Kylie

My Kylie is growing up so quickly. I see changes in her daily, especially since she started school this year. Kylie is such a huge help to me and I am so grateful she came first. I don't know what I would do without her. She is even asking me if she can help carry and take care of the baby. Just the other night she had me show her and let her help me change Molly's diaper. She did it all on her own. She told me with the new baby coming I would need help changing all those diapers and she would love to help me...as long as they weren't the really yucky ones! And she can't wait to hold this new baby. She felt the baby kick the other day and I think that is when she was convinced a little girl would be okay!


Doesn't she look so big?


Kylie's class and 3 other classes did a Kindergarten Hoedown. Parents were able to go and what fun! They danced and did actions to 4 or 5 songs and it was great. She had a blast and had that grin on her face the whole time. Love it!


She used Matt's cowboy hat so it was rather large but she loved that dad let her use his hat!

Megan

My little Megan...oh, how I love her! Megan is such a sweet, caring and kind girl. She loves to gives hugs and be close. Megan is always randomly telling me how much she loves me and I love that!


Playing scientist...how fun. She wanted to mix all the colors and see what she could make. Look at her face...love it! The spoons had food coloring hidden under baking soda and it was a surprise what color the water turned. She and Kylie had so much fun.


Taking after her Aunt Kenzie! :) Megan told me this the other night, "When I grow up I want to be a doctor, a singer, a dancer, a pet doctor, oh, and a rockstar...did I say that? Hmmmm...something else...yeah, a racecar driver, oh, and motorcycles too...is that the same thing?" She is going to be a busy girl!


This is Megan in the morning eating breakfast before school. She is tough to get out of bed but once her feet hit the floor she is all smiles! Can't beat that.


My little lefty doing her pre-k homework.


I love this picture! You can see her beautiful eyes and super long eyelashes. Gorgeous...but I suppose I am a bit biased!

Molly, Molly

I love my little Molly! She is sooooo much fun and is developing quite the little personality. I just wanted to post a couple pictures of what she has been up to the past couple months. She is beginning to talk a ton and she will try to say just about anything. Last night she said, "I love you" and it melted my heart. I kept asking her to say it over and over again! What a doll. She is a bright spot in my day for sure!

She brought me each of these bows and hair thingys and wanted me to layer them on her. It was so funny I had to snap a picture. Now, if I WANT her to wear a bow she absolutely has no interest in that!

She is all girl just like the rest of them. She loves to dress up and layer on the accessories.

What a doll...I love her. She is soooo happy!

Even with a bad hair day she manages to smile.

Teaching her young...she is quite the little helper. :)

Molly loves books and animals. Ducks were her favorite for a long time. Now she loves them all. Here she is with her baby reading her book and probably saying, "Quack, quack!"

GO HORSEY!!!!! So is it totally awful that I posted this picture and even more awful that I took the picture and then took her off of him? :) Poor little Brenham...he doesn't stand a chance. I hate to admit that she does this often and I can't get Molly to understand that it is not something Brenham enjoys!

Our little chef. This is quite the concoction made of lettuce, grapes, garlic, a croissant, a banana, a red pepper and probably a few more ingredients. Yummy...

It's Another Girl!

We had our ultrasound on Tuesday this week and we were not surprised to hear that we are expecting girl #4! Kylie and Megan are going to need a little convincing that another girl will be okay but they shed a few tears and are warming up to the idea. So...by the end of June, Matt will be even more outnumbered! Girls, girls, girls...sigh...

RODEO!!!

Well, I am kicking myself for not taking my camera to the rodeo with us. I thought about it on the way but we didn't want to turn around. Matt and I were sure the girls would love the rodeo but they liked it even more than we anticipated! We got to see the petting zoo, LOTS of animals and had sooo many fun activities for kids. It was fabulous and I totally want to go back and do it again. Next year I will be more prepared so that when we blow $12 so the girls can ride a pony for 2 minutes, I can archive it and remember their happy faces, giggles and begging to let them do it again. Totally worth the 12 bucks! Next time we will get Molly touching all the animals in the petting zoo and her silly face when she saw the pig...her favorite by far. Molly loves animals and she was in heaven...what an experience to see all these animals so close and to hear them make REAL noises! Yee-haw!

