An Interview with Kaylynn, Age 4

This is sooo late!  But my annual birthday interview, from December 2012.  

1.What is your favorite color? Yellow
2. What is your favorite toy? My dollhouse
3. What is your favorite fruit? bananas, they are yellow.  and carrots
4. What is your favorite TV show? Dinosaur Train, Mickey Mouse, & Doc McStuffins
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? macaroni and cheese & hamburgers
6. What is your favorite thing to wear? yellow clothes
7. What is your favorite thing to learn about? that old trees can grow  (????)
8. What is your favorite animal? giraffe
9. What is your favorite song? Knee Deep in the Water by Zac Brown
10. What is something Mama or Daddy tells you? that you love me
11. What is your favorite book? Big Red George book
12. Who is your friend? Will and Jake (Bryla)
13. What is your favorite cereal? cheerios (she never eats cheerios...much less cereal, no idea how she answered this question)
14. What do you like to do outside? blow bubbles
15. What is your favorite thing to drink? chocolate milk and orange juice and daddy's milk (daddy's milk=kefir)
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas and Valentine's Day
17. What do you like to take to bed with you? my blanket and stuffed animals
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? biscuits and gravy and hotdog buns (hotdog buns=pigs in a blanket)
19. What makes you happy? when you sing to me (so glad my off-key voice is pretty to her!)
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? a mama (who, apparently is going to have 10 kids.  She has told me this on MULTIPLE occasions.  And she is not sure if they are going to pee pee in their pants, but they probably will.)

Chevy Driving Soccer Mom (and Dad)

This spring, we have entered the world of soccer parents!  Seriously, this is the best way to spend a Saturday, watching 4 year olds play soccer.

Oh, Kaylynn, she has spirit, that is for sure.  Everyone tells us how happy she seems.  She just hops and skips around, without a care in the world.  She's the team entertainment, I guess.  And has the brightest, most yellow shoes ever.  She knows that you don't touch the ball with our hands.  And that the goal is to "take the ball away from the other team" but she gets so caught up in the fact that we are there watching her, that she really doesn't pay attention to what she is supposed to do!  She is more interested in flowers, waving, and blowing us kisses!  During her 4th game, she finally got a REAL kick, not a kick off or a throw in, but a real running kick.  We lost it.  We were totally those parents.

If you watch this video, she's the one hopping around behind everyone! ha!

Throw-in.  "I threw it over all their heads, just like Coach Randee said."

Another throw-in.  

Here she looks like she is on top of things, but she is really like 10 feet away from everyone. :)

Kick off

 Just taking a little break. In the freezing, cold, windy weather!  

She must be the queen of throw-ins...

Just waving to her fans!  Yes, she played the whole game in her sunglasses.

 Corner kick!

Freakishly long arms?  Nope, just a too big sweatshirt.  

Every Morning is Easter Morning...

...every day's resurrection day, the past is over and gone!

Those words remind me of one of my favorite songs that I sang as a kid in front of the church (with the choir, of course!).

No matter how many children's choir practices we go to, my kids will never actually sing in church on Sunday.  They rock out to the songs for the next few weeks, but never the morning of.  :) We've been letting Ben stay in "big church" until the Children's Moment for the past few weeks. It stresses me out, like on the verge of sweating most days. On Easter, there were a lot of kids, but usually, there are just 4-6ish of them, and Ben has more freedom to move around. I just know that one day he is going to knock the baptismal font over. I love how Ben is paying attention here (while Miss Kaylynn is poking her friend, Gavin, in the back. Those two are something else!) After church, we were invited over to Aunt Cathy & Uncle Cliff's house for lunch. We can't visit their house without going out to see the horses. Lucky kids got to climb fences in their church clothes. We took our annual "Easter picture in front of the azaleas" after lunch, when we were in desperate need of a nap. Turns out, it decided to DOWNPOUR right as we were walking out the door to head to church. I can't get over how grown up Kaylynn looks with her little braids. I was just impressed that she let me do something with her hair. (3rd year of making her Easter outfit! We'll see how long she'll let me do this!)

Craving France

Brian and I keep talking about trips we want to go on.  He wants Liechtenstein and I am craving France.  I am afraid I need it to be a yearly trip for me.  ::sigh::  Such terrible problems, I know.  But the kids keep begging to listen to our French cds in the car, so we're getting somewhere!  Gift idea for Hayley - Rosetta Stone.

This video from OliveUs doesn't help.  How precious are they, cute little French accents.  Design Mom  (Olive Us is their genius idea) is one of my favorite blogs and hasn't exactly been helping my French crush.  C'est la vie.

Update in October

Ben's 2nd birthday!

http://vonfrinkenhagen.blogspot.com/2012/10/ben-is-2.html

End of the Year InstaUpdate

Ooops, I did it again. No, not Britney Spears, but I have not updated in a while when I had good intentions on doing so.  Maybe this lovely new Christmas present from Brian will inspire me to do so (it's a fruit, if that gives any hint!)  Until then, here are my latest instagrams.  :)

Fall walks

Carrying his for with him, you know, for food emergencies.

Out ghetto lights.

Serious work going on.

Rock fun.

There is a Kaylynn under that basket.

Sleeping out of his bed.

Heisman watch party, I mean, Kaylynn's 4th birthday party.

Dr. Frink

My big 4 year old!

Dug in my purse, found a blue sucker, a highlighter and a sharpie.  Sharpie made it to our couch.  He now thinks I carry suckers in my purse.

Birthday dessert!

Christmas light tour.

Making cookies to spread Christmas joy.  No one answered their door.  :(

Zoo trip when it is 40 degrees out.

Too many books and blankets in bed.  Boy can't even fit.

"Mommy, my biper is boken."

Snow fall in Cleveland!  It started falling right when Christmas Eve mass began.  Perfect timing!

Griswald's in Ohio.

Checking out Santa loot.  

Trying to eat snow.

"Mommy, dis rain?"  No, sweet boy.  :)

4 cousins all in a row.

Dr. Frink working on her patient.

Fireman Ben.

Toddler tattos.

Shopping with mom.  I love Ben's mustard yellow cords.  Everyone else thinks they are dumb.  It's ok, he's my little hipster.  :)

And they were all "Yellow." :)

Our 4 Year Old!

Thing 1 thinks she is hot stuff now that she is 4.  

Poor Kaylynn, had to share her 4th birthday part with the Heisman Award.  Lucky for her, Johnny Football won and we were a happy house!  

 She is finally to the age where she knows that she gets presents for her birthday. She particularly loves this one: 

And her first pair of cowgirl boots!    

 

 Our big girl on her special day! We sent cupcakes to school and she loved sharing them with her friends.

   

 And of course, no birthday would be complete without a birthday meal at a restaurant, complete with a Pizookie!

 

We love our sweet girl!  You are so smart, sassy (so sassy!), energetic...I could come up with a million adjectives to describe you.  You are literally one of the happiest little girls ever and we can't believe how lucky we are that you get to be ours!