November's happenings

 November seriously FLEW by, and here is a little bit of what the Knudsen family was up to.........

Bronse and Brody turned 5 MONTHS OLD!!!!  I can't believe they are getting so big!  They are so much fun, so smiley, hardly ever cry, and they roll over.

For the big Breaking Dawn premier, Heather and I drove to Moab where my mom and her friend rent out the theater and have a fun little party.  It was so fun, and my mom didn't let her first round of CHEMOTHERAPY keep her away!!

Me, Mom, Kenz, and Heather

Dax road on his first Merry-Go-Round while we were at the mall doing a little shopping and he loved it, although you can't tell from this pic!!

The babies love their little Bumbo's.....They think they are sooo big!

For Thanksgiving, we all went to Moab and had a great time!!  We played Pictionary Man EVERY NIGHT, and let me just say, things can get pretty heated with my family and games!!

I stole this wonderful picture collage from Heather's blog

We also did a little Black Friday shopping over in Grand Junction and we found this cute wig for my mom for 50% off!!



I don't think I can pull off a Blondie



Kennedi FINALLY lost this dangling tooth, and that's just because Dax accidentally kicked it out!

AND.......then I turned 31 yesterday, yuck!!!

And that was our November!!

Halloween 2011

 Halloween was so fun this year and weather was GREAT!!  On Friday night, we went to the elementary school carnival and the kids had lots of fun.  Dax actually let me dress him up this year and loved it.  Kennedi loved being a vampire, and her mouth of teeth were so funny because she had her fang in and she is missing on of her front teeth.  The babies we super cute of course dressed up as little monsters.

 On Halloween, we took all the kids out and went door to door until it got too cold for the babies, then Shane took them home and passed out candy while me and the kids went with some friends to MORE houses. 

 And of course we did some pumpkin carving! Shane and Dax did the one on the left and Kenna and I did the one on the right!

ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO!!

 My little man is officially potty trained!!!! YAY!!!

I have been putting this off because I thought it would be a total nightmare, but man did he surprise us!!  The first day, I just had him go naked for about 6 straight hours and he didn't even have a peeing accident.  On the second day, he wasn't even telling me he had to go and would run in and go himself.  Pooping was a little trickier, the first two days he pooped in the toy room on the floor...FUN FOR ME...but by day three he figured out it wasn't so scary pooping in the toilet and has been a pro ever sense.  

Love him in his cute little underwear!

I do still have him sleep in a pull-up, but it is always dry in the morning, he even woke up in the middle of the night last night and went in and went to the bathroom by himself!  I'm so proud of him!!

These little guys went in for their 4 month check and here are their stats:
Bronse - 12 lbs 15 oz 25 in long
Brody - 13 lbs 15 oz 25.5 in long

4th Hair Cut!!

 My little Bronse is starting to loose his hair, and it makes me sad!  Dax did the same thing.  Bronse doesn't have any bald spots or anything, it's just falling out like crazy.  In the past couple weeks, I've given him 3 hair cuts just with scissors, each time cutting more and more off. 

 

This was haircut #3 with scissors



Then I decided it needed to be shorter, so I got out the clippers and buzzed all his dark hair off!!

Isn't he handsome??



Love this!! he looks so chunky in this one.



What a year!!

 Our baby boys were created 1 year ago today in a petri dish LOL!!  It's so crazy to think what miracles my 3 little boys are!!  I got to see each of them through a microscope as little 8 celled embryos before they were put in me, and it is AMAZING to see them now.  We're so blessed to have them in our family!!!!

 

Daxton's School

As I've explained before, our little Dax has a speech delay because of a hearing problem that we've hopefully resolved with ear tubes (he just failed his last hearing test though). 

While he is still 2, we are doing an early intervention program through the Health Department, and then when he turns 3, he can start going to Pre-school. 

He goes to his little school/play group once a week and he will start speech therapy tomorrow.

Is he not the cutest little thing you've ever seen??

Later that afternoon, he unpeeled all those stickers and put them on poor little Brody's head....good thing he doesn't have a lot of hair!!

He found Kennedi's old Dora backpack and insists on taking it every week!

