Growing Up Too Fast

This week I actually took a million pictures.  I guess my kids were just extra cute or something...  First off Kylie is still dressing herself.  It is fun, but it is annoying because she gets attached to a dress (this week it was her grey hearts dress) and then she wants to wear that all day (and night) every day.  I literally have to put her dirty clothes out of reach and sometimes even behind a locked door to stop her from pulling them out to wear again.

On Monday she found Brandon's goggles and she wore them all day.  It was the funniest thing.  I think she liked them because they turned everything blue.

Hayden loves bath time.  He is always so excited and kicking in the tub.  When it is Kylie's turn in the tub he loves to be held on the side of the tub so he can see what she is doing and play with the tub toys.  He is going to love the day when he can sit up by himself in the tub and play with toys.

This past week Hayden turned five months old.  He is really good at spinning himself in circles and loves to play with toys all around him.

At this age Kylie was already rolling in all directions all over the floor.  While I have seen Hayden do multiple rolls in one direction, he really doesn't like to do that.  What he has figured out this week is how to scoot himself across the room.  Practically as good as crawling.  I can set him down by the couch with his toys, and in a few minutes he is across the room next to the bookshelf digging into Kylie's toys.  I love that he is more mobile now because now he will play on the floor for the longest time!  

Also Kylie is playing with Hayden a lot more.  She still takes toys away, but she is good at playing with toys with him or even rolling him around.

Kylie's hair has been bugging me lately.  It is getting longer, but it is still super thin and has a weird cow lick right in the middle of her head that pushes half her hair forward.  So it is hard to do simple things, like a pony tail.  But on Thursday I wet it down and managed to get it in a tolerable pony tail!  It was so cute!  Of course by the next hour it dried and got all fuzzy and half her hair fell out - but I got it to behave for two seconds!!

She was super cute that day so I kept taking pictures of her, and while we were out on our walk I tried to get a video of her riding her bike and she threw the cutest little fit.  She has such an attitude!

As you know, in the past month Hayden has been reaching and reaching for food.  Well I am finally breaking and letting him "eat" with us.  We are going to do the same thing we did with Kylie, which is letting him feed himself and not to force feed him.  He LOVES it.  

He isn't too keen on learning to drink water, though.  He does love to chew and play with his bottle, but I think he gets confused when water comes out.

Hayden is a good sitter with support, so I got the high chair out and cleaned it (Kylie has been sitting at the table for a few months now) and now Hayden can eat properly.

He has been eating mainly foods that he can just gum, and not really swallow, like apples, celery, and carrots.  But one morning I was opening an orange in front of him for Kylie and the look on his face was just priceless!  You could totally tell he was thinking "Where is my piece?  Am I going to get one?  Do I need to cry to get one?"  Haha, it was the cutest thing so he earned his orange slice and he had fun draining the juice from it.  Then on Saturday I gave him a banana, and it did not go as planned.  He couldn't even pick it up - he just squished it in his fist.

Friday night we went swimming for the first time at our clubhouse pool.  Hayden got to wear his little floatie for the first time.  He looked just like Kylie when she was a baby and wearing the floatie.  Head half buried and not entirely sure whether he liked it or not.

Saturday we had a fun day!  Brandon volunteered at the Ironman and had to be there at 4 in the morning!  He was home around 10 that morning, and after a short nap was nice enough to go out on the town with us.  We went to the comic book store because it was national Free Comic Book Day, so there was a lot going on there.  Mostly I just wanted to check it out and see how Kylie would react to all the cosplayers there.  She wasn't fazed at all and had a cute little conversation with Poison Ivy about red hair.  Her favorite thing was the huge Wall-E they had there.  She kept going back to it and pointing.

Then we went to Fiesta Fun and let her run around there and play in their kids area with other kids.  She is such a social creature and just loves other kids.  They had one of these mechanical car rides, and these two little boys that she was following got in the car, and without missing a beat Kylie climbed up and sat in one of the boys lap.  It was hilarious.

Whew!  It has been a big week with lots of exciting things going on!  That is the fun thing about babies.. they are learning something new all the time!