Navy here we come

Ok so most people know by now, Aaron has joined the Navy. He will be leaving for bootcamp on May 6th, he is going in as a hospital corpsman. Which is basically a EMT. I am very proud of him and for him wanted to make sure his family is taken care.
We will moving back into my parents house until we find out where we will be stationed. He has 9 weeks of basic training, and than 14 weeks of "A" school. We are hoping for the West Coast. Aaron is very tired of the cold weather, and can't wait for this new chapter to start in our lives.

Dakota has made leaps and bounds in his speech, he is talking so much more and is starting to use longer sentances. Kingston is growing like a weed. I can't believe he is going to be a year old in a coulpe of weeks. March 1st is right around the corner. Kingston will be getting tubes in his ears next thursday since we have been having an ear infections no stop since Oct.

Super Bowl Sunday

Kingston after eatting

Kingston waking up and sucking on his silky

Xander

Dakota

Inara

Birthday Party's and Cupcakes

Happy Birthday to all of you who had birthdays in December and January! We love you all!

My cupcakes! I was asked to make some and I really love decorating them. Aaron usually shows me up when it comes to decorating cakes, but I think I did a pretty good job. Aaron's are the ones with the Green frosting.

Mine

Mine

Aaron's decorating

Aaron's

Mine!

Sunday Morning

Kodi is out of Nursery and is a Sunbeam, I was very afraid he would not havea good day and it would be a very hard transitions for him from nursery to primary, but it wasn't. He did so good. I think I was more afraid of him having an accident in his pants since we are now in Big Boy under pants than him having a fit.

The boys looked so cute in their matching sweaters Aaron had to get a picture of them.

Christmas

This year we were able to have a little Christmas get away. Aaron had to work Christmas Morning so we decided to stay at the hotel. We had the whole Hotel to our family. So Christmas Eve we had my Dad along with Eli and Ashley and the rest of the sisters. We had a great time spending Christmas Eve with them.

Christmas morning we opened presents, played around with All of Kodi's toys. Which he loved. Santa brought him a fire truck he was so happy.

Later that Day my Family came over the hotel and we had christmas with them. We all have a great night, the Khans came over to spend the time with us and we played all night long. It was great to be able to spend Christmas with Aaron.

Santa

Last weekend Aaron was MOD from Saturday to Sunday afternoon. Which meant for us a free nights stay at the hotel. We had a great bonus it was the "Santa Brunch" weekend so Kodi was very excited to be able to meet Santa.
Needless to say when he got the chance he was not to sure about meeting Santa. He stopped in his tracks and did not want us to walk up to meet him. He run down the hall and hide.
I let Kodi take his time in warming up to see Santa. Thankfully there was no one behind us to see Santa so we had all the time we needed.

Kodi got closer and closer has Kingston sat on Santa's lap and finally he came out for the pillar and decided he wanted to talk to Santa.
What you might ask did Kodi tell Santa he wanted for Christmas.
It was a plane, which surprised me I did not know he wanted a plane at all. I thought maybe he would ask for a dinosaurce or Handy Manny toys or his "guys" he plays with, but no it was a white plane. We will see if he remembers he asked for one.


Kingston wasn't sure of Santa "Mom who is this person you are having me meet?" He was quite taken with Santa, and Santa really liked Kingston as well. All in all it was a good trip for us to see Santa.

Music

We started a new disc in Kodi's music therapy, and let me say he loves this disc so much more than the last one. This one you hear birds, kids sings, and much better than jazz. I love jazz but Kodi is not a fan. He listens to his music twice a day for 3o minutes. We try and listen in the morning during breakfast and than sometime around dinner time. He has to have it three hours apart, much means I have to keep track of what time he ended so he doesn't listen to the disc so close together.
Kingston has been having a battle with ear infections. This is his fifth one since Oct, poor little guy. I noticed that he wasn't feel that well today when all he wanted us to do was hold him. Aaron was up at 5:45 this morning with him and I tried to sleep a little longer, but got up an hour later with the two of them. Kingston just cried and cried, so after we dropped Kodi off at school I called the Dr.office and they got him in.So once more we are on meds which is a battle in it self with Kingston. I have tried putting sugar on the medicine dropper, I have tried putting the meds in a bottle, holding his hands down and forcing the meds down his throat, which I always hate because most of the medicine ends up on me. I finally tried putting the medicine with some rice cereal and he took it. So we will see if we can last the 10 days with the rice cereal

We go in for Kingston 9 month check up on Tuesday, but since we were in the Dr.office today they got his weight and he is 22 lbs and 9.4 oz. What a big boy. He is already walking around holding on to anything he can. He is almost as tall as the table just a couple more inches and he will be. He is already saying Dada, which He said this morning while he was trying to wake up Aaron. I just laughed. I already had been awake with Kingston all night so I didn't mind that he didn't want me. Kingston is kind of a dad's boy. Kodi is starting to be one, he told me the other day that "MY DADDY is the BEST", I though thanks, I am the one who does most of the things for you and your day is the best," Thanks Kid!

But I still love my Kodi so much. He is starting to put together 3 to 4 word sentences and has been talking a lot more. The music has been a big help. Dakota is still sleeping in his bed, at least he starts off in his bed, but by the time I go to sleep he has come in and misses me. Since Kingston has been cutting teeth and isn't feeling well all he wants to do is be in our bed. The little stinker woke up last night as I was putting him down and saw that he wasn't in our bed and started to scream, I didn't want Kodi to wake up so I picked him back up and held him he went back to sleep, I walked in our room and put him on the bed, KK opened his eyes and saw that he was in our bed and when back to sleep.
My kids I do love them so much!