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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

My Little 2nd Grader!!



Kennedi started 2nd grade on Monday!! She was so so excited, she couldn't wait to get to school to see all her friends. She has Mrs. James this year, and when she got home she told me that her teacher is the BEST!!





This was the second day of school, she just had to have this hat, and she looks so cute in it!


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

2 Baby Blessings!!














On Sunday August 7th, we blessed Bronse and Brody. It was such a special day for our family. It was so neat to hear Shane give them individual blessings that fit them so well.




We had all of our family and lots of friends here, which is always fun. We did a luncheon at our home after church and everything turned out just perfect!!





Here is our family of 6......




All of my family.....



The grandkids on my side.......(Dax was thrilled to have ANOTHER picture)





Grandma and Grandp Knudsen..........




Grandma and Grandpa May May (Madsen)........



Saturday, August 13, 2011

Daxton.....Summer 2011



I need to do a little post all about our little Dax. What can I say, he has the prettiest blue eyes I've ever seen, and he is the naughtiest little 2 year old I've ever met. LOL

He is ALWAYS busy and into EVERYTHING!!! You can't leave this little boy alone for a second. He is very resourceful too. We had to put high locks on all of our doors so he couldn't just run outside anytime he wanted too, but he found a way around that by just moving our bar stools to the doors and unlocking them himself. We then had to tie the bar stools to our bar with shoe laces...it looks really nice! LOL It has done the trick though, we haven't had our neighbor text me in the morning before I wake up to let me know Dax was already over there playing in quite a while (good thing we have wonderful neighbors).

We turned the door handle around in his room so the lock is on the outside so we can lock him in his room when he needs to go to timeout (yes we are mean), but this little guy has figured out how to unlock it from the inside. He will search his room high and low until he finds something that he can use and somehow ALWAYS gets it unlocked...then runs out proud as can be and yells AWHA!!!

How can you not just love him though??

He can be such a GOOD little helper!! He cleaned the toilets when I was in the hospital...LOL


His very favorite thing is tools and scissors. We have to hide all the scissors in our house and somehow he still manages to find them and then chase his sister with them, which he thinks is hilarious! A few months ago, I was doing my make-up and had a towel on my head and he had found some scissors and I didn't know it and he just came up and snipped my ear right on the cartilage part on the top....it bled and bled and it didn't seem to phase him much. He got Shane's drill out the other day while I was in the shower and drilled 5 holes in our hallway walls, all the way through the Sheetrock!
Thursday my dad was here and Dax was in his boat with him while my dad was working on it, and found a razor knife and sliced his little finger open....it was awful, we had to hold him down while he got 4 stitches.


Physically, this little guys is above and beyond anyone his age!! He is absolutely fearless!! on one of the many times he has snuck out of the house, we found him on top of our neighbors big camper trailer, and of course was so proud of himself. I just pray every night that in all of his adventures, that he will be protected and kept safe!!!

He can ride his little bike and he has never used training wheels. He gets going so fast on it, it's so funny to watch him. I took this little video while we were in Moab a few weeks ago. They did this about 20 times, and the one time I video, he wrecked...but it is so funny to watch it back. (just tilt your head to watch it).








Another thing....Dax doesn't talk as well as a little boy his age talks, which is so hard because he gets so frustrated because he can't communicate with us. As of June, he was saying under 20 words, and the words he said weren't pronounced well. He didn't put 2 words together either. We had been worried about it for a while, so we finally took him to an audiologist and ENT. As soon as they put the little camera in his ear, the audiologist said "Oh that is a HORRIBLE eardrum!!" His eardrums were both so full of fluid he was surprised they hadn't burst yet. He explained that Dax hears like he is under water, so there are a lot of sounds he couldn't hear.
We felt sooo bad, but we were so excited to get some answers and to know why he wasn't talking yet.

He had surgery on July 21st to drain the fluid and get ear tubes and remove his adenoids because he snores like an old man!!


His surgery was super fast and went great! His doctor told us he had a lot of fluid in his ears and that his tonsils and adenoids were HUGE. He didn't take out his tonsils though, he thought he was a little too young to do that yet.

It's been a little over a month and we've seen a big difference in him. He is talking a lot more and starting to put words together and seems less frustrated...fewer tantrums. We're hoping he continues say more everyday!

Monday, August 8, 2011

Newborn Pictures











I'm soooo far behind on blogging, but here are the babies newborn pictures that were taken when they were 10 days old and just teeny tiny. My friend Sarah Bogh took them and did an A-mazing job. Visit her websit at http://www.saraboghphotography.com



Here are just some of the pictures.......





















Brody......




Bronse......






Bronse.....



Brody.....