Growing Babies

This weekend our BFF's Ben and Ashlee came to Austin to celebrate Ashlee's birthday. We had a great weekend shopping, eating, and visiting with them.  Ben and Ashlee are due with their first child, a boy, 4 days after our little guy is due.  Thanks to my amazing, wonderful sister who kept Katelyn and Adelyn Saturday evening so we could go on a trailer hopping date night.  Food trailers are big in downtown Austin, there we many to pick from.  We started out at The Mighty Cone. 

I had the Fried avocado and shrimp cone.  It was delicious! 

We then went to a few other trailers to sample their goodies and ended the night at gourdoughs, a donut trailer.  It took close to an hour to get our donut, but it was delicious! 

Haha, I love this picture.  Although Jared doesn't gain sympathy weight when I'm pregnant.  Actually quite the opposite, he tends to get on a health kick when I'm pregnant...   I mean seriously, he wants me to cook

all healthy- not saying that happens, but it's what he wants!

Speaking of growing bellies... Here is the progression of the Hughes/Johnson boys....  This picture was taken in June.  Jared and I found out we were expecting 2 days before this picture and Ben and Ashlee found out they were expecting a few days after this picture!  So, we are about 3-4weeks along-

And here we are this past weekend, 21 weeks along!

What a joy it is to be experiencing this with our dear friends! 

Little lady is 19 months old!

Today is Adelyn's 19th month birthday!  She is becoming such a toddler these days.  She is my little cuddle bug who asks to "raaaa" (rock) before bed and nap time each day.  It doesn't have to be long, but she wants to sit for at least 30 seconds and lay her head on my shoulder before she lays down, so sweet!

Her personality is coming out more and more each day.  She can be feisty, silly and sweet- all within a few seconds of each other.  When she was little Jared nicknamed her "squeaks".  This month it has become more of a high-pitch, ear piercing squeal!  When Katelyn is doing something that she doesn't like she will stick her hand out as far as she can and squeal, "NOOOO".   While the sound actually hurts my ears, I'm also glad that she has her own opinion, we are just working on how to get that opinion out without squealing!

Adelyn is really enjoying crafts these days.  She painted a pumpkin a few nights ago and then at Bible Study today she colored a picture.  The lady in her room told me that she was very particular with her colors and wanted to use just about each and every one of them!

Adelyn's attention span is also developing.  She will sit and build with blocks for a while and will sit and watch a whole show with Katelyn. 

Adelyn has been having some tummy trouble this past month, so we've adjusted her diet (no fruits or juice- more fat) to try to get her back on track.  We will see if that does the trick.  She has also slowed down on her eating.  She was finishing her food at each and every meal and asking for more.  I was actually having to cut her off because she would just keep eating.  That has stopped however.  It is strange to see, but most meals she actually has food left on her plate now!  She has also discovered the joy of dip, if she sees that someone else has some, she wants some too!

Adelyn loves shoes and will bring me shoes all throughout the day to put on her.  She loves to carry her bag into church or Bible Study.  She loves baby dolls and plays with Katelyn's all the time.  She will bring me 5 shirts for the baby doll and gets upset if I can't get them all on the doll (I'm telling you, she has an opinion!!!).  Adelyn gets really excited when she hears Jared's car pull into the driveway each night.  She turns to me and starts saying, "Dada, Dada, Dada" then runs to the door to greet him.  I know he loves coming home to that each night!  Happy 19th month birthday sweet lady!

AWANA with Daddy

Last night Katelyn and Jared sat down to work on her AWANA stuff for the week.  They were discussing Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He made everything beautiful" as well as Genesis when God created the plants, seeds, fruit.  So Katelyn and Jared shared an apple, discussed God's creation and taped seeds in her book.

Katelyn is absorbing so much these days.  Between AWANA, Thursday morning Bible Study, and Sunday school, she has really taken so much in this past month or so.  She will randomly tell me or Jared a Bible fact.  It is lots of fun to see her discover how much God loves her and how great God is!

Watching Jared and Katelyn go over her AWANA lesson was a blessing to see.  He is such a good daddy who shows God's love to his children. 

