Getting bigger!

I have not been keeping this blog updated as often as I should, but I only get short increments of time to do pretty much anything. Kaelyn is really enjoying the freedom that crawling has brought her. It is still wierd to have her just come crawling around the corner after me when I leave the room. The house has become baby-proofed very quickly. We basically just follow her around with outlet covers because she seems to find all the outlets before we do. Whenever I miss or forget one, she always finds it for me. She's turning into a real little girl, and is no longer a baby. She makes lots of friends at the grocery stores...primarily elderly women. They just love her. And she shrieks with delight when she sees another child at the store. We've been getting out for lots of activities and playdates & she always enjoys getting out of the house for an adventure of any type.

These are all pictures of what results when Kaelyn feeds herself. It's not pretty.

Notice how all that's left on her tray are veggies? She used to love veggies...what happened?

We were in Lexington (Mass. of course) last weekend & we took a nice walk before church. Kaelyn looked so cute all bundled up.

Finally asleep!

We were at IKEA a couple of weeks ago & not only were Kaelyn & I dressed the same (green top, blue bottoms) but then we found this green chair that was calling for us to sit on it. Can you even see us?

This is either the "I'm about to cause trouble" or "I just got done causing trouble" look.

Well, here's the trouble I was speaking of.

Here comes Kaelyn and old man stout

More neat and tidy eating.

Kaelyn has this wierd obsession with putting everything behind her neck, like she's dressing herself. She always has a scarf or something on, and then she insists on crawling around like this, making it 10x more difficult than it needs to be. Sometimes there is a whole train of things she is dragging along with her.

This was a modified crawl she's been doing...it's like a standing crawl, which I'm sure won't be long until it just becomes walking.

It's official, she's crawling

Attacking the indie movie daddy worked on in Lexington. Do you like the cover?

Happy 1st Birthday Kaelyn!!

Ok, so it's been like a month and a half since I've even posted anything here. I have skipped Christmas entirely...maybe I'll get some Christmas pics up on here next time. Kaelyn turned the big 1.0 on Wednesday. We had a fun filled day of present opening, playing, and for dinner we went to Chuck E Cheese. She was a little scared of some of the "rides" and loud games there, and she kept a watchful eye on the Chuck E Cheese band to make sure they didn't come to get her...but other than that I think she had fun. She liked the band from a distance, just not close up. I admit, they're a little scary. We went to Chicago for Christmas for 2 weeks & actually celebrated her birthday there, so it felt like she turned one a few weeks ago. Other than that, she has just been enjoying all her new toys & playing with her friends mostly. She's getting into lots of stuff & puts everything in her mouth, so I've been having to keep the house cleaner, which is a good thing.

Trying a birthday brownie. This was her first taste of chocolate. I'm not into the whole smash cake, big mess deal. I know I'm boring...maybe birthday #2.

She wasn't too sure she liked it at first.

Then she decided she really did like it and kept grabbing for more.

Riding in the Bob the Builder bulldozer. It was a little too scary for her...what a baby.

I had to practically get in there with her. I probably would've busted the thing

Kaelyn and Rehan watching the band from their highchairs.

The Chuck E Cheese band. It think they were taking a break. Slackers.

Eating her new outfit from Aunt Joanne. I think that means she likes it, not sure.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanksgiving Weekend

Well, this weekend did not turn out to be the fun, family weekend I had hoped it would be. Kaelyn has woken up each night for the past 4 nights at around 2 am and been up until 5 am. This has made for lots of bad moods and overtiredness around here. Up until last week she was sleeping for 12 hours straight. What's the deal?! I think she's teething or something. Whatever it is, I hope it ends soon. But, she's still cute - so she's got that going for her. Here are some of the latest pictures. Also, we redid our downstairs bathroom a couple of weeks ago & it looks so much better now. We ripped up some hideous blue stick down vinyl tiles & put down 2" square tiles that we thought would look age appropriate to the house. We also painted.

Here is our bathroom once we pulled up the stick-down tiles. Pretty gross. There was real tile underneath the vinyl ones.

Here's what it looks like now. We painted the walls too. They were just white before.

She can practically fold in half!

Standing up all by herself. Mommy's little pole dancer.

In her Thanksgiving PJ's. I cheated and took this the day after turkey day because she was pouty all Thanksgiving day - not many photo ops.

Dishing up Kaelyn's first Thanksgiving dinner. She didn't like much of it, and this was one of the few smiles we got from her all day - she's teething and wasn't very happy that day.

Cooking for Thanksgiving.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Crazy girl videos

Ok, let me first explain these videos before you think they we are all just a bunch of crazy people (well, we are a LITTLE crazy, I'll admit). We took the first video tonight...Kaelyn and Barry got into this like 20 minute scream fest where they just kept laughing and screaming at eachother, and the longer they did it, it just got funnier and funnier and more out of control. Plus, it's just fun to get her wound up - even though it was right before her bedtime (not usually a good idea), but it seemed to wear her out and she actually fell right asleep. My favorite part is the clenched fists every time she gets super excited. 2nd video is Barry spinning her around and trying to show her "crazy eyes" while she was spinning. He did this spinning thing with her a few times, and at the end she would always just put her head very gently on Barry's chest (probably because she was going to be sick), but it was very cute.

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