today in the life of the koks
Lauren celebrated Halloween with her toddler group today. She made a pretty glittery pumpkin.
Got a fun stamp from teacher Debbie- her favorite thing!
Decorated a bag for the "treasure hunt"
Going on the "hunt"
Sitting outside ready for a song with Teacher Debbie.
Lauren loves 5 Little Pumpkins and was so excited when Teacher Debbie sang it.
Her pals Avery, (Lauren), Ava, and Riley.
Finding "treasure"!
Hadley Jane is famous! She was on the cover of Sunday's Pacific Northwest Magazine in the Seattle Times! We can say we knew her when:)
We had a little Halloween Party for Lauren's playgroup (really just a group of my friends that meet up regularly). The kids were so cute in their costumes. Here is a picture of 4 of the babies- Blaine, Kate, Ben, and Bennett!
Trying to get a picture of 11 kids is tricky!
I love how Kate is looking at Ben! She's got her eye on you Benny:)
Almost got them all in! I never did get one with all the kids, this was the closest.
Feeding 11 kids is interesting:)
oops... out of order again. This is supposed to be the last picture:)
Miss Lauren had a bad cough so we took her to dr. Long story short, they said she was wheezy and will probably get this way everytime she gets a cold since she's only 2 it's already happened 3 times. So basically she has asthma that is brought on by a cold. So now we are the proud owners of a breathing machine and Lauren has to breathe the medicine 5 times a day for a month!!! Not sure who is more tortured by it, her or us!
She doesn't like it so much and puts up a pretty good fight. Luckily we aren't opposed to bribery:)
This boy amazes me, he fell asleep just laying there on the floor again...maybe this is normal but we never knew it! Who knows, but we LOVE it!
Our little Benny turned 4 months on Monday. He got his first taste of rice cereal and he LOVED it. He would've eaten the whole box if we would have let him.
Everytime he saw the spoon he'd open up for more, this kid is an eater! I have a feeling he might be bigger than his sister in no time!
Happy Boy playing with his toys after his shots.
Tummy Time. He has rolled over about 5 times but won't do it regularly yet so we're practicing a lot:) 
Lauren put this hat on and came walking in my room with her pants around her knees, carrying her potty and said, "I'm going potty by you mommy". My lucky day I guess:)
We took our annual trip to Jubilee today. Lauren & Hadley looked darling in their pumpkin hats, good thing since neither was that into smiling today!
Finding the perfect pumpkin! I imagine Lauren is saying, "No this is my pookin, not yours Hadley" her new favorite phrase...
The gang
The Kok's
The Prentice's
Pa with his girls who love him to pieces!
We stopped at Starbucks then headed to the park on this sunny & crisp fall morning. Lauren and Ben looked especially cute in their new pumpkin hats that Stef made them- thank you Stef!!! 
Benny & Me
Lauren & Kevin 
Lauren made some friends at the park, this little girl was too cute with her arms around Lauren, she was 4 years old!
This park has the strangest toys but Lauren had a blast playing on them with her new buddies.
Aimee is quite popular at our house, Lauren loves to cuddle with her and Ben was pretty happy to receive a bottle from her last night as well. I think you're kind of a natural Aimee:)
Lauren and I painted our nails on Friday. I gave her a choice of colors and to my surprise she picked the dark purply/black. I said, "you are so stylish" and she said, "I style".
She was so proud of her stylish toes.
Then as I'm putting everything away she says, "Mommy, I want pink instead". Uhh... I just painted pink over it so now her toes are a lovely shade of irridecent violet, not stylish at all- lucky for her it's not sandal season!
We went to Jump Planet on Friday with Hadley & Megan and had lots of fun.
Wee!
Hadley is getting so brave- she started to climb up the slide all by herself!
Lauren would go up to kids and say, "We Jumpin' Together Kids". It was too funny. Then she'd follow up with that by trying to push them over... we're still working on how to make and keep friends:)
Megan & Hadley made a new friend though! 
Lauren has been really into playing house lately. It's pretty sweet too, she's actually really nice and gentle with her babies (I think she's more gentle with them than she is with Ben!).
The other day her baby just wouldn't nap so she had to feed her some more:) Then she burped her, changed her diaper, read her a story, and cuddled with her.
It's pretty cute to watch her take care of her babies. We're so proud of the little Mama! 
Lauren is starting to resist her naps from time to time. The other day she said she'd nap if she could sleep in the bean bag. We lugged it in her room and she fell fast asleep for 3 hours! I actually woke her up when I took this picture. We are trying to hold onto naps as long as we can, more because I need them, not her:)
We just thought Benny looked so cute in this pumpkin hat on loan from Hadley!
Guess it's still a little big:) 
