Sunday, February 6, 2011

January 2011

Kallen started his second session of swim lessons. He is still doing parent/tot since I had to end up teaching the class. I think he would have done fine in level 1 if I would have been able to leave him and be out of sight out of mind, but since I have to be in the water he wanted to stay with me. He will definitely be in Level One for the next session.


Watching tv on his bounce with one of his many elephants!

Sharing some ice cream with Hobie.

I have been saving all of our old bread so we could go feed the ducks and geese at Wheeler Farm. They must have been hungry because they all surrounded us.





Showing off his slippers for Grandma!

Riding the carousel after the dentist. Kallen didn't like the cleaning very well but by the time the dentist came in he was calm and watching a movie on the ceiling. He let the dentist check all of his teeth, poke, prod, and scrape. We took Kallen and Hobie up to Mill Creek Canyon one Sunday afternoon. Both boys had fun playing in the snow.





Monday, January 10, 2011

Christmas 2010 and Trip to Oregon

Christmas started by decorating our own tree at home. Kallen was old enough to enjoy it and it was something I wanted him to experience even though the tree would be up for a short time and we would be in Oregon for most of the break. He enjoyed decorating the tree with ornaments and even remembered the ornaments he got from Grandma last Christmas.


Christmas dinner with the family!The cousinsKallen with his loot.Helping Jessica open her present.Reading one of his new cloth books. Christmas morning playing with one of his presents! He was excited to push the cars on the track, you should have seen him when we put the batteries in the cars, he was squealing with joy.While in Oregon Kallen played soccer and football with Grandpa.He also went out with Grandma each morning to feed the chickens.One cold morning Kallen went on a walk with Grandpa to the pond, around the fields, and back up the lane and walked the entire time. He got to throw some rocks in the creek, so that was fun for him.On New Year's Eve Day we took the kids swimming. Kallen loves the water and had a lot of fun. It was fun to see him show Grandma and Grandpa some of the things he learned in swim lessons in the Fall. Glad those start back up this month.He loved going down this slide into the water.Another day we went to this indoor playground. It was pretty cool for only $5 and adults were only $1. They had lots of things to play around on including a big bouncy house.Kallen loved petting Mitsy and Sammy even let him pet her. In this picture he crawel into Jessica's crib so he could sit with the cat. Playing with Uncle Mike and cousin Jessica.Here is Kallen visiting some friends. All seven kids are mostly looking at the camera. What a cute piccture.Haning with miss Aubry! They are a few months apart and always have fun playing together. Christmas continued way after the holiday. Once we got back to Utah Kallen had two large boxes stuffed with toys and blankets. Lots of elephants and his favorite, a Dragon. While in Oregon he started listening to "Puff the Magic Dragon" so he named his new dragon, Puff.



Sunday, November 21, 2010

First Big Snow of the Year

We woke up to just about 1 foot of snow. Kallen was ready to go play in the snow at 7:30 am. I was able to hold him off until about 8:30 am.

The back yard!




The front yard. Unfortunately our tree hasn't lost all of its leaves and the heavy snow did some damage. We lost two large branches and one small one. Looking at the tree from the East it looks a little bare.Kallen is helping move branches.








After playing in the snow we were ready for some hot chocolate. Kallen drank the entire cup.