The last full week of October Kynlie, Locklyn and I flew down to Kansas City, KS to spend the week with my sister and her family while Neil was elk hunting. The flight down went pretty smooth and both girls were excellent travelers.
We had a great time down there, we went to the aquarium and did a little shopping in KC, but spent most of our time there at Ft. Leavenworth, where Ken is stationed. It is a beautiful little post and the weather was gorgeous so we spent a lot of time outside playing at their great parks.
Kynlie and Locklyn had a great time playing with their cousins. Locklyn started pulling herself up on everything and mastered coming down stairs. Kynlie's speech drastically improved and she can say anything pretty accurately now. Matthew and Lincoln LOVE their baby Locklyn and couldn't walk by her without hugging and kissing on their baby girl.
We flew back to MT on Friday the 26th, the flight home was not so fun. The flights went smoothly but the crabby children were not fun. The fasten seat belt sign was on the whole flight between KC and Denver and Kynlie was not impressed with that. Then she didn't want to put her shoes on to get off the plane and she made sure the whole plane knew she was not happy. We made it back to Billings safely, all pretty crabby and were greeted at the airport by Neil who stayed there after his successful elk hunt to pick us up. We were a little disappointed that we weren't greeted at the airport by most of our family and a pow wow like the native soldier coming back from war got, but we quickly got over it.
We stayed Friday night in Billings and a friend and I ran a 5k race we had been training for. It was Color Me Rad, we started out with clean white shirts and were blasted with different colors through the course. It was a ton of fun and definitely a memorable first race
We showered after the race and headed back for home. We spent the rest of the weekend unpacking, doing laundry and trying to relax.
We did a little trick-or-treating on Halloween. Kynlie did not like Neil's mask but didn't mind any of the other costumes. Locklyn didn't even mind Neil's scary gorilla mask.
Thursday morning the girls and I got up early and drove through the fog to Dickinson for Kynlie's speech appointment and my PT appointment. They reevaluated Kynlie's speech levels and for expressive speech she scored 85%, which is at the low end of normal. Her pathologist said she could have possibly scored higher but answered "Meow" to a lot of the questions she may have known. Of course, Kynlie was a cat for halloween and had on a hello Kitty shirt at speech. She did however do excellent in the receptive speech area. Where they stopped testing because they ran out of time, Kynlie was at a 4/4.5 age level of what she comprehends. Valerie said she would miss a question or two then get a couple right and she said in order for them to stop the test and get a score, she has to miss 5 in a row.
From Dickinson, we went on to Bismarck to see Dr. Ocejo for Kynlie's 3 year appt. She weighed 28 lb 8 oz and was 38 3/4" long. Her weight is in the 20% and her length is in the 90%. He said she is pretty much perfect!
