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To kick off July we headed up to Deer Lake for the van Anrooy 4th of July celebration. The kids played in the lake and the dirt and we enjoyed adult beverages and adult company. It was a GREAT time, as always.</div>
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We always love heading to Green Bluff to pick berries!</div>
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Jenna came to visit</div>
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(well, she was in a friends wedding, but we were lucky enough that she made our house her home base while she was in Spokane)</div>
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Mid July brought along another opportunity to travel. We went south to Moraga to visit Great Grandpa Dave.</div>
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While there we visited Fairyland</div>
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Snuggled Auntie Riss</div>
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Played with great imagination and no TV</div>
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Took rides with Great Grandpa</div>
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Played lots of cards!</div>
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And were all big kids riding the airplane in our own seats!</div>
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We did lots baking together this summer!</div>
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We love Riss!</div>
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Kyler was dedicated at church by Papa John</div>
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After the dedication we all went out to lunch at Tomato Street</div>
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Kyler tentatively took swim lessons</div>
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But mostly just loved sporting swim gear and walking around the pool.</div>
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Our common area pool was broken for most of July so we ventured down to the main pool several times. It's nice and warm and the kids liked the big steps they could jump off from. Kendall could even touch in the shallow end. </div>
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We made several dates to Starbucks since the ROcket closed and the new Thomas Hammer wasn't going to be finished until the fall. </div>
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In August I helped Valerie throw a shower for Alison down in Lewiston</div>
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We went back to Green Bluff for peaches</div>
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At Mariah's wedding in August</div>
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Golfing with Kelli (Alex & Keith, too) during our Stoneridge trip</div>
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I worked really hard all summer to get to 100 barre classes. I met my goal in August and also won a fun RE hat! I love feeling strong and fit and working out in this supprtive community. </div>
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The end of summer always comes to a close when I have to set up my classroom. This year we moved classrooms so I had to start from scratch, as well as, had to wait until a week before students arrived because the carpet installation took longer than expected. It was a rush to get things ready, but Fran really helped us stay organized so I think it was as smooth as possible. We love our new classroom!!!</div>
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This beauty turned 5 in July. How is it even possible? I can't remember what life was like before she entered our world! Kendall sparkles, she commands the attention of those around her, she can be sweet, and she can be sassy, but she is always full of love! </div>
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We had a movie date to see the new Cinderella to celebrate this 5 year old. </div>
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Birthday morning</div>
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Opening family gifts - we got her a new mp3 player since she loves to listen and sing to her music during quiet time and bedtime. However, when you buy the very cheapest mp3 player that exists, it isn't very functional for a 5 year old. So we ended up getting a CD player which she happily can run all by herself. </div>
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This girl is at home in the kitchen! She's always loved helping me with baking and now enjoys making her own creations. It take's a lot of patience on my part---but she is so happy to test things out. She'll see ideas in magazines or on tv and immediately need to try them. Her go-to is to make her own lemonade.</div>
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She hosted a Sophia the 1st party with all her friends, including the entire neighborhood.</div>
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and water games that Daddy planned with her</div>
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She loves swimming and gained a lot of confidence in the water this summer!</div>
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Taking risks and going on big rides</div>
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Feeling bold, she decided to give herself (and the Michael's grandkids) a haircut. Ugh! </div>
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Continues to enjoy reading all the books..and falling asleep in the funniest positions! </div>
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Her first lemonade stand...she did it all! When I was outside with her she would default to me to interact with her customers. But when I wasn't there she did such a great job! I loved watching her confidence grow. She donated some of her proceeds to a family in our neighborhood who lost their house in a fire. </div>
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3 day a week 4/5 year old preschool this year! She is in heaven at school and told me the other day that she "colors like a 3rd grader!" </div>
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She's still so nurturing as she plays babies, but lately she's surprised us in all the ways she loves and cares for Kyler. They know how to get under each others skin, but usually she shows so much patience and kindness toward him. I regularly tear up when I see how sweet she is to him! </div>
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<b><u>Her 5 year old interview:</u></b></div>
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Favorite Food: Noodles with sprinkle cheese</div>
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Favorite sport: Soccer</div>
