What's going at our house?

Nothing really exciting has happend lately to blog about...we are just trying to get over the wonderful bug that has been lurking in our house the past couple weeks (again!). I have some recent pictures to share though:

I don't think I ever posted that little miss Mylee is a crawler? Well she has been crawling for the past month now - she used to do a funny little army crawl but now is on all fours and cruises! I love the picture below because it's her evil little grin!

Usually Mylee throws a holy fit when she wants out of her activity station but this day she just quietly fell asleep, it was really cute!

A couple weeks ago we had a few restless nights since the kiddos and I were so sick. So they took a few good naps during the day. Funny thing is they never fall asleep at the same time! And in both of these picture Mylee fell asleep while trying to crawl somewhere. :)

We have been trying very hard to fatten Mylee up since she is still wearing 0-3 months clothes :)
So daddy decided to give her a Twinkie the other day...

She was excited to try it...

At first she wasn't sure about it...

So daddy had her try it again...

She decided it wasn't that bad...

She was glad she tried it!

Older Pictures

I haven't been the best blogger the past couple of months. I have a few pictures from Feb & March of Austin that I never posted so I thought I'd throw them in here...

Austin and Katreena eating grapes and watching CARS...Katreena is Austin's little girlfriend who used to live a few houses down - we sure do miss seeing her cute little face!

Austin loves to dump out his blocks...most the time he doesn't even play with them - just likes to make a mess! :)

Here is a little story to go with these two pictures. I had to make like 60 cupcakes for Enrichment night and I caught Austin eating one...And I found two other wrapers on the couch!

He is a sneaky little monkey!

Austin went through this little phase where when he wanted to eat he would go in the kitchen, get into the draw and pull out all of his spoons and put them on his high chair.

This picture doesn't show anything but I still put the start there so people wouldn't think I was posting bad pictures :)

Shortly after Austin turned 2 we decided to make an attempt at potty training him. I was surprised how well he did. He almost went two full days with no accidents...but I knew it was to good to be true - he lost interest and after a day of being peed on twice I put him back in diapers. He still has no interest in the potty! :(

Saying Goodbye to a family member

I had a really tough weekend with Gizmo missing...but Monday was the worst!

Just so everyone knows - you can stop looking for our cat, we found him...usually this would be a happy thing to say but it's not.

After spending 2 days praying and looking for Gizmo he finally showed up Monday afternoon. I had just gotten home from searching out a cat (my wonderful neighbor and friend thought might be him) who was hiding in a drain down the street. I had a feeling to go into the backyard before I went back into the house. I went to search out something I saw earlier that morning. I saw one of our black labs laying by something outside on the grass, it looked gray and I just figured it was the golf towel they had been playing with the past week. But when I went to check the figure I found my beloved "ki-ki" lying motionless on the ground.

My heart broke and I began to cry. My first thought was the dogs killed him...but after my mother and mother-in-law showed up we decided it wasn't them. He didn't look like he had been played with or chewed on at all...and there was only a tini, tiny trace of blood but none on the ground. My father showed up to wrap Gizmo in a blanket and put him in a box for me. My mother buried him in her backyard (since we have dogs that like to dig). I will be planting some flowers on top to remember him by.

I have gone over every possible thing that could have happend to him...and I still have no clue - I will never know. Aaron thinks he might have gotten into something like anti-freeze and he came home and died. But who knows. We really don't think it was the dogs. When I found him he was laying perfect on his side, like he just laid down and passed away.

So as you can see yesterday was a tough day for me.

Many of you are probably thinking...wow, it's just a cat? But Gizmo wasn't. He was part of our family. Aaron brought him home for me on our first Valentine's Day right after we were married. I remember being so mad at him because we weren't allowed to have pets in our apartment. But I fell in love with him right away! He was the cutest kitten! So playful and loveable! He loved to chase bouncy balls and would play fetch.

Our friend Brandon was the one who came up with the name Gizmo...

As you can see it was very fitting. When we first got Gizmo he had a problem with stepping in his own poop when he was in the cat liter so we would have to bath him a lot. (he learned not to step in his poop quickly because he didn't like the baths) When he was wet he looked like a Gremlin...and when he was dry he looked like Gizmo the cute fuzzy Gremlin. I never really called him Gizmo...I would always call him, "Ki-Ki" don't know why but it was my little nickname I called him by - and he would always come running with his little bell ringing as he ran towards me. :)

He was such a great cat so loveable! He even sat with me on the couch and put his head on my belly when I was having my contractions while pregnant with Austin.

He was very curious when we brought Austin home...

They quickly became buddies! Sometimes Austin would love on Gizmo to much but Gizmo never hurt Austin. They discovered so much together....

And they played well together...

Gizmo even taught Austin how to climb up the stairs. Gizmo would run up the stairs so Austin could get him - until the day Austin followed him up!

When Austin started to talk he couldn't say Gizmo so he would call him, "ki-ki" like I did when I would calling for him. He keeps saying, "ki-ki go bye-bye"...breaks my heart!

I don't have any pictures with Mylee but she loved that cat as well...I think he was the reason she started crawling. She couldn't wait to get her hands on him. She would lay on the ground and watch his every move, just smiling and laughing at him. One day she just started to pull herself towards him.

