Owen Lost His First Tooth!

Owen has been wanting to lose a tooth for quite a while now. So many of his friends at school and church have been losing teeth and at 7 years old he felt he was old enough to lose one. Well...a couple weeks ago he came home and told us a tooth was lose! He was thrilled!
So for the last couple weeks he has been playing with that tooth trying to make it more and more loose. We had a look in his mouth the other day and noticed that Owen is a shark. Yes, a shark. The new tooth coming in is not under the baby tooth but behind that tooth. Just how sharks have teeth that grow in rows! After having our friend Kaulana (who is a dentist) look at it, we decided that that baby tooth needed to be pulled to make room for the new tooth to move up.
After a few days of being scared to pull it, today was the day!! I tied some dental floss to the bathroom door, hooked the other end around his tooth and that little tooth came right out! I didn't even slam the door shut!
Now we have a cute little boy with a cute little gap! Oh, and tooth number two is loose now too!!

If you look closely, you can see that other tooth back there!

Kyra's Blessing Day

This weekend was Kyra's blessing at church. It was great to have so many friends and family there to support us and her. We love having so much family close by and we were grateful that some of my family could make it down as well.
It was a very windy day so we didn't take many pictures outside like we usually do. (I'm just glad it wasn't raining...or hailing, like it was the night before.) Here a couple pictures of our great day!

Some of the friends and family in attendance. 

Emme...just because!

Now that Emme has hair I really want to do cute things with it. The problem is that she doesn't let me play with her hair all that often; I think she was bald for too long. When I do get the chance to do something she really seems to like it though!

Kyra Smiles!

Kyra has started smiling in the last week (Real smiles! Not the face muscles twitching, "I have gas" kind of smiles.) and I tried to get some of it on video. Here is a little clip to see what she has been up to! (You can also see Emme's arm over and over. I had to keep holding her back so I could see Kyra. She loves to be right in Kyra's face whenever she is awake.)

And yes, she still has red hair!

A fun video of Owen

This past fall Owen decided he wanted to try football. Our city has a flag football league that we signed Owen up for. He had some kids from church and school on his team and one of his friend's dad was one of the coaches. For the first few games, he played offensive and defensive line (kind of funny since he is not the biggest kid and they were some pretty BIG kids on his team this year.) but he wasn't happy. He decided to ask his coach if he could try another position. They moved him to safety, when on defense, and quarterback on offense. He had one practice with his team and then a game the following Saturday.

Below is a link to his first play as QB, he made a pass that was run in for a touchdown! ... Maybe one day, when he is a successful QB in the NFL, ESPN will show this! (We really aren't planning on him becoming a famous quarterback---just fun to joke about!)

Owen's First QB Pass

Kyra Kate

Hmm...it's been a while and a lot has happened since I last posted but I will try and catch up in the next couple weeks. The biggest thing to happen to our little family is our new baby girl!

Kyra Kate Mahkorn was born on January 12th at 1:50pm. She weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces (biggest baby by almost half a pound!) and was 20.5 inches long. She looks so much like the other 2 kids, especially Emme, but with dark hair. Maybe we will have a red haired kid after all!!

I love that it looks like she is smiling!

Don't you just want to pick her up and cuddle her?!?!

Owen and Emme love her to pieces and we are so happy to have another little baby in our family.

First Day of First Grade!!

Our little Owen started first grade this year; I guess that doesn't make him so little anymore! I can't believe how quickly time flies! I think it was just yesterday that I was taking his first day of kindergarten pictures and just last week that I remember bringing him home from the hospital...

Well, no more nostalgia! Here he is being silly before we walked to school.

His teacher this year is Ms. Porter, who the principal swears to me is not anything like the teacher he had last year-this is a good thing. So far, he says school has been kind of boring (going over rules, reviewing stuff from last year, etc.) but he seems to be doing alright! No crying after school that he doesn't want to go back or trying to stay home in the morning because he doesn't like his teacher. Phew!

The bad thing is he doesn't have very many friends from his class last year, but he will just have to be good at making new friends! And he does get to see his old friends on the playground in the morning, at recess, and at lunch. I think he'll be just fine.

More silly faces from Owen---I couldn't get him to make a normal face all day!

That night we went out to dinner, our first day of school tradition. That way he can tell Scott (he has already told me) about his teacher, his classroom and his friends. Going out to eat makes it seem special instead of just repeating the same things he already told to me. Owen loves to eat and eat and eat; and he can never seem to make up his mind what he wants. Solution?? Eat at Souplantation! Then he can get what he wants, as much as he wants, and still have an ice cream cone at the end of it all.

And a silly one of Emme---why not!??! Everyone else got a silly face picture. (Oh, and she is wearing her new "first day of school" outfit. Couldn't have her feeling left out, right?)

The ice cream cones he loves. Had to do something funny here too!

El Matador

Ahhh...one of our last adventures of the summer.

We asked Owen what kind of adventure he wanted to do (beach, mountains, museum, etc.) and he voted for another beach exploration. On this little adventure we found one of the most beautiful beaches in Southern California---El Matador State Beach! On our way up there (it is just north of Malibu before you enter Ventura County) we stopped in Malibu for lunch at a local cafe sorry I can't remember the name of the cafe but the burrito I had was awesome!) and grabbed some drinks to take to the beach. I did a little research on El Matador before we went there and I was a little concerned about how we would get down to the beach...everything on Yelp stated that you have to walk down a really steep path, then some stairs, more steep path and then more steep stairs. Reviews all said to not carry too much stuff down, since you have to carry it out all back out, etc., etc., etc...but you know what?!??! It wasn't that bad at all! If little 2 1/2 year old, 23 pound Emme can walk down and back up the path on her own, then all those people online are wimps! After spending all afternoon at the beach we drove back home through Malibu, stopping to get ice cream at another local little place (where Scott found one of his favorite childhood ice cream flavors). Another fun day---next time we go to this beach we want to take some friends with us too---no point in finding something amazing if you don't share it with others, right??

Scott and Owen exploring.

Emme loved digging in the sand!

Can you tell how HUGE this rock is? Owen is so little standing right next to it!

Our little beach babies.

 

 

Owen destroying one of his beach castles (Emme called them "temples" not "castles")

I love my family!!

Our family is growing...

I know I haven't posted in a couple months and so much has happened since then! I haven't taken pictures of everything, but here are a few of the going-ons around here lately!

Oh, and I guess I should mention that we are having another baby! Baby is due January 19th (I am a little over 16 weeks right now---almost halfway!) and the kids are both pretty excited. However, one of them will be a little disappointed seeing as Owen wants a brother and Emme wants a sister (but I think she would be happy with a brother too. She just likes babies.). We will be finding out in a few weeks and we'll let everyone know then!

Ultrasound at 9 weeks.

Another day at the beach

I love living in SoCal! We have the beach just 15 minutes away (it's actually less then 5 miles, but with traffic it takes a little while to get there!) and we try to go there as often as we can. The kids love the sand and the waves, catching sand crabs and collecting shells. And Owen has gotten braver and has even let Scott take him out on a bodyboard lately. (We tried to get him to take surf lessons instead of swim lessons this summer but he said he wasn't ready for that yet. Maybe next year.) Here's some pictures from one of our most recent trips.

Getting out is the hardest part for Owen. I think he needs to grow a little!

Coming in off the wave.

One of their favorite things to do...

...the end result!