College Buddies

This past week was a busy one, but I have just not felt real inspired to take pictures lately, so there aren’t many.  We enjoyed a visit from my college roommates from my freshman year this past week.  Amber brought her kiddos along and Bekah’s lil’ guy got to stay and have some Grandma time.  Thanks for coming girls, it was good to see you again!


Lincoln has played with his baseball tee so much that it is actually broken and won’t stay together anymore. I actually bought him a new one.  One day he and I were playing while Kate was at preschool.  We hit off the tee, played catch with baseball gloves, a volleyball, and velcro paddle things, played kickball, and played catch with a football…can you tell what he likes to do? =)

Quite the crew!  Tess, Brie, Cade, Kate, Creighton, Lincoln – All 4 and under, plus Titus is a few months older than Brie.

Creighton is super happy and laid back and smiles all the time.  He is growing up so fast!  We are enjoying his frequent smiles and Kate continues to adore him.  She is often found reading books to him or coloring with him.  Now, if only she’d love Lincoln that much. =) 



It was a rough week for Kate and I.  We battled at every turn.  Every time I asked her to do anything she had 437 reasons why that would not work for her.  She spent a lot of time in timeout, losing privileges, or just in tears.  I will be the first to admit, some of her infractions were not that big of a deal, but I was just grumpy and tired and not in the mood to referee or to be gracious.  Anyway, this week is already going much better and I just share that in case you think life is always perfect at our house.  It’s not, far from it. We are continually learning on this path called parenthood. =)

Mel Kaiser Family

A few weeks ago we had some family pictures taken of the Mel Kaiser family.  It’s getting quite large these days and getting bigger every year.  I’m thankful for such wonderful grandparents who have been married for over 50 years and are always so willing to do anything and everything for each of us.  I love you, Grandpa and Grandma!

It started with two.

Then they added 7.

And now…

The Great Grandchildren

Halloween Fun

We had a fun weekend complete with a preschool Halloween party, carving pumpkins with the neighbors, dressing up for candy, helping celebrate the (near) completion of Beutel’s cabin, and eating dinner and playing games with my fam.  However, I don’t have pictures of a lot of the events, but I’ll share what I have.

 

  

 

     

 

New Friends

Saturday night we had the opportunity to spend some time with some new friends, Jeff and Abby and family.  Abby and I had an e-mail friendship and we decided to get our families together.  It was so fun to see our husbands and kids connect and we had a great time.  Special thanks to Ava and Layne for so patiently playing with Kate and Lincoln.  Thanks guys, we had a great time and can’t wait to do it again!

Lincoln and Layne playing trains and Lincoln, Kate, Iris, and Lucy watching Barney.
 

Lincoln, Lucy, Iris, Ava, Kate, Misikir, and Layne

Equal Opportunity Pretenders

Kate and Lincoln have really begun to play with each other often.  They have quite the imaginations.  Lincoln and Kate have the opportunity to be in my cousin Derek’s wedding, so I was trying Lincoln’s suit on him.  He was so proud of it that he did not want to take it off.  This prompted Kate to want to wear her dress from Brett and Tessa’s wedding.  They played “bride and groom” for awhile, complete with dancing. :)

After awhile, “bride and groom” turned into prince and princess.  They sat up their chairs and were riding around in the carriage.  Then, Kate decided one chair needed to be in front so that they had a horseman for their carriage.  Kate told Lincoln to be the horseman.  He said, “I not horseman, I prince.”  Somehow she convinced him to sit up front and “drive” the carriage.  Lincoln went and got a pretend key and said, “I not horseman, I prince.  I drive.”  He then turned the pretend key and off they went. 

Later in the day, they were playing with tools, fixing up the hallway.

We went out and raked some leaves one afternoon.  When we were done, Kate asked to jump in them.  So, I let her (we only have two trees, it doesn’t take long to rake leaves).  She jumped in the pile and Lincoln said, “You mess up my pile” and immediately set to raking them again. 



Creighton just hung out in his bouncy seat like a good lil’ guy. :)

Two Months

We took Creighton for his two month check-up.  It’s hard to believe he’s that old already. 

Creighton: 22.5 inches long – 12 lbs 8 oz

 

Lincoln (at 2 months): 22.5 inches long – 11 lbs 1 oz



Kate (at 2 months): 22.75 inches long – 10 lbs 6 oz

Family Fun

This past weekend we had a visit for our MN buddies.  Yes, this is the best of the pictures.  :)

 

Since Kate didn’t have preschool on Monday I was going to take the 3 kids to Radar Family Farms.  Since we have not had a lot of time together as a family, Mike took the morning off of work and went with us.  Creighton was perfect and the kids had a great time.  Thanks, Mike, I actually don’t know how I would have done it without you.  You made it a fun morning for all of us. :)

Creighton update: For those who are curious, Creighton does indeed have only a slight case of reflux.  We have so far been able to keep him more comfortable by giving up 1 tsp of rice cereal in with a bottle twice a day and give him gas drops as needed.  He is doing well with these things and should not need to go on zantac at this point.  Thanks for thinking of us!