Catch Up

Big news…I’m done with school :) My final was last Monday, which I rocked out with a 96.47%....yeeeaaahhh. I graduate this Sunday.

It still doesn’t feel real but I’m starting to have this feeling….what’s it called…boredom? No worries though, I will adjust in no time with many other things to do. I have a list of things I want to get done (a sort of “honey do” list I made for myself).

While I wrote most of this blog post last week, I have figured out that boredom isn’t the right word. I was almost lost for a few days. I didn’t know what to do when the days came that I usually had homework due. I fiddled around the house a lot with Josh asking me “what are you doing?” like I was crazy or something. I did a lot of things on my “honey do” list (although it doesn’t seem any shorter, lol). I have kept myself so busy that I forgot I had already typed most of this up to post it. So here it is….this is what’s up with us nowadays.

First off, I can’t wait for spring to come. I am looking forward to going to the park, going to the zoo and playing outside with Kaylee this year. She is so much fun inside that I can’t wait to see what she does outside. When we had the really warm weather a couple of weeks ago, Josh and I took her to the park. It was so much fun. Let me tell you, I have a fearless child. She heads for the giant slides at the park and wants nothing to do with those tiny baby slides. She wants to do everything all by herself and if you would let her, she would try to slide down the big slide head first. She loves to swing and run and play. I just can’t tell you how much fun she is.

Perfect example, we have this little tid bit saved on the DVR of “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. She LOVES this song. Her face lights up when it’s on and she dances and sings along with it. She puts her hands on her hips and does this little sassy walk that is just so funny.

Our girl has quite the imagination. The kitchen we bought her for Christmas is one of her favorites, but this past week we bought her this little baby set from Target that has a baby crib, bouncer, carrier, changing table, high chair and wearable carrier (all for 20 bucks!), gotta love Target. She also has bottles, bibs and diapers for the baby and loves to change her, feed her, burp her (which is freakin’ cute because she makes a burp noise for the baby) and carries her all around the house with her. At least I know she’ll be helpful when we have another baby, lol.

Interesting things…

• Kaylee is almost to the point she can climb out of her crib. One day, she’ll figure out that she is tall enough to actually do it :)
• Kaylee enjoys chores. Not that we really have chores for her (besides cleaning up her toys). But she loves to help with laundry, feed the dogs, loading and unloading the dishwasher, vacuuming, etc.
• Kaylee can count to ten and knows about 5 letters in her first name and 3-4 in her middle name.
• She loves to say “oh man!”…she drops something, it’s
  “oh man!” she misses something, it’s “oh man!” It’s just too funny.
• I can’t wait for the zoo…she loves “aminamals” <------ Kaylee’s word :) She knows giraffes, lions, tigers, bears, pandas, penguin, elephants, rabbits, monkeys, horses, and many, many more.
• She does really well with her colors. She knows white, black, brown, pink, purple, green, blue, orange, red, and yellow.
• She loves to wear hats and carries her purse (or whatever bag she can find) everywhere.

I could pretty much talk all day if you let me just telling you about every little cute thing Kaylee does. I just love this stage….I’ve loved every stage :)

On with the pictures and videos (hopefully they will work!)

ENJOY…

Christmas Post and more :)

Here comes the traditional....WOW...we've been so busy lately :) I have started classes again (my last one!) and Josh just graduated a few weeks ago. Christmas seems like so long ago now, so I figured I better get a post in about it. Kaylee was pretty sick over Christmas and although she is smiling happily in some pictures, you might see how she didn't feel good in others. She was sick the week before Christmas with what seemed like a cold. Nothing specific was happening until she got a lot worse the night before Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve morning, we took her to urgent care at Children's hospital after a rough night. Poor girl couldn't sleep unless Mommy or Daddy was holding her upright so she could breathe better and actually rest. She had croup and an ear infection. Needless to say, she was feeling pretty crummy for Christmas. Christmas morning was interesting. At first she was excited and ran to the tree and headed for Daddy's presents, lol. She started ripping them open like a crazy child. We tried to get her to open some of her toys, but she didn't want anything to do with them...She finally started trying to open her presents, but apparently our little girl is a little OCD. She would tear open her paper and take even the smallest piece of paper to the trash can. Even though we brought the trash can to her, it took for EVER to open her presents :) It was really cute though. We made homemade doughnuts for breakfast before visiting some family. We didn't make all of the rounds that day because she was sick.

Before Christmas we baked cookies and made a ginger bread house. There will be pictures of Kaylee eating her icing. Baking cookies was very interesting. Because she was sneezing and coughing, we would roll out her dough (she had her own since she was sick and sneezing over everything...I know, gross) and she would use cookie cutters and cut them out with me. I did bake these (separate from the rest) so she could also decorate them. It took twice the time it should have because I ended up making ones that were edible as well (without the sneezes), but it was so worth it.

We also had taken Kaylee to see Santa (AKA "Sansa"). When we got there, Santa was on a break. She loved looking at the set and when Santa came down the escalator, Kaylee was so excited. She was saying "Sansa, Sansa, Sansa!!" The whole time we were in line, that's what she would say. She was just excited to see everything and loved Santa (or so we thought). As soon as Josh sat her on Santa's lap, that stopped. She didn't cry, she didn't scream, she didn't even say a word! She just held up her hands with that common toddler grabbing motion reaching for Mommy and Daddy (mainly Daddy, little stinker, lol). We got a few pictures, Josh picked her up and again she pointed and excitedly kept saying "Sansa, Sansa, Sansa!!". It was so funny.

