Deer Classic

I knew as soon as we found out Lincoln was a boy (or perhaps it was the minute I married Shawn) that camo, guns, and hunting were going to become a permanent part of my life. (this is also when I gave up the fight and bought a camo diaper bag) Of course I can totally understand men's need to kill animals, bring them home, and cut them up to pieces- NOT!! But, all sarcasm aside, I do love the fact that this is something that boys and their Dads can bond over.

Kallen - without much training- seems to love deer hunting about as much as his Dad. Several times a day he will bring me one of Shawn's hunting magazines and we have to sit down and look at every single page. (shooting all the deer and screaming "boom boom") Often times our afternoons consist of hiding little deer all over our house, putting on Kallen's boots, and hunting for them. And the other day Shawn and my brother-in-law Casey spent hours down in our basement working up deer meat, so guess who needed to spend most of his day down there too? ( I tried really hard not to think about all of the things Kallen was probably getting into/ doing down there)

It is because of all of these things that something happened yesterday that I never thought would happen in my entire life...... I actually got excited to go to the Deer Classic. I could not wait to see Kallen's reaction to all of the deer and other random dead animals hanging everywhere.

(plus is does make for some good people watching. Not quite as good as the state fair but not too far behind)

(does that make me sound like a snob? Sorry)

Here are my boys all camoed out and ready to go!

Kallen was soo excited, and spent most of his time pointing to deer and saying "boom boom!"

Lincoln just chilled in his carseat.

I just love this picture!

Kallen wants to do everything Shawn does and it is so special to just sit back and watch the strong bond forming between these two!
Will I be attending every single Deer Classic? Lets hope not!
But I love seeing my boys share a love for something and I am thinking in the future the Deer Classic will mean a boys day for them and a shopping day for Mommy!!! :D

I haven't had much to blog about lately-

So I just thought I'd post a couple pictures I snapped today!

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There is just something about a baby in overalls!!

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So far these boys are different in every way:

Kallen is high strung- Lincoln is super laid back

Kallen has always been small for his age- Lincoln is huge

Kallen NEVER stops talking- Lincoln rarely makes a peep

Even their skin tones are different!

I just love these little boys to pieces!!!
Hope you all have a great weekend!

Brotherly Love

Kallen has been such a sweet brother to Lincoln lately. (or at least he starts out being sweet) He is constantly bringing Lincoln his cars and toys, trying to get him to hold them, and play with him. The other morning Kallen was sitting on the top of our couch looking out the front window and he came over to me, grabbed my hand, brought me to Lincoln, and pointed to the window. He wanted his brother to come sit with him! So I propped Lincoln up on the couch beside his big brother and Kallen proceeded to hold Lincoln's hand and point out the window, telling him everything he saw. "Puppy! Ouse! (house) No! (snow) Tee! (tree)" It was such a sweet moment!

I feel so blessed to be able to be home with my boys and catch all of those little moments.

Yesterday morning Kallen was loving on his brother, so I grabbed my camera and snapped a few shots. This is the typical order of events with these two:

-Sitting sweetly beside each other

- Then Kallen has to hold Lincoln

- Lots of kisses

(I like how Lincoln is looking at me out of the corner of his eye like "Mom, are you watching Kallen? I'm getting a little nervous!")

-Then Kallen decides that Lincoln should hold Him.


- And things usually result in this.

(notice the smile of satisfaction on Kallen face like "Yes! I got him to cry!" )

Rolling Stairs and Flying Chopsticks

Everywhere I go- chaos seems to follow. (could have something to do with the fact that, these days, everywhere I go 2 little boys go also) Yesterday was a pretty busy day for us, and although we had an awesome day we did have a few moments as well.
Event #1: Swim season is coming to an end (Hallelujah!!) (oops did I say that out loud?) and yesterday was districts in Johnston. The Johnston pool is literally 1 minute from our house, and my family was in town for the meet so we packed up the boys and headed over! The pool area was pretty hot and Kallen was rather irritable but all things considered he did pretty well. I was focusing on Lincoln and Kallen was playing with my sister when all of a sudden I hear the crowd around us gasp and I look up to see Kallen falling down the cement stairs. (Yikes!) The good news is he mostly rolled down in slow motion and came out without even a scratch- but oh boy did he give his mom a heart attack! I'm pretty sure I practically threw Lincoln into my Mom's arms to rush to Kallen's side. (that mother's instinct I guess) We recovered from "the fall" and decided to box Kallen in the bleachers next to the wall to play with my brother Jacob. Kallen insisted on sitting on the metal bleachers like a big boy, and I again was focusing on Lincoln when I caught a sudden movement out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head just in time to see Kallen hit the cement floor- don't worry his head broke his fall. He came up screaming and, again, poor Lincoln got thrown into my Mom's arms. This time he had a nice goose egg on his forehead- and I spent the rest of the swim meet smiling and explaining it to kind people who would walk up and say "oh my gosh, poor baby! What happened!?" We made it to the end of the swim meet and Shawn's boys did great! (Ok, so maybe I didn't learn they did great until I talked to Shawn later last night. I wonder when I will ever actually Watch a swim meet again?)

