Sitting Up!

Miss Kynnlie Jean turned 6 months on May 20th and is sitting up! She is still a little wobbly but has figured it out!

She started out with the "tripod" method where I had to get her leg

s and arms in position and as long as she didn't move she could sit there :)

From the tri pod we moved to sitting up with the help of toys and people ;)

And now we are sitting up without support. She doesn't sit for long before she tumbles into a face plant, or backwards, but she is getting better every day!

Tuesday School

The last day of "Tuesday School" was last week! If you remember back in September I had a post about Jack going to school. Since that post Rylie also joined in the older group and enjoyed every moment.

Jackson LOVED his school, he loved the dancing, singing, coloring, playing, and learning about Jesus. This little group was formed by a mama that wanted

a small preschool group for her two girls while they were in the early learning stages. Jackson went from being this little boy who was shy and quiet in the class, to outgoing and playing with the others. It was a lot of fun to watch him grow with this other group of kiddos and I am so thankful we had this opportunity this year.

Rylie, also looked forward to every Tuesday. Her Tuesday mornings started off with an hour of ballet offered by another wonderful mama. She was in a church program and also danced in the end of the year program. I am so thankful that Rylie had this opportunity with ballet since we tried ballet with her once and she hated it. Rylie had a negative outlook on ballet and didn't even want to participate in this class, but decided to try it "just once" and ended up loving it.

After their hour in ballet a volunteer teacher w

ould come in and do science experiments, or math projects for the other hour. This was a great little learning group for Rylie to have some good interaction with her peers and someone teaching her besides me.

We had an end of the year celebration and the kiddos sang songs, and danced to show us some of what they had learned throughout the year. Next year Jackson will be home with me and Rylie will be headed on to first grade at the elementary school!

T-Ball

Rylie began T-ball the end of April. We had a BEAUTIFUL (for

Pagosa) March. Weather was pretty decent so we thought for sure by the end of April we would have decent weather for t-ball. Boy, were we wrong! We only had one week out of 7 that we played both games that week :( In the month of May I believe we were SNOWED out for three games!

So, besides the weather, Rylie did play and she played quiet well. She started off with the glove on her right hand trying to catch and then taking the glove off to th

row the ball, once we straightened her glove out and showed her how you catch with your left and throw with your right, she started to get it down :)

It took an evening or two playing catch with daddy in the front yard to get the concept of stepping with her opposite foot when throwing the

ball, but by the end of the 7 weeks she had that down to a science also.

Rylie, now has the basics of T-ball down and she will not need to play T-ball next year :) We will wait until coach pitch and hopefully be up for a little bit of a challenge.

There is one thing about T-ball... its pretty.... umm... boring.... :)

There are 13 kids on the team and every child gets a chance

to bat and run to first. The outfielders (all the kids on the team) run to the ball and wres

tle each other until one comes up with the ball and that person throws it to first base. And since we are 5 year olds no one gets out :)

Rylie did love being pitcher (since the ball usually got hit to the pitcher) and she liked 1st base since the ball was always thrown to first base and

then the first baseman threw the ball in to the ca

tcher.

Overall, Rylie loved T-ball and her skills definately approved by the end of the season! ( oh and learned how to stand up to the boys, as seen in the next picture).

Spring Break Road Trip

Our spring Break was 'oh, about a month ago :) and we took the kiddos on a little road trip. Our first stop was to see Great Grandma and Miss Kynnlie was able to meet her for the first time!



From Denver we traveled up through Wyoming and onto Salt Lake City, Utah. I must say I was very proud of my kiddos! We traveled that day for 10 hours, on to the evening hours, without our dvd player! They were very well behaved and awake for 6 of the 10 hours!!!

In Salt Lake we were able to spend the week with our other "family" Sean and Ashleigh and her four kiddos! One day while we were there we had the opportunity to visit the aquarium, a first for our kids!

Here's Kynnlie and I watching the beautiful fish :) She was very into all the bright colors!



All the "scenic" photos I took and just sharpened for the internet but no editing! I am very proud of these photos :)
Here's Zayn and Rylie looking at the "nemo" fish!Our last stop after Salt Lake was Nucla, Co. Here we were able to spend time with Rob's family and have a little birthday gathering for all the April birthdays (5 of them:)

Rylie and Jack got scooters for her birthday and are modeling their new pads!


Also, in Nucla, is Rob's family's ranch. This was the first time Jack and Rylie had the privileged of riding in a tractor. They were able to help feed the cows! Jack loved it!
I love how jack is able to fit inside the tractor wheel!



This concludes our spring break 1500 miles of traveling!

(I realized once I was going through all the photos that I have none of my kiddos with all the family we saw :( I am getting a pocket sized camera so that I have no excuses for not carrying my camera with me and capturing photos with everyone :*(

5 months!

Kynnlie Jean turned 5 months old! She is growing so fast and has a ton of personality! She is definitely different from her brother and sister in many ways.

Lets see what are we/ and are we not doing ;)

She is rolling over from back to belly all the time now

She goos and slobbers on EVERYTHING!

She has found her feet!

Some things she is being stubborn about....

She won't take a bottle! We have tried 4 different types of bottles and she has yet to take them.

She also won't eat from a spoon... This surprises us as Rylie and Jackson were HUGE eaters and loved to eat from spoon or bottle! Nope, not Kynnlie she is very content being a mama's girl!

She is a very happy baby and LOVES attention! I will update some pictures here soon!

Lots of love,

The McCabes

Ice Fishing (in February)

Another post that's late, but that is how my life runs these days... behind :)

Anyways the beginning of February, Denver and Denise took me and the kiddos ice fishing, an adventure we have never sought out before. We were thinking "oh go out catch a fish or two and head in. We will be lucky to last an hour...."

Here we are getting ready. Good thing Denver was there drilling all the holes, because that is some tough work! Rylie and Jack were great about scooping out the ice from the water, to get it ready for our poles. Jack is checking out the holes, and how deep the ice is, and trying to see the fish.

Rylie sat down with her brand new barbie pole and literally two minuets later had a fish on the line. Pawpaw came over to assist in her first catch and the first catch of the day! Jack was checking out the action from a near hole that he was cleaning :)

After the action from Rylie's hole Jackson decided it was his turn! He walked over to Meme and said "my turn", and that's all it took! He sat down held the pole and they too had a fish on the line! Once, Jack caught his fish he was content plowing snow and chilling on the ice while we continued to catch fish.

Miss Kynnlie did her fair share of catching fish that day too :) We lost count but I'm pretty sure she caught the most (as long as I was helping her ;)

So all in all, we lasted a lot longer than the thought hour that we were going to last.