Finally, (some) Christmas Pictures

Some photos are courtesy of Grampa...

Kaylee by her Grampa and Gramma's tree, and with Uncle Jeff:

Aforementioned tree; Kaylee and Mama:

"You mean I can tear the paper and you won't stop me?!?" (FYI: the huge red bag was for trash and it was full by the time we were done!)

Kaylee enjoying her new walker (also her new car, as seen in the Speed Racer video). Apparently it's so easy she can use it with her eyes closed.

MMmmm...blocks...

Follow Every Rainbow

Obviously we have a climber. Yes, Gramma and Grampa, I know I was a climber...paybacks and such...

These are also from yesterday, but I forgot to post them. I already had the camera with me when Kaylee climbed onto the chair and looked out the window. I asked what she was doing and got the 2nd picture then caught her when she started slipping off the chair just after I took it.

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As you can see, Kaylee's face is just about back to pre-dog bite conditions. It never got any dark bruising, the darkest it got was probably like it was on the last photo posted here (a few posts ago). Other photo is today's lunch. She had bread, green beans, turkey and cheese. I'd heard not to give dairy until after a year, but recently I've read in a few places that cheese is a good finger food to start to try around 9 months. ??? Since Kaylee hasn't had any allergies to anything else (praise God - I'm not sure how she avoided it, what with all the allergies Jamie and I both had as babies), I figured I'd try a little to see how she does with it. She had maybe 1/3 of a slice of cheese yesterday and probably about the same today (gave her 1/2 slice on the tray today, but she didn't eat it all). No problems yet, but we're keeping an eye on things. She enjoys being able to feed herself! (Oh, and I think she would eat only bananas and bread if she had her way...she seems to like other things, but LOVES bananas, and the bread is usually the first thing to go when given a smorgasbord - as you can see there are a few pieces left in this photo and she started with a pretty good size pile.)

Kaylee's littlest second cousin

Hi all! My grandmother called to let us know that my cousin Jonathan and his wife Elisha and kids Caleb and Esther were en route to their place earlier this evening. They live in Maryland, so we don't see them often (but we do keep up via their blog!). Kaylee's Grandma Barb was already babysitting while we were at small group, so we stopped home to get the camera (Kaylee was in bed by then) and headed over to see them. Memaw was saying, "isn't she so big?" but she seemed small to me! Guess I'm used to Kaylee... :-)

Some photos:

Oh, no!

Bottom of the stairs baby gate is now in full swing. Or full lock-down? Kaylee's been pulling up on things, stairs included, but hadn't ever really tried to crawl up them before. Today, however, I was with her and she was standing at the stairs when I went to throw something away. As I walked back over, I thought, "wait a minute, you're not that tall!" Yep, she was standing on the bottom step. As I hustled over, she quickly scurried up two more steps! So the baby gate is now pretty much permanently on. We probably should install the top of stairs one soon, too, but we don't really let her on the loose when we're upstairs, so we've been procrastinating that one...

Speed Racer

Kaylee got a a little walker that turns into a car for Christmas from Gramma and Grampa Parker. She's used it both ways, but she really enjoys her little trips in the car! (Probably because Mama or Dada have to do all the work!)

Here's a photo of her face from earlier today. The bruising looks like it might be going away soon. I wish I had her super-fast healing powers! Darn this getting old stuff...

We went out for our first walk of the new year. It was a bit chilly, so we bundled up the babe. Even down to the mittens. She reminded me of Randy from A Christmas Story..."I can't put my arms down!" Kaylee was quite puffy in all her warm attire.

We hope everyone had a wonderful New Year's Day! As for us...when Kaylee napped today, so did Mama and Dada, so it was a pretty nice lazy day. Happy 2009!

Happy New Year!

Late face update from (now yesterday) morning (12/31) - looking better, though a bit green/yellow now. The rate she's healing, though, I would guess she'll look like nothing happened by early next week.

Here she is in her new chair. She'll sit in it for a bit, but is easily distracted by her toys. She did think it was really funny when I put her in it in the store and when I put it in the trunk of the car and let her sit in it for a minute back there.

Kaylee has a crazy tile floor (and sometimes hardwood floor) "crawl" - she gets up on her hands and feet with as little bodily surface area touching the floor as possible...must be cold.

Happy New Year!! Kaylee slept through the whole ball drop thing, fireworks outside and all. (Yay!)