Keller Twins: October 2012

Wow, September has flown by!

We enjoyed a long Labor Day Weekend as a family. We saw the planes at the Air and Space Museum and had a fun trip to the park!

Our new school schedule is busy and sometimes tiring, but we have enjoyed lots of fun, and are getting to know our new friends better too. We have a neat art gallery started in our kitchen at home with our favorite projects from school. We got to dress up for picture day at school, and can’t wait to see our photos. Christopher did not want to sit on the tricycle for his photo, but he was willing to try it out the next day for class photos. So we hope to have some nice photos from that. And our family got to explore and race toy cars at the family social event after school one Friday!

After our first real week of school, we were ready to celebrate Mommy’s birthday. (We have switched to saying “Mommy” more now, because that’s what most of the kids at school say, when they are picked up, “Mommeeeeee!”) We enjoyed a fun walk to the farmer’s market, where we got some super cool fire hats at the firefighter’s booth, and some really pretty flowers for Mommy’s birthday. Later that day, we had a fun adventure in our basement, while there were tornado warnings in Vienna. And afterward, we were still able to go out for dinner, and run around at the mall, which was lots of fun.

The next day, we got to see the new America Trail exhibit at the zoo, with grey wolves, and sea lions. We also saw the lions, elephants, zebras and lots of other really neat animals. When we saw the cheetah, he was perched high on a large branch, making loud, sharp barking sounds, which was really exciting.

For Daddy’s birthday, we went on a beautiful three-hour hike down the Cross County Trail, near our house, and Mommy and Daddy remembered when they once hiked it all the way to Great Falls and back. We may get to try that with them one day! And we enjoyed blowing out a candle on Daddy’s strawberry rhubarb birthday pie. Various illnesses have cancelled our plans for Daddy’s birthday dinner, but we look forward to going soon!

In the evenings after school, we’ve been playing at home and at the park, exploring and watching the geese, fish, and turtles at Meadowlark Gardens, and we even got to help “supervise” the building of our new deck, which was SO interesting! We’ve enjoyed some fun hikes, walks, and bikes with Mommy and Daddy in the stroller too!

And we’re talking so much! We’ve started to pick up conversational phrases such as “OK”, and “I’m coming”, and we’re getting really good at getting our point across with “No want it” and “I need help!” A recent car trip went something like this (while listening to a favorite dinosaur song) “No, my dinosaurs”, “No My dinosaurs,” NO MY dinosaurs,” “NO MY DINOSAURS”… you get the idea! We’re even starting to sing along with favorite songs with lots of the right words, and name colors and numbers correctly (sometimes). Mommy and Daddy are sometimes surprised to hear what we know how to say!

We can’t wait for all the fall fun of October! We hope you enjoy our pictures from this month!

Love,

Katharine and Christopher