Quotes

Caramel
As we passed 2 police cars with 2 officers standing near their cars, Caramel starts the hundred question game. Why are there police? Why are they out of their car? What happened?.......
Then the quote as we drive away, "What is this world coming too?"

As we drove pass a freeway entrance there was a no hitchhiking sign. Caramel sees this sign then the quote."What no thumbs up!" (We give a lot of thumbs up to Caramel when we are in public places to tell her she is doing a good job.) It was difficult explaining the word hitchhiking.

Rhett
We are just home from church, everyone is tired and hungry and getting into trouble for hitting their siblings. Rhett passes sweet 3 week old Myles sitting in his baby chair then the quote. "Ow Myles kicked me." (Really, Rhett, really, priceless)

Ear Tubes and Adenoids

Caramel had ear tubes put in and her adenoids taken out. She could not hear for months and months. I could not wait for her to get this done and see improvement. So glad it was before school started. The day before, I told her she was going to the doctor to have her ears cleaned out so she could hear. She wasn't too happy about that. In the morning, she got to take the I-pod with her to Day Surgery- that made everything better. The cute little hospital outfit was fun seeing her in. The doctor said that there was a lot of fluid in there. Caramel got ear tubes when she was 18 months. She constantly had ear infections but they stop after 3 years old or she got use to the pain.

The recovery wasn't bad except that is was nice sunny weather and no swimming for Caramel. She will use ear plugs whenever swimming now. She did have a sore throat a couple days after and sneeze out blood.

 

Funny thing is now she will copy cat things you say to show you she can hear.

New Outfit Myles

Here is Myles in the first new outfit I bought for him. I didn't buy him any new clothes having Rhett's and gifted clothes. It will be his Sunday outfit until it gets cold or he grows out of it. It came with a hat to that is way too huge.

Caramel was laughing at him so hard because he went cross eyed when I was taking these pictures. He is in a pink swing I covered with a white blanket, it was hard to keep Caramel out of the picture and to not push the swing.

Faces of Rhett Bennett Kranz

THE BIG CHEESE

THINKING ABOUT THE DUNGEON

SUPER CHUBBY

Yes, this is RHETT

Family Portrait

This is the way Caramel draws our family. Daddy has always had "pokey" hair and is drawn as shown. There was a time when Rhett wasn't included because Caramel didn't know how to draw his hair. She has gotten over that now and he is usaully bald as shown. A pregnant Mommy looks the same as a Mommy that has a 3 week old baby- before it was like an x-ray and now I am always holding Myles.

Alki Beach

With Grandpa Neil visiting and the great weather, we took off for Alki Beach with Grandma Brenda as well. After parking the car way too far from the beach area, we looked at downtown Seattle and the cruise ships at port. Currently, the Space Needle has an orange top in remembrance of the World's Fair in 1962, the 50th anniversary. The Space Needle's official birthday is April 21st.

I brought the stroller for Myles and scooters for Caramel and Rhett. Scooters were used for maybe 5 minutes. The rest of the time Myles's stroller was carrying them. Caramel and Rhett both got shoulder rides. Good thing Grandpa Neil was there so two shoulder rides were available.

Every so often there were stairs off the walkway to the water. The kids enjoyed walking down them and cooling off.

After we made it to the beach area, we had some pizza and bathroom breaks. For the walk back we rented a surrey bike. Anthony did most of the pedaling. Grandpa Neil and I switched off on stroller pushing.

A ladybug landed on my arm while we were walking. Caramel was excited about that. She picked it right off me and held it for awhile before it flew away.

Grandpa Neil Vacation

Grandpa Neil came up to see his newest grandchild.

The kids were excited to show Grandpa their new baby brother, Myles.

Caramel has been dying to go on a vacation (macation). So I told her we could go to Grandpa Neil's hotel and swim at the pool like you do when you are on vacation. The kids loved it. The adults not too happy about the cold pool the kids liked when compared to the hot tub. Myles was at the pool too hanging out on the bench with mom.