Time Flies When You're Having Fun!

This month has been quite eventful! We took a trip to IN where we visited Grandma Potts & Pops, Grandma Birt & Pocky B, Lola & Pocky, Alex (Uncle Carl & Aunt Sam), a couple of friends, an Apple Orchard, the Indiana Dunes, hung out with Auntie Liz & Alivia, did a Diabetes Walk, a Candy Factory, Deep River Park... came home to CO, went to the Zoo, Pumpkin Patch, Matt and I celebrated our anniversary, Tatum started Pre-School, Tatum does Tumbling, Tatum loves movies... especially Cars, carved pumpkins, made cookies, and played in the leaves... Kalina decided she wanted to start crawling on her hands and knees (had been army crawling for a quite a while), pulls herself up, cruises around, prefers to eat with her fingers rather than me using a spoon, has four teeth that have 'cut' and we are still waiting on two others, and while we wait, we'll just call her 'Fangs', says DadDadDad (and LOVES him!!!), MomMomMom, loves to pull herself in her crib and bounce up and down when I come get her from her naps/morning, has a special 'Dad' Finger Wave, LOVES to play Peek-A-Boo~she will hide herself with a book or a doll or anything, or hide me with it and this game goes on and on and on... it's fun! :D She is really getting more interested in books- especially opening, turning pages, and closing them... Her 'Stinker Face' is becoming more prominent and hilarious, I can't help but laugh when she does it... and there are variations of the 'Stinker Face'... we 'chase' each other around the living room, crawling, and this is just hilarious entertainment. K is definitely little Miss Mischievous and Explorer... keeping up with her is definitely going to kick my butt into shape! She is definitely curious and does not like to be held in one place for long periods of time... she loves to be on the go! (on her own) She loves music and I often catch her 'dancing' while music is playing (bouncing while standing)...

The big event that was briefly mentioned was Tatum starting school. Wow. I was not sure how I felt about her starting school. It seems silly to send her to Pre-School because I stay home with the girls, and I wasn't quite ready for her to take the first step of 'growing up'. I am scared that now that she has started school, time is just going to fly by us even faster than it already has. BUT, I am so glad we did make the decision to finally send her. She LOVES it! It gives her some social time, and Kalina and I some 'alone' time. K is still napping in the morning, but with Matt taking T to school, it gives us a couple of hours to play- just us. I love it :) In the afternoons, while K is napping, T and I get some much needed 'alone' time as well. This month we have done a bit of baking and cooking.. which, I really need to be factoring in much longer 'prep' times for baking! Having a three year old so involved in each step... lol... definitely adds some time to the preparation stage! But, I wouldn't change a thing! I love it!

What a wonderful, busy month! Life is good.

Things we do

Just some random pictures of some of the things we do!

Crazy Hair!!!

Kissing herself in the mirror!!! LOL

T just gave K a piggy back ride!

Alivia trying to eat T

Fall Fun in Colorado

We've definitely been out enjoying Colorado this fall!

(First- Rocky Mountain National Park)

Trip to Aspen

Nine Months!!!

I was so afraid when Kalina was born, that when she hit milestones, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but it is still so exciting! I absolutely love watching her grow and become more and more interested in her environment. Each day brings some new excitement!

For the past two months, Kalina has been doing the army crawl to get around. This past month, she would get up on her feet and hands or her knees and hands and move a little, then change her mind and plop back down on her belly and do the army crawl. Sept. 22, she made another move towards 'crawling', and yesterday (10/10) would be her official day of crawling around. She did more hands and knees crawling than army crawling!!! So exciting!!! She is also pulling herself up on Matt and I and her toys... I think she is finally interested in doing something besides smile!!! LOL....

Her teeth are kicking her butt right now, having 6 coming in at once. Her bottom front two have cut through, along with two of her top teeth- surprisingly, not her two front on top... the ones right next to the front have cut! (lateral incisors) If the top front two don't come in very soon, she will have a hilarious smile!!! Poor girl!

Tatum is still a wonderful big sister! She is in gymnastics/tumbling right now and is loving it. One of her friends is in the same class, so that also helps! She is very excited to start pre-school (although we still have to decide which one we want to send her to!)

Lo and Pock 'relax' in Denver! HA!

So, you thought you'd go on 'vacation'??? As long as your definition of vacation does not include the words relax or rest... You're on! :) So, grandparents formerly known as Lola and Pocky (now Lo and Pock) came to visit us over Labor Day weekend. Tatum and Kalina definitely kept them busy. I'm pretty sure from the moment they walked into the house to the moment they left, Tatum had them going from one activity to another... from playing Play-doh, drawing with markers on pants, ope, I mean on the easel, going to the waterpark, zoo, park.... I'm sure I've left some out... but we had a great visit and Tatum asked on the morning that they left "Where'd my friends go?"... and later said "I'm going to IN and picking them up in my car and bringing them back" ... so, look out Lo and Pock, relax now while you can, but you have a three year old on her way to come pick you up!

My, Pocky, what BIG HANDS you have!