Update: Jayden and Karston

I can't believe that my little Jayden is already 1 month old. It always amazes me how fast time flies once they are here. I have a hard time ever wanting to put this little guy down, because I know he won't be snugly forever so I have to soak it all up while I can. I was browsing through the pictures on Doug's phone and found some that I didn't have otherwise. This is their very first brother picture. It has been so fun seeing these two interact with each other. It was an instant connection between these two. Every morning Karston comes in our room and looks at his brother sleeping and goes "Ohhhh" or if someone brings a little gift over for Jayden karston says "ohhhh cute" or as of late "sweeet." I am so glad I have two boys together you can already tell they will be good buddies growing up! Karston gets very concerned if ever Jayden is sad. He always tells him "No sad baby" or "Its okay yaden." Love these boys!
I found Daddy and Jayden 1st photo also in the phone. So cute. Doug is so proud of his little men. After Jayden was born I was watching Doug's reaction. He could not stop the tears. He is such a great daddy, and would do anything for his family! I got so lucky!!!

Most of these pictures are of the kiddos sleeping mostly because that is really all Jayden does still, but they are cute so we have to share! This one was sweet. Karston covered Jayden up and laid down next to him little Jayden wiggled began wiggling and so Karston looked at him and then he scooted up close to Jayden. Jayden calmed down Karston again made sure Jayden was covered and then they both fell asleep. So tender!
Jayden sleeps with his arms up like he is a zombie coming to get ya! It is funny and of course we always miss both hands up, but we got one so we posted it anyway!

Karston LOVES to hold his brother, and Jayden loves to snuggle next to his big brother, and we love to watch the two. In fact they were snuggling the other day and Karston started to count Jayden's fingers. Jayden was only showing 4 of his five fingers the thumb was hidden and Karston about had a heart attack not being able to find the 5th finger. He kept saying "Ohhh nooo ohhh noo no 5." I showed him it was hidden under his hand and all was right in the world again!

This and the next picture is a common scene in the Purcell home. Sleeping is what these boys do best. I love watching them snuggle especially up to dad. Trying to take them off of the sleeping dad well that is a different story we won't go into details, but we will just say these kids are very well protected when they are snuggled by dad. Mom has had some pretty good bruises from trying to pry these cute little things from the daddy bear! Makes me laugh every time!

This is a good position if and when you ever have to move the kiddos! Just sayin!!!

Jayden is such a sweet little baby. He LOVES to snuggle, and feels sad when he is left out of snuggle time. He has the saddest little whimper if his feelings get a little hurt. He HATES to be naked, but LOVES his bath time. He is getting chunkier and chunkier and I love it. He loves to smile and let me tell you his smile melts your heart every time. He loves kisses and pickers his lips when he wanting some kisses (or maybe that is just mom's interpretation). He is starting to focus on things better and loves looking at pictures of Jesus. Smiles every time! You can tell he has many angels watching over him he gets really excited at times, and just doesn't stop smiling. It makes me feel good to know that they are. I only wish I could see who he sees! I can't imagine my life without this little love. He is such a bright spot in my life as well as his daddy's and brother! We love you Jayder Bug!!!

Busy Busy As A Bee!

Besides being a GREAT big brother to Jayden, Karston has been a very busy busy little bee lately. His head has grown a little so some of his clothes tend to get stuck when he is getting dressed, but no worries this smart little one has figured out a great trick on getting all his shirts over his head. This was just a mishap, but such a cute mishap!!!

He loves getting dressed up in his church duds, Jami's are perfect to hold on a clip on tie!

This is Karston's new buddy Luke. He is Grammie and Grampie's next door neighbors grandson. He is so cute and will be getting a new baby at his house soon! We are soo excited for them! Anyway... they like to go for rides in their bike trailor, and especially in the wagon. Of course Karston thinks he is super SUPER big now and so he has to pull the wagon while Luke goes for a ride!

Every Saturday Karston has been going to work with daddy and Grandpa Purcell. He LOVES it. I think if he could he would go to work everyday with his dad, but for some reason Doug won't take him. Rude huh!!! :) I would take this cute little kid if it were me Wouldn't you?

So lately He has been doing this thing where he goes to the bathroom fully clothed, lifts up the lid to the toilet, bunches up his pants, acts like he is going to go potty, shakes his pants, says "all done" walks around to the side flushes the toilet of clean water, puts down the lid, and then wants to wash his hands. We have been trying to get him to do the one step he is missing which involves the removal of some items, but after his little wee wee got pinched his response to that is "NOOOOOO." So I guess for now he is just getting some practice in! At least he is showing interest right?

