Eating machine!

Kaylee often comes up to us after finishing a meal or snack and says, "I'm still hungry!" (where "still" has 3 syllables and pitches - as in "sti-iii-iiilll") But what she really wants is more snack type food, fruit or a cookie/something sweet, even though she's not truly "hungry." This is what she just ate for dinner tonight...I seriously expected her to be done after the cookie, so I guess she really was hungry!

blueberries
slice of bologna
grape tomatoes
cookie (after which she asked, "what's for dessert?")
goldfish crackers
2 slices of pork tenderloin
1/2 banana

Her stomach made a funny noise a few minutes after she ate the banana and she laughed and said, "now I'm full!" Finally!

Birthday Cupcakes

Happy Birthday to Jesus! Like last year, our church gave out cake mix and frosting to the young kids so they could bake birthday cakes for Jesus' birthday. Of course Kaylee wanted to make them as soon as we got home, but I held her off until yesterday. When I went to get her in the morning I said, "good morning, sunshine!" She replied, "I'm ready to make cupcakes now!" and hopped out of bed. The kid does not miss a beat!

The first photo is at church; she's standing by a Christmas tree made of balloons. The rest, obviously, are from our baking, frosting and eating cupcake session...

Preschool Christmas Program

Kaylee's preschool Christmas program was on Friday. She was one of two kids in her class who did the hand motions and sang along to the 3 songs they performed. Gramma, Grampa, Memaw & PawPaw also came to see her performance; she was very excited to see them all there!





With her friend Olivia, who is in the next class year, and Olivia's little sister, Kendall (their big sister, Katie, had school). The last photo is Kaylee being silly in the bathroom afterward.

Early Christmas Present

Kaylee's Gramma & Grampa gave her a play kitchen for Christmas; because it's so big and it was already at our house, she got to open it last weekend when they were over (they stayed overnight so Jamie and I could go to his company holiday party). She loves it and shows everyone that comes over "MY NEW KITCHEN!!" A few pics from the weekend.

Early Christmas Photos

Cookies I made for this year's neighborhood exchange; they were a hit with all the kids!


Kaylee and our Christmas tree!

Writer's Block

Kaylee was sitting at her little table in the kitchen, staring at a blank piece of paper with a pen in her hand. She said, "Hmm. Let me think." (brief pause) "Oh, I have an idea! I can write my name!" Then she proceeded to try to write her name. i.e. she spelled her name while drawing lines and scribbles on the paper. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Last weekend at the Christmas in Central Park craft show, Baba bought Kaylee a cute crocheted hat with a pink flower clip. She's worn it a few times already; sometimes for longer than others - after we laughed about her pulling it off the other day, she thinks it's funny to pull it off right after we put it on her. *Sigh* Here are some photos from Thanksgiving day and today (different bow/clip on the hat today). She's with Nate in a photo, Brennan & Uncle Mike in another & Baba in yet another!

Santa

We went to see Santa again this year at the Christmas in Central Park craft show. Last year as we waited in line, Kaylee seemed excited to see him. Once she sat with him and Mrs. Claus, though, she got scared and Jamie and I had to get in the picture with her. This year we were first in line, and she again seemed excited - we'd been talking about seeing Santa for a while, and she wanted to tell him that she wants silly bands for Christmas - but we weren't sure what would happen once she sat with him again. She sat up there, told him what she wanted and smiled big for the camera!!



We saw Santa first, then shopped at the craft show and had lunch there, so it was 2+ hours after Santa that we left. On our way out of the parking lot, Kaylee said with a sad face, "Santa didn't give me any silly bands!" We had to explain that she had to tell him what she wanted and give him time to get it ready for her on Christmas morning if she was good until then. She seemed to be okay with that, but still wanted those silly bands that day.

Thanksgiving Feast

Kaylee had her first preschool "program" last Friday. Gramma, Grampa, Baba & I went to have lunch with her. Her class came out and said a prayer before the meal, then we all ate together. I think she really enjoyed us coming to visit her at school! Here are a few pictures of our cute little pilgrim.

Fall Photos

We did an outdoor photo session with a photographer last Sunday (Halloween morning); here are some of the photos from it. Thanks to Joe Cole of Forrest Cole Photography!