Helping Hand

Kaelen loves everything that we use the most and do the most. He loves the remote. He will grab it and point it at the TV. We have given him old remotes but he soon figures out that pushing the buttons does nothing. Kaelen loves the dishwasher as well. When the kids empty it he wants to help. When ever we have it open he pulls the silverware out even if it is dirty. He loves it. At times we have to open it only a fraction of the way and drop the silverwear in quickly before Kaelen comes and tries to open it. He gets so mad when you move him away. Here are pictures of him helping Rachel and Jacob unload it the other day.

Kaelen starting to help empty the dishwasher.

He can't reach the silverware very well from the position he was in so it is easier to climb on the door.

It is just easier to sit all the way on the door.

Twin Boys

Kaelen and Jacob have a few shirts that are exactly the same. Jacob loves to wear them the same day as Kaelen. Jacob also wants to wear matching pajamas too. When he gets dressed in the morning or before bed he always says that he wants to match with Kaelen. Here are a few pictures of the boy in their outfits.


Matching striped PJ's

My two boys in matching striped shirts. I love this picture of the boys playing ball together. Kaelen loves to play ball. I also love Rachel in the background poking her head around the corner.

They will wear these shirts to church at times and wear similar ties.

I need to get more pictures of them in the other shirts and pajamas that they have the same. When I get them I will post them.

Father and Son Outing

Once a month Enoch will take Jacob or Rachel out on a date. So every other month the kids go out with Dad for some one on one time. The kids get to pick what they want to do. Well January was Jacob's month. What he really wanted to do was go snow sledding. Luckily it really snowed the day before and the day of. Jacob had so much fun. These are pictures and videos from the afternoon and evening of snow sledding. Jacob picked the location too of where he wanted to go snow sledding. They went up to Grandpa and Grandma Heileson's and went snow sledding in their yard. I love what Enoch has started. Rachel is already excited to go in February. Soon even Kaelen will be going on dates with his Dad.



Jacob and Enoch taking pictures of themselves.

Very Rosy cheeked Jacob

This is a video of Enoch filming while going down the hill.

Enoch and Jacob built a jump to go over while sledding. Jacob was the first to go over it. He was so brave. The tube had a hard time going over it. It is so funny to watch Jacob and Enoch's reactions.

This is a hilarious video. I don't know what is funnier, watching Jacob fly through the air or Enoch laughing at him.

Kaelen 9 months Old

Kaelen is 9 months old now. Well actually he will be 10 months in two weeks. He is getting so big. He weighs 19lbs 8 oz. He is so much fun. He makes us laugh all the time. He loves balls. He actually knows how to throw balls as well as chase them around and push them. It is the most amazing thing. He will push the ball around the house. He will crawl to it, push it, chase after it, push it again and then chase after it. He will do that for quite a while as well. The other amazing thing is that when you hold his fingers he will walk around and kick the ball. I am not sure where he learned to do that but he knows how to kick it. He will actually lift his leg to kick the ball. It is so cool. We will post a video soon of him playing with the ball. Kaelen also will pull himself up against everything. He actually was playing with a tall standing lamp the other day and he knocked it over and broke it. Nice. Kaelen also will be told not to do something and he will smile at you and go do what he was just told not to do. He will wait till you are looking at him them smile and head for something he isn't supposed to touch. He is already trying to be defiant. He also in the last few weeks has gotten good at sitting from a standing position. Before he would just drop down really hard or stay standing and cry till you lowered him down but he actually now can lower himself down.

Kaelen loves the stairs. He loves climbing up them and thinks that he can climb down them. He will go head first and start reaching down them. He has actually fallen down the stairs a couple of times. We have a gate that goes at the top of the stairs but there has been a few times where it was not put up right a way and he went down the stairs. Really sad. The funny thing is that the last time he fell down the stairs he sat near the gate and cried. He really wanted to go downstairs. He loves being downstairs playing with Rachel and Jacob.


Kaelen will copy the kids all the time. If they scream or growl he will do it too. It is so funny.


Kaelen standing at the stairs. He looks so big in this picture to me.

He is teething so he loves to chew on things. Especially shirts. He will actually chew on your shirt while you are holding him. He also at times has chewed on our pant legs. You have to be careful though because he bites really hard.

I love this picture of him. He was asleep in my bed and was waking up. This was the position he was sleeping in. So cute.

Kaelen is finally somewhat letting us read books to him. Before he would grab the book right out of your hands and wouldn't let you hold it or turn the pages. Now we have a couple of minutes before he pulls it from us. He really likes this book because he gets to see the dogs move their legs and tails and also feel things. (Thanks Juleene and David) He loves dogs. He gets excited when he see's Bernie and also when he see's another dog.

Not eating dairy has gone down the tube. Enoch gave him ice cream the other day and yesterday Jacob gave him a Gogurt. Well after I took it away Kaelen was so mad he started to scream and shake. I gave in and ended up giving him his own to have. He LOVED it.

In this video you can't see him very well but I love him saying "Da Da." He say's Dad all the time. It is so cute. He was laying on his change table while we were filming this and he has a mobile that he plays with. That was what was in the video.

