Kevin & Grandma Becky

Sadly, Kevin's Grandma Becky (Nate's mom) passed away last week. It was difficult to explain to Kevin what was happening. In the end, we told him that she is not sick anymore and she is in heaven. Kevin did not seem to notice anyone's sadness, but was very excited by all the visitors at our house last week. I though it would be appropriate to post a few photos of Kevin with his Grandma Becky.

Kevin's baptism weekend, August 2007:

Enjoying ice cream at the State Fair this summer:

While compiling some family photos this week we found a great one of Nate & his mom. This picture made us all smile :)

Nate & mom (1983ish??)

Florida countdown

We can't take this weather anymore... the Florida countdown has officially begun!

First school pagent

On Monday Kevin's school hosted a Winter Gala. It was an afternoon where the parents could visit and watch the kids sing songs. We all enjoyed cookies & juice when it was over.

Kevin got the prime seat in his favorite teacher's lap. He loves Miss Sara.

Here are a few videos. It's hard to hear the words to the song, but they are singing "Herman the Worman". We were laughing so hard at their hand movements. Adorable!

Happy New Year!

I meant to post this a few weeks ago!

The post holiday blues of a two year old

Just wondering.... are anyone else's kids a total mess now that the Holidays are over? We can't tell if this is attributed to Kevin's age (peaking of his terrible two behavior) or due to the fact all the excitement from the Holidays is over and it's minus a hundred degrees here and we can't even go outside to play in the 20 inches of snow in our backyard!

One night this week at dinner Kevin asked me "who's coming over tonight"? To which, I responded, "just me Kev". "Oh" he said mildly. Happily, we kept very busy visiting with friends & family the last few weeks. All this holiday cheer kept Kevin up very late and he got to eat lots of extra treats.

Now it's back to reality. Reality is boring. There is not a constant stream of presents, cookies, fun family visitors, late nights & donuts in our reality. Here's to next year!

Thankfully, his behavior towards the end of this week has been better.

Side by side

Ok, I am not really of fan of photographing my ever growing belly, but this was fun....

Nicole & Joe are visiting all week and they came for dinner last night. Nicole is due 2 weeks before me and we thought it would be fun to take some belly shots, side by side.

Who's bigger?

When we took off our sweaters off to get a good belly shot Kevin wanted to take his shirt off too and stick out his belly!

Stone Family Christmas

On Sunday afternoon we went to Ames to celebrate Christmas with Nate's family. It was wonderful to see everyone!

I love this picture! Kevin with his Great Grandparents and cousin James (6 months)

Dan was showing Kevin & James the big tractors that were plowing the snow. James is too busy studying Kevin.