Remainder March

March 1st

Sweet sleeping boy

March 2nd

I had an appointment to get my hair done so Colt had Daddy duty. We have cameras, and I checked in on him while I was gone to see how things were going! Colt's sister was actually there that day to meet Cutler so she helped some too. 

This is how I got stuff done there for a while. 

March 3rd

Post nursing session... Kinley had went to Grandma and Papa's for a couple nights and Colt was working in Sulphur Springs so it was just the two of us. 

Dede sent me this video while she had Kinley. Kinley was driving her truck and wrecked right into Davallen's bike. She may get her driving from me in my college days.

March 4th

I met Dede in Canton to pickup Kinley.  We were all back together again and she was having to hangout while her brother ate. We did a lot of this and a lot of book reading on the couch those first few weeks.

March 5th

A little walk in our neighborhood

I think this was Cutler's first time in the real bath and not the sink. I'm pretty sure it was also their first bath together. I quickly realized that it's quicker to bathe them together than separately.

Here's a little video of Kinley explaining to me that her food goes down to her tummy. Love her sweet voice.

March 6th

Kinley was at Mother's Day Out which meant that I was trying to get tax returns done with my little helper. 

He wasn't happy about something.

March 7th

We wanted to be Minnie Mouse that particular day.

A potty training attempt... She was semi-interested for a bit, but we ended up ultimately taking a break and potty training a little later. 

March 8th

Dancing during dinner

Bedtime with Mom

March 9th

We went to a playdate at Carolyn's that morning. Then Nadine came to our house to meet Cutler. For some reason, I didn't manage to get a single pic.

March 10th

We went to the park with Molly and Lucy Cash. Cutler hung out in the baby carrier the whole time. 

Trying her brother's bib on.

Focused on building a book tower

11pm... the nights were long a lot of the time but he looks so sweet. 

March 11th

March 12th

I had surgery to remove my multiple kidney stones on both sides that day and was at the emergency room early that morning and then had surgery at the hospital until late that night... I guess I didn't feel like taking pictures. 

March 13th

It looks like maybe Kinley was shopping with her Dad. 

My mom had tended to Kinley and Cutler while I was dealing with kidney stones the day before. My dad had chauffeured me around. My mom ended up staying the night, but my dad doesn't like staying anywhere so he came back and got my mom this day. Kinley and her Pa have a special little bond.

March 14th

Kinley helping "take care" of her brother. 

 Colt took Kinley to play down the street while I was cooking dinner. They get back and I turn my head to see this in the middle of the kitchen floor... a pile full of dirt. Colt's pretty smart so he cleaned it up.

March 15th

I tried to make him have a little play time. He wasn't really a fan. 

March 16th

I turned around and Kinley was in the fireplace. At least it wasn't a working fireplace. 

Kinley started getting into helping feed the dogs around this time. She still helps me. 

While Colt was off, we decided to try a park we hadn't been to yet. Colt doesn't get to go to the park with us much. We didn't get a lot of playtime in before he had to go into work mode. An older lady fell and ended up not being able to get back up. He watched from afar while others tried to help her. Then he ended up stepping in and getting her taken care of and transferred to the ambulance. We ended up leaving after that.

March 17th

This was one of the first times that I caught a real smile. 

Here's a video of me trying to get him to smile for me. He didn't want to perform when I got my phone out. He just wanted to stare at my phone.

March 19th

I had follow up x-rays and an appointment with the urologist that day to check on my kidney stone issues. Colt was working so my mom came and stayed with the kids while my dad chauffeured me again. After they left, Kinley ended up falling asleep on the couch and taking a super late nap. 

This one was napping at the same time. 

Bedtime later that night

March 20th

Hanging out with Mom... ignore my belly hanging out.

Waiting to take a bath

That night Kinley was singing her brother a song before bed.

March 21st

Just watching a show while she sits on her Daddy's shoulders. I'm pretty positive that I was sitting in the chair nursing a certain someone.

March 22nd

Getting her Tigey to put in her backpack to take to school. She was still at Southern Oaks Mother's Day Out at the time and they took naps at school.

Both arms full

March 24th

We were in the socks with sandals stage... every day.

March 25th

Puzzles before heading to Heston's birthday party

He looked so much older in "real clothes" before the party.

March 26th

I started doing Beachbody workouts. Kinley would "workout" with me... meaning she would start working out alongside me. Then she'd end up on my back while I did pushups or anything on the floor.

Spaghetti night... she's still the messiest spaghetti eater.

March 27th

Stuffing eggs for her Easter party at school

March 28th

We woke up in Princess mode this day

A video of our Princess Kinley... she was wanting her Daddy to come home and see her dress. This was around the time she went full blown into princess mode I think. We started wearing a princess dress every single day. 

Just a typical day at our house during that stage of life. It's crazy how much both have changed since then. They've both grown so much in the last 7 months.

March 29th

A couple weeks before the tax deadline...While Kinley was at school, Cutler and I were working on tax returns. 

