Kaden's turn

Mackinna hits the jump

Happy shoppers

The kids really enjoy Trader Joe's little shopping carts!

Daddy ran the Philadelphia Marathon!

Team Mark ready to cheer at 6:30am!

Kaden's awesome sign and his cute little feet.

Grandpa and Kaden cheering in front of our hotel- mile 1 of 26 for Daddy.

Hen's beautiful sign and beautiful smile

Everyone at the end!  So proud of Daddy!

A celebration dinner with the whole family!

The kids got their faces painted at dinner.  Here is a tiger with his Dad.

And a butterfly with her grandparents

Nap time

Kaden "reading"

A Walk in the Woods w/Grandpa

Two boys in black

Gazing out the window

Cousins at All Play

Halloween songs

Halloween!

 Pirate and Snow White

 Grandma and the Princess

 Kaden with his "scurvy mate"

 Kaden attempting eating the donut on a string at the community center

 The kids with their scarecrow

 Mackinna's first time designing and carving her jack-o-lantern herself

 Kaden and Mrs. LeClair at the Prides Corner Nursery school parade and sing along

Mackinna with her friend Paul at their school parade.

The kids liked answering the door as much as trick or treating, I think- especially when Tyler was the one at the door!

Eating his candy after a good but cold night of trick or treating

Story Time with Hen

Mackinna reads Love You Forever to Tyler, while babysitting yesterday.

Treasures

I pulled Mackinna's winter coat out today. It felt pretty heavy when
I went to wash it. This is what I found in the pockets.

Babysitting

Mackinna is a happy happy girl when she has a baby in her arms.

Cuddle bug

The other morning Kaden and I were snuggling in bed all cozy and warm.  Its my favorite part of the day and usually he is pretty content too, but that morning he was eager to go downstairs.  I squeezed him tighter and said, "I love cuddling with you buddy."  He smiled and replied, "I love going downstairs with you Mommy."  I laughed out loud, got the hint and got out of bed.

Front page news!

Kaden and Daddy are on the front page of this week's American Journal!

Always the big sister

Mackinna stood by and rubbed his leg. She was more worried for him
than he was for himself.

Kaden's first trip to the dentist

He did great!

Kindergarten update

Our big Kindergartener is doing so great at school.  (At home, is another story for another time...)
 She takes her school work so seriously, is an excellent listener, a good helper and a great student.  She has started writing her name on papers as "Mackinna Marie Campbell" and prides herself in how small she can write now.  "As tiny as Daddy's high school kids," she says.  She loves music on Thursdays and Library on Fridays.  She has started getting homework- which she loves. It just one thing a week to work on together, but its not enough for her so sure obsessively practices her writing at home daily too.
She finally convinced me to let her buy school lunch.  They offer two options each day, with the secondarily option often being "Bagel lunch".  She kept asking and asking, and then one day her teacher sent home an additional school lunch calendar with all the bagel lunches circled and a note that read, "Mackinna's bagel lunch."  I reluctantly agreed and it went pretty well, so again on Monday I let her do bagel lunch.  She came home that night and said to me, "Mommy I don't think you would like me eating the yogurt we got with bagel lunch today."  I ask why and she replies, "It had two bright colors- green and pink."  It warmed my heart.  I was so proud.  Sure she ate it, but at least she came home and confessed!  She is so cute!  This then lead to the conversation about how good home lunches are.  She didn't whole heartily agree, but didn't complain either.

October pictures

Baby hog with Grace

Another observation week

Some school friends

Room R eating lunch

Class picture on the field trip

Kaden on the cow train

Ready to enter the corn maze

Crossing the bridge in the maze

She's pretty tall

It took Kaden a long time to find the perfect pumpkin

At the playground with Jada

Flower Girl & Ring Bearer!

On September 25th we celebrated the marriage of Ryan and Jen. It was a beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple and the kids were the best little ring bearer and flower girl ever. They were so gorgeous and were just amazing in the wedding. They were exhausted but had a great time. Here are a few pictures....

 

At the rehearsal dinner with the bride & groom

Being a ring bearer is hard work

Getting her hair done

He's ready to go

The flower girl & Grandma

Two handsome boys

So happy to be with her Uncie

With Mike's kids Ashely & Andrew

Friends

Not sure what was going on here

The four of us

Apple picking

So its taken me more than a month to post these photos... better late than never right?