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...

Pumpkin Patch :)

Daddy's girl :)

Josh surprised Kaylee and I with a trip to the pumpkin patch. This trip was so fun! Kaylee was excited and had a blast. She played on the little playground, tried to climb through the hay maze with daddy and helped pick pumpkins. The place we went to had all the pumpkins one person can carry for $20. The fun of this is watching how many pumpkins one person can carry from point A to point B. Everytime Kaylee found a pumpkin and picked it up (or tried to pick it up if it was big), it went into the pile. Josh ended up carrying 10 pumpkins. The funny part was Kaylee and I were laughing the whole time he was carrying them. This caused Josh to laugh too!! He did make it without Kaylee and I causing him to drop the pumpkins.

Enjoy some pictures

I didn't realize Pumpkin vines grew flowers...

She was sooo excited. She ran from pumpkin to pumpkin
This was the first pumpkin Kaylee and Daddy found. She was walking toward me so fast to show me, I cut the top of her head off in the picture lol.


Thats right folks....10 pumpkins!! (you can only see 7, but there are more :)

Taking a break!
Crawling through the hay maze...Daddy is already in there and Kaylee is following.

She is a little unsure here....

Yep...she's done. She ran around the outside to find Daddy on the other side :)


She is soo silly.





She loves to sit right here...not sure why, but it is funny

Wearing Daddy's jersey....GO BUCKS!

Pictures!!!

We had Kaylee's pictures taken a couple of weeks ago. I'm running a little behind with posting to the blog. There are so many things going on right now. Josh is back in school as of today and I started my critical care class last week. Kaylee has been running a fever since yesterday and is not feeling well at all. My clinical's are in Chillicothe and are 12 hour days (boo!). However, the end is in sight and soon I will be out of school, Josh will graduate with his degree in finance in December, and he will be starting grad school in January.

Kaylee has some new favorites. She absolutely, positivity loves going to the park. She confidently climbs up the stairs (with one hand on the handles, the other firmly in mommy's or daddy's hand). She gets to the top and sits down and scoots to the top of the slide. She takes off down the slide and comes running back around to do it again. She loves the slides! At some of the parks we go to, there are bridges to run across, tunnels to crawl through, big slides to go down with mommy and daddy, swings, giant tic-tac-toe games, a lots more to do. We took her to Fryer park where there is a pond, walking paths, multiple play grounds, and lots and lots of grassy area for her to run around and play. That's another favorite of Kaylee's, she is Miss Independent and doesn't want to hold your hand. She holds our hand when she is out and about in stores and on pathways and stuff; but when you hit that grass, she yanks her hand back and takes off running. We bought her a small climber and slide that we can keep inside on those painfully hot days and when it is ridiculously cold in the winter!

She also has a cozy coupe car. This is so funny to watch her play with this. She walks around and says bye, bye and kisses you and gets in her little car. Right now she can only go backwards in the car but it has a foot board that you can put in place so you can steer her around.

Kaylee is also doing something that I think is rather adorable! If you are holding her and not looking directly at her, she will grab you face with both hands, turn your head, and plant a big kiss on you. Her little way of telling you she loves you. She does it when we are cuddling at night before she goes to bed. She likes to cuddle up in that space between your neck and you shoulder with your chin resting on her forehead. If you turn your head to rest away from her's, she will sit up, turn your head, give you a kiss and snuggle up again. I tell you...it just melts your heart.

We went back to the zoo last week and Kaylee finally got to see the polar bears. She loved the elephants this time as well. We bought her a little stuffed elephant named “ellie”.

Other tid bits

• She tries to say "GO BUCKS", and is doing pretty darn well at it...Daddy is helping her get ready for football season....GO BUCKS!!!
• She sleeps with her favorite little bear...His name is Bear, Bear...Original right? Hey, that's what she calls it, that's what his name will be.
• She walks around saying hi to the dogs all day and has started hugging them...The dogs are getting use to it :)
• She loves hitting the rock...With everyone...Could be a waitress, people at church, the dogs, lol.
• She enjoys showing people where their nose is.
• She likes showing off her belly button…She says “bhay buh”
• She likes music a lot...she loves to dance.

There are lots and lots of things I could go on about, but my sick little girl just woke up and demands cuddle time.

Enjoy the pictures!

Second trip to the zoo...

She loved the elephants...She even got to hug one lol.
On the way home from the zoo...



The polar bears were amazing!

I forget what I was trying to make...This little booger took the bowl off of the counter and put it on her head. Luckily there was nothing in it and no I didn't use this bowl :)
My Goofy Girl
Hugging Zoe



Before we could even get the car together....really Kaylee?She loves her car...




Her little climber slide...

Her new toy box...

Here are some of the pictures we had taken...Enjoy.