March 30th

Sweet smiles... and it looks like Kinley was serving us lunch

Dede had bought these Mickey Mouse pajamas and matching hat for Kinley back at Christmas. For some reason around this time, she went through a kick where she wanted to wear them every night. Colt and I were not really a fan of them. I ended up hiding them because they were not easy pajamas to get on and off.

March 31st

All smiles before our road trip to Grandma and Papa's for Easter

I caught big smiles on video this time. You can hear Kinley in the background saying "He's smiling!"

Easter 2018

I have additional March pictures, but since my previous post was about the night before Easter and Easter fell on April 1st this year, I figured I would go ahead and post about our Easter. Since we were staying with Grandma and Papa, the Easter Bunny came to visit us there. 

The Easter Bunny brought Kinley an Easter Paw Patrol book, bubbles, a princess sticker book, paw patrol coloring set, rain boots and a little bit of candy. I assumed she would be most impressed by the rain boots, but she wasn't interested in them at all. She really wasn't interested in the Easter Bunny at all at first. She saw it and wanted to go put her clothes on first. She wanted her shoes, bow and everything on before she went to see what he brought her. Her basket was mine that my mom made me when I was little. My mom replaced the ribbon  with new before Kinley's first Easter.  Cutler got a soft bunny book and a book for the bathtub. I'm pretty sure Kinley thinks the bath book is hers now. She is the one that plays with it the most. 

Cutler's very first Easter

That morning, Kinley put on a Happy Birthday crown that her grandma had at her house. It stayed on the whole time she was hunting eggs and most of the morning. 

Here's a video of the kids opening their presents from the Easter Bunny. It's a pretty long, unexciting video, but I like to remember what they were like at these ages. Right when Kinley started opening her Easter gifts, the smoke alarm in the house went off so there's a loud beeping sound in the video. Kinley got a little distracted and started asking, "what's that sound?"

We thought Nicci was coming with her kids that morning. She ended up not coming so Kinley had a lot of eggs to hunt.  She had fun hunting eggs for both her and her brother. Her basket was so heavy, but she didn't want anyone to help her carry it. 

Working on her counting

Here's a video of Kinley hunting eggs. 

Kinley talked Uncle Blake into going outside and blowing bubbles with her. 

Kinley kept telling her Daddy to run and go faster. She was holding on by his ears. 

I wanted to get a picture of them together, and these were as good as I got. Cutler actually had turquoise pants to match his sister's dress (Colt's mom was surprised that Colt even gave me approval for him to wear that color).  When I went to put the pants on him, they swallowed him, so we just wore the shirt.

We drove back to Tyler that day. When we got home, I tried to snap some more pictures of them. Kinley was usually still napping, and she hadn't napped the whole way home. I'm not sure what I was thinking trying to get a picture of them together after that long of a car ride and day. Some of these show what it's REALLY like a lot of the time with a newborn and a toddler. 

When Kinley was ok with pictures, he wasn't really having it. 

Then she was over it. 

I even got a video of my attempts and Kinley crying that she wanted her Daddy.

Pre-Easter

Colt was off for a few days around Easter. His mom's birthday was on March 31st, the day before Easter this year, so we decided to make a trip to Grandma and Papa's house to be there for her birthday and to celebrate Easter.

Kinley enjoyed feeding the animals while we were there. I think she gave Zoe, the horse, a full bag of carrots. Then she enjoyed making a big mess coloring Easter eggs. It's like she was racing her Daddy to color the eggs before him. She was just using her hands to grab the eggs out of the dye. I'm sure she was responsible for a few cracked eggs. She was so fun to watch. By the time they were done, she was colored pretty much head to toe.

This was Cutler's participation in the festivities.

Here's a little video of Kinley and Colt coloring Easter eggs. 

Soccer Shots Spring 2018

We started the spring season of Soccer Shots on March 29th. Kinley and her friend, Lucy, both played. Kinley loves soccer.  This fall, Kinley could've played TSA soccer. I decided to not do it because they have a practice once a week and a game every Saturday. I thought it was too much at her age, and I assumed we would have the opportunity to just do Soccer Shots again. However, they didn't have Soccer Shots this fall so we missed out on soccer completely. I'm sure we'll be doing soccer again soon though!

Most days at soccer, Kinley and Lucy would fight over who was going to stand in the yellow ring. Colt caught on and would get them matching rings to stand in right next to each other. 

Cutler was still tiny. He tagged along to cheer his sister on. 

Soccer was at Pollard Park this season. Afterwards, Kinley always thought we had to have playground time. 

Here's a video of Kinley during her first day of spring soccer.

Easter at School

Kinley had her Easter egg hunt and picture day at school on March 29th. Because she was all dressed up in her Easter dress, I had to take pictures before school.

This was her actual school picture. The man that takes school pictures definitely knows how to get her to smile. They always turn out good!

It was rainy that day so they didn't get to have their Easter egg hunt outside like planned. They just had it in one of the classrooms. Kinley's teachers took these pictures from their egg hunt.