Kids-Lately

Catching up on kids' pictures. Kind of a long post.  

BEN

Ben got a sucker at a library story time in February and was in heaven! Note: I would have never let McKenna do this when she was 13 months.  :) 

One of our park outings in March.  

Flipping these books off the table (with Grandma) was lots of fun! 

The point of this video was not to actually hear him say any of the words I'm asking him to say.  But this particular day, he made this cute face everytime I asked him to say something.  I also love how he stops to look for his shoes.  

This is just funny to me how fast he starts to shovel the food in his mouth (towards the end of this video).

Ben's 15 Month Stats

Height: 31 in (.5 in increase in 3 months) 40th percentile

Weight: 22.9 lbs (2.7 lb increase in 3 months) 25th percentile

New things about Ben lately:

• He loves the letters O and Q!  (In his hand in this picture are two letter "Os" from some ABC puzzles)

We find them all over the house too. :)

• Finally signing (daddy, warm, more, shoes, bath,...)
• Lots of pointing
• Loves shoes, baths, and being outside
• Teething like crazy (10 or 11 teeth total now)
• He could sit and have BOOKS read to him all. day. long!
• Might be starting to transition to one nap...Sigh.
• More and more attached to mommy these days
• Sometimes has a hard time eating.  He's more interested in playing with his food and reaching to play with everything on the table.  

MCKENNA
I took McKenna to get a hair trim at Cookie Cutter.  This is before.  

Unfortunately I didn't get much of an "after" picture because she wanted a braid.  She was super excited about the balloon and sucker she got for being so good.  

She got to help a bit with some of the trim painting during our home improvement projects.

And then continued to paint out in the garage.  Such a masterpiece!

She wrote on her arms one day because she told me she wanted to be like "Mulan."   

• McKenna also just completed a sticker chart for, among other things, brushing her teeth the "nice way."  I got to take her to the book store to choose some new books as a prize.  She surprised me and chose a Dora and a Smurfs book.  I thought for sure we'd expand our princess collection.    
• She's wearing her dress-up skirts less    
• Likes to changes her clothes at least once a day and is great at getting herself dressed in the mornings.  I've decided to let her flower print shirt with polka dot pants outfit slide. :)  
• Still takes a nap about 3 days a week 
• She said her first prayer in church during Jr. Primary Sharing Time.  She blessed, "Mommy, and Benny, and Primary."  Dan went up to help her, but he never said a word.  Such a sweet prayer! 

I LOVE MY KIDS!