Chloe the big sister

Chloe is finally starting to get used to having Brayden around, she finally held him today, she only held him for a minute then he started to cry cause he was hungry but as soon as I took him she asked if she could hold him again. So as soon as I was done feeding him she held him again she loved it if you can't tell by the pictures. She even read him a bedtime story. I'll also add a little video of her playing with him.

the newest addition....

Brayden James Calkins 7lbs 7ounces and 21" Everything went really good. he's really healthy has lots of black hair and he already has a good set of lungs...hopefully he wont be anywhere near as loud as Chloe. we get to go home tomorrow I can't wait!!!!Just thought I'd post a few pictures though while I have a chance, I will write more later.

THURSDAY IS THE BIG DAY!!!!!! WOHOO!!!!!!!!

And I still have NO idea what to name him.

Baby room pictures

So the crib bumper I was making is finally done!!!! Thanks to my good friend Melinda who is a sewing genius, she came over a few nights ago and helped me finish it. I just have a few finishing touches to do in the room like curtains and I'm gonna put a corner shelf above the changing table for the jungle looking sticks that are sitting on the table right now. I'm also waiting to find out what name we'll be using and his name will be up there too painted in a baby blue. I was going to paint the walls, but I'm just to tired now to do it, Vince hates painting just as much as I do so I won't make him do it so they'll just stay white, oh well though, I really don't care that much. And I need to find something to put above the rocker, if I find something. other than that I'm calling it done. Only 15 more days till he comes!!!!!

The other night we were getting Chloe ready for bed, she was in her bathroom brushing her teeth and after I heard the water turn off it got quiet and she never came out, well I went to go see what she was doing and this is what I found.... she had plugged the sink and filled it to the top with soapy water and was up to her shoulders playing in it, then I see her little toothbrush pop out of the water, she said that it needed to be washed. She's so funny!

still here... still pregnant

It's been awhile since I've posted, for some reason I thought I could take on an impossible project, I'm sewing a crib bumper...yeah, I've never really sewn anything but blankets, I have had my friend Melinda tell me step by step how to do it, (she did one for her baby) and of course because I can't think when I'm doing it for myself I have to go and unpick everything that I did once I've finished one part of it, so I start back from nothing but a long panel of fabric.
Everything with baby is good, he's sounding healthy and just about out of room, ok he is out of room! I'm getting very uncomfortable and the past 2 nights have not slept well at all!! I guess I have to get used to that though. We scheduled a c-section for August 21st so only like 31/2 weeks left!! WoHoo!! I can't wait!!! I've narrowed down 2 names, Brayden Lucas, or Bryson Jacob, or Bryson Andrew. I'm going to attempt putting a poll at the sidebar, but if it doesn't work just put it in the comments which one you like the best.

Last weekend we went camping with some friends, Chloe was so excited and did so good! she had fun roasting marshmallows, she didn't dare get to close to the fire, which I was glad about. the only time she got a little scared was when we were in the tent going to sleep and we turned off the lantern and her flashlight, so we had to lay there with her flashlight on till she fell asleep. she slept all night, but on the other hand Vince and I dind't, well maybe for like an hour than we'd wake up cause we were in the lumpy ground, I think our air mattress had a hole in it and was slowly leaking cause every hour Vince was blowing it back up. but other than that it was fun. I wish I had some pictures, but I left my camera on the counter at home, oh well.

she's got her head in the clouds...

My daughter is the craziest little girl with the biggest imagination ever!! so when it's late and we're driving home, she'll always have a conversation with her "lumpy" the heffalump from Winnie the Pooh. (thank you Becky for that, she can't sleep without it) she'll say "lumpy, I'm coming, don't sleep with out me!!" and she'll say it over and over again until me or Vince say something back for lumpy, after we say something like "ok I won't" she'll have a conversation with him the whole way home with us talking for lumpy. Well last night that changed, she didn't talk to lumpy, she started talking to the clouds in the sky. :) funny huh? she said " hi clouds" and of course I had to talk for them... here's the conversation...

Chloe: cloud, are you a dinosaur? you look like a dinosaur.
Cloud: yep, I'm a dinosaur.
Chloe: You have your hand sticking out, can I give you a high-five?
Cloud: yeah..

then she gave the cloud a high five, then we turned and that one was gone, but she found a "little baby cloud" here was that conversation...

Chloe: why are you not by your daddy? are you lost?
Baby Cloud: no, I'm going to sleep all by myself
Chloe: oh ok goodnight

It was so funny. It's really cute when she has conversations with everything. I just hope she doesn't do that her entire life, then people will think she's really crazy ;)

potty training...CHECK!!!

So Chloe is now officially potty trained!!!! wahoo!!! it took FOREVER!! and it was alot more expensive then I thought it would be. First I thought i'll need to buy a stool, a couple potty seats, stickers and treats for rewards. Well, when the stickers and treats weren't working, we got desperate and told her when she filled up all her boxes on the chart we made she could get anything she wanted, she picked a wagon... did you guys know wagons are over 100 bucks?!?! well I guess the red metal ones aren't but those are really shallow and she probably wouldn't fit in it very well, I want to get her one of those plastic ones she can actually sit in. so anyway...she did good for like 2 days maybe, then she stopped going! she refused to poop in the toilet!! it was so frustrating we tried so many things and it didn't work, we told her it was ok to have accidents like everybody tell you to say to the kids, but then she'd go and say "but it's ok, we'll just clean up and keep playing" well after about a week of her saying that is was ok to go in her underwear I told her that it was NOT ok anymore and I started to throw the underwear in the garbage with her watching, and told her when they were gone she was back in diapers at first she was sad cause her princess panties were going in the garbage but soon that changed to "goodbye princess panties!!" and she'd walk off not even caring about it.
I heard the worst thing to do was to put them back in diapers...so I thought ok, I'll just keep her in underwear, she's got the peeing part down... so for a while we wouldn't say anything to her about any accidents, jsut clean her up and go about the activity we were doing. about a month of that and I'd had it. So this is how it was finally achieved... TV!! yes I know it's sounds weird it wasn't a movie or anything it was a commercial for this thing called a light sketcher, she thought is was the coolest thing in the world and wanted to have it!! I told her if she could go 1 week without any accidents she could get one... it totally worked!!! she got the $30.00 light sketcher and she loves it! she still talks about getting the wagon when her boxes are filled so we'll probably get that to since we did tell her she could get one, and for some reason she thinks she gets "crayola", it's 3d sidewalk chalk from crayola she saw that on a commercial too, (No she doesn't always watch tv) I don't know why she thinks she's getting it, but she's not, I'll just have to tell her the store doesn't have anymore and hope she never see's it there! So after 2 weeks accident free I say we're done!!! :)