Update on kids

Here is a little bit about what the kids have been up to:
Kylee started piano this fall and is learning quickly.  I think she has a natural talent even composing her own little songs.  Kylee is crafty and has wanted to learn how to sew for a while.  We were able to find someone that teaches sewing lessons and Kylee so far has learned how to make an apron and a trick or treat bag.  Kylee has been quite the reader lately.  Being in fourth grade provided the opportunity for Kylee to be in the school choir called the Lyrical Leopards.

   Brayden also started piano this fall but it has been a little bit difficult to get him to practice.  He usually acts like he is about to die when he starts practicing.  Brayden enjoys drawing detailed action scenes usually including a number of knights, ninjas, pirates, and robots.  It is fun to listen to him relate in detail the elaborate story that goes along with his pictures.  I love finding his pictures around the house.  He recently made more remotes and an x-box game with paper and was "playing games" with Julia.  He will be starting basketball in a few weeks.

Julia started pre-K this fall and loves it.  She sings the songs from school every day. Some of her songs are 5 fat turkeys are we, number rock, days of the week, and months of the year.  She is learning things quickly.  She loves to ride the bus to school.  Julia is a good sister to Blake.  She is pretty patient with him when they play.  She is dancing again and gets so excited when it is Wednesday and she gets to go to her dance class.

Blake  has experienced a lot of changes recently.   In October he went off the pacifier and then moved into a big bed just a few days later.  It actually went a whole lot better than I expected.  Matt cut the pacifier and gave it to Blake.  He looked at it and then asked for the other one that was downstairs in the kitchen cabinet.  Matt cut the other pacifier and then brought it to Blake.  He showed him both the cut pacifiers and Blake examined them. He stuck in his fingers and saw that they were broken.  He didn't even try to put it in his mouth, he just handed them to me and went off to bed.  He never asked for them again.  I thought he would be the worst because he was the most addicted.  Blake had a harder time adjusting to when Julia first started going to school.  He would get upset when she got on the bus and would throw a little fit when we got back home and she wasn't there.  It took him a few months to get used to her being gone for half the day. He soon became my buddy and enjoyed hanging out with me at home.  Taking him to stores is a different story.