Monday, April 29, 2013

Kael's 'homework'

He worked on this for 2 days straight!


He wanted something to do one evening while Corey was working on things so Corey gave him this paper and told him it was his 'homework'...
I love the Key = Kael 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Kenton 18months

Well, more like 19 months (almost 20!!? Where does the time go!?) His Dr. appointment got pushed back a bit. And I haven't done any real updates in a while, just quick posts lately.

Everyday I hear him saying new words and it completely surprises me! He will copy us a lot of the time. Here's a few he's been saying a lot...

drink 'dink'
hello 'heh-wo!'
bye 'buh bye'
Audrina 'Ah-dee-NA!' (I love when he says this one!)
mama, dada

...and he blabs, and blabs, and blabs! We usually have absolutely no clue what he is saying but he goes on and on. Too funny!

Whenever Kael and Audrina go out to play he tries to dress himself to go out as well. Usually finding his hat/mittens and will put someones shoes on.


He's gotten SO big (he was 26.6 lbs at the Dr. yesterday)! And has quite the appetite! He out eats his brother and sister mostly every meal and is already fitting into 2T clothes. The other weekend I got asked if he and his (almost) 3 year old sister were twins! Nope! Ha... He's huge, she's a peanut!

We've been trying to get his older sister using the potty and most of the time when she goes he wants to sit down too! Not sure he knows what the toilet is for because nothing has happened yet but maybe he'll figure that out and we can get them both trained (wishful thinking anyways...).

His personality is coming through more and more, he is a little clown and gives us all a good giggle quite frequently! He tries so hard to keep up with his older brother and sister but sometimes they just don't want him wrecking whatever they're doing but he gets so upset when he's left out!

Saturday, April 20, 2013

fresh air

I told the kids they needed to go play outside for some 'fresh air'
Kael went running to get his stuff on and Audrina went running the direction of the kitchen.
A few minutes later she comes back with the bottle of 'air freshener' from the bathroom and sticks it on my lap.
I look at her confused, "Why are you giving me this?!"
"You said get the fresh air..."

Ahahaha! I always wonder where their little minds are!

This little miss turns THREE in 2 weeks!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

waterpark getaway

We went to the water park in Duluth with Matti and Sue last weekend. Something the kids looked forward to for a few weeks. Kael had an absolute blast running around and going down the big water slides with Dad. Audrina and Kenton were not quite as thrilled to be there (especially the first night) I think it was all the noise/commotion when we first walked in that had these two terrified! I headed back to the room the first night after about an hour because they didn't want anything to do with the place! Audrina finally warmed up a little bit and liked to go into the big pool and then to the hot tub (she called it the hot water), but no kids area, water slides, lazy river...! Kenton spent about 10 min in the hot tub right before we left on Sunday but mostly spent his time sitting in someones lap ;) Maybe next year he will enjoy it a little more.

All ready to head down to the water park!

About 5 minutes before we left Audrina finally let Dad bring her down a slide, she loved it! And for the past week since we've been home she keeps saying, "I went down the slide with Daddy!!!" Maybe we should have made her go down right away to face her fears!


(Help me??) Hahaha!

It's been so fun to be able to bring the kids to a water park for the past 4 years! Something we always look forward at the end of winter/beginning of spring as a little getaway ;) And hopefully something we will be able to keep doing.