Done with PT

Little "dimples" is done with his physical therapy! Yay! We went to his appointment yesterday. Liz, our wonderful PT, did some measurements and tests and said he's almost as good as new, we just need to watch him and keep working with him. She said that she's worked with a lot of babies and he is the happiest baby she's ever worked with. He is a happy baby and we love him so much!

I LOVE how much they LOVE eachother!

Happy Birthday to the love of my life! Hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy your last year in your 20s!

Hershey and Harrisburg

We took a trip to Hershey Park last weekend. Kirsten had a blast riding all of the little rides.

(I seriously need a new camera my pictures look so bad)
Enjoying the 2 rides that Colton could ride with us.

The next day we went to Hershey's chocolate world to see how they make chocolate. They had this cute ride you went on with singing cows telling you how they made chocolate.

Then Kirsten got to try her hand at making chocolate. She wrapped up some kisses and got her own badge and hat.

We figured we'd better visit the capitol building while we were in Harrisburg. I seriously did not know that Harrisburg was the capitol of PA until a little over a year ago. Pretty pathetic...maybe now I'll remember.

Kirsten's First Week of School

I keep meaning to write about Kirsten's first week of school that happened 2 weeks ago...better late than never I guess.

We started out with a really fun "going to school" party on Monday afternoon with Michael, Jorja, and Cole (pictures to come eventually). Kirsten was so excited about going to Cole's house for a party! They decorated pencil bags and cupcakes and had a blast playing together!
That night we picked out an outfit and laid it out all ready for school the next day.

The next morning Kirsten woke up at about 6 and ran out of her room saying "I'm ready to get dressed." She was ready for school by 7:30 and still had to wait until 9:15 to go. We were both so anxious and excited. So at 10 til 9 we couldn't take it anymore so we went on a walk around the block and then walked over to school. I had been telling her for almost a year now that I was going to say goodbye and go home and that I wouldn't be staying with her. So as soon as we got there she said "when are you going to leave?". Yeah, not much separation anxiety, which I guess is a good thing. So I gave her a hug and said goodbye. It was pretty weird to just leave her in someone else's care. Then I went out to breakfast with some other first time preschool moms. While we were there a huge storm came through so we were all worried about out little kids and how they were going to react to being in a storm without mommy. I think all the kids did better than the moms.

I was so excited to go pick Kirsten up after school. She was so tired that when I asked her about school she said she didn't want to talk about it (isn't she a little young for that!?!) So we went home and she told me that the power had gone out at school. She had tons of fun singing songs, reading books, playing, and having snack. She's been singing all kinds of new songs, it's so fun to hear all the fun things she's learning!
Her favorite thing to play with, of course, the kitchen.

Moving News

Well we finally found out where we will be moving...


Midland, Texas


Home of George W. Bush, "baby Jessica" and Friday Night Lights.

This is what Wikipedia had to say about it
"Perched on the Llano Estacado, a stark treeless plain that has been extensively overgrazed by ranchers, Midland is not known for scenic beauty, unless the visitor is keen on seeing a Cormac McCarthy-esque landscape of pumpjacks, Texas Horned Lizards, mesquite and caliche. Midland's main attraction therefore is oil: lots and lots of oil."

Sounds like heaven on Earth, huh?

I have gotten used to the idea and I'm sure we will grow to love it.

We report on December 1st

My special witch

Kirsten and I made a witch puppet last week that she has been playing with ever since. Yesterday I could hear Kirsten upstairs saying "oh-no, oh-no." She came downstairs and I asked her what was wrong. She said that her special witch was ruined (the hat and hair had fallen off) I told her I would fix it. She was sitting there all distraught when Jonathan asked if she wanted to watch a movie she said "I can't I need to sing a song about my broken witch". So she gets on the piano and starts singing the blues about her witch, "my special witch broke", sad tone. When she was finished I told her I had fixed it so she put the witch up on the piano and began singing about how happy she was that it was fixed. (note the peanut butter and syrup still on her face from breakfast)




I finally broke down and got Colton(??) a Bumbo seat, and man are they nice!

Springton Farm

I took Kirsten to Springton Farm 2 Friday's ago since I couldn't take her to the zoo in New York.


They had brand new pigs that were sooo cute! Kirsten walked around with her little book getting stamps for all the animals that she saw.


They have this little butterfly house where butterflies just fly all around you. This is her and her new friend she met there standing outside of it.

Inside the butterfly house, she did not want her pictures taken.

This is where we spent most of our time. She loved driving the tractor.

And just to prove that Colton was there too...

Statue of Liberty and the U.S. Open

Jonathan got tickets to the U.S. Open in New York for last Thursday. He was going to meet some friends who work up there and then he got sick so he decided not to go. On Thursday morning he woke up feeling better so we decided we'd all head up to New York for the day, since he had the day off anyway.


We decided we'd better see the Statue of Liberty up close before we move.


Waiting at Ellis Island (we didn't have time to go in and look around)



When we first got on the boat Kirsten said she was really nervous. We couldn't figure out why because she's been on boats before. So as we're getting closer to "the statue". Kirsten asked me if the statue was going to have a scary face like this...

I guess that's why she was nervous.


We finally arrived in Queens at the U.S. Open. Jonathan just went in by himself first. I looked on the little U.S. Open map before we got there and it looked like the zoo was right across the street. So I thought it would be a great idea to take the kids there while Jonathan was in watching. When we got there I saw that, yeah it was just across the street, just across the highway to be exact. So we just hung out at this big fountain. Kirsten and Colton both loved this.


Then Kirsten and I went in. We saw Federer play Muller. I've never been to a tennis match and didn't realize that it was such a classy sport. We looked pretty ridiculous bringing in a little girl with Cheetos and fruit punch all down the front of her shirt. It was pretty awesome anyway.

My sweet Kirsten...

Kirsten went to her Preschool open house last Wednesday. She officially starts on Tuesday and goes Tuesdays and Thursdays. She loved her teacher Miss. Kim and has been pretending to be her all week.

Some recent Kirsten happenings...

Kirsten has started to remember more of her dreams lately and she always tells me as soon as she wakes up what her dream was about. Last week she said, "I had a dream that Caleb (her little friend) was going down the slide and he turned into a chicken and died". Interesting dream.

Every once in a while Kirsten will wake in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and then go back to bed. But a couple of weeks ago after she got up I could hear her doing something in her room. So I get up to see what she's doing (it's 3 in the morning) and she says "I'm just picking out some books for us to read tomorrow".

And today she was so sweet. I must have eaten some bad food or something, because my stomach hurt really bad this morning. I felt like I was going to throw up. So I was on the floor in the bathroom and Kirsten said "do you need a drink of water? maybe that will make you feel better" so she got me a drink of water. Then she said "do you want to put some makeup on maybe that will make you feel better." I went and laid down and Kirsten came in and picked out some books to read to me. She finished reading the books then kissed me goodnight and told me to get some sleep.

Does anyone else feel like most of their conversations go like this...

Kirsten: "Where's that guy going."

Me: "I don't know"

Kirsten: "How come you don't know?"

Me: "Well, because he didn't tell me?"

Kirsten: "How come he didn't tell you?"

Me: "Because I don't know that guy."

Kirsten: "How come you don't know that guy?"

Me: "Because I've never met that guy before."

Kirsten: "What guy?"