Okay we are going to go bakwards beause I dont feel like moing photos, sorry. So we all flew to Seattle for a week for Jasons work. While there we isited family and friends. I hae to say Kaden and Brooke are frequent fliers! Kaden has been to FL, WA, and cA! So this is a photo of Kaden and Brooke a ouple days after we got home. Kaden asked to "hold Brooke."

Brooke is a happy baby. She is almost weaned off her seiure mediine. She hasnt had any seiures but she stiffens up a lot. Hopefully she will grow out of this. She is trying to roll oer. In this pi, we were staying with Jasons brother Will and his family. THey lie in Lynden,WA.

Kaden wathing some T waiting for his ousin Kole to ome home from shool so he an play with him. We spent 4 days in Lynden. It was so green and rainy, strange just oming from snow. We also go to do some shopping.

Kaden and Brooke enjoying a sunny window.

Kaden and his ousin Kole both just woke up, an you tell?? Dont they look like they ould be brothers! What uties!

Kole, Kaden and Brooke. Kole was wanting to hold Brooke and be by her just as muh as Kaden.

Our friends Jeff and Tiff with their boys Josiah and Eli. They lie in Albany, OR. We stayed with them for a night. We droe to OR on a monday got there at 9pm, stayed up till 2am talking and left for Lynden, WA around 7pm Tuesday. Lots of driing! It was great seeing the Johnsons! We last saw Eli when he was a baby!! Kaden loed playing with the boys!

Sorry I dont know how to flip the photo. So we flew down to Seattle on a Saturday. As soon as we arried, we went to our friends, Jon and Erias work hristmas party. What a day!

Kaden got his fae painted for the first time, he did pretty well. He has a Rudolph nose.

He was tired beause he didnt take a ery long nap on the plane. He atually flew asleep in the terminal waiting for the plane! I was impressed! Yep it was Jason, Kaden, and Brooke, all sleeping beause we got up at 4 in the morning and eeryone was tired. Poor ol mom!!

Our friends Jon, Erica, and cooper.

Kaden eating pia and holding onto his balloon animal. It was a dog.

Lets see what else has been going on. Jason is coahing the freshman squad for basketball at South High. It is the same shool that I coah at. Sad thing is he gets paid and I dont and I am the head coah of the whole program!

We arelooking forward to hristmas. This year was more fun buying gifts for Kaden. I guess it only gets better as the years go on. More epensie I am sure!

Kaden surprises me eeryday. He is atually speaking in sentenes now. They are kind of broken but I understand, like he will say "mommy where you are!" He is suh a friendly kid. We went to a party tonight and he jumped in with all the kids like he knew them for years. He would also go up to other adults without being shy. He is singing songs like jingle bells, twinkle little star, and abs just to name a few. He is ALWAYS talking about pirates!! I think they are ingrained in his head from Jason taking him on a ride at Disneyland. He likes to sing the song "yo ho yo ho." He is beoming more independent whih means more tantrums. Jason and I are figuring out what works best for him. Usually it is timeouts or spankings. He likes to sream and that is a hard one to break. He usually does it when he is frustrated. Okay so I think I am jsut rambling now, I should probably go to bed!

Random

Here are just some random photos that I ouldnt pass up! Brooke loes to sleep under her blankets and enjys being swaddled. Our friends were up from Seattle and spent the night with us. After a night of pia, the boys needed to be hosed down!! Kaden had so muh hair so of ourse I had to mess with it! I loe Brookes toothless grin, she is suh a happy baby!

PS-Seeral of my keys are going out on our keyboard, an y ou guess whih ones!! Time for a new one!

Brooke's Birth

I just got these photos from a friend and wanted to share them. These were taken when Brooke was about 2 hours old!

Kids

Isn't she beautiful?! It's amazing how preious they are when they are this little. Then they grow up and start throwing fits! Yeah I am speaking of Kaden. He still is a great little boy and will always be. Yes he is starting to beome more independent and its sad, not my little baby boy anymore. Good thing I have Brooke!

This is one of the many photos I got of Brooke smiling. I love to see her huge toothless smiles! She loves to talk as well. She has this high pith squeal that is just too adorable! Kaden loves loving on her. He is always asking where she is and makes sure she is with us if we go somewhere. He always wants to give her a kiss and hug. But when he starts crying he says, "loud, noise."

