Brrrr!

First off can I just say. Blogger stinks!

I can only enlarge two pictures per post. WEIRD.

And, I have to upload all of my pictures to Picasa first. This is lame.

 

Okay now to my post.

It has been COLD. And, please keep in mind that Francis & I are born and raised Phoenicians. We don't like cold. When I dropped Kali off at school today it was 28*. Brrrr times 3!

The kids walked over to my parents the other night dressed like this. Thank goodness for our Utah trip over Thanksgiving otherwise we would not have clothes warm enough for this weather. Kali lost another tooth so she is missing her 2 front teeth :) Look at that silly grin.

 

So we've been trying to keep the kids busy indoors. Which is quite difficult. Luckily, Kali has dance twice a week & Kai started Karate again. We had the neighbors over to play (soooo nice having friends so close), rented movies from Redbox, played some games on the Wii like bike racing, basketball & bowling. The kids rolled out a huge roll of paper and did some neat drawings. Read books from the library and we even filled at bucket up with an inch of water & put toy dinosaurs & rocks in it then left it outside to freeze. The kids we really excited to see it in the morning and used screw drivers to chip away the ice and then we filled it with more water so they could have floating "icebergs"

 Kora is 27 weeks today. This girl LOVES her food. I've been making her baby food (which is so easy, I should have done it for Kali & Kai) She likes sweet potato and pears the best.

She is NOT a fan of naps :/

They only last for about 30 minutes and she gets up 3 times a night now. I am so tired but I just love this little lady so much I am happy to see her even in the middle of the night.

This past week she has decided that she does NOT like strangers. She cried when she saw the pediatrician (who is the nicest guy) and our neighbor who held her the entire night of our Halloween Party. She likes to see all of the dogs at my parent's house & really likes when my Dad holds her. Then she usually spits up on him.

She loves to be in Kali & Kai's room in the middle of all of the action. I've been letting Kali "babysit" her for me. She puts a blanket in her floor for Kora to roll around on while I do the dishes or clean the living room. It's only a small amount of time but a big help for me & Kali is always so proud of herself.

Kora also, really enjoys her exersaucer.

Look at that sweet smile!

Go Suns!

Daddy took Kali to her first Sun's game last night. Yaya decked Kali out in an adorable purple outfit with a blinged out Sun's hat. Francis said she was like a little famous person because they got their seats upgraded & people were asking about her fabulous hat.

 Kali cheered & dance the entire game

 held up her sparkly sign

 took pictures with Daddy

and had some yummy treats

 like a cookie the size of her head :)

She said it was the BEST night EVER!

Party Time!

 

Yesterday Kali had her class Holiday party.

I was able to help out and Kai came along too.

The kids had so much fun making cookies, necklaces, bracelets, ornaments & playing a dreidel game.

Busy Kali

 

Kali is one busy little gal.

She goes to hip hop during the week...here she is in class

and tap, ballet & jazz on the weekend.

She has been busy working hard on her reading. Kali in one of the youngest in her class and ended 1st grade a little behind in reading. We worked on it all summer & she has caught up to grade level! I am so proud of her & each night we try to read before bed. She loves Kyle Jean books & anything non fiction about animals, planets, or rocks.

The week before Thanksgiving she had a field trip at school to Pioneer Village.

Daddy got to go with her & she had a good time.

Her only complaint was that her feet hurt.

 and for some weird reason I can only make the first few picturs of a post large and the rest are small....what is that all about??

Kali pics

 

This is what I found on the memory card after Kali took the camera outside

A rainbow

 birds flying

 Kai hanging out in the box house/fort

 Kali's art on the box house

Kali's witch painting on the box house (which I might add is my Mom's cat's favorite place to be so there is some serious cat pee on the outside of the box-yuck!)

 Kai being crazy with a weapon made of tape

and a chalk handprint