Growing up to fast

Weston and I were outside and I wanted to get some pictures of Weston being Weston. If that makes any sense. He loves to play ball and be silly. I think captured some of that. I was looking back at pictures of when Brooklyn was born and I can't believe how much he has changed. His face doesn't have as much of that baby face look anymore. He's four now and I remember thinking when Hunter turned four that they don't seem so little anymore. I feel like I have a big boy now. I just keep thinking that next year is my last year with him before he starts school and no way can that be true. I can't even get started on that fact that Brooklyn will be one in June. That went by even faster. Weston has become obsessed with being 5. He told someone the other day at the store that "I'm almost five". Whoa! Slow down there buddy I'm not wishing this year away for anything. I asked him why he wants to be five so bad and he said "because when you're five your big!"

Several times older ladies have come up to me and commented on the kids and several times they have said "enjoy those babies." I hope I am enough. Maybe this is the Lord's way of telling me that even though you had a tough week with them they aren't little very long.

My house 7:30 A.M.

What's yours like?

A friend sent some pictures out labled like this and I thought it was so cute. But really who are we kidding at my house this is more like 9:00 A.M.

I was surprised this morning was just the boots and cowboy hat because it can be anything from the knight costume to buzz lightyear, spiderman or batman. I never know who will be eating breakfast with me! But if Weston truy had his way he would be in PJ's all day long. He recently got to wear jammies to school and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. When I told him he ran up the stairs shouting "PJ's, PJ's, PJ's!"

Easter

This was the first Easter that it was just our little family of four. With Weston's birthday two weeks later I wanted everyone to come that if they were going to have to pick one. It was also the first time for us to do Easter at Second Baptist. I am one of the nursery coordinators now at Second and worked the Saturday service. It was so fun to see all the babies in their precious Easter outfits.


Brooklyn wore a dress Nana got her before she was even born and Weston asked if she was Princess when he saw her in it.


Later in the afternoon we had some friends come over to cookout and hunt Easter eggs. I couldn't stand for Weston not to have someone over to hunt eggs. We have found some great friends here and it was so much fun to share the Easter weekend with them.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The kids St. Patty's Day pictures~

Lovin' those lashes! Let's hope Brooklyn gets blessed in that department too. It would be so much fun to put mascara on those lashes to see their full potential. I'm sure my husband and son would strongly object to that. It was just a thought. . .

Weston went through a phase of about two years where he refused to have his picture made. Thankfully he's out of that now and loves to be in pictures.

Brooklyn wasn't really in the picture taking mood. She just wanted the camera. She was just stating to sit really well at this point but I still used the boppy to help her a little bit. Every time she would reach up for the camera she would face plant. Never seemed to bother her though, she would just roll over to her back and start rolling around all over the place.

I put a sheet up on the posters of the bed thinking it would be a good back drop. I'll have to try it again sometime with sheets that haven't set in the dryer for two days. Maybe it was worth getting the steam option on my new dryer.

Brookie's Pig Tails

Never could I have imagined how much fun dressing up a little girl would be. Especially the hair. When I was little I used to put my baby doll's hair in a bunch of little pony tails all over her head. So trendy even back then. . . ha ha
I'll spare Brooklyn and just put in two little pig tails. Is she not the cutest thing ever?!

Ryder Lance Larson

Ryder is HERE!




He is 7 pounds 13 ounces, 20 inches long and absolutely gorgeous! I love his jet black hair and he has tons of it. He has the darkest hair yet of one of our babies.
His bigger and biggest brothers think he's pretty great.

My niece and nephews

Here are some pictures of my precious little niece and my cute nephews. Since I only blog about every six months I haven't put any pictures up yet of Madison and it's been a long time since I posted some with Parker and Hunter and Hayden.

Madison isn't she gorgeous?!

Madison and Brooklyn opening presents at Christmas

Parker and his big fish! I am still shocked at how a two year old and three old can be patient enough to fish!

It's pretty hard to get a good pic of four kids! But thought this was pretty cute even if I got Sheila's hand in it! Weston and Hayden

Bubby and Sissy

I think it would be real cute if they called each other this.

I LOVE this picture of the two of them

This is how most of the pictures of the two of them turn out!

I always have to let Weston have a silly face picture.

Brooklyn

She goes by Brookie, Brookielyn, Brookly, Brookaboo (Weston's favortie), and Brookadee. I have to have nicknames for my kids and she has a ton! She is eight months old now and such a delight to us. She is getting a little bit more vocal about how she likes things and what she wants. If any of us leave her sight she screams, we walk back in she's as happy as can be. If she drops a toy she wants it back right now! Weston is pretty quick to give into what she wants. We finally moved her up into her room and out of ours just about two weeks ago and she is finally sleeping through the night. Well, by my standards anyway, which mean a full 11 hours. She is happy, sweet, gives hugs and kisses, and we just adore her. Weston is always telling her how much he loves her and how cute she is. He'll say "you're such a cutie baby, Mommy she is SO cute isn't she" "You are so precious to me, Brookieboo" It's pretty sweet. He does not like it though when he puts his toys in her mouth. "Mommy she's going to get it all wet, and yucky!"

