From the Mouth of my Babes

While talking about decorating for Christmas, Caleb told me he wanted to take out his Christmas toy. I asked him which toy that was, and he responded, "my Jesus one."  I said, "oh your nativity!"

While driving around in the car, he asked Erik if next summer we could go on the wheel.  I wasn't sure what he was talking about, and he said, "like when we went and got ice cream and watched fireworks, and there was that wheel."  We realized he was talking about a ferris wheel, and was talking about a night from summer 2012, before Mila was born!  The things he remembers amaze us!

Mila can now say Nana (banana)!

From the Mouth of my Babe

While listening to Christmas music in the car (yes, I'm guilty) Caleb asked me how the instrumental "Sleigh Ride" was a Christmas song. I told him because it sounds really joyful and cheerful. A minute went by, and he said, "I think it sounds like when the elves are making the toys." I couldn't stop smiling!! I said I think you are absolutely right!

I was trying to use the Santa card to get Caleb to do something that he did not want to do. I said, "you know who sees everything you do, right?" He looked at me and said, "God." I'm glad our talks are sticking!! I said, "well yes, you are right, and you don't want to make God sad!"

Mila ~ 15 months old

Mila weighs about 22 lbs, wears size 12-18 months clothes, and is in size 4 diapers.

She is starting to say more words: cheese, please, bath, brother, and Bella.  She can also do animal sounds for dog, cow, tiger, pig, and sheep!

She LOVES to dance, and starts moving anytime she hears a beat.  She's even picking up Caleb's dance moves, and tries to break dance!  It's hilarious!

Mila tries to jump!  She bounces up and down, while looking up at the ceiling!

She has had her first over night stay at the hospital for croup.

She says and waves bye bye!

Mila can climb on and off the couch!!  She is so cute when she walks over to the couch and hoists herself up there!

When we tell her no or not to do something, she lowers her face and sticks out her bottom lip in the most over exaggerated pout!

She follows directions well.

She loves to help us with dog food duty!  She likes to put the lid back on the food container, and picks up their bowls when they're finished eating!

Mila hates being buckled up in her high chair!

Her separation anxiety is getting better :)  Thank God!!

She is starting to be a hot shot, and climbs onto Caleb's step stool or the fireplace hearth, but then she either calls out to us for help, or tumbles down!

She said yah and nodded when I asked her if she missed me!

Mila gives tight hugs with the biggest smile on her face!

She loves books, takes them all off the shelf, looks through them, and brings them to me to read to her!  Her favorite are the ones that play music or make noise.  She will walk around with her "Jesus Loves Me Book," and plays it over and over again!

When she falls down and slaps her hand on the ground, she comes running to me with her hand up and a sad face.  She wants me to see her boo boo and asks for a kiss!

I just love her little body!  She is so petite, and I absolutely love picking her up and cuddling her in my arms!

Mila still gives big open mouth kisses!

From the Mouth of my Babe

When Caleb got out of bed this morning, he crawled out to me in the hallway.  He told me that he had kittens on his back and needed to bring them downstairs!  Then while helping him go potty, he went on to tell me that kitten 5, 4, 3, and 2 fell down while he was walking down the stairs, but that kitten 1 stayed on his head!  LOL!  I love his imagination!!

Welcome Baby Scarlett

While I was in the hospital overnight with Mila, I got a call from Erik's sister, Lisa.  I thought she had heard we were in the hospital, and was calling to see how Mila was doing.  Well she also called to tell me her water broke and that she was in labor!!!  I couldn't believe it!  She was supposed to go to the hospital the next day to be induced!!  Well Lisa was a rock star!!  After 27 long hours of labor, Miss Scarlett Lou was born!  8 lbs and 20 inches long!

when they first got to the hospital

well hello there little love!

Erik had this grand plan that we were going to wear these "Scarlet and Gray" shirts to the hospital when Scarlett was born!  He ordered them online weeks in advance!

Poor Mila

Two days after Halloween, Mila's runny nose and cough seemed to get a lot worse.  I can't believe I didn't recognize it right away, but it has been about a year and a half since Caleb last had it!  That Saturday night, her breathing seemed a lot worse and I thought she might be wheezing.  It suddenly hit me that her breathing sounds were stridor and that she had croup.  I knew this meant a trip to the ER, and a possible night in the hospital.  I packed my bag, and we headed over to the ER.

We are so lucky to have such a nice ER!  They saw us right away, and she was getting her first breathing treatment within a half hour.  We had to wait two hours, and realized she still wasn't better. They did another treatment and set us up in a room for the night.

She was such a trooper!  We were so lucky that the nurses and doctors took great care of us!  By the morning, her stridor was gone, but she went on to be sick for another week and a half!  She is finally just now sounding better!

Happy Halloween

So I'm a little behind on my posts, but we've had a lot of things going on lately!!  First up was Halloween!  It was so rainy this year, but we lucked out that it stopped for about 15 minutes for us to be able to take the kids trick or treating outside.

After trick or treating, Erik helped Caleb carve his pumpkin!

Some other things I want to remember about this Halloween:

~ Caleb was obsessed with the movie Hotel Transylvania!  I can't even tell you how many times he asked to watch it!  He would sing songs and quote lines from the movie!
~ Caleb would shout "Thank You" after getting his Halloween candy, because I told him to make sure he said it loudly!
~ Caleb would pick out a piece of candy for himself, Mila, Mommy, and Daddy, and would be sure to tell our neighbors that's what he was doing!

Happy 30th Birthday Christopher!

We helped my cousin Christopher celebrate his 30th Birthday!!  He said he wanted to treat us to lunch at his favorite place--Taco Bell!  We had a really nice lunch and then headed back to my Auntie Ann's house for presents and cake!  That of course was Caleb's favorite part :)

Someone really likes chocolate cake!!