November Update

Ok and for a little photo shoot of the babes!! I can't believe how fast and great these two girls are growing. We blessed them in November and Zak did an AWESOME job. He was a little nervous about doing two blessing right after one another but I think he did amazingly well giving them two different and beautiful blessings.

These photo's were taken by my cute neighbor who is starting her own photography business on the side, which you can visit here .

A little note on their dresses:

My mom bought a dress for all her grand-daughters to be blessed in and Jada Rose was the first, then Kathryn Til and we ran into a bit of a predicament with the twins. Since they are both lucky enough to carry on the names of their grandma's I thought I would bless Kamaya Rose in the dress my mom bought and I let Jackie pick out Kyler Jacklyn's. The blankets are significant as well. When I had Kathryn one of our families very dear friends, Angel Christensen, gave me a beautiful White Blanket at my shower. In her card she explained the importance of it. My mom made it for her to bless her first little boy Britton. Angel thought it was so beautiful that she only used it that one time and when my mom passed away she gave it to me to bless my children in. I cherish that blanket very much and appreciate Angel being gracious enough to pass it on. Kyler was blessed in that blanket and Kamaya was blessed in the same blanket her dad was blessed in. A lot of tradition and special memories for these two beauties!

Kamaya Rose

Kamaya's cute shoes!

Kyler Jacklyn

My two little angels!

Kyler

Cute little toes!

Beautiful hands

Kamaya

Here is a cute little picture of me and one of my very best friends Staci! She delivered Cooper Swainston on Nov. 23. Cooper is a very lucky man, he will get his choice of two very beautiful girls to marry, and yes he must marry one of them :) Staci and LP moved right around the block from us and I am so excited to have her so close so our kids can always play...and so can we!

This has been a project that needed to be done since we moved in. We have Four VERY LARGE trees in our backyard. They were getting to the point that if they were to fall in a storm it would cause damage to us or our neighbors so Zak took it upon himself to do it. They got a GOOD trim...very good. I think our backyard neighbors are a little disappointed because they said those trees cut their power bill in half in the summer.  I'm so sorry! They wouldn't have to pay for damages!

Daddy and Kit about 15 feet up

Zak clearing some of the branches

Finished product!

And of course the latest "double fisting" picture. Uncle "Bug" loves his nieces. He is such a cute uncle! and his nieces love him!

Ok that is the update for this month. I will keep them coming!!!

October Update

This has become one of Zak and Kit's favorite past times. She asks to go on a "Scooter ride" or "Motorcycle ride" almost everyday. They go for a little scoot around the block and when they pass anyone on the street kit hits the horn about twenty times and yells "Hiiii!

This was our birthday girls first picture of the day. I can't believe she is already 2. It goes by so fast and they change so much.

Kathryn- 26 lbs 45%

2 ft 10.5 in 75%

head- 19.5 in 90%

The twins turned 2 months on her birthday. A fun little side note...My birhday is August 19th and my older sister's is October 19th. My girls have the same type of situation. The twins are August 10th and their older sister's is October 10th.  Very convenient I won't ever forget the day! The babies are growing so fast. I never thought I would see them in "newborn" clothes but lo and behold at 2 months they are filling out the NB outfits. Their stats are as follows:

Kamaya- 8.9 lbs 10%   Kyler- 8.15 lbs 5%

                                                                20 inches  -5%         20 inches -5%

                                                                        head 14 3/4 in  10%

We went to the Kangaroo Zoo for Kit's birthday this year. She had SO SO much fun. I didn't get any pictures of her playing around because there were so many family members there to visit with and babies to take care of, but from the look on her face she didn't mind too much.

I think it is so fun to see the magic on a child's face. I think she was amazed that all her favorite friends and cousins were in the same place at the same time and all wanting her to play with them.

Just a fun picture...

Grandma Jackie put a lot of time into her cake. Kathryn LOVES animals right now. Mostly zoo animals and anyone that knows her knows she doesn't go anywhere without her pink monkey and her pink monkey blanket.

Here are her cupcakes. I LOVE costco cupcakes...

Playing with the bubbles in the party room.

She was trying real hard to blow out her candle....

but she needed a little help...thanks Oakley!

again I just LOVE the magic on her face. Every single present got an "OOOHH, I like"

and of course our monthly zoo photo on the carousel. Troy, Andrea,  Teya and ALL of the Chilton grandkids made the treck to the zoo. It was so fun. I don't get to spend a lot of time with my brother and sister at the same time do to work and busy lives, but when we do get together it is laughs and my favorite memories. I love them!

The highlight of October...HALLOWEEN! Last year our family spent Thanksgiving in Disneyland and we bought Kit her costume then. I thought she would totally be into princesses by now, but she loves her animals. For all of October I would put on every Disney princess movie I owned and luckily Cinderella was her fav (ok I may have pushed that one a little more than the others :) ) but we had the best costumes ever...

Here are Kit and Daddy at the ward "Trunk or Treat" I actually bought Zak a Prince Charming costume and it got sent to our old address and the man that bought the trailer just sent it back to the sender so two days before Halloween I pulled together his costume. Personally I think it looks a lot better than the store bought one, but I may be partial.

Cinderelly just posin'

So here is the whole cast: I hand made all the costumes except Kathryn's and the mice outfits.

Zak- Prince Charming

Kit- Cinderelly

Mom-Fairy Godmother

Twins- little mice!

I had so much fun making these costumes. Thanks to my mom for teaching my basics about sewing, I think I have found a new found love for this hobby!

