Caleb

This little guy has become quite the little mess maker. He is into EVERYTHING and will stop at nothing. He also is pretty good at cleaning up. He likes to mop the floors, unload the dishwasher, and load the washer. However he will only help if he gets to push the buttons! He also LOVES sports balls, cars, and trains. While he doesn't have as active of an imagination as Madi it is fun to watch him play cars, trains and monster destruction. He loves his bankie, his dog buser(buster) and pooto (Pluto). His favorite shows are mickey mouse clubhouse, little Einsteins, and jake and the neverland pirates. He can count to 10 with help from his sissy, sing the alaphabet, tinkle stars, and veggie tales. He also knows most of his upper and lowercase letters by sight. We love this little man and are having so much fun watching him grow.

Playdough

My kids love to play together and love to do anything that is creative and messy. Playdough is a favorite and is fun until Caleb starts eating it...

Pretty Faces

I love that both my kids have big blue eyes. And I will say that I love their pretty faces! Here was a fun little fall shoot before church (one good thing about 1pm church)

If only I could get them both smiling and looking at the same time

Candy! (This is how I get them to smile and put up with all my photo taking)

When cranky meets the bathtub

It was a typical night at the haynie household. I asked joe to start a bath for the kids while i finished some things up downstairs. Caleb was super crabby and didn't want to wait for me so he was screaming. I didn't know that Joe had already put Madi in the bath and he came down to help me finish (i think it was dishes) and let me know the water was ready. Next thing we hear is a thump, crying and laughing. I go running up stairs to find madison laughing hystarically and caleb soaked in the tub shoes and all... Needless to say he was not to happy about the clothes, diaper, and shoes but hey it was his OWN fault right??

"shoes uck, shoes uck"

Mt Princeton

We tried something new as a Haynie family this year. Instead of going camping (because of all the fires and drought our spot didn't have water and there were no fires allowed so that equals no fun!) we got a cabin in Mt. Princeton Resort. It was beautiful and we had so much fun. There are natural hot spring pools and a river to play in. The kids had a great time swimming and enjoying to cooler weather. Also the deer were not afraid of humans, the were literally coming up to your face wanting to know what you were going to give them. It was a beautiful weekend and so much fun to all hang out.

Little hike with grandma and grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa with all their grandchildren (minus Nona who is a little to small for hiking)

Madison and Caleb both adored baby nona. She was so cute and calm.

Caleb and "baby ona"

helping grandma with aunt jana's cake

sniffing calebs ear

carrots

i know im bias but seriously she is beautiful!

Madison and Alyssa

 

First day of school

I didn't realize how hard this post would be to write! I can't believe that my little girl is old enough for school! Real school!! She is attending the pre K program at a Cornerstone Christain Academy. It is a non-demoniational private school that a friends kids attend and we thought we would give it a try. I can honestly say that it was one of the best decision that we could have made. Yes it is farther and yes she is the only one of her chruch friends attending but it is wonderful. She is in a class of 6 with 2 teachers and is learning so much. She loves school and is so excited to learn. Her teachers Ms. Michelle and Ms. Leslie adore her and are excited to help her learn. She gets to go on 2 fieldtrips a month and I think it is wonderful.

The day would not be complete with out a new first day of school outfit, backpack and front door pictures! She picked it out all herself

First day of school August 24th 2012

Lakeside 2.0

We had another fun filled evening at Lakeside with the Haynie's.  Madison always loves the amusement park and this year Caleb got to join in on the fun! His favorite rides included the boats and the horses. Hers were the horses, cars, motorcycles, spinning thing, frog hopper, roller coaster and pretty much anything that moved!

First ride.. he wasn't so sure about this

i think this was the 10th time he went. lovin it!

Mutual favorite ride. He kept asking Madi, "sissy ride neigh neigh, peeeese"

It looks like alyssa likes this but really at this point she was screaming mommy let me down NOW!

anticipation

Again alyssa HATES this ride.

I was afriad Caleb would try to get off the motorcycles so I made Madi hold on to him

Good thing because I was totally right! He tried and she would not let go! Such a good sister

Another time around

and another horse ride

She was such a good big sister and cousin to the little guys and would ride the rides they wanted.

Yep here we are again

and again

these 2 were best buds

so happy after a long day!