Kingsley is Potty Trained!

 My sweet Kingsley is Potty Trained!! 9.29.14Seriously everything comes so easily with this kid I'm SO lucky. He has always watched mom and dad go to the bathroom and was very interested and had randomly gone poop on the potty a couple times. So we explained that he would get a treat (chocolate) every time he used the potty, and a paw patrol toy every time he went the whole day without any accidents. Kingsley caught on so quickly as you can see by his chart below it only took a couple days and he was potty trained!

He cared more about the treats and stickers than about the toys, but either way we were thrilled to see his cute buns in undies :)

 So proud of this little dude. He seriously made potty training a dream! We didn't have to use a little potty or anything, he is the best!

Crossing my fingers that Hudson is as easy to train as his brother!

Bathtub Buddies

Since Kingsley was born I had always got in the bath with him. For me it's just easier and I think then he stays in longer & enjoys playing. Now with Hudson in the picture it's impossible to bathe with both so I needed to figure out how to clean them both. So for now I stick the baby tub in our master tub and they both actually love it. 

Even though poor Hudson gets splashed on a lot he enjoys holding toys & watching Kingsley be crazy.

Kingsley loves when I get Huddy out so he can sit in the baby bath and recline :)

Love these sweet boys.

Patterned Pants

This post is sorta random. I have been meaning to pull my camera out more, not just on special occasions but just everyday stuff. So I made these boys some tribal leggings and decided that was a good enough excuse to get some shots.

Kingsley will never look at the camera anymore..

And although I didn't have any make up on, I love seeing photos of my mom when she was younger holding us kids so I'm determined to take more pics of the boys with me and Jer.

and since I was wearing patterned pants too.

My Handsome Huddy

My little Hudson is just so handsome! I can't get over his cute little face! I feel badly I have a million pictures of Kingsley as a baby, but only a few of Hudson. So that is my new goal is to pull out my camera more often to take pictures of my kids. Mostly so I don't get this shocked/surprised look below :)

 I just love dressing this little guy up! He is growing to fast that he only gets to wear things 1 or 2 before that are too small.

 Love his chunky little legs in shorts :)

 Whoever said dressing little boys isn't fun is definitely not trying hard enough! Maybe I just love the challenge ;)

Hudson is 5 months!

I am starting to hate writing these posts as it means another month has come and gone and my baby is growing up! And they take me forever to get done with two littles around so I am always a couple weeks behind by the time they are posted! Hudson has changed and grown a lot since last month. He now weighs about 16 pounds. He finally started taking a bottle which is such a relief since I don't have a lot of milk. When I pump at night I seem to get about 3-5oz ounces, 5 being a rare good night. So I still nurse him but can usually tell if he is still hungry so during the day I will give him pumped milk from the night before to keep him full. He also eats rice cereal 2-4 times a day. He is really quick, which is nice because it seems he will be very good at eating baby food as well. At night I give him formula to help him sleep longer and give him a different taste to make sure he will get used to it for when my milk dries entirely up. Hudson seems to have a sensitive stomach. Although he has grown out of his fussiness I can still tell if I eat something that upsets him because he spits up a ton. Poor little guy.

Hudson's schedule has improved drastically. He now goes to bed at about 8-8:30pm and sleeps in his crib for 7-9 hours waking up between 5-7am nurses and then sleeps another couple hours. So he is getting really close to sleeping thru the night and I can't wait, but I don't really have the option of letting him cry it out because it is late enough in the morning that if I continued to let him cry he would wake up Kingsley so I am hoping he just continues to sleep longer gradually on his own. We have also had a little bit of a scare this month with Hudson.. When he is falling asleep he has had this shutter/tremor like shaking thing. It has only happened twice, but it is so scary to hold a shaking baby. Luckily it is not a seizure & everything we have read online says they grow out of it. Our doctor also seems to think it is nothing to be concerned about at this point. During the day Hudson naps really well. He goes down about every two hours and sleeps anywhere from 45min to an hour and a half. He takes two to three naps depending on what time he wakes up in the morning.  He has recently started rolling over and sleeping on his stomach which probably is the reason he has been sleeping longer. He sometimes will take a binkie when he is half asleep, but usually during the day he just chews and plays with it.

Hudson has recently found his voice and loves to screech away. He makes the funniest noises and they are low and very man-ly :) He rolls over the second you set him on his back. He also has gotten really good at using his hands and grabbing things (I have scratches all over my body :() His favorite toy is his "sophie" a squeaky giraffe. He also likes some of Kingsley's balls and any small things he can hold. He sucks on everything. Sometimes it confuses people that think he's hungry. He is very animated and happy. He loves attention. He gets upset when you set him down and walk away. The sweetest thing is how much he loves for Kingsley to talk to him. Kingsley loves him just as much, and loves to get in his face and say hi huddy buddy :) They will be the cutest friends I can just tell. 

Hudson has the sweetest blue eyes. His hair seems to be staying dark which I hope it does. He has the perfect round face. He is just so handsome with the most kissable cheeks. I could kiss and smell this sweet baby all day. I just love him to death and treasure every minute I get to spend with him when Kingsley will allow it :)

Love this sweet 2nd child.

Kingsley's first Birthday

It seems to crazy to have Kingsley's first birthday come and gone!! It all just goes by too quickly. So on baby boy's actual birthday I filled his crib with some balloons to celebrate. He was so excited and played in there for nearly a half hour! He is obsessed with balls & so he loved throwing these lightweight "balls" all around :)

 Besides this we kept his actual birthday pretty low key & just spent time playing with him :)

On Saturday we threw our little guy a birthday bash with close friends & family (minus our out of townies). 

At first Jeremy thought a birthday for a one year old was ridiculous, but he slowly obliged to all my requests and was just as excited as I was. I kind of stuck to the theme of his nursery with a little gentleman feel with black, white, grey & gold.

I had to hang this massive newborn pic of King that I had accidentally printed a while back in inches instead of cm. Oops!

Kingsley's birth announcement that I never got around to sending out..

I made these party hats for all the kiddies

and these animals my cousin Brooke let me borrow :)

These tin can cakes turned out to be a little more difficult than I had hoped, but looked cute none the less.

For eating I wanted to do all mini foods since we were celebrating my mini mister :)

Attempting to get a picture of all the kiddies in birthday hats.. ha yes these were the best ones unfortunately! 

Of course Brooke's present matched our theme perfectly ;)

I didn't think he would care, but Kingsley was actually very excited about all his new toys.

Here is where I envisioned Jeremy lighting the candle on Kingsley's cake, we would sing him happy birthday while he smiled on happily, maybe he would even clap at the end, then we would take a cute family picture helping him blow out his candle...

Here is what actually happened.. :(

Kingsley grabbed the candle right after Jeremy lit it, burning his hand :( It probably didn't help that some of us screamed which scared him. So poor guy didn't really want anything to do with his cake at that point. I don't know why I was so stupid to think he would be safe with a lit candle in front of his face.

I put him back in the high chair later to at least give him a chance to eat his cake though he wasn't all to excited about it.

He didn't scarf down the cake like I would have thought, but he did enjoy the small amount he had saying mmm mmmm.

It's crazy how much time and work you put into these things and then they are over before you know it. Well he may not remember it, but at least we can for him & tell him how fun he was as a one year old!

We just love our Kingsley Hugh Kemp!