• KEELEY is 20 months old.  Her favorite day of the week is Saturday because it's gym & swim day at the YMCA.  Mommy and Daddy like that day best too because it means Keeley take an extra long nap :-) because she gets so worn out. Keeley picks out her clothes in the morning (she loves wearing purple). She likes picking out Daddy's shirts too, but she always picks the same two shirts!  She still loves to draw and finger paint.  She also likes to play with clay (and mix all the play-do colors!).  Keeley loves to read books--her favorite right now is the "Daddy" book (that should be no surprise for those of you who know Keeley!)  She can count to 5, say all of of her colors and can repeat the letters of the alphabet.  Keeley is putting more and more short sentences each day--her language skills are exploding. Mommy and Daddy are amazed at the sentences she's putting together and how well she pronounces words (they really have to watch what they are saying around her now--which is difficult in the car with LA drivers!).  She loves to pretend play in her kitchen and make bacon, eggs and peas.  Her most favorite thing is being outside and exploring new things, she loves going to the beach (we we try to do often!).  She loves playing with all of her musical instruments.  She likes to take care of her baby "Stella."  She changes her diaper, gives her a bottle, pushes her in the doll stroller and put her to sleep at night.  She also loves pretend play--like pretending she's shopping, or grabbing her purse and putting on Mommy's shoes and pretending to go to work.  She loves her bug-bag--an "Animal Planet" bag filled with 30 different types of bugs!  Keeley likes going to school and being with all of her friends and learning about new things.   But, most of all, Keeley LOVES to LOVE HER SISTER KAELIN.  She always wants to hold her and kiss her and put blankets on her to make sure she's warm.  Keeley's nickname at school is "Kiki" and Keeley calls her sister Kaelin "Coco".
• KAELIN is 5 months old. Her first tooth is popping through and she's drooling like crazy!  She's sitting up on her own now and rolling over both ways like crazy.  She's making movements to begin crawling as she grabs for toys.  She doesn't have any favorite toys yet--she likes chewing on anything and everything.  We'll be starting her on "solids" in a couple weeks.  Her crazy curly hair is getting longer and longer.  She's growing so quickly and is catching up to Keeley in clothing size!!

Upcoming birthdays & events include:

• September:  Falyn's 5th Birthday (6th) Papa's birthday (19th), Auntie Kelley and Uncle Sean's wedding anniversary (19th), Nana visiting from Massachusetts, Kaelin's Baptism in Massachusetts.
• October:  Daddy's (5th), Uncle Tony's Birthday (30), Halloween!
• November:  Auntie Amy (5th), MorMor (12th), MorMor and Dzai Dzai's wedding anniversary (23rd), Thanksgiving!