Honestly, I had to go back and look at my posts to see what milestones and moments I missed writing about. Ya know, like the 1st birthday. AH! I find it difficult finding time to actually write my thoughts out, and when I do, it’s usually around 1 am and I should be sleeping anyways. Other times I feel writing, it’s when I’m emotional over the little moments going by so fast and I feel guilty taking the time to blog about Kyden or the kids when literally it’s taking time away from me spending with them. Mom life, right?

First things first, Kyden Jade…she’s 1. She is walking, saying things like “Hup” for Help, Up, Down, Hi, Bye, and a few of the random words like September every once in awhile. She is so ornery, very daring and tries everything dangerous at least once. She is not phased when the cat slaps her for holding him too tight (Oh ya, we got a cat sometime this year, and another pup, but I’ll get to that in another post ..maybe). She is phased when the pup steals food out of her hand, but let’s be honest, who wouldn’t be? I said Kyden was walking, but really she’s running. She is everywhere all at once, following both Ryken & Zayden and acts like she’s their boss some days. She has a very sweet side to her, loves to cuddle and the BIGGEST smile when you walk in the door from work or out of bed. She meets with the biggest smile, and sometimes a squeal of excitement.

Ryken and Zayden are her biggest fans, literally. I would like to say Jason and I are, but they have beat us to it. They think she’s the coolest, best friend they’ve ever had and I hope it stays that way forever. Ryken is still my sweet and sassy girl, just like her mama. And Zayden is still our always questioning everything, sweet boy. Their personalities are so far from each other but so similar in so many aspects. Ryken repeats everything Zayden says, even when it makes no sense, she will say it like the world is relying on her to say it. She has the confidence I wish I had some days. And Zayden confidence continues to build, especially watching him do swim and ninja, it has helped develop his sometimes shyness into confidence. Ryken doesn’t really have that shy bone, unless she’s tired and I feel Kyden will be like this as well.

So we got a cat, Mac. He’s the man and Zayden’s favorite thing on earth right now. He loves his cat Mac. Ryken likes him and also loves her Evee (great dane pup), when she isn’t stealing food or one of her toys. Kyden likes to chase after them both. Anyways, both the animals are rescues and after we lost Charlie and Ollie within 3 months, we had that hole in our hearts and thought we needed, just NEEDED, to add chaos into our life. Honestly, it’s pretty similar to having a baby and toddlers…someone or something is eating something they’re not supposed to, one of the kids or pets is making a mess somewhere in the house, and they all go through what we call “Zoomies.” If only they could experience zoomies all at the same time, that’d be great, but Evee and Mac always experience them when one of the kiddos is sleeping. This is the life we chose. Ha, and we love it.


To summarize our last month quickly….here’s a brief, chaotic summary and I’m not even going to attempt to make this grammatically correct:
-Kyden is anemic, started on iron supplements, diet.
-Kyden’s teeth start “decaying” or so we think. Immediately get into dentist – turns out iron supplements can cause decay look in kids teeth. (One thing they don’t share with you as a parent).
-Kyden also has 12 teeth, not sure how or why but she has 12 teeth ha. Her 1st year molars that google says happens around 13-19 months, she cut before she was 1. This resulted in alot more sleepless nights of teething and earaches. The poor kid also may need tubes, which we’re waiting on the appointment for this but alot of sleeplessness is geared towards this.
-Lake Days at lake with friends and/or family and kids only turned in with a couple of owies. One lake day in particular reminded us that this stage of life is short, but very long all at the same time.
-Speaking of long days…quick trip to New Mexico to see family and friends turned into 2 of the 3 getting sick. Note to self: kids can still get sick while traveling, no matter how many fun things you have planned. After this stressful trip, I canned the idea of going on a quick trip to Florida before school. Semi-regretting that decision, but there’s plenty of adventures we can go on closer this year. As much as I’d love to throw kids in car and drive to Florida on a whim, it isn’t our season of life to do that this summer.
-Vet appointments for our two newest members, Evee gained 19 lbs in 30 days ha, Mac and her are so healthy and happy.
-Getting Zayden ready for Kindergarten – prayers appreciated. He is nervous and begging to be home-schooled, mainly because new things for him are a lot but he ends up loving the new things. So prepping, and letting him be involved in all the back to school things possible. If he still feels this way a few months in, we will reconsider it all, but hoping he finds good friends and his fun, safe space.
-Weddings, Proposals, Engagements, & Family Sessions are in full force, mainly for Jason but taking on that full time wife-a-ger role. lol
-Swim, Gymnastics, Dance, Ninja – I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to get the kids involved in so many activities…it’s me. I’m the problem, it’s me. Ha. In all seriousness, we quit Dance because she was more interested in Gymnastics. Gymnastics for Ryken and Ninja for -Zayden are activities we will not be dropping anytime soon. They love every single thing about it.
-And somewhere in there, I turned 30-something, and Kyden turned ONE.

Life never stops. It is busy, and we are grateful. The trek we went through to get to this chaotic stage of life was definitely worth the struggle. So here we are trying to embrace this season of life with open arms. Enjoying the spilled drinks all over the floor, the melted suckers that somehow made into my vehicle, the sleepless nights of earaches, and late nights of some children wanting to stay up just for fun, something is on my shirt at all times, and trying NOT to get lost as a mom but being the best mom I could possibly imagine. Grateful for this stage.