jog-a-thon

Jog-a-thon

Abigail and Jayda are now attending the Montessori School of Oceanside and they absolutly love it. Last week they participated in a Jog-a-thon as a fundraiser for the school. We had sponsors pledge a certain amount of money per lap that each girl ran. It was too much fun. The jog-a-thon started with the diaper dash (Jayda's room).Their laps were modified to an appropriate size for little toddlers. Here's a pic that gives you an idea of the size of her laps. The orange flags mark the track.

Here is Jade giving all she's got. Notice the tongue hanging out of her mouth.



After about 20 laps she was wearing out but kept on going...

After each lap, they got a lap marked on their necklace...

and a squirt of water too keep them cool and hydrated. (This was probably her favorite part. She would runright up to them, say Aaahhh, and then laugh every time)

The little munchkins getting hydrated before the big run!

Nourishing their little bodies after their success!

Jayda Rayne Kuehnl finishing with 25 laps!!!





Next were the pre-schoolers. Their track was a lot bigger. Here's a picture to get an idea. The orange flag where the lady is sitting is one side and it curves all the way around about 6 feet past the tents you see. I'm guessing it was at least 1/8 mile.

Abby was determined for weeks that she was going to do 5 laps. She had been practicing every night, running laps up and down our sidewalk. This is her with her friend Lexie telling me how many laps she'd be doing. (lexie, by the way, was going to do one hundred and one thousand laps)
Here she is with Lexie again.
And again. They were glued to the hip. It was cute to see her with a best buddy.

Abby took off with a mad dash and I thought to myself "oh no she's gonna tire herself out with one lap." But nope, she was a little energizer bunny. She kept going, and going, and going...When I'd ask if she wanted to walk a lap and rest a little she kept on running and said "nope, I want the medal." (the child in the school who ran the most laps got a medal). Here she is running. You'll see her come by and pass everyone.



Determination!!

Abigail Skye Kuehnl finished with 20 laps!!
she worked so hard, I was so proud of her! She did over 2.5 miles and only walked about 10% of it.
This is Abby's preschool class.

They got a pizza picnic after the race.


After pizza, Abby started asking all her friends if they wanted to have a dance party. She started dancing and her friends started joining in.

What a fun day!!

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You can dance cuz its a sweet day

After seeing the acrobats on the cruise Abby has been trying to do all kinds of flips and tricks. It got a little scary at times when she was trying to do back handsprings in the living room. Now she discovered she can do flips off the couch. A couple weeks ago, we started watching "So You Think You Can Dance" together. Since then, along with all the flips and tricks, she tries to dance like them all day long. It can get pretty funny at times but she's actually is showing a lot of potential. I tried to get a little on film, but it turned more into one of her silly songs. She's so goofy!

Jason's award

Last Tues, Jason got awarded the Navy and Marine Corp Medal, one of the highest non-combatant medals you can recieve as a Marine. This video isn't much to look at, but if you listen



you'll hear what he's recieving the medal for.



It was a big day for him. He was presented the award during one of the students graduations and the four of us were the regiment commander's, Lnt.Colonel Carol, guest of honor. A minute after the ceremony started he leaned over and whispered to me, "Soak this up, we'll never be seating next to someone this important ever again."







These are the big shots the "legendary" Sgt. Major Vines, ssgnt Martin and Ssgnt Kuehnl, and Lnt. Colonel Carrol. (I hope I got that right? )

I'm so proud of him and its a big award, but I hope he never gets pressented with another situation to earn a second one.

mother's day

I was impressed with Jason this Mother's Day. He made this collage of photos of the girls as a gift for me. He's usually not so crafty so he earned lots of brownie points this year. He also had the girls make me cards.

If you look closely, turn it upside down, and reflect it in the mirror...This says from Abby. She signed her own name. Jason asked her to write her name and she did it without anyone writing it first or telling her what letters to write. So it may be upside down and backwards, but for a girl who's not even 3, I think its pretty good.

I had to put a video of Jayda dancing. Anytime she hears music, she moving.

Easter was a lot of fun this year. We went to a friends and barbqued and had an egg hunt for the kids. I love that Abby is getting old enough to really get into things. She watched an episode of Dora where they found Easter eggs with surprises in them and so she was so excited for the easter egg hunt. Jayda even got into it. Jason showed her one and put it in her bag and after that she did it all on her own getting over 10 eggs. They looked so pretty in their Easter dresses. I love these girls. Our friend, Monica, filled eggs with confetti and Abby's cracking it on Jason's head...

and then my head.

Jayda is trying to crack it on her head now.

Sisters

I love these girls! They are so sweet and cute together. Every morning, as soon as Abby's eyes crack open, she says "I need to give my sister a kiss." And if Jayda wakes up before her, she'll sit up, look around, smile, and then crawl over me to kiss Abby. No kisses for mom...they're all for Abby.( And yes...by the time morning rolls around, you can pretty much guarantee, we have all ended up in the same bed together. )

abby singing

Abby's version of "I'm a little tea pot".

abby's dance class

Abby started a combo ballet/tap class this month. Here's a little of what she's learned so far.

my favorite is the step hop, step hop.

running song

Abby has a baby einstein cd with a classical music that we love to dance to. We have different dances for the different songs. There's a ballerina song, a galloping song, a wiggling song, and the favorite is the running song. When the music changes during the song, we have different things we do like run fast, march, or run sloooowwww mooootion. We've been doing this for months (getting a little old for mom, but Abby still has a blast every time) and in the last couple weeks Jayda has been really getting into it. Now, the second she hears the music, she's up quicker than anyone to get up and run. She also recognizes the changes in the music and will slow down or attempt to march ( which is pretty funny). Here's a little clip. Abby knows I'm about to turn on music but Jade has no idea.

Pro walker

She's pretty much given up on crawling now and chooses to walk. She's so proud that she can do it. Even when she has no where to go, she'll just walk around and around in circles or she'll just walk back and forth across the room over and over. Abby is sporting her new tap shoes in the video. She hasn't taken them off since we got them this morning. Not even for her nap. She starts a dance class on Wed. She'll be doing ballet and tap. I'm sure I'll have pictures of that up soon.