Update

Ok I wrote this post almost a month ago probaby but then I didn't get the picture on and now I am just getting around to it. I will have to write another post soon so you can see what we've been up to the last few weeks.

Well my little family is growing up so much lately it feels like. I thought I would give everyone a quick (or maybe not so quick) update.
Kale is so glad to be back in school after the Christmas break. I actually kept him home one extra day because he had been sick the day before and you would have thought it was the end of the world. I guess I should have just let him think school didn't start until Tuesday. He even has a new look.

On Wednesday when he came home I thought one of his teeth  had fallen out. Further inspection revealed that it hadn't fallen out but it was leaning forward. I asked him if I could pull it out and he said no. I asked if he wanted to pull it out, he said no. I asked if we should tie a string to it and to the door knob and shut the door, he said yes. I told him that we should wait for Daddy to come home to help. Of course I couldn't stand it. I told him to push it forward as far as he could then push it back as far as he could. Then he was off to play. I don't think he could stand it either and kept playing with it and a few minutes later out it came. He was so excited! He called Clint to tell him to hurry home and he wanted to go show Grandma and Grandpa. He has been carrying it around almost nonstop since it happened. I think he put it under his pillow for the ToothFairy on Wednesday night, but Wyatt was throwing up and had a fever of 103 so I think the Toothfairy stayed away so she didn't catch his sickness.
Darcy is getting to be quite a handful. She squeals and she whines and she laughs and she cries. She is such a girl. My sister gave her some of that play make-up (the kind that doesn't really show up on your face is more like putting vaseline or something on) for Christmas. Oh my has she been in heaven. She likes to take it with us whenever we go anywhere. She doesn't know that it is called makeup though. She calls it "the stuff my aunt gave me." Its actually pretty cute. And surprisingly her dad didn't take it away. I figured as soon as he saw it, it would be gone. She has been surprising me frequently with things she knows. I haven't worked with her on her shapes or anything and the other day we were reading a book about shapes and it asked where different shapes were and she pointed them out to me. She loves to help me.  A lot of times she is just too much help but you can't help but love and appreciate her effort.
Wyatt has decided he can talk. Since Christmas, he talks all the time. He loves to repeat what other people are saying. We think that he spent so much time over Christmas with his cousins and everyone else talking that he finally decided to start. Hallelujah it's about time. Last night he saw the deer in the backyard and ran and grabbed Clint's binoculars. It was so cute. You could totally tell he didn't know how to use them but he knew that was what Daddy uses them for. He had them upside down and pointed almost at the ground. Oh well.
Garrett feels like he is so much older all of the sudden. Just in the last few weeks he now can roll both ways, talks a ton, reach for things, he found his toes, laughs, push himself around on his tummy (he's not doing that a lot mostly when we leave him on his tummy and he gets mad)