It's so amazing how people can have the same parents and be so different. I guess except for identical twins. Anyway.

Kellen:

Kellen is so interesting to be around because he verbalizes a lot of stuff these days. Like, stuff that people usually think but don't say. Or maybe all 4-year-olds talk like this. I don't know.
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Erin: "Kellen, don't {do such and such} because {insert highly valid reason here}."
Kellen: "OK, Mom, I won't do it when you're looking."

Conversation ensues about doing the right thing all the time, even when others aren't looking.
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Erin (who needs 2 seconds of quiet): "Kellen, go play."
Kellen: "But Mom, I just want to be with you all day!"

Don't I know it.
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Erin: "Kellen, I love you so much."
Kellen: "Yes, because I'm so good all the time."

Then we get to have a conversation about how we love him all the time no matter what. It's like, you assume your kids know these things, and I feel like it's really a gift to be able to talk about stuff like this while he still respects my opinion.=)

Bonnie:

Bonnie is the kid who we're always asking, "Why did you do that?" Even though there's no answer. We feel obligated to ask. Some examples: coloring in the grout in the kitchen, spitting on little sister in the bath (Reason: "I had bathwater in my mouth."), wiping nose on the wall

Bonnie likes to play by herself, and really uses her imagination. She's great at occupying herself with imaginary conversations. Wait, that sounds a little crazy. Really, it's cool.

Bonnie plays with other kids rather than at them. She loves to play dress up, and she loves to wear dresses.

Noelle:

I held off on saying this officially on the Internet. I waited and waited, almost 8 months. Well, Internet, here you go.

It happened. We got an Easy Baby.

Noelle pretty much keeps an even keel. She's super smiley, especially at her brother and sister, but she doesn't have very high highs or low lows (unlike a certain firstborn son in this family). The interesting thing to us about her personality is that while she doesn't cry unless something is really wrong, we also don't get belly laughs out of her like we did with K. If you get a "Heh!" out of Noelle it means she thinks you're pretty funny.

Right now Noelle enjoys playtime with the big kids, mealtime, and Bible class. She does not enjoy Mom leaving her sight.

We're having a lot of fun with her and her go-with-the-flow personality fits in perfectly with the rest of our rather dramatic crew.