Off to Kindergarden!!

On Wednesday, August 27th, Hailey became an official Kindergartner. She did amazing. Her teacher is Mr. Novak and he seems like a wonderful teacher to start her off on her elementary school experience. Every morning since our orientation she has been asking to go to school. Today when I picked her up she said she had a great day and loved Gym. Kirt and I just pray everyday for our girls to have a great experience in life and to welcome each new journey and Hailey is off to a good start!

Ali's 1st Birthday!!!

Our little munchkin turned one this past weekend and it was bitter sweet. It's so hard to imagine that Ali has already been with us for a year. It seems like yesterday I was pregnant. Now she has this amazing personality and is walking more and more everyday. She just wants to run....another girl who won't settle for doing something slow. The poor little thing ended up having a rough Friday night with a runny nose from cutting another tooth, but I tell you what it didn't stop her from enjoying her day. We had a little delay in the afternoon when she needed to catch up on her rest. Thank you to everyone who celebrated this milestone in her life.

Just Some Girl Fun

Ali found Hailey's big girl things and thought it was a lot of fun to play with the other day. She is trying to hard to walk and has taken 4 steps on her own, so any day now she is going to take off. Right now crawling is the fast way to catch Hailey. Ali still wants to eat dog food. She will actually try to pick her snacks up with her mouth instead of her fingers. We tried to get video of her wanting to eat with Sebastian, but it is too dark and you can't see just how funny this little peanut actually is being. She also tried licking up water out of his bowl just like he did. I was hoping that Hailey would have been more of a roll model, but these days it's the dog.

The girls had a blast over at Nona and Papa's new house riding around in their barbie jeep. We weren't sure if Ali would like it or not but Hailey did great driving slow and keeping Ali safe. They had a blast together. We'll see how long that lasts!

Hailey Turns 5

On Friday, August 15th, we had family in for dinner to celebrate Hailey turning 5. She was acting like a goofy nut when we were taking pictures, so I guess she is turning into a ham too. Ali thought the paper was fun and she liked bending the cards. It will be interesting to see what she does next week on her birthday.

Happy 5th Birthday Hailey

On Saturday we had Hailey's 5th birthday party with her friends from preschool. We had pony rides for the kids and they loved it! It's just amazing how time is flying with her. It seemed like yesterday I was planning her 1st birthday party now it's her baby sister Ali. I can only imagine how things will be for these girls is years to come.

Our little cow girl enjoyed seeing her friends from school, riding the pony, hitting the horse pinata and of course opening all the great gifts. The celebration will continue on the 15th with the grandparents and of course more presents.

Mr. Nathanial Kimmel

We've had a busy week meeting new baby cousins. Finally we got the opportunity to meeting Nathanial my cousin Miki's little boy. He is eight months old and is bigger then Ali. He is such a doll with beautiful brown eyes. Ali enjoyed taking his binkie from him....not sure why, she doesn't even like them, but he didn't seem to mind too much. Hailey thought he was cute, but wasn't as interested because she couldn't just hold him. She just wanted to be the protector this time around.

Meeting Baby Elise

This past week, the girls and I got to meet our the newest addition to our family, Ms. Elise Graff. She is just a cute little button and looks a lot like her big brother Koen. Hailey got to show off her big sister skills because she got to hold the baby. It was cute because she kept telling me she couldn't believe Ali was ever this small. Ali didn't seem too interested unless she made noise, but she enjoyed taking away any ball that Koen was playing with at the time. It's great having these opportunities when they come along because the kids are growing so fast.