Nothing too exciting going on around here lately. Kaelyn has been just pure joy the past week or so...she's just been so happy & interactive & fun. We've been having a great time with her - she's so funny & makes us laugh so hard each and everyday. I don't know if this is true or not, but it almost seems like she's not as frustrated because she is walking as her main mode of transportation now & I think that has been really liberating for her. Last week we had several playdates & she just had a great time playing with her friends and exploring parks & running around - well, as close to running as she gets. She is developing a real sense of humor & quite a little personality...she's very fun to watch and be around. Hopefully she keeps up the fun next week when we're in Chicago.

Kaelyn having a pool playdate with her friends.

Although, she didn't go in the pool - she was too scared.

I put the shorts on her head, but she did the rest. She continued to walk around like this for a long time like nothing was unusual. She's very odd - that's why we love her.

Here are some of the results from the big storm we had about a week ago.

A tree came down here and tore up the whole sidewalk along with it. The tree was removed in this pic.

This is a huge tree that came down in front of a historic house down the road. Can you imagine the sound that came with this? It has to be 4 feet in diameter, and just snapped in 2.

There were tons of trees down, and luckily none of them hit any houses -

they all fell away from the houses. Would've been disastrous...especially for these super old houses.

Lynch Park a week ago during homecoming events. Just exploring.

Walking on the stage out at Lynch Park. Ready to perform.

Every morning she eats our cereal. This day Barry had to share his. She just climbs up on you and gets right in there.

She doesn't care if you don't want to share...she makes the rules.

She got a hold of my box of cocoa krispies. Before I could stop her she dumped the whole bag (well, 1/4 of a bag)

Then she proceeded to eat them off the floor.

Totally unfazed by the big mess she has created that actually took me awhile to clean up.

Well things have just been really busy around here, so I haven't had the chance to really sit in front of my computer much and update the blog. Let's see...Barry's parents were here for a little over a week, they just left on Thursday. They watched Kaelyn for about 3 days while Barry & I went to Newport RI. It was so wonderful. We had a fantastic trip, and I still feel so re-engergized from getting away and not having to be in mommy mode 24/7. We went through 6 mansions, drove along the ocean, walked around and checked out all the old & historic homes - it's just such a great town. If you haven't been, I highly recommend it. We took tons of pictures, but they are all on Barry's good camera, so they haven't been downloaded yet - I'll have to see if I can get them on my computer easily because there were some great pictures. Last weekend we went to our neighbor's house for a luau in celebration of their little boy turning 1. Kaelyn had a great time. I also have some pictures here of her helping me garden - very cute...very messy.

This was us on our way to the luau. I decided to dress nice & enjoy the beautiful weather. But this outfit didn't last long, as I was boiling hot & had to come home and change...you'll see.

I think she found this on the ground & was eating food she found. She's building up quite a healthy immune system.


Ok, now I'm really glad I changed clothes since I was soon covered in ice cream that Kaelyn insisted she feed herself. Luckily we could throw her in the kiddy pool afterwards.

These are her new gardening gloves. So cute.

Here's the beans we picked from our yard. They were good.

I thought they looked pretty in the basket.

Helping in the garden.

I would pull out weeds, while she just scooped out dirt.

I love this picture because she's all dainty in her pretty pink dress, but then she has this messy hair that's full of sunscreen, and dirty knees and a clump of grass she scooped up. She looks like she's been working hard.

When we got inside it was immediate bathtime. I didn't want her to touch one single thing with her dirty hands, knees or feet. Even her face was dirty!

Filling up the tub.

I just thought this was cute with her hair all a mess.

Here we are at dinner one night in Newport.

It was one of the few pics on my camera from the trip.