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Favorite show: Caillu</div>
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Favorite thing at school: Outside recess</div>
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If you could go on an airplane where would you go: Chicago & Hawaii to see Maddy & Ian</div>
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Favorite color: Pink & Purple</div>
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When you grow up what are you going to be: doctor & teacher & mom</div>
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Favorite song: Bad Blood & Heart Beat Song</div>
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Favorite book: Pinkalisious</div>
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3 words to describe you: Myself, my love, picnic</div>
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When you were little, you used to: drool</div>
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Favorite time of the year: winter, without snow</div>
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Favorite snack: goldfish crackers and apple slices</div>
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Yuckiest food: chicken that's spicy</div>
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By best friend at school: Abigail</div>
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Other friends: Kaitlyn Morrison (& all my neighbors), "the boys" (vanAnrooy, Strates & Liam)</div>
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Places I want to go: Chicago</div>
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People I miss: Abigail</div>
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Favorite pets: Aslan & Tipsy</div>
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Favorite Teachers: Mrs. Sue</div>
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Dear Kendall, we adore you! You're becoming such a kind young lady. We say to each other all the time how mature you are and it reminds us that you are getting so old. We know that you love God and His love shines from your heart. We love to watch all the gifts He has given you develop. </div>
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Love, Mama & Daddy</div>
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Each day seems to get a little easier though as we figure out Kyler's language. He's getting so much clearer and more patient with us as we try and decode what he is saying. He'll pull us along by the finger to show or explain certain things. Or slow down what he is saying so we can understand him (or at least try). He uses tense little hand movements to emphasis what he's saying. He seems to be more mathematically inclined and loves to sort, order, count, and make comparisons. In August he was counting things saying "1, 1, 1, 1, 1..." then this fall he was counting up to 11, but always skipped 3 & 4. Now he can fluently count to 14 and occasionally does one-to-one matching up to about 5.<br />
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He never caught on to the potty training thing so we're going to give it another try later this fall. Every so often he shows some interest and gets pretty excited when he does go on the potty, but generally he refuses to sit on it and requests diapers. He's now in size 5, and I keep resisting buying more because I'm hopeful one day he'll just decide to stop needing them. Oh well! He's about 2' 10" and weighing in around 30lbs wearing 2T clothes.<br />
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One nap he woke up this way---oops, guess he knows how to take that diaper off! </div>
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-Tyler do it (kyler do it, K's are tricky to say!)<br />
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-Big one, little one (about anything he's comparing or sorting)<br />
-If you ask him how old he is he'll tell you he's 5, and he might even tell you his birthday is July! (oops!)<br />
-time ago now (he doesn't doddle if you tell him we're going he's the first to find his shoes, get in the car, and gets frustrated when Mom or Kendall decide to keep chatting instead of get going!)<br />
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Obsessed with "moaning" the lawn</div>
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He wanted the basketball cookie, but didn't want it to break (which is what happens with you eat something)</div>
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First go with swim lessons. He cried or ran away every time, but once he was in the water he loved it (mostly)</div>
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Visit with Great Grandpa Dave</div>
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Big boy on the plane with his very own seat (did NOT love wearing the seatbelt that he learned how to get out of)</div>
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Big boy rides at Silverwood</div>
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Many mornings soaking up the sun in our backyard</div>
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Portland Children's Museum was a huge hit</div>
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium with Alison</div>
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Kendall learned how to swing all by herself!</div>
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE all the flowers in our yard!</div>
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And we're hoping to harvest some veggies this summer!</div>
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Wrapped up another great year at Primary Movement with Ms. Jill (who we all adore!)</div>
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This guy right here is 2! Hold on to your hats! He is, NO JOKE, about the sweetest, most easy going little boy. He barely talks ,but communicates quite well with pointing and grunting. He has a handful of words that seem to do the trick. Ball being the most important word. It was Kendall's idea to throw him a basketball themed party. I never imagined doing a sports themed party for such a young child, but he LOVES basketball. He'll sit and watch it on TV longer than any cartoon. He shouts out "hooooop" as we drive through neighborhoods and he spots them in every other driveway. He sleeps with basketballs. It was a joy to celebrate him in this way. Although I think he was a little overwhelmed by it all. Kyler we love you tremendously and are so thankful for you and your sweet laid back nature.</div>
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The all important tradition of a birthday muffin (but it was breakfast for dinner so Daddy could join)</div>
