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Vinson Life with 5

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Vinson family here, party of 5. At one point in our lives we never thought we would be where we are today!  But thankfully we are here and we are loving and living in chaos every single day.  We don’t know what we’re doing 90% of the time but we go with it and see where we end up.  It’s not saying we having made some questionable decisions like drive 11 hours with 3 under 5 😂😭 or we haven’t all had tantrums all at the same time but it’s been an incredible blessing to grow and watch our littles grow.

Zayden – he is still our sweet, long-haired boy. He loves his friends so much, and his sister most of the time and his littlest sister all the time, especially when she smiles at him.  He loves school and has been working on his reading. This summer we tried out baseball which was good but he was bored and said he didn’t want to play again but after it was over he asked if he could do it again 😂. He loves soccer but doesn’t like when they have to verse each other (aka he prefers avoiding the up close and personal kicking with others). His sweet soul doesn’t have much of a competitive bone in him.  He has been practicing riding his dirt bike and more recently his 4-wheeler, continue to love puzzles, coloring, art in general and helping me make food.  In the past few months he’s been loving being a gamer which has been pretty cute to watch. Zayden is our strong minded, rule follower! Halloween you were going to be a Creeper but decided to change your mind to Evee.

Ryken – your my little bull in a china shop. She’s our fireball that keeps us on our toes all the time. She is the sweetest and the orneriest at the same time. She loves princess everything, bones (aka bows) and anything sparkly! Petting animals and going to the zoo are her favorite things to do, exclaiming, “Oh they’re so cute!” She is full of love for her little sister and likes to play with her brother most days.  She is starting to make friends from her class and in the neighborhood and she’s my sugar lover. If there’s sugar in it, she is determined to find a way to get it.  Ryken is our sweet and fiesty big girl!  You are our middle child but there is no missing attention for you because you demand the attention! For Halloween you haven’t decided what you want to be but so far you’ve been a nice witch, supergirl, princess, and plans for a mermaid on Halloween night, basically you view every day as a dress up day and I’m here for it.

Kyden – oh sweet girl, you’re still too little to see how ornery you are going to be but currently you are calm, chill and appear to be a peacemaker in the family. You can make us all laugh, smile and get our attention with a quick roll over.  You are ready for whatever we throw at you. I know I’ve said it in every post about you but you are so sweet and have such a calm demeanor about you. You smile at most things with the sweetest smile I could ask for! I can’t wait to see how you continue to unfold… For Halloween you were Winnie the Pooh & will also be a dalmatian pup with your Cruella mama!

Needless to say Vinson, Party of 5 is loving this little life that we have. It’s stressful, it’s exhausting but it’s all so worth it.

3ish Months ❤️| Kyden Jade

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Oh sweet Ky, you continue to make our hearts more and more full.  You continue to be so calm and chill it blows me away.  You nap wherever and whenever, smile most of the time and just observant the rest. Your brother and sister are still obsessed with you, as well as a handful of neighbor kids, basically you do not go very many minutes not being held.

So far, you’ve gotten to meet your family on both sides, including great grandma Jackie! We’ve travelled to New Mexico, a couple of concerts, a hot air balloon fest, a huge play area in Tulsa, met NM & KS friends, enjoyed the lake multiple days, experienced your first 4th of July in the neighborhood and every little adventure in between. We couldn’t have asked for a more go with the flow girl than you! Lifting your head, rolling from tummy to back and back to tummy, attempting to sit up, basically whatever you have to do to see what is going on with the siblings or dogs, you’re bound and determined to do!

You are 98th percentile in height, off the charts in head size, and 40th percentile in weight. You’re perfect in any way we could imagine and we hope you always know this. Here’s to many more adventurous months and endless cuddles sweet girl!

