Really.....I'm posting an update...yes....I.....am. I wanted to post a while back with pictures from Korben's b-day and a few others. Then Matt reformatted the computer and LOST a huge folder full of pictures. So needless to say I didn't feel like posting after that. So what has happened since April?! Lots. Some I don't have pictures of but I will try my best to update you all.

JUNE: The first full week of June we went on our annual beach vacation. We went to Ft. Morgan, Alabama again and stayed at a different beach house. Kids loved it, even the eagle's nest on top of the house. You could see the ocean PLUS the lagoon on the other side of the peninsula! By day 3 1/2 I was ready to get back to TN. I have a hard time really relaxing when I am watching two little ones going in and out of the water. No Jellyfish this year. Matt was happy about that!

After the beach for the week we headed up north to Mobile, Alabama to see the USS Alabama ship. It was massive and took most of the day to tour it. Kids had fun exploring and I was beat from carrying Trenton in the Mei Tie carrier most of the way.

The rest of June was spent catching up from vacation and visiting friends. I'm pretty sure Korben stayed at someones house at least every week.

July: Lets see, its hard to remember what aall went on. I guess I need to update at least once a month...haha. I know at the end of July Korben went to Ohio to visit family. Flew on Southwent Airlines by himself for the first time. I think I was more nervous than he was. He did want to pack a ton of stuff to take up there. He wasn't sure if he would have enough army stuff for his cousins to play with him. Of course he had plenty. While Korben was gone for that week, Matt and I was searching to get a van. We found one and got a Toyota Sienna. Its so nice now to have room for the kids to stretch their legs!

August: On August 7th Matt's youngest brother Christopher graduated from the Marines Corps. We left TN on a Wednesday morning we drove 10 hours all the way to Parris Island, SC. That was a long drive but having our new van helped the drive be less stressful. Thursday was Family Day. We woke up early to get on base. They had a small presentation and dismissed the recruits. We walked around the base and had lunch with Chris and caught up with him! It was a nice visit and the kids really enjoyed seeing everything there. We even brought backa few souvieners from the MPX. Everyone got a Marine t-shirt. I got my magnets but realized they got lost somewhere along the trip. The following day we went to Hilton Head, SC so the kids could recoop. They had fun but its deft. nothing compared to the white sands of the Gulf!

The day after we got back Korben had to register for school. He found out he got the 5th grade teacher he REALLY wanted AND his 3rd grade teacher would be his Social Studies teacher. She had left for a year to take care of her son who is was born in November 2008. She wanted to take the year off to take care of him and be a stay at home mom.

September: We have just been going through the daily grind. Focusing on school and taking care of one another. We are trying to avoid this flu that is going around like wild fire. Our neighbors behind us had it the other week. Luckly we have not had any symptoms of it. Julianna has had a little cough and a sore throat but I am pretty sure that has to do with the seasons changing slowly and allergy season picking up! Matt thought he would need surgery on his knee in the beginning of the month but got a second opinion. That Doctor (who has done surgery on tons of Nashville athletes) says he just needs physical therapy and meds for a bit. Thank God on that one! But just less than a week after hearing that great news, Matt hurt his shoulder will sprawling around with the High School wrestlers after his Pee Wee practice. Kid landed on his shoulder and pulled something. So..he is trying to nurse that back into health.

I hope the next few months are illness and injury free. Korben will be starting his wrestling season up pretty soon. Hope he begins to really enjoy it this year. He is hard to motivate sometimes!

At some point I want to put up a few 30 second clips of the kids, and most Trenton talking and acting silly. He is so much like the two other kids all rolled into one!

18 Month Old Stats Trenton: 25.2 lbs and 32.5 inches tall

Here are just a few pictures of Trenton's Birthday. We had a small celebration on his actual birthday. His Big Party is Sunday.


Thanks Target!



Wanted to touch the candle really bad.



Wasn't sure what to do with it.



Figured it out!

