Labor Day Weekend

This is out of order. Oops. For Labor Day weekend we had the Seawright Family Reunion at my parent's cabin. We didn't get to do any boating since the weather was awful (rainy, stormy, windy, super cold, etc...) which was a bummer. We mostly just hung out at the cabin and talked.  

My kids all had a horrible weekend. They all got sick and not one of them slept hardly at all. Which meant that neither did Curtis and I. It wasn't the most fun weekend ever, let's be honest. We were exhausted by the time it was over.  I hardly pulled my camera out at all, except to take a few landscape shots of the sunset and what not.  There were people there. I promise: Jerry& Sherrie, Gardner & Jessica, Molly & Austin, Larry & Kristie, Ty, Ashley & Lexi, my parents, our family and Missy & Tanner.

Kaden doing his signature "Kaden dance" as he walked back from a hike down to the burned out green bus by the cabin.

The view of the Bear Lake from the cabin. The ONLY good thing about getting NO sleep all weekend is being up early enough to enjoy a beautiful sunrise.

The one highlight of the weekend was swimming at the pool with Kaden. Our conversation was priceless:

Us: "Do you want to wear your rash guard or go bare-chested like Dad?"

 Kaden: "I want to be bare-chested like Dad." (Thinks for a moment...) "Mom, why don't you go bare-chested too?" 

Me: "Uh, that's just not something girls do buddy. Someday you'll know why."

Kaden: (Thinks for a minute.) "I know why Mommy. If you go bare-chested then your bra will fall in the water and get wet."

Baha! Yes. That is the reason. Should I be horrified that he knows all about bras and where girls wear them? 

Three Month Old Twins

On Sept. 17, 2015 my twins turned three months! I feel like sometimes the days seem so long, but then somehow the weeks and months seem to fly by.  We love these little buddies so much! They are the perfect addition to our family.   They are starting to get on a more solid routine, which is nice for Kaden and I so we know when our playtime is.  They sleep from 7 or 8 pm to 3 or 4 am, so an 8 hour stretch, just like Kaden did at their age. I wish I could figure out how to bump it back a bit so Curtis and I didn't have to get up every other night with them, but I can't complain too much. They are good boys and so sweet!

Carson or "Carson boy" is weighing in around 14 lbs. (according to my bathroom scale, which may or may not be accurate.) and can still fit in some 0-3 month clothes and is just now starting to seem a little squished in size 1 diapers.  He is such a smiley boy (finally) even though it took him a lot longer to get there than Cole. Everyone lately says he looks like Curtis. I personally don't see it, but he's definitely got more of a Fairbourn look than a Seawright look. Whoever he looks like, he is one handsome little man.  He is such a sweet baby. He's been a lot less fussy lately since we found some better reflux medicine for him. Combine that with the fact that he's finally smiling and cooing and you have one cute baby that we adore.  He also loves the camera. What can I say? The camera loves him back.

I don't know what is up with these pictures but Carson absolutely has the CUTEST little face in these pictures... and then there's the hair. It looks like old man hair- all wispy and thin and mostly just grown in on the sides. He looks fine/normal in person but for some reason these pictures brought out some weird, old man side of him. LOL! Say hello to Benjamin Button!

Cole or "Coley-o" as we call him almost 90% of the time,  on the other hand is a whopping 16 lbs. (bathroom scale) and wears a size 6 month clothes (he has since 2 months) and size 3 diapers!! Kaden still isn't potty trained (and not for my lack of trying... sigh) but he wears a size 4! Curtis and I can't stop laughing at how big our 3 month old chunky Cole is compared to 3 year old skin-and-bones Kaden who only weighs 30 lbs and size 4 diapers. (On a side note, our doctor is actually trying to get Kaden to gain weight since he dropped weight from his 2.5 to 3 year visit, so he told us to give him chocolate milk with whole milk and Carnation Instant Breakfast for every meal as a drink to help add calories since he eats nothing.)

Kaden sure is a sweet big brother. He loves the babies and (most of the time) is really sweet and gentle with them. 

Naturally we couldn't do 3 month pics of the twins and neglect big brother. This face! It is sooo Kaden. :)

Cole is the happiest baby. He is always smiling and cooing. He is just content to play or do whatever most of the time unless he's hungry or tired, then he'll fuss a little, but otherwise he is so chill.

Mr. Chunkerdoodles. Love!!!

I couldn't help myself. These shoes are too cute! Nana bought them for the boys and I needed to remember them because they're adorable!

Don't you just want to squish him? Aaahhh!!! I love all his rolls and chub.