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He's a brave boy! I always expect him to shy away from new things, but he rarely does. He might be tentative, but if he sees that his loved ones are near and are supporting him he'll step up to any challenge. Including the dentist. He had to go first to show Kendall how to sit and get your teeth cleaned so she could be brave and do it too!</div>
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Doesn't mind getting dirty, but LOVES to be cleaned up (no really, he likes his hands washed and go nuts if they are sticky, loves baths, wipes his own chin when the drool is flowing, will tell me to blow his nose---very atypical toddler) </div>
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When he hears something of interest in the distance (garbage truck, school bus, daddy coming home from work) he'll cover his ear and perk up and say "hear it?"</div>
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"push you" (to get pushed on the swing)</div>
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"hug you" for a snuggle</div>
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Twinkle Twinkle is his favorite song</div>
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Caillou is his favorite tv show</div>
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He wears 2T clothes and size 4 diaper and size 6 shoes!</div>
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Likes to play hide and seek by covering up one eye half way and yell "hiding!"</div>
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He loves to sort and organize things</div>
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He loves to brew my keurig coffee</div>
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He's peed in the potty a couple times but is far from potty trained. We hope to buckle down over the summer if he shows more interest.</div>
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He is generally now a good sleeper. Keith is the best at getting him down at bedtime. He puts up a bigger struggle for me and I have to let him cry it out a bit. Usually a few nights a week he wakes up in the middle of the night soaking wet. It's like he saves his pee all day! Those nights are hard to get him calmed back down. </div>
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He often wakes up sad from his naps and need to cuddle for up to an hour. Occasionally a fruit snack or sucker can snap him out of the funk earlier. But mostly just snuggling for a while does the trick. </div>
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Besides these little sleep issues he is a dream child! I am now remembering how much I LOVE 2 year olds. I don't know what the terrible 2's thing is about! </div>
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Kyler we adore you! </div>
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March included more indoor days but many sunny days outside too.</div>
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Performing on our "stage"</div>
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Checking out Sky High trampoline place</div>
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indoor golfing (clothes optional)</div>
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Annual Barbie Party with Mimi and Quincy</div>
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He knows that Mommy is happier when she has her morning coffee!</div>
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More time spent at Jump n' Party---this place in genius!</div>
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Mid March sent Kyler and Mommy on a trip to Longview so we could sneak in one more free flight for this little guy and give mommy a mental break from the stressful class she had. </div>
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He loved every second of it!</div>
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Kyler LOVED the extra attention! Here he was skyping with Kendall and Daddy.</div>
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Watching Golf with Papa.</div>
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Meanwhile, Kendall kept busy while we were gone with 3 birthday parties!!!</div>
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Here is a little warmth and sunshine!</div>
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Kendall had her school concert---adorable (we bought the DVD if you ever wish to view it!)</div>
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St. Patrick's Day</div>
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Chicks arrived at North 40---spring is here!!! Bring on April!</div>
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Time to dye some eggs for Easter</div>
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Neighborhood easter egg hunt</div>
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The bunny came</div>
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Making Resurrection Rolls</div>
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ENjoying the flowers from our yard!</div>
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After church</div>
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Egg hunt at Mimi's neighborhood</div>
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Then is snowed the next day :( first read day of Spring Break.</div>
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Later in the month of April we celebrated this little guy turning 2!</div>
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Who would rather use his potty chair as a stool to reach things than for potty.</div>
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Our tiny dancer on the big girl barre</div>
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3rd haircut---passed his sister in haircuts at age 2</div>
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More yard beauty</div>
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Getting weird on our date night at Micros for Mamas fundraiser</div>
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Warm days! Sorta.</div>
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Outdoor nail salon</div>
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We kicked off December with our annual breakfast with Santa with Keith's family. I still need to scan in the actual picture we got with Santa. </div>
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We did a lot of counting down till Christmas this year. Kendall REALLY has a grasp on the excitement and anticipation of Christmas. Most nights at dinner we remembered to read a Bible verse about Christmas and Kendall would add a star sticker to the chart leading to Bethleham. She also made one at Preschool and so every morning she would place a dot sticker on her Christmas tree. But the one she NEVER forgot about was one my mom found last year with 25 numbered containers on it. I printed off little notes for Kendall (and sometimes Kyler too) that listed out a special activity for the day. We decorated trees, bought gifts, made cookies, wrapped gifts, gave to the Tree of Sharing, drank hot cocoa, drove around to look at lights, went to the movies, made Christmas crafts, had dance parties, watched Christmas movies, and her favorite by far was a special Daddy date on a cruise to the North Pole where Santa himself read her name off the "nice list"! </div>
