Recent photos

From our block party on Saturday...I brought out a tub and ice bucket of ice, which Kaylee promptly claimed as her own. She probably ate about 15 pieces of ice, and used the rest to cool herself off. It was hot out there! Of all the toys in the cul-de-sac, the ice was the biggest hit among the under-3 crowd. :-)



AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!! SOOOO COLD!


Showing Caroline the finer points of ice-eating. And upset when someone took her piece of ice...still working on sharing...


MMMmmm - fruit! (You will notice there are no banana chunks. Those always go first!!)


A rare photo of us together, and without Kaylee!

Face Update

Update on Kaylee's busted face. She looks nearly back to normal this morning! No black eyes, no noticeable swelling, just a red spot on her nose (you can sort of see it in the pictures below) - not sure if she scratched herself there when she fell - ?? I could still see where she bit/split her lip, but it looks like it's healing well already. Knock on wood, maybe she won't look too worse for wear as a result, after all!

Two-word combo = Ouchie!

Separately, two innocent words. Face. Plant. Put them together and yowza!!

We went out to dinner with Kaylee, got home and she was running to the stairs to go up for bath with Jamie and I right behind and ... I'm not sure what happened other than I looked down and she was splayed out on the hardwoods. Jamie said he saw her head bounce off the floor. I picked her up and after a minute there was blood (and drool) trickling out of each corner of her mouth. Turns out she bit/split her lip and apparently hit her nose, too. Her lip is already pretty swollen (see pics!) and her nose looks a bit swollen and bruised and she possibly has two black eyes in her future. Should look great by the weekend. As you can also see, she was running around happy again after a few minutes of TV and sucking on some frozen teething toys, and she seems to be in good spirits.

Sticky Hair & Pillows

Kaylee was eating her dinner (avocado and banana...a winning combo :) ) and I was eating an apple the other day. So of course she wanted it. I peeled and cored one for her and she loved taking bites...and rubbing it in her hair. By the way, she ate over 2/3 of the banana (all but a bad spot I broke off), 1/2 an avocado and a little less than 1/2 of the apple, plus her milk, Apparently she was hungry!


Kaylee likes to pull the pillows off the couch (or floor, where they usually are these days) and lie and roll around on them, usually one at a time. So I put 3 together and she had fun lying and rolling across them all together - 2nd photo is an action shot mid-roll. :)

Random pix from past week

While it may look like she's practicing her skills on the harmonica in the first photo, she's actually eating a (peeled) plum (last Monday). She loved it until she bit into the pit and made a weird "ouch!" face and whined. I took out the pit and she happily finished eating it.


Doing her best Elton John (borrowing Erin's shades to do so...)


Having fun with tissue paper...



These are from Saturday, after a fun afternoon at the park with little Nate. They both had a blast, can't you tell? This was right before we left...should have taken their photo when we arrived...oops. They were both worn out, and Kaylee was mad we'd taken her out of the swing!

Happy Easter, part deux

Happy Easter! Again!

Kaylee enjoyed her Easter baskets - eggs, books, candy and stuffed animals! The lamb in the first few photos was mine, but I found it for Kaylee. She enjoyed toting it around some today. Her stuffed animal basket is super-overflowing now; we're going to have to find a new place for some of them soon...

Happy Easter!

This is what Jamie found when he went to get Kaylee this morning. Why is it that sleeping kids are so cute???




Kaylee had a busy day - neighborhood egg hunt this morning, then a visit with the Easter Bunny this afternoon.


There were about 30 kids at the egg hunt! It was fun, but I think Kaylee enjoyed the people watching, juice and cookies more than the hunting...




Hanging with the big boys...Shaun, Hunter, Mason...Kaylee is apparently playing footsie with Mason!


Kaylee could not get enough of the Easter Bunny, and kept running back over to see him. She got very upset when we picked her up to walk to Barnes & Noble. Once there, of course, she was happy to run around the kids' section at the bookstore and we read a couple books.

Hail Caesar?

So it's calmed down now (for the time being, at least), but a few minutes ago a storm was raging - thunder, lightning, hail, tornado siren going off; the works! Kaylee is in bed and miraculously slept through it, but I could hear it pounding the windows over the baby monitor! Sounded like the windows were about to get beat in. These are a couple pictures of the aftermath...I had never actually seen golf ball sized hail before...


And since it is Kaylee's blog, here's another aftermath photo. :-D She loves her some Caesar family spaghetti!!

Crazy Driver!

I just realized that a year ago today we took Kaylee to the pediatrician for her 2 week checkup...big changes in a year!!


Kaylee enjoying her frozen waffle breakfast this morning...I made one for her and one for me and she ended up eating both!


All dressed up with no place to go!! We did go to Kindermusik and on a couple walks (one in her Ferrari, below, and another in the stroller later), but didn't have a reason to dress up fancy other than she has tons of dresses and we might as well use them! This one has the little sweater, so that's partly why she's in it today, since it was probably a little cool out for her otherwise (though an awesome day, especially compared to the two freezing ones before it!).