Dedication Day

Yesterday was Darren Matthew Klein's Dedication Day! Yesterday morning Mallory and I walked around the house saying "It's dedication day! It's dedication day!" (said to the voice/tone of Anna in Frozen when she said "it's coronation day! It's coronation day!')
It was a BEAUTIFUL dedication, we had so many local friends and family there...we packed the church! I feel so blessed to have such a large and loving support structure all around us!  My Beena, Aunty M and my cousins children (so my first cousins twice removed) Courtney and Josiah also made the treck up from southern California. The dedication itself was wonderful. It was so fun to stand up at the front of the church with our family of 5 along with Darren's god-parents Aaron and Michelle promising to raise this precious little boy to be a loving man of God!
After the church service everyone come over to our house for a wonderful brunch/lunch. It was great! Great food, Great family and Great friends! Plus for the first time EVER all 6 of Beena's great grand children were in the same place at the same time... photo op!

 

 

Let's Move

Yesterday Darren hit two milestones! First he pushed himself up into a sitting position from laying down,  then he started crawling!!!!!! Not the fast/covering lots of ground type of crawling. But hands and knees forward movement non the less. My baby is growing up way too quickly!  :(

Bless His Heart

Wesley was born with a heart murmur.  Just a teeny, tiny little 1 out of 6 murmur. We had it worked up locally and it was fine. A 'normal innocent systolic murmur.' And by last year it had gone away completely!
Well last Sunday I had to work, so Matthew brought the kids by for a visit. They were playing around and touching everything in sight...my stethoscope included. When they were finished playing with it I thought that I would listen to all the kiddos hearts. When I listened to Wesley's heart I was shocked because that little murmur that had disappeared was back...and louder! It did really sound scary...and he wasn't showing any clinical signs but I was/am concerned.
So I did what any good mom would do... I waited until Darren had his 6 month doctor visit (yesterday... so only 2 days later) and had the doc check it out. He thought that it was louder (now a 2 out of 6), but he also agreed that it's probably nothing. But with the attitude of might as well check it out so we can stop worrying about it he set up for a full pediatric cardiac work up for Wesley in San Francisco on the first of October.
Medically I'm excited to know exactly what type of murmur he has and what I can expect from it. But maternally I am freaking out a little (only in the inside)...Wes is one of MY babies...nothing should ever happen to them!!!!!! So pray for my little buckaroo, that God will bless his heart!

Thoughts By Mallory

Mallory said the cutest thing last night... something that I'm sure someday we will have to say to her (or her boyfriend...Eeeeek!).
I was holding Darren on my lap last night, he was facing me and we were flirting and talking/babbling back and forth. Darren leaned in and grabbed my face and kissed me, then proceeded to stick his tongue in my mouth. I laughed and said to Darren "Silly boy, you can't stick your tongue in my mouth." to which Mallory replied, "yeah, she already has a tongue!"
Remember that young lady! You already have your own tongue!

Ice Skating

A couple of weeks ago the ENTIRE Reitz/Klein side of the family went ice skating! Oh my goodness, SOOOOOOOO much fun! We all had a blast!!!!! We figured that the kids would get sick of it within the hour... but we were wrong! We all skated for about 2 1/2 hours and the kids were actually sad to stop. Since Darren obviously wasn't able to get out onto the ice, the adults traded turns holding him off to the side and taking pictures of the ice-adventure. I cant tell you how well the kids did, especially considering it was their first time ever and there were no chairs involved (Granted it was a huge help having so many extra adults/great skaters to hold hands). 
As soon as Wes got his skates on he immediately shuffled along like normal (I was amazed). I'm pretty sure that he's going to be following in his grandpas and uncles shoes and take up skating like second nature. Mallory was a little more slow to catch on, but in no time she was actually skating without assistance. She would throw and mini-fit when she fell on her bootie, but would then pop back up and try again. I was very proud of them both!
Almost daily Mallory and Wesley have asked to go skating again... its really cute how much they liked it.