Our Obsessions - Letter K

Quinn - Kindergarten

It's no surprise that Quinn loves Kindergarten and everything about it.  She loves Mrs. Mediger, her classroom teacher.  She loves "center time" and recess and the new friends she has met.  She loves picking out a book from the library each week and loves going to Art and Music.  The only thing that she is not yet a big fan of is PE - she must get that from me!  She wakes up each and every morning excited to go to school.  She has recently broken her dad's heart.  She no longer wants him to walk her onto the playground.  She prefers that he just drop her off on the curb so that she can go find her friends to play.  While this makes him sad, we couldn't be any happier that she is thriving in school and loves to be there!  We can only hope that love of school continues forever!  

Sullivan - Ketchup

Sullivan could eat ketchup on anything - literally.  No lie.  I caught her the other day dipping her apples and grapes in ketchup, along with her cookie for dessert.  Yuck!  My dear, sweet daughter goes through globs and globs of the wonderful condiment each week.  She's not really a fan of any other condiment - no mustard, mayo, ranch dressing or syrup.  Just ketchup!  

Ryan - Keloland News (any news really)

No joke... Ryan loves the news.  Nothing wrong with that.  He is informed, up-to-date on the latest happenings in Sioux Falls, and always knows the weather.  But Ryan might cross the line into obsession when it comes to the news.  At 10:00 each night he watches KSFY live and records KELO.  (For those of you not in Sioux Falls, they are both local news stations here.)  He watches KSFY until the weather comes on, then switches over to the DVR recording of KELO and watches that through the weather. Each. and. every. night.  No exceptions to the rule.

This is just the nightly news... this doesn't include reading both the Argus Leader and the USA Today each morning, CNN online each day, and the national news each evening.  Did I mention he loves the news?!?

Audra - Kids' Names 

With Meredith and Matt expecting twins, I have been sort of obsessed with baby names lately. To be honest, I have been more obsessed with knowing the gender of the babies - just ask Meredith! I just love looking at baby name books and I love trying to find that "perfect" name.  Can't wait to find out what my niece and/or nephew will be named - time will tell!

As Ryan and I were talking about this blog post, he reminded me just how obsessive I was picking out our own children's names.  I had certain criteria that had to be met before I would agree to the name.  Ryan liked common names, I like unusual names.  The baby's name couldn't fall within the Top 100 names on the Social Security Administration's official website of baby names (yes the SSA tracks names by year, by state, by popularity and more...it's pretty cool).  When Quinn was born, her name was near 550th most popular girl name for the previous year.  Sullivan didn't even make the top 1,000 (surprise, surprise)!  Guess my obsession started year's ago!