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A date night picture of these two!</div>
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Keith hung lights</div>
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And the kids helped me with bow placement!</div>
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With friends over we made gingerbread houses</div>
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Late one night some elves put together a mid size trampoline that fits in our basement. </div>
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On Christmas Eve day we sprinkled our reindeer food on the back porch (even though the poem says to do so on the lawn, Kendall, the reindeer expert, insisted they will all gather at this tree in our backyard).</div>
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We set out milk and cookies, and a special note to the reindeer (they must know how to read!)</div>
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We went to Christmas Eve service in the woods, where Kendall held her very own candle and took the job very seriously!</div>
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And we did Keith's family Christmas at his mom's house.</div>
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And Kyler's favorite gift was the dollar store basketball from Jeter!</div>
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We over did it on the sweets :)</div>
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After a fun night with our big family we headed home to read "T'was the Night Before Christmas" and hurry to bed!</div>
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On Christmas morning these two slept in until 8am!!! It was a true Christmas miracle!!! </div>
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We came downstairs to see if Santa came...</div>
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One of my favorite things about this day was how much they appreciated every single gift and would stop to soak it in or read or play with their new things. There was no rush and they were so happy! My second favorite thing was the AMAZING cinnamon rolls from our friend Ingrid.</div>
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I passed down my beloved Samantha doll to Kendall and they became instant best friends. To my surprise, she wanted Samantha in her original clothes and not the modern outfit I bought thinking she'd prefer more of a "just like me" doll. </div>
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Kyler was so happy to get a race track for his cars!</div>
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But the big gift of the day came later when we took them down stairs to see the trampoline! They were thrilled! I think this is a gift for us as much as it is for the kids. It's a perfect way to get energy out and a chance to work on projects in the basement while they jump. Kyler mostly falls, but is getting the hang of it. Either way, he laughs the entire time he's on it. </div>
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Kyler liked to mix up the various gifts, here he is filling up his new bus with Mary, Joseph, a camel, an angel, and of course Baby Jesus!</div>
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Later on Christmas day, my parents came to town! We had a family dinner with the Rettele's and opened a few more gifts. My folks stayed for almost a week and while they were here it snowed! (and our furnace stopped working...service after hours is spendy...but a warm house when it's 1 degree at night was worth it! Home ownership-ugh!)</div>
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Merry Christmas Everyone!!!</div>
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What a beautiful fall we've had! Our yard is filled with vibrant colors and oh so many leaves to rake!<br />
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Kendall met Aurora, Jasmine and Jake at a fundraiser for Make a Wish.</div>
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I made a quick visit to Lewiston for my friend Val's baby shower that Alison and Ann Marie threw---it was so beautiful, they didn't miss one little party detail!</div>
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We hosted Thanksgiving with my fam and Bernie</div>
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Kendall and Ella made the table decorations</div>
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I participated in a planking challenge for the month of November, and the kids would often plank along side me</div>
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In October Kyler truly entered toddlerhood! He got his very first hair cut which made him look SUPER old and SOOOO handsome. His Great Uncle Ken came from Wenatchee to do the honors. His dad gave Keith his first hair cut around this same age. Kyler did great tolerating the tickles and Uncle Ken did a great job on a very wiggly boy. </div>
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So it's a good thing he's so cute!</div>
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He enjoys watching Kendall at dance and has even started to learn a few moves. Ask him to "shuffle, ball, change!" </div>
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He loves to be our helper! Especially when it means he gets to be outside. </div>
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He's walking now!!! And running (especially for a sweets), likes to put
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He eats pretty much anything, so it's hard to say what could have caused a funny rash on his tummy this month, so we took him in to check it out since we had no idea what it was. A little benadryl and he was back to normal. While we were at the doctor we learned that he is 26 lbs! He's wearing 18-24mo clothes and size 4 diapers. </div>
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Although he's got a pretty laid back demeanor, Kyler doesn't like to slow down or stop for much! Kendall has taken it upon herself to be his personal wrangler. The repercussions are she gets her hair pulled on a regular basis and occasionally is bit :/ Kyler's go to defense mechanisms. </div>
