Thoughts on Kael and Eden

Derek's mom asked us to type up some facts about our kids such as their personalities, likes, talents, etc. So, I did and when I was finished I thought, "man i really want to remember this". So what do I do? I post it on the good ol' blog. Here are my thoughts on my chill'ins. Love these two kids so much!

Kael:

Personality: Kael is our happy, smiling, energetic 3 year old boy. Since the first time Kael smiled he hasn’t stopped. He is the friendliest person I know and will hug anyone and brighten their day. Kael is 100% all boy and loves all boy things, especially dirt and bugs, which Mom doesn’t love so much, but puts up with because he loves them so much.

Likes:

Kael is my animal lover. I have never met anyone who loves animals more than Kael. (However, I didn’t know Derek as a child, so it may be a close tie.) Kael gets so excited that he starts jumping up and down. He loves all animals. He gets excited over a fish even. His favorite place to visit is of course the zoo where he can see so many different animals. His favorite zoo animal is the giraffe. He is a dog lover for sure, and that is probably his favorite non-zoo animal.

All of Kael’s favorite books are animal books and he has all of the animals memorized. He loves to read books every night before bed and is starting to repeat the words trying to read on his own even though he still has a long way to go before he is reading on his own.

Besides animals Kael loves creepy crawly things such as bugs, snakes, lizards, etc. When we were camping he went lizard catching with his dad and loved to have them crawl on his shirt. They also caught beetles and other bugs. Since there are no cool bugs here at our apartment I frequently find Kael trying to have an ant crawl on his arm or shirt. He often finds worms, snails, and other bugs. They are super cool to him. He would really love a pet snake someday I am sure because he loves his toy snakes and liked touching the snake at the zoo.

Kael is a huge thrill seeker. He also loves the carousel at the zoo and gets devastated when he only gets to ride it once. He loves train rides too. He has gone on the train at the zoo and “Heritage Park”. We have been showing him Disneyland videos and he is super excited just watching the rides, I can’t wait to see him on the rides.

Kael loves being outside. Kael loves to ride his bike and is really good at it now. He also loves climbing trees and playing in the sand box. Sometimes outside we play with side walk chalk and Kael is really talented drawing pictures. He practices his shapes, number, and letters and often makes superb pictures. His favorite shape is a star. His most recent pictures have been a snail and the sun.

Kael has a great love of dinosaurs. He has about 5 bigger dinosaurs and insists on sleeping with them even though they are sharp and pointy and can’t be comfortable. He even has them eat with him. He loves to feed them macaroni and cheese and sometimes even carrots.

Kael is very observant and has been since he was a baby. He recently noticed that some of his dinosaurs have red eyes and some have blue; this lead to him discovering that he has blue eyes and now goes around telling people what color of eyes they have.

Kael can count to 15, and knows most of the letters of the alphabet. He loves to learn new things everyday.

A favorite past time is watching shows. Kael will sit and watch an entire movie and then ask to watch it over again. Some of his favorite movies are Cars, Kung Fu Panda, Finding Nemo, and Tangled (he loves the horse) although there are several more. His favorite TV shows right now are Go Diego Go (full of animals), Dinosaur Train, and Backyardigans.

Kael really loves swimming and playing in the water. He loves it so much that he goes down the big waterslide at the swimming pool all by himself. It says you have to be 50 inches to ride and Kael is only 38. Yup, it is a big slide and he loves it! He can’t quite swim by himself yet, but he sure tries every once in a while and gives Mom a scare. He sees a big kid start to swim and so he takes off and just kind of sinks. He loves the water though and would go swimming every day if I let him.

Eden:

Personality: Eden is our precious and opinionated 17 months old baby girl. She is stubborn, but isn’t shy to give you a kiss to get her way. She is the princess of our house and makes sure everyone knows it. She is 100% all girl and totally loveable in every aspect of who she is.

Likes:

Eden absolutely loves babies. She will find a baby doll and pick it up and hold it, love it, hug it, and care for it. This was ingrained from birth because I have never shown her this. She likes to push them in strollers and feed the babies. She even loves real babies. She goes around in nursery telling all of the girls they are babies and hugs them. She is the youngest, smallest person there because she is only 17 months old and isn’t suppose to be there, but all those little girls are her babies.

Eden loves to play with Kael’s toys. Her favorite toy to borrow is his dinosaurs. She walks around the house hissing from the back of the throat thinking it is a roar, because that is obviously the sound a dinosaur makes.

She loves talking on the telephone and takes it quite seriously. It is business when she has Mom’s cell phone.

She thinks she is big enough to ride Kael’s big boy bike. She thinks it is hers in fact. She doesn’t want any of these tricycles or small bikes. No she is a big girl and already tries to peddle even though her feet don’t reach. She somehow manages to get on and off all by herself.

Eden loves loves loves (did I say loves?) to play in the water. Mostly she likes a big swimming pool, but will play in the small ones, the sprinkler, or anything wet. She loves water so much that when swimming in a pool she sticks her face in and blows bubbles on her own and tries to take off swimming by herself.

Eden likes to just sit and chill in the swing when we play on the playground. She could stay there a long time. She also just mastered the big slide and thinks she is a big kid now.

Eden loves to read books. She is quick to find a book and a lap to sit on.

Eden loves animals. I first thought it was no big deal, but we saw a dog at the park the other day and she went ballistic! Is that a word? She literally was hugging the dog and patting it. It immediately became her dog. She can’t see an animal without pointing and wanting to go see it. She is a definite animal lover.

Speaking of animal lover a favorite place we visit is the zoo. At the zoo they have a carousel. Eden is our little daredevil girl. She would ride the carousel all day long if we let her. Not only the carousel but probably any ride we would take her on. She is a thrill seeker like her brother.

One of Eden’s main talents is to eat. She really loves to eat almost any kind of food. Once I gave her a piece of broccoli and she put it in her mouth and just sucked on it. She wouldn’t spit it out to get a bite of ice cream until she was finished with it. Don’t worry she still wanted the ice cream.