The Best Two Years Of My Life

Dear Krew,
Wow buddy it's finally here! Tomorrow you're going to be two. I cannot believe how fast these years have gone by. It seems like just yesterday my heart started walking around outside of me, and always with you. If I could tell you what you have brought to me I'm sure they would be the most beautiful words, however it is just a feeling that is absolutely wonderful! Over the last two years I have smiled more, cried more, and loved more than one would think possible.

I know I've said this before, and I believe it with everything I am. We all have a purpose in life, and yours truly is to bring happiness to others. You have been doing it since the day you were born. A complete stranger can walk right up to you and within seconds you have them smiling. I'm not sure how you do this but you just do.

Lately you have been in love with Mickey Mouse! You want him first thing in the morning, and right before you go to bed. Some other things you currently love are animals (horses, cows, and sheep), our dogs, your brother, swimming, and jumping. Whenever we go to grandmas you pull all the farm animals out and any of the "armers" you can find. (I'm pretty sure she has one left because you always bring them home). We go on walks most mornings, and you always have to walk Riley. She is such a great sport, and just lets you pull her around. Your baby brother like always is your most favorite. You always want to hold him, and I let you because before we know it he is going to be bigger than you! We just started swimming lessons, and that is all you have talked about today. And jumping oh jumping. You jump wherever you go! I think you are really just showing off, but hey your getting really high!

Again like I've said before you are SMART! We were at Mo and Ben's the other night and you picked something up and said, "Cone" sure enough you were holding a cone in your hand! You know all your colors, but still get a few mixed up (red, purple, and pink are all pink). You love blue and always point out blue things. Recently you tell everyone to look and tell them all about what you are looking at. Tonight you said, "Look mommy it a pretty flower." Of course it was our favorite kind the beloved dandylion. You have also started to say some not so cute things...."Oh F*@k." We have learned to just ignore it, and this seems to really be helping. I'm not sure where you learned that, but I was mortified the first time to hear it, and probably gave you too much attention for it, so then you learned to say it whenever I was busy with brother, or not giving you 100% of my attention.

Physically you are still such a stalky guy, and Rob Orchard has you pinned to be a wrestler. I'll take that I guess. Right now you are 35 inches, and if the doubling rule is correct that will make you about 5'10". That would be about what I have always expected anywhere between 5'8"-5'"10. You weigh 31 pounds, but are really starting to thin out and look like a little boy instead of a toddler.

Well love keep that amazing personality and you will be sure to go places! Love you to the moon and back my little man!

XOXO,
Mommy

P.S. There is a parade tomorrow just for you!! (Ok maybe the fair, but we'll tell you that!)

Ready or Not!!

Krew is turning 2!!
I cannot believe it has been 2 years since my life has been changed for the better.
This is not his 2 letter so I'm going to avoid the mushy details but share what we have planned for our big boy!
We have come up with a few birthday traditions in all our 1 birthdays celebrated so far (hehe)
Here they are:
1. Birthday's are declared "YES" days. This means he asks we say yes. This tradition will go on until he learns how to manipulate the yes day. i.e. asking for cars.....(You get the point)
Last year on yes day we didn't have to do much due to the limited vocabulary! This year I am slightly nervous!
2. It is your day. What this means is Tuesday we will take Kade to the sitter and give Krew our undivided attention. I will do the same on Oct. 12 and I am already planning on taking the day off from work to spend with only Kade. I have a feeling when they get older they will want their brother with them, but right now we are still pretty little and like attention.
3. You will wake up to a room filled with balloons. Seth came up with this one, because he said when he was little he always expected something cool right when he woke up! (lol)
This is really what we've got, but I'm loving making our family traditions our own, and it helps me get over the fact that my babies are growing faster than I would like!
Take a look at Krew's awesome cake pops! We have both Minnie and Mickey for the boys and girls of course!
Here is the website:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MomsKillerCakes?ref=seller_info

Amazing company and easy to work with!

~Dog Days Of Summer~

We are seriously loving this summer.
I know its got to be lame to read about all of our adventures, but in the end this is for the boys to remember their summer.
Yesterday we went on a walk in the morning with the dogs, I went to yoga, came home, and then we walked to the pool.
It sounded like a good idea to walk, but trust me it wasn't.
When you have a 2 year old who is a here and now type kid.
About 1/16 of the way there he started yelling, "I want swim NOW"
Embarrassing doesn't even cover it!
Oh I forgot to mention Seth and I both wore flip flops on the two mile one way trip (FAIL)
We get to the pool and the lady tells us the wading pool has reached its capacity.
Wonderful!
Tears again as we decide to walk to the convenient store to get some drinks before attempting again.
We get back to the pool decide oh well we'll take him to the big pool.
Now let the fun begin.
I'm a freak. I watched their every move, and made sure Seth had both hands on him at ALL times.
The second the wading pool had room I scooped my baby out and took him where I thought he belonged!
He was much happier there, because he was more independent.
That is when the fun began.
I took one Seth took the other and we splashed for an hour.
I kept thinking yahoo they are going to sleep so good tonight! (I was wrong)
Finally we had to go and you seriously would have thought we took Krew's birthday away.
He cried, called me mean mommy, told us it was his pool, yelled swimmin the whole way out.
I'm loving the twos can you tell!
Needless to say we had a blast despite all the fits, and I cannot wait to go back, but you can bet it will not be without Seth!

