Longing for Vacation

Alaina 7 months (best pose I could get!)

Ky at six months

Take that you Bear!




Ky opening an Easter gift from U. Adam & A. Liz

The train show

Jordan's confirmation

Ky & cousin Dominic

Gotta love the hat! 25 cents at a garage sale!

Alaina & G'ma Jan

Nana & Alaina

Ky planting corn

Part of my herb garden

The garden all planted!

Ky decided to put his clothes on over his pajamas. Silly boy!

I love this!

Yeah..I'm cool!

Loving the freedom of summer!

Taking can goods out in his pj's

Another good meaL!

Her hair has lightened since these photos...

Ky's completed geometric puzzle

Proud of his creation

The board prior to putting on the pieces

I am ashamed by how long it has taken me to blog. Summer has come and with that has come a busy schedule and an intense desire to get out of here and go on vacation! There is always so much you want to cram in with the warm weather. To enjoy nature, God’s creation at it’s fullest, is so important to the soul. Time to narrate these pics…

So the top pics are of Easter presents that we forgot to give Ky on Easter. They are from his U. Adam & A. Liz. He LOVES the Thomas color form set they got him. They make a great toy for the car as well. Thanks guys!

The end of April, Rob took Ky up to Green Bay for the weekend to a train show with Grandpa and his cousins, Devon & Jordan. That left me and Alaina for a girls weekend. Well, I know Ky had fun. He really enjoyed watching the trains. Rob said he grew impatient when Grandpa wanted to stop at booths to ask questions. All Ky wanted to do was watch the model trains go around and around. Rob was also good and took pics for me this year (last year he forgot).

Alaina and I enjoyed getting extra sleep and eating Chinese food and watching movies and sewing. She slept A LOT! So I was able to get a lot of sewing done. Lucky me! It was a very nice weekend, but I was also very happy to have my boys back.

A week later was Jordan’s confirmation. We drove to Milwaukee for that. It was interesting taking Kylan to a different church. I don’t think he was aware that there were other churches. It was a very new experience for him. And even now when we tell him we are going to church he will ask which one.

After Jordan’s confirmation we celebrated an early mother’s day with Nana (Rob’s mom). Ky was excited. We took Nana out for lunch at Beans N’ Barley and had a nice walk there and back. The kids really enjoyed being out. It was a very nice day.

That week we planted the garden. I had Ky help me this year with planting some of the seeds. Specifically, I had him plant the corn. I thought he would really enjoy watching how tall the corn stalks grew. It was a hard week trying to get the garden in as quick as possible (I usually like to have it planted a little earlier.) It all got done though—and looks good now (except for the many weeds—I am having a really rough time with the weeds this year.) The corn is already knee high (by June 9th!) We planted snow peas, sugar snap peas, beans, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, and corn. I have had to since replant the zuchinni and yellow squash. I had very little come up. I think that the birds must have grabbed the seeds or something. Very odd!

Couple of other pics….We forgot to put can goods out to the curb for the local pantry, so we sent Ky outside in his pajamas to do it. It was too cute watching him parade outside like a “big kid” with the heavy bag of food. He was so proud of his “special” job.

At 7 months or so, I took this really cute picture of Kylan in his Pooh pj’s sitting next to his giant pooh. I wanted to get the same pic of Alaina at about that age. Well, it was pretty much impossible to get the same pose, since she kept attacking the bear. I tried—I guess that was the best I could do.

I am trying to think back so I can get the kids milestones—bad mommy! Must blog more often. Let’s see around 7 months Alaina got her 2 bottom teeth—they took forever to break through. As always, Alaina is very close to crawling, but she’s not. She gets up on all fours and continues to rock. She will even move her hands forward, but had not figured out how her feet work. Hopefully, soon. She says “hi, bye, mama, dada, amen, yeah.” She repeats many sounds and noises. She growls at her brother—especially when he growls at her. She cries when he yells at her. She can be very sensitive. She also cries when we dump water on Ky’s head---we don’t know why. She is sleeping through the night. We are all feeling very well rested. We also feed her pretty much anything. She LOVES food. Alaina loves to swing. When she is upset we put her in her swing and it cheers her right up. She sometimes grabs onto the side and stops herself which is funny. But she will let go and swing again.

Ky is just as smart as ever. We are up to letter “H” in the alphabet—as far as sounds, and writing. The other day I was giving him words like “Blasphemy” and asking him what letter they started with—and he did an excellent job figuring out which one. He is also into this geometrical puzzle game I got him. In this game he has to figure out how to use different shapes to make up a picture. Not just any shape will do. Well as you can see by the above picture, he is doing an excellent job. I did not help him at all. He did it by himself.

That’s all for now….Many more updates will appear within the next week, as I will be publishing 2 – 3 more entries…including—Ky’s B’day! Have a good one!