These two were having a jolly good time! Kaden says "Hey Brooke" in his cute little voice. He is learning so much. He sings twinkle twinle, abcs, and itsy bitsy spider to name a few. He loves bingo and always wants me to sing it so he an run around in circles, jump or clap his hands. He loves doing push ups with daddy and counts to 10. His push ups consist of his hands being on the floor and his head bobbing up and down.

She is such a sweetheart, I am always kissing on her! We are learning how to handle her more and now she is such a happy baby. She loves to move and be held, so I have been using the swing a lot. She also loves to be swaddled, which Kaden hated.

Yeah I had to put this photo on here, I thought it was to funny. Wont be able to do it when she is older! She was working on something!

Here is my little monster! He just woke up, can you tell by the hair! He has so much of it! I need to get him a haircut! Kaden is doing awesome with sleeping. He actually tells me if he wants a nap and when he is tired! Gosh it seems like yesterday he was waking up 12 times in one hour and I was getting up throughout the hours of the night!! Brooke sleeps pretty well. She wakes up only 3-4 times and goes right back to bed! Thank you Jesus!

"What?" Yes he actually says this and it is the funniest thing. He is starting to form sentences and it is so fun to seem him learn new words. He knows colors and some shapes. This boy loves to learn. I have a feeling when he gets into school we are going to have to give him extra stuff to keep him busy and not bored.

Brooke in her swing. I am so glad she is getting use out of it cause Kaden hated it. I am starting to get the hang of having two kids and how to juggle them. I remember thinking "how am I going to do this?" when we first brought Brooke home. Jason has watched both kids so I could get out of the house a couple of times now.

We also had Thanksgiving and enjoyed our time with family. Christmas is right around the corner and I ma having more fun shopping for Kaden this year. Im sure each year will just get better!!

Jason has been busy with work and he opened up his own business called JR Corporation. He does side jobs through his work. He designed a several thousand dollar kitchen and has been installing cabinents as well. He is looking at getting a plow so he can start plowing as well.

Seattle

We all flew down to Seattle for our friends annual Murder Mystery. The kids and I went down early to spend some time with our friends. The muder mystery was set in the wild west, I was a telegraph operator and Jason was a undertaker. Jason made me a really ool telegraph prop. He enjoyed measuring everyone and asking what kind of wood they would like for their offin. Kaden and Kooper are sitting with the Sheriff who was shot. Kaden kept on referrin to him as "the man."

Kaden and his buddy Kooper wanting to get upstairs.

We took the kids to the park, for a hike and to the library. It was suh great weather down there! I loved being able to take Brooke out of her arseat and not worry about her freezing to death! Kaden was swimming in the roks.We also went to a pumpkin patkh and a korn maze. Kaden and Jason were eating some kettle korn. Kaden wanted to get down and go through the korn. We did pretty good going through.

Brooke was sleeping of kourse!

Kaden was huggning the pumpkins.

Kaden and Kooper were wathing Fraggle Rok with Jon.

Kaden and Kooper on a hike! The boys did pretty good until they ran into some blakberry bushes whih have thorns. We just wanted to get them tired out!

Brooke was under my jaket. We had to get some ppis with some fall weather.

Fall In AK

(The "see" is not working on the keyboard) So it has been awhile sine I have updated this, sorry! Brooke is growing but she is still little! When we took her in for her 6 week hek up she weighed 8 lbs 8 oz, about the size Kaden was when he was born! She had her BAER test and we found out that her left ear is fine but she has mild to moderate hearing loss in her right ear. We have to have another test in 4-6 months to make sure it is not getting worse.

One fall afternoon, we took the kids to a nearby lake. We walked around and enjoyed the risp air and fallen leaves. We had to enjoy it quikly beause the leaves were gone so fast. Brooke was hidden in my jaket, she was taking a nap.

For Halloween, we arved a pumpkin and handed out andy. Kaden was an elephant and the utest one at that! He had fun stamping bats and spiders on the pumpkin as well as sooping out the goop. Everyone time he put a peie of any in someones bag he would say thank you. He is still asking about "andy" so he an hand it out.