Who has a 1 year old now?? Me! Isn't it crazy?! At 10:11am Trenton turned 1 years old. Of course he doesn't know it, he just knows people have been giving him extra kisses and singing to him. haha



We are in the weaning process right now. I knew I wanted to shoot for 12 months of him nursing and I reached that goal. My mind was made up last week when he clamped down so hard that he broke skin and I hurt for the entire rest of the week. So now he only nurses right when he wakes up in the morning and before bedtime. He also gets to nurse when he wakes up in the middle of the night which has been a habit for the pass 1 1/2 months. I don't know what is up with him. My guess is his teeth. He finally got his last front tooth to come in all the way. So he has 6 teeth total, which don't feel particularly nice on my flesh.




He hasn't taken any steps just yet. He is slowly starting to let go of things and stand still for a few seconds. Falling down startles him but he recovers quickly from that. haha He is such a little stinker and a complete clone of Korben when Korben was this age.
He got his first haircut the other week. I have a video of him before his cut but I can't upload it for some reason. But his hair literally looked like a 80's boy hair do. Long in the back and just silly looking. Matt gave him the buzz and I trimmed it up later on in the week with Matt's beard trimmer. Trenton was very wiggling and did not like the buzz of the hair trimmer.





Trenton LOVES giving hugs and kisses. Will give you a five if he knows you. He isn't has 'friendly' to strangers. He just won't go to anyone or 'talk' to anyone. He has to make sure you are OK by his standards. I just hope he grows out of the stage where he won't go to anyone because I am unable to go the YMCA and drop him off in the Nursery.

We plan on having his Birthday Party on Sunday. Not sure who is all coming but it should be a decent turn out. I just hope the rain stays away so we can go outside for a bit and enjoy the air.

Trenton now has tooth #3. He looks rather silly because its not a front tooth but a bicuspid?! Its on the right side right beside his front tooth space. Oh and his new trick...spit bubbles. Yes he knows how to do spit bubbles now. I was watching him yesterday and he was really quiet and moving his mouth. I snuck a peek and he was practicing. lol Of course as soon as he saw me looking at him he busted up laughing. He knows he is a silly kid. He also loves giving kisses and acts crazy and sometimes will bite your cheek.
He wasn't sure what to think of Christmas this year. We didn't have many things wrapped for him, kinda just threw everything under the tree. Oh the tree....we took it down on the 26th. Some little boy in his walker decided to take a close look at an ornament and yank on it. Which in turned tipped the tree over and broke 2 of 3 legs on the tree stand. Luckily Matt was there to catch the tree so Trenton wasn't hurt, just shocked. haha





Here is a little video of Mr.Speedracer. He is so hilarious in his walker and tends to run people over in it. He loves the drawer he gets into. Trenton always takes my potholders out and I see them spread all out on the kitchen floor. lol

You can read about our camping trip in my blog. I didn't want to rewrite everything but here are a few pictures that we took on our mini vacation.



This is one of 4 deer that we saw while at our campsite. Julianna wanted to go up and pet the deer. I don't know how many times I had to explain to her that it was wild and could bit.




This is before we left camp the morning of our hike. Kids all are ready to go, digging into the dirt and messing with rocks. lol



Halfway point on our snack break. Korben showing some brotherly love. I do have like 5 other pictures of him giving Julianna bunny ears.




Julianna showing us how Daddy stands. She was hysterical!




This is when we got to the Falls. Matt let Korben go exploring and we found him on top of this huge rock at the bottom. Matt had a good eye on him though.







This was the next day after we cleared camp. We went around the State Park and found this older playground. Kids had fun but Julianna was afraid to go down the slide without Korben by her.

Well I hear Trenton up from his nap, screaming.

I will explain the video of Julianna. She was watching Super Why on PBS yesterday and started singing the song that the Purple Princess sings "I love to spell, S-P-E-L-L!" Well Julianna was singing that song all day, wrong. lol She got the first part right but when it came to spelling 'Spell' she would say S-P-E-E-L or S-P-E-L. I didn't have the heart to correct her so I video taped her instead. =o) Eventually I would sing it with her and she realized she was singing it wrong. I should have taped her without her knowing because she was so much louder and herself. She got shy once I pulled out the camera and was taping her.

Trenton is now staring to really babble. HE is almost blowing raspberries and is doing the Mamamam and nananana and babababa. It is so cute and I was surprised I was able to get some on tape.

I felt bad for Korben because I didn't get him on tape. So I just went into his room and he was building with his Legos. The Legos that you see are only half of what he has.

