Kid Updates

As many of you know, kids grow up WAY to fast!! I am amazed at how much my kids have changed when I take a minute to watch them. Most of my family lives pretty far away so I thought I would update you on what my kids are up to lately.

ASHTON:
Ashton changes the most. He is a crawling maniac and I have started to play games with him. You know games like "How fast can Mom sweep so that Ashton doesn't scatter the dirt pile" And "How many times can Ashton knock over the towel pile without getting in trouble" and "Guess who took the safety gate down." He is finally starting to eat. He has never like baby food to this day he will only eat the fruits that contain banana and NO veggies or meals. BUT..he loves real food! I have started to give him spaghetti, pancakes, cereal, rice and other odds and ends off our plates.

NATHAN:

Nathan has been quite funny. We borrowed my brother's Wii while he was on vacation. We had a lot of fun. Nathan like to have the Nintendo on, but did not like to play as much as he like to watch. He started playing Mario Kart on his own. He would get two of his matchbox cars out of his room, then choose his characters. One for him and one for me. He would start the race by saying "Mario time, or Peach time, or Yoshi time, depending on which characters we had chosen. Sometimes I would ask for a character like King Boo, or Bowser to which he responded "I have not unlocked those ones yet." Then he would race the cars around the room. They would fall of the edge, get mushrooms and throw shells at each other, then inevitably, he would always win. Usually he would finish bu telling me what he unlocked by winning. It was a lot of fun to watch him play.

KAYLEE:

Kaylee has become quite athletic lately. She was at a birthday party yesterday and won the balloon toss. She has also become a pro at the monkey bars. She cruised past Trevor in her abilities on them. First she could do them all, then she could skip a bar, then she could do them backwards. I have seen her do this a couple of times on the school playground, but Bryan had not seen it yet, so when we went to see the fireworks on the 4th of July and they had monkey bars, she got to show off her skills.

TREVOR:

Trevor has been filling his summer mostly by reading and writing stories. He quickly filled up his summer reading log for Barnes and Noble and picked out a free book called Frindle. We read Fablehaven together and the kids all really liked it. They can't wait to start on the second book. When Trevor gets together with his friend they work on their book called Unknown bugs. In this book they make up new bugs and give them names and draw pictures of them. Here is one of his stories.

FLOPSY:

Flopsy was a rabbit Like all other rabbits Flopsy loved running, carrots & her mom & dad & brothers & sisters she had a best friend named Yurtle. Yurtle was bunny.

They loved racing. Yurtle went to bunny school & Flopsy went rabbit school but their schools were so close together they shared playgrounds.

There schools names were Rabbit Hop & Bunny Fluff but one day they started to hate each other & that's the story of Flopsy.