Paintin' a pumpkin

 While at HEB last week I found a bag-o-pumpkins with paint included and I thought that would be a perfect craft for Katelyn and Adelyn.  So, after dinner last night we cleared the dishes, armed ourselves with pumpkins, paint, brushes, and paper towels.  Jared was upstairs working on the computer so we had to wait patiently for him to finish.  And by patiently I mean, Katelyn asked about every 20 seconds if it was time yet...

and Adelyn pretended to paint her face...

Jared finished his work and it was was time to get started.  Katelyn was very meticulous about her paint.  She is one craft-loving little lady so she enjoyed each second of it. 

This was Adelyns first time with a paint brush and she was quite the pro!  I fully intended to get the finger paint out for her, but after seeing her use the brush, there was no need for finger paint.  As long as Jared or I refilled her brush with more paint, she was good to go!

I got Katelyn to look up from her pumpkin for .34 seconds- just enough time to catch the overwhelming joy she was going through as she painted.  I think she could live at the table doing crafts, coloring, cutting, painting, cooking, etc.

Adelyn was actually way more into the painting than I had expected.  I was thinking she would enjoy it for a few minutes and then lose interest.  However, she also loved every second of it! 



Nanny and PawPaw Visit

Nanny and PawPaw came to visit early this month for Katelyn's birthday.  It was such a blessing for them to be here and we made lots of special memories while they were here.  They first took the girls on an airplane ride to Amarillo for a few days.  Jared and I were able to go on several dates, just the 2 of us.  We were also able to go to bed at 8:30, that's right 8:30!  We are a wild and crazy couple!  Katelyn and Adelyn enjoyed the time away also!  They were able to see lots of the Hughes' family in Amarillo, visit with Meep and Peep, go to the park, and of course, ride on the airplane. 

While in Austin we made a trip to Mt. Bonnell (picture above).  This was while the Bastrop wildfire was in full force, so there is a haze over downtown Austin in the background.  We also took a trip out to the BBQ capital of Texas for lunch. The place we ate at didn't use silverware, so we ate with out hands, not something you get to do up in Washington!  The main thing we did was just spend time together, so fun!  Thank you Nanny and PawPaw for coming to visit and making lots of special memories with us! 

Katelyn's 4th Birthday Party

On labor day, just a few days shy of Katelyn's 4th birthday, we had her princess party.  She loved every second of the food, family, fun and princess stuff!

So what does a birthday party in the Hughes' house look like?  Well, the men gather around the meat.. Here is Jared, PawPaw and Bubba getting the burgers stuffed and ready- 

The weather was beautiful (as long as you were in the shade) so we moved the food outside .

No party is complete with out cupcakes!  Katelyn loved them, but wasn't too happy about the wind blowing the candles out... 

So we stepped inside to blow the candles out. 

The party actually ended up being right on Bubba's birthday so he got a crown (that was too small for his head) and a candle all his own.  He didn't mind that the wind blew the candle out :) 

Adelyn enjoyed the cupcake! 

Joshua enjoyed the cupcake! 

After lunch we went inside and Katelyn started to open presents.  You could see the joy on her face as she opened each gift.  Her first gift was her princess dress, shoes, crown, and wand from Jared and I.  She of course immediately put it on and wore it for the next 3 days straight!  The skirt is covered in gold glitter and I am still finding glitter EVERYWHERE!!! 

Another gift is her cd player with 2 microphones that Nanny and PawPaw gave her.  She is quite enjoying listening to the sound of her own voice on the microphone! 

Bubba and JoJo gave her a baby doll with all the accessories.  She loves to be the baby's momma and her favorite is putting her to bed. 

The party was lots of fun thanks to all the precious people who came.  So thanks Nanny, PawPaw, Bubba, JoJo, Auntie, Jason, Joshua, and Isabella for coming.  Thanks to everyone else who sent gifts and called on her birthday to make her feel extra.  And happy 4th birthday to my precious little girl! 

Two quick things

1. Adelyn went tee-tee in the potty Monday night!  She enjoys sitting on it and pretending so I've been letting her do that.  Well, Monday night before bath she actually used the potty!  She is no where near being potty trained, but she is at least interested.  Katelyn was no where near interested at 18 months...

2. On the way home from the store today Katelyn was asking question after question about a car that we passed that had been in a wreck.  The questions she was asking I didn't have answers to so I kept saying, "I don't know."  She then stopped asking questions for a second and in a frustrated voice says, "Mommy, do you know ANYTHING?!?!"  I thought they only started to question how much we know when they become teenagers?