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Getting Around

Little miss Kylah has been getting around now for a couple days. She has been getting around for a couple months but she just figured out this week that she can go from room to room rather than just going for a toy just out of her reach. We think her 'crawl' is pretty funny!

Fire trucks & 8 months

Today we got to go to the Ankeny Fire Station with our mom's group from church. Isaac is always excited about the 'wee-yews' (aka that's what anything is called that has a siren) whenever we go past the fire station. He was pretty excited to go see all the fire trucks, he was especially excited about the big ladder truck. He was so excited about it that when he got to go into the truck he kept telling the fireman that was giving us the tour that "this is the ladder truck"and then he pointed and would say and "that's the other fire truck." :) I tried to get some pictures but when we are in large groups like we were this morning Isaac usually won't go anywhere else but between my legs. What can I say he's like his mommy and daddy were when we were kids. He would much prefer and he would venture out more if there were only a couple kids verses about 30 of us.

Isaac telling the fireman which trucks are which, I'm sure he was telling him some wild stories as well.

Attempting the fire pole, he liked the idea of it more than actually sliding down it

We headed to the park afterwards. Can you believe this little sweetie is 8 months old already? 8 months always seems like a long time but when you have a little baby it goes so fast!

Can't imagine what life was like without her, love this girl!!!!

First taste of a banana. So far she's had avocado, butternut squash, homemade oatmeal cereal and banana. Her favorite so far has been avocado. Which by the way these foods especially avocados are pretty common first foods for babies; I've been told I feed my kids weird foods. Just because I don't feed my kids unhealthy crap food all the time doesn't mean I feed them weird foods! Just sayin...

Weekend in Sheldon

We just got back from a pretty fun weekend in Sheldon. Lots of things we were home for; Gary had work on the farm to get it ready for the farm sale and our nephew graduated from high school. We always love to see family, and each time we are with our family we cherish that time more and more. Life is so short and so precious!

At the park with papa; he always wants to go higher!

At Chris's graduation, he thought he could get his head through the hole.

Spending some time out on the farm. This time papa came with us and Isaac thought is was pretty cool to get a 4-wheel ride from papa!

The rest of the pictures I tried to take a little "mini photo shoot". The time Gary has to spend with Isaac out on the farm with grandpa's tractors is fading so I'm trying to capture their time together. Isaac is probably too young to remember these times but I hope someday we'll be able to use these pictures and tell him lots of stories about his grandpa, his daddy growing up and how much he loves the farm!

Isaac could ride hours in the tractor, you can definitely tell farming runs through his blood!

Isaac fell asleep an hour from home. When we got home I laid him on the couch thinking he would wake up shortly after. He woke up for 5 minutes and I came back in the room and he was asleep again so I just put him to bed. Must have been a fun weekend for him. Now I'm just hoping he is not up at 5 am tomorrow!

I Think She Likes It...

Just a glimpse of our days together!

Pretty Girl

Kylah keeps us really entertained by her many faces, she has such a personality! She is such a calm and relaxed baby; she takes a lot from her brother and she still usually has a smile on her face. She loves her brother and Isaac loves to "giggle her" (translation- make her giggle) but he doesn't always understand what 'gentle' means. She doesn't mind being without him but she would prefer to have him around, she's always watching what he's doing. Kylah is 7 months old already, it's so hard to believe. It seems like yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital and now she's sitting on her own and she is not far from crawling. She is one sweet little girl and we absolutely adore her and we couldn't imagine our family without her!

A Day at The Farm

This is my first attempt to get back to blogging. I figured what better day than today to start...read to the end! I don't know if I will keep up with it but I'm going to try for all those who want to keep up with our kids. It was just to hard to blog during the construction phase of our house and then the adjusting that took place afterwards. A slow computer doesn't help either, but I'm back from the stone age thanks to my husband so I can do things much faster now!

Anyways on to our day we at at the farm. This morning we went with some friends from one of our playgroups to Tom's Ranch which is a farm about 20 minutes north of Ankeny. He had goats, chickens, sheep, cattle and horses for the kids. He also sells grass-fed cattle, broiler chickens and eggs; I've been checking out his farm and what he sells for awhile so there were two good reasons to go. I told Isaac last night before bed that after mommy had to teach class we were going to go to a farm and he goes "woo hoo!"

Since Gary has been out to Grandpa Pennings farm a lot lately getting things ready Isaac has been able to take a lot of tractor rides so he thought we were going there to ride on the tractors and he got mad at me every time I told him we wouldn't be able to do that. When we pulled up he asked if he could milk the cows (even though they were not dairy cows) and he was all excited about them. As soon as we got over to the cow's I said do you want to go into the barn to look at the cow's and he said "I think I don't like the cow's, the cow's are scary." So he wasn't a fan of the cow's after all.

He's big talk in the van but once he's up by the animals he wants nothing to do with them. He did pet the bunny but he wanted to keep his distance from every other animal there.