We will all miss him dearly!!!!

I know you are in a better place "ki-ki" but I just want you to know we love you and miss you! You were my first baby! :) The part I will miss the most is how you would cuddle up and sleep by my side EVERY night....sometime you'd try to sleep on my face. :) Things won't be the same without you here.

Saying goodbye to a family member, even if it was a cat, is never easy...

WE LOVE YOU "KI-KI"

MISSING

Missing Please help!

We have lost out black and white Tuxedo cat answers to "ki ki" or "Gizmo" He is 5 years old and very friendly...he took his collar off last week so he won't have any i.d. :( Please let us know if you see if or have him! 243-3027. As you can see he is a big part of our family so please keep a look out for him. Austin misses his "ki ki"!

More Cakes

Thought I'd share a couple of cakes I made last week:

This one was for a girl turning 10 who wanted a zebra cake with hot pink flowers

And this was for a "cake-smash" session

My family blog is starting to look like my cake blog...maybe I should have a blog just for my cakes? I think I have to many blogs as it is....What do you think?

I just realized I never posted this cake from a "cake-smash" session I did a month ago

Easter Time

I had some sessions this weekend so I left my studio set up and I threw the kids in their Easter clothes and tried to get a cute pics of them together...yeap another attempt...failed! :) Austin just wanted candy and Mylee wasn't quite awake from her nap.

The dress Mylee is wearing is very special. My mother's best friend, Laura Yates, made me this dress before she passed away (which was before I was even married). When I found out I was having a girl I was so excited because I wanted my girl to be blessed in this dress...but Mylee came along and she was so small - it completely drowned her. So I saved it for Easter and I was so happy it fit her. I will now put the dress away until Mylee has a baby girl of her own.

Austin Loves his PEZ

Mylee and her new sandles that don't fit (her feet are to skinny!)

Aaron modeling his Easter present:

a new bat, ball, and PEZ (I know where Austin gets his love from)

My Easter strawberries

The cake I made for my nephew Jaxon

his birthday was Saturday

and he LOVES Spongebob
(FYI: Wal-Mart doesn't carry Spongebob toys - go figure)

I spent all night Saturday searching for some figures for his cake

I finally found some at Toys-R-Us

Jaxon the newest 2-year-old in the family

Bowen and Austin during the egg hunt at my parents house

Mylee enjoying some eggs

I think she liked her first Easter!

Today I decided to let her try a peep

And I think she liked it

What's not to like, right?

She takes after her mom and her sweet-tooth.

Austin didn't care to much about the peeps,

just like his dad!

Hope Everyone had a fun Easter!

6-months Already?

I have been working on this post for over a week now so some things are old news now :)


That's right, little miss Mylee is now 6-months-old!! Crazy, Crazy!
At her check up this week her stats were:

weight: 11 lbs. 9 oz.
height: 24 Inches

So she is still in the 3 percentile for both...so she is growing, she is just small! She is still in 0-3 month clothes (I am forcing her to wear 3-6 months now). She is still in siz 1 diapers, and size 1 shoes.

She may be small but that isn't keeping her from trying to crawl! Since she has been feeling better she has LOVED her tummy time! She will lay on her belly and swim. She gets on her knees and hands sometimes...but can't figure out how to move forward - so she ends up rolling all over and scooting until she gets where she wants to go! I don't want her to crawl but she is very getting close!

I have had the hardest time getting her to eat her baby food. I don't think she likes the texture...or taste, she always acts like she is gaging. I laid off trying for a while since she was sick and the past few days I have been working really hard to get her to eat - ANYTHING. And finally after opening and trying the 10th babyfood jar she decided she could choke down Blueberries mixed with apples (which is funny because that was Austin's fav!). I am praying that since she is starting to eat the babyfood it will help her sleep through the night!

I have had the hardest time getting her to sleep through the night. She has decided that she wants to wake up every 2-3 hours...starts to really take a toll on mommy after 6 months. She did sleep through the night when we were in Hawaii and for a few weeks after we got home - sure wish we could go back right now!!! :) But she was nursing a lot in Hawaii that's probably why!

I stopped nursing her after she turned 5-months, she has done very well on formula, and it's nice not to be so attached :) to her! I just worry because I can hardley ever get her to eat more than 2-3 oz of formula at a feeding.

But I guess I should worry about how much she eats if she acts full and is active, right? She has been hitting her milestone and she is very strong for how little she is. I just get frustrated because I waste so much formula because she just snacks!

She likes to blow little spit bubbles and make little motor noises (so cute) and she is doing the dadada speech and I ever caught her doing mamama the other day :) hopefully she says mama first! Oh and she is already a wonderful fit thrower! She can throw her whole body back and screams loud while kicking her legs...isn't that nice! :) I am already afraid of her terrible twos!!!

Well that's a big update on little miss Mylee
Even with the fits I love her and she is so fun to have around. We are all bless!
Here are a few pics from the last month or so:

Looks like she is going to keep her pretty blue eyes :)

In her jumper

looking in the mirror

Loves her tummy time!

Even falls asleep while playing

Here she is playing with her cousin Khloee!