We sure love our little boy. He isn't sleeping through the night at all. The last two nights he has been up around 12 times. He is cutting a tooth. You can feel all the sharp bumps from the tooth. I am sure that it will be through today or tomorrow. So he will have his first tooth. It's about time because we thought that it would have come through months ago. We are hoping that maybe he will sleep after this tooth and the one next to it comes in. Oh wait, no by then more will be coming in. So I figure I will not get sleep for another year. Oh well. At least when Kaelen isn't sleeping he is happy. He is happy when he doesn't take a nap and doesn't sleep at night. He is never really cranky. I guess we can't complain too much. It would be really bad if he never slept and was cranky.

Playing with Morgan and Ainsley

This last Christmas and after New Years we were so lucky to have Morgan, Ainsley, Noal and Wendy come and stay with us. The kids had so much fun. Rachel, Jacob and Morgan played out in the snow together and slept in the same bed each night Morgan slept over. Kaelen and Ainsley loved playing together. They are so close in age that they are doing almost the same things so they can keep up with each other. They seemed to want to grab at each other and most times one of them would start to cry. While Noal, Wendy, Morgan and Ainsley were around we all went and saw a movie together. We saw Marley and Me. It was fun to look over and see the kids totally laughing together. It was an adventure watching the movie with three kids and two babies. By the end of the movie Morgan and Jacob had completely moved and Rachel was sitting a few seats down from everybody all by herself. I love how kids seems to sit through a whole movie at times and other times they will move around. We enjoyed the movie despite babies being sad and kids moving around. We always love having family around. We love that we have family close by and that our kids have cousins to play with.



Kids playing in the snow.

Noal holding Ainsley and Kaelen. Ainsley was waving in the picture.

Ainsely and Kaelen playing together.

Playing with toys in the basket.

The kids sleeping together. I still don't know how they sleep and move around so much and not hurt each other.

This was so funny to watch Ainsley crawl under and through the chairs. Kaelen wasn't very happy in the background while we filmed this.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was so much fun. It went way too fast as well. On Christmas Eve we went snow sledding as a family. It was a lot of fun. Kaelen didn't like it very much though. He went down the hill twice and after having snow fly in his face both times he was done. He spent the rest of the time in the car with me. It was fun to watch Enoch, Rachel and Jacob go down the hill though.

In the evening Noal, Wendy, Morgan, Ainsley, Annelise and Boyd came over for a Mexican themed dinner. We had homemade black bean tortillas that were amazing with meat and other things to put into them. Then for dessert we had apple enchiladas which were to die for. So yummy. We of course kept up with traditions and had to act out the nativity. It was fun. Boyd was the Donkey and this year both Mary (Morgan) and Joseph (Jacob) rode on it. Rachel was out wonderful Angel who even say to us. We had two wise women and two shepherds with machine guns instead of shepherd hooks. We also had little lambs this year. One of them was a sleep but the other one crawled around. Didn't want to stay with the shepherds though. Noal was the Traditional narrator. We had a lot of fun.

We also opened presents up from each other and our Christmas Eve PJ's. Rachel got Hannah Montana pj's and Jacob and Kaelen got matching space 'boom boom' pj's.

Christmas morning we got up around 8:30 when the kids finally got us up. Kaelen didn't get up with us. We let him sleep till he wanted to get up. We got some really awesome presents this year. Enoch and Rachel both got new MP3 players. Santa had already downloaded stuff onto them when they opened them. That was a nice surprise. I got a treadmill for Christmas. I was so excited. Jacob got a leapster LMAX. He was excited about that. He plays with it still all the time. Kaelen got some fun bath toys and a car and train. He really loves to push them around the floor. He will either push them or throw them to make them move. Kaelen though enjoyed the bows more than his presents. He would grab every bow he could find off the presents.

Kaelen had a good first Christmas. He had no clue what was going on but sure seemed to enjoy all the toys on the floor, the boxes, bows and other things.

For breakfast we had the most amazing baked french toast. We loved it. It was so sweet and yummy. I think that we will make it a tradition now in our house. We had way too much though.

In the afternoon we went over to Grandpa and Grandma Heileson's to open presents and have dinner. We played games in the evening. It was a lot of fun.

We really loved Christmas this year. It always makes me sad how quickly it comes and go's. I was sad when it was over.



Santa came to visit at the family Christmas party "Grandpa!"

Kaelen getting all dressed up in the car

Kaelen with Dad and in the snow

Rachel and Jacob snow sledding. I love this picture of Kaelen

Our Mexican Fiesta

Our Donkey, Mary and Joseph. The shepherds with their guns.

Our Angel

Acting out the Nativity and all of us after

Our Narrator

Jacob and Ainsley opening her present from Jacob. The kids were a little more excited than her and pushed her out of the way to see it. Poor little girl.

Opening our present from Boyd and Annelise

Rachel was so excited to get Hannah Montana pj's.

Kids in their pj's before we read The Night Before Christmas

Waiting in the hall Christmas morning to go and look and see what Santa brought

Kaelen sleeping instead of opening presents

Jacob and Dad opening a present. Kaelen looking to see what Santa brought.

Opening more presents. Rachel has the best facial expressions when she gets something that she loves.

Kaelen with a bow on his head.

Kaelen and Enoch opening a present together.

Kaelen so happy with Grandpa Heileson Christmas day.