All Decked Out

Kylie is wearing her Mickey Mouse hat, her doggie backpack, binoculars, and mittens. She is ready to go to Disneyland.

Update on K&G

I love the Leap Frog Letter Factory and Word Factory. I bought the letter one for Kylie about 2 months ago and she loves it. Better yet though, she can tell me each letter of the alphabet and what the letter says/sounds like. It is so fun to watch her learn new things. The word one is rad too. I love the things she is saying at this age. It just cracks me up sometimes.
Kylie is a sweet sweet girl. Out of nowhere she'll come up to me and say "I love you mommy" and it just melts my heart. She gives me lots of hugs and kisses and absolutely adores Gavin. She is such a big fan of him and so cute with him. He gets lots of hugs and kisses too.

Gavin's most exciting new adventure is that he can roll from his tummy to his back. He has hated tummy time the past 4 months, yet the past few weeks has actually hung out on his tummy for more than 30 seconds before crying. Now I can get a full 5 minutes or so with him actually holding his head up and looking around. He doesn't relax his head to the side and lay it down though. To relax he still puts his head straight into the ground.
He smiles a lot and is making tons of cooing noises. He is a mighty high screamer too. I don't know where it came from, but this little guy has a high scream that can either annoy or make one laugh!

Gymnastics

My two sisters and I enrolled our kids in a mommy and me gymnastics class a few weeks ago. Here's a pic of them after class.

They are learning coordination, balance, and how to follow instructions. As cute as I think Kylie is, she does embarrass me a little in this class. She is "that kid" that doesn't follow instructions. She likes to do the things the teacher tells her do, but not when she is told to do them. She wants to do her own thing on her own time schedule. I catch her doing the moves she learns at home on her own, but not when it's time in class. The other parents must think I let my child run wild at home and don't discipline at all, which isn't true. She is very stubborn and knows exactly what she wants. We've gone to three classes and have 7 more to go. Hopefully she'll get better at following instructions by the end:-)

Part 1 of Video

Here's some video of Kylie singing and praying. It was too long so I broke it into two videos. In this part, Kylie sings Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and says her prayers.

Part 2 of Video

This video in of Kylie singing "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam" and then she hears Dumbo playing in the other room. That is her absolute favorite movie at the moment. In case it's hard to understand, this is what she says. Uh, Clean off my hands, I want to go watch Dumbo with Gavin.

Chuck E Cheese Climbers

Okay, you know those tunnels that you can crawl through? Well, the ones at Chuck E Cheese are up near the ceiling. Kylie wanted to go in them, but there was no way I was going to let her go in them alone. We'd lose track of her and wouldn't be able to reach her, so Tyrus volunteered to go with her. She had a blast!

Kris Visiting CA

Some of you may remember Kris Krewson from our Young Woman Years at church. She came down from Utah last week and we were able to go to lunch with her. It was fun to see her!