Ainsley Marin is almost 14 weeks old!   She's grabbing on to everything in sight (especially other people's hair when they go to kiss her!).  She's enjoying all of her surroundings, music and listening to her brother and sisters play.  When she makes a peep, they always make time to stop what they are doing, touch her gently and kiss her.  Still no luck with getting her to like tummy time, but we know we need to practice more if she's to get strong enough to push up and roll over one of these days!  Her favorite toy is a tiny stuffed bunny that she manipulates with her hands.  She loves to chew on it's ears.

Aidan Kane is 20 months old.  He's continuing to improve upon his vocabulary and his sentences are getting to 3 and 4 words ("Mommy git dat peaz"), he is also starting to insist on doing much for himself "Me do!".  He loves playing ball and catches really well.  He thinks a football is called "football game", that's what he yells every time he picks one up.  He recognizes the green and yellow nerf football as being the Green Bay Packers football "geen bay packa" (Kaelin was calling it the Green Bean Packers for a while!).  He loves following "Key-ee" and "Kay-yin" around all day and getting them to chase after him. 

Kaelin Avery will be 3 years old next month.  She loves the new gymnastics class we enrolled her in. She and Keeley are in the same group.  She didn't much like the ballet class that just ended.  She and Keeley had a mini recital on Saturday and Kaelin didn't want to participate.  She was the youngest one in the group of mostly 4 to 6 year olds and the steps were too boring for her, she likes the fact that she can run around like crazy and jump and tumble in the gymnastics class.  She's bustin' to get outside and run around when the weather warms up more. Kaelin plays board games very well (Candyland, Chutes and Ladders) and beats everyone at Memory too!  Kaelin is quite the story teller these days, it's great to eavesdrop on her playing with her dolls.  It's funny to hear grown up statements coming from her now, she likes to exaggerate when seeing something and says "Oh...my...God."

Keeley Shea is 4 years and 2 months old. She really enjoyed being out in the snow during the last two times it actually accumulated on the ground this year.  She too loves gymnastics. She's now enrolled in two different programs.  On these cold winter days, she's been perfecting staying in the lines while coloring and also drawing her own pictures. She's become really good (for a 4 year old that is...) at drawing people. It's amazing how much she misses California still and talks about it almost daily.  Yesterday when we asked her why she loves California so much she said "because of Disneyland and Arthur" (Arthur was her best friend at her old school since she was just a couple months old.)