Kylie and Megan came home from school today having talked about Thanksgiving. Megan had a pilgrim hat and Kylie had an Indian feather hat and a vest. They looked so cute I had to take a picture of them together.

Molly wasn't going to be left out...

They also know all about the pilgrims and Indians and what happened at the first meal they had together. Have I told you all how much I love them being in school? They love it and they are learning so much! I remember being in school and loving it. A big thanks to 2 wonderful teachers, Mrs. Young and Mrs. Salas!

Christmas is officially here in the Knight home. Last week we decorated our Christmas tree for family home evening and how lovely it is! We had a few minor setbacks such as our pre-lit tree not doing the "lit" part and missing ornaments, but we worked it out and have a beautiful tree decorated by Matt and I and the girls. Molly even got into decorating although most of her ornaments came FROM the tree instead of going ON the tree.

The kids I babysit and Molly have completely undecorated one side of our tree from about halfway up but we have a nice pile going under the tree of ornaments that have been removed. Every once in a while Kylie and Megan will get a bug and put them back on the tree. I have decided I won't really enjoy the season if I worry about a perfect tree, so kids, have fun! I love turning the lights on at night and have gotten many comments of, "Oh, you already put up your tree?!?!?!" To which I reply, "Absolutely! The Christmas season is too short and I am a Christmas nut!" Bring it on! The sights, smells, sounds and feelings...I love it all! The girls will go to school and come home to MORE Christmas decorations and wonder where I keep getting them all! Their biggest concern is the fact that I still haven't gotten the candy to fill the candy jars...it's a rough life!

On a blog of a very dear friend of mine (yes you, Terrianne) I read a comment that said the average person gets only 80 Christmases. She then related that number to other numbers in our lives such as the number of cookies we eat, the number of diapers I have changed...you get the idea. 80 really is such a small number and I am going to milk this glorious season for all I can get out of it. If that means I get a few odd looks...I can take it.

Merry Christmas!

Can you see how blue Molly's eyes are? It is crazy!!

Can you still hear the bells ring? (Polar Express) I am glad Meg can!

Carving Pumpkins

One of my favorite parts of the fall season is the pumpkins! I love the colors and smells and of course carving. We got each of the girls their own pumpkin to carve and I let them help me carve and tell me the shape of each part...eyes, nose and mouth. They suggested some pretty crazy shapes but I told them my cutting ability was limited. They had a ton of fun and we got some really great pictures.

Halloween

Halloween this year was so much fun. The girls were so excited and even Molly enjoyed it...she has a bit of a sweet tooth! Molly only cried a little bit when we put her in her costume. Kylie was Sharpay from High School Musical, Megan was Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, and Molly was a butterfly. We trick-or-treated around the neighborhood and then came home to hand out candy. The girls had a fabulous night and are enjoying their treats.

Kylie Is Six

Where have the years flown? It seems like such a short time ago that I was cuddling her as a newborn, chasing after her when she discovered how to walk and dropping her off for her first day in sunbeams. And now she is in kndergarten. When I think of the years that have passed, I have to smile as I remember Kylie growing up. She has always been such a happy child, even as a baby. I feel blessed that the Lord has loaned her to me for our time on earth. Oh, how I love her. I can't help but think to the future and wonder what it holds for her.

Kylie had a soccer game in the morning (she scored 3 or 4 goals) and then we went home to open presents. For dinner she requested Chinese food at Pei Wei. :)

I found a really cute cake on BettyCrocker.com that looked like a princess castle. It was all pink and sparkly with ice cream cones for the spires. I loved it...unfortunately Kylie didn't...maybe I will make it for my birthday! :) Kylie instead chose this cake...an underwater mermaid scene. The barbie is wrapped in fruit roll-ups and it turned out really cute. The girls helped me make it and of course we needed two mermaids instead of just one! Good thing Molly isn't big enough to care...we wouldn't have had enough room for a third mermaid. The cake turned out to be really cute and Kylie loved it. Oh, and I even made those star fish...hooray for me!