Happy late 1st Birthday Kai Guy!!!!!!!!!

Where did the past 13mo go? How did my newborn I held in my arms last year turn into this walking talking little man? Why do babies grow up into little people so quickly? My least favorite part of being a mom is watching the time fly by too quickly, my absolute favorite part of being a mom is watching my babies grow into little men... How contradicting is that? lol Sept 8th Kailer Steven Olivas turned 1 year old!! We had a joint birthday party for the boys on Sat Sept 9th and it was a blast. We had a decent turn out for it. The cakes were made courtesy of Grandma and I am SO IMPRESSED with how cute they turned out! We were supposed to have a "Cars" theme for Kaeden and a "Baby Einstein" theme for Kailer but Kaeden decided he was having Baby Einstein also so all we had was a Cars pinata and the rest was Baby Einstein. Worked out great and the cakes and decorations couldn't have been any cuter. Thank God For Grandma!!!! We had 2 pinata's, one for the older kids and one for the babies. The older kids had a cars pinata that took forever to break open, and the babies had a little dinosaur pinata that us adults finally ripped open for them :) The weekend before the party we got Kaeden his big birthday present which was a Polaris 4 Wheeler Power Wheels and Kaeden just LOVES it! It goes 2.5 and 5 mph and reverse and he rides that thing like a pro. He's my little stunt man and we have to watch him carefully as he likes to try different riding positions that are too dangerous in my opinion! Ex: Riding backwards, riding only on one side etc. His baby brother loves to ride on it with him and it's too cute to watch my boys playing together. Kai's big gift from us was a gift we went 1/2 with Grandma and it's a bounce and spin zebra. Bummer thing is that Kai has short legs and can't ride it yet LOL He loves to spin the music/noise maker and dance and bop around but can't get on it and bounce on his own yet. At least he'll be able to use it for quite sometime before he outgrows it!!!

LindSay came down the weekend after the party and helped us organize and clean out our garage... Do you have any idea how GOOD it feels to be able to walk into our garage and not trip over anything? The house is really ours to do with what we want when we want, although that thought is STILL sinking into my head. I feel like I still need to pay "rent" each month and forget that it's a HOUSE PAYMENT and it's OURS~!!!!!!!

A few new things on Kai. Kailer is growing by leaps and bounds. He still doesn't talk much though. He loves to babble and reminds me of his big sister Tatum when she was a baby. He looks at you, talks to you, knows what he's saying, and all we hear is babbles LOL But the facial expressions and hand movements let you know that HE knows what he's saying ;) He got a 5th tooth in so now has 2 front teeth and the tooth to the left and his bottom 2 teeth. We had his Dr appt on Mon and he's officially weighing in at 20lbs and 27 3/4in tall or short, however you wanna look at it LOL He is turning back into the round ball he was at birth, short and round! He reminds me of a midget with his body proportions and he's just too adorable. His body is very long and his legs are barely existent! He can wear anywhere from 12mo-24mo shirts but has to wear lots of 6-9 or 6-12 pants or one piece outfits. Kaeden was built the same way and has legs now at 4yrs old so Kai has hope~!! Kai loves to shake his head yes while saying "yea". I think he's starting to understand what this means and I really am enjoying it. We're always asking him if he wants something and usually he'll tell us "yea" with a head shake. Although yesterday when I told him to let me change his diaper I swear he shook his head no and said something!! He has shaken his head no a couple times but nothing consistent. Usually if he doesn't want something he just lets out the "Kai Growl" (This is a loud loud loud aarrrrr) and we know that the answer is no LOL He loves to point at things and is getting much better at it. What he's pointing at 1/2 the time Ih ave no idea but it's sure cute anyway! He's figured out how to turn himself around and slide off of our couch and bed, but he's not very good at it yet and still tends to fall on his butt off our bed which does not make him a happy camper. If you ask him to "Go get _______ (daddy, mommy, Kaeden etc) he'll go find them happily. It's so amazing to see his brain functioning and understanding what we are telling him! He's beginning to test his legs and try walking really fast ( no running quite yet ) but usually this results in him falling down and getting upset still. He comes to me and tries lifting my shirt up when he's upset because he wants to nurse LOL Kailer loves to play with his big brother now. If Kaeden is running through the house, Kai is following him laughing, if Kaeden is riding outside on his scooter, Kai is following him as quickly as possible yelling at him. I never realized how great it would be to have 2 kids and love it most of the time ;) Every once in awhile when they are both grumpy and whining or tired and being difficult I swear I'm done, but then when they are playing so nicely I just want another baby so badly. If you say "Kai Kai" Kailer will look at you and stick his tongue out at you. If he wants you to stick your tongue out he'll start sticking his out until you do it too. He loves to have me stick out my tongue so he can play with my tongue ring. A couple new words in his vocabulary are Mama, Dada, Hi (this one is few and far between), ni ni (night night) which I think means boobies as I always ask if he wants to go night night before I nurse him LOL. He's also learned to give high fives and in the last week is getting really good at it.

We've been going to MOPS which I think is really great for Kaeden. He is not too good at socializing with other kids or adults especially when Mommy or Daddy is not around so he's having to learn to do this through MOPS. I love going and socializing with other MOmmies while I get a free break from my boys and they get the opportunity to play with other kids their age. Tues morning we went to the Fire STation with MOPS and learned about Fire Safety. Kaeden was stubborn and wouldn't get very involved, I sure hope that he'll learn this with time!!! I know he's not a shy kid, yet when he gets in situations like that he clams up and clings to me like a baby!

I won a costume on Ebay last night so it looks like we're going to go as a swarm of bees for Halloween ;) My boys are gonna be the cutest bees on earth even if Mommy and Daddy look like ghetto bees LOL

I'll update more soon as I know there are more things I want to say but cannot think of them at this moment! Below are some pics of the things I've typed about :)