Life Lately, through the eye of my phone

Here's what we have been up to lately. All the pictures are from my phone. Don't you just love today's technology?



We have done a lot of swinging and playing outside since the weather is nice. (random side note: see the view behind kooper? Beautiful right!? We have the pleasure of seeing that everyday at our house. Sunset at our place is gorgeous!!)



Kooper enjoys being home alone with me on Monday's and Wednesdays because he gets the couch to his self to watch bubble guppies!



And sometimes (all the time) he will sneak off in sisters room and put on her cowgirl hat. Too cute!



After school one day last week I let Kynlie cut out pictures of things she likes from the toy magazine and glue them to a piece of paper, for a Christmas list. She had so much fun.



Friday night we went to our home towns last home football game. It was my nieces last home game to cheer, ever. She graduates this school yr. Tears!! She's grown up on us so fast. She's such a special girl to me. I'll do a post on her yr of cheer soon.








These three pictures were at the game. Sadly we were loosing so we entertained our selfs by making funny faces.



Saturday our aggies pulled out a win over #1 Alabama! What? Whoop!!! I love my little chubby faced aggie here!! And of course silly sister sneaking in the picture at the bottom :)



Earlier that day Bradley went to his deer lease to check the feeder and get things ready for an upcoming hunt, so he took his future hunter with him. Is that not the cutest picture? Look at that wrangler butt!



I caught sister putting make up on bub Sunday night! Oops!



Monday was school pictures. Kynlie was excited to wear her "Zachary dress". Her "boyfriend" Zachary gave this dress to her for her bday and she hasn't wore until now. I think she was the pretties!



She's so special!! I love these moments when she falls asleep on me. I savior every single second!!



Now this cracks me up. I was setting the table and fixing plates for supper the other night and missy crawled up in bubs high chair and demanded to be fed! And of course sweet nana fed her. She's so funny!



Kynlie had her thanksgiving party yesterday at school. I think shes super cute in this fall sweater and her jeans tucked inside her cowgirl boots. Beautiful sunrise behind her peaking through the trees.



This is me this morning! Kooper decided he would wake up at 1:45am and not go back to sleep till 4am. He screamed every time I put him back in his bed. Long night, early morning!

I leave you with a sneak peak of our family pictures we took Sunday evening. I can't wait to see more, this is the only one I've seen.

Kynlie's bedroom make-over.

I decided to redo Kynlie's bedroom back in August. She saw zebra sheets at walmart during the summer and everytime we passed them she kept saying she wanted them for her room. So I decided it would make a perfect birthday gift for her to redo her room and get new bedding.

My mom bought the sheets for her for her birthday and I got her the comforter. I would get new things here and there as I saw them. Right at her birthday we decided we were going to move so I put her room make-over on hold. I'm kinda glad I did because some great things came avalible for me to buy for her room. Back before Kynlie was born and right after she was born, my niece Bailee had her room in zebra and pink. A few years ago she decided to change her room up and sold all her cute stuff to her cousin. Well her cousin has now decided to change up her room and I got first choice at buying everying thing!! So it's kinda neat that it's staying in the family.

So here is Kynlie's big girl Zebra & Hot Pink with a splash of Turquiouse room she's asked for. Pay no attention to the ugly carpet!!

This bed skirt was made by my sister n laws mom for my niece Bailee

 Cute cross from Canton

 I wanted to hang this sign on Kynlie's closet but I couldn't get the nail in the door so it's next to it on the wall.

 The zebra curtains are from Bailee too. I bought the pink one when we moved in to the new house.

 Her letters KJK were from her bathroom at our old house. I had ribbon hanging from them with her bows on it. I'm thinking of "blinging" her letters out and maybe adding some pink, turquiose and zebra ribbon on it.

 Her old bedding had turquious sheets and when I went to change them I left two pillows turqouis to give it a pop of another color. I love it! Oh and we cant forget her pink lady bug pillow pet :)

 This may be my favorite of all. Her pink zebra high heel chair!!! This was Bailee's as well. It's in perfect condition, looks brand new!!!

Bradley painted her vanity before we moved. I'm pleased with the black and the inside of the drawers are pink, but I'm not too happy with the look of the handles. I'm going to change them out very soon. Possibly crystal knobs. I had the pink boea wrapped around the mirror with her zebra and pink tutu draped on the top but I haven't got around to doing that since we've moved in. I kinda like the boea the way it is. But the vanity and the walls around it need something...it's too "blank" to me.