One thing that is so funny about Cole is that anytime he's eating a bottle he always has to clasp his hands together under the bottle. He always has his eyes closed and is just so relaxed. 

Check out those ROLLS! Sometimes I don't dress him until he whines because he's cold because I just love to squish this cute chunky monkey so much! Is that wrong? 

3 month old activities: 

Bouncy Seat Time- my boys have just figured out how to sort of smack the toys and make them move a little. It's so fun to watch them in the bouncy seats because they love them and are so easily amused!

Carson's Diaper Change mug shot. Ha! He's not a big fan of getting the diaper changed...

 Tummy Time- Carson usually loves it. Cole tolerates it.

 Every now and then Coley doesn't seem to mind it too much...

Both boys pretty much hate being in their carseats unless the car is actually moving. Cole looks gigantic compared to Carson in this! Ha ha!

Kaden's 3rd Birthday Bash

Kaden got three days of birthday awesomeness this year!  

Curtis took a Friday August 14, 2015 off of work so we could take him out to do something without the "two twin brothers."  We called it a "Mommy, Daddy, Kaden date" and he couldn't be more excited about that. This summer has been hard for him with the twins since we haven't had a lot of time to spend with him and also haven't been able to do many fun things, as you can imagine with twin newborns. We went to Seven Peaks Salt Lake (Raging Waters when I was a kid) and had a blast swimming and riding on the tubes on the lazy river and wave pool. Kaden didn't enjoy the waterslides because he didn't like getting splashed at the end since he and Curtis kind of fell in a bit. Oh well. He enjoyed the rest.

 On Saturday Aug. 15 we had a friend's party at our house.  Kaden wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles party, which is funny because he's really never seen it, save one episode we showed him once that he thought was "too scary."  But since Daddy loves TMNT, so does Kaden and he has a ton of paraphernalia- t-shirts, hats, pajamas, pillowcase, Daddy's old Turtle shell, you name it.  So we set out to have the most rockin' TMNT party around.

When the kids came in we had them pick a shell and some headbands and wristbands so they would be ready for "Ninja Training."  

Kaden, Livvi, Street, Lydia & Asher (Jackson & Jace came later so they didn't get in the picture)

Once they were dressed we tried to get them to do the awesome obstacle course we'd made, but they were all so distracted by the bucket of water balloons that they mostly just popped those and then begged for more. Poor Curtis spent most of the morning hunched over the water balloon pump, filling balloons up, just to have the kids return empty handed ten seconds later. Ha ha. 

I had the idea to fill the trampoline with balloons. Fun thought. However, the static build-up from all of the balloons was so great that after a few minutes the balloons started popping themselves and all the kids were screaming because it was scary. 

The kids got the brilliant idea to move the balloons to the pool and had a wonderful time playing in them! Less scary, less popping.

We did "sewer races" with the turtles going down a rain gutter and into the pool. The kids thought this was so fun. They did this over and over for almost an hour. Fill the bucket up, pour it down the rain gutter, watch the plastic turtles from Amazon go spilling into the pool, repeat. For less than $10, the kids had the best activity ever created!

For lunch we had grapes and pizza (of course, because that's what Ninja Turtles love.) We requested no presents for the friend party so that the kids would just play and have fun and not have their feelings hurt if they didn't get anything. I think it was a great plan. 

My parents came and watched the twins so we could actually do the friend's birthday party. Otherwise it would never have happened.  Miss Emma had fun hanging out with her twin cousins inside.

Brad, Nicki and their kids spent Saturday night at our house so they could stay over for the family party. On Sunday August 16, Kaden's actual birthday, we had waffles for breakfast, went to Stake Conference, the kids played, we had hot dogs for dinner and then had the Seawrights and Fairbourns over for cupcakes and ice cream and presents.

Kaden got a train set (tracks and trains) from us, as well as clothes, a construction worker dress-up costume, and some train puzzles.

Brad & Nicki gave Kaden some TMNT puzzles.

Nana & Papa gave Kaden an additional bridge to go with his train set, a train station and a Thomas the Train Engine that goes all by itself.

Missy & Tanner gave Kaden a "Baby Tar" as he calls the little guitar.

Grandma & Grandpa gave Kaden 3 dress up costumes- a firefighter, a chef and a doctor, a toy excavator, and some clothes.

Triple Piggy Back Rides with Uncle Jason & Daddy!

"It's my party, I can cry if I want to..." Oh wait, no it's not. Carson & Cole enjoyed themselves as well. (Well, mostly Cole.)