Not a creative title this time... Just "November"

To start off the month of November, here's some pictures of our kids as little buddies.

Most of the time they are really cute together and play with each other. But a lot of the times they are little stinks. Caden learned how to fight back, so now he hits Makayla when she takes toys away from him and  Makayla learned how to tattle. She runs to me crying "Caden said, "no" to me and hit me."

The worst is in the car. Since Caden is still in a rear facing car seat, they have to sit right next to each other and they fight constantly. I get so frustrated when I hear, "mom, Caden put his foot on my car seat" over, and over, and over, and over. Uggh!

When they are not tattling or yelling, they are really cute... See?

It was snowing in early November and Makayla ran to the kitchen to get a stool so that she could watch the snow fall.

These two sometimes like to help me make the bed. They are good helpers with the pillows.

Makayla likes to get buried in them.

I had to take a picture of this because Makayla asked me for an apple and just took random little bites all over.

Who doesn't love piggy back rides with daddy?

One night we read books together in our bed. The kids had so much fun.

This was the funniest thing... Caden was pretending to take pictures of Tyler. He would stand by the fireplace and wait for Tyler to say "cheese!"

Then he would come over to show Daddy the "picture" he took. It is so cute to see the things the kids pick up.

But then he kept getting mad that Tyler's shorts were up, so he would come over to fix them before he would take the next picture.

We don't know for sure, but we might have a photographer on our hands (or a perfectionist)

Caden loves books. He is always going to his room to get a book and bring it back to us.

Cute sayings of the kids:
-Since Tracy has been pregnant (which I need to do a separate post about because she had baby Camden on November 5th!) Makayla thinks that she has a baby in her belly too. She'll say things like, "There's a baby in my belly. He's crying. He's kicking"
-One day it was raining and Makayla kept singing, "Rain, rain go away... get another time."
Makayla keeps asking us where things come from (clothes, toys, food,). She'll say things to us like, "Where did you get that from?" Since we've been talking about Christmas a lot lately, Makayla has started to say things like, "Where did you get that from? For Christmas?"
-Makayla is getting to be a good negotiator. When we tell her she needs to take a nap she tells us, "I need 5 more minutes." When I pick her up from Brooke's she says, "I need 5 more minutes on the way home." One day we told her she could play for 10 more minutes, and she said, "no, I want 5 more minutes." Not going to argue with the logic of a todd.
-We were in the check out line at the store and Caden kept yelling "don't," so then Makayla would tattle by saying, "mom, Caden said, 'Don't'" (except she yells "don't"... so basically everyone in the store was staring at us because both my kids were yelling "don't" at the top of their lungs. )
-Makayla woke up from her nap the other day and told me that "The heater was bugging me"
-Normally I am her best friend, but one day I did something that made her mad and she said to me, "you're not my best friend today!"


Caden tries so hard to talk and we are starting to understand some of the things he is saying.
-If you ask him where Daddy is he either says, "tow" (out of town) or "wor" (work).
-He learned to say "Brooke" and yells her name every time we show up to her house.
-He can say "Addy" and "Con-uh" (Conner) (His friends at day care)
-He motions with his arm and says something resembling "come on"
-He learned to say "apple", "up dere" (up there),  "elp" (help), and "ni-ni" (night, night)
-My absolute favorite saying of Caden's is "yesh" (yes). He really understands things. We asked him one day if he wanted to get in his jammies, and he said, "yesh," so then we asked him if he wanted to go to bed, and he shook his head no.
-My other favorite is when he says, "anks" (thanks).
-The other day he ran around the house saying, "Mom-ma, are you?"
-If you show him a picture of a cat and ask him what it is, he responds with "meow". If you ask him about elephant he makes a spitting noise.
-Speaking of kitties, Caden loves to pretend to be a kitty. He loves to crawl around the house saying, "meow"
-If you ask him if he likes one thing or another he will always say the last thing. Like, if we ask him if he likes daddy or mommy better, he will say mommy. Then we'll switch, and he will say daddy.