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I forgot how much I love this stage of toddler. Kyler is a blast and we just can't get over how fast he is learning things. He understands everything we say and communicates back in his own way when he doesn't have the words. He knows how to joke around and is all around just a fun kid! </div>
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We had a gorgeous fall! </div>
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So we spent a lot of time outside playing. And we had a little after church photo shoot with their matching outfits from Papa John's collection ;)</div>
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Kyler loved answering the door and handing out candy to all the kids. He LOVED kids wearing masks!</div>
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Helping Daddy with the yard work</div>
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A trip to Green Bluff</div>
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Whitworth's 125th celebration and my 10 year reunion</div>
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Kendall's preschool went to Hidden Acres at Green Bluff and I was lucky enough to come as a parent volunteer. She loved being there with her friends and especially enjoyed Penelope the talking pumpkin! </div>
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Kyler was hesitant to play in leaves and never fully warmed up to the idea. He liked to kick them and walk around them. </div>
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We climbed up on the roof to clean off 5 bags of pine needles!</div>
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Loving watching Kendall play with letters at preschool</div>
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And I'm loving hanging out with these two every afternoon!</div>
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Keith and I went to the Jason Mraz concert at the INB theater. YES! We love him.</div>
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I went with Reba, Krista, and Robyn to a cabin on Priest Lake for a girls weekend to relax! </div>
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Kendall carved her own pumpkin at Mimi's house and she only wanted it to have eyes. Hilarious!</div>
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September is always full and exciting as we quickly shift gears from slow summer days to the quick pace of the school year. This year was extra exciting with Kendall beginning her first year in Preschool! She was made for it! </div>
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First day of preschool!!!</div>
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You can see here that she was bursting at the seams with excitement. I was probably a little more nervous than she was. But neither of us cried and she even tried to help a new friend who was feeling sad. I have truly loved being half days and getting to pick her up from preschool. I hear all about the projects they do and the friends she plays with. Plus it's before we get Kyler so it's a nice little one on one time that we don't often have anymore. Kendall is loving all things letters. Her favorite game is to "spell a word" and have us tell her what it says. Occasionally she makes a real word and seems to lock it in. </div>
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We celebrated with a Starbucks date.</div>
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I also had my first day of school...4th year in K and starting to feel like I know a little bit of what I'm doing ;) We added another teacher to our team, Fran! I adore her and feel so blessed that she was the exact right fit for Heather and I. It's also forced me to get a little more organized which I always need a push in that area. </div>
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So pooped out after the first day back to normal routines and getting up early!</div>
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We celebrated our first week by going out to dinner at Twigs.</div>
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Our afternoons look like this:<br />
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We've got a walker and he knows how to get in trouble ;) </div>
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Continued neighbor friend time</div>
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Dance started back up too. Kendall is in a BIG class this year and all the girls so so sweet and mature. We miss a few familiar faces and personalities, but are making new friendships which is exciting!</div>
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One hot afternoon our family ventured out for the Spokane Fair. We bumped into one of Kendall's old dance friends, Chloe. What a treat to see her!</div>
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Learned to lasso</div>
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Riss, Luke and Ella got a new puppy: Kansas!</div>
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Keith and I were able to meet up with our friends at the Gorge for the Zac Brown Band concert and camping ;) Thanks to Kelli and Alex for taking the kids overnight for us!</div>
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Our brave, rough and tumble guy turned 15 months during our busy July. He is 24lbs (68%) and is 32" tall (76%!), he's wearing 18 month clothes (it seems like he skipped 12 months size all together!). He has eight teeth and 4 molars. </div>
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His favorite words and phrases include: tickle tickle (and fingers wiggling), "guda go" (let it go), ba (balls, and all things circular, even wheels), nigh nigh, mouw (cat sound), na (banana), pointing to things he wants and grunting. </div>
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He loves the water and it braver than I'm comfortable with so he is always in a life jacket or we bring over the pack and play. </div>
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He is showing you his many owies he gets daily from climbing any and everything, jumping (falling) off of things that he climbs, and generally limiting his walking to his knees. He does take steps, but prefers shuffling around and getting totally dirty! And as you can see his favorite soothing activity is his bottle. </div>
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dirty little feet from all his knee walking</div>
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This guy can sleep just about anywhere that keeps him in motion. He will fall asleep before we even leave our neighborhood if he's close to a nap or bedtime. In this picture he had fallen asleep in the car to coscto and then transferred to the cart and slept for our entire shopping trip! He occasionally still naps in a swing when all else fails. But he's growing out of it quickly and will need to learn how to sleep in a bed that is not moving---ugh!</div>
