Into the New Year...

2011 started out just as hectic as 2010 had ended. Kai turned 18 months old. We had play dates, birthday parties, outside fun, a trip to the hospital and a change in beds. As usual we continued to meet with Kai's friends, Trey and Zane, as often as possible. Since the weather was great, we scheduled time with them at the park and at the beach. The boys loved playing outdoors! In mid-January, Kai had another episode with his lungs and this time ended up in the hospital with pneumonia in both lungs. After 4 days in the hospital, we got to come home. Thank goodness he is ok and recovered fairly fast. Needless to say, the pediatrician recommends we visit a pulmonary specialist. Even with being sick, the minute we got home, he was a happy, go lucky kid again. Two days after getting home from the hospital, our little dare devil decided that he did not want to be in his crib anymore. I was watching him on the monitor, but thought that there was no way that he would actually climb out. Then, all of a sudden, he disappeared from the monitor screen and the next minute I know it Eli and I are running toward his room. By the time we got there, little man was sprawled "superman style" on the floor crying, not hurt, just scared. That was the end of the crib! We upgraded him to the toddler bed, and who knew how he would react to it, but he LOVES it! He likes climbing in and out of it continuously and putting all his stuffed animals in it to sleep with. In the latter half of the month, we attended two birthday parties. One for his cousin, Angelina, at The Little Gym. The other was for his god brother, Jayden. He had a blast at both parties!

Look, he's finally getting hair...lol

1st Trip to the Snow

We finally got a chance to take Kai up to Ohio to visit his auntie, uncle and cousins. It was also his first time to see the snow. He thoroughly enjoyed playing at Auntie Shelley's since she has so many toys for him to play with. He played in the garden house, on the rocking police car, on the Rock Band drums, the slide that Auntie Shelley had to bring in from the snow, and so many other things. Then it was time to put on the snow gear! Needless to say he hated it and we just loved how cute he looked. He did, however, look like the kid from "A Christmas Story". lol I mean who could blame us, look at how cute he was in his gear. He did get totally mad at his momma when I put him down in the snow and made him make a snow angel. All in all it was a fun trip and Kai loved playing with his cousins and hanging out with his auntie, uncle and, let's not forget, Daisy. Now we can't wait to see them again!

Christmas Day!

Christmas morning Kai woke up to several goodies under the tree. However, he really only cared about his new basketball! It was the first thing he grabbed. After a few minutes we got him to shoot it into the basket. After several more minutes, we finally got him to try out his new 4 wheeler. Which he immediately crashed into the wall. lol It was a very long morning of trying to get him to open all of his gifts since all he wanted to do was play with each one rather than opening the next. lol Bruiser got in on the action too by sporting one of his presents given to him by the Klein's. After opening gifts, having breakfast and then playing outside, it was off to Ohio to visit the Tennant's.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve was spent with the family. You can see Courtney was not so happy to have to eat before opening gifts, or maybe she just didn't want uncle Eli taking her picture. lol Brendon also couldn't wait to open gifts. Dinner was yummy as always and Kai even ate this time (unlike Thanksgiving). Then it was on to gift opening. Kai wasn't sure what was going on but he sure had fun. He is very spoiled by his auntie and cousins!

December 2010

December was a hectic month for us. We continued to take Kai to his play dates as much as possible. He and his buddies are getting so big. It is hard to imagine that we have been doing play dates together since they were all around 3 months old. We also prepared for the Christmas holiday. Kai helped me decorate the tree, then took the ornaments off, then put them on again, then off again, then on again....well you get the picture. lol Thank goodness we were smart enough to buy all non-glass ornaments! We took him to meet Santa, but this was a special (and kind of scary) Fireman Santa. As you can imagine, Kai cried and wanted nothing to do with him. So we took him to the park afterward to make up for it. He loves to slide! Kai really enjoyed all of the holiday lights around the neighborhood and looked forward to our drive home from day care each day because he could see them. We also learned that his favorite thing about the holiday besides the lights were snowmen, or as he called them "man". So we invested in one of the blow up, light up lawn ornaments and I must say is was a very good investment. Every morning when the "man" was not on, Kai would say "uh oh", and I would say "he melted". Then every night we would turn him on and Kai would watch him come to life, and he would always have a huge smile on his face as he got excited and would say "man".

November....

November was a hectic month, but we made sure that Kai continued his play dates as much as possible. One play date we took him to Monkey Joe's for some jumping fun. Let me tell you, it was the best $5 we have ever spent. Kai had a blast playing with his friend Zane.

Thanksgiving was real relaxing. We went up to Titi's house and Kai played hard all day with his cousins. He wouldn't even take a nap. Needless to say, at dinner he fell asleep while eating his yummy turkey! lol

Halloween 2010

Kai's first real experience of trick-or-treating was fun. Since Eli was in China, we decided to head to our friend's house for it. Unfortunately, it rained for most of the evening, but at one point the rain had stopped. It was the perfect opening for Kai and I to go out to the whole 5 houses. lol One of the first houses we went to had a little dog, so Kai thought all the houses had dogs. So, every house after that, he was on a mission to find the dog rather than to collect candy. He was a big hit in his handy man outfit!