Young Party of Four

So we are officially one month into the new year. We have been working hard on our Second A Day project. Initially Steven seemed to think it was a bit silly. That was before we set it to music and it was longer than 10 seconds. Now, every day we put it all together and watch it a few times and just smile. We are loving doing this project. Seeing a full month come together has been awesome. To see an entire year come together is going to be so cool. I think the hardest part of this challenge other than actually remembering to take a video every day, is thinking in a second at a time. I tend to take a lot of videos anyway but they are almost always of the kids. Our year long video is bound to be mostly kid related, but that doesn't mean it has to be everything. There are other things going on around here too that we might want to document. So, although I usually have at least one video a day that I could find a second worth of a clip to use for the video, sometimes we want somethin...

As of tomorrow... It's official. Kenzie will be closer to 5 than she is to 4. I can't believe our little baby is going to be turning 5 and becoming an elementary schooler/kindergartener in just a few short months. She is such an amazing little girl. Kenzie at 4-and-a-half is.... ... around 42.5 inches (81st percentile) tall and weighs about 40 pounds (71st percentile). We don't have any formal doc appointments on half birthdays any more so these are my estimates. If they are fairly accurate, they keep her on about the same percentile markers she has been on for the last 2 or so year. Either way, the kid is tall. She is firmly planted in at least size 6 to 7 dresses and pants. She wears a small to medium shirt in kids' sizes. We still have the issue that she is skinnier than she is tall and all her height has remained in her legs it seems so we have to have adjustable waist pants or fold things down if we can to keep them on her hips. She has a couple of pairs of ...

Warning: Long post ahead! I didn't want to split this into two posts so it is just longer than a lot of other ones. So this weekend we undertook a challenge. At least a "challenge" for our little family of four. With a 4-year-old and 2-year-old traveling away from home and staying in a hotel is not necessarily an easy feat. BUT... we had to. See, our friends' little guy turned 1. We had to go down to celebrate with them. They always try to come up for the kids' birthdays if they can and Steven and Mike have been friends for many, many years. We were so excited to celebrate their little man. He's super cute too and we haven't seen them since Kenzie's birthday so our visit was due. The weekend actually started a couple days early because first things first... we had to drop off Jack with Nana and Papa. We ended up going on Thursday afternoon to drop him off. After I picked Kenzie up at school, we came home to let Will nap and then I loaded up the kid...