video updates

I am trying to upload some videos from this last year and this is the only one I got to upload.  This was back in November!  When your dance moves become dangerous!

 I got some videos uploaded on you tube.  THese are pretty random, but I think entertaining.  First up...the boys dancing to Despicable Me!

http://youtu.be/UWGbJi35lx0

Next up...Kellan and Wrigley have become pretty good friends.  Whenever Kellan is eating in his highchair, Wrigley is right beside him, I wonder why?

 http://youtu.be/5Uc3Wtlxfg8

Kellan loved his birthday cake, here is just a little clip.  Whenever he would stop eating he would look up and laugh!

http://youtu.be/31uod2zp9m0

The next big basketball star!  Kellan is ready for March Madness!

http://youtu.be/4utlutMW6T8

Finally a throw back.  This is from February 25, 2012.  We were driving Kellan home from the hospital and Braydon decided he wanted to "rock"

http://youtu.be/y-U2-3s6sLw

I love looking back at some of these videos.  It is crazy to see how much they boys have changed in such a little amount of time

Kellan's 1st birthday!

Yes that's right, Kellan turned 1 year old on February 23!  I already have a hard time remembering him as just a baby.  He is the most active kid.  He follows Braydon around and wants to do and have everything his older brother has.  Braydon still calls Kellan "brudder" which I think is the cutest thing.  Kellan was learning how to walk leading up to his first birthday.  Last week (March 11) he decided he preferred walking and pretty much is everywhere at this point!  He loves to eat everything and loves to steal his brothers cup of milk and drink it.  He is extremely independent.  He is always taking off to climb the stairs and if he hears you coming to get him, he just laughs.  He loves playing cars and has the best laugh. 

For his birthday, we had some friends and family over had a great time. 

Grandma Pat and Papa always bring a picture cake!

Papa and Kellan enjoying some dinner

Kellan sporting the birthday shirt!

Kellan practicing his walking skills with Grandma Marcia

Catch me Aunt D!

opening a few presents

Can I please eat some cake?

Braydon and I made a smaller cake for Kellan to enjoy.  He has had some cake, so I figured he would be all in.  I didn't know it would be as entertaining as it was though.  I will let the pictures tell the story!

This is all for me...where do I start.

He kept looking up and laughing and smiling.  He totally played to the crowd! 

After cake we got him all cleaned up...cake was everywhere!

He had a bonding moment with Krista

birthday shirt #2

sugar coma?

He had a great birthday.  Thanks everyone who came over to help us celebrate.  He is a really easy going, happy kid.  Happy Birthday baby K!

February update and trip to Kansas

 February came and went before we knew it.  Just like January we spent A LOT of time stuck indoors.  Lucky for us we have just a few toys to play with!

For the Super Bowl this year, we had a few friends over.   The "older" kids were able to go downstairs and play by themselves and we just had the babies upstairs with us.  It is always fun to have people over but it was funny how everyone left at halftime to put the kids in bed! Oh how times have changed!

Kellan with his girlfriends...Edlyn Iben & Natalie Heffernan

 As I have mentioned before, Braydon likes to bake with me, but we decided to let Kellan help too.

Also in February was Kellan's first Valentine's Day.  They were able to have a party at the babysitters and of course they got some good treats.   Kellan also thinks he should feed himself.  He was trying to use the spoon in the picture below to eat applesauce, which he does pretty well, but I think he decided licking the bowl would be easier...where did he learn how to do that (Dad??)

Kellan with his first love...food!

Kellan's first valentine's! (Aunt Kristen...do you remember getting Braydon this shirt)

Every year we try to make a trip to Kansas in January or February to celebrate my nephews, Tyson and Charlie's birthdays.  This year, we had 2 trips cancelled before we even had our bags packed because Charlie was sick!  We have been really lucky this winter with our kids not catching anything, so we decided not to push our luck. Lucky for us we finally made the trip in mid February! 

Uncle Joel and Kellan

Braydon loves going to Kansas.  The Lundstrom house is full of fun toys and of course Tyson and Charlie have an I-pad (he tells a lot of people this important fact).  What I didn't know is Kellan would also like the I-pad!

Kellan checking in on facebook!

Time for another birthday....lucky for us Aunt Kristen whipped up a cake so we could have a little birthday party for Tyson and Charlie.

Tyson is 9!