Another picture of Prince Charming and the Fairy Godmother

Kind of blurry, but the three of us

Here is Grandpa Mark double fisting the twins. It is an unreal feeling! I love holding both of them at once.

September update

I know this is WAY past due, but I am finally finding time to update my blog and I know people are curious about the babies and the rest of our family so here we go...

Kamaya and Kyler at 1 month! They are still so tiny!!

Unfortunately this is what happens when you try to change a diaper on your lap...Kamaya is always the one to "piddle" as soon as we take her diaper off.

Kathryn got her first taste of the "Chatelle's"  She was actually still a year to young but because she is potty trained and too darn cute they let her join. She stayed in the girls arms the whole time until they ran around the field. I can't wait until she can take dance lessons.

My little "Jr. Chatelle"

We had to take Kamaya to the hospital because she was having some serious reflux and I had no idea what was going on. I was afraid it was seizures. But luckily she was totally fine. This picture was the day we got home. We were there for two days just monitoring her. I love all my girls so much and it was fun to have us all cuddling together.

This is an honest picture. No posing. Kyler grabbed her sisters and held it for quite a while. She just wanted her to know she missed her and to never leave her again. It was so precious!

Grandma Jackie and Grandpa Sam went to fish lake for a wedding of one of Uncle Jake's friends Kit went along with them. It was so much fun for all three of them.

Her favorite activity was finding rocks....

Just so she could throw them in the lake...

and finally relaxing with Papa Sam in their cabin. They were watching a movie...probably Lion King or Madagascar...her favorites as of right now.

Happy Birthday Kathryn Til!!

I can't believe my little girl is two years old! She has been such a joy in our lives and continues to grow and develop so much every day.  We had a great birthday for her at kangaroo zoo and I will post pictures soon. She was so excited for her party to start all week. Every day she would say "Kangaroo on Sat!" We sang happy birthday to her every chance we could and by the end of the day she was singing it to herself. The last few weeks we have been asking her how old she is and she kept telling us "three" and we would tell her no you are "two" and she would just smile and say "three". She wants to be grown up so fast! Here are a few of my bragging points:

*She is officially potty trained! This one she did on her own, she asked one day to use the potty and has only had three or four accidents since. She LOVES going potty, I get pretty sick of it sometimes. She thinks it is more of a game than a necessity, but I am too afraid to say "no" just in case she needs to. I guess I better start reading her "the boy who cried wolf" at nights.

*She knows all the basic colors and especially loves PINK! 

*She is OBSESSED with animals. We could go to the zoo daily and it wouldn't be enough. She knows all the animals names.

*Cheesy Eggs and "pan-i-cakes" are her favorite breakfast.

*She likes to say prayers and is starting to catch on to saying them on her own.

*Scooter rides with dad are her favorite activity.

*She is an amazing big sister to Kamaya and Ky Ky

*She still won't drink milk, but Orange Juice is her favorite drink of choice.

*Madagascar, Into the wild, Robin Hood and Toy Story are her favorite movies right now.

*She loves to read, sing and dance!

Kit is such a joy to our family and I can't imagine my life without her. I absolutely love being her mommy and can't wait to see how much she grows in the next year. 

I love you, lulu!!

Our month in a nutshell...

Well the twins are officially one month old! It has been one crazy fun month. The girls are pushing 6lbs now and starting to act more like newborns rather than babies in a womb :) They are doing pretty well on a four hour schedule and I hope it stays that way. I only have to wake up once in the middle of the night to feed them and they fall right back to sleep. During the day I get about a half hour of wake time out of them after they eat so I think they are understanding night from day. Keep praying they stay this good. Kathryn has always been a very good sleeper. I think I owe a lot of that to "Becoming Babywise" which some people think is a controversial approach to scheduling babies, but I think it works miracles and my girls are all growing and sleeping great! We have had one good scare story. I was feeding the girls last Wednesday and had them both propped up in their Boppy's and next thing I know Kamaya is arching her back and looking like she is choking, then she straightened her arms and legs out and started shaking. I immediately grabbed her and tried to burp her and got her calmed down and about 10 seconds later she started it again. This time she stopped breathing and turned purplish blue and started foaming at the mouth. I was sure it was a seizure. I called the pediatrician and she wanted us to come down immediately. After that visit she wanted us to go to the ER just to make sure it wasn't a seizure. Off to Primary Children's we went. After 36 hours of just monitoring, X-rays, CT scans, IV's and more monitoring it was conclusive that it was a bad case of Reflux. No medications yet, just make sure they are upright for a half hour after they eat, raise the crib 20 degrees and burp them often. 

Kathryn is adjusting to her new sisters well. She loves them very much.  She is 95% potty trained and loves to go on her big girl potty and wear big girl panties. I am a very proud mama. She has already nicknamed Kyler "Ky-Ky".

This is our going home from the hospital picture.

Look how small they are in these little carseats. 

This is the first time Kathryn saw them up close. I think that smile is PRICELESS. She is such good big sister!

All the girls on their boppy's! Kit still loves to cuddle in hers. Great investment!

Here is Daddy cuddling both girls at the same time. Don't mind his tired eyes. We are a little exhausted.

Here is the twins first trip to Heber. They LOVE it. Grandpa John was pretty proud of himself for being able to hold the girls at the same time.

A little picture of the two of them together.

Don't worry we are still making time to go to the zoo. Zak came with us last time and he was having fun teasing Carter (Chalise's oldest son) and Kitter.

A classic zoo picture. We Love the carousel! 

Here I am multi-tasking! Kathryn is taking a bath and I am cleaning up the tub!!