11 Weeks To Go

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Where did my pregnancy go? On one hand, I definitely feel (and look) pregnant but I haven’t thought about being pregnant as much as I was able to the last two pregnancies. As someone that’s gone through infertility for years, that sounds crazy to say and I kind of feel bad for saying it because especially through infertility you cherish (and fear) every second of a pregnancy. However, my time, mental & physical energy go to the other two littles, let alone the husband, dogs, life, work, not to mention any random wildlife we try to keep alive in our backyard 😂 Basically saying, this pregnancy has long days but short months. We are at 29 weeks, and I have less than 11 weeks to go! How did this happen?

I’ve been sick off and on through this pregnancy but no complaints, just little uncomfortable here and there and little sleep, but I know the gift is so worth it. Little miss (name still being decided on by Ryken) is growing well, heart rate was 135-140 this week, and we got to see her beautiful face last week. Chubby cheeks and lots of sass already, and she looks a little like Ryken (no surprise there, she is technically her fraternal twin) – crazy to think right? Welcome to IVF and the incredible ability to freeze embryos. Little Miss has been growing well, despite the 2-vessel vs 3-vessel umbilical cord. My Dr says generally, they may slow down growth after 30ish weeks, so we will be doing a growth ultrasound in 2 weeks and monitoring her closely til she arrives!

We are ready…right? 😂 I mean, are you ever ready to add a little one to the family? Or are you ever ready to say goodbye to the last pregnancy you’ll ever have again?? I’m not going down this path mentally yet because I think that will be a little to undertake mentally, so I’ll touch on that sometime in the future. I get a little teary-eyed thinking about it even. So many years put into this journey and in less than 11 weeks that portion of our life is over. Pregnancy life ending soon or not, we know this was God’s purpose for us and are so grateful for each blessing we’ve had and will meet one day and for the 2 we have, cuddling now, and 1 on the way. We couldn’t be more grateful for this stressful, chaotic, wonderful family life we have been able build. ❤️

Next update coming in a couple of weeks when we see how Little Miss is growing, and maybe Ryken will have a name decided by then!

5-11 months

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I feel a little guilty. I haven’t posted about Ryken’s life as I did with Zayden and I have felt terrible about it so I keep putting off writing updates. So, here is my attempt to play catch up…

They say you follow all the rules with your 1st then your 2nd you are like, eh sure have a little sugar or go do that, that’s safe. And I always thought that was a crazy mindset, but it’s true. And for me personally, it has nothing to do with caring or being more careful with one vs the other, but after having 1 survive for 3 years, you realize not all the unsaid “rules” they give to parents are meant to be followed. Also, children are crazy and keeping up with 1 vs 2 there’s not a ton of time to follow ALL the “rules” or even take a minute to write a blog. So I’ve been doing my updating of little miss via pictures on our Facebook pretty regularly. I mean, I can’t NOT post photos of that smile!

5-11 months has been a lot of the same (pandemic-wise), limited places we go, no travel unfortunately, only ordering out vs eating out (that’s hard on these foodies, we love the restaurant experience and just hasn’t been the same ordering out) and seeing family, a few select people in more recent months, our neighbors, and enjoying time at home/hikes/etc. Then the snowpocalypse hit and kept us even more confined, as literally, getting out of the driveway was near impossible and probably comical for those that saw my attempts. We were even forced ha, I saw partially kidding, partially serious but we were forced to purchase a new bouncy house. Our last one was struggling to survive the wrestling matches of a 3 year old and a new bouncy house has already gotten so much playtime I don’t know what we did before it. Trust me parents, worth that purchase if you’re needing to burn some extra energy regularly.