I just realized after I was watching the video of Trenton that my kids are wearing opposite seasoned clothes. It was chilly that morning so I dressed Trenton correct. Julianna has been wanting to wear her flower dressed for the last couple days so I let her, in the house. She wants to dress up all the time.

Here is Trenton trying to crawl to a couple of his toys on the floor. He is getting better every day but still hasn't figured out that you have to move your arms as well as your legs. lol



Julianna wanted to get in the video as well. But she wasn't happy until I 'took' a picture of her. Hence the 'say cheese' in the video.

Milestone completed!
Trenton now rolls from belly to back and back to belly. He also got on his knees to try to crawl but ended up back on his belly. Once he is able to crawl he is going to be in everything!!! He puts everything in his mouth so all little toys (legos, doll shoes, etc.) will have to stay in the playroom or in the other kids rooms.
I have Trenton on my lap now and its extremely hard to type since he is trying to attack my typing hands. lol
This past weekend we had Matt's brother's wedding to go to. Korben was a groomsman and made a rented tuxedo look cute as ever! I will post a few pictures on here and if I know you personally you will get a link to the rest. Or just let me know if you want to see the rest and I will email you the link. Julianna wasn't in the wedding but she was just as cute with her flowery dress.
I am getting Trenton on solid foods more and more lately. He does not like any rice or oatmeal cereal. So I am just mushing up bananas for him and then pureeing veggies for him. So far he likes green beans and bananas. We are going to try carrots in a bit. I ended up getting that KidCo puree machine. Before that I bought a hand puree and it sucked! My hand and wrist hurt so darn bad that I refuse to use it until he is able to eat very textured but not pure solid food. That darn thing just can't puree like the KidCo can.
Alright need to end this now. The two oldest are driving me nuts and I am getting drooled on by Trenton.

Trenton is 5 months old today! Above is a little video I took last week. I think he is our happiest baby ever. ANYTHING will make him laugh but he is also sensitive. You scare him, he will cry in pain. He will put out that bottom lip and just cry, until you can comfort him and try to calm him down. He is still nursing like a champ, but going for longer durations now. He has tried a few foods, HATES any type of baby cereal but LOVES to munch on bananas and frozen peaches. I bought a net feeder that you put in solid foods and infants can munch on the netting and it will turn to mush practically.
He has been waking up almost every night for the past week. I think its time to reintroduce cereal after dinner time. He wakes up and nurses for a while then falls back to sleep. Of course I fall asleep too, on the couch or the recliner. Its killing my back, I need to get back to bed right after he is done nursing. I will not bring him in bed with me though. I did that with Julianna from when she was a newborn and it took almost 3 years to get her out of our bed. NEVER again.
A little funny thing that happened today:
Julianna was playing on my Nintendo DS and was trying out Cooking Mama game. If you have never heard of it, you make all kinds of dishes. You have to prepare everything, like shop up onions, mix ingredients etc. I am sitting right beside her and I hear "OH CRAP!" I turn to her and say, "Julianna we do not say Crap, its not a nice word." She turns to me and states, "No Mom CRAB!" I look down at the DS and she is trying to 'tear' a CRAB apart. lol OOPS! Of course I apologized and she just laughed.

Ok I need to update this thing on a regular basis. Thanks Racheal for kicking my butt into gear. haha

Trenton had his 2 month check up on Thursday. He is 12 pounds 8.5 ounces which puts him in the 75th percentile. He is 23 inches long which is in the 53rd percentile. The doctor said he isn't 'overweight' just a chubster. haha I think the other two were exactly like that and they started to thin out once they became mobile. I love my chubby baby. They are cuter with healthy rolls!

We have a busy summer ahead of us. June 1st through June 8th we are heading to Gulf Shores Alabama on the Orange Beach/Ft. Morgan area. We reserved a beach house for $700 all week, which is an AWESOME deal considering that a hotel for the week was around 1200-1500 a week. The house includes everything except us, our clothes and food. They supply everything else. It is 1/2 block away from shore and the road that the house is on dead ends to the beach!
Julianna is SOO excited and asks everyday if we are going to the beach to swim.

Ahh Trenton is awake. I will update later. Oh and Racheal, when you have time, can you email the pictures from last weekend. We never did get them transfered to our computer.