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We wrapped up our summer with lots of pool time and playing in our backyard! We had Papa and Grandma make one more visit, took our annual trip to Stoneridge and Silverwood, and of course took time to prepare my classroom. </div>
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My birthday was learning how to paint at Pinot's Palet.</div>
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We also walked to Brentwood park several times. This night we picnicked and played!</div>
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Silverwood's Bolder Beach (and Kyler who walked on his knees most of the summer---OUCH!)</div>
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Big enough for the rides--and brave enough for some of them too!</div>
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Keith took me on a breakfast date while we had all the extra babysitters at Stoneridge. </div>
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Oh my dirty feet! Sure wish he was walking---ugh!</div>
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And that's all folks! Next up...SCHOOL starts :/</div>
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Oh, we made it! Kendall is finally 4 and she is fabulous! She is not perfect, but she is so stinkin' cute, polite, helpful, funny, imaginative, and all around delightful. These traits outshine other normal kid stuff that rubs us the wrong way. The threes were tumultuous for all of us, and we can now see our bright and happy future again. I think some of what contributed to Kendall's "challenging moments" was all the change that we had going on this year with moving. We are finally feeling settled in our new house, have reestablished routines and she can sense the permanence of our life now. Plus, it's summer! We are more relaxed in general, have a lot of fun things going on and that makes everything in life feel great! *Sidenote: Kendall threw a ROYAL fit today when we ran out of time to go to the park (because she never ate her lunch) so I guess it's not all rainbows and unicorns, yet! :) HA!</div>
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Kendall grew a full inch since we moved in in April and is almost 39 inches tall (23%)! She is weighing in around 30lbs (10%) and is wearing 3 and 4T clothes (primarily pajamas all day long). She'll still nap most days. At the very least we always ask that she takes a "quiet time" and plays or reads books quietly for about an hour. She loves to eat bagels or cereal or pasta (the carbs, it's how she keeps her long and lean figure!). Her favorite fruit is bananas and her favorite vegetable is baby tomatoes or bell peppers. She is a sweets-a-holic and tries to convince us to give her treats and dessert for every meal starting at 7am every.single.day! Going to Starbucks and getting a petite scone is the ultimate treat. Eating with Kendall is a SLOW process (has been since her first day of life). Luckily we now have an eat in bar in our kitchen and she takes her sweet time and I can be doing all my kitchen duties and continue to feel productive.</div>
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She loves to have playmates! She is always soliciting our attention to her "games". She likes to direct scenes and tells us what to say and do. It's frustrating when Kyler crawls away and doesn't play just the right way, so he often gets the roll of the dog or cat. Occasionally we'll find her lost in her own imagination playing happily with her dolls. For her birthday we pooled money with family members to buy a nice outdoor play house and she is in heaven. She just got it on Wednesday and already it's been various kinds of stores, a home, and a pool. Almost daily she asks us who can come over and play with her. Luckily we have a few little neighbor girls so if we can, we send her out to find a friend to run around with for a bit to satisfy this intense craving she has to be with friends. (I don't blame her, I love my friends too!).</div>
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Kendall took a few swim lessons this summer to build her confidence in the water (it was July when she started putting her face in the water). Now she's had almost a full summer to practice her water skills and it's amazing to me the growth she's made. She is a total fish! She usually wears goggles and floaties and gets around perfectly without our help. When she takes them off we need to stay close because she poops out pretty quickly. But when she isn't already tired she can swim from the pool stairs to the wall without us. Usually it's just her little head bobbing across the pool, but she is actually moving forward. I'm excited to see what another summer does for her strength and endurance in the pool.</div>
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This girl used to LOVE the outdoors. We spent a tremendous amount of time outside in the beautiful spring we had. Then she went to a baseball game that ended with a hail storm. Ever since she's been terrified of all weather. We'll be outside and all of a sudden she starts to panic that the tiny little white cloud in the sky might turn into a giant rain storm and we're all rushing to get inside while she is crying. Things started to get better and then we had 2 crazy wind storms that knocked down trees and power lines. During the second one we were in the backyard collecting her scooter and covering the sandbox when we actually watched a giant pine tree split in half and land in our common area. This didn't ease her anxiety. So our inquisitive 4 year old has been non-stop curious about wind and electricity. We probably have 1800 conversations about those topics daily. "Mommy, why do trees fall down?" "Mommy, do you think that tree right there will fall down from a wind storm?" "Mommy, when we go home will the power be on still?" .... We are hoping for a very mild fall and winter to build the safety confidence back up.</div>
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One of my favorite things that Kendall just started showing interest in this summer is writing her own name. I've tried a few times to get her to do it, but it was just in July that she began asking how to write all the letters. Back in May her "signature" was "KLL" and she'd only write that if we prompted her to. Now she writes her name multiple times on EVERYTHING! It's pretty cute and has that sweet toddler-ness to it and I know won't last long. She's always been interested in coloring and drawing pictures but they are really starting to look like real things and people and she takes the time to color in the lines and add details like fingers and hair and occasionally eye lashes. She continues to be obsessed with"reading" and sleeps with about 15 books in her bed. Some nights she is still up looking at all her books or "reading to her babies" when we go to bed! She is very excited to start preschool this fall and I totally think she is ready. Last year might have been hard with her stranger shyness we still see from time to time. </div>
