Snowsuits to sweatshirts

This is a quick view of what our couch can look like once Kai has deemed it home base for all his treasures. Cute, highly inconvenient, and a total pain in the butt to put it all away just to find a seat. And yes, that would be a pool toy in our living room. Kai absolutely LOVES that thing and snuggles its scary, plasticy face to death. I throw it outside and Kai always finds a way to get it back into the house.




Just before Halloween, we had an incredible snow storm that left us without power for a whole week. The snow was incredibly deep, but the sun was bright and warm the following day and Kai was eager to do some serious snow consumption. Unlike last year, Kai willingly donned his snowsuit and boots and hit the snowbanks. He LOVED every minute of it. He ate his weight of the frosty stuff, made snow angels and a snowman, and giggled with delight. Our poor snowman only lasted a hot second before Kai sent his head off and rolling. We made a quick repair, but a boy only has so much self control and quickly decapitated our friend once again. Ten minutes to make him, two 1.2 seconds to destroy him. {boys.sigh.} Anyway, the snow was short-lived. The beautiful weather melted our 14" of the white stuff pretty quickly




Last week, we headed out for a local playground. Kai made a little friend, climbed everything, and had a great time. Kai was intrigued by the massive tree limb downed by the snowstorm.




Kai has been braving the gymnast rings on our swingset and gets a kick out of holding on as long as his little fingers can grip the rings.






Sometimes he sticks the landing...

...sometimes not.

Happy Halloween!

Alive and well.

Well, we sort of fell off the face of the Earth there for a minute, but we're back! My computer charger kicked the bucket and blogging became impossible. That, coupled by Kai coming down with a lovely little virus called Hand, Foot and Mouth. Good grief that was a disater! That poor kid was in serious agony for a solid week. He had open sores covering his tongue and couldn't eat or drink. Following that, we had to transition Kai into a toddler bed because he had become too used to sleeping in a big bed while he was ill. Soooooo, my nights have seen extended hours upstairs in his room waiting for him to fall asleep. Or should I say, watching him run back and forth across the room doing things in hope of a reaction from me. His room is fairly stripped of anything he might use to delay falling asleep, but he continues to find new ways to procrastinate the Zzzz's. Tonight, I observed him rolling his 5'x7' rug up and heaving it into his bed. Ugh. Well, here are a few pictures that have been sitting around for a couple weeks.
PHOTOS:
Kai has been going to toddler soccer for the past few weeks. Here he is learning to hit the ball or balloon, in this case, off his head.
In the next few, Kai is just being a busy boy and as you will see, getting into some wet mischief.
The last few are of Kai helping Rob convert his crib into a toddler bed. Kai filled it with pillows and blankets. In Kai's world, more IS more.

October = Pumpkins, Hayrides, and Corn Field Mazes

I goofed up the sequencing, but I am out of time for narratives or captions. I will come back and add to it later. Enjoy the pictures for now. :)

Monkey King Kai Kai

Kai absolutely loves the Monkey King character of Chinese folklore. He first became familiar with him while watching Ni Hao, Kai Lan, a cartoon that teaches about Chinese culture and language. Now, Kai IS the Monkey King and is always runnig around the house with a dowl, drum stick, or anything else that could be imagined as a "magic stick". He leaps around saying "shoom, shoom" waving the magic stick. Too cute. I took advantage of all the Halloween stuff out there right now to buy him a cape and crown....Not exactly authentic, but it does the trick. There is another picture further in the post with his royal attire.


Kai picked out a horn at the dollar store last week. He decided that it looked like a party hat and started singing "Happy Birthday" to himself.


The next five pictures crack me up. Kai was doing a musical number perched atop his little table. I love his serious facial expressions as he belts out a tune.





The Monkey King Boy

Today Kai let his little stuffed toys join him on the swingset.


Kai has been noticing the changes in the trees as Autumn settles in and was creating a bouquet of red and orange leaves.

Here is Kai stating the obvious...Licking a leaf is, in fact, gross. I don't know what gets into him sometimes. :)


Silly face.

"Kai Do!"

As a 2.5 yr old, Kai is very typical in his need to do everything for himself. Kai serves himself his own helpings of food at dinner, he opens all the doors, unlocks my car {sigh}, and even tries to wash his own hair in the tub. If he needs a snack, I usually just open the fridge (thankfully he is too short to get enough leverage on the door) and he helps himself to whatever options are presented. The other day he selected strawberries (I call him our fruit bat because he would happily exist on that alone if permitted). I believe I might have been on the phone at the time, because when I checked out the container a minute later, it appeared that a squirrel had found its way into the house. Observe....


Last night I bit my lip and began pulling out our fall clothes. This weekend was a hot, humid mess and now we are suddenly facing autumnal weather...and I am sad to announce that my trees are already turning colors and dropping leaves. Good bye, Summer. {Sniff} Anyway, as I was hanging Kai's warm clothes, he came across some Christmas jammies that I bought last season on clearance for the coming year. He was so excited that he tried to force them over his jeans. I finally convinced him that it wasn't really worth skipping a step and he took the pants of to hoist the jammies up. He then decided that the look wouldn't be complete without first adding a layer of Thomas the Train pj shorts to the ensemble. Given that he was already wearing a striped sweater, it was QUITE a daring outfit. Who knows, he may be on to something. In a week, Lady Gaga might wear it in a music video.