Kaylee - 9 Months

I know I missed posting Kaylee's 8 month pictures, but I am having some technical difficulties with them at the moment.  So we are going to fast forward to the present time--9 month old Kaylee!

Being the wonderful mother that I am, I completely forgot to write down her stats from her well baby visit.  However, I do remember that they were all good!  She is back on track with her weight and is growing like a weed.  I think she is close the 70th percentile for height, close to that for her head, and around the 50th for her weight...but don't quote me on that.  All I know for sure is that she is healthy, and tall!  

She is a little jabber mouth and makes quite a few different sounds. Dadada, mamama, gagaga, bababa being her favorites (I remember Nathan not making many different consonant sounds until he was quite a bit older.)  Of course her favorite, and mine, is her growl.  She has also taken to gurgling quite a bit and she just cracks herself up every time she does it.

She is crawling all over the place, and just the other day I found her standing up in bed when I got her up in the morning.  She is much more timid than her brother though.  If she climbs onto something (for example a pillow) she screams her little head off because she can't get down.  She has also not ventured to try climbing onto anything much higher than a pillow :)

She is absolutely terrified of loud sounds.  No blow dryers, vacuums, or electric can openers for this little girl. The other day I was ordering a smoothie at the gym and Kaylee threw the biggest fit when the lady turned on the blender, I had to walk into another room until she was done.  That's my girl I guess, a big scaredy cat like her mom!

She is starting to favor women over men.  Most of the time she is completely content to have a female stranger hold her, but she will cry her head off if a male holds her (except for her daddy of course, whom she is VERY fond of).

Now that Kaylee can crawl she follows Nathan around everywhere and wants to play with what he is playing with.  This can be cute but also quite frustrating for Nathan who is constantly having to defend his newly made train track, or the stack of blocks that he piled high.  Sharing is not one of Nathan's favorite things, but Kaylee seems completely oblivious to that fact as she takes Nathan's toys right out of his hands again and again. 

She has her two bottom teeth, which came in right around Halloween (I think she was hoping I would give her some candy, so she sprouted them just in time...no dice baby girl.)

She is a bouncy little thing.  When she gets excited she bounces around like crazy.  I really have to hold onto her tight when Curtis walks into the room because she usually starts bouncing up and down while reaching for him.  She also loves to play in the jumper that our friend let us borrow.  She really goes to town in that thing.  Curtis and I have tried to take videos of this on several occassions but of course once the camera is on she stops.  Kids.

She is still a great sleeper, sleeping from 7pm - 7am, with two 2-hour naps during the day.

She is such a happy girl.  She smiles and laughs constantly.  Of course, when she cries...she REALLY cries.

And of course, as always, she is still the most beautiful little girl you have ever seen!

Family Pictures

Fall 2011 Family Pictures

I love these pictures so much more than the studio ones!  My friend Ashley Elicio is so super talented, I don't think I can ever go back to Sears!  I left out my favorite because it is probably going on our Christmas card.  I need to leave SOME suspense for all 5 of you that read this!  Haha!

Welcome to the Terrible 2s!

Today Nathan had a friend over to play.  These two have lots of fun together, but they also get into lots of trouble!  The boys decided that they wanted to go up to Nathan's room to play while I made lunch.  I always lock all of the doors except for Nathan's and do my best to make sure that there is NOTHING that they can get into that they shouldn't.  I started lunch and ran upstairs to check on them, they were quietly sitting in Nathan's bed reading under the covers.  Too cute, right?  I ran back down stairs to work more on lunch, no joke, just a couple of minutes later we go upstairs to check on them and find Nathan and Brody both like this:

It took me quite awhile to realize where on Earth they found nail polish, then it dawned on me.  A few days earlier I had some nail polish in my hand when I went to let Nathan out of his room after his nap.  I had to change his diaper so I strategically placed the polish waaaaaaaay up on the top of his dresser, BEHIND the decorations that sit on top...no way for him to even SEE it, let alone GET TO IT. Of course it was so well hidden that I forgot it was there....ay ay ay.  It was all over my practically white carpet, all over Nathan's train table, dresser, walls, bedding, and clothes.  The boys had even managed to paint several trains all in the FEW minutes that they were left alone.  WOW.  I didn't take a picture of his room because I was too depressed about it, thinking that there was no way that the polish would come out of the carpet.  Fortunately with a few hours of work, some sol-u-mel, hair spray, rubbing alcohol and water we were able to get the polish off of everything except the boys' clothes.  Not much else I can say other than....wow

7 Months

Once again, I am over a month late with this post!  Better late than never...

My baby girl at 7 months old:

* She eats infant cereals and vegetables but always seems more interested in everything we are eating...poor girl
* She is almost sitting up on her own. She can do it if she is interested in reaching or playing with something that is in front of her, but once she gets ahold of the item of interest she falls right back down.
* She is starting to become more mobile.  She can find a way to get to almost anything she wants to with a mixture of rolling, scooting with her toes, and a bit of army crawling.
* She can hold the bottle by herself (hallelujah!)
* She babbles on and on and on and on and on and on
* She growls!!! No joke!  It's kind of a little scary...
*She is still getting cuter every day!

BFFs

Despite their occasional cat fights (like the one today at the mall...haha) these two absolutely love each other.  Every time we get in the car Nathan wants to go to Brenna's house.  She is always included in all of his prayers.  Anytime we are going anywhere fun like to play at the mall, or park, or mcdonalds, Nathan insists that Brenna comes too.  He often mentions her name several times when he starts rambling about who knows what.  She's his BFF, and I love it!

Almost Mobile Kaylee

Swim Lessons

We signed Nathan up for swim lessons this past spring.  I had tried signing him up last year but didn't realize that the spots fill up within hours of registration opening.  We were better prepared this time around and Randi was able to sign Nathan and Brenna up for the same class.  Here they are on their first day:

The lessons were 5 days a week for two weeks.  Curtis had Mondays off and was able to be Nathan's pool partner on those days.

We lucked out and got to be in the warm pool most days!

The point of the youngster class is really to get the kids comfortable in the water. Nath learned how to kick his legs while being pulled around the pool,

and how to use his arms while being pushed.

He was not a big fan of floating on his back,

but he improved over time.

His above all favorite thing to do was to jump in the pool.  He got to the point where he would jump in and go all the way under before I would grab him. If he had it his way he would jump and jump and jump all class long.

This kid loves the water.  A little too much.  When the class was over he would throw the biggest, loudest, most embarrassing temper tantrums I have ever seen, all because he didn't want to get out of the pool.  After a few times of that I threatened to never come back and he seemed to understand.  I love knowing that he is having a good time and all, but that was just ridiculous.

And, as always, Kaylee was there sitting in the sidelines cheering him on.