Hamilton Happenings

Channing learned how to whistle.  Now he whistles all day long.  He's still enjoying kindergarten.  His favorite things are tetherball (he calls it tuggerball), PE, recess, and going to get the milk.  Every few weeks he takes a turn with a partner to get the classes milk.  They can choose regular milk or chocolate milk, I bet you can guess what he picks, everyday for a snack.  Kindergarten is exhausting! Some quotes from Mckenzie: As she's picking her nose, "my boogers are small."  I asked her one day while watching her paint at the dinner table, "why are you so pretty?"  Her response, "Because I wash my face again and again!" We planted a hydrangea.  Unfortunately Jett ate most of it when we were inside.  There's a few leaves left.  Hopefully it'll come back. Three things Isaac loves, climbing everything, chocolate zucchini muffins, and playing in water.  He's the only baby we've ever had that'll d...

From July 28th to August 4th we went to McCall, Id for a Kenney family reunion.  The week flew by.  I don't know where the time went!  The kids loved hanging out with the cousins and second cousins.  They always had someone to play with.  The house was huge and had grass outside so the kids had lots of options for where to play.  We did boating on the Payette Lake, zip lining, white water rafting, and hanging out at the beach.  Channing loved sleeping in Cici and Papa's room.  Mckenzie loved tagging along with Grant and Jimmy and making necklaces with Emily.  And Isaac, well he wasn't so sure about all the new faces.  But occasionally he was happy, mostly when Justin and I weren't around. On August 6th, only two days after our super fun week in McCall, Channing started kindergarten!  He has afternoon kindergarten from 12:55 to 3:55 with Mrs. Leach.  Gosh I love this kid!  He's been happy to go to school everyd...

July came and went.  In the month of July we went camping with the Crawfords, celebrated Mckenzie's 3rd birthday, Channing did two weeks of swim lessons, went to roaring springs, kids got hair cuts, and we went on a Kenney family reunion to McCall.  Busy, fun month!   We spend lots of time playing outside.  Mostly filling up the water toy or the kiddy pool.  Isaac looooves water.  He could splash himself in the face over and over again. Channing fell asleep wearing a cape and mask, his light on full blast, and Jett asleep on his floor.  We had a family birthday party for Mckenzie.  Butterfly cake, pinata, mac n cheese for dinner (the adults had hawaiian chicken and cilantro lime rice), and lots of presents.  Mckenzie is so precious.  Some of the looks she gives me are hysterical.  She's always up for playing with play doh, painting, collecting rocks, going grocery shipping with me, reading, gett...

I could stare at her perfectly soft cheeks and blue eyes all day! Mckenzie turned 3 years old on Tuesday July 10th.  We put her to bed the night before and she was a bit excited about the next day.  We could hear her singing "Happy Birthday" to herself in her bedroom.  And she kept coming out of her room to ask something about the next day.  One random thing she said was that she wanted to go to a dance class after her birthday party.  I don't know where that came from.  She finally fell asleep.  Only to wake up at 2am.  And then at 6:45am.  Who needs sleep?  I woke up to her right in front of my face whispering, "is it time to go down stairs?"  July 9th is Evie's birthday (Mckenzie's friend from church who passed away a month ago).  To celebrate Evie's bday we brought some balloons and released them at the cemetery.   I'm thankful for the reminder that life is so precious. For Mckenzie's birthday breakfast w...