Kyle and Emily are Six and a Half!

We are a few days late, but my big kids are six and a half!! They've started first grade and are doing well in school and learning and growing like crazy!

What is your name?	Emily	Kyle
How old are you?	Six and a Half	Six and a half
What is your favorite color?	Pink	Blue and Brown
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?	Chocolate Rice	Peanut Butter Toast
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?	Spaghetti	Wraps
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?	Bunny Crackers	Tacos
What is your favorite snack to eat?	Fruit Snacks	Fruit Snacks
What is your favorite fruit?	Peaches	Orange
What is your favorite vegetable?	Corn	Tomato
What is your favorite thing to drink?	Gadorade	Chocolate Milk
What is your favorite animal?	Giraffe	Dinosaurs
What is your favorite toy to play with?	Princesses and Princess Poppy	Little Dinosaurs
What is your favorite book to read?	50 Princess Stories	Gaurdians of the Galaxy
Where do you like to go?	Catch Air	Catch Air
What is your favorite song?	Sunshine in my Pocket	Life is a Highway
Who is your best friend?	Megan	Mr. E
What is your favorite thing to watch on tv?	Repunzel	Paw Patrol
What do you want to be when you grow up?	A mechanic	Archiologist
What is your favorite thing to do outside?	Ride my scooter	Play football with daddy
What is your favorite thing to wear?	Dresses	Clothes
Who is your favorite person?	Mommy	Mommy and Peyton

Colby Four Year Old Questions

	Colby
What is your name?	Colby Thomas Stinky Eubank
How old are you?	Four
What is your favorite color?	Yellow
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?	Yogurt
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?	Taco Noddles
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?	Taco Noddles
What is your favorite snack to eat?	Batman Fruit Snacks
What is your favorite fruit?	Bananas
What is your favorite vegetable?	Peas
What is your favorite thing to drink?	Yellow Gadorade
What is your favorite animal?	Elephants, Giraffes, and Zebras
What is your favorite toy to play with?	Paw Patrol
What is your favorite book to read?	Animal Books
Where do you like to go?	Soaring Eagle (Water Park) and Catch Air
What is your favorite song?	LaLaLa Elmo's Song
Who is your best friend?	Megan
What is your favorite thing to watch on tv?	Paw Patrol
What do you want to be when you grow up?	A daddy
What is your favorite thing to do outside?	Eat pizza
What is your favorite thing to wear?	Paw Patrol shirts
Who is your favorite person?	Mommy

Emily is Five!!

Emily is FIVE!!!

Emily is growing up way too fast!

Emily loves to be sarcastic, just like her Daddy. She loves to joke and make people laugh.

Emily also has a little attitude. She likes to boss her brother around, but also likes to make them cry at times. I'm really hoping the making them cry is a phase she's going through and will end soon!

Emily is loving "doing school" and learning. We've been working on reading and math mostly. She amazes me often with how much she already knows! She loves to write words...and stories... and is constantly trying to figure out what things say. She knows about 50 sight words and has lots more that she can figure out what she wants to. We've also been playing games on the computer and she's getting pretty good at figuring out how to use the computer and the mouse!!

Emily enjoys working on cars with mommy... and aimlessly wondering around Bumpa's barn and asking what everything is, what things are for, and how things work!

I think Emily is very excited that spring is almost here. She seems to really enjoy being outside. She likes to ride her bike and is excited to figure out her scooter that she got for Christmas. She also likes just being outside.

Emily's favorite toys are all of her little princess dolls. She loves to pretend with them and make them interact with each other and other toys. She also loves to color, draw, and write.

Most days, Emily does not take a nap, but she still does rest quietly for a few hours in the afternoon. She typically is a good sleeper at night and doesn't wake up when Peyton does. Most nights she goes to bed around 7:00pm and gets up when her "clock wakes up" at 8:00am.

Emily loves going to church and learning about the Bible. She asks lots of questions and we've had some pretty good conversations about salvation with her! She also loves to tell other people about the Bible and Jesus' love!

Colby is Three!!!

Colby turned three a few days ago! He's growing up way to fast!

Some of Colby's favorite things are the color yellow, Spiderman, Tow Mater, and noodles. Colby loves to play with his brothers and sister and do whatever they are doing. He's shown a real interest lately in playing games.. and actually plays right and takes turns!

