Sunday, November 9, 2014

Kempton: 22 Months

Kemp is 22 Months! Here's an update!

He wears 18-24 month pants mostly. He still wears 2 pairs of 12 month pants and some 18 month pants are just way too big on him. Eventually, they will  fit in the waist but probably be too short.

He wears 24month/2t shirts

Kemp likes to eat clementines, pancakes and spoonfuls of peanut butter! The other day he was pointing to the cupboard and yelling "butter!" I didn't know what he was talking about until he opened the door to grab a spoon. I realized he wanted a spoonful of peanut butter..

He does really well at stringing words together like "bye bye Mommy" or "thank you daddy"

The other day we were talking on FaceTime with my brother and his family. When Kempton saw my nephew, Tyson, he yelled "Tysie!" Besides Dan, Cohen and me, I think that is the first person he has really recognized.

He still loves puppies.

He sits down on the potty every time before he takes a bath. The other night he actually went potty. It was more of a right time, right place kind of thing but it was still exciting.

Kemp does everything Cohen does (the good stuff and not so good stuff)

He has very little to no patience

He likes to play with the marble set we have, trains, and every thing that his brother is trying to play with.

He likes to watch Mickey, Sheriff Callie, and Chuggington. Him and Cohen just started watching Paw Patrol, and they love it.

He went to his 2nd movie today (Big Hero 6). His first movie was Frozen about a year ago. Anyway, I asked him on the way home if he liked the movie and he said, "no!" It's probably because he fell asleep! And it wasn't even his nap time! HAHA! For the record, Dan, Cohen and I really enjoyed the movie!

We took the rail off his crib yesterday so he could have a big boy bed. He slept for his nap fine, however, bed time was a different story! He was rolling around, falling out and just crying all night! By 1 am I had enough and put the railing back on! I guess he isn't quite ready for it, but that's ok with us. 

He LOVES to color!! And apparently take the covers off all the markers and line them up...


 I guess he thought it would be fun to color on his hand... but he is usually really good about only coloring on paper.




Kemp loves his hat! And still can't figure out how to wear sunglsses...


We took Cohen's friend, Taylor, to Build a Bear Workshop for her birthday present to make a Ninja Turtle. Kempton came with too and picked out something to make! He loved it and loves his new Ninja Turtle!







Actually, Kempton gets to do a lot of different things with his brother. Here he is at Taylor's birthday party at Pump it Up...




Kempton and Tristan..I just love when Kemp wears hats! So stinkin' cute!


Testing the cars at Toys R Us


We left Kempton's hat in MN. My mom sent it back to us and when we opened the box Kemp put that hat right on his head and wore it most of the night!

Eating his spoonful of peanut butter :)


 Kemp likes to hang out with me while I do my makeup. He'll grab a brush and say, "cheeks!"
 Trying on Daddy's glasses...

 Using the chalk board at the former Caribou Coffee that now turned into a Zu Coffee.

 Right after he went potty 

 Practicing his colors! He loves playing this game that Great Aunt Brigitte gave them, though he is still learning some concepts of how to play!

 Kemp trying on some silly glasses from a goody bag Cohen got at daycare. 



 Popcorn  at the movie theater!

Playing trains with his hat on, of course


And I just love these pictures of Kemp and Cohen. Even though they fight some times and are a bit crazy, they sure do love each other. Cohen often calls Kemp "his baby" and surely thinks he is a pretty cool kid (most of the time) :)




Although, Kemp copies everything Cohen does, I am glad that he didn't pick up Cohen's basketball skills...see below....  ;)

His favorite word...?

I  love to see him grow and learn so many new things, but I wish time would slow down just a bit. I can't believe in just 2 months he will be 2! 

Love, 
Katie

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Halloween Fun

When you spend money on Halloween costumes you want to get the most out of them! Well, I definitely think we did this year. Plus, they are going to go right into our box of dress-up stuff to be worn whenever. What's the point of putting it away?!

A couple weekends ago we went to Zoo Boo at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. It was another gorgeous day! Cohen insisted that all of us wear our Avengers costumes, but then at the last minute decided he wanted to be a Ninja Turtle. So he ended up being Iron Man with a turtle shell. Kemp was just happy carrying and filling his pumpkin bucket.


























Mom and Cohen with the creepy tree

And Daddy and Kemp

Of course they boys were mostly excited  to see the animals.

Cohen showing me that he is taller than a penguin







The boys checking out the huge bird nests




 The zoo had special enrichment activities for the animals. Since whenever we are there the leopard is usually laying down we wanted to watch his enrichment so we headed there to wait.



They took this paperish thing that a volunteer made and stuffed it with something so the leopard would check it out. What do you think they stuffed it with? A treat? No...elephant poop! While the leopard would not eat it the keep said that he would be interested in it and sure enough, he was!


Cohen LOVED it!



Cohen went from Iron Man with a turtle shell, to just his shell to full fledged Iron Man. He had to put on his Iron Man so he could get Maleficent. :) There was this 10 year old girl walking around dressed as Maleficent and Cohen was certain that she was following him and trying to get him! Haha











The kids also had a party at daycare on Halloween. We left work a bit early so we could go to it. I loved walking into Kempton's classroom to see him sitting there with all of his friends.  See the little Hulk on the left side... :) He didn't even get up when we walked in. He was too busy eating a cupcake.




 Each of the classes had a parade to show off their costumes.

 I headed back to Cohen's classroom to wait for Kemp's parade.  I found Cohen back there with his turtle shirt, shell, turtle hands and Leo mask.




Then we went back up to Kempy's classroom to watch  Cohen's parade :)

By that time he turned into Iron Man


 Cohen and his friend, Tristan, were both Iron Man

...and their brothers were Hulk. This is the best picture I could get of the 4 of them...Aaron, Tristan, Cohen and Kemp.
 Cohen with his teacher, Ms. Amber or Ms. Amby as he sometimes calls her!

 Kempton with his teacher, Ms. Che

Cohen and Ms. Che







After the daycare party, it was off to the mall for some trick or treating.

We did very little trick or treating as it got pretty busy and the kids were a little tired and cranky



We got some dinner and then just walked around a bit. The kids like playing on this interactive screen thing....
...and Kempton loved watching the train.







However, before all of that, on September 1, we went to the Halloween party at Magic Kingdom in Disney World.  Do you know how hard it is to find costumes in August by the way?! We had to order everything online as nothing was in stores yet, but we received everything and we all had a great time!




Here we are all dressed up as the Avengers






Meeting Tarzan, Jane and Terk from the Tarzan movie, which Cohen loves! He was a bit scared of Tarzan though.


And here is a picture of Jeff, Mandy, Hannah and Tyson dressed up for the Halloween party!

Waiting for the parade to start! It was hot in our costumes!!




I didn't get any good pictures of the parade but the boys enjoyed it. 

Cohen met the old hag from Snow White... he has an thing for villains!

As the night progressed we got rid of the costumes and accessories!
 
Kempy trick or treating! :)

And I believe that concludes our Halloween fun!! Until next year...

Love, Katie