September

We got some fish that I have to feed everyday. Kellen and I both love watching the fish swim round and around the tank.
Last weekend we went to the park with our neighbors the Arthurs'. Kellen loves the swings just as much as I do!!

I LOVE swinging with my Mom! She can swing so much higher than I can by myself. We were going so high that I could almost touch the tree!!

Kellen loved playing in the pirate ship. He is getting so close to walking, before long he will be chasing me around the playground.

Kellen, Collin, me, and Hailey.

Hailey and I were "watching a movie" under the pirate ship. Pretending is my favorite thing to do right now, I have 2 kids...named Kendall and Kellen, I am always the Dad and like it when Addison is the Mom. I take very good care of my kids, making sure that they get their own seats at restaurants, I always let them sleep in Kellen's bed and don't understand why Mom makes me take them out of her bed when Kellen needs to go to sleep. I love my kids so much.

Hiking at Ernie Miller Nature Park

It was such a nice day out that Mom decided that we should go to the park and hike the trails for a couple hours then have a picnic lunch. Kellen and I were both really excited. We even got to use my new princess lunchbox, I got to carry the lunch in my backpack and Mom insisted on putting her keys in too, but I kept complaining that the keys made it too heavy. Mom didn't fall for it and wouldn't take the keys out!!

Kellen loved riding in his backpack. He really liked to play with Mommy's hair, I think he was just trying to make it look pretty!!

I saw lots of different animals while we were hiking. I chased this dragonfly around for probably 20 minutes.

Me and my Drangonfly friend.

I also saw a couple caterpillars, I refused to touch them but everytime Mom touched one it would pee. I thought it was pretty funny to see them peeing on my Mom. She kept telling that she loves caterpillars and used to catch them when she was a kid.

I saw lots of frogs jump into this pond as we walked by. I thought about going in after them and almost slipped in a couple times. But then Mom told me that she wouldn't go in after me if I fell in so I decided to move on.

Kellen's 1st Birthday Trial Run

Our neighbor John made cupcakes with his kids on Friday and of course they shared with us (we have the best neighbors). We just considered it a practice run for Kellen... in less than 2 weeks he'll be devouring his birthday cake in the same manner.

He loved the cupcake, thanks John, Hailey, and Collin!! Actually we all loved them, they just happened to be our favorite kind... Funfetti.

I insisted that Mom take my picture too, I wanted to eat my cupcake funny like Kellen.

Indiana

We took a trip to Indiana last weekend; my Papi passed away. I always love going to Indiana, I have so much fun hanging out with all my family there.

On the ride there Kellen FINALLY figured out how to feed himself. Mom was very excited that I was able to hand him animal crackers while she was driving. I kept trying to get him to ask and say "thank you" but he hasn't caught on yet!!

Kellen is always trying to eat his toes... Mom says I used to do the same thing when I was little. I'm not sure why anyone would like to eat their toes, that's gross!!

After 2 years of hating having my picture taken I have started to love it. Everytime the camera comes out I ask that my picture be taken too.


Here I am "winking". I have been practicing a lot and I think I am getting better at it, but Mom isn't so sure about that!!

On the way to Grammy's house on Sunday we stopped by the Evansville Zoo. On my Zoo rating scale I would have to give it a 5. They didn't even have elephants... what kind of Zoo doesn't have elephants???

Did you know that porcupines climb trees? Mom had no idea that they could climb so high, this one was sitting 15 feet high up in a tree.

These turtles were swimming around like crazy, Kellen loved watching them.

My brother is such a trooper... he will sit in that stroller all day long while I run from animal to animal. There is no way this could be comfortable!!

These are the Tamarins, I liked them cause they had crazy hair. I kept telling Mom that they have crazy hair like my Grandma!!

My favorite animal (for this month!!) the Hippo!

I made my Mom stick her head in the bat so I could take her picture, doesn't she look so silly?!!

Kellen and Grammy... we love our Grammy so much, I hope we get to see her again real soon!

On a side note... Kellen took his first step at Grammy's house!! Mom thought that was really cool since I took my first step there too. Mom didn't think that Kellen was even close to walking but he might surprise everyone and walk by his birthday. There must be something about Grammy's house that makes kids wanna walk!!

My Nana was also in Indiana, we always have so much fun playing with Nana.

