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Kai Guy

It is a great feeling to get to sleep in when you are the mother of 3 young children. Kingston slept until nearly 10 am. Liam and Kai were playing and giggling and letting me sleep. It was definitely needed.

Last night Liam and I went to cheer on “our team” playing volleyball. We won’t talk about final scores, but we had a lot of fun and Soli Deo Gloria (Rockport’s team) did really well. Liam had the best time paying attention to the score and cheering when they scored. Kai, on the other hand, was a little bit disappointed to miss out. You see, I was planning to take him with us. As we were eating dinner, about 30 minutes before we had to leave, he fell asleep…literally at the table. I couldn’t wake him up so we went without him. Imagine the disappointment of a 2 year old who had been talking about seeing Maggi play volleyball all day. He wakes up and missed the whole thing. He shed a few tears about missing that. So I guess that means we will have to make it to another game.

Anyway, while I have a minute, I will write a little something about the current middle child, Kai. He has a totally different personality than Liam. He is more wild, a lot less in to learning. He is a crazy dancer and could keep us entertained for hours with his dance moves. He and Liam are really in to superheroes right now, thanks to Kim and Don. Every time we read a story or watch a movie, Kai has to know which one is the bad guy and which one is the good guy. He is more of a daddy’s boy. I guess I can’t have them all to myself. I love to watch him and Liam play together for hours every day. Or listen to their off tune singing. At the moment, they’re very loudly singing “Better is One Day.” His favorite animal is a purple rhinoceros. And all his other favorite things usually change depending on what Liam says. He looks up to Liam and wants to be just like his big brother. I feel really blessed to be able to see their relationship develop and I can’t wait to see when Kingston is finally able to really join in and not be a “nuisance” to them anymore.

I love my little Kai Guy with the crazy hair and the crazy personality to match.

January 30, 2013

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7/07/2011

After not posting for over a week, (because like I said, we don’t get out much) I am now posting my 2nd blog post of the night. If I was writing with the intention of having others read it, I would space it out more. But since I have literally 3 followers, (hey Don, Maggi, and Stef!) it doesn’t matter how often or little I post. But as I get the chance, I thought I would type up my journal entries. It’s really sad. I tried keeping a journal on the boys and only wrote 4 1/2 things. I started in July of 2011. This is why I felt like a blog would be easier. The reason one of my entries is only half is because the pen stopped working. And I’m disappointed because I don’t remember how that story ended. I have lots of little stories that I wanted to remember about the boys and have forgotten so many of them. My first entry in my journal was on 07/07/2011.

“After a stressful day and coming home that night to a house with no electricity, I was very upset (and 22 weeks pregnant with baby boy #3.) Liam, almost 3, saw me crying and kept asking “why are you crying mommy?” and saying “please don’t cry mommy.” He gave me lots of hugs and kisses. He is a very sweet and compassionate boy and he better not change.”

Well, it’s been a year and a half and he hasn’t changed. He is still my sweetie that loves to cuddle with me, kiss me, hug me, pick flowers for me, and tell me I’m pretty. We have started some homeschooling as we get the chance and he has caught on to reading really well over the past few months. He loves the sight words DVD that Grandmamie bought him. He looks for sight words in every book we read. He has also really been interested in adding numbers so we do a lot of that lately. If I seem to write about Liam a lot, it’s just because he is at the age where he has a lot more to say. I have decided to try to keep up with this more as a “baby book” type style as well to try to remember what they were doing and at what age. So this post goes out to Liam, because even though he was my first baby, I never kept a baby book. But I always want to remember how smart, hilarious, kind, friendly, outgoing, and charming of a 4 year old he was.

And everywhere we go, he gets complimented on his hat.

January 24, 2013