At six months she was 14 pounds 2 ounces and at seven months was 14 pounds 3 ounces. She got pretty sick during that month with RSV, pneumonia, and a double ear infection. So she ended up losing some weight but I was surprised to see she didn't gain more than that. It's so funny though because she is definitely a chubby chubster and I love her big cheeks and her rolls on her little thighs.

My Westie

I can't believe that he is coming up on 4 years old. Okay so he still has a little over four months to go but it will be here soon. Probably about the time of my next post! ha ha

He has done a wonderful job of being big brother. No one can make Brooklyn laugh like he can. I think it's been a little hard on him adjusting but he is always so sweet to her. He is constantly saying Mommy isn't she SOOOO cute? The other day I told him he is SOOOO cute too and he said no Mommy I'm a boy. Then I said well you are SOOOO handsome and he was okay with that!

A few things about Weston at 3 1/2

Favorite Color- Red. Lately everything he has been coloring has been all red.

Favorite place to eat- Pei Wei and Hasta La Pasta or as he says Pasta, Pasta

Favorite Food- Spaghetti and pizza

Favorite thing to do - play outside and ride his bike

He loves to play baseball and play with friends. When asked at school during Thanksgiving what he was most thankful for he said his good buddy Caleb. He even told a worker at the YMCA that he and Caleb were brothers! Weston is funny and has a great belly laugh. He loves to color and can color for hours on end. He makes up songs about things we are doing and loves to tell stories. He has a great memory and asks lots of questions.

Here is a conversation of ours when I was dropping him off at school and we see a friend of his.

Weston: Mommy God didn't make Reba

Me: Well of course he did Weston

Weston: No, she told me that her Mommy did

Me: hmmm. . .

James Dobson's book "The Strong Willed Child" was definitely written for him. I think later on in life this will benefit him but it makes parenting him difficult at times. He is persistent, smart and likes things in order. Of course he always knows what to say to make me laugh or change the subject. During a battle of ours one day I told him he was making me very angry and he said "I don't make you angry I make you happy!" Well what do you say to that??

We were playing with blocks the other day and he wanted to make a parking garage for his cars. We lined up blocks and stacked up blocks and I decided to make the block go at an angle just for something different. Weston looks over at it and says "Mom it doesn't go like that it needs to be like this." He promptly moved it back like it's "supposed" to go. He is a lot like his Daddy!

He played soccer for the first time in the Fall and had a lot of fun. Jeremy was one of the coaches along with our friend Tommy and another guy. After the first game Jeremy and I were a little worried that he was to young and we shouldn't have started him yet. We went back and forth with we can't let him quit but should we continue? It was that bad! There were 11 boys on his team and about 9 of them cried the whole game, wouldn't play, and said they wanted to go home, my boy included. He also didn't understand that there was only ONE ball. After the game he said those boys weren't sharing that ball with me. Thankfully there is a Houston soccer team and we found the game on TV. We watched it with Weston and told him we just wanted him to have fun and that there is just going to be one ball and that's how you play. After a few more practices the second game went so much better! He had a great time, made some good friends and scored some goals. We played with two of our friends and made it a tradition to practice, play and eat pizza!

A Super Hero and One Cute Flower

Brooklyn's Parent Child Committment

We had Brooklyn's Baby Dedication at Second Baptist. There must have been 70 babies and their families there. Weston's was big too but not anywhere that size. It's great to see so many families committing to raise their children in the church and to love Jesus. It was a great weekend Nana and Dado came to watch, Granna and Papa drove in from Midland, and Collin was in town visiting Meagan so they came too! Meme and Acie were also in town staying with Mom and Dad so they even got to be here!

Isn't her dress beautiful?! Mom found it before Hunter was born hoping that someday a granddaughter could wear it to her dedication. When three boys in a row where born we figured that it might have to be a great granddaughter! Finally Brooklyn came along and it looked so pretty on her!

Our Little Pumpkin

Here is Brooklyn at four months. She weighs 12 pounds 4 ounces and is sleeping most of the night. She is so happy and all around a wonderful baby. I can hardly remember life without her.

Sheila had the idea on Hunter's first Halloween to put him in a real pumpkin. We have done it with all the kids and it always turns out so cute! Here are some other cute pics from Ocotber.

the water didn't look that green when we took the picture!

Just a little update

I have tons to post about but at least wanted to get up a few pictures of my kiddos! A fast summary (I will come back and add to it later). Brooklyn is happy and smiling all the time, ahw is going to be three months tomorrow, why does time go by faster with the second one? Weston is going to be Batman for Halloween, he tells everyone we see he has a Batman costume, he asks at least 10 times a day when can he go trick or treating and wear his Batman costume (it's going to be a loooong month) Mops started up again, the playgroup started up again, we started bible study at church, Brooklyn's baby dedication is the end of next month, she had a bible presentation last week, Weston has started playing soccer, Jeremy is one of the coaches and things at our house are crazy and it's going great!

Brooklyn at Two Months

At two months Brooklyn weighs 9 pounds and 3 ounces