Kids in School Update :-) Please, please correct me if I'm wrong or miss someone!

• Samuel--Kindergarten
• Kaela--3rd grade
• Andrew--Kindergarten
• Tyler--Kindergarten
  
• Caitlin--sophomore in college
• Natalie--freshman in high school
• Alec--sophomore in high school
• Erik--7th grade

I was struck by insanity while house-sitting for Mitch and Kim and signed up for 13 categories at the State Fair, but I got 7 ribbons out of it! Dad thinks I'll have gotten it out of my system now--ha, ha! I couldn't have done it w/o Mom and Jo Ann helping me carry things in. Like a typical Klein, I barely got things in under the wire both days! I sewed the last button on the sweater at 4:30 and they quit taking entries at 5:00!

• 1st place--petit fours
• 2nd place--semi-professional decorated cake with a horse theme
• 3rd place--Aunt Mary's sugar cookies
• 3rd place--buttermilk biscuits
• 3rd place--Aran sweater
• 4th place--white cake made with yogurt with caramel frosting
• 4th place--formal dress

Jason's beautiful drawing of Fritz and Robin's horse was displayed oddly enough right above a self-portrait by Terri Hans (Bill Hans' wife).

John Thomas' cheesecake won a blue ribbon this year--I think he enters it every year!

Dad got a new computer and I put it upstairs--much to his chagrin. There were some problems but it's all straightened out and they now have internet access. Now if only we can get Mom on there--she's having trouble with the mouse. I told she just needs practice. I think Dad might be thinking about giving the computer to one of the kids who might need it. We'd have to make sure it was, ahem, clean first. Of course, he has always sworn that it doesn't work... I was joking with Mitch that he ought to raffle it off to help pay for the new one!

Here's a note from Amy about Kaela's latest check-up:

The appointment did not go good. She weighs 39 pounds and is 3 ft 10 inches tall. She is back down to the 1% for her age. She is the average weight of a 5 year old and the average height of a 6 year old (she is 8). They took another x-ray to see what her bone age is and she is 2 years behind. She did grow during the winter months last year, so we are going to see if she does the same this year. We go back in February - if she does not make up any lost ground she will have to start growth hormones. She will never be a big girl, look at me and Jason, we are both short.