Chuck was eating Lefsa. Alyssa said "I want some of that". Ten minutes later, I said to Alyssa, are you ready for Lefsa? She said, "What is lefsa"? I asked her what she thought Dad was eating earlier and she said "A sugar sandwich."

Marci and Jill were driving in the car. A house had Christmas lights on. She said "They have their Christmas....., Christmas......, Christmas dots up."

Charlie Gets his first tooth

Halloween

Alyssa Sings at Church

Alyssa Learns How to Ride Her Bike

Alyssa learned how to ride the bike without training wheels today. She was very excited.

Alyssa Goes School Shopping (Marci Tags Along)

Grandma came and took Alyssa on a shopping spree. Marci decided that she wanted to go with. They shopped all day and when Mom and Dad got home we go a style show. Enjoy.

Marci's 3

Happy 3rd Birthday Marci!! (If you ask her how old she is now she says "5") She got the doll from Michelle and we had the outfit for her from Halloween a few years back.

Alyssa starts church choir

Alyssa decided she wanted to sing in the little kids choir at church and started tonight.

Alyssa's First Day of Kindergarden

Alyssa started the day by having a bowl of Cream of Wheat with mom. It started of a little rough when mom put Alyssa on the wrong bus do to the van clock being off by ten minutes. Mom then had to chase down the bus to get Alyssa on the correct one. They then waited around by Mitchell house for the next bus which arrived about 10 minutes later.

Mom went to school at the end of Alyssa’s first day to take pictures and a video of Alyssa getting on the bus. So Mom waited for Alyssa at the Daycare spot but the bus driver did not want to let Alyssa off at the spot because he had written down that she was suppose to be dropped off at our house. Jill tried several ways to explain that she was suppose to be dropped off at the Daycare spot on Wednesdays and Thursdays but the Bus driver was more concerned about being right than trying to understand. Eventualy he let Alyssa get off at the Daycare spot.

When Alyssa finally got off the bus she told mom in a stern voice “You forgot to put a snack in my bag:”, she was the only one in class without a snack. Opps. Rookies.

For the rest of the Day mom and Alyssa went out for lunch and spent the afternoon going to Garage Sales.

Alyssa Favorite Parts of Kindergarten So Far

· Playing outside

· Playing with Maggie and Maleah (who live a block over and get to be in the same class and ride the same bus)

Alyssa Favorite Color is “Every color” which is a recent change from Pink.

Alyssa’s Favorite Book is “All princesses books”

Alyssa’s Favorite Food is “Corn Dogs” (which was here meal of choice when Mom and her went out to lunch

Alyssa’s Favorite Thing to do is to play with Saylah and Aliyah

Marci Favorites

Marci Favorite Parts of Being at Shells so far

·         Eating

·         Playing with Ethan and Madox

Marci Favorite Color is “Um, Yellow”

Marci’s Favorite Book is “Bob the Builder”

Marci’s Favorite Food is “Pizza”

Marci’s Favorite Thing to do play with toys

Marci’s Favorite Snack “Gold Fish”

 

Anything Else:  “I do, Pizza, un huh, um, playing with toys,”

Charlie Update

He like to stand on the sit and spin.  Pushes it and walk with it.   He likes to play on the steps by going up and down the first one or two.   He can easily go up and tries to go down usually only on or two steps before falling backwards and being caught by mom. 

 

No teeth yet but loves to eat what we are eating.  Not always a huge fan of babyfood.   He has gotten very good at putting food  in his mouth by himself.

 

It has been a challenge keeping track of three with Charlie moving so much now and putting everything in his mouth.  This keeps Mom and Dad very busy.  

 

 

 

 

Alyssa Goes Shoping With Grandma

Alyssa got to go school shopping with Grandma and Marci got to tag along. After getting home they had a style show for Mom and Dad. They had a blast and enjoyed the day with Grandma

Shes doing the dead mans float

Marci said "She's doing the dead mans float" watching the Olympics backstroke when they should have been sleeping. Tonight we went to the first day of Vacation bible school. The kids made hats, necklaces, and colored beach balls.

Charlie Enjoyed a Ride on Brenden's horse

We went to visit the Grandma and Grandpa K this weekend. Charlie is growing up very quickly. Just this week he waved bye bye, held the cup while he drank, and started climbing up multiple steps.

Charlie is now feeding himself

This week Charlie started feeding himself. He is growing way to fast.

Having Fun at River City Day Parade

We went to the parade with the Sam and Hiedi and Dave and Laura.

Fun Swimming With Neighbors

We went swimming with the Haucks and the Segers. The kids had a blast. Marci confines to be a fearless swimmer and Alyssa loves being in as deep as water as possible without here life jacket.

Blowing Bubbles at Brendans Party

The kids are having a great time blowing bubbles at Como park for Brendan's first birthday.
After the Zoo we went to the hotel by Jason's and the kids swam all afternoon and night.

Going to the zoo for brendans bday

Charlie Crawls

Just thought I would throw up some footage of Charlie Crawling

Charlie Laughs

Marci was able to get Charlie laughing hysterically and I was able to record the end of the laugh.

Charlie crawls

Charlie crawled today. He has been scooting for a couple of weeks but figured out how to crawl officially today.

Watch out the boy fun is beginning.

Can't get in the car before the tornado arrives

We stayed longer than we planned because Jill locked the keys in the car and a tornado warning was issued this evening.

Bubbles at JAsons cabin with Grandma(pa)

Enjoying a hot day at Jasons cabin with Gene and Mary

Pony Rides At the Aitkin County Fair

The kids had fun at the fair. Pony rides, kittens, rides and farm animals

Cold Night

Jill thought Charlie was cold so she put two sleep covers and his coat on for him to sleep in. Doesn't he look comfortable.

Alyssa learns new trick

Alyssa was able to flip herself upside down on the swing and needed to show Dad her new trick. WOW!
Good job! Alyssa

Charlies drinking coffee

We are eating breakfast and Charlie tried to grab
Grandma's coffee and she said "You can't drink that Charlie" to which Marci replied "You can if your at Grandma Aitkins house." I think she is figuring it out.

Charlie won't sleep and is enjoying the senary

Night number 2. Everyone has crashed except the 6 month old who got some rest during the day. The kids also got to play aka chase the ducks today. Went swimming 3 times. Marci is becoming quite the swimmer and Alyssa is loving being with the twins.

Ducks in camp

The kids got to see 20 ducks while some kids fed them bread. Marci and alyssa were chasing them everywhere.

Finding something to do during the drizzle

Eli talking

Eli talks our ear off :)

Mom and I are hanging out with eli and he is telling us many interesting fact and stories

First day camping with Mom

We had a fun first day. Marci learned how to float and swim in a life jacket today. Alyssa went down the big slide on her own with a lifejacket.

Swimming with grandma

The girls drenched their poor grandma

Wow Cool Fireworks

Alyssa and Dad went up to the bridge and saw the coolest fireworks today. We were able to see 12 communities from the top of the bridge. We will have to do this again next year

Met new neighbors

Nathan Holly Maggie Melea Macie Tate on hike

On a hike

Fun with cousins

We were all at Jill's parents house last weekend (June 28th-30th) and had a blast with our cousins
Alex, Lucas, Cooper, Jack, Alyssa, Delia, Charlie, Marci, Brendan, Marni

Its a Hippopotomus

We were on our way to Madison and Marci said....
I saw something. Mom said what was it? Dad said was it a deer? And Marci said It's a Hippopotumus. Then after we were saying Wow a few times, and about a minute later she said, Maybe it was a cow outside the fence.
Cute!!!