Videos

One our way to Lake Havasu a couple weeks ago.  Colin was singing the tune of batman over and over. He went on a good 20 minutes.  Once I started recording and he realized it, he stopped.

Liam hitting the ball at t-ball

Ticklish girl

Liam playing pretend with daddy

Driving home one night and Colin was telling us all about his future dog,

ABC's by Liam

Amelia in her toy.  I failed to post the video with the blog about her and her jumper

Colin's ABC's

Amelia Jean Casson

Liam jumping off the slide at G&G's

Aunt Sadie was blowing on Amelia's face and her reaction was pretty funny

Sitting up and New Rooms

Two weeks ago Amelia decided she can sit up.  She was a little wobbly at first but it pretty darn steady now.  I still place the boppy behind her to cushion her potential falls.  Since she started to sit up we pulled out a toy for her one night.  Colin may have been more excited than she was, he taught her everything she needed to know.

Sibling bonding

Here is a little video of her sitting up and talking.

About 5-6 weeks ago we bunked the boys together so Amelia could have her own room.  We tried it out for a week before we moved Amelia.  It has worked out very well except for naps.  Liam will go down easily but Colin is still the most difficult two-year-old ever when it comes to napping! Colin has slept much better at night being in the same room as Liam.  Before we had moved him he was getting up 1-2 times a night (which was going on for about a month) but since being in with his older brother it has been only a couple of times.  They seem to enjoy being roomies and I hope it keeps their brotherly bond tight.  Here is how we did their room.

The beds are against the wall and I put up their names above their beds.  Liam still has his alphabet from his baby room and Colin still wanted his elephants.  I am sure it will change again in the future but right now it is a collection of various themes and they are enjoying it.

Once we moved Amelia over I worked on a project just about every night to get her room complete.  I hadn't started anything since we were not sure if we were having a boy or girl so I had a lot of catching up to do.  Here is her name

I spray painted the frame pink and made a turtle to go in it since her theme is based on her quilt with turtles

I made the alphabet after I did her name

Next up were the turtles

Her dresser still has some of Colin's old stuff.  I still need to make her lamp but for now she is using Colin's

All together. 

I am pretty happy with how it came out.  I was a little worried about the bold pink I chose but I like it!  Just need to finish her lamp and I'd like to get her some gray curtains and voila!

Colin's 1st Fishing Trip

Last Sunday we went fishing on Grandpa Casson's boat.  The boys were so excited. We started our morning at 7am and had to make a stop to get gas.  During that stop we decided to get some donuts for breakfast.  Liam told Chris after he got the donuts "Dada you get me a donut cause you know your kid loves sugar."  They were super excited to ride in Grandpa's truck and eat donuts. They were pretty high strung on our way to the lake.  Amelia stayed back with Grandma.

Boys on a boat.  They instantly needed a snack.

Colin's first boat ride

Grandpa, Liam, Chris, and Colin

Boys

When the boat picked up speed Colin was not a big fan.  It made him a little nervous and the high-winds really bothered his ears.  We had to cover them up.  I felt terrible that I didn't bring his ear plugs but I didn't even think about the air bugging him.  Once we stopped in a cove to fish in the boys were very happy.

Liam liked to dip his whole fishing pole in the water.

Colin fishing!

They were having a lot of fun

Liam surprised me and stuck with it.  He was being patient and hoping to get a bite.

Colin enjoyed it here and there but mostly enjoyed snacking in between casting

Grandpa caught the first fish and showed the boys.  Colin tried to feed it his cookie, ha!

Touching the fish

Watching the fish swim back in the water

Chris had been casting out in one area but his allergies started getting the best of him so he handed me his pole so he could clean out his nose.  I cast out and instantly caught this big guy.  Chris was not too thrilled.  Colin thought it was cool.  Liam stayed on the back of the boat fishing, he really wanted to catch one.  Eventually it dawned on me I should have had him reel it in but I wasn't even sure I had it on my line at first, sigh.

The boys were getting tired and we asked if they wanted to go play on the beach.  Liam said not yet because he needed to catch a fish, luckily grandpa hooked one and Liam reeled it in.  It made his day!

The boat ride back we hid Colin to keep the air off his ears.  He was content where he was.

Liam cuddled with me

They were super pumped to play in the water

The water was cold but they didn't seem to mind

Chris swam out a little ways

Splashing

He would swim to me and then make an attempt to swim out towards Chris.

Playing with a stick

Daddy and Colin.  He had a great first fishing trip.

We dropped the boat off in Meadview and came home.  The boys and I crashed fairly quick.  It was a great day out and hopefully we can do it again soon!

Our Daily Adventures

Last week Liam wanted to get a picture of all of them wearing their shirts G&G got them from the book festival. I will say they all looked pretty darn cute.

They were having a great time together on the couch and these boys love their baby sister.

Giving Amelia kisses

Sweet babies

Love Amelia's smile here

After they had fun taking pictures together, Liam and I discussed his upcoming fishing trip.  During the conversation he remembered that he saw and Ironman fishing pole at the store and asked if he could get one.  I told him he already had a fishing pole that Grandpa Snay gave him and he didn't need one.  This caused a HUGE meltdown.  He continued to ask if he was good could he get one.  I tried to explain to him that he didn't need one, we don't always get what we want, too much money, etc.  I was being as nice as could be and began to get a little frustrated.  Let's just say trying to rationalize with a four year old was not happening.

Finally I couldn't take it after twenty minutes.  I facetimed Chris and had him talk to Liam.  Chris explained that those fishing poles are too little and not good for catching fish.  Liam was instantly better.  Why didn't I think of saying that!!  I came up with everything else except something that made sense to Liam.  Ah, oh well!

Once he was calm we went over to Uncle Matt's house to pick up the boys' fishing poles.  They asked Uncle Matt if they could flash the lights on his police car.  He recently got a new SUV car and the boys were pretty excited to check it out.

Colin checking out the back seat.

Here is sweet Amelia with her two little teeth.  I had a hard time getting a good picture.

Last Wednesday Liam had a t-ball game. He was so cute and at one point said "Coach can I be catcher, I've never been catcher before"  So his coach let him catch.  He was walking a little funny at first with all the gear.

Trying to see out the mask

Cute little guy

After the game Chris and I asked if he liked catching (because he didn't seem so sure of it at the time) he said he did like it, guess we'll see if he does it again.

Here is a picture of this gal looking super cute

Sibling love

Lastly this gal is starting to sit up a few seconds at a time on her own.  Can't believe how big this gal is getting!

Amelia's First Feeding

Sunday, March 22, Amelia had her first taste of food.  She had some rice cereal.  She was pretty excited since she is alway wanting our food while we are eating. 

1st bite

She didn't quite get the swallowing part of it but she love chewing on the spoon even if the food would just run back right out of her mouth.

I love how wide-eyed she looks in every picture

MMMMmmmmm

I also love the crazy morning bedhead she was sporting

Liam wanted to help feed her too

He may have gagged her a little.  Luckily, she still loves her big brother.

Later that morning Amelia was pooped and was trying so hard to fall asleep.  Eventually, she crashed hard-core on our bed.  She looked so sweet.

Later in the evening we set up the jumper for our sweet little gal.  She was excited to test it out.

She enjoyed the lights and being upright.  I think she liked the independence it gave her.

Liam was excited for her also and wanted a picture with her

My sweet baby girl is growing way too fast!