Today is Kai's first birthday, naturally, he has no idea whatsoever, but we celebrated for him. After I picked the kids up from daycare we went down to Richmond and I got their hair cut, now Kai looks like a little man and Kira's hair is shorter and less likely to be eaten along with her meals. While we were in Richmond we stopped in for a visit with Santa, got a great picture of the kids (surprisingly!) which I will scan at work and try  to post next week. Kira also went for a ride on the little train and merry-go-round that they have in there. She had a blast and Kai loved running around and playing with all the new "toys" in the mall. 

Tomorrow we are having a little birthday party for Kai, I will post some pictures of the party later on. In the meantime, here are some older ones that I finally got around to uploading...

Kai LOVES sleeping with this green monkey, at any given time during the night his monkey is  under his belly or within arms reach. So cute.

Kira helped to decorate the tree this year....

....there were about 15 ornaments per branch which Kai knocked down as soon as he woke up from his nap

Jon purchased a chariot trailer for behind his bike so he can take both kids into daycare on his bike. Obviously it's too cold for this right now, but we did manage to give it a test run back in October. 

Kai heading down the slide with a little help from Mommy

looking at the wood chips and thinking it's dinner time

mmmmm, wood chips

The kids and Daddy heading off to the park

 

I love this picture! Kira loves to dance, but she'll only do it if she's in a "pretty dress". So here she is playing dress up and rocking out to the music. 

More adorable sleeping baby pictures. This purple elephant toy was reclaimed by Kira shortly after this photo was taken.

Kira loves this new swing at the park, she'll lie down and yell to go "HIGHER" and "FASTER", she's a little fearless sometimes, but she has a lot of fun.