Change of Plans

Our weekend was supposed to look like this:

Friday night: I would attend a wedding shower while Kaylee and daddy had some "daddy-daughter" time.

Saturday: Brian would have a "Man Day" with some friends and I would spend some time with another one of the wives and her son.

Sunday: Helping in the Church nursery and then Family Day

This is how the weekend went:
Friday: I had Kaylee sitting on my lap on the couch. She had a DVD cover in her hand and flung it backwards. As Brian puts it, "I did not blink fast enough!!" It caught me right in the eye. At first, I thought it just poked me in the eye, but after 30 minutes of not being able to open it, I had to call Brian at work. It was his time to get off work anyways, but wanted him to try and not stay too late so he could help watch Kaylee. We finally decided to go to an urgent clinic to see if I still had something in the eye or what was going on. They realized I had two main scratches on the eye. Corneal abrasions = not fun.

Saturday:
I kept my eyes closed most of the day, daddy got his "daddy-daughter" time at the house. Since I could not open my eye and it even hurt to have the injured one closed and open the good eye, I spent the entire day blind.

Sunday:
I could not help in the Church nursery - I did attend Church but everyone thought I had "pink eye" and I still could not have my eye open for long periods of time.

change of plans for our weekend, but that is ok. It is getting much better, but I am a little bummed that I could not do what we had originally planned for the weekend. Oh well, it was a good family weekend.

Cruise help?

Brian and I are looking at taking a cruise in the spring for our anniversary. I need some help though.

Has anyone taken a cruise? Where, how long, any advice that you can give of things you would do or not do again would be greatly appreciated.

Wordless Wednesday

Lesson Learned

I learned today that when you have a daughter who loves to take ALL the books off of her book shelf at home, it may NOT be a good idea to take her to either the library or Barnes and Noble.

Unfortunately, we did both today:)

Lesson Learned!!

I'm ready Grandma K

Grandma K,

I have been practicing with my recorder that mom got me so when I see you next you can give me a lesson on your clarinet!!!

Love,

Kaylee

Growing Up

I was looking at a few of her pictures that I have on the computer. I came across these pictures of her playing at the kitchen set. This was taken just over three months ago.





I know she has grown, but you never really know how much until you see comparison pictures. Look at how tall she is getting.


These were taken today as she was playing with the kitchen again, of course this is daily so it was easy to get pictures. I love the tippy toes!!

Riding Giraffe

Kaylee has figured out how to ride the giraffe instead of pushing it around as a walker. She is so proud of herself.

Temper Tantrums

Oh yes, we have them at 13 months old!!! I honestly started to laugh when she flew herself on the floor, then I grabbed the camera, then I discipline her. Isn't that the order every mom does it in:) I know, I just started something now.

and just to show a good picture after the negative ones- we recovered.

Ideas, Anyone?

I am looking for some ideas of games or crafts to do with Kaylee. I want to be able to challenge her, but am not on the creative side of the thinking box. We play ball, sing songs, read books, play peek a boo, and so on and so forth. I have gotten a puzzle out for her to do, and she takes all the pieces out but has not gotten the concept of putting them back in yet:) I built a fort for her the other day, but again, that turned into peek a boo.

I know as she gets older, some crafts will come in handy, but what do you (or did you) do with a 13 month old?

Ideas greatly appreciated!!!!

It won't be long now!!!

She has done it for longer, but not wanting to perform for the camera!!

Remember When?

Remember when you used to sleep on your stomach with your butt up in the air? Or, maybe I am the only one who used to do that!! Well, not any more. I glanced in on Kaylee the other day at nap time and found her that way. I thought maybe it was just a fluke, but the next nap time she did the same thing. If she was not such a light sleeper and wake up to everything, I would have taken a picture of it.

She is just too cute:)

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday to my wonderful Husband and best friend!!

Brian, I love you so much. Thank you for growing old with me:) Thank you for your patience, kindness, understanding, love, sincere heart, gentleness, and many more things. Thank you for everything you do for Kaylee and I, and the sacrifices you make for this family.

I hope you have a great day today, even though you are at work!!

We love you!!!

Thursday!!

I have way too many photos to go through. Here is our Thursday with photos that I do not have to do anything in photoshop too.

Last Thursday, Brian, Kaylee and I spent the day in Chicago. We went to Shedds Acquarium!!! It was great, and Kaylee loved it.

This was just before going in.

We saw lots of Dolphins and Beluga Whales:

After watching the dolphin show from the top, Brian found a window under the water to watch the dolphins swimming. It was great.

And lots of other fishes and things:

And we got to touch things:

This is after the fun filled day:

Our Wednesday

On Wednesday, Brian and I took Kaylee to Chicago. We met up with one of his friends from college and headed downtown!!! Here are Kristin's photos she got. They were so good I had to post them right away. I will have to post our later as I have not even had a chance to go through them.

Here is all of us sitting at a concert. Kristin had some of her friends come also so there was a ton of food.


Kaylee pretty much ate blueberries for dinner that evening.






We went walking on the magnificient mile.



Walking by the fountains.
What they call the "bean"

I will post about our day on thursday later - it was awesome!!!!

One more just because she is so cute!!

Smart girl!!

Our first Parents as Teachers meeting for this year was yesterday and they did her one year assessment. She passed with flying colors. In fact, I guess I can brag since it is my blog, she passed at a 14-16 month level in almost everything except being able to stand in the middle of the living room and take a few steps already. That gross motor skill she is right on track for being 12 months old. She is doing great. She "wowed" our PAT lady yesterday and it was even lunch time and nap time!!! I was a little nervous as how she would do.

I see her growing up more and more each day. It is kind of scary the things that she can do and the things I realize she understands already. It is so much fun!!!

Big plans starting tomorrow so look for more posts coming soon!!! I can't wait myself!!

Animal sounds

Kaylee has been learning her animal sounds lately. I think the lion is my favorite. She is a little "dainty" lion!!!