Man I wish I had these pictures for "My kids are geniuses" post. Katelyn learned how to do this all by herself. Believe me, no one taught her how. This last one is such a sweet shot that Stephen captured, candle in mid-air as it's on on it's way down to smash a toe or two. Nice.

Go Broncos

Here is our latest family picture taken in Boise State attire. This was one of the pictures that semi-turned out with the kids semi-smiling. Gotta love picture day.

Katelyn and Preston

This was taken the day after Christmas. It's a little blurry, but too cute. Preston is almost bigger than Katelyn. Won't be long.

My Boys

This picture is just super cute. As you can tell, Preston is growing fast. He is officially 2 months old now. He weighs in at a whopping 14 pounds. He is in the 93% for weight and 43% for height. Weigh (pun intended) to go fat boy! Stephen weighs more than that, but we don't know his percentiles. We love you both.

Preston's new swing!

We got Preston a new swing because my old one broke already. This is right after Stephen set it up. Preston also really enjoys it.

My Kids are freakin' smart

Okay, Katelyn really is smart, but I have to joke a little bit about recent events. First let me say in her defense, she just turned 2 in August and can do the following.

-Sing her ABC's
-Count to 10 very well and to 20 semi-well
-Speak in complete sentences and they make sense, we can understand 95% of what she says
-Count to 10 in Spanish
-Knows her shapes, and colors for the most part. Can identify the numbers 5,8,6,2 and occasionally others.
-Says her prayers all by herself. A couple of days ago she prayed for the Bronco's. We got her trained.
-Can recite all the nursery rhymes on demand.
-Can sing in tune with most of the words over 20 songs.

Now for the funny stories.

-Apparently Preston is a prodigy. He speaks when we leave the room. Just the other day while Stephen was showering and I was in bed, he told Katelyn that he wanted her to get him out of the car seat and drop him on the floor. She told me, "Preston said Katelyn hold you." Right, I am sure he did.

-It has been very snowy here. We were leaving the library when Katelyn said she was eating snow. Okay, I thought. I look back and she is licking the snow off the bottom of her shoe. I freaked out and told her that was disgusting. Next thing I know, "This is disgusting," she says as she licks the bottom of her own shoe. Nice.

We love to clean! (Well..some of us do.)

Apparently, Katelyn's bored herself with making messes around the house and has moved onto cleaning up messes. Once Kendra taught her how to use a sponge there was no stopping her. Even after I got home from work she was finishing up the bathtub, spent a little time working on the floor and then polished off the toilet (for the second or third time). We're still working on her technique, but at least the desire is there. And it IS a free cleaning.

We even offered to pay her, though she wouldn't take our money. No, we didn't ask twice, and no, we're not going to twist her arm.