Charlie is 5!

With all the boy cousins together, it was the perfect opportunity to get a group picture...these are always entertaining. 

Really... you all couldn't look at the camera at the same time once!  Oh well.

Saturday we hung out most of the day.  Tyson had a "hot shot" competition.  So we went to cheer him on.  He did awesome!  Such good form!

We spent the rest of the day hanging out at the house and we had a lot of fun.  We were going to go to the Kansas State basketball game, but who knew it would be a tough ticket to get.  So Joel sold his tickets and we just hung out, which was a lot easier with the boys.

We also had the kinnect going, which was hilarious! 

Serious boys!

 

Charlie and Kellan playing together

Sunday morning, Tyson and Charlie had plans to get their pictures taken at a park.  So we all went with them.  After the pictures, it was so nice out that the boys got to play at the park for a little bit. 

Charlie looking handsome and so grown up!

TJ swinging

As always we had a great time visiting the Kansas Lundstroms.  They are always great hosts! 

The last weekend was celebrating kellan's first birthday!  I think his birthday deserves its own post...so I will work on that. 

Just a few more pics from February!

Kellan loves looking out the back door outside.  Finally some sunshine on his face!  Hurry up and get here spring!

Braydon taking my picture, he is getting pretty good at this! 

Next up...Kellan's 1st birthday!

January Review

Yes I know its March, but we will just start with January and hopefully I can get a few posts done the next couple of weeks and get caught up.  January is always the month to get caught up after the holidays, put the Christmas decorations away, pick up pine needles for weeks, find places for all the new toys, and of course return to work! I will just do a quick review through pictures of what life was like around our house in January. 

Braydon loves to pick on his Dad!

Kellan "relaxing"

Kellan is everywhere and into everything! 

January 15 is Papa's birthday and Tyson's birthday.  We were planning on going to Kansas for Tyson's birthday, but of course the weather kept us away.  So our plan was to help Papa celebrate his birthday in Des Moines.  Braydon and I love to bake and Braydon loves birthdays!  So we made a special trip to the store to get cake stuff for Papa's birthday.  On the way there, Braydon called papa and asked him "what kind of cake do you want...chocolate or white".  Papa responded both!  That made it tricky, but we made it work.  The entire time we are mixing the ingredients Braydon always asks, can I lick it now?  But he always waits until I say ok.

Braydon and I love to bake together - we also love to lick the bowl when we are done!

Braydon is also helpful at blowing out the candles!

Did I mention Kellan is everywhere and into everything...well his favorite past time is climbing up and down the stairs!

Kellan still likes to cuddle with his Dad!

We had another birthday in January... Great Grandpa Wink turned 90 years old!  They had a party with lots of family and friends in Perry.  As usual, Braydon made us light the candle 2 times, so he could practice! 

Braydon helping Great Grandpa blow out the candles

Kellan was all dressed up for the party!

more time on the stairs!

The boys also like to spend time in the basement family room where they have a few toys and by few, I mean way too many.  Kellan recently discovered a tunnel that is pretty fun to crawl through.

Kellan shooting some hoops in the basement

We can't always have fun around the house, it is important to get some cleaning down too!

Braydon likes to vacuum

Kellan likes to sweep

Sometimes I worry that I pay too much attention to Kellan by taking his picture all the time.  So I always try to get a few of Braydon. 

Braydon was asking me here... no more pictures please!

If you haven't met Kellan, you probably don't know about his love for food!  This kid will eat anything and everything!  He also does not stop.  He is over "baby food" because he likes to feed himself.

I love spaghetti nights!

January was a cold month, so we spent a lot of time indoors!  Braydon loves to play hide and seek.  He likes to tell you where to hide and you have to help him hide sometimes.  It is always "fun."  Braydon refuses to go to bed without at least one book.  We first go to bed with just his camping lantern on, the door shut... then when it is time to go to sleep, we turn the lantern off and put his lamp on for the night.  He also like to build tents and go camping.  Hopefully this summer we will get to do it for real.

Kellan is an active kid.  If you leave the pantry door open, he is in there...if you leave the bathroom door open, he has the toilet brush...if you turn your back on him while he is sitting in the high chair, he is standing up...he keeps us on our toes!  He likes to play with cars and play catch with a ball.   And if I didn't mention it, he loves to go up and down the stairs!!