Since Dax's surgery the end of July, his speech has improved a TON.  He is talking quite a bit and puts words together.  The part we need to work on the most is pronouncing the words right.  For example, he says OUTSIDE like OWHIDE,  so hopefully we can work with the speech therapist and get him caught up to where he needs to be.

And Down He Goes......

On Saturday, my mom and I took all my kids to Richfield to watch my niece Mikenzee play volleyball.  Daxton was running around as usual and fell on the stairs of the bleachers and sliced his forehead open about an inch long.

I didn't see it happen, I was changing Brody's diaper up where we were sitting and a cheerleader from the other team came up and told me that my little boy just fell and split his head open and that some lady (my mom) took him out.  I told Kenna to stay with Bronse and I took Brody and ran to the bathroom.  Luckily, Shane was walking in at that very moment, so I handed  him Brody and went into the bathroom where my mom had Dax.  His little head was bleeding so bad, and as soon as I saw it I knew we needed to get him to the hospital.  Shane and I took him while my mom stayed with the babies.


Here we are waiting for the doctor.....



They came in and changed his bandage and put some numbing stuff on it...... 

 And then we had to wrap him in a sheet and it took 4 of us to hold him down...so awful!  He got 3 internal stitches and 5 external.

The stitches didn't last long though.  After church on Sunday he kept grabbing at them and saying "pull out", and we told him he couldn't pull them out or he'd have to go back to the doctors.  The next morning we noticed he only had one stitch left, he had pulled the rest out in bed.  We asked him what happened to his stitches and was so proud to tell us "pull out".  Hopefully steri stripes can hold it together now!!

2 months old....no wait....3 months old!!!

I think this might be the longest post ever, but I have been such a slacker with my blog and I have so many cute pictures of these baby boys and I need to get some of them on here! So....here we go!!

First, here are some fun facts about Brody and Bronse and almost 3 months old:

1. Brody is now bigger than Bronse.

2. Bronse has reflux. :(

3. Brody has a clogged tear duct on his right eye. :(

4. They eat 4-5 oz every 4 hours.

5. Bronse eats like a turtle, Brody guzzles it.

6. Brody is usually the one to let us know when it is time to eat.

7. They have totally different cries.

8. Brody had LONG brown eyelashes.

9. They usually poop at the same time which is weird.

10. They are just starting to fit into 0-3 month clothes.

11. They love to smile.

12. They go to bed around 9:30 and wake up for a little snack between 5 and 6 and then go right back down until about 8:30.

13. Brody has small ears and Bronse has big ears.

14. Brody has lost almost ALL his hair and the new stuff coming in is dark ???

15. Bronse has really curly hair and is getting lighter the longer it gets.

16. They are rarely fussy at the same time, which is really nice for me!

This has been the BEST summer ever and I'm so sad that it is coming to an end because that means my babies are getting older! This is how I spent most of my days and that is why I'm the whitest I've ever been in the summer time!!

These boys make me SO happy!! I think it is so funny to see how different they look.

AWWWW so cute!!!

2 MONTHS OLD!!! On August 11th, they turned 2 months old. Brody is now bigger then Bronse. Brody was 9 lbs 5 oz 22 1/2 in, and Bronse was 9 lbs 1 oz 22 1/4 in. Brody cracks me up, he has become quite the little chunk, as you can see as you scroll down.

They are finally getting big enough to sit in their little bouncers, but they still prefer their cozy swings most of the time.

This is how we stroll.....

They are both so smiley and it is so fun to interact with them.

This is my good friend Mandii's daughter Riley, she is a couple weeks younger then the boys and has the thickest, prettiest, curly eyelashes!!

We took these pictures at the Sanpete County Fair after the parade. The kids had a great time, Shane and me not so much!! LOL

Here they are with they're new baby cousin Talon, who was born 6 weeks after them.

I caught Dax sucking Bronse's toes...yummy!

This is how they still sleep at almost 3 months old. It is getting a little tight in there though, I may have to move them into the crib in the next week or so.

Brody is my first baby to have fair skin, poor little guy, hopefully he isn't as white as Shane!! LOL