Some people wear "beer goggles" from time to time... I like to call these "cookie goggles"!!

Mom even wore "cookie goggles" with me!!

After the funeral on Monday we all got together to eat lunch. They had all kinds of great food. The cherry cheesecake was the best but I had to keep my eye out for my cousin Kyle cause he kept trying to take my cheesecake. I tried being a nice cousin and offering him my cheesecake but only after I licked all the cherries off the top. But he wasn't too interested in my "cherryless" cheesecake!!

Our cousin Isabelle is just a couple months older than Kellen so those two had lots of fun playing with all Kellen's toys.

You'd never know that Kellen was 2 months younger than Isabelle, I think it's just impossible for my parents to have small children!!

On the way home Tuesday we stopped in St.Louis and met up with our friend Jen and went to the Zoo... I know 2 Zoos in one week, I am the luckiest kid in the world!! It took us 4 hours to visit the Zoo and we didn't even get to see everything. I would definitely love to go back to that Zoo again.

They had a butterfly garden and there were tons of butterflies flying around. And it shouldn't surprise anyone that it wasn't my favorite place to be, maybe someday I'll quit being afraid of such small animals!! Mom thought that these butterflies were funny, I didn't really get why she thought they were funny, but maybe you will!!

There is my Kellen again, he just sat in that stroller once again admiring all the animals.

The Hippos at this Zoo were AMAZING. There were 4 Hippos and they were just swimming laps, Kellen and I loved watching them swim right by us. I could have stayed there all day, and we did spend the most time at this exhibit.

I had so much fun this weekend playing with my cousins, and seeing all my family. It was a great weekend especially cause I got to go to 2 Zoos. (I give the STL Zoo at 8 and a half rating, only cause it was so big and there wasn't really a great route where we could see all the animals and not have to back track). I loved Jen and had to make sure she saw all the animals with me. I know that she had to be tired after all the zigging and zagging that she did with me all day. I can't wait to go back to Indiana and look forward to stopping by the STL Zoo again on the way.

Summer Fun

Mom got to school a couple minutes early and was able to see me playing on the playground and lining up to go back into the room. I'm the second girl in line wearing the purple dress. If you could see us walk you'd know it was me cause I'd be "bee-bopping" on my way back into the school. I always walk on my tip toes and am constantly "bee-bopping" everywhere I go.
This is my new favorite funny face to make!!

TOUCHDOWN!!!

(Ok not really I think he was just excited, but it looks like he's doing touchdown!!)

Randomly I decided that I wanted to wear "Notre Dame" so of course I made Mom put Notre Dame on Kellen. I spent the whole day telling people that I was gonna "go to football with Daddy". Mom says that none of that is true, I just wanted to wear Notre Dame... is it almost football season though!!

Randomly last Thursday we were all playing outside and a couple parents decided to order pizza and before you knew it there were 8 families that wanted in on the pizza order. So everyone brought over their picnic tables and someone made lemonade and we sat down for a neighborhood pizza party. I have the best neighbors, where else would you have a Thursday night pizza party that was put together in a matter of 30 minutes.

After the pizza us girls got to jump on the trampoline!!!

My first day of school

I started school this week!!! I have been looking forward to this for so long. I didn't even think twice about running into my classroom. I basically just ran in, looked back and said "BYE MOM".

This is my teacher Mrs. Carlisle. Her husband drives the school bus, but they won't let me start riding it for another couple weeks. Everyday when I get into the car I ask Mom if I can ride the bus. I'm pretty sure Mom wants me to ride the bus just as bad as I do!!
Here I am on the first day of school. I refused to take my sunglasses off cause I didn't want the sun in my eyes. Don't you LOVE my princess backpack? I do!!

After the first day Mom took me to get some new shoes... who knew that I wasn't supposed to wear flip flops to school??! That is the only kind of shoes that I own. But we found some shoes that will go with all my dresses. Mom is just gonna have to get over the fact that they are gonna get dirty. After I came home the first day it looked like I had been wearing those shoes for months. She keeps telling me that I'm not supposed to kick the rocks but it's so much fun!!

Kellen sure does get excited when I get back in the car after school. I think he misses me!! He gets so excited kicking his feet and talking to me!!

These are my projects that I brought home this week. We also got to go to the Library, the computer lab, art class and music class. I am going to have a blast in school!!