It's about time...

Yeah! I (K) finally have a child that looks like me (or at least like I did at her age).






















Check out the pics!































Thanks for the pics Dad!

Happy 4th Birthday Aidan!

Yesterday was Aidan's big number 4 birthday!
We had his party on Saturday at Chucky E. Cheese!






































We had a lot of fun! Thanks to all who came and thanks for all the gifts!

Now Playing....At the Arvolds

Sleeping Beauty

















Barber Shop





































Hear No Evil, See No Evil
















The Never Ending Story

Grief Management and Great Memory

Note to self: when you get home from running errands with the whole family and your two year old decides he wants the almost totally deflated balloon lying on the counter (where it has been for months) and you give it to him and he demands that you blow it back up and you cannot convince him that what he is requesting is impossible, do not tell him that the balloon is "as dead as your dead turtle." Because his weeping will only intensify and continue for the next 20 minutes until Mommy decides to take him to the store with her (she was already planning on going) so that she can buy him a balloon (which she already had to buy for the other son's birthday) and he can play with it for 5 minutes before moving on to another toy.

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Last night while watching Michael Johns perform on American Idol, Davis spontaneously broke out with his rendition of "We Will Rock You". I turned to Kate and asked where he had heard that song. It is not on any of our kid or adult CD's we play in the house or the car. We asked him where he had heard that song and he replied, "At Grandma's house." We realized that two weeks ago we were watching AI at Kate's mom's house and Michael Johns had performed "We Will Rock You". We were impressed.

A Thief and A Dead Turtle

Last night when I (C) got home for dinner, the boys had already left the table- but they had not finished their dinner. Both of our boys have an affinity for bread- especially buttered bread- and came downstairs to try to get bread. Mommy informed them that they needed to eat their lasagna to get more bread. They gave up their argument rather quickly as Davis made his way to the table to make a more personal plea. While he approached us, Aidan flew up the stairs and Mommy remarked, "He just stole bread."

So I got to chase down the bread thief. Aidan ran straight to his bedroom and got as far under his bed as he possibly good. When I asked him to come out, he told me, "I don't like meat, Daddy." When I told him to come out again, he thought about it and then threw the bread out. After I stopped laughing, I pulled him out for the big TO.

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Today, I made my usual afternoon stop home for a Coke and learned Kate and the boys had had their long talk about our recently deceased turtle, Pete. Davis ran up to me and said, "Daddy, Pete went dead." I told him I was sorry to hear that and asked him how that made him feel. He replied, "Good."

Spring Break

It was Spring Break this past week and we spent the week at Silver Birch Ranch (White Lake). The kids had a blast being with Grandma and Aunt Berta. They even got to see Great Grandpa and Grandma! Here are some pics from our week.















































Davis had quite a week of being a 2 year old. Here's the run down of his boo-boos:

1. Left side of forehead: fell down the stairs 20 minutes before we left to go one vacation.

2. Right cheek bone: Running with brother in Aunt Berta's bedroom and got hip checked into the bed frame

3.Bridge of nose: Fell out of bed onto suitcase while sleeping

4. Middle of Forehead: While begin Batman(running around with his hat pulled over his eyes like a mask), he was clotheslined by a table

Please don't report me!!! It is not my fault!




Aidan had a quite a week of one liners, here were the highlights...

1. While watching American Idol, referring to Simon: "I don't like that guy, he doesn't like anyone's singing."

2. While running past Daddy, he was scooped up onto the couch where Daddy told him that when people love one another they hug and kiss them and then proceeded to do just that over and over again. To which Aidan replied, "And then they put them down!"


Halle had a "good" week too! She is getting her first tooth!

Winter's Back!!!

Well....at least for a day or so. The midwest is the best! Yesterday we had a snow storm which gave us over a foot of snow. Beleive it or not our back yard was grass just 12 hours before I took these pics.

It was a great day to cuddle......

And wrestle too!