All the Small Things...

Keiran is FOUR Today!!!

We are celebrating our boy's birthday at Disneyland!!!

Baby #4 Has Flown the Coop...

Okay, so he hasn't "technically" flown the coop-- I suppose I have about 15 more years until that happens-- BUT this is the first step and I don't like it one bit!

Pre-school is the gateway drug to Kindergarten.

Soon after that he'll be mainlining hardcore elementary school- ALL DAY, EVERYDAY!!!   

Again, I don't like this one bit!

 

First of all, he's about the sweetest, easiest kid to have around, so why would I want to send him off somewhere?

Second, do I really want to have FOUR schools to contend with?

Third, he's only 3 and that just seems way too young.  He was just an embryo 36 months ago!

Fourth, one more lunch to pack.

And fifth--- I'll miss him

...a lot.

 

 

SO, I put on my big girl panties and sent him off with a lump in my throat the size of his Lightening "LeQueen" (as he says it) lunchbox.

And you know what happened?

 

 

He loved it.

 

 

 

 

Summer Days 2011 #8...

It's his FAVORITE day of the year.

TOUCH-A-TRUCK!!!

Once a year the city of Thousand Oaks holds this amazing event where every vehicle you could possibly imagine shows up at the park and children can climb all over them, sit in the drivers seats and even wear the equipment associated with that vehicle.

For a kid like Keiran, it's a literal dream come true!!!

Helicopters, boats, loaders, steamrollers, race cars, cherry pickers, police cars, buses, fire trucks-- like I said, you name it, it was there!    How cool is that?!?!?!?!

KK's favorite vehicle there? 

The dump truck.

 

Summer Days 2011 #5...

(KK watching Scarlet and Chandler riding bikes)

Keiran calls his brothers and sisters his "friends".  

"Where are my friends?" he asks everyday while they are at school.  

I LOVE that.

I pray they are always considered his friends.

It's really all a parent wants, isn't it?

Summer Days 2011 #3...

It's National Peanut Butter Cookie Day!  Woo hoo!!

That calls for a new recipe-- PEANUT BUTTER & JAM BARS.  Oh yum!

 

I didn't think these sounded all that amazing, but I've got to tell you--- TO DIE FOR!  I super loved them!

 

Have I told you lately how OBSESSED my boy is with Cars?  I don't think an hour goes by without hearing about how FAST or COOL Lightening McQueen is.  LOVE that kid!!!

The Littles...

My latest FAV pic of my little ones...

 

 

A Trip Down Memory Lane...

I kinda have to confess, this show might have been more for me than for Keiran. 

 

Why?  Well, KK really likes Elmo.  He used to LOVE him, but that was quickly replaced by his love of Blue's Clue's-- bordering on OBSESSION actually.  In fact, he watches A LOT of Blue's Clues and when he requests a new show, he will say Blue's Clues Steve or Blue's Clues Joe.  90% of the time it is Blue's Clues Steve.  Hooray for Steve!  I feel the same way, man.

 

Okay, so when Elmo Live came around I HAD to get the tickets, but not because of KK's massive love for Elmo, but because of PATRICK's MASSIVE love of Elmo.  

You see, Patrick was an Elmoaholic.  Full blown addict.  Like 12 step addict.  Elmo was his life and I LOVED it.  Nothing Elmo ever sang grated on my nerves.  He was so sweet and his little voice was perfection.  I, too, worshipped the ground Elmo walked on.

So now 17 years later, Elmo tickets become available and I jump at the opportunity to go.  Not necessarily to see Elmo again (although he was awesome!), but to get into a mini time machine and go back to those days of simpler times.  The days when Dan was at school and it was just me and Patrick at home in our little Provo home watching Elmo and stopping by everyday at the Thomas' house to play or craft or eat (best neighbors ever!).

And so at Elmo Live, while Bert was on stage dancing away to Doing the Pigeon or Ernie was singing all about visiting the moon, I just looked at KK (who is Patrick's DOUBLE) and remembered how great I've had it.  A REALLY great life with a really great husband and really great kids.  So, for two stupid kids who probably got married way too young and probably had kids way too young and probably even had way too many of them-- we've done pretty good.

Besides-- Elmo's favorite number is 5, so 5 kids is pretty poetic.  :)

 

BTW- the Sesame Street letter of the day was "K".        love that

 

2 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed...

Thanksgiving Jammies for The Littles...

I'm a tad bit *obsessed* with jammies.  ESPECIALLY holiday jammies.

I LOVE them for the kids-- and I must admit, for me too!

 

For this Thanksgiving, I bought the two little ones some cute jams from Old Navy and then I knit them the matching hats while I was in the hospital having Wednesday.

 

I kinda LOVE KK's beanie- I will have to make this one again for WJ in pastels...

WWW...

What Wednesday's Wearing--  CachCach Romper with 2 pink bows added by me.  Carter's hat with a bow added by me.

 

When I was pregnant with Keiran, Dan and I had a competition- who could find the cutest baby boy outfit.  We decided we would wrap the outfits up and open them on Christmas Day.  Whichever outfit proved to be cuter, that was the one that KK would wear home from the hospital.  

We both took the competition very seriously and we both KNEW we had won.

So on Christmas morning we opened up the wrapped outfits.  Dan went first and opened up the TO DIE FOR two piece from The Gap I bought.  He told me it was so cute, BUT he was sorry to tell me that I had lost.

What?  No way!  No way was it possible for him to have picked out something more adorable than I did.  

So he handed me the box and I frantically unwrapped it and there inside was this outfit.

Two words-- congratulations, Dan.