Davis Update!

I think our little man deserves a little update.  Davis is almost 2 years and 5 months old.  Where has the time gone?  He is a true joy to our family and we are so blessed to Davis' Mommy and Daddy.  Davis just has such a sweet nature about him and truly loves people, but especially his new sister Katelyn.  He cannot leave her alone and he loves on her at ALL times!  I thought I would just bullet point some highlights about Davis right now, so we don't forget anything.  I know this will be long, but hey, I have not had a Davis update in forever and I don't want to forget anything....ha!

• Davis has been going to speech since about March.  He goes twice a week to see Miss Melanie and she is his new BFF for sure!  He talks about her constantly and he always leaves with a pair of rubber doctor gloves which he is OBSESSED over......ha!  He is talking in complete sentences and we cannot get him to stop talking.  We understand most of what he says and he is communicating very well right now.  We are continuing to work on the articulation of some sounds and strengthening some areas of his mouth to help with this. 
• Davis LOVED the pool this summer!  He finally started to really get brave in July after we got back from the beach.  Now he will jump in and swim all over with his floaties.
• He is still a ladies man and loves to hand out hugs and kisses to all of his friends.
• He is a charmer for sure.  He will talk and wave at a stranger over and over again until the stranger acknowledges him.  He will keep trying until they give in and pay attention to him.....maybe a future salesman on our hands....hopefully not a politician!!
• He is a Daddy's boy for sure....he would turn into Lance right now if he could!
• He is still obsessed with vacuums, lawn mowers, and golf carts. 
• He is ALL boy and loves to rough house with Lance in the evenings.
• Each morning he asks if he can wear a golf shirt, and if we ever go to the golf course he makes sure to tell me that Katelyn needs her pink golf shirt on.
• He dances to music and loves to spin around until he gets so dizzy he falls down.
• He has gotten hold of some sharpie markers and decorated the walls with artwork and that was just lovely!!
• He has just started to watch TV.  He likes to watch Elmo, Sesame Street, Curious George, and Barney but most of all he likes to watch Golf.....I know Lance is really happy about this.
• He is happiest when he is kept busy and is outside.
• He goes to time out several times a day these days.....we are in the terrible twos for sure!
• He is starting to get his 2 year molars..and he is SUPER cranky!
• He LOVED the beach and his favorite part was going up and down the beach and waving at everyone as well as riding the boogy board in on the waves. 
• He started school in August and he loves his new teacher Miss. Jennifer.  He asks to go to school every morning, which makes me feel better. 
• He wears size 4 diapers, he wears 2T clothes and size 6 - 7 in shoes and weighs around 27 pounds.
• He is beginning to potty train.  He gets so excited when he goes we dont' even have to do prizes!
• His new favorite thing to do is get a shower with daddy instead of getting a bath.
• He talks great to people on the phone, but he walks around the house showing the phone different items.  He think the listener can see all of his neat things.  He calls Grandpa Pope every Tuesday, he calls him Pope and it is so cute to hear him call him.
• He still likes to read books.  He knows Brown Bear Brown Bear by memory and he can read it to Katelyn and it is so cute to watch him do this! 
• He is becoming more and more independent and hates us to help him with anything.
• He likes to go to church and say he prayers each night.  He usually is sweet and blesses his family.....but he always remembers to bless himself and Katelyn and ice cream even got blessed the other night....ha!
• He is getting really good at asking for things and saying "Thank You".
• He knows most of his colors.
• He can count to 10 on some days and not on others.  He usually starts with 2 and you tell him no Davis start with 1 and he always says, "no mommy, I start wif 2".
• He is very much in love with his family.  He asks for Meme, Opa, Nana, and Papa all the time. 
• He has just starting making references to Santa Claus, so I know we are going to have a fun next few months with Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
• He goes to bed around 8 and gets up between 6 and 7.
• He is still taking a 2 1/2 to 3 hour nap every day...I don't want that to end..ha!
• He likes to spend the nights away at his Nana and Papas and ride the golf cart. 
• He also likes to go to Opas golf course and run around like a wild man after we eat dinner. 

