schedule change!!

this has been a big week for keller! he started mother's day out (post to follow) and he dropped his morning nap! he was taking a 2 hour nap every morning from 9-11 in addition to his afternoon nap from 1-3:30....well now he only naps once a day. right now we nap 12:30-3:30 ish, but i'm sure he'll be able to stay up later as he gets more adjusted to this new schedule. i can't believe what a big boy he is :( but i am loving having 2 more hours to play with him during the day! he is the sweetest little boy, and he loves his mommy right now so i'm trying to enjoy it, as i know that phase won't last long.

where did this little guy go!?!??

You heard right...

assuming that you've heard that KELLER IS GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER!! :) but if you've heard something else, then you heard wrong. our bitty baby is going to be a big brother, it is hard for me to believe! we found out on chris' 3oth birthday that our family would be growing by 1 in august. we always knew we wanted our kids to be close together, and keller and baby a (we don't know boy or girl yet, obviously) will be 22 months apart. we probably won't find out gender until april, which seems like eternity away!! but this pregnancy is going by so much more quickly than my pregnancy with keller. i'm sure chasing a 15 month old does help with that :) everything else is exactly the same as my first pregnancy. no nausea, no sickness, very little tiredness...if i didn't have some tests and a sonogram picture, i wouldn't believe it was true. i'm hoping that means this baby will be just like keller. a great sleeper, happy, smiley, so pleasant to be around and of course SO STINKIN' CUTE all the time :) we can't wait until august!!

keller, showing off his little brother/sister

baby a....such a little peanut!

keller 15 months

so the whole reason i started "blogging" was to have a digital scrapbook of our lives, so i could remember all the cutest things keller does, and when he reached certain milestones etc. they really do grow up so fast and if you aren't writing things down, you forget so FAST! so here is what a typical day looks like for keller now, and what he is up to!

7:15-7:30: mommy and daddy wake keller up, he smiles really big at us and immediately points and names several things in his room...not always in this order, but always these things 1)"pete" (his pistol pete cape), 2) "pi-date" (his pirate) 3) "bear" 4) "bible" 5) "rain-doe" (the pull on his fan, it's a rainbow, it was here when we moved in, chris wants to change it to something more manly)

then we change his diaper, and get him dressed for the day and he points out his window.."birdies??" "quirles?" looks for birds and squirrels

we come down and eat oatmeal with yogurt and then he chugs a cup of milk. this kid loves milk. then he gets down to play. he knows exactly where is toy cabinet is and he promptly opens both doors and drags out allllll his toys. right now his favorites are his "too-box" and his "buckeys". toolbox and buckets. he also loves to read, and is always reading his "apple" book.

then we lay down for a nap from 9-11ish

from 11-1 we eat lunch (usually chicken, peas and carrots, bananas, etc) and of course more milk. then we play. another nap in the afternoon from 1-3:30 then we play until daddy gets home. dinner is the same as lunch. then bath time, read our bible, pray and go night night.

some of his favorite things are.....

• daddy! he talks about him all day and RUNS to the door when he gets home
• checking the mail :) he likes to open the mailbox
• bath time he usually cries when it's time to get out
• milk as previously mentioned, he chugs it...the kid can't get enough
• sports our tv is generally on espn and he says "bak-e-ball" "foo-ball" "ball ball"
• his video your baby can read, and it does WORK!

his vocabulary has EXPLODED in the last month. chris and i were trying to count all the words he says (that he actually knows what they mean) and we got to 70 and stopped counting. he loves to repeat whatever we say to him and catches on to new words so quickly. okay okay, this has been a long post here are some pictures to ease all the reading pain :)

loves his bath time :)

and playing with daddy

first time to help mommy make cookies

i apologize...

okay, so i have been SO busy it seems lately, and have been so neglectful of my blog! i absolutely love reading my friends blogs and check them almost daily to see what new pictures or stories they have to share. i am always so disappointed and almost mad when they don't post for several days....how am i supposed to keep up with them otherwise?!?! a phone call?? :) well needless to say, i can't do much worse, so starting today i am going to try to post SOMETHING at least every couple days. even if it's just an adorable picture of keller :) so, here we go!

1 December post :)

Okay, just so I don't leave a month empty...I am posting a Happy New Year's Eve post :)

This year has been crazy eventful, and starting tomorrow I will do a "Year in Review" post. All I can say is that God truly blesses us, daily, with more than we deserve. How fortunate we are to serve a God who loves us, even though we do everything we can to be disobedient to Him. Love you all, Cheers to a fantastic 2010!!

-chris, katie and keller

happy halloween!!

keller was a skeleton this year for halloween :) i didn't go with a traditional costume, considering we didn't go "trick-or-treating" i thought i'd do something more practical and bought him skeleton jammies, that he could wear as a costume, and then as pj's after the fact :) we went to our church's "family fall festival", aunt manny and drew bear came along and took him to do all the fun stuff while i worked our sunday school's booth. we all had a lot of fun and he was definitely the cutest little skeleton i've ever seen!

isn't he adorable?!?! :)

thanks for playing aunt manny!

scoping out his church girlfriend, landry kate :)

riding the horses...he LOVED them :)

Keller turns 1!!!!

okay, i realize this is almost a month late...but it's been a BUSY fall for the atchley's! more posts on that later :) keller turned 1 on 10.21.2010 we had a small family/close friends get together at our house. the weather turned out perfect, so we all played outside and ate all kinds of yummy food!! he was (as usual) spoiled like crazy with super fun, super great toys, books, balls (his favorite) and other good stuff. we felt to blessed to get to have so many people come for his special day. thank you to everyone! here are a few pictures :)

some of the bitty baby attendants :) playing of course

our "quotation" props...cableone wasn't showing the osu game, chris was chapped

some of the yummy food!!

we weren't sure if he like the cake....kidding! he loved it, shocker :)