Averien and Claire

Averien and her new cousin Claire are 5 weeks apart and the same size. They are cute together. They of course have no concept of each other but they soon will and will love having a friend to play with. Claire being five weeks younger still can't do as much as Averien but because she is as big as her it is hard to forget. Like Averien can hold her head up and you still need to support Claire's head. We will hold Claire and forget she can't do what Averien does yet because she is still smaller. Soon though they will be doing the same things. It will be fun to see them in a few years.

Rachael Adams visits

Rachel Adams came to visit right after Rachel's surgery. She came April 21st and stayed till Sunday April 24th. We didn't know that she was coming but her family called and said they were coming and wanted to know if she could stay with us. Heck yah. We love Rachael. Rachel and Rachael have so much fun together. They get together after not seeing each other for months and they act as if they have never been apart. They get a long so well and they seem to be laughing all the time. Kaelen and Jacob love Rachel Adams too. She is like an adopted child when she comes. It is fun too to yell "Rachel's" when I need them both. Rachael Adams recently got braces too. They look so much a like now. Rachael even stayed for Easter and all of our Easter activities.

Averien 2 1/2 months old

Averien is getting to be so much more active and fun every day. She loves to take baths. We put her bath mat in on the width of the tub instead of length so when Averien lays on it she can put her feet on the side of the tub. She loves it. We will take her off of it and hold her head up and she goes crazy kicking and splashing. She smiles, giggles and babbles all the time. She'll start screaming while babbling. It is so funny. She has also started to blow raspberries. Averien loves to suck on her hands too. She doesn't suck on any specific finger but loves just the whole fist. She has awesome head control and can totally hold it up now.

She has slept through the night a few times now 6-8 hrs and we have figured out how to get her to sleep for hours at a time for naps. She loves her belly and we finally decided to let her just sleep on it. She is swaddled and then laid on her tummy. She will sleep 2-4 hours hours 3-4 times a day. It is so awesome. She always loves to lay against us when we are holding her asleep so it is no surprise that she loves to sleep on her tummy. We will also put on white noise in the room she is sleeping in and is so happy. She is such a homebody too. She does not sleep good anywhere but her own bed. She cries because she is tired and will sleep for a bit if we are somewhere else. She already knows what she likes and doesn't like for sleeping.

She is still our best baby. She is so happy all the time and is so easy as long as she gets what she needs.

Kaelen outside

Kaelen loves to play outside. He always wants his coat on and when it is cold he wants his hat. He will grab everything and will have you put it on sometimes for him. Other times he will do it. He will spend hours walking around the yard and playing with Bernie. When I saw him outside in what he was wearing I had to grab the camera and take pictures. He had put his hat on himself. It was so cute. He also got some awesome monkey rubber boots that he loves and put's on himself. They were on his right feet this time

Kaelen turns 3

Kaelen turned 3 today. We still can't believe how quickly time has flown. His birthday was on Sunday this year and during General conference. I spent the morning and afternoon making his cake and dinner for everybody. This was acutally his second cake because the first cake he found on the counter and decided to take a very large piece out of the center of it. I was not too pleased.

Kaelen loves the movie Cars, so we decided to make him a race track cake. He loved it. We also for dinner made Grandma Fishers amazing "mom's chicken". Everybody loved it. Kaelen doens't have a favorite meal just favorite foods so I picked dinner for him.

Grandpa and Grandma Heileson came over as well as Rachael, Joseph, Carter and Collin. Kaelen had no idea that it was his birthday. We would tell him he was turning 3 but he didn't even know he was 2. Anytime you ask him how old he is turning he says "good".

When we opened presents he at first had no idea what to think of it. He was giving them to everybody else but after a bit he understood the concept and was excited to open the presents.

Kaelen loves cake and candles as well. If he says any cake he calls it a birthday cake. He loves to blow out candles too. If there are candles on cake he will blow them out even if it isn't for him.

For Kaelen's birthday he got some battery operated trains for his train track. He got two that are from the movies Cars. The train set was originally Jacob's but he never played with it. Kaelen plays with his all the time. He got a cool portable car launcher from his Grandpa and Grandma Fisher and Grandpa and Grandma Heileson got him some much needed clothes. He also got some books. He was given a book when he was a baby about dogs. He loved it so much that it was destroyed very quickly. Well we bought him a new one. He was so excited. He also got the books 5 little monkeys. He loves the stories of the 5 crazy little monkeys. He also got a Boise State bat and ball. He loves Boise State and baseball.

Here are some things that Kaelen can do or does. I could write for hours but here are a few.

-Kaelen's favorite foods are carrots, lettuce, apples, strawberries, oranges and anything chocolate.
-He loves Boise State. He will see the Boise State logo and right a way yell Boise State.
-He loves to watch Dora, Diego, Backyardagins, Cars, Toy Story, Lion King, Dogs (101 Dalmations)
-He talks all the time and says everything. Our favorites are:
Avring (Averien)
Pick he up (for picking Averien up)
he too heavy (when he doesn't want to Averien anymore)
hey Guys (he will yell down stairs for Rachel and Jacob and calls them guys)
Boisa State (Boise State)
puter (computer)

-he loves to count to 13 and counts everything
-loves to chase the dog around the house
-loves to play outside. Will spend hours outside
-loves to play with trains and cars
-he doesn't drink from anything but a cup and then when we go places like church he takes his water thermos. Only water goes in it too, everything is in a cup.
-loves to throw things
-really good at beating up Jacob
-pretends to talk on the phone to everybody but never wants to talk on the real phone
-everything is his pretend computer

Grandpa Heileson and Averien

Grandpa Heileson doesn't like holding new babies very much or so he says. He says he doesn't want to hurt them and doesn't like it when they cry. I always try to get him to hold my babies. He loves kids but babies not as much. Well with Averien he seems to want to hold her a lot more. She loves him. These pictures are so awesome because you can see how happy she is and how happy Grandpa is. I have always said that Grandpa has these blinking lights around his head that only kids and babies can see because as much as he says he doesn't want to hold the babies they all love him. All the kids seem to love him. They all fight over Grandpa at times too. These pictures are just so awesome.

Averien is 2 months old

Averien is 2 months old now. Time seems to fly by so fast. She is getting so big. She is getting so big that she gained 3 pounds in a month. Wow. She definitely doesn't like to eat. She now weighs 11lbs, 9 oz and is 22 inches long. Averien smiles all the time and loves attention. She sleeps pretty good. She will sleep 4 hours at a time at night. She still never cries. Her cry has gotten louder but only cries when tired or hungry. She has started to babble a little too. It is really fun. She is such a fun addition to have in our family. Everybody loves her and loves holding her. Kaelen asks to hold her all the time and then after a couple of seconds says she's too heavy and doesn't want to hold her anymore. Kaelen will acutally call her a he. Everybody is a he. It is pretty funny.