Tic-O-Teat

This year, Halloween was bitter sweet for us.  Bryce's Papaw, who has been in the nursing home for quite sometime, started to decline. Bryce had been at the nursing home that day, but did leave to take our little guy trick-or-treating.

I had originally bought Kolten a spider costume.  One night when my sister was over we decided to try it on to see if he liked it...Well, that was a big fat noooo!   

I decided to look around for another costume...I did not want something too baby, but also not too grown up.  When I ran across a Mr. Potato Head costume...I thought PERFECT, he had really been interested in his "tato head" lately so I thought he would like it(or at least wear the dang thing).  We talked about his costume alot before Halloween and he was excited when he looked at it, key word here...LOOKED. When the big day came he wanted nothing to do with it...at first.    

"No Tato Mom, No Tato" 

Once daddy got home, he finally got over his hate for the costume and was content.  We headed out to Nana and Papa's house who had a new Thomas Train for his Halloween bucket...and that was the icing on the cake...He LOVED Halloween now! We finished the night at Grammy and Pop's with White Chili and picnic while watching "munks" for Kolten! 

Fun on the Farm

Fall is my ABSOLUTE favorite season, I love everything about it...including all the fun activities that take place during this time of year!  Having Kolten makes it even more fun!  

We took our annual trip with the Siesky's to Mayse Farm, it has been a pretty mild winter but it was particular chilly this day.  

The gang getting ready to head out on the farm.  Kolten is crazy about his cousins! 

Baby Kinley could not miss out on the fun!

Keaton and Kolten playing in the corn....what a great idea!  Much cleaner than sand, maybe they are onto something on the farm. . 

They loved rolling in the giant hamster wheel.  Kolten let Addy do the work:) 

Pumpkin Sling Shoot with Mommy and Daddy! 

Getting soooo tall, crazy the difference a year makes.  

Kolten LOVED the horse!  He was not scared at all, and wanted to ride the "big horse" which made mommy VERY happy since the "small horse" was a pony!!!!!!!!  I would have let him ride it if he wanted to I promise...I might just had  to watch from a distance. 

Looking for pumpkins with daddy.  We went a little late in the season this year, so the pickings were pretty bare....the leaves had already fallen off all the trees too:(  Not as pretty as it was the year before. 

Last ride as a family of three, next year little Beck will be with us on the ride. 

All five of the Siesky's...little Kinley is hiding. 

A new Baby=A new Blog

So with a new little guy on the way, I thought I would give this blogging thing another go.  Yes, I may have just missed the entire second year of Kolten's life but I am now realizing that my memory is NOT so stellar and I better start documenting again:)

So I guess I will start by introducing our new little guy...MEET BABY BECKHAM!

I found out we were expecting baby Brackett #2 right after our family vacation to San Destin in June.  I was somewhat surprised because it happened so fast this time, but super excited none-the-less.  I must have had some sort of "mommy intuition" going on though, because when we were shopping at the outlet malls in Florida I picked up a Big Brother outfit from Gymboree for Kolten.  My justification was that it would fit for awhile and was super cheap, so why not buy it?  Little did I know just how soon we would use it.  The following Sunday was Fathers Day and I REALLY wanted to wait and tell Bryce the news, but lets be serious people....I could barely make it till he got home from work, much less a full week!  Bryce was home late that night, so after Kolt's bath I geared him up in his Big Bro outfit and  told him to go find his daddy.  I think Bryce was even more surprised than I was, but SUPER excited also.  We were able to tell my Dad the following Sunday on Father's Day, so that was pretty cool.  He wanted a fishing pole for him and Kolten, so instead of just two poles, I bought three and stuck the following pictures in there with "notes" around each that read.."Pop's Pole", "Kolten's Pole", and "Baby's Brackett's" pole.

Fast forward several weeks to our 13 week Ultrasound.  This is an elective Ultrasound that test's for abnormality's, however, I elect to get it hoping that we will be able to find out the gender...yes, I am THAT patient.  With Kolten, we did not get a very nice tech and since I was a first time mom I did not know that you would be able to tell gender for sure, so we did not find out this soon.  However, this time our friend Jodi was working AND I had waited till the last possible second to get this test(you have to do it by 14 weeks) so we were in luck.  I had mixed emotions this time around....I REALLY want a girl someday, but  I also REALLY want more than 2 kids. Bryce and mine arrangement was if it is a girl, we are done...if it's a boy we get one more.  Well...as you already know it is BOY!  The more I thought about it, the more I got excited.  Kolten and Beckham will have SOOOO much fun together, there is something to be said about same sex siblings be it boys or girls.  It is a built in best bud for life....PLUS we have a house full of boy toys (clothes is a different story being that they are EXACT opposite seasons)  Below is how I announced it to the FB world!

So here we are now with less than 2 1/2 months to go...it is AMAZING how fast this one has flown by.  It has been a pretty easy pregnancy overall and I have done MUCH better in the weight gain department, about 25 lbs so far which is still not GREAT...but I gained 80 total with Kolten, so better in comparison.  I think being pregnant in winter makes a HUGE difference, plus chasing around a VERY active 2 year old boy helps as well!  We are super excited to meet this little man!