I am sure there are a ton of things I am leaving out, but these are the highlights.  We are just loving this age with Davis right now.  He is so curious and learning like a sponge.  We try to just take in every moment we can with him, he is changing into a little boy right before our eyes and it makes me so sad.  I pray that Lance and I can mold him into the man that God has intended him to become.  We cannot wait to see what God has in store for Davis and us!  We love this little man so much and know that he is loved by so many others in his life.  We are so blessed by all the people who help us with Davis. 

Missing in Action.....We are BACK!!

I am not even sure if anyone missed us in the blog world, but this BUSY MOMMA seems to have no time for blogging once Katelyn arrived, but that needs to change!  Blogging is one thing that I LOVE to do!  It is relaxing for me and helps me keep my family journal, which is why I blog.  I want to have a record of our family.  I always think how cool it would be to read a journal of my life or my parent's life.  I would love and appreciate that so much now that I am older.  I don't have time for scrap booking or anything like that, so this is my scrapbook.  I plan to print this blog one a year and have three copies made, one for us, one for Davis and one for Katelyn.  Then one day they will have the story of our family to carry on with them.  I have really fallen off the blog wagon these past 6 months.  I am not going to lie, this two kid thing really has thrown me for a loop.  I would not want it any other way, but man.....it is wearing me out!!  Most of that is because I have a two year old named Davis who does not know how to sit still for any amount of time.  He is overly curious and gets into everything!!  We are finally all getting back into a routine and I do much better when on a routine.  It just took us 6 months to get there...LOL!!  I have made a goal to have a BLOG night once a week to post about our week's happenings.  We will see if I can hold to that.  I do have to say that I have such an appreciation for all moms especially those with husbands who are serving our country and they are taking care of everything on their own.......I truly don't know what I would do without my helpful hubby!  He is amazing and I am just so thankful that I married my best friend and we work so well together.  I am going to back post the past 6 months little by little, but I decided to just go from now on forward so I wouldn't get too far behind or overwhelmed.   So happy reading to all of you, that is if I still have any readers....LOL!!  :)

Katelyn is 5 Months Old!

Dear Katelyn,

I seriously do not know where the time goes!  It seems like we just had you yesterday.  You have turned into the best baby....I have to say you had us all worried those first few months!  Once we figured out that you were allergic to eggs and I changed my diet you have been like a different baby.  You are pretty much perfect right now except that you CRY way too LOUD!  You can go from happy to mad in about one second.  You usually only do that when you are ready to eat or want to be held, which is most of the time.  You have been such a blessing to our family.  Davis was immediately in love with you and I think he loves you more and more each day.  You are now fully interacting with him which is so fun to see.  You laugh at him constantly.  The other day I found Davis in your crib with you and you both were smiling from ear to ear.  It was hard not to get mad at Davis when I saw how happy you both were.  Davis constantly tries to hold, hug, or kiss you and you don't mind one bit.  I know this will change in the future, but I pray that you will be best friends with your brother.  The love you all share just brightens our house.  This month you have really developed a deep LOVE for your daddy and I think you might just be a Daddy's girl.  Everyone stops me while we are out and about and tells me how cute you are and you just smile right at them like you "know" you are cute.  This may get us in trouble one day, but for now it is cute.  You love to be held and would actually prefer to be held all of the time.  You still are not rolling over, but you are getting very close.  You could care less about putting any weight on your legs which is funny because all Davis wanted to do at your age was stand up and jump.  I guess you are just wanting to be a princess for now.  Here are some facts about this month:

• You wear 3-6 month clothes.
• You wear size 1 diapers.
• You are sleeping through the night.  You wake up around 5AM and do some MAJOR talking, I guess you have lots to say, and then you go back to sleep for a couple of hours.  
• You go to sleep between 8 and 9 and wake up between 7 and 8.  
• You are nursing every 3 hours, except at night you can go all night, once in a while you wake up around 2 or 3 for a feeding, but not frequently.
• When you do have a bottle you drink between 5 and 6 ounces.
• You are a very fast eater.
• You have started drooling like crazy, but I still don't see any teeth coming in.
• You are holding your head up great and sitting up in your Bumbo seat great.
• You smile and laugh all the time...especially at Davis!
• You LOVE your baths.
• You go with the flow and can adapt to our crazy daily schedule this summer.
• You are not the best napper, but I am hoping once we get back in a routine with school you will be better at this. 
• You are batting at objects, you can hold onto objects and switch the object from hand to hand.
• You can take your paci out of your mouth, but can't get it back in your mouth yet.
• You LOVE to interact with people and so far seem to be very social.
• You have started to take a morning nap and an afternoon nap some days and other days you just cat nap all day long. 