On Nick Names

Well as most parents know your kids get the craziest nick names and you really have a hard time remembering how they came about.
Well this morning Krew started yelling Tater Chip and I just giggled thinking people probably think he's starving or something.
Well we've gone through so many nick names for Kade. It started as squish, then dish, then kader, then one day my dad looked at Kade and said, "They call me tater salad." I'm pretty sure it's a Ron White skit.
It just stuck.
Since that day he's been every sort of tater in the book.
Tater salad, Tater tot, Tater chip, you name a tater he's been called it.
Krew sticks with Tater chip and calls him that wherever we go.
I picked him up from the babysitter the other day and he started bawling and asking for "his" tater chip.
He gets in his face all the time and says, "hey, hey tater chip." Or "My tater chip"
Just a random thought on the crazy nick names we call our kiddo, that I'm sure he will hate me for when he is 16.
I guess its better than baby poo :-) roo bear, poo bear....etc.
These are a few of Krew's nick names.
These started with Parker who couldn't say her K's and always called him baby poo.

~Sweat and Sunscreen~

These are probably the two best summer smells on babies.
Don't get me wrong I don't want nasty sweaty adults around, but I love the smell of Krew and Kade's heads after we've been outside all day.
Yesterday was just that.
We got home and went directly outside to splash around in the water.
I drenched both of my pale faced boys in sunscreen and let the fun being.
Kade wasn't sure about it at first, but screamed bloody murder when I pulled him out of the pool.
Krew like always splashed until his lips went purple. (Literally)
We came inside wrapped in towels and cuddled the rest of the night.
Once I put Kader down I sat with my almost 2 year old in my lap and took it all in.
His smelly little head.
The fact his still snuggles with me.
Listening to him ask for his "tater chip" (Kade)
Then the big bear hug and "I love you mommy" to top it all off.

I can't get enough of days like this, and wish summer would put the breaks on just a little bit.

Catastrophe adverted

So I almost had a major catastrophe today.
I took a bin of out grown baby clothes to once upon a child yesterday, and today they called and asked me to come down to get money, and take the clothes they didn't need back.
I really didn't care about getting big bucks out of the deal, but with all the money I spent I thought a little cash would be nice.
So I walk in the lady explained that they weren't really taking baby clothes because they have so much, but since I had lots of name brand stuff they wanted to take those items. So she has me look through the basket and there it was.....
The outfit a friend bought for Krew when none of his newborn clothes fit. His little tiny preemie camo onsie. I froze in the moment took the cash, went to my car, and started bawling.
How did that outfit get in that bin?
I would never get rid of that.
Of all the outfits why would they want that?
I called my mom she told me to go back in a get it.
I called Seth and being as amazing as he is he took his break met me in the parking lot crying my eyes out, and said, "I got it covered honey don't worry."
Then 5 min later out he walked with my itty bitty camo onsie.
So as I mentioned before the catastrophe was adverted.
See why this shirt means so much to me. Wow he was/is just perfect!

{Baby cows, horses, and lots of baths}

The look I got every time I made him leave the horses.

As you can see this little boy was in love with horses this weekend. We went to the Orchard ranch where my dad has a hunting camp. Krew was exploring the entire time we were there. I'll put it this way he took a 3 hour nap yesterday that I had to wake him up from, went to bed at 7, and didn't wake up until 7 this morning. That was one exhausted little guy!
The first day we were there my parents watched him while I went on a ride with Seth, my sister, and Sean. We were gone for about 3 hours and when we came back my parent had given Krew a bath, lost him in the sage brush, let him fill water troughs with rocks (and maybe horse poo) they won't answer that question, and finally got him cleaned up again and ready for bed.
While Krew slept AMAZING there Kade was a whole different story. Everynight when Seth and I would get into our cabin he would wake up and scream until I pulled him into bed with us. (Ugh)





One Monday we went down for branding, and again this little guy was in heaven. He went in with my dad to "help" and Kade and I hung out on the sidelines. We had a blast watching Papa and Krew. Kade would fling his arms like crazy everytime a cow walked by us, or a horse got a little too close. I can't imagine what its going to be like next year with a 1 1/2 year old and almost 3 year old! I'm going to wear my heart rate monitor next year to see how many calories I burn in this "relaxing" weekend! Leaving was another story in itself. I'll put it this way, we were ok until we got off the dirt road. That's when the crying for the "baby tows" began. It was so sad I almost turned around :-)

I can't wait to do it all over again. Nothing better than watching boys be boys