Monday, October 24, 2011

Another Big Update - 5 Months Old

It's been another few busy weeks for the Kerl family.  When I last wrote Kevin was embarking on his first work week in Boston... now a few of those weeks of traveling back and forth have come and gone, and we are all getting used to the temporary routine.  Of course, we all love when Kevin comes home on Friday and we get to spend the weekends together...watching football.
Regan drew a person in chalk...it doesn't have a neck, but nobody's perfect!
Regan's interpretation of a Jellyfish
She loves to cook in her kitchen, her specialties are pasta and birthday cake
Rian and Grandma Judy
Rian and Great-Grandma Flo
The first weekend in November we had Rian baptized at St. John Vianney - to apease the clan elders
Gettin' Dipped - he too it like a champ... he was straight faced the whole time, just like his sister
Regan and Great-Grandma Flo
Rian and his Godparents Erin McCabe and Uncle Brandon
At his last doctors appointment they gave us the go ahead to start him on solid food, so we started a week ago with some rice cereal.
He loves sitting in his chair
The bib is yummy too!
The first spoonful
The traditional "first food" face - It ended up being a big hit!
Spending time with Daddy while he's home on the weekends
Look how long her hair would be if it were straight!
I've been trying to find some activities to do with Regan to fill the time while Kevin is gone.  One of this things we did was make our own play-dough!  Regan loves to help in the kitchen, so this was right up her ally. 
Testing out the final product...we made fall colors, orange, yellow and red
Helping Daddy when he works from home
So peaceful
So on to some more big news...we bought a house in Boston!!!  We drove up the first week of November and looked at a bunch of houses and fell in love with this one:
Official 5 Month Photo!

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

4 Months Old!

Better late than never, but we've hit the four month mark!

Rian has been growing like a weed and developing quite the charming personality!  He's is getting so big so fast, I can't eve believe all of the things that he is interested in already!

We busted out the entertainer, and while he still needs a little boost of a pillow under his feet, he fills up the rest of it pretty well!  He loved it and started moving and grabbing all of the things right away.
He loves making faced and "talking".  He has the cutest little laugh, and gets very excited when Kevin carries on a conversation with him.
Regan has been blossoming too...so much so that she's wearing makeup!
Just kidding!...She wanted me to put makeup on her while Kevin and I were getting ready to go out with friends, so I used some fun colored eye shadow and lip gloss.

She has also taken quite an interest in helping in the kitchen, and her specialty is apple pie.  So far this season she has helped make 3 pies!  Her favorite parts are eating the apple peels, sprinkling the cinnamon, and rolling the dough.
Rian cheered us on
There may have been a little quality control...
Looks good enough to eat!
This is what happens when you try to take a nice pictures of grandparents and their grandkids... no one holds still!
Since Kevin had the week off before he starts his new job, we went out and picked apples at an orchard in Lockport.  Regan and Rian had a blast, and we picked 10lbs of  Macintosh apples!  Yum!
Regan had to make sure they tasted okay

Walking on the hay maze

Peace and quiet for a few moments when we go home...ahhhhh
Here is Rian's official 4 month photo.  I love his little crossed legs!
Caught a little bit of a smile...he just wasn't feeling the picture taking that day

On Friday we went to Rochester to visit the Museum of Play.  Regan was much more into it and involved since the last time we were there.  She loves the carousel and all the Sesame Street stuff.  I think her favorite in definitely Wegmans though, this girl loves to grocery shop.
Regan and Mommy in the false perspective room...someday soon Regan really will be taller than me.
Playing on Elmo's piano
Wegmans Time!
Chocolate Pudding was a must - she also bought a carrot, a potato, a bagel and  cheese
Rian and his friend the troll (the one on the left, not the one on the right)
She would play all day with these things
Making more pie!
Playing Atari with Daddy - he was so proud!
We saved the carousel for last, otherwise she would have wanted to rise 10 more times!
Lunch at Dinosaur BBQ!
Mommy and Rian - the boy needed to eat, so mom nursed him in front of a whole crew of bikers wearing Harley Davidson stuff...that was an experience!
After a long fun day, they both conked out on the ride home

This week Kevin left for Boston in the wee hours of Monday morning.  We are doing are best to kill the time until he returns on Friday.  Hopefully we can all be in Boston together soon!