Yes it really has been ten months...
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| watching the parade at the Harvest Festival in Berlin |
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| Kai's photography skills |
I thought I would catch every one up on what our boy is up to, and into...
He is an amateur photographer! I think some kind of real kids camera is on the Christmas wish list this year, and yes after you see some of his work I know you all will be wanting to book him for your family portraits! LOL He loves to take our pictures and the stupider the face and pose you do the more he giggles!
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| Selfie with a photo bomb by Aunt Linda: |
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| Wow, just wow. Kai is rocking this photo shoot |
We had a good time taking Kai to his first parade, you just never know how a child will react to a parade and I was a tad nervous, no need to be! Once the trucks and trailers and floats and even the princesses started coming he was in heaven! Then when the candy started being tossed his way it was really on!
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| Big fun at the Harvest Festival |
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| enjoying a week night walk with Grandma and Bryan |
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| peanuts and candy corn for breakfast ( I know Mother of the year right?) |
But what is Kai into besides photography? Anything with wheels, trucks, cars, trailers, motorcycles, tractors, and even motor homes! His favorite toys right now are match box cars. He loves riding bike and getting a ride on anything anyone is willing to give him a ride on. He loves Sunday school and Pre-school and has seemingly adjusted quite well. He also has really started to enjoy books which thrills us since we are both readers. Kai is also the proud owner or a red cape with a big K on the back of it, he is now "super Kai!" to the rescue! It's seriously so cute:) The other day we went on a walk and I got too warm so I tied my jacket around my waist, his eyes got huge and he said" AHHH super Mommy!" ummm definitely not but so funny it reminded him of a cape:) He can still tell people off with the best of them that's for sure. Another nickname of his is " His Royal Kai-ness" He wants things his way and he will let you know if you do something wrong. He was dedicated last Sunday night at church and he proceeded to tell the audience off all the way down the steps from the stage to our seats for being "too loud!" with their applause. I was quite embarrassed and I hope no one could hear him:/ He may end up being a hair dresser like his Mommy. He fixes my hair all the time and pretends to do hair cuts, also he gets very upset if anyone touches his hair if it has gel in it!
Kai is also really into helping me with anything I will let him help with, he likes to clean the toilet, dry or wash dishes, put the clean silver wear away from the dishwasher and fold wash rags stack them in a neat pile and go put them away.
Kai unfortunately still does not sleep through the night on a regular basis, every once in a while he will. We have literally tried everything we can think of and tried to think of everything under the sun that could be causing this trouble. We have tried more blankets, less blankets, jammies on, jammies off, nightlight, no nightlight, door open, door closed, slathering his body and pillow in lavender oil, lavender oil in his bath water, one of those light up pillow pet thingies, fan on, fan off, telling him his bed is a big boy bed, a super hero bed, bed time snack, no bed time snack, and just flat out telling him not to get up! lol My latest idea was glow-in -the-dark stars and moon for his ceiling( his other facination is with the sun, moon, and stars) To no avail. He doesn't wake up crying, or appear scared. He isn't sick, he isn't at all potty trained at night so it isn't a bathroom issue. I used to ask him what was wrong and he didn't answer at all but we think it is just simply an ongoing ploy to wriggle his way into our bed, he simply wakes up and is alone so he comes in our room. We usually just take him potty, change his diaper, and hold him for a little while while he clings to us like a spider monkey and then put him back to bed. We have thought about cutting out nap time but he just simply cannot do with out one, he is too tired during the day. so if any of you Mommy's or Adoption experts have any advise other than co-sleeping(which we did for a while in the beginning but are not willing to go back to) please let me know! his other sleeping issue is that he is a regular little creeper:) He literally scares me half to death because he will sneak out of his room sometimes right at daybreak when I am getting ready for work and sit in the gray dim light coming in the windows and hid under the dining room table or sit in a corner and I will (having no idea he is up) catch a glimpse of his wide eyed face out of the corner of my eye and scream my head off. LOL I told Reuben it's no wonder I'm so jumpy at night it's like having a creepy ghost child wandering our house! It makes it a little less weird since I finally did get out of him why he wanders into strange places like under the table, he says he is a puppy. Yep, he barks, he pants, and he licks our faces from time to time. We try not to encourage or make a big deal out of it when he starts the puppy business we just calmly say "your not a puppy your a boy". It seems to be helping but when he is not sure how to act he will just be a puppy, nice coping mechanism, maybe I should try it in socially awkward situations:) or not... We can't believe it's been almost a year since Kai's been ours, it really fells good these days but I know we still have a long way to go! Sorry for my rambling:)
