Escape Artist

So last night, Caleb woke up from the storm. He usually sleeps right thru but he is sick and sleeping very restless. He woke up about 2:30 and stayed awake until 4:30 at which time I put him in his bed to fuss himself to sleep. I am almost asleep in my bed when I notice his crying is getting louder and louder. In the next instant, he is running into my room. The little buger climbed out of his crib. So today, We have to decide whether to leave him in his crib or put up the toddler bed. I was just thinking how nice it is to have ONE kid that stays in bed all night. At nap time today I put him in his bed and he crawled out and was trying to open the door. He doesn't know how to open the door yet but I am sure it won't take long. So much for our peaceful nights!!!
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Birthday fun

Today, was Kylie's second birthday. Kirk's parents and nephew came to visit. They brought Kylie all kinds of ballet stuff. Then we decided to go to Chuck E Cheese. It was wonderful. For $50 nine of us ate and had drinks and played all the games we wanted. On top of that, they gave Kylie a crown, a balloon, and 4 tokens (4 years).Then Chuck E came out with ice cream sandwiches with candles to sing to all the birthday kids. Kylie is afraid of Chuck E so we skipped the ice cream singing thing. I am really impressed with all they do for free. After that we went to Toy R Us. They also gave Kylie a balloon, a crown and announced to the whole store her name and it was her birthday. She thought it was really cool. We also received a $3 gift card to spend at Toys R Us. Kylie was so impressed by it all. Kids are so easy when they are young. I just wanted to share all our cool birthday freebies.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad! We love you and miss you. Hope you have a great day. Thanks for being such a kind and loving Dad and grandpa.

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Kylie is 4

Today, Kylie is 4. In so many ways, she is still the baby of the family. She is such a little pixie. She is so tiny and even her features are petite. She is very shy but can be as loud as the big girls when she is comfortable. She cries at the drop of the hat and loves to "sleep in the middle" of our bed. She wants to big but wants to be the baby at the same time. Caleb has become her big, little brother. He is younger but bigger and stronger. Kylie loves to play with him and take care of him. She is the runt of our litter. The older girls both love to play with her and play really well unless all three of them are together. Kylie tends to be sickly and them seems even smaller than she is. She weighs next to nothing and still likes to cuddle up to us. She has tiny freckles on her tiny nose. She loves the water and riding her new big girl bike. We love our little Kylie Paige and can't imagine our family with out her. Happy Birthday Kylie-boo.

Cara's Tooth

Last night, Cara came into our bedroom and said she had her first loose tooth. We looked at it and said"Keep wiggling it and soon it will come out." She went back to bed and not 5 minutes later came in our room and said"I lost my tooth...I mean really lost it. I was trying to pull it out and then it was gone and there was a hole where it was." We couldn't believe it. It wasn't that loose. Karissa practically waits for them to fall out by themselves and here is Cara yanking hers out. Anyway, we spent the next 20 minutes looking for her tooth. She put it under her pillow and was so excited by her $1 this morning. She told me to call and tell everyone she knows she lost her first tooth.

Vacation

This was supposed to be our family vacation picture. It was the end of the second day at Sea World. It would have been great but instead of Kylie, we got Blue Dragon (Kylie won him at a fishing game).

The USS Lexington (really cool)














Padre Island
















The Alamo
















Girls at dusk on the beach

Shamu

Feeding the dolphins



Last, Wednesday we set out on our first family vacation. We left Caleb with Grandma and drove to San Antonio. We spent two great days at Sea world. We saw Shamu, fed dolphins, rode roller coasters and played at the water park. We loved the acrobat Viva show with the beluga whales and dolphins.
Saturday morning, we stopped by the Alamo. The Alamo was very hard for the kids to grasp. Karissa had studied it in school, so she wanted to see it. I checked out a kids library book and read it to them the night before. Cara didn't understand why "they had to fight instead of just talking."Then, we drove to Corpus Christi and walked on the bay and visited the beach at Padre. Sunday, we saw jelly fish off the USS Lexington and got to tour the inside of the first air craft carrier. We spent the rest of the day at the beach in Padre. Sunday night, we drove to Austin(we saw the capital all lite up) and stayed the night in the best hotel of our trip. We drove home on Monday. I caught a cold about the second day of vacation. Hopefully, it will run it's course soon. We had a great time and would love to return to Sea World and the ocean very soon. Kylie loved Shamu, Mom loved the Beluga whales, Dad loved the sharks, Karissa and Cara loved the acrobat show. They all loved the wave pool. ( Kylie informed me ...sometimes when I sneeze I know I am allergic to butterflies).

Caleb had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa and cousin Amanda. He also spent one night with Memaw and Pawpaw and cousin Chris. He loved to look at pictures of all of us but had a great vacation wothout us. We missed him greatly but knew we would wear out much quicker with him. Without him we spent 10 hours at Sea World day one and 8 hours day two. For those of you who know of Kirk's fear of the ocean...he did very well. I think he got a little above the knee deep. Cara, on the other hand, got in until the waves came and then ran out as fast as she could. She loved collecting shells and making sand castles. Kylie and Karissa loved jumping waves but not the salty taste of the water. The ocean was relaxing but very dirty.