Cousins Kaden and Brendon's Birthday Party

Our (Chase and Ethan's) cousins Kaden and Brendon just had their birthdays, well kind of I am just a little late on posting this. Kaden's birthday was October 25th (I am almost positive on that...) and he just turned four! Kaden is so much fun! He can be a handful but he tells some pretty dang funny stories, we love having Kaden come and play. Chase thinks he is the best thing ever. Brendon just turned 1 on November first! Brendon is a cute little boy. He gets into everything and puts everything in his mouth! He is a great little dancer and makes the cutest little faces! Here is some birthday party pictures.


Brendon eating his birthday cake. He would not dig in it, just one finger lick at a time.


Kaden standing by all his gifts. He was so excited he started opening them a little to early, if you look closely you can tell that red one is ripped.


Kaden whacking the pinata.


Chaser whacking the pinata


It was Brandon's birthday too so they let him hit it.

Chase does not understand that these were not his gifts to open.

Alicia got to open up Brendon's gifts. She was way excited about this one.

Alicia and Brendon

I got caught

Chase seems to go in phases of things he likes (like all kids). First it was Sponge Bob. He LOVED Sponge Bob. He watched it at my parents house and next thing I knew...he just wanted everything Sponge Bob. He would see a yellow jeep and call it Sponge Bob jeep...when we moved him to a big boy bed so Ethan could have the crib, and we went to pick out his sheets he wanted the sponge bob sheets, and then he got the sponge bob pajamas and then the sponge bob doll, so when he went to bed at night it was Chase covered in Sponge Bob.

Then I got tired of that and watching the same episodes over and over. So I tried getting him into other things. Now it is Lightning McQueen from CARS. So the other day we were at the store and we always have to go get a hot wheel car...oh man we have a ton of those...daddy got us in the habit of that. So we went over to the car area and he wanted the Lightning car and i saw it but i did not want to pay the money for it ($3...i am cheap) so i got the little hot wheel car that was red...he wouldn't know the difference and he didn't for a whole three days. He carried that little 97 cent car with him everywhere! Then we went to the mall to play. And across the play area is the Disney store...and what do they have a huge display of? CARS. so he runs in there so excited looking at all the cars and backpacks and everything else they freaking make, then it was time to go. And he flipped. So i pull out his little "Lightning McQueen" car out of the diaper bag, he looks at it, then looks at the real Lightning McQueen car, throws his down and says "NO!!" He then realized mom has been lying to him this whole time. I felt so bad. So with him kicking and screaming the whole way out of the mall I call Curtis and have him pick up the real Lightning McQueen car at the store. He was so sad he threw his fake lightning car down and would not play with it at all. Finally when we got home I put the movie in and that settled him down somewhat. But when dad got home from work that day with the real car he was so excited!!! Now he will not let this one go. And at night time if you try to take it out of his grip while he is sleeping he wakes up. Oh boy! What will be next!?

watching cars, he gets so excited at the beginning

sleeping with his car

Chaser's First Haircut

So Chaser has not had to get his hair cut yet. He is 21 months old and still no hair cut. Well uncle Brandon has been making some comments lately that it is time, that his hair is gross. I have to admit Chase did need the back trimmed. His hair is straight all over his head except for the back...it is curly and coarse...it is so weird. The rest of his hair is so nice and red and soft...then there is the back. So we got the clippers out at dinner on Sunday and Brandon and Curtis buzzed his hair. I thought it would be a good idea to give him that sucker to keep him calm but in the end it was covered in hair and the hair was all in his mouth, it was gross. So here is how it went... (sorry the picture quality is not so good they were taken with my cell phone)

Playing with Chaser's hair and deciding what they want to do to it. Chase has no idea what is going on, he is just enjoying his sucker and the relaxtion of people rubbing his scalp.

This is when they started the buzzers...my poor baby!

And the finished product...there are some definite spots where they messed up...but not so bad for the first time. I should have took a picture of his mouth and sucker with all the hair in it...it was really gross!

Now my little boy looks like a big boy, oh what a hair cut will do.