Kyler Walking

Kyler finally decided to start walking last Sunday at Kristi's house. He'd walk before if we made him, but all of the sudden he decided he wanted to walk everywhere. (I guess I can't hold the camera sideways when I'm doing video.lol)

I let my girls get on hair websites to pick how they want me to do their hair sometimes, so one day they decided that we need to have a hair blog. I told them I was not creative or good enough to have my own hair blog, but maybe one day I could take pictures of their hair. They decided we needed to do it right then, so here's their hair pictures (nothing spectacular, but I love Kenzi's stance against the wall where she looks like she's going to be frisked):

I also decided since Kristi doesn't have time to update her blog that I would post pictures of her beautiful new house:

We were all at Kristi and Stan's for Grant's 8th birthday party. He got this suit for his birthday. Isn't he so cute!! He's going to be one handsome missionary!!

Katelyn's Tooth & T-ball

Katelyn lost her first tooth three nights ago. I can't believe she's already lost her first tooth. She is definitely growing up way too fast. She's not even in kindergarten yet. Nikosha didn't lose her first tooth until the end of her first grade year. Is it true that your teeth take longer to fall out if they're more healthy? That's what we told Nikosha, anyway, because she really, really wanted to lose her teeth like her friends. And guess what? The tooth fairy didn't come that night. We've concluded that she/he must have been very busy that night with lots of teeth because he/she did come later that morning when Katelyn was in the bathtub. Whew! I think the toothfairy has to pay extra when it's late, so she/he will definitely not be late anymore. lol (It's been a huge debate in our house whether the toothfairy is a boy or girl.) Katelyn has also been busy playing t-ball. She's on a team of mostly boys, but she can definitely hold her own. She's quite the natural little athlete. And their coach, Renae, is awesome to be able to handle all those kids and she has two younger kids too. I've coached my share of t-ball and it's hard work with extra little ones too, so thanks Renae! I must also mention that the silly kid sticking out his tongue in the back row is my nephew. Gotta love that kid!!

Nikosha's 8th Birthday

Nikosha turned 8 years old on Monday. Man, time does fly!! I can't believe I have an 8 year old now. She's actually old enough now that she knew exactly what she wanted to do for her birthday and what she didn't. She's also been doing a countdown since June started. One thing that she really, really wanted to do for her birthday is decorate her own cake. She watched me decorate Kyler's cake with all the candy, so I let her go pick out all the candy she wanted to decorate with. (I went to a place where you can buy different candies in the bulk or just a couple of pieces, so it wasn't too expensive.) She obviously takes after the Loftus side when it comes to being creative cause she definitely doesn't get it from me. Katelyn and Kenzi wanted to help Nikosha so bad. It was hard for them to see all that candy on the counter and not in their mouths.

She got a snowcone maker for her birthday, so for her birthday party we had snow cones and pizza then I took all the girls to the beauty school in town to a "Glamor Party."

They each got to get their hair done and their nails painted. I forgot to take my camera, though, so I only got a picture of them posing after their glamor session. I think they all had a lot of fun, but I know Nikosha LOVED every second of it. Then they all had cake and sherbert. (Nikosha wanted sherbert instead of ice-cream, so maybe some of our healthy eating rubbed off on her.lol)

Nikosha is such a wonderful daughter! She really knows what to do to help me out when she wants to. Her little sisters look up to her so much and think she's pretty cool. Kyler loves her a ton too and actually thinks she's his second mom. We love you so much Nikosha!!