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Some of Kendall's funny quotes from the past few months:</div>
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-"remember when..." (and out of the blue recalls every stinking detail about something that took place 6 months ago, like how mad I got at her when she let Kyler have an open sippy cup of milk in the car and he spilled it everywhere.)</div>
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-"Hey guys, I love you."</div>
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The birthday girl woke up at 3am! She couldn't sleep because she was soooo excited about her birthday. This is the first year that she really knew what to anticipate about birthday celebrations and she couldn't contain her excitement. She crawled in bed with us for the rest of the night. I occasionally love extra snuggles like this. Later I was reflecting on her actual BIRTH day and remembered that we went to the hospital around 3am...it was just Kendall's little way of remembering too. </div>
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Every opportunity we get to see Great Grandpa Dave we take! This June he turned 101 years old and still lives independently. He is truly a kid at heart and loves the play with his great grand kids. </div>
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Hours of fun with the mail slot (and I loved watching them play and remembering how cool we always thought it was as kids).</div>
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Daniel and Sarah brought their kids over for dinner our first night here. This is Flynn and Aiden hiding with Kendall. </div>
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Flynn and Kyler adding some chalk art in front of Grandpa's house.</div>
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Always helping Grandma Denise when she makes roll up pancakes! Kyler was on dish duty.</div>
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Kendall studied how the big kids played in the pool and even got brave enough to jump off the edge of the pool without mommy there to catch her!<br />
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We took at least one walk a day. Grandpa still gets out and takes a slow stroll around the loop in front of his house. </div>
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In July we felt like we could really start summer. We were home for a bit, the weather warmed back up after a cool end of June, and we accomplished a few summer traditions.</div>
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Like going to Green Bluff to pick strawberries!</div>
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Taking another 2 rounds of swim lessons (wanting her to gain confidence since we are now pool people) </div>
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Someone started to STAND on his OWN (a bit reluctant to walk since we perfected the speed crawling)</div>
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Caught the ice cream truck!</div>
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Enjoyed the 4th with the van Anrooy crew.</div>
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peely skin from the hand foot and mouth disease :(</div>
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Our fabulous host and tour guide!</div>
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Amazing children's museum at Navy Pier</div>
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A special date day in the city that Leah and Scott gifted us with.</div>
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Deep Dish Chicago style pizza---it was like eating a full block on cheese!</div>
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The Bean</div>
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Keith always loves the street performers</div>
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In June we were busy wrapping up school, settling in to the house, and preparing for our big trip to Chicago!</div>
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First pony ride on an impromptu riverfront park day</div>
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Braved the dentist (barely!)!</div>
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Kyler got really into climbing EVERYTHING</div>
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Alison came for Farm Chicks</div>
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Kyler got Hand Foot and Mouth---it was awful. The last week of school we were left scrambling for childcare and this guy was super uncomfortable. He wouldn't sleep or eat for a week! <br />
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Keith turned 35! ("Old as Dirt" birthday treat)</div>
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first dip in our POOL! </div>
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Jenna came to visit us</div>
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We started planning Kendall's birthday party</div>
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Kendall got a strange infection on her finger so we went in to clean it up and get antibiotics. This was the first time she's ever had to take a 7 day antibiotic and it was not easy for her. We learned to mix it with pudding. So thankful she is usually a healthy kid! </div>
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Oh, isn't he just the SWEETEST!?! </div>
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This darling little guy turned ONE in April. I am in shock. Kyler, on the other hand, is fully embracing his one year old status. He is adventurous, flirtatious, hilarious, and mischievous. </div>
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<br />He says Dada best, and occasionally teases me with a solid Mama (but has his own little version of Meghan (sort of a "May-ah") that he likes to YELL at me, especially if i'm not getting his food or bottle ready fast enough). He says Ba for bottle and ball, uh-oh when he CHUCKS his food off the high chair tray, he answers questions with "yeah", and once I'm certain he called Kendall "sissy". </div>
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He can clap and dance and sing and splash and throw and chase and stand and cruise and bite (me mostly) and climb and snuggle and sleep (just started sleeping through the night when we moved to the new house).</div>
