Kellan Thomas Kenyon

born Sept 30 2009 at 5:37am
9 lbs 3 oz

here he is at age 2 hours.

Notes on an Unhurried Journey

Notes on an Unhurried Journey

When we adults think of children, there is a simple truth which we ignore: childhood is not preparation for life; childhood is life. A child isn’t getting ready to live; a child is living. The child is constantly confronted with the nagging question, “What are you going to be?” Courageous would be the youngster who, looking the adult squarely in the face, would say, “I’m not going to be anything; I already am.” We adults would be shocked by such an insolent remark, for we have forgotten, if indeed we ever knew, that a child is an active participating and contributing member of society from the time he is born. Childhood isn’t a time when he is molded into a human who will then live life; he is a human who is living life. No child will miss the zest and joy of living unless these are denied him by adults who have convinced themselves that childhood is a period of preparation. How much heartache we would save ourselves if we would recognize the child as a partner with adults in the process of living, rather than always viewing him as an apprentice. How much we would teach each other… adults with the experience and children with the freshness. How full both our lives could be. A little child may not lead us, but at least we ought to discuss the trip with him, for after all, life is his and her journey too.

-Professor T. Ripaldi


my sweets, living each moment, (in this particular one, playing with photo booth on the macbook).

waddling

I have another post ready to go, I just need to find the pictures I wanted to include. But in the meantime, I thought I would give you a funny image - I was watching Ophelia toddle down the hall with a rather full diaper ... as she waddled back and forth on her way from one adventure to the next I realized that I am walking exactly the same way these days. So we waddle together :) (only 3 weeks to go until due date!!)

ultrasound

Ok - so we are 28 weeks now and haven't really announced it anywhere ... so here it is, we are having a BABY!
I plan for this to be the last :)
Here is the ultrasound ... these are probably the worst quality of the 4 kids so far and didn't really show a whole lot, but here they are:

I think the top right was to show the spine, the bottom left the hand and the bottom right is the profile.
We are due Oct 6, according to the ultrasound and are counting down as we just hit the last trimester!
Hurray!

our action-packed summer

Ok, so I will post some pics from the last few months gradually ...
it is not the camera that is dead, it is the rechargeable batteries, so I just need to remember to buy some new ones ...
anyway, summer is officially here, it is hot out, kaya is out of school, I am no longer doing my SelfDesign work (even though I work from home and pick my own hours and all that, it takes a toll, you know??) and so we are free as birds!

Kaya has decided that we are going to be busy busy busy and I really want to get out and play with the kids, so we have set a little schedule for ourselves, plus we have lots of fun activities planned:

- granddaddy enrolled kaya and keidis into day camps (2 weeks worth) so we have those spread out through the summer ... I opted to have them in separate weeks so I could have some one-on-one (well along with Ophelia who is always around!) with each of them.
- Mike has a flex day (meaning a day off) every other Monday, so when Kaya is in day camp, he will take Keidis out for a day (to Science World, Aquarium, Granville Island, etc) and then when Keidis is in camp, he will take Kaya ... some valuable unstructured, full-access daddy time!!!
- we are going to go camping at mike's mom's place on the August long weekend.
- we have memberships to Science World and will hit that a few times.
- Our Parks and Rec guide has tons of free stuff going on, so we will be going on several of those outings, including the Surrey Nature Centre, Surrey Museum, Historic Stewart Farmhouse, and lots of library programs.
- we live right near the beach, the mountains, and the forests, so I am hoping to get to several beaches and parks in the area this year, including Centennial Beach, White Rock and Crescent Beach, maybe Kits or one of the West Van beaches, Stanley Park, Peace Arch Park, Crescent Park, Grouse Mountain or Seymour, etc
- there is a weekly playgroup with some ladies at church on Tuesday mornings at homes or spray parks.
- there is a spray park up the street with a massive playground and we will be meeting some of Kaya's kindergarten friends there regularly.
- the library has storytimes on Friday for all ages and so we will go to that each week.

phew!! it sounds busy, but I think we will have LOTS of fun and I will be able to just enjoy my kids :)

your blogs

ok - so if you blog and you read my blog, could you send me your blog website to my email?
nikki.kenyon@gmail.com

Our hard drive crashed a while ago and as I am finding out all the things I am missing, one of them is my list of bookmarks, including the blogs I follow! I put them in a different place this time, so I won't lose them, but please, there are some of you out there who I have lost and would like to find :)

please
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broken camera

Our digital camera is broken - the batteries go off and on and I am having trouble getting pics off ... we have Ophelia's birthday pics from March 5th and we have some other fun things on there that I can't get off ... so here is an update of what we have been up to recently and then I will include some pics that we took with the built-in camera on the laptop, so that I can appease the masses looking for new pics of Fea. 

- Ophelia turned one!! What?!? how did that happen?

- Kaya has learned to ride her bike without training wheels ~ pics on the camera :(  I am amazed, it was scary for me and she had a few crashes but she is basically there now.  Keidis also took his training wheels off, but his balance is a little less stable and he rides so hard and fast that his crashes are more significant - we have to replace a pedal on his bike so far :)

- Mike is currently recovering from kidney stones - he had one that sat there for over a month and so had it removed after a week of severe pain because of it.  YUCK! Seriously, who ever thought that something 6mm in size could cause a man so much grief?!?!

- we planted our garden - it is about 10x10 plot and we have potatoes, ca

rrots, tomatoes, peas, spinach, chard, onions, garlic, strawberries, p

eppers and sunflowers (for Kaya) - we shall see how it goes! We also got our compost up and running.  Very exciting!

Here are the pics of Ophelia from the camera on the top of the laptop.  She started out cranky (she is recovering from a cold) and ended cranky with some lovely smiles in the middle :)