Josh's graduation went very well. He graduated with honors again. I was a little nervous taking Kaylee with us. There were a lot of people there and before the ceremony began, she was getting a bit anxious. Turned out, right before the ceremony started she conked out on me. She slept the entire time until a few minutes before Josh walked. She was so cute. The whole time he was up there, she was like "Da Da, Da Da!". As each person walked across the stage, they were on the big screen over the stage. After that, we read some books that Mommy brought (always have a book on hand with this one) and she was just as happy as could be. Many people behind us complemented us on how well she did during the ceremony (even after she woke up). There were people there that had babies crying and didn't take them out of the auditorium.... I didn't understand that, but whatever. Josh starts grad school on Valentines day, so his time off is coming to an end very quick.

That's about all I have for now. This was suppose to be a quick, short post...I think I lost that concept somewhere :)

Enjoy some pictures...

Daddy and Kaylee...They are doing "I love you" in sign language...Notice Kaylee can only get one of the two fingers to stay down? So cute though. She is really catching on with the sign language.

The infamous Sansa Picture....

Icing Christmas cookies...

Christmas Morning...She loves this turtle.

Not feeling too good in the picture, but I had to post it because she had to wear Daddy's new slippers.

We are so lucky with this kid...even when she doesn't feel good, she is still a happy girl. She will smile and giggle and all. She will be cranky for a few minutes and after that be happy again.

A few days after Christmas...Loving her own chair!

Little princess in the toy box again...

Her very favorite Christmas gift. She plays with this all the time. She has quite the imagination. She makes us waffles all the time :)

As Promised!

Getting ready to finger paint for the first time ever!

She loves it!

I went into the kitchen to get something, I come back to find my child in the toy box!

I told you she loves to hug our tree (twee!)

Don't mind the hair, she just got up from her nap, lol

In one of her Christmas dresses, hugging her twee :)

Busy Days!

Okay, I'm going to try this again. I just wrote all of this out and when I went to post it, I deleted it. Uhh!

Anyway, I know this sounds like a broken record but we have been swamped lately. Josh is officially done with school (as of last Tuesday) and graduates January 9th! However, he starts grad school on February 14th. I just finished my last clinical course and passed my Hesi exit exam and psych (yay!). I only have one class between me and graduation and its just a management class. I graduate on March 6th :) Josh and I are officially on break together for the first time in a long time. I think we are about due for a date night :)

We are looking forward to Christmas with our little girl. Kaylee is so amazing. She is downright hilarious! Santa has been very good to her, hehe! Josh and I still have some last minute shopping to do, but nothing major (I don't believe). We have our Christmas decorations up inside, but nothing outside. We have just been too busy to get them up and the freezing temperatures don't help the matter. We did decorate inside and Kaylee is loving that. She is obsessed with our tree and loves to hug it. She gets really close to it (without touching it) and wraps her arms around it and lays her head gently on the branches. It is so adorable. She sees the tree and she wants to turn it on every time. She says "twee, twee, twee".

Can I just say, I love baby language. Kaylee is becoming quite the talker. If you ask her, "Kaylee who am I?", she says "that's da mama". If you ask her "who is that?" (while pointing at Josh), she says "that's da dada". The funniest part is when you point to her and say, "who are you?", she says, "I da Kaylee" (while squinting her eyes and poking herself in the chest). She also loves to jump out and scare you. It really isn't scary of course, its down right funny. She will run into the room your are in with her hands in the air and say "ra....ra...ra". We play along by jumping back, putting our hands over our face and saying "aaahhhh"....She loves it! She also adores Santa, or as she says "Sansa". She had her Santa PJ's on last night and when I got her up this morning, before she even opened her eyes, she pointed to her shirt and very sweetly said "Sansa?"

Umm, what else???

Oh, yeah...Kaylee loves to dance. She twirls, stomps, claps and drops to the floor when she hears music. She gets so excited that she jumps around and eventually falls to the floor...very cute. If I only had a video camera strapped to my head to catch all of these funny moments, you would have a lifetime of laughing ahead of you :)

Alright, I'm sure there is more, but my brain is quitting on me. I will post pictures when I get a little more time. Had to add a quick update so it didn't say Halloween as the title with a Christmas background, lol.

Halloween 2010!

We took Kaylee to Boo at the Zoo...This was so much fun. She loved getting candy put in her bucket...as soon as they put the candy in, she put her bucket down on the ground and got the piece of candy out. She was dressed as a little witch, a friendly one :) She also got to ride the carousel for the first time. This was interesting because she kept going back and forth on loving it, then not liking it. After a little bit, she just loved it. She loved that we kept going around to see Daddy taking pictures of her. We went to the zoo with some of her cousins and as you will see in the pictures, she particularly loved Stitch, lol. Because Stitch had so many arms, she ran around giving him high fives and cracking up. By the time we got to the hay maze, she was tired. That was our last stop that night, then we headed home.

Soooo CUTE!

She wanted to hug Pepe the Penguin

This was when she was so fascinated by Stitch, I wish I would have gotten it on video. Oh well, a bunch of pictures will have to do.

Kaylee's First Carousel Ride!

At the hay maze...