A Peek into the Lives of the Kettman 5

Kurtis told us the other day that he can’t really play songs, but he can make beautiful music.

Here are two examples:

From September 2009

From September 2009

Kayli and I, although quite busy chasing after 3 boys, often sit back and laugh at the things we hear. We’ll try and share more examples as they come up.

Kurtis: Dad, what is that thing? (Pointing to black and white piece of paper)

Tom: That’s from your brothers’ church, they were talking about God making Day & Night

Kurtis: Oh, I already learned about that, it happened on the first day God created the earth. It’s in Psalm 18:91 I think.

Tom: I think it is actually in Genesis, that’s the first book of the Bible.

Kurtis: I don’t think so, that doesn’t sound familiar.

Later in the day:

Josh: I slept good Dad!

(This was said after getting up and down out of bed for an hour and refusing to take a nap for the 2nd day in a row)

Almost every night when I tuck Kurtis in he has one reoccurring question, “Dad, do you have work tomorrow?’ If I answer “no” he gets really excited. If I answer yes then he moves on to the next question, “Do you have firefighting tomorrow?” If I answer yes to both he usually gets disappointed and tells me how we need a “date” soon.

I’m glad that tomorrow night I won’t have to say “yes!”

We have had quite the summer and I can’t believe it’s been 4 full months since I’ve posted on here. So sorry all you faithful friends & family who read our blog to catch up on our fam. I hope this finds you all well and pressing into the Lord with all that you are no matter what your situation.

Here are some highlights for us over the last few months (and as always, we update the folders on the right with more pictures from each month):
~ A date night out to dinner, then to Boulevard for a long walk and watch the sunset and a Cinnabon for dessert (THANK YOU, Dustin & Abby)!!!

~ Lots of swimming & playing in the water with all this HOT, HOT weather we’ve had. This is probably Tom’s favorite pic of the year he said…it’s a sweet one!

~ Our newest nephew Patrick entered the world at the end of July on the HOTEST day EVER recorded here in Seattle. He is such a handsome little guy and we were priviledged enough to go visit him in the hospital. Isn’t he precious?

~ We went camping with Melissa & Kevin (my sister & brother-in-law) which was a blast…okay…not really…but we have fond memories from the trip. My boys didn’t get naps before we left which was a MISTAKE so it was a rather long evening as Josh in particular whined about EVERYTHING until the boys finally were able to fall asleep when it was pitch black out at 11:30pm.  For pics of the camping trip – take a peek at the July 2009 folder.

We love you & hope enjoy taking a peek at the recently updated June, July & August 2009 folders to the right.    I’d take the time to write more…but then this post might NEVER happen!   

XOXO…from the busy Mama of 3 growing little guys…

We took a little morning trip up to White Rock in Surry, BC last Saturday as a fam. It wasn’t as warm as we had hoped for, but definitely was worth the trip. We enjoyed sight-seeing, playing by the water, etc. but next time will have to be sure and get some Canadian quarters for parking (the internet led us astray, making us think we wouldn’t need quarters)!!!!!!!

White Rock BC Trip from Tom K on Vimeo.

So, the week before Melissa’s wedding, little Joshua was sitting up on a trike that he realized he could reach the pedals on finally…lost his balance and totally spilled off to the side in our garage – completely splitting his chin WIDE open. It was rather traumatic for all of us as I quickly realized he needed to go to the hospital for stitches and yet how do I get him there? How is the towel going to stay on his chin? How am I going to keep his hands off it? Oh, and I have two other sons to take with me, too…and wait, Kurtis is only in swim trunks…. I realized Josh’s chin wasn’t actually bleeding that profusely (thankfully!) and was able to put some gauze & tape on it to go to the hospital, and grabbed enough shirts/shoes for everyone to be decent. Tom was able to meet me there and stayed with Joshua for the 4 HOURS it took to get in and get the 4 stitches he needed. Poor Josh!

So, he had the stitches in for 5 days, like they told us, we took them out the morning of Melissa’s wedding…thought everything was great…only for him to fall DURING pictures on the grass, holding his head up, and RIP the wound right back open! Ugh. Thankfully butterfly stitches worked this time with a bandaid over top and Tom didn’t have to go BACK to the ER with him for more real stitches. Here’s the “best” pic. I got of him with the stitches

From April 2009