Fun At The Mall

The Mall has a fun play place for kids that we like to go to sometimes. I figured it was high time I got some pictures of Malakai playing here. He loves cars, Tyler is understandably excited about this.

Crawling through the log is one of his favorite things to do here.
I decided I wanted to try and jump on the trampoline. Tyler caught me doing a back flip. Good thing too because I was only brave enough to try it once. After I did I decided it was fun, but I didn't need to do it again.

Kai is finally starting to get the concept of some signs! :) He waves excitedly "hi" and "bye". Sometimes he will sign "please", and just today for the first time he signed "more"! Which makes me so happy. He is getting so smart, its crazy to realize he is not a little baby anymore. He is a little person. He also says "hi", which counts for hi and bye. And he says heyo for hello, because he can't say L's intentionally.

Another Update

Next Wednesday morning Tandi, Kai, and I will being our long trek back to Utah. Tyler will be staying here for 2 extra weeks doing service tickets. We both can't wait to start a new phase of our lives.

This is a fun little thing we did with Kai: put him on a little cookie sheet and pushed him around on the carpet really fast. He loved it! Tyler is such a great Dad.

This is Malakai's cupboard. I don't have all my kitchen stuff here in Missouri so this cupboard is empty. Kai loves to get inside his cupboard and open and close the door. He also loves to stash random objects inside of it.
Kai fell onto a box and cut his eyelid. Luckily his eye is totally fine, but it makes for a very sad looking eye. Its also kind of ironic that he is smiling for the camera, despite the fact he had recently injured himself.

What Moms And Babies Do When They Are Bored

To entertain himself Malakai comes up with some very inventive ideas. He decided to try and step into his bucket that he is supposed to put blocks in. He needed a little help to achieve this goal.

He found a zip lock bag with poppy seeds in it and poured them onto the kitchen floor. He discovered that its fun to spread them out all over and that they stick to your feet.

These pictures show what I do when I am bored. Give my son a faux hawk of course! His hair has gotten pretty long.



The time is soon approaching that we will be headed back to Utah. I am leaving on September 1st. Tyler will most likely leave September 12th. Trisha's wedding is the 16th, and then Tyler will begin our possible plans for buying a house in Arizona. Basically everything is up in the air and we are in a very adventuresome time in our lives.

In loving memory

As you may or may not have heard, my Dad passed away this afternoon. I am posting these pictures in honor of my Dad. I love him very much.

Missouri Botanical Gardens

We went to the Missouri Botanical Gardens today. It was beautiful. It was also extremely hot and muggy. This was the affect on Malakai's hair at the end. It was so nice to get back to the air conditioned visitor's building.

Funky chandelier type thing.



The lake at my favorite, the Japanese Garden.




Kai wanted to go in the river.

The Boxwood Garden

Happy Father's Day Tyler!

Happy Father's Day Tyler. You are awesome and we love you! Thank you for being such a great Dad to Kai.