The Drake Four: October 2009

Okay, So I knew it had been a while since I shared our lives with everyone. However I didn’t realize it had been almost 2 months! Time sure does fly these days! Well the last couple months we have had some great time. We spent a lot of the summer in our camper and loved it. Still didn’t get to go camping at some places we wanted to. We promised Bret and Tami that we would make it down to the potlatch area this summer and NEVER did. I swear next year we will! I really want to go camping down there and see where George spent his high school days! I know silly but he talks about all these places they went growing up and I’ve never seen them, and I hate that. Anyhow next summer, I PROMISE.
So as of my last post Kiersten got moved to her toddler bed. She loves her toddler bed and she still sleeps through the night, which is great. However, now that she can get out of bed on her own, and open the door on her own, she likes to come into our bedroom at 6:30 am. I’m not so fond of that wake up time, since she used to sleep in until 8. I am however getting used it! She is converting me to a morning person, if that is at all possible! So with that said, I have a new found love… and that is French Pressed coffee. If you haven’t tried it… do because its the best. I have never liked drip coffee and I still think it is nasty!!
So in the last few months we have had a few doctors appt: First Dentist appt, follow up eye doctor appt, and of course the normal well baby checkups. I think I already talked about her eye doctor appt. The doc said she thinks she will only have to wear glasses for another 18 months and we moved on to wire rimmed cute glasses. I’m sure there is pictures in here that I'll post!
Dentist appt. Kiersten's peds doctor was a little concerned about Kiersten’s right upper tooth because it hasn’t come in all the way…or its shorter than the other front tooth. I’m glad to say that its only because she sucks her thumb. The dentist wasn’t that concerned. He did say in the future… we really will have to work at getting her off her thumb, (sounds like an addict haha) Anyhow not now, its to dependable to get her to sleep haha.
Well baby checkups: Not sure which ones we have had lately since the last posts…however she is growing up and doing fine. She says a million words now! Anything you say, she will repeat or attempt to repeat! My favorite is when she says I Love ya! It is the most adorable thing… I may have video footage to put on here I'm not sure.
In September, Kiersten had her first hair cut, and went to her first fair days in Orofino. It was a lot of fun! And I have a million pictures from the fair. She got to ride rides, and see all the fair animals! She even would pet the pigs…well sort of. Petting consisted of touching it really quickly and then running to the other side of the barn isle! It was cute and a great experience for her. she really wanted to pet the cows…for some reason she loved them, but their butts were to the fence so we couldn’t . We may have to visit Great Grandma Drakes house to see the cows next time in Boise. (i think they still have them)
Her first hair cut….haha I’m laughing just thinking about the experience we put her through. So Grandpa has a ROBOCUT (flobee). If you don’t know what this is…its a way to cut your hair with a cutting mechanism hooked up to the vacuum. Okay that sounds crazy in itself. However, It really does work! At first, I'm sure she was thinking…wow these people are crazy. But after she got the hair cut she would go over to the vacuum piece and put up to her head like she was cutting her own hair. She must not have hated it that bad!! And it was great because it got rid of all her baby fuzzy hair and mom didn’t have to grab a pair of scissors.
Okay so now that I’ve wrote a book, we can get onto the pictures!!

Kiersten at the parade…