Quick Catch Up

Life in our house never slows down anymore. As you can see I managed to get busy in the last few months. The school year ended. Kayhlynn was promoted to 1st grade. We are very proud of her. Then 10 days after that we welcomed our newest baby girl into the family. Natalie Taylor came exteremly early Sunday June 27th @ 12:05am. She was 7 pounds 9.3 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. She come out hungry and crying!! She has been a blessing to us already. She is holding her head pretty good on her own..still wobbly but getting it down. She is smiling at us and she coos already too!! She is reaching for our faces and toys hanging down from the toy bars. She rolls up on either side, but hates hates hates tummy time!!! She doesn't even like to sleep on her belly!!! Interesting. She also tries to pull herself forward while in the sitting position!! I truly think she is going to be a little quick with things at this point. She wants to get the older two girls. You know they can't have fun without her. She is growing up so fast!! I wish it would all slow down for just a bit so I could enjoy these moments for a minute longer. Just savor them. She is our last baby. We will not be having anymore. Mommy got her tubes tied and Daddy will be taking care of himself when we get back to the states. Hannah has adjusted well to life with a baby in the house. She does go through her jealously patches, but for the most part she is loving it all!! She is a great helper and she is looking forward to her schooling this year as well. We have a lot to accomplish with her to get her Kindergarten ready!! Almost to the half way point in the tour here in Japan!! We stay busy and time is flying. Nothing will make up for all that is lost to those we care for in the process of this, but just know that we are doing all we can to keep everyone in the loop. Kayhlynn and Hannah also played T-Ball this year!! Kayhlynn has the urge to play softball. So we are getting her ready and since they don't offer Softball till high school here, we are doing the next best thing!!!She loved it and did well. She is really catching on to hitting and playing the different positions. She really seems to have the desire to learn it all. She got a trophy for playing and she is absolutely proud of it!!! Hannah, played T-Ball as well, but she played what they call Smart Start. For 3 and 4 year olds. They run through everything they need to learn. She got bored with it towards the end, but it is a lot of repeating repeating repeating. She wanted to play like Kayhlynn was!! Her last "practice" they had a "game" and she loved every second of it!!! She really does well when she can get into it. She has made it known to Mommy that she wants to be a cheer leader. So we may be looking into getting her started!! That is pretty much everything that up to date for the moment. We will be getting back into the writing once or twice a week to keep everyone up to date!!! The new school year will be starting soon. Kayhlynn is so excited!!!!

NEW MONTH

Well, we have officially hit another month in 2010!! My oh my how time is flying by. I am sure Mommy is happy as it means the baby will be here sooner. I can't wait till baby gets to come home. Sissie and I are very excited. Mommy had another ultra sound last month. She is pretty sure we are going to have a baby brother!!! We are very excited about that. We really wanted a baby brother. Mommy has new pics of him too!! Hannah and I were so excited to see them when she got home.

Hannah has also hit 4 years old. We celebrated her birthday on January 31, 2010 at the Weasel's Den. The Weasel's Den is an indoor play area for kids. It is really nice to go there and run around. It has a lot of things for us to do. Hannah had a wonderful party with lots of friends, good food, and a wonderful tasting cake!!! Mommy was very tired after all the planning and everything else with it that she did nothing the next day, but rest!!! LOL...funny how Mommy used to be able to do everything and now she has to do a little at time. I am sure things will change back to normal once the baby is here!!! Hannah gots lots of cool stuff for gifts too. Maybe Mommy will post pictures of some of it.

Daddy, has been really busy at work. He spent a lot of time there the last couple of weeks. We were going through Daddy withdrawals!!! LOL....he thought it was funny because he was still coming home to sleep at night. But he was leaving before we got up in the mornings and not coming home till after dinner. We only got see him for about an hour and it was our bed time. Mommy hated it when he was working those long long hours. We were stuck at home!!! Daddy took the car.

I got my second report card yesterday!! Mommy and Daddy are very proud as the teacher had only good things to say again. And I got all Ps....progressing. That is really good!!! There was one thing she said I really needed to work on and that was NOT helping other kids who did not want my help. I have a hard time understanding this. But with Mommy and Daddy's help I will learn what she means. I am trying to make it better at school so I don't get that anymore. I love school, learning, and everything that we do. Right now we are counting down the days to 100th day of school. It is right around the corner. Mommy thinks we would have hit it already if we did not get so many days off!!! Valentine's Day is coming to, but not so sure it will be much fun. I think we might be having a party at school, but I don't know. Mommy says I have to buy cards to take in!! That sounds like fun and got my attention!! I also have to make a really pretty box to take in. Mommy says we will work on it this weekend.

Well that is all with us for now....we will write again soon!!!

SNOW SNOW SNOW

The first photo is the 12th. In the afternoon, when the snow first started coming down!! As you see...we started out with NOTHING!!!

Well, on the 13th of this month we woke up to a world of white fluffy stuff! Boy did we get a lot. Mom let us go sledding riding in the afternoon while Daddy, Mr. Gabe, and Mrs. Deb helped dig us all out! It was crazy. It took them a couple of hours to get it done too.

Mommy, she was kinda sad because she could not help, but she helped us with sledding. Sometimes she would give us a little push down the hill. And then we would really go super fast down it. We really had a good time. I was not feeling so good so I did not stay out for very long. But I still managed to enjoy it. Mommy took lots of pictures. I hope she shares them with everyone here. It was a whole lotta snow. Hannah was standing in the front yard at one point with the snow up to her waist!!!!

We are very excited to have some more snow finally. We are going to build a snowman this weekend to replace our other one that melted away. We think this snowman will be around for a long while! They have been calling for more snow, but so far we haven't gotten much. Not even enough to cover the cars up. Hope you enjoy our pictures.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

We just wanted to say Happy New Year to all our frineds and family that maybe following us on here!! We are excited for what this year hold in store for us as a family! Aside from the beautiful baby growing inside Mommy's tummy we are sure there are going to be many other wonderful things to come for our family!! As the year started we sent Daddy away for a week to San Diego. He will be back in just ONE DAY. We are very excited that he is coming back already as we have greatly missed him. While he was away we got back into our school routine. I am very happy to be back in school. I missed all my friends, teachers, and my class learning greatly. I was driving Mommy crazy asking when I could go back. Well, we don't have much else to say about us at this point. We just really wanted to say Happy New Year. Hope all is going with everyone. We are still missing you bunches, and we are coming up on our 1 year anniversary here in Japan. That means we will be down to just 2 more years left....Hope it goes quickly. We are all ready to be back in the states closer to you all!!!!