He LOVES having grampie take him for rides in grampie's wheelbarrow. I don't know how much grampie enjoys it, but Karston sure loves it. He gets this look like I am king or something on his face and rides it around the yard while grampie pushes it! So sweet and such a cute picture if I do say so myself!

Before Mr. Jayden man came along we went to the zoo with daddy. This was our last little jaunt before our family of 3 became a family of 4! It was fun there were babies EVERYWHERE! Karston wasn't too impressed I don't think, or maybe it was just because it was in the middle of nap and lunch time. Who knows. He looked at the animals, said hmm, and off he went to find another one. Maybe when we go to Hoogle Zoo in July he will be a little more into it then here. Maybe! Cute picture of my two boys though. I have such handsome men in my life... don't you think?

I have said it once and I will say it again. I am so lucky to have this sweet little man in my life. I have no idea or recollection of what I did before he came into the picture, but I know that I was meant to be a mom, and I couldn't be more thankful that I am his! Love you little man! Keep on with all your new discoveries... I love seeing the world through your little eyes. It is funny to me how many things we skip that really are no big deal, but to a little one who has never seen those things before the things we skip seem like gold to them! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!

Nesquik and RAIN!!!

SOOO I try my hardest to write down all the sweet and tender moments I have with my kids, because we all know how quickly they grow and how quickly we get older, and how quickly we forget of all the sweet moments we have with our little people. Even if it means writing it down before a normal hour of the day. Well I have had 2 special times lately one with each baby so to start out I will tell of this morning...

It is 5:30 am today and Karston started to cry so my good Hubby went and got the poor little tyke out of bed and brought him into ours. I just had finished feeding Jayden and just got situated all laid down again when I feel on my shoulder tap, tap, tap. I look over and starring over me is the SWEETEST little face with the CHEESIEST among CHEESIEST grin starring at me. That little face was Karston of course and with the cutest voice and while still doing the Cheesiest among Cheesiest grins he said "Kawa BAAAAHNEY." Well Baaahney at our house is Nesquik Chocolate or Strawberry milk. I wish I could have video taped this moment because how he looked and how he said it was sooo dang sweet! I love my Karston baby!!!

MOMENT #2

Recently we had a HUGE rain storm involving thunder and lightning and lots of rain! I LOVE thunder storms (Now that I am older) Well Karston I thought was somewhere else at the time so I decided to open up the living room and let some cool air in, but also decided to let Mr. Jayden have some much needed tummy time. So I laid Jayden down in the living room on his little play mat and I left to go to the bathroom. Well I wasn't gone more then a minute, I came out to check on my Little Love only to find my little love, and toy MIA... Yes the little thing was missing in action. After taking a minute thinking to myself I know that I left him right there a minute ago, but not remembering that I had just recently opened the front door to let the cool air in I began looking around thinking that maybe Doug had come in and had Jayden and I just didn't hear him. NOPE not the case. I began to search around when I hear again this sweet little voice coming from the front porch (behind the now CLOSED door duh) saying "OOK YADEN AIN" which translates into "Look Jayden Rain" yes my little Karston decided to take Jayden out on the front porch by dragging him with the toy to go out and look at the rain. I wish so much that my camera worked so that I could have captured this cute little moment, and of course I NEVER think to go get my cell phone until after the fact. Karston had piled up I don't know how many blankets on Jayden and had some toys to entertain him I guess and Karston was laying next to him on the little jungle mat with his little arms behind his head watching the rain with his baby brother!

I don't know what I did to deserve my two sweet boys, but I am SOOOOO Happy that they chose to come to me. My life would be empty without them!!!!

My Little Love...My Jayden Bug!

Wahooo! Jayden's pictures arrived today! If you know me you know how very much I LOVE pictures. I keep telling Doug I should go into photography because I love seeing pictures, taking pictures pretty much anything with pictures so much. We decided that would probably be a bad idea, because we would be broke for sure especially with my two little models! So here are some of my favorites of my little love. Yes I know they are all pretty much naked pictures, but when your this tiny everything is super cute! Don't worry his next little photo shoot will be including clothes. Just don't want to forget how tiny he was. He is my little snuggle bug and I think he will be a mommas boy. He is so sweet and has the most tender little spirit. I am such a lucky lady to have him as my son! I love you Jayder bug!!!

