Summer Stuff

On Father's Day, Kellan asked "How many cousins does Monty have?" and I answered "Counting you guys, seven" - "How many cousins does Lyla and Phoebe have?" and I answered "Counting you guys, ten" (hopefully I'm right on both those counts).  He was disappointed for a minute realizing he has three, then he got very excited "I'm going to have four cousins soon..."  

Willow Jane Kabisch was born late that night on Father's Day.  She's the kids fourth cousin,  and we are all so excited she's here - I just wish we were where "here" is to see her.  Congratulations Debi, Tim and Monty!

There has been a lot of questioning around whether Dexter has reached his terrible "2's."  Kellan and Zoe went through their terrible "3's" (questionable whether Zoe is carrying those years into her 4, & 5's).  Kellan and Zoe aren't the best examples.  Kellan and I were pretending to do karate the other day, Kellan decided to take it a bit far and kick me, seconds later Dexter came running over and proceeded to kick me in the shins non-stop.  "No" is a big word in his vocabulary.  He is very polite.  Now says "Thank you Mommy" - "Thank you Daddy", "Bless you" and "Your welcome."  At least we've taught him some positives.  


The cast came off!  As a warning - don't ask about it, Zoe is still totally embarrassed and absolutely goes crazy if there's any mention.  Regardless, we are happy to put it behind us especially with the heat.  She's as good as new.

At a nearby park playing in the fountains

At Rockies Rookies day at Coor's Field

Getting some CR ink

Dexter has to do everything the kids do.  I trust the almost 8 yr old a little too much lately...

Mascot from other CO teams were at the event 

Our personal favorite - Dinger

Later that night at the game

Saturday was in the 90's, but once the sun went behind a cloud, D was so cold

There was no stopping him...other than us having to lift him to the top each time since it's too steep to climb.

I can rarely get the videos to work consistently.  So here's a link to You Tube with a montage of Dexter videos. 

Click for You Tube videos of Dexter

Last kid's quote

Dexter's first quote:

Mom: "Are you my big boy?"

Dexter: "No. Baby"

Zoe talking about a Ke$ha song - a whole 'nother blog there.

Zoe: "Mom, will you play "Tank Top"?"

The song is "Tik Tok"

Socks anyone?

We started our "summer of firsts" - first vacation, first summer visitor, first illness, first baseball game, and first marriage proposal.

Censorship may be coming soon to this blog.  Now that Kellan can read, Zoe will use this to her advantage and she's been asking him to read the blog to her.  I'm already getting in trouble.  This blog may be coming to you in Spanish as soon as I can learn it - which means others will need to learn it too.  Maybe that's a great incentive for the kids to learn; I'm doubting it.

Zoe's first cast came off and the second one went on. I had a gander at the new bone and the doctor says things are looking great.  She was able to bend her elbow immediately.  Now if she will just start acting like she has a broken bone there's hope we'll get this cast off on June 16th.  There have finally been some pictures taken with it, though if you read this weeks from now I may have been forced to take them down since I've already had the warning - "you better not put any of those on the blog."

Jim took his annual baseball trip to Minnesota, spent a few days over Memorial Day watching the Angels play the Twins.    

G-ma Chloe came for a 2.5 week visit.  Our great weather went out the window and we even got some snow for her late May visit.  Of course the nice temps are back now that she's left.  Dexter, like with visitors before, took to her right away.  He followed her everywhere, "Mah-mah" as he liked to talk call her, even pointed out Duke's poop to her in the yard to pick up similar to what Kellan used to do when we lived with my folks - he was the designated "poop scout".  We were sad to see her leave and really hope she moves here.  Time will tell.

Dexter is talking more and more.  Below are some of the words he's saying - you think there's a baseball/Pixar influence in this house?

baseball game, single, double, foul ball, nemo, buzz, "mckeen", poo-poos, side-side (for outside).  Still not calling the kid's by their names yet.  

All three kids are presently sick with awful colds.  Jim took them all to the doctor Friday, to avoid the weekend urgent care visit, to be sent home with a comment along the line of  "they're pretty sick, but hopefully they'll get better before they get worse" (paraphrasing of course). Flash forward to Monday a.m. - back to the doctor for Zoe, double ear infection - Monday p.m. back to the doctor for Dexter, single ear infection.  Not sure if they are more sick of us or us of them; we've spent a lot of time in the house.  Both Kellan and Zoe are officially out of school until August 2nd.  

Hard to tell from the pictures, but the kids watching the Rockies.  They pay serious attention.

Within minutes of walking in from the airport, Dexter and his new friend - "mah-mah"

Pre-school graduation

Kellan went 2 for 2 in his first game.

The old dog.  Hard to tell from the picture, but Duke isn't getting around all that great lately.  

 

We all enjoy a backyard game of wiffle ball now and then.  Zoe was even pulling off the one handed hit.  Now and then Kellan likes to make up his own rules.  Of course Jim has no mercy on the kid and plays "fair" meaning Kellan doesn't always win.  Kellan isn't always in the mood for losing.  I was able to get his mood on camera, might have only been better had I got it on video.  The many faces of Kellan, suppressing anger to mocking Jim and everything in between.

Mad

Thinking about how to respond

More anger

Frustrated

Ah-ha, he's got it now

Mocking..and the Wiffle game was over

Even uses a glove now, on the correct hand and all

Zoe got a written and a "down on his knee" marriage proposal this past week.  Here's her and her beau (he lives on our street and was in her pre-school class), cruising in his birthday car.

Still one of Dexter's favorite places to sleep

Can anyone guess the above picture?  I was doing some spring cleaning and came across 7 pairs of Kellan's socks in the bathroom cabinet.  Kellan takes them off when he poops, little did we know he was stashing them away.  We asked - and no, no good answer, no explanation - not even anything worth quoting.