My cute kiddos

We were talking about everyone's name in the family one night and we asked Jordan what his middle name is and he said his middle name was nater. Jordan Nater Dance.

Jordan (and now Kenzie copying him) says "I really, really, really, really love you." and "Yep-a-doo-da"

Jordan likes to say "mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy" over and over and over again until I say "what?" looking at him isn't even good enough. I have to ask what. and sometimes I say it in an annoyed voice, since he just repeated my name a bunch of times and then he usually says "I love you" or "I really love you." And then I feel extra bad for not talking nice like I try to teach my kids to do.

When I forget to give the kids their waters or vitamins Kenzie likes to remind me by saying with huge eyes and a huge smile "waters!" or "vitamins!"

When Jackson makes a lot of good choices during the day he likes to say "I've been a good boy today, huh, mommy?" and then he usually like to compare him being a good boy to Jordan's non-listening and Kenzie tantrums. He likes to compare when it makes him look good :)

Kenzie was calling herself piggy for awhile, but doesn't seem to as much. She also calls herself Princess Peach, Dora, and Cindy Lou Who. Recently we had a conversation for several minutes about how she's Cindy Lou Who and Jordan is the Dog (from the Grinch) and Jackson is the Grinch. She was telling me about what Cindy Lou Who does in the movie.

When Jackson and Jordan were playing Jack said his name was John and Jordan started calling him John the Baptist. It's always interesting to me the things Jordan knows because most the time it doesn't seem like he's really paying attention when I'm trying to teach him something.

Jackson's words for wii things: He says level 1 for player 1. He says stage or station for someone's saved game on the wii. (I don't know what to call it either...).

The sides of Jackson

The angry side:

A few weeks ago Jackson was pretty upset. It all started from him being mad that I said I wouldn't tell him a story on the way home from school until after he told me about his day at kindergarten. He kept stopping when we were walking and saying he wasn't going to walk with us. He did this the whole way home which landed him in his room when we got home until he calmed down. Before he calmed down these are some of the things he said/shouted from his room.

-If you don't let me out I"m never going to let you in my room again. Except for laundry.
-You're asking for it. (I don't know where he learned that. I'm pretty sure Doug and I don't say that... But maybe we do without me noticing it...)
-That's it. You asked for it.
-(He started throwing a pack of diapers at the door and I told him if he broke the door he'd have to do a ton of chores to earn the money to pay for a new door. He said something like this:) I'm not doing any chores to pay for a new door.

He had quite a few funny things he was saying. I should have recorded them so I could remember them better.

The sweet side:

This conversation was on the way home from my parents' house tonight:

Jack: Santa's definitely going to give presents to Kenzie.
Me: Yeah... because she's so cute?
Jack: Yeah, and she never makes bad choices. She's just my favorite little girl.

Conversation with Jackson

Jack: What if we would have named Colie Spongebob?
Me: Uh, that would have been weird...
Doug: You can name your son Spongebob.
Jack: No, I'll be at work.
Us (confused): you'll still have to pick out a name.
Jack: I'll be at work. So my wife will think of a name.
Us: Do you think she'll choose Spongebob?
Jack: No, I'm not going to really name my son that.
Jordan: I'm gonna name my son Spongebob. (I don't know if he even knows who Spongebob is...)

4 Month Old Coleman

Coleman is 4 months old already! We can believe it. In fact, I told Jack a couple days ago that Coleman is 4 months old now and he said "we don't want him to grow up." After I agreed he said we also don't want Kenzie to grow up. But he did say he wants Jordan to grow up (and Jordan said he does want to grow up too :)). Jack then told me that he doesn't want to grow up because he doesn't want to leave us. I told him he could live with us as long as he wants... After that we were talking about how Doug and I will be his kids' grandparents and he said, "you guys will be old.... I don't want you to get old." He's a sweet boy :)

And now back to Coleman... Here's some pictures from 3-4 months.

My friend made this hat for him. Isn't it so cute?

My friend also made this hat. She's very talented.

I found out that if I cover the flash on the camera that the pictures turn out red. I thought it was pretty cool...

I really love this picture.

Here's a few things about him these days:

He rolls over sometimes from his tummy to his back but not consistently.
He loves when we say "Colie, Colie, Colie, Colie,Colie"
He doesn't like to be alone.
He loves being held.
He smiles a lot.
He loves his siblings and gets so happy when he sees them and especially when they talk to him. (whenever he smiles at Kenzie she says "Colie's so excited to see me :))

My Kindergartener

Jack had his first day of Kindergarten last Tuesday (Sept 13th). He loved it! I asked him if he wished he went all day and he said yes. I was a little disappointed he didn't want to be home with me and his brothers and sister, but I'm happy he likes school so much :) He said his favorite part of school the first day was eating apples. He also had tomatoes for snack, but he didn't like it. He also liked centers. I think he was excited about those because he did them in preschool. He didn't remember any of the kids names the first day but has learned 1 or 2 each day since, most he had learned from reading their names. He has made a friend this week. He said Tuesday that he showed a little boy a tiny play doh egg that he made and the kid laughed. Then the next day he said he the boy laughed at him a lot (in a good way, not a mean way... Jackson was happy.) and he said he liked him because the boy talks to him a lot. And today he said he played with him all day and didn't want to stop. I'm happy he's made a friend. He seems even more excited about preschool now. He loves recess. Everyday he says he hangs upside down and goes down the slide. Although today he played with his friend so he didn't go down the slide. He also loves going to the computer lab at school and eating snack.

Doug stayed home so he could come with us to take Jack to school.

walking to school

In his seat.

This is what else he had to say about his first day of school:

"We had snack. We had recess. Mrs. Crow read us a book. She read us Little Red Riding Hood. And it was the same one as us, mom. We learned about the color red. And that's all. I'm all done. Oh and I lined up for recess. There's no helpers. Mrs. Crow does everything except be the line leader. Everyone can be the line leader. And I was hanging upside down on the bars and we played at the big park and we were playing at the swings but I didn't get to swing. And... and we colored! A bird. A red bird. But I couldn't color the brown bear because we were out of town. But we didn't go to the purple park."

I asked Jordan how he felt about Jackson going to school and he said:

"good. But I wanted daddy."