Where Mommy and Daddy come from

Convo between Kadyn and Mommy...

Kadyn: "Did you know God made me?"

Mommy: "I did know that. Did you know that you and Kai are incredible gifts that God gave to mommy and daddy?"

Kadyn: "Yes. But, you came from somewhere else Mommy."

Mommy: "Oh, really? Where?"

Kadyn: "You and daddy came from Mexico."

SAY WHAT?!


Convo from Kadyn to Kai...
Kai was throwing a fit so we sent him to his room to finish throwing his fit. Kadyn told me that he was going to be right back. He disappeared and all I could hear from the other room was...

(in his sweetest little voice he could muster) "Kai, sometimes we don't always get what we want. Sometimes we don't get to play outside (the fit had NOTHING to do with outside). So, are you all done throwing your fit? No? Yes? Okay, then you stay right there."

Convo between Daddy and Kadyn:
We were on a hike a few days ago. Kadyn had been running a bit ahead of us. We turn the corner in the trail to see our son with his pants around his ankles, relieving himself...
Daddy: "Kadyn, what are you doing?"
Kadyn: "I'm being Boulder." (Boulder is our dog)

Oh sweet boy. You bring such laughter to our lives, smiles to our faces, and delight to every step. I really do think you and Kai are such incredible gifts.

Oh, BOY!

Well, if this doesn't just ooze boy, I don't know what does. The other day I came home to a cleanly shaven Kadyn who was working on shaving Daddy. This is a mommy's sigh...sighhhihhhneedhhhahhhgirlhhhhinhhhthishhhmixhhh.

Grandpa's Visit

We just had a great visit with Grandpa. He got to stay at our house for a whole week! I was so excited to see him that I didn't stop talking the entire car ride from the airport back to our house...and pretty much filled him in on EVERYTHING (even more than Grandpa probably wanted to know).

Kai and I made sure to show him my brand new favorite thing to do...collect rocks. Yes, I am a professional rock collector now.




I baked Grandpa a cake for his birthday (which was a few weeks ago) and we gave it to him as a surprise :)


We took lots of walks around our neighborhood and somehow we always ended up at the Boat Park.

And we even got to go sledding!!





We are very sad you had to go Grandpa!

We miss you already! Come back soon!!

High Flying

A couple weeks ago we went out the the field with Pops and Grammy. Pops was teaching us how to fly his new airplane.

He was doing a great job when out of nowhere came a mean, old, TALL, tree!!


What's a Pops to do when his plane gets stuck in a tree? Why, climb it, of course!
We were very concerned but couldn't believe the mad climbing skills he had...he made it up and down in 15 minutes. But boy, those were 15 LONG minutes for us watching on the ground.

Lessons taught

I've been teaching Kai and Boulder lots of things.

First, I taught them to share. Mommy always says this is to be done with as little screaming and grabbing as possible. Sometimes, I forget...I am only 3 after all.

One thing I am great at is reading books. I thought it only appropriate to teach this to Kai and Boulder. This is something Kai is *slowly* catching on to. He's much too busy. However, Boulder, got it right away. (I just got done reading my very first "chapter book" with mommy!!)


I've also been teaching my brother how to play hide and seek. Aka...getting in to trouble. Mommy recognizes this game whenever we're quiet for more than 15 seconds. That means we're hiding and doing something we probably shouldn't be doing so mommy better come find us as quickly as possible.
And every great brother needs a break from sharing every once in awhile. And what better way to teach my brothers the proper way to rest?

Kai Isaac 15 months

To mark Kai's 15 month "birthday" we took him to the Dr to see if we could get some more answers behind his allergies. Of the items we tested: wheat, corn, milk, soy, peanuts, egg whites...It turns out he's allergic to Egg Whites. The Dr. said that there's a small possibility that milk is in there too but probably not. I, however, beg to differ. I still think he's allergic to milk and will further test that one. But, it's nice to know that I can begin reintroducing some of the others :)

According to the measurements at the Dr, Kai is 30 inches...hasn't grown in the past 2 months?! putting him in the 20th% and is 21 lb 9 oz putting him in the 7th% for weight. Yes, this is the same kid that was born 9.8 lbs and 21 inches long.

Learning to feed himself with a spoon. Got to love those peas.
Giving us a glimpse of the future...talking on the phone.

His vocabulary hasn't grown too much either (not that we're concerned in the least!). Pretty much everything is some variation of "ba-ba" or "uh-oh"...he does have Mama down to a T as well as a new SCREECHing sound when he doesn't get to do or have something he wants. Kai loves to give open mouth kisses and gives great hugs. He still loves to laugh and up until this past week was sleeping from 8pm - 9:30am with a 2 hr afternoon nap. Kai loves, loves, loves his older brother. He thinks the best game is to grab something Kadyn is playing with and take off running, laughing, and squealing in the opposite direction. Though Kadyn doesn't think this is amusing, it does get his attention.

Ball-Ba
Brother-Bada
Kadyn--Bada
Drink-baba
Binkie-baba
Blankie--baba
Bye--Ba Ba
Boulder--Boda
Doggie--Baba
Nana-Nana
Papa--papa
Grammy--Dama
Pops-pa
Dada-dada
Grandpa-Dapa

The funny thing with the Baba's is that he looks you right in the eye as he's saying it and if you don't understand right away which he's talking about he gets closer to your face and tries to look you more squarely in the eye. I think of someone trying to ask a Spanish speaking person for a glass of water in English and each time they say "water" they get louder...like if you get louder you'll understand what they say.

I could just eat this little boy up. Kai Isaac, you're wonderful. And we daily "rejoice in your laughter."

Be still my heart

One sick boy + one cuddly dog + one loving daddy = nap time bliss