Growing Up

Kai has started playschool, a program the Harrisonville School District does for three year olds. He is going twice a week for just a couple hours in the afternoon. He has been pretty excited about it for about 6 weeks and seemed to really enjoy it. He loves being around other kids, so he had a blast! Here's him posing outside of his classroom on his first day of school!

Kai arriving at school on his first day. He's so excited he can hardly contain himself.

Scoping out his classroom.

Making new friends at school. He jumped right into working on a puzzle with one of his classmates within the first three minutes or so of arrival.

It's amazing to think that only 3 and 1/2 years ago he was just a little baby like Claire. He couldn't do anything but poop, cry and eat. But now he is talking, running, playing, learning the ins and outs of social interaction. The time really does fly. I know everybody says that, but it really is so true.

All Wrapped Up

Here's me trying out the new wrap my dear sister sent me. I didn't get it quite right the first time, though, and Claire's excitement for the wrap ended pretty quickly. I think it was cutting off circulation to her legs. I re-did it after Shawn took these photos and carried her around for a while. That trial went much better and she enjoyed being carried around everywhere.

I know my eyes are awesomely closed in this photo, but this is the best one of Claire with her eyes open.

Starting to lose patience.....

Now completely sad and miserable. You can see Quinn in the background nuzzling her blankie.

Bumbo Sitting

Claire looking up at Shawn while sitting in the Bumbo.

In the kitchen, sitting in the Bumbo while I cook dinner.

She likes being able to be up and to see everybody. Her neck isn't quite strong enough to sit in it for very long, but she still seems to enjoy it.

Our Recent Activities

Claire has started smiling a lot. Sometimes it takes some coaxing, but she will give us big smiles. Right before this picture was taken, she was smiling broadly, but it ended up being just this little smirk by the time we could get the camera.

Kai waves goodbye as Shawn heads out to a call. The call was a tree stump that was full of bees that someone had set on fire. Somehow the tree stump ended up falling into the road?? Anyway, Shawn went to put out a bee-filled stump that was on fire.

Kai took this picture of me. Pretty good, huh? Too bad I have no makeup on and am wearing baggy track pants under my nightgown. Okay, so I didn't get fashion sense as one of my gifts.

Quinn's eye seemed irritated the other night and her bangs were so long they were getting in her eyes. I thought that perhaps her hair was irritating her eye, so I had Shawn cut her bangs short. It was very difficult to hold her down and cut the bangs, so this is the end result. It looks pretty bad. We feel pretty sorry for her. Turns out, it wasn't her hair irritating her eyes after all. She and Claire both have some sort of eye infection. Today we will be going to the doctor.