The Nelson Family: Kayden's 1st Birthday!!

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Kayden's 1st Birthday!!

***As I was posting this, I filled my quota of photos for my blog. I never knew that could happen. I have a TON of pictures from the past week to post, but while I wait for more storage this will have to do.***

It's hard to believe that my little Kayden is 1 now! This past year FLEW by. Adjusting to life with 2 kids has been hard for me. I have loved it, but I have struggled. I think the baby blues stuck with me longer than normal; living in one of the snowiest cities in the countries doesn't help with that either. Life is getting easier each day though, and I could not imagine my life with out my two little boys. I love being their mom, and I love to hear them say "mommy," and "momma." It melts my heart:)

1 year stats for the birthday boy:

Weight: 19 lbs 5 oz

Height: 29 1/2 inches

He is a little guy when you compare him to other one year olds, but he is following his own growth rate at a normal pace. I think we will just have small kids.

Things that he does now:

-Cruises a long furniture quite quickly

-Has taken a couple steps, but is still quite content on crawling at this point

-He is FINALLY able to fall asleep on his own. This deserves a celebration!

-Because he is able to fall asleep on his own, he is napping MUCH better; 2 1-2 hour naps/day around 10 and 2. He is sleeping well at night, but still wants to nurse around 4-6; which is fine with me. He goes to sleep around 7 and gets up around 7 most mornings.

-He LOVES to climb stairs. He is pretty good at going up, but is still trying to master coming down. If we would let him, he would go up and down our stairs all day.

-Says "momma" and "dadda." It seems he is able to distinguish who is momma and who is dadda for the most part as well.

-He loves to head bang things for some reason. It actually pretty cute, but he has a really hard head and I can see this turning into a destructive habit; he already uses his head to defend himself against Deagan.

-He ADORES Deagan. To him, Deagan is the coolest thing to walk the earth.

-He has started to become attached to a huge monkey stuffed animal that we have. It sleeps in his crib with him at night, and comforts him when he is sad.

-He likes milk! Deagan hates milk, and I was always so afraid that he wasn't going to be healthy because of that. But this little one loves milk.

-He has inherited the bad ears, and it looks like we will be getting tubes for him in May or so. Poor guy!

I am sure there a ton of other things that he does, but these are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.

We love our little Kayden and love having him in our family!!

Pictures from his birthday!

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I don't want to forget all the cute things that my children have said or will say, so check back often to see what the Nelson family has to say!

March 26, 2013

Kayden: Do I still have my eyeballs or are they still at Grandma and Grandpa's house?

Me: I never knew they were there...

January 8, 2011

I was tired this afternoon, and I needed to nurse Kayden. I felt too tired to go pick up Kayden from where he was, so jokingly I asked Deagan if he would go change Kayden's diaper, nurse him, and then put him down for a nap.

He took it seriously, and said, "I have little boobies mommy! But do I have milk?"

Me: "No you don't have milk. I was just kidding."

Deagan: "But do I have water in my boobies?"

Needless to say, he did not follow through with what I said:)

January 6, 2009

*We went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight, and after the waitress brought us our breadsticks my son yelled after her, "Thank you lady!"

*My oldest loves to bring toys with him to bed. Tonight he had a couple of toy dinosaurs that he got for Christmas. The rule we have of bringing toys in bed is that the toys can't play, they have to sleep too. Tonight, he was having a hard time just letting his toys sleep, so I kept asking him to stop playing with the dinosaurs so he could go to sleep. He was getting really frustrated at me because of this and towards the end he started saying, "I am very mad at you!" It was so hard for me not to laugh at that.

January 4, 2009

He has done this for a while now, but whenever we are in the car he will ask, "Where are we going?" in a annoyed kind of voice. Later on he will ask really sadly, "Where did my house go?"

October 29, 2009

My oldest woke up really early this morning, and was whiny and impossible to please. At this point, I am dreading the day ahead and it is only 7 a.m. My oldest was sitting on his play table coloring and playing with his paint box (that was empty). He dropped the paint box, and began whining for me to pick it up. The conversation went something like this:

D: "Pick it up Mommy!"

Me: "It is right by you, you pick it up."

**Pause from Deagan**

D: "Michelle! Pick it up!"

I couldn't help but smile when he called me Michelle. Maybe this day will be better then I am expecting.

September 6, 2009

I think that wanting your privacy while going potty is a natural instinct that we are all born with and that develops over time. D is beginning to show signs that this privacy is a very important time when going to the bathroom. This afternoon I was making dinner and came in to the living room to check on him. As I walked into the room, he held out his hand and yelled, "No Mom! Go back!" I can always tell when he is done by him allowing me to stay in the same room with him.

August 30, 2009

D wants me to always watch what he is doing regardless of what it is. His new favorite thing to say is, "WATCH MOM!" over and over.

July 11, 2009

I was taking a bath, and locked D in the bathroom with me while I did so so I could keep an eye on him. During this process, D was very interested in his old nursing buddies (if you get my drift) and kept saying "Yummy!" "Yummy?" I asked him. "What did it taste like?" "HOT DOGS!" He replied!

July 8, 2009

D is a big help around the house. He puts things away when I ask him to, sometimes. He helps me fold the laundry, by that I mean he lays in the laundry. He is just a great help. One of his new things is to throw away his diapers after I am done changing him. After a diaper change this afternoon, he proceeded to pick up the diaper and head to the trash. His normal trash that he uses was out of reach, so I told him to go into the bathroom right off of the kitchen and to put the diaper in the trash right next to the toilet. I think all he heard from that was, "Put it in the....toilet." because that is where he put it. Like I said, very helpful! :)