Father's Day

Dave had an great Father's Day! We got up on Sunday and laid in bed with the kids for a little bit and Kylie was soo excited to give Daddy his presents! She couldn't hold it back anymore, so she finally gave him his gifts and he loved them. We bought him a cover for his guitar for guitar hero and a bluetooth for his PS3 and cell phone. We also bought him a shop light for the garage. He's been wanting one for a long time and it's one of those things that you just don't buy!

We had breakfast reservations at the bowling alley restaurant! We just got a new bowling alley with a restaurant attached an a bar attached along with an arcade with mini golf! We went to breakfast at 10 a.m. and it was packed! It was great food and afterwards, we went to the arcade and played mini golf in the blacklight. As we driving home, Dave decided that he wanted to see a movie...so I dropped him and Kylie off at the theater and they saw Kung Fu Panda! :) He said Kylie was tired throughout the movie, but watched parts of it. Dawson and I went shopping and picked Dave and Kylie up after the movie was over. The kids went home and had a nap and Dave and I did some putzy stuff around the house (put door handles on) and then after the kids go up, we went to my parents house for dinner. It was a gorgeous night out, so we spent a lot of time outside in the yard. Kylie got a new bike when she got there -- Grandma and Grandpa bought her a bike to keep at their house! She was SOOO excited and thought it was the coolest thing. I brought my rollerblades with me knowing she was getting this bike -- so she went out a few times up and down the road -- it is a bit bigger (18") so she'll be able to keep it for awhile, but seems to ride it great!

Some other fun and exciting things!!

A couple weeks ago, Dave's Dad came up and we took his two girls, which are 7 and 8 (yes, Dave's sisters). :) It's soo amazing how Kylie resembles Christina so much! They are so much alike and actually look alike as well. We had a really fun time -- it was a lot of work, but it was fun. On Saturday, we took the kids to a park in St. Cloud (about 30 mins. from our house) and little did we know, it had a little water park with huge sprinklers there. Well that didn't last long and they were wet -- especially Christina, she loved it!! Kylie and Casey Jo held back a bit. They had an absolute blast though and it was great for them to let loose and burn some energy out there. When we got back, they begged to set up the sprinkler in the back yard, so we did that and they also made me some very special "dirt, grass and rock soup"! No, I did not try it...but they had a blast making it! :)

We've been trying to do some minor things to the house to "spiff" it up a little bit...we bought solid oak 6 panel doors for upstairs! We got them really reasonable and they were already stained and matched our oak perfectly! So we've been putting those up and buying new door handles. It's looks great!! It totally changes the look of the house and I love it!

Another project that we had this summer was to add a couple things to Kylie's swingset...we ended up putting a sandbox in as well as a rock climbing wall, which was for her birthday! She definitely did not let us forget about it...as we were waiting for the accessories for it, she would constantly remind us that we still need to do the rock climbing wall...it was cute! We finally did finish it!

Some other exciting news!! Our daycare lady, Sheila, had her baby! It was a BOY -- Beau David! He is absolutely adorable! He weighed in at 10 lbs. 2 oz. Both Sheila and Beau are doing really well!

Awesome Dawson!

Dawson, of course, is just Dawson! Still, not crawling but getting around by rolling or scooting on his butt. We'll put him in the middle of the room and the next thing you know, he's 10 feet from where we put him and of course, when we look at him, he just laughs! He is such a happy baby! He's transitioning really well from baby food to people food and LOVES it! He LOVES to eat. It seems like we're always feeding this little guy!

He is officially done with the helmet. He wore it for about 8 weeks and it definitely made a difference. I cannot believe how those little things can change the shape of a head soo quickly! It was definitely worth the $$$ we put into it.

Dawson had his 9 month check-up on 5/29/08, he weighed in at 20.4 lbs. (50%) and he was 29" long (75%). He's right on track with things, which was good to hear! He is such a laid back baby that he has no ambition to do things. But I guess it's ok :)

One of his most favorite things to do is show everyone "how big he is"! The first picture, I just had to take -- we were laughing soo hard at him and he kept doing it over and over and over!! :)

Miss Kylie!

Kylie finished dance in May (after a long season) and then started up with t-ball. She really enjoys it and seems to be doing really well with it already. It's so adorable to see all these 4 and 5 year olds out there, running after a ball...and "trying" to catch them. I can say (not only because she's my child, hehe), that she is probably one of the more competitive girls out there. We kindof figured she'd be this way with sports, because she is quite competative in other things as well. :) It's a lot of fun to watch and more up my alley! We'll do one more year of dance and see where she sits after that to see if we'll continue with it!