Sunday, February 28, 2010

Love Day '10

We had a wonderful Valentine's Day weekend. We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Kiefer's for Chinese and Valentine's gifts on Saturday night. Austin wanted to make sure every cat knew how much he loved them. We might have to work on being gentle...Grandma Kiefer gave Austin a quick cleaning lesson before we headed home...
On Sunday we went to church, had breakfast, exchanged gifts, watched the Wonder Pet's Valentine's Day special, make Dad pink Krispy Treats, ate chocolate covered strawberries and had special V-day "jump jumps."
Sunday night we headed up to Nana and Pa's to share the love with them and Aunt B and Uncle C.
Happy Valentine's Day!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Paper Boy

Our little new boys graced the Sparta paper twice last week! The first picture was in honor of Grandpa Kiefer's retirement. (I can't believe he didn't have shoes on!!)
The second pic was a special Valentine's Message!
Finally, something worth reading!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

19 Months Old!

The tractor needed a little work before we could get started...That's better!

Austin, at 19 months, you...

...love to point out stars.

...call every number or letter you see a "two!"

...love to color and every color is "BLUE!"
...enjoy feeding your animals and saying "mmmm" after each one eats.

...are going to bed like such a big boy! You let us know between 8:00 and 8:30 that it's time for a paci and woobie.

...have found a best friend in your Uncle Cee Cee.

...say "two" when you want to be picked up or put on the couch.

...have learned that no one can say no when you sweetly pull on their finger to get them where you want to go.

...pretend not to know what No means.

...have at least 11 teeth.
...have started to wear a few 2T shirts.

...added Owl, whoo-whoo, down (as in get down), in there, bee, buzzz, back (as in put my cup back), mote (remote), hat, more (as in I want more), corn, hay, eye, nose, mouth, ear, flower, blocks, keys, the end, loons (balloons), and many other words to your vocab.

...are getting very good at following directions. Go get mommy the phone...go give Daddy a drink (pretend, of course!)...go get a book...put your cows in the fence, etc.

...are a pill in church.

...are loved more then you'll ever know!

Love you, Buddy!



Blue!

Austin's latest craze is coloring. He'd do it from sun up to sun down if we'd let him. He's always asking for "blue, blue, blue!" We proudly hung his first piece of artwork on the fridge...
We try our best to keep all coloring activities in his high chair or at his picnic table, but a lot of times other things end up with little scribbles on them. Thank goodness for Magic Erasers!
Recently, he found out that stepping on the crayons (and breaking them) is just as fun as coloring. I had to do emergency surgery on old Blue a few nights ago. He pulled through and all was right again in the coloring world!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010