the second road

As this being my second blog, I seem to have a little bit more time on my hands and hope to elaborate more on my thoughts. As far as the election concerns...i'm terribly disappointed in the outcome. However, Obama will be our next president and he will be running the country for the next four years. Let's just all pray for him and hope he doesn't screw things up. I don't believe john mccain fought his hardest for us. He knew that us conservatives were pissed about how obama viewed things...abortion, gay marriage, the economy and the war...we wanted him to fight for us and he softened the cushion for obama. did you see at his rallies where he was making fun of people for following mccain?!? what a piece of crap! I will give obama a chance, but he better not screw stuff up. we already see his personality is something else....aaanyways, i'm gonna change the subject...the election's over.

Noah just celebrated his first birthday on the 6th of november. how exciting it was!!! leo, the kids and i had a small birthday for him on that day. i made a birthday cake for everyone else and then one small one for him...in the shape of a bear....it looked pretty cute before he got his hands on it...then it turned into a disaster cake. rather cute though. i remembered when I threw hayden her first b-day party. got her a small cake...she dug right into it and then completely passed out. how funny! i had a blast. this past weekend, we went up to Edina where Leo's family lives and we had a birthday for him. it was a good turnout and he got lots of toys. like we don't have enough, but we have too many clothes for him, so there was no other choice.

hayden is 2 1/2. she's such a pretty little girl...and very polite. we went to walmart the other day and she was saying hi to everyone and if i had accidently ran into someone, she would apologize to the other person before i could. however, she does have a 'toddler' side and when i tell her to do something or not to do something she says 'but mom' and then after a few times back and forth, she would tell me to shut up. i'm like 'dang it, she gets that from her dad.' oh well. lol she's also starting to speak in sentences and we can understand her.

christian is 8 1/2. he's now in third grade and his first grade card came in about a month ago. all a's and b's. how great!!! if he keeps it up, he'll be on the honor roll. however, his behavior isn't so great. you can't expect much from an 8 year old. he's got alot of energy and wants to use it as soon as he can.....and he gets in trouble for it from his teachers. Poor kid, he doesn't think before he does and he has consequences because of it. Though, leo and I make sure to tell him that we love him and hope he does better the next day. He smiles and hugs us before he walks into his room to be grounded. He teaches hayden manners at the table and if she doesn't eat her food, he's there showing her that he eats all of his food, which in turn, makes her want to eat her food so mommy and daddy will praise her.

we all work together pretty well as a family. thankyou parent magazines HAHAHA


God Bless

Kristin Kline