A fun weekend

This weekend we didn't do anything grand but we had a blast. Friday night we just went out as a family. Just the four of us. We don't attempt that nearly enough. Our kids can surprise us with such great behavior sometimes! We went to the Panda and had some sushi and "chicken flied lice" for K. After that we walked down to the Dollar Tree aka the Toy Store. We let K get 2 toys and then we went on home. We awoke on Saturday to snow! That is such a rarity down here that we had to go out and enjoy it! Here are some pictures to recap our weekend:

The three most important people on this earth. So sweet.

My boys.

Look at that incredible smile! This boy has won me over with his amazing personality. He is the coolest kid!!!

Me and K. I just love how sweet she is. We are starting to have great conversations about God. It is wonderful to see her little mind process so much. I was trying to explain Heaven to her last night and she was having a hard time grasping it all. She decided that she would go live with Jesus when she dies if she can take her own furniture. She loves her new bed. (Well her refurbished bed that was so graciously given to us by Allen's aunt)

This is K throwing a snowball at her daddy. She has a great arm!!!

Here they are with their snowman that they built.

Here is their snowman up close. K named her Flower.

She is so sweet in her snow get up.

5 and 6 months

Okay so I have been taking pictures of Tripp but I have been lax in putting them on here. But in the spirit of catching up, I am putting his 5 month picture and his 6 month picture on here in one post. As you can see the weather drastically changed from October to November. Sad!!!!

Tripp also has changed a lot. He has gotten more hair and two teeth!

He is playing with his two favorite things... this soft block and his foot.


Went to the doctor and Tripp's stats are:

28 1/4 inches - 98% for height
18lbs 9 oz - 75% for weight
I dont remember his head circumference but it was still 25% range

He grew 3 inches in 2 months! The doctor measured 3 times!

Tripp sitting up

Tripp is doing so much these days.

A few notable things:

Sitting up
Eating fruits and vegetables
babbling like he is really talking
rolling all over the place
loves Muggsley and Kaylen
Sleeps like there is no tomorrow! From 8pm to 9am consistently (I love you, Tripp!)

Kaylen pestering Tripp

This was so much better before I got my camera. Tripp was sooo mad at her. She was trying to tickle him and he was annoyed. He kept screaming at her. It is too funny.

Halloween

I am playing a bit of catch up. I haven't even downloaded the pictures off my other camera! Eventually I will get back on track with everything... might be after the holidays (once I am back in school).

Halloween was so much fun this year. Kaylen is at a really great age for everything. She had the best time playing on the blow-ups at Willowbrook. We did that and then we trick-or-treated in our neighborhood and then at our old neighborhood. It was good to see everyone. Tripp is doing great. At 5 months he weighed 17 pounds! He is such a great sleeper and a happy baby. He is rolling all over the place and "talking" up a storm. He is so much busier than Kaylen ever was! We have really been having a lot of fun and Kaylen is becoming such a great big helper!!

Arbor

We got an arbor in September. I guess it was a birthday present to each other. Scott, they guy that did it for us, is amazing. If you need any woodwork or any work for that matter, he is your guy! Nice and very smart. Well, here are a few shots of it. He did this is literally 4 days! And if you cant tell the boards on top are at a slant... so it actually shades!! Genius!






I am so far behind on posts... I promise that I will download the last months worth of pictures and get caught up. I have no excuse for my slacking... :(

First Official Field Trip

Kaylen and I went on her first field trip to Tate Farms. We had such a blast. She is so crazy about the corn pits... We were late (shock) and that is the first thing they did. We decided to stop by and play in them a while after lunch. It was really fun to see her play with her classmates and act like such a big girl! I forget how she is getting so big and growing so fast. She is such a smart girl. I also love to see her be sweet to her friends at school. Anyway, here are some pictures from the day. She liked the corn, the maze, the goats, and picking out a perfect pumpkin.

Petting Zoo and the ER

Amy, Emily and I decided to take the kids to the petting zoo during Fall Break. The kids had been home all week and we needed an activity to fill a day up with! I am learning that Kaylen is a little skittish of animals. She was not about feeding them. Emily and I went through a Safari that had Emu, Rams, Bulls, Zebras, Alligators and many other animals and K was terrified. Anyway, this wasn't much different. She really didn't want to get too close. She did, however, love the playground. :) Here are some pics from the day:

Tripp and I feeding the sweet Lama.

Kaylen did love the bunnies but one of them started nibbling on her shirt. She threw him down and decided she didn't like that one. She would still hold other ones but not that one.

Me, Tripp and the girls moving along to our next stop.

Kaylen, Andrew and Rylie excited about the adventure. (We had just gotten there)

Kaylen and Rylie. They really are such great friends. I love watching them play together.

This is as close as Kaylen came to the animals. This one goat. He kept putting his head in her bucket.

She did love swinging on the rings.

Kaylen had a little accident that day at the McDonald's. She was standing near another kid when he was swinging a laminate placemat type thing off the order counter. K got a little too close and it swiped her eye. It cut her eyeball from one side to the other. Such a fluke but so scary. We went to the first ER and I accidentally went to the main ER instead of Peads. Ugh! I had to wait with all the deathly ill adults with my two little ones and then be discharged and sent to the right place. I was so mad at myself! Anyway, we got to the right place and the doctors were bringing in all the rookies to check out the cool eye injury. We finally made it to the eye doc and she put some drops in to paralyze the muscle that would continue to spasm until it healed. She then put antibiotic ointment and a patch on. We went back the next day and the eye is almost healed. It should be fine in a few days. Shew! She can see just fine and all will be well. Amazing! So here she is with Tripp. Sweet babies!

Here is the little man that accidentally got her... he brought her flowers! It was so sweet.

And here she is again. She wanted me to draw on her patch... not my best work but I was nervous drawing on a wiggly surface that had a hurt eye under it. :)

PS. I couldn't of made it through that day without Emily and Amy. They were so nice to come with me and help me because I was a mess! And Allen made it there from Cullman in 30 minutes! And that is with a cop stopping him. He didn't get a ticket. Guess he had a good excuse.