Colby has been doing some school stuff. We've worked a lot on numbers, letters, shapes, and colors. He knows all the basic shapes and colors. He can recognize most upper case letters and can sing the ABCs. He can count to ten most of the time.

Two wees ago, we found out that Colby is officially food allergy free!! We went for his yearly appointment with the allergist and they did repeat allergy testing for all of the food that he was allergic too and he didn't have any reactions! Colby has been enjoying trying things like peanut butter and snickers!! The only medical explanation the doctors can give is extended breastfeeding... he was only given a 5% chance of out growing his food allergies when they were diagnosed shortly before his first birthday. Colby still does have several environmental allergies and asthma, but those seem easier to deal with than food allergies.

As of his birthday, Colby is done breastfeeding. I am kind of sad that he's done, but excited at the same time!

Colby had his well visit with the doctor the day after his birthday. He is 35 inches tall and weights 27.5 lbs. He's still small for his age, but growing at this own rate. They doctor is pretty sure his tubes are gone from his ears, but it's typical for them to fall out after a year or so and not be noticed. Hopefully he won't get any more ear infections. Other than some dry skin and asthma issues, Colby is healthy!

Colby isn't a big fan of sleeping. We struggle to get him to take afternoon rests and he struggles to stay quiet in the morning until his clock wakes up. Most evenings, he's pretty crabby and its obvious that he isn't getting as much sleep as he needs... but the kid just won't rest.

Colby is out sticker boy and tries to live up to his nickname every day! He is a very strong willed child and likes things done his way and only wants to do what he wants to do! He's also very sweet and loves all of us so much. He loves cuddles, and hugs and kisses! He is a pretty amazing little man and we are excited to see what awesome things God has in store for him!

Here are Colby's answers to the questions we've been asking every six months...

	Colby
What is your name?	Polby
How old are you?	Don’t Know… I'm Four
What is your favorite color?	Yellow
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?	O's
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?	Taco Noodles
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?	Taco Noodles
What is your favorite snack to eat?	Fruit Snacks
What is your favorite fruit?	Strawberries
What is your favorite vegetable?	Carrots
What is your favorite thing to drink?	Pop
What is your favorite animal?	Lion
What is your favorite toy to play with?	All toys
What is your favorite book to read?	All of them
Where do you like to go?	Froggie Place (Catch Air)
What is your favorite song?	Twinkle Twinkle
Who is your best friend?	Megan
What is your favorite thing to watch on tv?	All of them
What do you want to be when you grow up?	Nobody
What is your favorite thing to do outside?	Chalk
What is your favorite thing to wear?	Lots of things
Who is your favorite person?	Mommy

Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

Peyton is One!!!

Somehow a year(and two days) has passed since Peyton was born!

Peyton is into everything and anything. His preferred method of transportation is walking and he is really interested in playing with toys.. specially the ones his siblings are playing with!

Peyton's favorite toys are ones that move and make noise. If the noise is music that he can dance to, he will play with it for long periods of time. He also seems to really like cars. He drives them around making vroom noises.

Peyton's preferred food is mommy milk! He's finally starting to get the hang of puffs and pancakes... but for the most part, it its not baby food or mommy milk, he's not all that interested. He normally eats at meal times with the rest of the family and nurses whenever he wants (most days 6 or 7 times a day).

We are still working on sleeping. Peyton normally nurses to sleep around 7pm and then is up sometime between 11pm and Midnight to nurse again. And most times he also nurses around 3am, and then again between 7am and 8am, then he's up for the day. Lately he's been taking a short nap in the morning around 10, and then takes a long nap in the afternoon while the big kids are resting.

Peyton has learned when we go places, we all put on our shoes. We left a shoe at Grandma's house over Christmas and he was not a fan of not wearing shoes for a few days. He gets very excited to put his shoes on like everyone else!

Peyton likes to look outside. He loves that he's tall enough to look out most of the windows in our house and I often find him playing with blinds or curtains so that he can see outside.

Peyton still doesn't say much, but he does squeal.... mad squeals, happy squeals sad squeals, excited squeals. Sometimes it's cute...

