Pics finally

The only new thing since last time is Caleb is officially crawling. He was sort of doing this weird one leg crawl before but now has it down. This is a picture of him eating whip cream at the buffet in Vegas. He loved it! Bella opening her presents at her party.

On "The Deuce" bus in Vegas.

Just being happy!

1st time at the Dentist.

Life

Well. Here is a quick update since Flashforward is on in a few mins and Justin has basketball and Bella's needs to go to bed. We went to Vegas for a few days last week and had fun. A lot of work pushing to kids up and down the strip, on and off the bus. But fun! FYI- the Pirate show at the Treasure Island, yea, not family friendly anymore! I was shocked! I know it's Vegas, but come on!!!! Anyway, Caleb is 8 months old now and he is growing like a weed and sleeping like a 3 month old!! Ha ha! He is happy though and total boy! Can't get enough exploring in him and touching of everything! So cute! He weighed at a DR. appt when he was sick last week and he was 19.4! We moved Bella into the covertable booster and caleb into the Convertable carseat. So grown up now! Bella turned 3 on Monday and had a My Little pony bday party. She had so much fun. I made a castle cake for her! I need more practice. And more time. 2.5 hours after church on sunday before the party wasn't enough time. She is so grown up! She got a camera, and a microphone an stand. Color books, games, etc. Justin's mom came as well. We moved Bella into a Queen bed since we had one and she loves it. Well I am out of time so that's it for now! I will get picks up later I guess!

6 months Old!

Caleb turned 6 months old on the 17th of August. Yesterday he had his 6 month appointment and he weighted 18lbs and is 28 1/2 inches tall. He loves to explore and can't get enough of "new" things. He has been sitting for about a month now and that has opened up a whole new world! He loves to "chase" Bella around. His hair has naturally grown in a faux hawk but since it's long now I have to use hair gel! He is getting so big! He finally loves to eat baby food. His favorites are pears, blueberries, apples, bannas and sweetpotatoes. I made him carrots but he didn't like them. Maybe they weren't sweet enough. He loves sweetpotato and chicken. So I guess I will have another orange baby!

Bella will be 3 years old in about a month and a half. Crazy! She is amazing. We adore her so much. She is so grown up. She talks all the time and loves to sing. Her favorite song is "Desert Song", which she calls her song. It used to be "Take it all". She loves to pray. And started praying for all our "owies". She help me clean up, loves to do everything herself. Including trying to get dressed. She does a pretty good job. We think she has an imaginary friend. We catch her occasionally saying "come on Max". Which I think is from the Nickeloden show Max and Ruby. It's pretty cute. Maybe Caleb will take the place of Max soon!

We added another service on Saturday night's so that has been an adventure. Justin also starts school this month as well. He is getting a Bachelor's of Science in Human Services. Then he wants to go to Seminary. The next 3-4 years will be "exciting"!

Our kids

Well we have had lots of fun lately with the kids! We went to Wild Island Water park and that was so much fun. My sister came for a visit as well for a few days while she is on break from school. Justin's parents are coming in town along with his brother and his family for the Rib Cook off in September and my mom is coming in August for a visit as well. Justin just taught 4th of July weekend on Forgiveness and it was awesome. He did such a good job! I know he was meant to be teaching! We took a trip at the beginning of June to see Justin's parents. Just me Caleb and Bella! That was a long week by myself with the kids but it was so worth it and so much fun!Caleb is 5 months old next week! WOW! He has a little stomach bug these last couple of days but is doing great! At his 4 month appt he weighed 16 1/2 lbs and was 26 inches long. He is about a pound bigger than Bella was at her same appt. He is sooooo cute! According to Bella, at least that's what she says all the time! He loves to be standing or have you hold him and carry him along in what you are doing. He has this weird natural "fohawk" he has grown! Just wants to immitate daddy I guess! Bella is growing as well and her vocab is huge! We are really trying to crack down on the "terrible twos" though. She is throwing lots of fits and needs to obey more. We bought a book and are reading it together. It's called "Have a new kid by FRIDAY!" Changing your kids Attitude, Behavior, and Character. It's very good and very funny! We will be putting what we learn consistently into practice next week. Anyway, thats all for now. I have both kids napping at the same time for a change so I am going to take advantage of it!

Easter

Easter was crazy! Bella got her Easter basket on Friday since Justin had the day off and she saw it early anyway. Friday and Saturday we had Easter services as well so we knew time would be hard to find. Bella and I colored eggs this year and she had a lot of fun! She wanted to keep putting more eggs in the dye cups. She did get to hunt eggs though at her friend Kaitlyn's grandma's house. She had a lot of fun! She loves to eat the marshmellow peeps, just like mom and grandmas! Caleb will be two months old officially on Friday and we are going to take family photos and his two month pics then as well! Caleb wore a tie for Easter and it was super cute! I think I might have to go get him another one for Mother's Day and for his dedication. We got a picture (in unplanned matching outfits) with his friend Corbin who is a month older and is Bella's friend Kailtyn's brother. Bella is growing and talking and singing like crazy! And she definatly has her opinions about what she wants to do! Which of course are not always what we want her to do! We were talking to friends of ours and they use Tabasco sauce to help with the back talk with there daughter and they said it works. So last night was our 1st try with it! Since "no" is her favorite word, she HATED it! She cried and said her mouth was itchy and hot! But hopefully a few days of that and she will learn! (at least a little) :)

Update pics

Caleb is now six weeks old. I would like to say that time has flown by and I can't believe it, but the truth is it's actually been a LONG six weeks! He is a little colicky and has an insane amount of gas that seems to hit him around 2 or 3:00 in the morning and keeps us awake for at least an hour and half while he gets it out. Bella was so easy as a baby. Slept alot, ate every four hours and would go about 6-8 hours at night. She was rarely fussy, unlike Caleb. But we love him and he is cute! I love little boy clothes, although I feel less confident in dressing him in cute clothes than I did with Bella.I guess you can't get lucky twice! :) Oh well! It helps that I don't work but since we have Bella who is a very busy, stubborn 2 1/2 year old who doesn't always take a nap, the days are long and can be a struggle. I have researched so much on his gas and grunting and tried all kinds of things. He actually sleeps in his car seat in out bed! I think though we will put it in his crib since the last two nights he did better in it. Justin bought Caleb a Duke jersey and himself one so they could watch the NCAA tournement together! It was very cute!Easter is around the corner, and I can't beleive it! Once Easter is over we are going to start potty training Bella! Am I crazy to do this with a newborn! We tried once a couple of months ago but I was impaitent being 9 months pregnant and she just wasn't interested, I was tired of cleaning poo and pee up off the carpet and she ran out of underwear in about 3 days. Pull ups were no use what so ever. She didn't think they were any different that diapers. I am going to get her those plastic covers though this time for her underwear so I don't have to clean up as much pee. We shall see! Anyway, we are going to get Calebs 8 week pics done this month and some family pics as well, I will post those ans soon as we do. Well here are some pics of Caleb and Bella and some random other pics!

He's here!

Caleb Stephen Carpenter is here! Born Feb 17th at 3:11am. He weighed 8lbs and was 20 1/2 inches long. I never would have thought he would be that big! I knew he was bigger than Bella was but thought maybe 7lbs! Labor was very quick! But that's another story for another time! We are all doing well! Bella is having the most difficult time with the change but everyday is getting better. She says she loves him and wants to kiss him and asks where he is all the time. He does great! And he loves to sleep, which is great right now! We are very happy he is a boy and that we have our little girl. Our family is complete!