how that worked out!!) On February 16th she took her first steps and right after she did it she did it again and Josh was able to video it on his phone. Here she is taking steps for the first time.

So here we are a month later and she is really trying hard to get this walking thing. She is 13.5 months!! She isn't walking around everywhere yet but she is taking 6-7 steps at a time and starting to let go of things and walk to other things. On Thursday she took quite a few steps at the park and was so proud of herself. She is also bear crawling on the hard floor now (I think it hurts her knees so she is crawling with her knees up!!) Hopefully today we will get a video of her walking now. I do have another video to share. People don't always believe me that my cute little girl is wild and crazy but here is the proof. She also started this on Thursday this past week. She watched the big kids and about two seconds later she was doing the same thing. I swear she thinks she is 3!!

Today it is so nice outside and I am so thankful because we are having their 1 year old and "almost" 4 year old pictures taken outside. Since she is February and he is April I thought I could do March each year for their yearly pictures. I am sad that WK is one now but I have to be honest that I do love only doing yearly pictures. With both of our kids we did newborn, 3,6,9 and 12 months and then we started doing yearly after that. Now that we are onto once a year we will do professional pictures. For their 3-9 months we just did something cheaper like portrait innovations.

 I have my fingers crossed for today that they both cooperate. I may or may not have bribed Wade with eating dinner out and frozen yogurt if he smiles and behaves. We don't bribe him very often at all but sometimes if is necessary :) Can't wait to share their pictures. Oh and I almost forgot that WK is saying "yea" and blowing kisses just this week. I have been showing her how but she has never blown a kiss back. Well this week my mom stopped by to see the kids after work (she has withdrawals if she only sees them once a week!) and when she was telling them bye I looked over at WK who was in her highchair and she had her sweet hand up to her mouth blowing her a kiss. So sweet. I know I brag about her but she is the sweetest baby ever. Now every time we pick her up she will hug us and lay her head down on our shoulder. I sure do hope she stays sweet!!

And in other big news Westin Kate is no longer crying at the gym or church. We started the gym last week and she only cried the first three days and only for 5 minutes or less. I think she does great because Wade goes too. But last week in the crawlers class they said she hardly cried at all. She actually played and had fun :) She never screamed like Wade did (we got called out every week for a LONG time) but she would cry off and on throughout the service. Thankfully her teachers love her so they just tolerate her issues :) They were so happy last week when we picked her up because she did so well!