18months/4months

The boys had well baby appointments this past Monday, Troy had to work so I packed them up and off we went. They are both doing well. Manti is just a little behind on a couple things but overall, the doctor was very impressed on his progress. Following the "well baby" check ups both boys had to get shots. :( Neither one of them enjoyed that too much and I am sure everyone was thrilled when we left the office. Manti screamed so much his face turned bright red and the veins on his head were popping out. Sebastien was a little easier to calm down, I just had to pull out his fruit snacks. I don't think the doctor was too impressed though, he had lectured me 15 minutes earlier on foods to give Sebastien and fruit snacks was NOT on his list. It made me happier though, I only had to deal with one crying as we left the office. :)

Here are the boys stats:

Sebastien 18 months

Length: 33 inches
weight: 21 pounds





Manti 4 Months:

Length: 23 inches
Weight: 11 pounds 9 ounces

~Halloween~

Troy had to work on Halloween and I debated all day on taking the boys out or not. Our base had many different activities going on so I decided I would at least dress them up and go walk around. We ended up at the medical clinic where they had 16 different rooms set up for trick-or-treating. About half way through Sebastien figured out that if he smiled and held up his little candy bucket he would get more candy. He had to check out every piece and had fun showing me what he got. When we finished walking through the clinic, he was ready to go again. I would have taken him a second time but the line was getting long and I didn't want to wait and fight the crowds again. We came home and started decorating pumpkin cookies for friends. Sebastien loved eating the frosting, big shocker! We had our first trick-or-treaters around six and by 6:15 Sebastien was having so much fun. Anytime the doorbell would ring he would take off running through the house, to the door and down the steps to look at all the costumes. Troy would follow behind him with the basket of candy. I was surprised because Sebastien actually liked giving candy to the kids. We do not get many kids in our neighborhood so by 7:15 we called it a night.

Estes Park

Gma and Gpa Cahoon came up to visit at the beginning of the month and we got to spend the weekend in the mountains at Estes Park. We rented a cabin and had a great time sitting with the fireplace on, playing cards, shopping, barbecuing in the snow, playing pool and watching football! The first day we were there the weather was so beautiful. We went to downtown Estes and did some shopping, then the clouds blew in! It got so cold Sebastien's nose was red and he started to look like Rudolph and his hands were freezing. That ended the shopping and we went back to the cabin to warm up.

While we were there we got to enjoy the beauty of the leaves changing colors, seeing elk, taking family pictures and playing by the creek. Manti got to take pictures and then spent the rest of the time in his car seat bundled up. Sebastien enjoyed watching movies in the car with Gma and playing by the creek with daddy. The boys were not big fans of the wind and cold although Sebastien did like having the snow fall on his head. In a nutshell, it was a nice relaxing weekend and we all had a great time. Thank you Gma & Gpa for such a wonderful weekend.

(I will get pictures up soon!)

4 Years and Counting

One event that has happened since our last blog was that we celebrated our 4th anniversary! We have done so much in these past four years and have grown closer and closer each year. Troy is such an amazing husband and father, I am the luckiest girl!

To celebrate we packed up the boys and went to Chili's. It was a fun dinner and although the people sitting in the next booth talked about how I "have my hands full" the WHOLE time, I am so thankful for my little boys. I love the funny things Sebastien does, he is such a daddy's boy and I love watching him play with Troy. Manti is getting so big and I love waking up in the morning to his smiles. Thank you Troy for working so hard and giving me the chance to stay home with our boys. I look forward to many, many more years of being married to you...

So much

I have so much to blog about since my last post...please forgive me so being so late on updating you on the Cahoon happenings...