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Regan James 3 years old

Regan snuggled me in bed while we waited for Kaylee to wake up. I sang to him and told him how crazy it was that he was three! CRAZY!
I soaked up our one on one time and thought about what it took to get us here. It’s so awesome how things work out. Our little man is finally thriving, and we feel so blessed to have this little guy for our own. 
He said he wanted pancakes and candles. “Three candles Mom. Happy Birfday me!” He also asked where his birthday hat was….. I didn’t realize he wanted one until he asked.  I ran out and bought one for him that night.
Then he wanted to have us sine so he could blow out the candles over and over. Here he is signing/saying, “Mas peas!”
I called it quits after round three. Informed him that more candle blowing would happen later.

Our Mister Man’s list of favorites at age three:
Color: Orange, orange, orange. (Same as Kaylee at this age. LOVE IT.) To be fair he also likes red, yellow, and blue.
Show: Super Why, Blues Clues, Scooby Doo, Gummie Bears (He calls them bouncy bears)
Movie: Any of the Toy Story movies and the Buzz Light year space command movie
Thing: Any of his three Linus blankets, Soccer bear beanie baby, any of his airplanes.
Toy: Swords, airplanes, Legos, trains, Mr. Potato head
Game: Starfall.com, and sadly Angry Birds
Food: Pizza, Broccoli, Bananas, tomatoes, apples, Chocolate “milk”, smoothies, pancakes. He isn’t a picky eater. AT ALL. We love this so much.
Snack: GoGO squeeze, popcorn, Welches fruit snack (will ONLY eat Welches. He is a bit of a fruit snack snob. Get’s that from his Mama…), and fruit leather.
School: This kid LOVES everything about school EXCEPT sitting still to do work sheets. Have to work on that. It amazes us at what a little sponge he is.
 Funny things he says lately: “One more mas.”, “I feel turble (terrible)!” When he feels bad/sad/upset, “I don’t tink so!”, Whenever I hug him he tells me (whether or not I have said) “Love you too Mom.” The last is sweet not funny, but it’s something he does lately.
Funny things he does lately: He winds himself up to run super fast.
He likes a napkin or wash rag at the dinner table to wipe his face.

He does this funny melts your heart hard to say no to beg and plead when he REALLY wants something.
It’s a whole clasped hands in front of him big brown puppy eyed look with a “PEAS. PEAS. PEAS!”  Looks something like this. But MORE.
Happy Birthday Little Buddy! Dude, you are THREE!!!

29

I normally don’t really care much about getting older. This year though I found myself feeling sad. It took me a while to figure out why. For some silly reason I had always planned on having all my kids by the time I turned 30. I thought for sure I would have at least four children.
Well that’s not going to happen. Plans change. I am 29 years old and not even certified to adopt. Never mind having a birth mom pick us for her child. And that’s o.k.
I have decided that even though it makes me sad that growing my family is not as easy as I would like it to be, I am going to just be happy.
I am so ridiculously blessed. Not only do I have the privilege of being a Mother, I get to experience the joys of raising a girl AND a boy. 
So I am going to try to wonder a bit less about my mystery children and just thoroughly soak up the experience of being a Mom to two.  And if I am not meant to Mother more than two I will still count my self doubly blessed.
These two are my biggest joys.  Just look at Kaylee’s litter cheekers!  I am surrounded by cuteness.
Jon totally surprised me. I decided to go to the library with Kaylee while Jon cooked dinner. I came home to a decorated house! VERY unexpected, but SO fun. I had a great day home with my kiddos, and then a lovely night hanging out with my little family. 

Jon’s 30th

Jon got to open both his Father’s Day gift and his Birthday present on Father’s day morning. Kaylee and Jon were TOO excited to wait a whole week to open his birthday present so I gave in and let them open it early. Kaylee led Jon (eyes covered) to the couch so she and Regan could “surprise” him with his presents. 
Jon was very good at being surprised. Don’t mind Regan’s butt. His skinny tushie has issues staying covered. You can see his is in the process of pulling up his drawers though…. Keeping his pants up is an ongoing battle for him /us. And he has decided that suspenders are only for Sunday church dress. Sooooo….
Jon has a skittles jar at his office so the children were kind enough to get him a stash for refills.
We also made what has become our traditional D.A.D.D.Y photos for his office as well.

This is the exciting gift. Jon picked it out himself and Kaylee announced that it had arrived and where Mama had it hidden when Jon came home about a week before Father’s day. They both asked about every day if they could open it.

Regan is begging for a turn with the R.C. controller.
Jon got a flight simulator for his R.C. plane. It is a HUGE hit for all ages. I love that it doesn’t have just his plane on the simulator, it has I think Jon said around 200 models you can “fly” on it. I love that Jon can practice without worrying about crashing his actual plane. And that he is able to test fly other options before buying a new plane. He feels a lot more confidant about his R.C. abilities since getting the simulator.
So yesterday was Jon 30th birthday. I popped up some decor to make it feel more festive. And we had a small family dinner and ice-cream cake to celebrate.

The children discovered that the balloons get sucked up on the air return in the hall and had much fun with that for far longer that I would have thought. They would get the thing COVERED and then “bowl” them all off with another balloon.
Jon saying to Kaylee, “Don’t blow out my candles o.k.?” Ummm….. right.
Singing time.
She totally blew out Jon’s candles. Then announced, “We did it!”  Hahahaha.
I asked Jack’ee to take a picture of just me and Jon. We have tons of either of us with the children, but not very many of just us. What can I say we like the kiddos. Well the children scrabbled over to get into the shot and I told Kaylee I wanted it to be just me and Dad. She got some MAJOR hurt feelings (because the camera comes out and it’s ALL about them normally) and was crying in all the pictures. So I had Jack’ee take some pictures anyway. Look how happy the little man is though.
And that it doesn’t phase him that his sister is a drama queen. He just ignore her and continues watching his show.
“Mommy hurt my feelings!!!!” She did not want anything to do with me for a while after that.
Happy Birthday Jon!