Dressed Up Cutie

A neighbor was going to donate a bunch of outgrown toys, but let us and another neighbor look through and bring some home for our kids. Free goodies for us and less for them to haul to goodwill! :) So Kaylee now has a bunch of dress up dresses, a new doll stroller and a shopping cart with some food. Yesterday she spent quite a bit of the day in various dresses, and the way she was tearing through the house with her shopping cart I thought maybe she was practicing to be on the gameshow "Supermaket Sweep."




Here she decided she needed to wear a second dress as a wrap:


This was from this morning, when she got ready to go to the pool, "all by myself!"

Cake!

Grampa's birthday was a couple weeks ago, but we didn't get to celebrate with him until this past weekend. Grampa, Gramma, Uncle Mike, Aunt Sharon, Memaw & PawPaw came over on Saturday for a birthday lunch and cake. Kaylee helped decorate the cake with sprinkles, and enjoyed helping blow out the candles and eat the cake! Happy birthday, Grampa!

Play!

Last Wednesday Kaylee and I met some friends at Play - an indoor play place for kids. They had fun playing at the rice table (sand table, but filled with rice instead) and with some other toys, but once we went into the gym area it was running and jumping galore!

Kaylee was at least a foot above the blue air mat when I took this picture. It's hard to tell at first, but if you look at her reflection in the mirror, you can see she was pretty high up! She was jumping up, then sticking her legs out in front of her to "plop" down on the mat.


More jumping - with Lane, and on a trampoline. In both of these pictures, I managed to catch her looking like she was about to fall...but she didn't - she's just a crazy jumper! :)


She loved the "squishy blocks" (as she calls them). She couldn't get out of the pit on her own, so I'd pull her out, then she'd want me to toss her back in. Repeat, repeat, repeat!


One worn out kid on our way home!

19 & Counting...

I noticed earlier today that Kaylee's 19th tooth (top right 2nd year molar) has popped through her gums a little. Just the top left one to go and she'll have all her baby teeth!

Lake Chatuge

A couple weeks ago we went to Lake Chatuge for the day to celebrate Poppy's birthday. They rented a pontoon boat and we went out on the lake for an hour and a half or so. Kaylee had been on a boat a couple times, but it was a year before at my aunt/uncle's house in Maine.

Out on the dock:


Fun on the boat:


Kaylee tried to skip her nap, but it caught up with her on the boat - she was zonked for 45 minutes while my arm fell asleep under her!


Happy to help drive, then refueling after all that work:


Happy birthday, Poppy!

Fireworks & July 4th

We took Kaylee to see fireworks for the first time this year. She loved it! July 4 was Sunday, and fireworks near us were Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. We went Friday night with a bunch of neighbors. The kids all had fun throwing pop & snaps (see 1st pic of Kaylee solo; she was having fun, but looks really tired in this photo - it was already past her bedtime at that point), waving sparklers and wearing glow bracelets...and staying up late. :) While watching the fireworks, Kaylee went back and forth between sitting with Jamie and sitting on the blanket on the ground. She kept popping up, throwing her hands in the air and exclaiming, "that was a BIG one!" when some of the bigger fireworks exploded.



On the 4th, we went to my parents' house. About 25-30 people were there over the course of the day. Kaylee wanted to get in the pool first thing, of course! We managed to take a few photos with her in her 7/4 outfit first. Here she is with Baba (Jamie's mom), Grampa (my dad), and me and my youngest brother Jeff - all in our red holiday shirts.


Kaylee enjoyed trying to help her cousin Lillian open some gifts. She also had a great time in the pool both before and after lunch (hence the suit change). She really liked riding on the crocodile this time. Last photo is Grampa with his two granddaughters.

Knock, Knock!

Kaylee's learned her first knock, knock joke:

Knock, knock!
Who's there?
BOO!
Boo who?
Don't cry, it's just me!

I helped her with it twice and now she's got it!