Now three is four!

Colton John

June 10th, 2011

We are happy to share that we have four little guys now and very blessed. Colton is a wonderful addition to our family. He is a wonderful baby boy! He is so very sweet. He was 20 inches and 7 lbs and 15 oz! He is not our biggest baby but he is growing like a weed! Having Colton takes me back in time when his brothers were little like him. My biggest question is how did Caydan go from this, a tiny sweet baby, to the challenging three year old he is! We have lots of CHANGES this season. Clay is going into the third grade and Conway goes to school this year. They are very excited. I am sad that Conway is leaving me this yar for full days at a time. He is going to love it. He has been waiting to make a lot more friends that are HIS friends and not Clays! I am going to school again this semester. Mike will be finishing up school as well! Plus sports start up again! I am truely blessed with a wonderful family!

The three boys update!

We are about three weeks away from having Mike home and we are getting happy! We have done alot since Mike left again. Clayton started his basketball games and he really likes it maybe not as much as soccer though. He really does well in school and loves seeing his friends there. Clay has me on my toes and we have a lot of fun! He also started piano! He like it a lot and has a lot of fun with his teacher, She is really great! Conway sure has grown a lot physically and is a bean pole too! He is going to catch up with Clay if Clayton continues to grow the way he is! Conway is very smart and he says the funniest things and says such grown phrases but coming out of his mouth it is so cute! Caydan is still crazy about other people shoes! He is really funny and he is all over the place. He is a lot of fun and says please thinking that because he says please he should get whatever it is he is asking for! I am really grateful for these wonderful boys to mother. We stay pretty busy. We miss our family that we live so far from. They are always in our prayers! We are enjoying our snow that is still coming down!

Sorry it has been a long time since I have written. We have been pretty busy with the school year and sports with Clayton. Let me give a quick review!

Mike is stationed here again for the next three years, hes on a boat now. He will be gone a lot with this new station. Over all he will be gone half of the time. He leaves for the first time July 1st, so in about a week. This is my first time with him gone for longer periods at a time.

Clayton has finished his first school year and will be going into the first grade! He sure is groing fast! He played soccer and he really loved it and now he is playing T-Ball and last night was his first game. Due to thunder and lightning they called the game. What can I say that is what is so great about Virginia! Clayton is a wonderful big brother to his little bros and really can take good care of them.

Conway is changing a lot, he will be three this August and he is still growing. If Clayton does not grow some more soon Conway might catch up to him real soon. Conway has gone from our silent Knight to our Chatter Box. He loves Clayton and copys him with everything. He can get his feelings hurt really easy but he is a love bug! His personality has really bloomed also and makes us all laugh.

Caydan, Caydan, Caydan...what can I say...HE is everywhere. He climbs on everything and he is running everywhere and loves a challenge to get on the table! He is looking more like Clayton but he has expressions like Conway. So he is a good mix of the both. He is a sweet heart but always on the go. Sorry I could not get his picture to move down here.

Caydan's bath with Conway!

Caydan does and has taken baths with his brothers before but not without me holding onto him and helping him keep head above water. In the past he did take most of his splash time alone with out any partners in crime. He is a very excited baby boy when he takes a bath! I would have to say that he is the most excited water baby that I have ever seen. I really enjoy it spending that time with him. He kicks his legs more in the bath than on land and I did not think that it was possible. Since he is always kicking and squirming. Caydan has two teeth now. He hurts when he nibbles! He is crawling all over he mastered crawling really fast. He still loves to watch his big brothers. I love to see Conway express his love for Caydan because Conway loves him more than anything. He is always touching Caydan and loving on him. Sometimes Caydan will have the attitude of enough brother. Conway does think that he is Caydan's safety patrol. It is a little stressful at times. It is nice that Conway has finally joined the rest of us in talking to one another with out gibberish. He is growing up so fast. Clayton got a star student award yesterday. He is so proud of it. He said that their were some kids in class fighting over Lego's and he just left and walked away. He told me he did not have time for that. How time goes by and our little ones grow up in a blink of an eye. Clayton is six now!!! I sure love my boys!!!!

These are my three wonderful boys!!!! I took this picture just seconds ago! I am really lucky becasue Clayton and Conway love their brother so much. They are getting so old! Time sure does fly by when life is fun!

Carving Pumpkins!

Our family went over to our friends house and carved pumpkins with them. We normally do this with them. We have a lot of fun. This was the first year that Conway really enjoyed this activity and he went at it. Clay is the one that normally loves it and this year for some reason he did not want to put his hand in the pumpkin to gut it out! This was new to us for him to be squirming when it came to pumpkin guts! We ate Halloween cookies and pumpkin bread puddin' and pumpkin apple cobbler! Mike always picks out the spider and web design every time and every time he hates the task because it is a tidious task. They all came out looking good. Conway is really enjoying all the Halloween festivities. This was Caydan's first Halloween! Who knows if he liked it or even thought anything of it. There was some throwing of pumpkin guts as well too. Look at this picture of Clay, he was acting like he was going to throw up! He is crazy! He did get better though! Conway says it all when he is done and he tries to smack his hands clean! It was a lot of fun!

Fall Festival

Clay and Conway were USC football players! It was a rainy day and we still had fun! We learned of Conways love for horses. He wanted to stay on the horse forever. I really thought that he would not like to go on the horse but I was wrong! He rode on the horse all by himself. He was so excited! Clayton also rode on the horse but he did not love it like Conway did! He had fun!!!!!!!! Kaela rode the horse also and she waited in line for a while to get on the horse!!!!!! I am happy that the young ones had fun. Clayton loves Halloween!

The only bad thing about it raining was that I did not want to have my camera out in the rain! I need to take a picture of Caydan in his Owl costume it was so cute! He is such a great baby he hardly ever complains! I also took a picture of Kyree in her Auburn Cheerleading outfit with a USC ball cap. I took it just for Doug!!!