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...

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!