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(At Dider's for his birthday dinner)</div>
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He'll try anything once and only likes to eat when he can feed himself. He loves fruit and noodles best. He has 6 teeth (and now in June he actually has 8!) </div>
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He is a healthy boy weighing in at 22lbs and 28inches long. He is wearing 12-18 months clothes and size 4 diapers.</div>
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Changing his diaper now is like wrestling a greased pig. He poops all the time. Immediately he reaches down to "help" me when the diaper comes off. </div>
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He loves flirting with strangers with his happy blue eyes. He will play with any kid, but also plays alone really well. </div>
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Happy birthday, Kyler!</div>
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Cute little bunny</div>
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Scoping out the eggs. Making her game plan.</div>
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Totally "got it" this year</div>
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She got more candy than all her cousins!</div>
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Friends from when we lived here</div>
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Our happy guy</div>
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We made it one year, baby!</div>
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Blues, greens and grays was the "theme". And the hope was that everything would eventually become a decoration in Kyler's new bedroom.</div>
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Monthly pics from belly to one year</div>
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He got right to business and knew exactly what to do. His strategy was to suck all the frosting off like the cupcake was a bottle!</div>
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He had lots of great helpers for gift opening!</div>
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Happy 1st birthday, Kyler! We are so blessed by you and your playful and adventurous spirit!</div>
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After what felt like a long wait we were given the keys to our new house on April 4th. This was perfect timing for us because that was the beginning of our spring break. My parents had come to town a few days before and helped us do a few repairs on Lanny's house to make it look just like it did when we first moved in. Then my mom helped me start packing up our things for the big move. We had a picnic dinner on the kitchen floor that night to celebrate! (sadly didn't get any pictures to prove it) </div>
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We then spent the weekend painting! It started out that we were going to paint just the bedrooms. We recruited Keith's family to help on our painting day and my parents stuck around an extra day to help as well. We also had to take out several valances and do some cleaning.There is no way we could have finished without all the help!! Kelli is a master painter! We finished the bedrooms with the plan being to come do touch ups and second coats on Sunday. But I wasn't really happy with the color I picked for Kendall's room. Keith couldn't see the difference between the blueish mint color and the greenish mint, but to me it was huge and I just couldn't see myself pulling out the furniture again to do it over in the summer. It had to be done right then. The new green mint color is fabulous and matches everything in her room perfectly! It was also decided that what we thought was a tolerable yellow color in the family room off the kitchen was indeed an ugly peach and needed to be painted after all. So Keith and I tackled both of these additional projects on Sunday. Nothing quite like additional painting projects to refine your marriage! Luckily we splurged for the super nice paint with the primer in it and I do believe this cut down the number of coats we had to do.</div>
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With a pink accent closet door (the bottom pic has the blue version that we painted over). It wouldn't have been my top pick to do this bold of a statement but every time we talked about the house Kendall would say "I'm wondering if my room will be pink?" so this was my compromise.</div>
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This room had wall to wall "built in" closet storage that my dad took most of down.</div>
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Monday was MOVING DAY! Keith has the best friends on the planet. Jon, Adam, Alex, Matt, Joel, KJ, and Kenny were incredible movers!!!! Then family helped out at the house as we started to unpack and put things in their new places. We didn't want to waste time as we had a big 1st birthday party to host the coming Saturday!</div>
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Kendall unpacked her own toys and LOVED getting reacquainted with all the things that had been living in storage. </div>
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Here she is sleeping her first night in the new house. Both kids did shockingly well adjusting to new rooms. I was nervous since we'd most recently all basically lived and slept within 10 feet of each other! </div>
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The bedrooms and family room were my first priority for getting settled in. We bought a rug for the floor and baby proofed the rooms right away. Kyler is quite adventurous so we needed a safe place to occupy him while we worked at unpacking.</div>
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We had several neighborhood visitors our first few weeks. Some people we knew from work and life, and some just super friendly and generous neighbors! We ate our weight in cookies, all in the name of being good neighbors, of course!</div>
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I even squeezed in a few craft projects</div>
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And had a little girls night out!</div>
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And a spring break Easter egg hunt with the Rettele's</div>
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When we sit down and relax...</div>
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We love the backyard view of the trees and park.</div>
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And we love family walks to the neighborhood playground.</div>
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It's been a crazy year and we are incredibly grateful to be in our new home!</div>
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