Karston's Dance Video!

WAHOOOO I have figured out how to upload this finally! Here is Karston doing his AWESOME chip munk dance. Sorry about the bouncing camera I tried not to laugh, but couldn't resist. Mr. Jayden got the jiggle to. He did such a great job. I love how when people start shouting and clapping he thinks its all about him and moves in front of the other girl with a big cheesy grin! Love my baby boy!!!!

Karston 2 year pics/ Maternity/Keep Scrolling down!!!

Okay so I know that these are a little late, and a little out of order, but oh well they are now being posted. I already posted most of my favorites of Karston's 2 year pics, but I can' t help but laugh when I look at the last picture of him. His little teeth CRACK me up! Not that I really want to post pictures of me looking all fat and swollen for the fun of it, but we are trying to do the same things we did with Karston. So far I have been successful, but it is a little bit challenging especially with a 2 year old in addition to a new baby! So here are a few of my maternity pics with Mr. Jayden and then my next favorite picture of my favorite 2 year old!

Yes it is official... I am HUGE!!!!

Do you think he belongs to me?

Total momma's boy!!!!

It will be fun to see if this brotherly love continues!!! HAHAHAHA Look at those teeth!!!!

Update on Jayden Bug!!!

Today was Jayden's 2 week check up and we have great news... His little heart murmur has closed on its own. He is doing soooo good! Here are his stats:
Height: 20 inches (He lost a half an inch)
Weight: 7 pounds 9.5 ounces
Head: 36 1/4
They of course told me what percentile he was in but to be honest I really don't pay that much attention. I figure if he is progressing that is all I care about! Here are some pictures of my little love Enjoy!!!
First off here is a funny picture of Karston. I just love the expression on his little face, and the large hat! Love love love my boys!!!!

Jayden has ARRIVED!!!

So I know this post is a little late okay 9 days late but I am now doing it!!! We are so very excited to announce the arrival of our newest little Purcell baby!
Mr. Jayden Kevin Purcell graced us with his presence on May 28, 2011 at 5:38 p.m.
Here is the chain of events read if you would like!!!!

*Saturday morning Doug and I went to the hospital at 7:30 a.m. where I was induced.
*At 9:30 Dr. Hall came in and broke my water. I HATE that feeling by the way. I was checked and was only at a 1. (This could be a VERY Long day.)
*At about 11:30 I received the WONDERFUL never having kids without one Epidural. I really don't care if they make me itch like a dog with flees. As long as I don't feel the pain I am one happy camper!
*12:00 I was dilated to the glorious 5 SOOOOOO Surprised mostly because with Karston it took about the entire day to just get to a 5.
*2:00 I was at a 9 This is AWESOME I can't believe it!!!
*2:30 our AWESOME nurse Laura came in to deliver bad news. We had to stop my Pitocin due to an Emergency Dr. Hall was called to at Mountain View (This actually also happened with Karston Dr. Hall just barely made it back in time to deliver Karston.)
*4:00 Nurse comes back in to start the Pitocin and to get me back into a strong active labor.
*5:38 My handsome new love has arrived! I only had to push for an hour and a half. To some of you that may seem like a long time, but I pushed for over 2 hours with Karston so I was happy to have some time cut off!!!

Jayden weighed in at 7 pounds 7 ounces and 20.52 inches long. He has HUGE feet. When I was doing my kids baby book I compared their foot prints Karston's were oh so tiny. Good sign that maybe I will have some tall kids. Just not too tall I hope. He looks bald, but he does have hair it is just INCREDIBLY blond. We think he might have green eyes, but they are still in transition!

He is such a good good baby. Only cries when hungry. Would already sleep through the night if I let him. He has long fingers, but the cutest and my most favorite thing is his shaky chin. He has inherited what is known as the "Cook Quiver" his little chin is constantly shaking. We kind of hope it will settle down as he grows, but if not it is still pretty cute!!!!
We are truly blessed and so far very lucky. We have had two great babies, both very mellow and sooooo scrumptious for mommy to kiss on!!! I can't believe how very lucky I am! We love you Jayden and are so glad you have finally arrived. You have such a sweet and tender spirit. We feel so honored to be your parents!!! We love love love love love you!!!!!!!!!
MORE PICTURES WILL BE COMING!!!!