Buchholz Family Homestead: February 2014

I'm getting ready to blog for the 1st time in almost a month and it's SO quiet! I mean both kids in bed for the night and Dan out with the guys quiet. Let me back up a bit.

About three weeks ago Kypton decided it's funny to get out of bed after you think he has fallen asleep both at nap time and at bedtime and coming running to us saying, "Helllooo!" It's really cute so it's hard to get mad but when I'm leaving for the gym and Dan is trying to feed Kenzlie one last time before bed it can get frustrating. Tonight for the 1st time in 3 weeks he went to bed with no problem and no escape attempts!

As far as the rest of our time. Weekends have been relaxing so far this year. I did however tell Dan today to pick a room in the house to start projects. Some bigger than others, for instance we really want to do some work to our kitchen and living room those would be big, in our room we have a box of stuff in our closet that needs sorted. Stuff from computer cords to growth charts for the kids. This is small basically just organizing stuff. Anyway, Dan I believe chose our room to start. Which then got me thinking if we start in the back of the house and move our way to the front we will get all the small stuff done and then it will be that much easier to do big stuff because everything will be organized and have a spot! Things are starting to get busier at work for Dan now that spring is right around the corner and people are looking to buy houses. If you or anyone you know are looking for financing Dan is more than happy to help! Right now I'm watching my best friends two little ones on Tuesdays. It keeps me VERY busy. We enjoy it and Kypton always crashes as soon as they go home. Monday is typically a recoup day from the weekend then Wednesday is a recuperate day from Tuesday. Dan's been busy with the gym in the morning and learning to enjoy new foods with me ;) He started his 24 day Challenge on Saturday, and said to me this week..."I might have to buy new suits!" I did take before photos but I'm being patient and will post when he's done with the challenge!

The only one I haven't mentioned yet, but don't worry I didn't forget I was waiting until the end to talk about our little Princess. She is growing way to fast! She can roll from front to back. She hates tummy time. Her brother likes to help her roll from back to front. She gets up on her side and well he will just roll her. He tries to be as gentle as a 2 year old boy can be but it still makes Dan and I leap! Kenzlie is a little talker. I have already told Dan she is going to get serious notes home from teachers about talking. She has this funny noise she makes and I can mimic her and we just go back and forth for a few minutes. She loves to "talk" and smile whenever Kypton is by her. He will lay on her mat with her a lot during the day. Kypton has also started including her in everything basically. I give him a snack and he goes and says, "look Kenzlie..." and says what he has or after he gets up from nap he says hi to her. Tonight after I gave him a bath he walked in and said, "Hey Kenzlie, hey baby," and gave her a kiss on her head. It's so awesome to see how much he loves her! Kenzlie is still independent as ever. She knows when she wants to be held, put down, and put to bed. She grunts when she wants her paci, pushes back in our arms when she wants put down, and squirms when she wants laid down to sleep. She's still at 4 bottles a day (6.5 ounces)...most days. Nights like tonight she ate two ounces and just wanted me to put her to bed. She wouldn't take the bottle after I burped her and started squirming and grunting and I just thought she needed to burp again, but after 5 minutes of this I put her in her bed and she just grinned, like she was saying thank you. I no more than got into bed and my computer out and she was asleep. I forgot to mention she has started to love her blanket. I thought she was never going to latch on to it but this week she has started wrapping her arm in it and wanting it on her when she falls asleep.

Kypton and his terrible twos, when he's off he's so far off but when he is on, God I wish I could just bottle all the good times, and a few of the funny/bad times up. I just keep reminding myself that this too shall pass, and I will wish these days were here again. I try really hard not to wish days away but some days are so rough I pray for bed time to hurry up!

Here as always are some of the photos from the last month...enjoy:

Trying to sleep...everyone is being loud...