On Peyton's birthday, he had ice cream (coconut ice cream because he's allergic to dairy!).  He seemed enjoy a couple bites of it!

We had a small birthday part today... was supposed to be bigger, but the big three kids have strep, so more than half of our guests ended up not coming. Peyton enjoyed opening his presents, but really didn't care too much about his cupcake!

Two and A Half

Stinker Boy is TWO and A HALF!

Colby is a very strong willed spunky little boy! He knows what he wants and doesn't know how to take no for answer! Most days he thinks he's four and can do everything that Kyle and Emily do.

Colby is completely potty trained. Most days he does good with going to the potty...but still does have accidents every once in a while. At night, we set him on the potty before we go to bed...other wise he wets the bed.

Colby loves Spidey, Elmo, and the color yellow.

Colby is very smart. He can identify most capital letters and can count to eleven all by himself! He also knows most of his colors. Colby can do pretty much any puzzle we put in front of him...he even helps with the "big people" puzzles! He talks in completely sentences...although half the time we have no idea what he's saying!

Allergy wise...
The only food allergies we are now dealing with are tree nuts and peanuts. He can eat pretty much anything else. He does tend to have GI issues though if we left him eat too much processed food (too much as in more than a "meal" of processed food every few days.)
He's still allergic to lots outside. He's talking three different allergy and asthma medicines to help him breathe easy. For a while we were having do two nebulizer treatments a day because his wheezing was so bad, but now we only use the nebulizer as needed. We also have an inhaler that we carry with us in case he has trouble breathing when we are out and about. Hopefully this fall we will be able to stop all the meds like we did last year and he'll be good through the winter.

Colby is still a boob boy! Most days he's only nursing at night, but every once in a while he will during the day. If I let him nurse during the day, he only gets give drinks. He knows this and is okay with it. I've started talking to him about being done and will continue to do so, but I'm not ready to force him to be done yet. We'll keep talking about it and hopefully soon he will decide on his own that he's done.

Our pediatrician and allergist have been said breastfeeding is most likely the reason that Colby's gut has healed form the damage done by gluten and has helped heal him of his food allergies. I'm really hoping that when we do stop, that he won't start having more issues with food again.

Colby still isn't a great sleeper. Most days rest time is a fight and some times bed time is too. If we are lucky, he goes to bed around 8pm and wakes up around 8am and takes a two hour rest in the afternoon. Lately, he has been waking up in the middle of the night crying (we think bad dreams) and it sometimes takes him a while to go back to sleep.

Colby loves being a big brother. He loves to "help" Peyton do things and loves to give Peyton hugs and kisses. He also likes to nurse at the same time as Peyton...when I let him, he normally holds Peyton's hand or rubs his back while they are nursing together.

Some days Colby really likes to play by himself. Other days, he follows Emily or Kyle around and playing with them. Him and Emily like to do a lot of imaginative play together and its a lot of fun to watch!

Colby has recently learned to stand on his head with the help of the couch or a wall...it's his favorite way to "sit" on the couch at the moment!

Colby loves the water! He loves to splash around in our little pool and loves to jump into big pools. We've swam a couple times in a friend's pool, a hotel pool, and Lake Michigan. Colby has no fear and has to be watched closely because he will just jump in with no floaties!

We are so thankful for the two and a half years we've been blessed with our little stinker boy so far and pray for MANY MANY MANY more!

I asked Colby the same questions I started asking Kyle and Emily at two and a half...

What is your name?	Colby
How old are you?	Three
What is your favorite color?	yellow
What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast?	Yogurt
What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch?	Noodles
What is your favorite thing to eat for dinner?	Noodles
What is your favorite snack to eat?	fruit snacks
What is your favorite fruit?	fishes
What is your favorite vegetable?	Noodles
What is your favorite thing to drink?	Apple Juice
What is your favorite animal?	Lion
What is your favorite toy to play with?	Spidey
What is your favorite book to read?	Spidey
Where do you like to go?	Zoo
What is your favorite song?	Batman
Who is your best friend?	Peyton
What is your favorite thing to watch on tv?	Elmo
What do you want to be when you grow up?	Adult
What is your favorite thing to do outside?	Blow Bubbles
What is your favorite thing to wear?	yellow
Who is your favorite person?	Mommy!