"Relax Mommy!"

My son is a very vocal and emotional kid. He gets worked up and frustrated over the smallest things. So I have been working on teaching him how to calm himself down by counting to 10 and taking deep breathes. During the day I say, "Relax Kai" about a 100 times. Well, I got a dose of my own medicine the other day. We were all ready to go out to watch a free movie at Regal when I realized I didn't know where my car keys were. This happens to me alot. I looked all over the house for 10 minutes straight and was starting to get really frustrated. Then Nyomi started to cry cause she wanted me to carry her and Kai was starting to whine cause he was excited and ready to go watch the movie. At this point I started loosing my cool and start yelling at my kids to shushhh up! Kai, my 3 year old, looks at me and says, "Mommy don't say that. Relax." That made me stop and realize what kind of example I was setting for my kids at that moment. Seems I need a lesson or two on taking deep breathes and counting to 10.

Kai's buzz cut

Daddy and Kai buzzed their hair together. Kai was super excited to buzz his hair to look like daddy.

Girl in pigtails....

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Nyomi's First Birthday

We celebrated Nyomi's first birthday with her three friends - Harper, Lola, and Savannah - who all turn one days apart from each other. It was so fun! We also did a little dedication for them all. Here we all are as we say our hopes for our kids. Matt said that we hope that Nyomi will grow up to be confident in who she is as a person.

Here she is eating her first cake.

Taking a little break out of the sun.

Here are the four girls eating their birthday cake.

Here is a picture of her birthday cake before she ate it.

Our birthday girl!

Easter 09

Kai eating his loot on our front stairs. He was so excited to open his eggs.

Nyomi @ 11 months on Easter Morning 09