All about the "D": November 2014

Welcome back!

The last time we blogged, I think it was late August and kids were back-to-school. Where have we been since then? Well, right here! But, life has been busy and full of, well, life! So here is a quick recap of our September, October and November (so far). Hope you enjoy it!

Kendall is adorable as ever. I just love her big brown eyes in this picture and her two little toothy-pegs. She got her first tooth (her bottom right) on August 24, 2014. The second one followed about a week or so later! To date, she still has just these two teeth. But, I think her top front ones are about to come through any day now!

Kendall has learned to crawl and she is all over the place now! She started crawling on September 17. She pulls up onto anything she can reach and cruises along furniture. Of course this means more bumps and bruises for the baby girl, but she's figuring it out.

Speaking of our little angel, aren't her eyelashes gorgeous!

On October 4th, we had our 8th annual hoike. Sorry about the lack of photos here, but if I find the time, I'll try to upload a video of one of our dances!

Kendall is wearing an adorable pa'u that was made by one of my hula sisters. This little outfit is passed down from keiki to keiki of our class.

Micah is having so much fun being a "preschooler." I can't tell you how many times I've heard from him, "Miss Kelly says..." about this or that. :)

Here he is dressed and combed oh-so-handsome for his picture day at preschool!

And here he is giving us one of his "kiss-me" stink-faces. I tell him whenever he makes a stink face, I'm going to give him a kiss. That usually ends up putting a laugh and a smile on his face!

Spidey-Pirate!

I can't tell you how much Samuel has blossomed at school. He is thriving in Kindergarten! Let me just show you something. Here is an example of Samuel's growth in writing and numbers in less than one month of school!!! Simply amazing. And now, I think he's up to the mid-50's or so. :) SO proud!

And the reading! He started Kindergarten just baaaaarely being able to read a handful of words. But now, he is a reading machine! (His words!) He literally shocks me when he comes home from school with some of the stuff he can read!

Okay - last bit of showing off my darling boy... the other day he asked me to teach him to write his name in cursive. He focused extra hard and look at what he did! He was so proud of himself and he couldn't wait to share it with his oldest cousin Stryder.

Awana has also begun and we are in full swing of memory verses, songs, games and crafts there!

We took a trip to the local pumpkin patch and got this adorable photo of all three kids. :)

Then a few weeks later, dug right into them (or should I say power-tool drilled?)

One of our favorite fall activities was our annual White family trip to Julian. The cousins had so much fun playing together and being outside in the beautiful Julian mountains.