New haircut the next morning

Here are photos of Kaylee's haircut this morning. She's still excited about having it cut and I think it looks so much better already!! Even Jamie said, "it makes a bigger difference than I'd have thought." It was just so uneven, with longer pieces that wouldn't curl the same in the back and hung down/stuck out crazy. I'm glad she likes it, too! She keeps saying she's going to tell everyone about her new haircut!

First haircut...finally!

Jamie finally agreed to let me trim Kaylee's scraggly curls in the back. Not that they weren't cute, but very uneven and crazy looking. :) So after her bath this evening, I trimmed somewhere between 2-3" off. We'll see how it looks tomorrow! She was excited to get it cut; I told her I'd cut it last night and then ran out of time. As I was leaving her room at bedtime, she said, "Mommy, wait! You didn't cut my hair! You have to cut my hair!" :) I told her we'd do it tonight, and she reminded me about it a few times today. So there was no getting around it!

Of course while she was really good and tried to stand still, she kept trying to look and was squirmy, so it took a few tries to trim it straight. Or at least mostly straight! With it being so curly, though, I wasn't too concerned about a precise straight cut. Here are some photos of the cutting...

Before...During...


And After! The last photo was after we towel dried it a little bit and it curled up. Within a few minutes it was even curlier and fluffier again. I'll try to remember to take and post a photo tomorrow of it all dry and hopefully less crazy than before!

2 & 2 to go!

Someone asked yesterday if I thought I was carrying lower this time or if maybe Andy had already dropped. I haven't really paid attention to how I've been carrying him, but I had taken a photo yesterday and I looked at the photo I'd taken at 37 weeks when I was pregnant with Kaylee. Looks like 1-this is apparently my 37 week pregnancy photo sweater (I didn't realize it until I checked the old photo later, after I'd already taken the new one!) and 2-not sure if I've been carrying lower the whole time or if he's dropped (though breathing has gotten easier and I've had to pee more lately, so that could be), but my belly does seem to be lower this time.



2 weeks and 2 days until Kaylee's a big sister!

Just a big

Kaylee told me, "when Andy comes, I'll be a big sister. Right now I'm just a big." Gotta love kid logic.

Jan 2011 Snow!

We measured 5" of snow on our driveway this morning, and I think it was even a bit deeper than that in other places (some neighbors measured it at 6"). Kaylee didn't have school today anyway, but yesterday our county canceled school for today and I just saw an update that it's closed again tomorrow (Kaylee would have had school tomorrow). We went out in the snow with her for about an hour and a half this morning; when she finally had enough, she came in for a warm bath and hot cocoa. She had a great time playing out in the snow, though! She made about 20 snow angels, had fun falling down in the deep snow and sledding down a hill in a pool inner tube.

I made snow ice cream this morning and that's what we had for breakfast! (Along with some granola bars.) Kaylee loved that!


When we first walked outside, Kaylee's pants were gray. That lasted all of about 2 minutes, until she discovered how much she enjoyed falling down into the deep snow!

GA Aquarium

Jamie had yesterday off work for New Year's, and we made a last-minute decision to take Kaylee to the GA Aquarium. The only aquarium she'd been to is the Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg and she was only 7 months old when we were there. Big difference 2+ years makes! She was most excited to see the penguins and ride the whale slide over and over and over.

She loved crawling through a tunnel to get to see the penguins up close.


Not too sure about that giant turtle, but enjoyed checking out the "fishies!!" and sea worms.



Just one of many trips down the slide. Also, on the moving walkway with Daddy under the huge glass tunnel of fish, sharks, etc. A huge ray, a huger whale shark and ...not sure... trying to break into the tank?



She thought it was funny to lie in all the bubble openings and didn't want to leave to give others a turn! And when I told her the funny looking creature (below right) was a "sea dragon" she said, "what?!?!!" in a high-pitch voice - sort of like she was saying, "no way!" (I apparently say "what?!?!!" to her all the time when she says/does crazy things and she picked it up.) A woman standing next to us thought that was hilarious...it was pretty funny!


She was interested in touching the water, but did not want to touch any of the sea life (again, taking after Mommy?) She finally - reluctantly? - agreed to touch the little ray that kept swimming past. It kept swimming low/out of reach, but I think she eventually did reach it a time or two.


With the lionfish.

Cousins' Christmas

On New Year's Day, we enjoyed a late Christmas celebration with my mom's (aka Gramma's) family. Here are a few photos of Kaylee and some of my cousins' kids. Caleb, Ethan, Ryker, Esther, Kaylee & Brennan.