 This desk was bought in canton. I love it!! I was with my sister n law and Bailee when it was bought and I was pregnant with Kynlie. I never would have thought it would be ending up in her room one day :))

She's even enjoying sitting at the new desk already.

Weaning...It's not easy or fun.

Warning, this is a post with rambling thought about breastfeeding and weaning. If you're not interested you may want to skip this one...

Today I thought I would write a post on an issue I'm having at the moment. I'm sure I will never forget this stage in my life but I do want to document it just in case.

Kooper is just about to turn 15 month old. My goal with both of my kids was to nurse them until they turned 1. With Kynlie, it was a breeze nursing and weaning her at 1. Kooper, not so much. Although he's been a great nurser and we have never had a problem with latching or milk production, he will not stop. He's attached for good....I hope not HA!

I have been trying since he turned 1 in August to wean him and he has no desire what so ever to stop. At first I was ok with it. Thinking he still needs it and that's fine. But now that he's actually taking more cows milk, juice, water, etc... and eating more he's just using me as a paci.

I spent what felt like hours yesterday (and many other days) just nursing him off and on. He would get upset about something and need to be nursed. He gets tired and he needs to be nursed. He sees me walk by him and he needs to be nurse. Heaven for bid I don't stop and pick him up and nurse him, his whole world come crashing down. He will scream and scream, until I pick him up but it doesn't stop there, he still cries and pulls at me to sit down and nurse him.

Let me say, I LOVE my son more than words can explain. I LOVE the bonding moments and everything that comes from breastfeeding, but it's time to break him of this habit. He's not too old in my mind, but he is a bigger baby so it's not the easiest thing to do...especially in public.

I text my mom yesterday and told her I was going to admit my self into a loony bin because I felt like I was going to go crazy. I tried so hard yesterday to start weaning cold turkey but it was not working. It's like he heard me talking about it and wanted me more HA!

The bad thing is, if he were on a real paci I would not be breaking him of it this soon. I would wait closer to age 2 like I did with Kynlie (18 months cold turkey). How do I break him of something I can't hide or throw away?

He still wakes up in the middle of the night to nurse. At first we all thought it was because he's not full when he goes to bed because he's never been a good eater.  But recently he's been eating for us and a lot. So I know it's not the full tummy problem. It's just he wants a paci at night. I've tried giving him a real paci and he knows and wants nothing to do with. At this point, I'm ok if he got attached to a real paci at 15 months. Sounds crazy I'm sure but if it will work!

I've tried the crying it out in the middle of the night but he's woke up Kynlie a few times. That's the last thing we need is all four of us in bed and one trying to nurse. I thought I'd try and start at nap time with out nursing and see how that goes. If it works then I'll move on to bed time. I'm not sure what I'll do in the middle of the night when he wakes up. I guess we will see when the time comes.

I never thought in a million years, I would be in this position. I thought I had it all figured out when he was born. I guess he showed me :))

Wish me luck or fill free to share some advise and tips. Or feel free to come take him for a few nights and break him for me. Just kidding....kinda!

Halloween Activities

We had a calm, but fun Halloween this year. Kynlie was Little Red Riding hood and Kooper was a Deer Hunter/Pawpaw (one night). He was suppose to be a spider but my homemade idea fell through so I did a last minute search through his closet and came up with the deer hunter.

Sunday night we went to my in-laws church for their annual fall carnival. That's the night Kooper was the deer hunter/pawpaw. My niece drew at goatee on him and he wore his camo coveralls and orange shirt with a cowboy hat. He was a hit with everyone and his pawpaw was pretty proud.

Kynlie was the most beautiful Red Riding hood I've ever seen. She sported her red lips so beautifully. She's so funny about wearing lipstick. She loves it but will not talk because she's so afraid she'll mess up her lips. When she does talk, you can't understand her because she will not move her mouth LOL.

They had a good time at the CCOE (cowboy church of Ennis) playing games and walking around.

Wednesday, Halloween day, we went to our church for the annual fall carnival. Kooper was just a deer hunter this time and Kynlie was Riding hood again. And again looking just as beautiful as she did on Sunday. She had a good time walking around and playing games and winning candy and seeing the glow n the dark puppet show. It was pretty cool! She also got her pretty little face painted. Kooper had a good time too, hanging out with nana and daddy while sister and I did most of the activities.

We then headed over to memaw and pappy's (my parents) for supper. We had planned on trick or treating in their neighborhood, but once we got there and started eating supper, we were not up for walking around. So we handed out candy to the cuties that came by and the kids played out in the drive way.

We had a good Halloween this year. I'm sure next year we'll do more trick or treating because Kooper will be older and enjoy it better.