Man Time

One of Krieg's favorite things is having Man Time with his Daddy. Now, the definition of Man Time is any hanging out they do together, without Mommy and Karis. However, in the last month, Man Time, for the most part, has evolved into their hour or so of hang out time after dinner doing yard work. It has become a great system. I have time to clean my mess in the kitchen and get Karis to bed, Kevin gets all the plants and grass watered, picks up the sticks that cover our yard anytime it is windy, and Krieg gets to play outside with Daddy, usually managing to get himself soaking wet. Everyone wins! Yay for Man Time!


In case you can't tell, this was Kevin's shirt from twenty something years ago. It's a Myrtle Beach shirt with his name on the back. His grandmother had it saved with a number of other clothes in her attic. It is the softest thing you've ever felt and Krieg feels so cool wearing Daddy's shirt!

Tummy Time

Karis loves tummy time, especially when Krieg is running around for her to watch. I am going to bet money on the fact that she will actually crawl before she learns to walk, like most children.

And she is very busy trying to get those toes in her mouth. Just a little bit farther!

Growing up

Since two weeks in the life of a baby is a long time, Karis got to try out some new things when she got back from my parents' that she was still too little for when we left. She now gets to join Krieg in sitting in a big girl chair in the kitchen- well, the Bumpo almost counts as that.

On Monday I attempted to take both kids for a walk in the double stroller for the first time. Kevin found me a 1.5 mile route that is bearable for me to walk pushing all 80lbs or so! However, Karis decided she is not a big fan of the stroller. I've attempted 3 walks so far. The first time she made it 15 min, the 2nd time just 10 min and today, 2 min down the road and she was in an all out scream. Then to add to it, when I told Krieg I was going to turn around and head home, he started to scream, so I had 2 screaming kids in a stroller at 7:30 AM walking down our new neighborhood. What a great introduction to our neighbors! Hopefully she will decide sooner or later that walks are fun-she probably won't have much of a choice!

Karis also decided to roll over from her back to her tummy three times today for the first time. What was funny about it was that her motivation every time was to chase the Paci that she had accidentally spit out of her mouth. She kept leaning over to try to reach it until she just tipped herself over. It was pretty humorous to watch!

A few more from Nashville

While we were in Nashville, both my parents took a little extra time off work to play with us. The last two days my dad made sure to get some good play time in. Almost everyone that knows both Krieg and my dad say they look alike. Even a stranger at the pool commented about it! What do you think??

Apparently playing in the hose was way more fun than going in the pool. Krieg was running full steam into it and soaking himself.



While Krieg was "checking out" (his words) my parents' guest room, he discovered a guitar my dad had won, and asked if he could play it. Little did he know that it is an autographed Keith Urban guitar! But Dad let him play anyways! What a great Pa'G!


And we LOVED having Aunt Courtney come to visit!! Thanks for making the trip Court!

3 Months

Tomorrow Karis will be three months old. Her personality has started to come out a lot more over the last two weeks. I am pretty sure she is going to be a social butterfly. Her general rule is, If you smile at me, I'll smile back. She just loves being around people and almost always has a smile on her face!

If she is not smiling, she probably has her hands in her mouth. She is desperately trying to find her fingers and thumbs, and I am SO hoping that she figures it out soon.

As sweet as she can be, she of course has her own issues. Like Krieg, she is a pro at 45 min naps. I can count on my hands the number of long naps she has taken in the last 2 months! Consequently, she has thwarted every effort of mine to get her on a good schedule. I am sure that is God, continuing to strip me of my desire to have my life feel under my own control! She has also inherited Krieg's hatred of the car. Like Krieg, she doesn't sleep in the car for more than 40 min, and then just screams the rest of the time. It made for a lovely 6 hour drive to my parents' house!

I still think she looks so much like Krieg when he was a baby, especially when she's on her tummy. I think it's the shape of their faces and heads. I am going to try to find a picture of him in the same position to post.

I have been really thankful for lots of extra time to enjoy Karis's sweet smiles and babblings while at my parents' house.

Grandparents

In order to give Kevin some time to paint and install some new appliances, and head to the Leadership Project for a while, I packed the kids up in the car with all of our stuff and headed to Nashville to see my parents. Krieg is having SO much fun with them. He thinks their job is to be his own personal playmate. It has been great for me to be able to have some time to enjoy each of the kids separately as well.


We have hit up the neighborhood pool a bunch already. It has been so nice to be able to leave Karis with my mom and just take Krieg. He is loving the water this year. Last year he wasn't quite sure he like the pool.

I finally got some cute pictures of Karis while I had my mom making her smile. More to come of those!