Katelyn we love you so much and pray each day that you will become all that God has planned for you to be.  He has so many wonderful things in store for you and we can't wait to see what those things are.  You are one special girl and we are so honored that we have been chosen to be your mommy and daddy!

We love you with all our hearts!

Mommy and Daddy

P.S this outfit is my first sewing project with the help of Meme!  I LOVE how it turned out!

Katelyn's Newborn Pictures---A Little Late

Here are Katelyn's newborn pictures, I am just now getting to ordering them and getting our announcements.......can I just say we are running about one month behind at the Cone house...ha!  Better late than never!  I will post our announcement after I get them all sent out so it is a surprise!  :)

Diana Toone took our pictures from Jonesy Rae Photography - We LOVED her work!

http://www.jonesyraephotography.com/

We can' believe it's true....our little man has turned TWO!!

Here is a video of us singing happy birthday to Davis.  The first time we sang to him after everyone sang to him he screamed "again".  So we all sang again and we got it on video the second time around.  That is the first time I have sang happy birthday twice.

Time just goes by so fast....too fast for me!  Lance and I are just LOVING this age.  Davis is so much fun right now.  Overall, he is just a healthy, sweet, caring, and happy child and to us that is most important.  He feels loved and loves to love on others and we can't not ask for anything more than that.  We truly cannot imagine our life without this little guy. 

For his birthday we decided to scale back this year and just do a party with our immediate family and a couple of family friends that are considered family.  I started to feel bad about not doing a kid party, but quickly was reminded by Lance that Davis would not remember or care and I know he was right, but I still felt bad.  But, I no logner felt bad after his party.  He was the happiest I think I have EVER seen him.  All atention was on him and he was so excited to have everyone that meant something to him there.  He was so wound up by the end of the night, we could not stop laughing. 

He was so excited about opening his gifts!  We wanted to wait until everyone was there and he was pacing around trying to pull his presents off the kitchen counter!  I didn't even know he really knew what presents were.....but he obviously did!  Aunt Kelley and Uncle Casey won the best gift award again....last year they got him his first lawn mower and this year they got him the leaf blower.  We should have had him open their gift last because he was not very interested in the rest of his gifts after that.  Although he kept calling the leaf blower a vacumn for the first week, I think he is finally calling it a blower now.

Katelyn watching Davis open his gifts...she is such a DIVA!

Playing with his new sandbox!

The Birthday Crew

Papa, Brittany, Blake, Opa, Meme, Linda, Nana, Kelley & Casey

We missed Aunt Anna and Uncle Justin

I am so bummed, this was our attempt at a family picture and Davis would not sit two seconds with us, as you notice we have no pictures of the 4 of us....oh well!

Katelyn celebrated in style with her birthday shirt.

My Family Traditon ~ The Birthday Dinner Plate

When it came to what kind of cake to get Davis, I had no idea what to get since he does not like Elmo or any of the other kid characters.   But he is in love iwht lawn mowers so I got as close as we could to a lawn mower with this tractor.  Kind of untraditional for a 2 year old cake, but it is what he loves right now.  :)

He LOVED us singing to him.....so much so he said, "AGAIN" after we clapped!

Notice the tractor in his cake.....he is all boy for sure!

PARTY GUESTS

Nana & Papa

Uncle Casey and Aunt Kelley

Aunt Brittany and Uncle Blake

Opa & Meme

After the party, Casey and Kelley stayed to hang out for a while.  It was fun to get to visit with them....we have been so busy lately we have not had time to hang out together.  Casey and Lance got Davis bathed and in bed and Kelley and I picked out paint colors for the house which is getting painted this week.  Doesn't Casey look like a natural?  He said he was going to take her home.........my mom let him know that he would be bringing her back pretty quickly.

Thanks everyone for making Davis' birthday extra special!