Our Christmas Tree!

'


Today we put up our Christmas decorations! It was so much fun! Koen loved it and he says it's his Christmas tree not ours! He is so silly. I always love our tree and then the next year I do something different so I don't know why I always fall in love with it, but never do it again! I think I just like to try new things. I also got out the stockings I made last year and still love them so next year I guess I will just have to make one more, for little Ethan (if we really name him that).

Our Eventful Thanksgiving

We went to Thanksgiving at Tyrell's sister's house this year. The food was delicious like usual! There were a couple events to make the day memorable! First when it got dark they had some fireworks to shoot off. Well it was only 6 when it got dark so we went out and watched fireworks and kind of joked about the cops showing up because they were illegal fireworks. The funny thing is about 10 minutes after shooting them off a cop did show up! It gets better though, my sister-in-law who was also there works for the police department. Well out of all the cars to choose they choose her plates to run. No one got a ticket though because luckily my brother-in-law whose house we were at knew the cop that showed up. About an hour after that one of the odd family members, we'll say shows up and starts telling stories about outrunning the cops last week and getting arrested a few days later. He is such a weirdo! Then he starts talking about this married lady he says he is in love with and she in love with him and so on. He says man it's true love and we just all started laughing. I am glad he doesn't know where I leave! He is a freak! So that was my Thanksgiving!

Our 3 Year Old!

Last Friday was Koen's 3rd birthday! We didn't celebrate it until Sunday though. He had such a fun party! He and his twin cousins had fun with the pirate ship pinata that I found for the party. It didn't want to break though. Tyrell had to finally make a hole in it so that they could finish breaking it. The three of them were so funny to watch. He also had a train cake of course! He thought it was awesome. Tyrell and I on the other hand had a really hard time frosting the stupid thing. It turned out pretty cute though. The cars were just so little and then trying to get the sides and line it up was a lot harder than we thought it was going to be. He got some pretty cool Thomas the Train stuff from his grandma's and great-grandma. He also got a cool coloring book with crayons, a basketball hoop, a bowling set, the Elefun game, and a new drawing board. He got lots of fun stuff! He asked me this morning if I had seen his train movie. This was to let me know he wanted to watch it again, even though he already watched it about 3 times before bed last night. He is so funny now that he understands what a birthday is. He was grinning so big when we sang happy birthday to him and then he and his cousins blew out the candles. He is such a big boy!

Learning to Dress Myself!

Apparently Koen has decided he needs to learn how to dress himself. He has been adamant about his shoes a lot, though he never puts them on the right feet, but I was surprised when I saw him with his pants on backwards. The first time I saw this was last weeks when I went to pick him up at daycare. He had them on backwards again the next day when I picked him up. I thought maybe they had just told him to do it instead of helping him. Well this morning I got up to find Koen lying on the living room floor awake. He stood up and said "look mom I got pants!" He had gotten pants and they were on backwards again. This time I took pictures because it is so cute. He has been known to come up from daycare with his underwear inside out, backwards, and just about anyway imaginable, but now we have pants too!

30 weeks

Here I am at 30 weeks! I am getting really big and feeling it. We have 9 weeks at the most left since the doctor said he will do the c-section at 39 weeks. It seems like it is going by so fast.

Koen's 3rd Birthday is Coming Up and His Major Obsession With Trains!

I can't believe how big my little baby is getting! He can use the toilet, feed himself, undress himself, talk back, remember lines from movies (the ones he watches over and over) and act them out, run away from me in the grocery store, sit in a booster seat in the car with just a seat belt, and many more things. He is going to be 3 in a couple of weeks and that seems so weird! Where did all the time go? Today I took him to the grocery store to get a few things and one of them was some cake mix for his train cake. I let him pick it out and of course he picked funfetti cake mix. Ever since then he has been asking me for his birthday and while he was supposed to be sleeping at nap time I could hear him singing loud and clear in his room "happy birthday to you! happy birthday to you!" It is so funny what he picks up on and he definitely knows what a birthday is and that you get to eat cake and that there is presents. He is having a train cake this year because he is obsessed with trains! I can't get it out of his head. It all started when I was having some really bad morning sickness over the summer for a couple weeks and my mom took him for a few days and bought him a train. Ever since he has been stuck on them. Train everything! He watched Polar Express so much that he quotes it. He also tells us there are tracks in the bathtub with him and often takes his Thomas the train into the bath with him. He also uses whatever he can find to make tracks and if he finds any piece of paper it is a ticket to get on the train. You don't take his ticket! Anyway so I couldn't think of anything better than a trian cake and then I found one of those cakes that is like cupcakes and you line them up to make the cake and it is a train so he will have a train with a bunch of train cars trailing behind it. I will post pictures when it's his birthday, don't worry. Oh and just wait until you see what he is getting for Christmas, we are pretty sure he isn't going to want anything else when he sees it!