We celebrated Savina's 2nd birthday at the beach in Corona Del Mar. It was a beautiful day and as always, Kylie & Savina had a blast playing together in the sand.
cupcake time!
Kylie loved playing in the waves!
Kaden's first time at the beach...everytime we put him down, he would grab a handful of sand and put it in his mouth. So, we try to hold him most of the time.
Kaden is turning ONE at the end of this month and I still can't believe how quickly this year went by. He is officially an active crawler and pulls himself up every chance he gets. He loves balls and always throws the ball in front of him and chases the ball wherever it takes him. About two months ago, he started rejecting the bottle, so I still try to nurse him as often as possible. After trying out all the different sippy cups, we finally found one that he likes. The Nuby. He's starting to drink more milk from the sippy cup and hopefully soon, I will be able to stop nursing.
Kaden have always been a light sleeper, but he's always able to fall asleep on his own. So without any sleep training or anything, he managed to sleep through the night from 8:30 pm to 7:30 am! I am so thankful for that, but I never minded waking up once to nurse him in the middle of the night. I let nature take its course. :)
kaden is still full of smile and laughter. He eats solid food very well. I love his personality... so easygoing and kickback.
Kylie have always been pretty affectionate with her little brother. When he gets hurt, she would run over there and kiss him or pat him on his head. She's been having some issues with sharing her toys with him. Before he even gets close to the specific thing she doesn't want him to touch, she screams. Kylie is starting to talk a lot and putting a lot of words together into sentences. She does cry a lot, though. We're trying to fix that, if it's even possible. Other than that, she's a sweetie!
the kids had a blast at Legoland!
Last year at this time, Kylie wouldn't go on any rides. She's brave enough to go on all the rides now.
This was taken a few months back at the spectrum with Lana...This picture of Kylie totally reminded me of myself when I was a little girl. :)
Daddy & Kaden at the park...
some shots taken before bedtime...
big sis and lil' bro
my two babies...
This summer, Kylie got the courage to go swimming in the pool, except she only plays in the shallow end, going up and down the stairs. We went to the aquatic center and both kylie and kaden had fun splashing water in the toddler pool.
Aliso Viejo Aquatic Center
We had a BBQ at Aunt Lin and Uncle Ron's house for 4th of July and watched fireworks at night.
not sure what kylie & evan were doing here...
This past weekend Mark had to work, so my mom and I decided to take kylie & kaden to vegas to visit Stella's family. I was excited and nervous at the same time because 1) I never drove to vegas all the way myself, 2) I wasn't sure how the whole sleeping situation was going to work, considering both k&k had to be in the same room.
they surprised me. everything worked our perfectly.
On the way there, we stopped by Aunt Rosanne & Uncle Richard's house for lunch. They both slept on the way there. Halfway to vegas, they fell asleep again and we made it to Stella's house without any traffic. From the moment we stepped into their house, Kylie had a blast with her cousins. She followed Kaylin and Nini around and there were so many new things to look at and play with. Kaden was busy crawling and roaming around...up and down the stairs. The cool thing is that one of the 6 kids were ALWAYS watching over them and followed them around to make sure they don't get hurt. I love it. It was so good to see all of them.
The next morning, we decided to go to the Fun Zone with the water slide and pool.
Here they are getting ready to go and putting sunblock on.
Kylie went down the slide without hesitating...little did she know, the water was freezing cold!
"E" and Kylie looking at KK and Nini going down the slide.
lounging by the pool...
After coming home from swimming and eating lunch, Kylie took a nap. She adapted so well there. I took advantage of their naptime and squeezed in some time to go to the casino. Too bad I didn't have much luck. When we got home, Kylie was still napping. We had to wake her up for dinner.
Kaden took a one hour nap and played around some more...
Kylie & Kaylin...
kaden...kellie...yes, we were calling everyone by the wrong name. haha
cute pose!
check out kaden's filthy feet!!
Joey and his little cousin...thinking back, I used to hold Joey like that! How time flies...
we really need to take more pictures together...
Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July and looking foward to a cool summer ahead!