Zayden is still keeping us on our toes on the regular. He is always talking, literally, even in his sleep he talks. He LOVES zombies, playing “indivisible” aka invisible and has no issues telling me when we don’t talk that way lol. “Shut it” and “stupid” and maybe another word or two have been learned and quickly added to the do not say list. He has no issue telling me that, “We don’t call that box stupid mommy,” after I struggled to put the box together and gave up lol. He started “Cool” aka school at our church and although he hated it at first because he would miss us, he seems to enjoy going now, just occasionally gets nervous and bored as he would say. “What’s nervous again? I get nervous because I’m going to miss you,” with a quiver in his voice and a little lip shake. Momma & Daddy hearts melt and hurt all at the same time with this. And he usually comes home very happy and tells us about his day (sometimes) and tells me if he has any “drips” aka tears come down during the day or not. The only time he’s had drips is at naptime when he missed me. Ha, melted and hurt heart all over again. He’s REALLY loving sister lately, he likes to have her watch him play games but doesn’t always want her to play. He likes to show her things and brush her hair and tell her what she can and can’t do. He’s my little helper most days! He still loves me more than I think anything haha and still sleeps in bed with us and still is in diapers – we’ll get there one day but for now we’re just embracing these little moments that won’t last forever.

Ryken is ON THE MOVE. She started crawling around 4-5 months and became a professional power crawler until 10.5-11 months and she decided to walk and hasn’t stopped since. She’s happy 99% of the time, ornery the rest of the time, with a smidge of fussiness here and there, but generally speaking she’s only fussy when she doesn’t get her way. She knows how to get what she wants, when she wants and talk about nervous, ha, that makes me nervous for the future but for now it’s pretty dang cute and I commend her for being a boss baby! 🙂 We’re trying to raise a young woman that commands respect, knows how to get what she wants, and knows her worth, and I think she’s doing pretty good about doing it so far. She LOVES to be outside. Rain, shine, snow, doesn’t matter to this girl, she wants to be outside and she wants to be on the go. I remember when Zayden was younger he liked being outside, but not like her. And she’s a straight up daredevil. I watch the things she does sometimes and I know in my heart that she’s too young, but I let her attempt and am always pretty impressed by her rebound or success in it. We always thought Zayden would be our little motorcycle rider, but starting to think Miss Ryken may do it before he does. Ha. Lord help us.

Ryken is loving most foods, prefers to do acrobatic nursing or drinking from a big cup, the bottles are hit or miss. She’s decided a pacifier is no longer her thing. She loves loves her brother and her daddy and Ollie is her favorite dog. She likes to pester Charlie, not in a mean way but in a – I’ll pet him when he’s sleeping because he will growl at me way lol. He’s a trooper but loves her just as much! Jason and Ryken have this sweet special bond that I guess I’ve never seen but Jason would compare it to Zayden and my bond. They even have a special handshake (kind of) 🙂 I’ll leave that for just them, but I want to note it because I don’t want to forget it. She also loves to mimic us, if she hears a word or sound – she’s going to try to mimic it the best she can. Today I said “better” randomly and she said “better.” Wait, what did you just say? She smiles and runs away! Other words she has said, Hi (to everyone by the way), bubba, daddy, momma, OLLIE (but only yelling Ollie’s name when she steals something from her ha), Charlie is an attempt but can’t quite get there, up and uh oh are said all day long. And then the random words she likes to repeat once and then act like she never said them, unfortunately I haven’t kept track of those but it’s safe to say she’ll be talking early like her brother.

She hasn’t traveled like her brother did when he was her age, but she has taken 1 trip to New Mexico and recently to St. Louis, MO. Last weekend, we took the kids and my brother’s family to the zoo, City Museum, and the aquarium and ran amuck in STL for just a little getaway. We were able to see some friends and family but it was a short and sweet break for us and for them. They need that change of scenery, and to enjoy the experiences that we all have been missing. We have our next trip to Arizona planned for next month, so fully looking forward to some flying with them again!

Sweet girl turns 1 in less than 2 weeks and I honestly don’t know where time has gone. 2020 was the slowest and fastest month. I’m glad we were able to be slightly sheltered from what others had struggled with in the city, but I also want to be realistic with them about what 2020 brought. Nothing like being born in a pandemic, but she has been such a light to us. Ryken Spree is exactly what 2020 needed and I’m so thankful we were able to have her during this weird, sad time.

We are looking forward to many more laughs and smiles together this year! Stay tuned. 🙂