Kaylee, Kenyon, & Evelyn

Kaylee & Evelyn

Kaylee loves her baby sister. Whenever I take pictures of Evelyn, Kaylee has to join in. She also keeps her company a lot of the time. I almost feel sorry for Evelyn sometimes because of all the attention she gets from Kaylee. Hopefully they will always be good friends.

Evelyn is Six Months Old!

Evelyn turned SIX months old on Wednesday, February 25th. I can't believe it's been six months already! She is rolling all over the place and loves to "jump" on her back. Kaylee has started calling her "Frog" because she jumps backwards. It looks like a frog (except she is on her back and is going backwards). It is cute, except for when she jumps right out of her diaper when you are trying to do it up. We are so glad to have her in our family. She doesn't have her doctors check-up until March 16th, but we will update you on her stats then.

Evelyn's New Tricks

Here is Evelyn holding her own bottle. I love it when they get to this stage! It makes life so much easier to give her a bottle and let her take care of the rest, especially with three other kids at home. I still make sure I hold her while she eats her last bottle just before bed, and sometimes during the day depending what is going on, but it is so nice to not have to tell the other kids "not now" because I have to feed her.

Evelyn has another new trick! Yesterday, Saturday February 28, she started getting up on her hands and knees. Most of the time when she does, she looks around and just giggles because she is so proud of herself. This is the only picture I've been able to get. She either goes down too soon, or one of her siblings jumps in the way of the camera. Oh well, she is still way cute.

Kyler's Valentine's Day Box

This is Kyler's Valentine's Day box that Russell helpd him make for their party at school. Kyler has been really interested in outer space lately, so we thought it would be fun to make Saturn for him. Kyler and Kaylee had a lot of fun helping make it. They would dip the paper strips in the glue and hand them to Russell. I think it turned out pretty good, but now Russell has plans for a better and bigger one next year. Anyway, Kyler liked it and so did his friends at school. We hope that everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day!

Names in the Snow

We went for a walk to the temple last Sunday. While we were there we noticed the huge blank canvas of snow. Well we couldn't let it go unused, so Russell helped the kids put their names in it. If you look closely you can see Kyler's name in the middle. He did that one all by himself and I think he did a pretty good job.

Admiring the finished product. Kyler liked how much better Kaylee's name was than his, so he had Russell help him do his again.







I think that they look pretty good. We were lazy and only did Kyler and Kaylee because they are the only two that can read, and Evelyn was ready to go by the time we got done with them. I'm sure that is something that we will do a lot more often now that the kids know how neat it looks.

Evelyn Eating Food

We gave Evelyn her first taste of Peas today. She really enjoyed sitting in the high chair having Kaylee and Kenyon swoon over her.

She wasn't too sure about the eating thing though. I got a lot of funny facial expressions out of her. Below are a few that I was able to get pictures of...

This one is my favorite!

She did ok, but we had to feed her a bottle afterwards because she was still hungry. I'm sure she will get better at it and enjoy it more every day.

Kenyon & Evelyn

Kenyon has decided that he likes to hold Evelyn. The other day at church, Russell had Evelyn when he went to pick up Kenyon from nursery. Kenyon wanted to be carried, so Russell told him to hold the baby and Russell picked up both of them. We have Sacrament Meeting last, so as Russell was walking down the hall, holding Kenyon who was holding Evelyn, he had several people try to help him by taking Evelyn. Well Kenyon would not let go and would scream every time someone tried. It was quite the site. I wish I had some pictures, but I don't take my phone to church, so we don't have any. We were at least 15 minutes into Sacrament Meeting before Kenyon would let me take Evelyn away.

Here are some pictures of him holding her at home. He is also feeding her.

Some more news on Kenyon. He is pretty much potty trained! Yeah!! The first day we put underwear on him was a battle. It took me a good 10 minutes to get them on him and then he screamed for another 20. Well the first couple of days he had several accidents and didn't even care about them. Sunday, we decided he better wear a pull-up to church because he hadn't gone a full day without an accident. Well it took Russell about 15 minutes to get the pull-up on him, he wanted underwear! We didn't take him for a potty break at church because we were afraid of another fit, so he did need the pull-up. Anyway, since then he has done really well. He has gone Wednesday, Thursday, and so far today with out any problems. I guess he is making up for how difficult the others were to potty train. I just hope he doesn't regress.

Happy New Year!

We want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Christmas 2008

We spent Christmas Eve with my family. We had dinner and then Dalliam read us The Christmas Story. After the story we opened gifts. We were happy that Grandma Henningson was able to be there with us.

Kyler and Kenyon were the first ones up on Christmas morning, which was at about 9:00 am. Kaylee wasn't too happy with me when I woke her up, but she soon forgave me. Evelyn slept through everyone opening their presents and Russell fed her while the kids played with their new toys.

Kyler got a Magnetics kit from Grandma Olsen and some Legos from Santa. He has been busy for days building things.

Kaylee got ballet slippers, a tutu, and a Ballet Barbie from us and a crown from Kyler. She has been dancing for days, and does not like it that she has to take the crown off to go to bed. She also got Princess Crayons from her friend Kalli and has loved coloring in her Barbie Princess coloring book.

Kenyon got a big Magnetics set from Grandma Olsen. He has enjoyed building things like Kyler.



He also got a Handy Manny doll from Santa, which he carries everywhere with him.

Kenyon got so wore out by the end of the day, that he fell asleep on the stairs. What a crazy kid we have!

Kyler's Finished Room (almost anyway)

Here are the latest pictures of Kyler's room. The carpet was laid on Tuesday, December 23 and his bed was moved in on Christmas Eve. Kyler and Kenyon have adjusted really well to sleeping downstairs. We were a little concerned that they would be scared, but so far there hasn't been any issues. Kaylee has also done really well with sharing her room with Evelyn. Everyone has been getting between 12-16 hours of sleep a night, so no complaints from me. (Evelyn is the one sleeping the 16 hours!) We still need to do some touch up paint and get his closet shelf in, but other than that it is done! Russell did a really good job!