Is that scale right?

Kellen had his 2 month appointment today - when they put him on the scale my jaw dropped open when it said 14 lbs 5 oz. I couldn't believe he has more than doubled in weight. He went from being in the 36 percentile to the 90%. I guess you just forget how fast they grow. He started to grow his hair back in the front so now it looks like he has a buzz cut. Both the nurse and doctor asked if I cut his hair.

Mekai has been busy with after school programs - she has been doing keyboarding/computer, mad science and soccer. It's so nice that she can walk to and from school - especially with the after school activities. I was thinking I should hold her back a year so she can still go to that school next year. I wonder if she will go for that. The middle school here is 6th-8th grade.

"It's not my fault" is Mekai's favorite phrase - I told her she owes me a dollar every time she says it. In one day she racked up $4.00. So if any of you hear her say it you have my permission to ask her for a dollar. I told her she needs to carry around one dollar bills - Sheldon didn't like that idea.

Yeah Me

Watch out biggest loser. I started a very low calorie - high protein diet on Tuesday. I worked hard all week and didn't cheat once - even with the bowls of Halloween candy in the house. It paid off though - I went on Monday to get weighed and had lost 10 pounds - in 6 days. I know it's a lot of water weight and the fact that I still have the baby weight to lose.

This is a doctor approved diet - on a daily basis I have 3 -4 protein shakes, 1 protein bar and then one meal with chicken and vegetable's and I also take lots of different vitamins, calcium, magnesium and potassium. I didn't work out too much because my body was going through detox and I felt pretty weak - I will definitely get more work outs in next week. Now I just need to get Kellen to take naps that last longer than 30 minutes.

HALLOWEEN

Halloween felt like it lasted for 2 weeks - Mekai had so much going on and she actually was able to wear her costume about 5 times. These are pictures of the Halloween Parade at Mekai's school - I know can you believe it - her school let's the students dress up on Halloween, they have a Halloween Party (not a Harvest Party) and they got to do a parade around the field. We ended up going trick or treating with my brother (Adam) and his family in their neighborhood. The kids got so much candy - I am proud to say I haven't even eating one piece.

New Pictures

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer

Today was Mekai's last soccer game with her team the Robin's. She was asked to play in the All Stars - so she will have at least 3 more games. She is excited about that - she doesn't want the season to end. We were able to attend a couple of Katrina's (cousin) soccer games this weekend as well. Mekai had her soccer party at Roundtable pizza where they were presented with their trophy's.

Someone please tell me how to put captions under the pictures.

Trunk or Treat

Brooke (neighbor), Mekai, Katrina (cousin)

Tonight was our ward's Trunk or Treat. Mekai invited a neighbor and her cousins that live by us. We had everyone over at our house for dinner - we had pizza. Then we all went over to the church. They had games set up in the classrooms and then at 7:30 everyone gathered in the parking lot for the Trunk or Treat. All the kids went from car to car until everyone was out of candy - which took about 20 minutes.

6 Hours of Sleep ..............

uninterrupted! The last three nights Kellen has slept from 10 pm to 4 am - of course the first night he did that I kept waking up and checking on him to make sure he was still breathing. He has also started smiling - which we just love. As soon as I capture a smile on film I will post a picture.

Friday - We attended our nieces school Halloween carnival. It was so cold outside - it really is starting to feel like Halloween. It was basically one of those nights where you sacrifice three hours of your life just so your kids can have fun. There was some great costumes though - especially from some of the moms - there was the popular "plastic surgery gone bad" and the "I still think I'm 18" -classic. Okay so I don't think they were meant to be costumes.

Saturday - I drove the three hours up to Lake Shasta with my parents and Kellen to check out a ranch we are renting out for our family reunion for 4th of July (thanks Tracy). Good thing Kellen likes the car because it was a long day driving there and back. I just want to warn anyone who may drive on HWY 50 - beware you may get pulled over by a Park Ranger - yes you read that right. I was going 80 in the fast lane and a Park Ranger pulled me over - my first thought was - is HWY 50 a state park? My second thought was he wanted to warn me that if I was only going to go 80 I might want to get in the slow lane. Well he actually was on a power trip and wanted to give me a hard time and a warning - very funny considering he has no authority to even pull me over or give me a ticket. The only reason I pulled over was I thought I must have been mistaking to think he was a Park Ranger - but his uniform confirmed he was. I was kind of laughing the whole time he was talking with me because I was in such disbelief. I asked him if he could get Yogi bears autograph for me. I had to call Sheldon after it happened - he was mad I didn't get his name and badge number - I wish he was in the car with me.