The summer ended wonderfully. We took Kensley and Kallan to the beach at Sea Island for a little family vacation. We had the best time. The girls LOVED the beach. Kallan is such a water baby. She was fearless of the ocean. The more the waves splashed her the more she loved it! She and Kensley played in the sand together, we spent a lot of time at the beach and pool, went on bike rides, ate great food and just had the best time. Our girls were both so good the whole time!
Now Kensley has started school and is finally loving it! It took some time, but she has made some friends and it learning so much! She can sing Jesus Loves Me in English and Spanish now!!! Kensley loves to learn, so this school is perfect for her. Her favorite thing to do with me is workbooks. She and I sit there for hours doing her workbooks. She is such a smart little girl! She amazes us with the things she remembers! She keeps me on my toes for sure.
Kallan is doing great too! She is crawling like crazy, pulling up and wants to walk so bad. She just isn't quite there and to be honest I am not pushing it. With Kensley I could not wait for her to walk (especially because she was 14 months before she took her first step!) but with Kallan, I know better. I want her to crawl for as long as possible! And it is so good for there brain development to crawl longer. She is still the happiest baby ever. Everywhere I take her people freak out over how cute she is and Kallan will immediately look at them and give them the biggest cutest smile you have ever seen. It melts peoples hearts! Especially her daddy's! She knows she is cute and uses it as much as possible to get lot's of attention.
She is so easy to take care of. As long as you let her sleep and keep her fed she is happy. Her big thing now though is that she just wants to be included. She wants to eat what we eat and do what do. She cannot stand to be left out! Especially when she is around her sister and cousins. She gets right in there with them and does her best to do what they are doing, which usually results in the other girls getting frustrated with her because she is getting in there way, or messing up what they are doing. Poor Kallan! Although it doesn't seem to bother her a bit! You have to watch Kensley because when Kallan gets into what she is doing and is "bothering her" she will gently, but purposefully knock her out of the way, followed up by Kallan falling over, bumping her head only to get up and tell Kensley off in baby talk. It is so funny - not the hitting her head part, but her telling Kensley off in baby talk. She is starting to get some feistiness (is that a word?) in her!
She is also a wild woman in the bathtub! Holy cow! She gives us a heart attack every night! She splashes and then intentionally dives under the water and comes up choking on water, but laughing the whole time. She rolls over backwards into the water, bumps her head and comes up laughing. Crawls all over Kensley, tries to stand up in the tub, drinks the water etc... She just loves water. She especially enjoys splashing in the dog water bowls! She knows she is not supposed to though, so she waits for you to turn your back for a minute and she is going for it. When you catch her she gives you one of those super cute Kallan smiles as she is soaking wet and so is the floor. She is too cute to get mad at!
Ben and I are doing good! We just celebrated our 7 year anniversary! No, I'm not itching. :) When I look back on the year we have had and all we have been through I am so grateful that I married him and more in love than ever. We stuck together when things were harder than we could have ever imagined and we were both so worried and stressed out. We had our struggles, but we worked through them. We are closer now than we have ever been. I never could have made it without him. He is my rock and I think I was his as well. We still try never to have a down day at the same time, which has gotten much easier as time goes on. We both still worry a lot, but we try to just focus on how great Kallan is doing and think positive about the future. When we see the look of determination in her eyes when she wants to do something it makes it easier to stay positive. That baby is not going to let anything or anybody hold her back if she can help it. She is so strong willed. It is so great to see!!!
We had her cardiologist follow up appointment on Monday and it went well. There was no change, which is good. We didn't really expect the tumors to have shrunk yet, so we were not disappointed when they hadn't. We were just relieved they had not grown! The doctor said even if her tumors never shrink and they just stay exactly the same as they are now for the rest of her life she will be fine. The tumors are not obstructing the flow of blood in her heart at all. Another thing we have to be so thankful for! I still think it is all the prayers. We continue to be so blessed!
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