This is a very random mixture of photos...
I was holding Kellan for a nap in our room earlier last week and caught him waking up
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| The first opening of the eyes. A look of total confusion mixed with a bit of fear...haha. |
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| Then he sees me. |
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| Smile. Heart melt. |
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| Biggest yawn ever comes next. |
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| Yawning, not crying. Sleeping is hard work. |
Finn and Kellan having a conversation
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Cora found a poncho in the dress up box and wore it for a day or two.
Just the poncho.
Nothing else.
Per usual. |
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| It was 85 degrees this day. |
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| Kellan is JUST reaching the age where toys are becoming interesting to him. He is starting to reach for toys and swat at things and put them in his mouth, if he can figure out how to get them there in the first place. |
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If Kellan is on this play mat the older kids are ALL OVER HIM.
It's a bit dangerous, being a baby in this house! |
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| I took his 3 month photos a week late. Because: #4thchild |
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| Smiles for cousin Anja |
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| One of his new skills is doing al sorts of things with his tongue and lips. Blowing bubbles, sucking in his lips, etc. |
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| Kellan and Layla forever. |
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| Snuggles with Aunt Lauren |
Zoey and Rachael Rydbeck came to stay with us Tuesday-Friday of last week. The kids were SO excited to have 3 sleepovers in a row with Zoey! In addition to the fun barbie house that our next door neighbor brought over for the kids last Tuesday, THIS past Monday Layla's friend Elena brought over a barbie mall, a barbie plane, and a box of barbies and accessories. The kids are in heaven! We brought a car load of stuff to GoodWill to balance out the influx of toys...haha. These were in the back porch for a week, but now my parents have moved into their new home, so the toy room is back and is not barbie heaven.
I got this swing used on FB for $30...gonna see if I can train Kellan to sleep in it, swaddled, for some daytime naps (he sleeps on his stomach, not swaddled). Wish me luck! I'm hoping this will help elongate naps once school starts, but if not, we'll just flex and adjust. In the meantime, he likes it for about 10 minutes at a time when awake...he REALLY likes the glowing stars above him.
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| Always with an audience. |
Finn helped Jonas take a bed apart for my parents during their move. He likes to dictate whatever he is doing if I start a video, like he's making a self-help video for YouTube. It's pretty funny. These videos can be LONG.
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| Serious instructions from Papa |
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| Just another sleeping baby cheeks shot while sitting on the couch |
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My usual spot.
His usual activity. |
Some photos from the Dragon Festival at Lake Phalen a while back:
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| Someone dumped ALL the puzzles out. No no, man. EVERYONE got to put them all back together again. |
Some photos from when Jonas took the 3 older kids to the lake...last week? The week before?
The kids doing "home church" last Sunday. It requires donuts, cut in half, worship songs on YouTube, and coloring like we would do in the pews at church. Love them.
The kids doing the moves to a worship song dance they learned at VBS this year.
Shipwrecked. The VBS the entire evangelical community was doing...haha!
Party time while Rachel and Zoey were here:
