The Rest of Feb

KASEN

Every Friday we get a weekly report from Mz. G, rating Kasen's school work and behavior. Kasen has finally mastered and received full points for controlling his voice! And we found out that it was because he started putting tape on his mouth to help him stop talking. Then when his teacher said no more tape, he was used to it. Haha So proud.

At his Parent Teacher Conference we got to see the rollercoaster he both painted and put together.

He also made a salt map of "Secret Island" and a clay pumpkin at school this year.

-Whenever we watch movies he is always commenting on how he thinks they were made or how they did certain scenes. I am interested to see if that interest continues cause I also find behind the scenes things super fascinating.

TAI

This month I introduced Tai to my American Girl Doll books. I found a bunch of magazines I had saved too. From fall of 1996. I told her she had to read all the books before I'd let her play with my dolls. I want to make sure she cares enough to take care of them. I didn't tell her anything about any of the American Girls and she chose to read Addy's story first. Unfortunately our library doesn't have all the books that my collection is still missing, but they do have some!

-I also helped her deep clean her room one day this month. For like 3 hours! When I told her what a mess it was, she said, "There's not a mess, only fun, laughter and toys!" She saves EVERYTHING and hides it EVERYWHERE.

KOHEN

Kohen loves telling Alexa to play songs for him to dance to. I don't know where he hears about them, but he asks Alexa to play 'I'm a Banana' and 'I am a Coconut' and they are cooky!

-I love how when he can't hear what I'm saying he yells, "Talk louder!!"

-There was one night we had put Kohen to bed and Kolt found his way to his room. We could hear them laughing and playing together for quite awhile and it was so sweet. Until Kohen started singing to Kolt, "Boyyys have a peeeeenis and giiiiirls have a ginaaaaaa!"

-He's getting real good at singing the alphabet song now too.

-One day he wasn't feeling very well and we were snuggling my the fire. He said, "Mom, my eyes keep shutting." then 2 seconds later he was snoring. Love hearing them breathe while they sleep.

Luckily Timpanogos Temple does a few Monday morning sessions so that we go make it to the temple this month. Thank you Heidi for watching our kids so that we could go.

"If we are waiting until it will no longer be a sacrifice in order to do good things, then we are missing the point."

Life isn't supposed to be east or comfortable, but I believe that becoming more is worth it.

-Kyle also went ice fishing again and brought home fish for dinner this time! Thanks Kyle! The kids all ate it with me too.

We also visited Dakota's grave will all the cousins again this year. It was much warmer this time though. And Kolt sucked on his first sucker. Mostly he just drooled all down the front of his shirt.

Happy Leap Year!

Ten

He's TEN months old now! And his top teeth still haven't quite popped through yet. They are right there though. He almost has more than 2 teeth. That doesn't stop him from eating though. He loves him a banana. He gets so excited to eat them that he starts snorting!

And he's slept through the night the past few nights too! Woo woo! Still taking 2 naps a day.

 This last month he's been crawling with his tummy off of the floor and is getting SO close to walking! The kids all get to excited to see him stand. He walks all over along the furniture and he's tried taking a couple steps quite a few times.

He loves trying to climb up or on anything and has figured out how to pull out every one of our DVDs. Yes, we still have our DVDs.

He can also throw a mean tantrum when we don't pick him up. He'll be crawling over to us, then once we are looking at him, he'll roll over onto his back and cry!

He's starting to scrunch his nose like Tai used to do too, usually when he's about to start fake crying.

It's his little toes hanging onto the highchair. He sits in it with one leg up every time.

I've already started planning his first birthday and can't believe how soon it will be here.

My Valentines

We spent one night last week painting Valentines to mail to people and then Tai made the cutest Kitty Valentine box to take to school too. She's so creative and crafty! This was the first year my kids had to make a box at home to take to school.

Each day during the month I left hearts on everybody's door, (and Kyle's mirror) telling them why I love them, and the kids would get so excited waiting to see what the next heart would be! Then Tai started leaving hearts on my door too. She's the sweetest.

On Valentine's Day Kohen's friend, Owen, invited us over to decorate sugar cookies again this year! And then I came home to web up the basement with our string maze, that Kohen calls lasers.

Kolt was not impressed with all the string everywhere. He got tangled up in it a few times and was not happy about it.

Kohen still has no idea how to follow the string. He kept just trying to pull it. Since Tai finished first, she was so kind to help Kohen follow his string to his Valentines treat.

Kasen, Kohen and Kolt all got a book with their chocolates and Tai got an affirmations poster to hang in her bedroom.

I also made jello jigglers for the first time, to go with our Chicken Parmesan dinner.

On Tuesdays I take Kohen to story time at the library, and this week they talked about hearts and love. She showed them how to do the I Love You sign with their hands and Kohen made sure to tell her that is for Spiderman webs! Thwip thwip! Haha

McKenna planned a fun Galentine's lunch for all the girls this month and it was fun to catch up with everyone. If you would have told me when I was growing up that McKenna is the cousin I would see the most as adults, I never would have believed you. Crazy how much things can change, but I'm so thankful that she plans stuff and gets the family together.

Grammy made a cute little Valentines box for the kids to open and I added all her sticky notes to the kids doors too. Naomi, Marc and Tommy sent the kids fun googly eyes Valentines with treats too.

So much love!

That night Kyle took Tai on a Daddy Daughter Valentines Date again this year. They went to play mini golf at Fat Cats and to dinner at Waffle Love. We're so lucky to have a Kyle.

Monday he took me out to lunch for our Valentine's date. He had a gift card to get sushi at Miyazaki and it was delicious! We stopped at Cold Stone before picking the kids up from school too.

I love dates with my forever Valentine.

Happy Valentine's Day!