Event #2: After the meet my family decided to go out for supper at Bang Bang (the new restaurant on Mills Civic that is just like Hu Hot. Very good! But a little pricey) Kallen was sitting across the table from me in between my sister and Jacob. (in retrospect, perhaps setting him by Jacob was not the best idea but they entertain each other so well!) The meal was going great and Kallen and Jacob were eating with chopsticks. Jacob set his chopsticks down, hanging halfway off the table, and Kallen saw them- raised his little hand, and brought it down hitting the end of the chopsticks. This sent them flying across the restaurant landing on the poor innocent father and daughters' table behind us. Luckily, no one was injured by the flying chopsticks and we all shared a few giggles and apologies. Jacob, who had not seen what happened to his chopsticks, saw us talking to the man, and noticing "his chopsticks" lying on the bench beside him decides to get up, pick up the chopsticks, then place them on the man's table for him. He then returns to our table and realizes his chopsticks are missing- so my mom explains that those were his chopsticks. Jacob proceeds to go back over to the mans table and grab his chopsticks practically out of the man's hand, and bring them back to our table. And here I'm sure that guy thought he was going to have a nice calm dinner with his daughter. :)

Event #3: After Bang Bang we headed over to the mall to do some quick shopping and let the boys play in the play place. I do realize that at this point my son is exhausted and it is getting close to bedtime, but I figured he could run out the rest of his energy and be completely ready for bed by the time we left the mall. I was enjoying hanging out with my Mom and sister when I look over to see Kallen shove this kid, who is twice his size, off of the ship. Luckily the kid just hit the floor, bounced back up, and went on his way but it is moments like that- that make me wish the kid would have turned around and given Kallen a taste of his own medicine. Kallen spent most of the time in the play place shoving and hitting other kids. None of them ever hit back- they just took the abuse. I, of course, ran in to talk to him but at this phase in our life it doesn't seem to do any good. I really think that if one of these days another child would fight back, and show Kallen how it feels, then perhaps he would realize what he is doing. Until then- I have the big bully that runs around the play place looking for trouble. I am determined that we will get through this phase, and no matter how badly I want to just keep my child at home where I know he will not bother anyone, he is never going to learn if we don't just keep at it.

We ended the day with Kallen falling asleep the minute I put him in his car seat. All in all we had a really GREAT day- but boy could I do without the drama!

Big Boy!

I can't believe my baby is 3 months old!?!!

Time really does fly with your second child! Lincoln is still the easiest baby EVER!! He just lies around happily sleeping or gazing at whatever he can see.

I don't have stats on him this month, but I would guess he weighs around 15-16 lbs.

He is just moving up to 6 month clothes (Kallen was only wearing 3 mth clothes when he was 5 months old) and we just bought our last box of size 1-2 diapers.

He still eats every 3 hours during the day and at night goes about 7-8 hours!

He has not gone to a single day of daycare, but he is starting to be awake alot more so his time is coming soon.

He still will not take a pacifier and I am finally deciding maybe this is a good thing. (we still need to take Kallen's away :S )

He is not very good at taking bottles but this is something I am going to start working on. (no baby of mine is going to refuse a bottle- mama needs her freedom!)

There is a nice big bald spot rubbed into the back of his head because my poor neglected child does not get very much tummy time. (also something I'm working on)

He smiles very easily and has the cutest little giggles- they are 100% boy and sound mostly like a lot of grunting.

That is the low-down on Lincoln- not too much to tell at this age.

His dimples are going to have his Mama wrapped around his little finger. :)