Yikes, I can't believe it is already October! We have already been home now for over 6 months. By the end of this month, we will have been home for 7. That is just so hard for me to believe. The kids have almost been with us as long as they were in an orphanage. I can't wait to surpass that number!
The kids are doing just wonderful. Steve took them to the doctor the other day and Brooke has grown 3" and is now in the 90th percentile for height. No wonder the 12month overalls I bought for her were too short. She is in the 25th pecentile for weight but that is still in a average range. Kyle has grown as well and is showing a steady climb. He is still in the 10th percentile but like I said, has shown a steady upward climb and that' all we look at. They both have about 5-6 words that they say. Their new favorite thing though is to throw something on the floor and say, "uh oh". They can also say, Bubba (the dog), mama, dada, up (this is Kyle's thing), hi and baby. They are eating machines and are eating all big people food.
We had a busy September. Work was in full swing for me and my sister got married so Steve drove the motorhome up to Seattle and the kids and I flew up. It wasn't so bad flying with the kids by myself. Everyone around me was very helpful. Restores your faith in mankind. There are still nice people who will help a complete stranger. On the way home from Seattle, Steve stopped at the ACA Rally in Calistoga, CA. It's north of San Fransisco. He was there all week. I flew home with the kids and went back to work. I decided to throw the kids in the car on Friday night around 5pm and drive up to meet him. Everyone thought I was nuts. It wasn't too bad. The kids did great and let me tell you this, we did not have a DVD player in the car and the kids were still fine. They played with some toys and at one point, I did stop and they had their first taste of chicken mcnuggets from McDonald's. Big shocker...they loved them! We stopped around 8ish, changed into PJ's and a new diaper, had some milk and they were asleep the rest of the way up. I took Monday off of work and we had a great time. The kids missed Daddy and wanted in his arms when we got there.
Here are some pictures of the kids with their warm clothes on in Seattle.
They did really well with all of the happenings going on up there. It was a whirlwind of a weekend and it was fun for the entire family to be together. The time sure did fly by and I didn't really want to come home. I hate that my family lives so far away from the kids. They are changing so quickly and they are missing out on that. Oh well. We bought a web cam so hopefully they will get to see the changes that way!
The other day the nanny called in sick so I had to take a sick day too. The kids and I went to the park. I haven't gone to the park with them in a long time. They love it there and of course Brooke is a total monkey and loves to climb on everything. Here are some pictures I took there.
Life seems to always be so busy with 2 kids. It is fun though watching them learn and grow. Halloween is right around the corner and I already have their costumes all picked out. They are both going to be monkeys; Brooke because she climbs/scales everything and Kyle because whatever Brooke does, he does.
So we are just chugging away here at the Bierbaum house. Hope everyone is doing great. I think fall is finally here in SoCal as the weather is cooling down. The holidays are rapidly approaching. This year is going to be extra fun with the kid. I can't wait!
I really just wanted to go and have the kids experience it all and so I could take some cute pictures. We had a blast. Brooke is our fearless child and will pretty much do anything. Kyle is a bit more cautious. We bought tickets for the fun stuff and let the kids go into the jumper. Kyle wanted absolutely nothing to do with it and the lady was nice enough to give us our tickets back. Brooke got in there with some other kids around her size and jumped around.
There is one picture and she had this goofy look on her face and it's just so her! The ride next to it was a slide. I knew she would love it so I sent Steve up it with her. She had the biggest grin on her face after coming down. At one point, Steve DIVES head first with her and slides down that way. 
I thought for sure it was going to freak her out. NOPE, she just kept on grinning. This picture is the both of them once they got to the bottom. Take a look at those grins! Steve took Kyle down it and he was OK with it. Not too thrilled but he wasn't crying. He was OK to sit at the bottome on a haystack with me and watch and play with the hay. On the last slide down, Steve let Brooke go by herself and she loved it. Our little dare devil. She cracks me up. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with this blog during the holidays. I will try super hard. I am sure I am going to take a million photos. I am just so excited to see the holidays though their eyes. It's going to be fun to have kids around this season. I'm also going to try and put on my June Cleaver skirt and heels and bake cookies and decorate them with the kids. I wonder how the pumpkin carving is going to go??! Kyle more than likely will want to eat the pumpkin! He has turned into an eating machine again. That boy can eat! Hope everyone is doing well. Things always seem to be crazy around here for me but it's a fun crazy. I am missing sleeping in lately. What I wouldn't do to sleep in until 8am!
