Kaylee

I need to do a post on Kaylee!  She is already 4 months old!  The time has flown by.  She is such a sweet happy baby.  We call her our little chunky monkey... which is accurate except the little part.  At her 4 month check up she weighed in at 17 pounds 6 ounces and is 27.5 inches long.  That is greater than the 95% for both height and weight.  The doctor also noted that she is already doing some skills of a 6 month old like grabbing her toes and transferring objects from one hand to the next.  She also has rolled from her stomach to back a couple of times.  It makes me sad that she is growing so fast, but she is healthy and happy and that is what really matters.  She is going to be a tall beautiful girl just like her big sister!  Kaylee's favorite toy at this point is a squeaky moose that was actually Clark's.  She also loves grabbing her toes and putting everything in her mouth.  The doctor said her gums were looking full on bottom and she has been chewing and drooling like crazy.  I wouldn't mind if she waited on teeth for a while... nothing quite like getting bit while feeding a baby. ;)  We are also trying our hand at cloth diapers.  They aren't too bad in fact we have had less poopy blow outs with them than disposables although that offsets our wet throughs... maybe I will get the right combo of inserts and such down before she potty trains! Anywho... We love you Kaylee! Here are some recent pictures (within the last 2 weeks). Believe it or not I think she is actually thinning out some too already. :)

Fall Festivities

The name says it all.  We have had a lot of fun playing in the leaves.  Clark favorite thing is to "mow" the leaves specifically in the gutter but he has been banned for too many times not listening when cars are coming.  We really like our street because there isn't too much traffic.  Our street ends in a T instead of going through to the next main road like most others; however, we still do have cars that come quick... Clark is such a fun silly boy and has really been growing up.  Addison and Clark have been having a lot of fun playing together and enjoying playing puppies and all sorts of other fun make believe stories.  Where do they get such awesome imaginations!  

The kids also had a few chances to dress up.  We went to Great-grandma Bone's house and had a great time at a party planned by Tyler's Aunts for the little grand and great-grandchildren.  Aunt Nora was sick and we missed her!  Aunt Pam was a lot of fun and the little games and spooky lunch was great!  My kids are still talking about cat tails (boiled hotdogs).  The kids also dressed up and went trick-or-treating to Grandma with red hair when she came down for the primary program in our ward to see/hear Addison give her part.  Addison did a great job.  She whined all morning about how nervous she was and how she didn't want to do it, but she did it just like we practiced.  Her part was "Heavenly Father gave us commandments.  I can keep the commandments!" She emphasized KEEP! It was great.  We are so proud of her and her choices to keep the commandments. We is a good example for all of us.  There are also pictures of carving pumpkins and our little chunky monkey Kaylee.  She is growing so fast!  It just amazes me to see her rolling onto her sides already and grabbing toys and toes.  We love her so much!  Of course there are also pictures of Halloween.  We had an awesome time!  We had some neighbors over and had pumpkin and ghost shaped pizzas along with witches fingers, dragon eye balls, trees, scrambled brains, and goblin guts. ( carrots, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, jello with whip cream, and green applesauce)

Sorry this is kind of jumbled.  The kids are anxious to play on sesamestreet.org, but I am doing it when I have a chance on the computer which isn't often since Tyler has been working from home... The computer is almost always on with him working even during the evening while we watch a show or two... I usually try to sew or do something fairly productive too like play with Kaylee.  She is our night owl and will stay awake with us for a while after the others go to bed.  Life is  good overall.  We are so blessed in many ways.  Fall time always brings a special spirit of thanksgiving with it and I would be ungrateful not to recognize all the blessings the Lord has given us most especially each of my sweet children and husband.  Hope everyone has a great fall!