Yay for Summer!

Summer has arrived complete with the ever changing, dramatic weather in Saint Louis. A week of near 100 degrees followed by a week of barely 80 degrees! Either way, we are making the best of it. Sage and Kai are loving our summer adventures...

to the gardens


Sage LOVES to pretend! Here he is making us lunch. Yum!


to the pools






to the parks


to the fountains



and to the zoo

Here's Kai brushing a goat - Kai LOVES animals!


Something more fun than the train? Nah, but a close second...

The Lip

Although Kai still has a couple months before he is actually two, he is fully committed to acting like a two-year old. He has perfected the fake cry and the pouty face. His pouty face includes sticking his bottom lip out as far as he can - further than one would think possible. Then, he makes sure you're looking.

Julie (his babysitter) said the other day she was ignoring Kai's pouty face, so he touched his finger to his bottom lip as if he was checking to make sure it was really all the way out there. Ha!

Another time, Kai was throwing a fake tantrum at the playground, so Julie moved away from him. Kai promptly quit "crying," picked himself up off the ground, moved in front of Julie, and then...he laid on the ground and started "crying" again! Hilarious! Julie said she couldn't help but laugh.

Tough Boy

Sage fell and scraped his knee. I asked him if he needed a band-aid and he said, "No, I a tough boy." I agreed and left his boo-boo to heal. Every time someone asked him what happened to his knee, he said, "I a tough boy." So, today, I noticed a new scrape on his other knee and I asked him what happened. He said, "I have TWO tough boys." Ha!

Sage is not only a tough boy, he also has a pretty good throwing arm. On Wednesday, I came home from a long day of work and class ready to relax and catch up on some tv only to find out it was broke. Apparently, Sage threw a little, plastic ball at the tv and cracked the LCD! Oops!

May Days

We have been so busy that the month of May flew by so fast! I'm just now realizing that it's June (my favorite month) and it's already the third day! What happened to May?

We watched Noah's opening day t/ball game.
I finished the first half of my Educational Specialist degree and started the second half the following week.
Jared graduated with his Masters!
We went to Kirksville to watch Ella Bella dance.
We celebrated the impending arrival of Baby Girl Kelly.
Summer arrived with fun on Memorial Day!

Everyday Matters

Family dance parties...the best way for the Kellys to start the day. Now that Jared and I are on the same schedule as far as when we get up and out of the house in the mornings, we've started waking the boys up with music. My preference is "Lovely Day" radio on Pandora. The boys wake up happy. Then, at some point, we all end up dancing together in the kitchen before we go about our days. Love it!!!

Side note: both boys are very musical and can follow rhythms easily. Sage can recognize songs in different contexts. For example, this morning, he recognized a song on the radio as the same one from the "penguins" movie (Happy Feet) he watched the night before.