Beautiful day!

It was beautiful today! It's actually been pretty nice here for awhile now, but on the really nice days I always had something to do, so the kids never got to play outside. Well, today we finally got out. We first went down the street a bit with the boys' new rides (Carson's is in the post before this, and Jaden got a fire truck), then we stopped off in the backyard when we got back home. Carson felt like "painting" the fence first.

Carson then realized that Jaden was playing in the sand...with cars!

Carson was putting his hands in the sand and flinging his arms backwards, resulting in sand going everywhere. He was might proud of himself, too.

Stopping to say cheese.

Jaden said cheese, but the sun was too bright for him.

Carson's new ride

Carson got a new ride yesterday, and he absolutely loves it! We got this for Carson so he was entertained in something while I/we try to teach Jaden how to at least pedal his bike. I tried, one day, to help teach Jaden to pedal his bike, and it was hell trying to keep track of Carson at the same time. I had to end up holding Carson, which was very uncomfortable on my pregnant belly while trying to pull Jaden's bike with a towel (just gently - to get him to keep pedaling forward instead of backwards, hitting the breaks). That didn't do much good, because I just wanted to go back inside after that. So! I hope this car will do the trick. It has a handle on the back so I can push him if need be. I think I'm done trying the towel method with Jaden.

Climbing back in. He rarely uses the door to go in and out.

Watching TV

No clue what's up with this face.

"Cheese."

The Curious Case of Carson and the Do-Rag

Carson was begging for anyone to put this do-rag on one night. He ended up begging again the next day, so I figured out how to do it. It wasn't hard, but it had been a very long time since I had done one, so I was a little rusty. He was super happy once I got it on him. He went into his ball pit and started playing in there. I got out the camera, because I thought he looked so adorable in his do-rag.

After he heard the camera take the first picture he finished getting in, turned around and said, "Wiskey!" (Thanks Papa ;) )

He then started posing, and I told him to say cheese. This is him saying, "Say cheese!"

And this is him saying only, "Cheese!" What a cutie!

Carson's undressing himself?

By now you know we always check on the boys before we go to bed. Mainly, I make sure Carson has covers on, because he hasn't quite learned how to do that yet. This is how I found him the other night. He had no covers on (as usual), and one of his arms was completely out of his shirt. Every time he wears these pajamas he's always trying to undress himself. I think it's because these pajamas are more loose fitting than all of his other pajamas. Chris put Carson's arm back in, and Carson didn't even move. He was OUT!

25 weeks!

These were taken yesterday when I was 21 weeks 1 day pregnant. I'd say I can't believe I'm over halfway done, but I can. It seems like I've been pregnant forever, lol. Maybe that has something to do with having all three kids so close together, so it feels like I've never NOT been pregnant. I can't believe Kami is sitting so low already. It feels like I've already dropped, but this is how I've been this whole time (I think, lol).

Here I am at 25w1d with Carson. Crazy how much lower I am with Kami at the same gestation!

Carson, and the ball pit...

...they go way back, to Christmas 2009. ;) He just loves this thing. He knew it was close to bath time, so he got in his ball pit and attempted to bury himself in the 150 (maybe less by now) balls it has in it. He was just chillin' in there. It was so cute! He also, of course, had to "pose" for the camera, lol.

Boys on the computer

Now that Chris's computer has been fixed as much as it's going to get fixed, Jaden has started to play on it again. It used to be on the dinner table with an actual mouse, but Chris has now taught Jaden how to use the laptop mouse. Jaden now plays his games everyday. Carson was intrigued, and tried to take over the laptop at first, but ended up sitting and watching.

And, of course, after he heard the first picture take, he said, "Say cheese!" and cheesed for the next picture.

Bike!

We went to get our snow tires taken off of both our cars Sunday, and we were told it was going to be about an hour wait for just one car. We ran around for about 50 minutes and came back to see when the other car could get done. We were about to put the car seats into the Honda when Chris's dad walks through the door to the waiting area. We ended up going to his trailer behind the car wash next door, and the boys had a blast! They both wanted up on Papa's motorcycle (Jaden's words), so we put them up there. They didn't get down for well over 30 minutes, I'd say.

Carson saw a "hat" on the ground and wanted it on.

Jaden then wanted "his" helmet on, because Carson had one on.

After quite awhile Carson got down to run around. He was having a ball climbing on the big landscaping rocks, and hell, just getting to roam free and run around. It sure did tucker the boys out. We got home, had a little late of a lunch (later than the boys are used to, anyway), and put the boys down for a nap. Carson took over a 3 hour nap! I need to take them outside and wear them out more often, lol.

Comfy much?

Ever since Kamryn's nursery has been mostly painted, and the toys mostly gone out of there, the boys just love being in there now. I had given them an early snack, and this is how and where I found them. They were just chillin' on Jaden's little couch, with their feet up on the dresser, eating their Gogurts.

Kamryn's nursery stripes

Kamryn's stripes are finished! I know it looks a little Victoria's Secret-ish, but we love it. This is the wall the crib will be on.

Window wall

Closet and dresser wall (we will be painting the door to the hallway white)

And here's the dresser, which we absolutely LOVE!!! Can't wait for a non-damaged crib to get here, so we can put it together!

I believe all that's left to paint now is the chair rail and the ceiling. We don't even know that the ceiling has even ever been painted before. We think it was just plastered, so a nice new coat, or two, of white paint should make it look TONS better.