Our Big Girl!

Today was Kaitlyn's last day of 3 year old pre-school at Caravel Academy. It has been a great year,Kaitlyn has learned a lot and we have grown to love her three teachers. Ms. Schneider, Mrs. Sitaras and Ms. Shellie. She has made some great friends. We were told often how popular Kaitlyn is and how all the kids love her and want to play with her. 

Kaitlyn will be 4 in less then a month and she is super excited for her baby sister to get here. She asks me all the time when little pumpkin will pop out. 

Today I called Shaun on my way home and Kaitlyn asked for the phone. She told me about the little table they sat at for dinner and answered when I asked what she had. We had a real phone conversation! My sweet little girl is growing up. She is such a love able little munchkin who tells us constantly she loves us.  Kaitlyn is definitely daddy's girl. :)  

Pony Watching

Just watching one of her favorite shows ... That she has seen a zillion times!!

Happy Valentines Day!

This has to be the best Valentines Day EVER!  Want a hint???  Here was part of the Valentine that I left for Shaun this morning.

Tehe! So why Valentines day?  Last week my boobs hurt SO BAD, I had Shaun go buy me test on his way home and being the most amazing husband that he is, he did.  So I took a test and it was negative, I knew that it was still early and my period technically wasn't late so I waited.  This week was super busy so I kept putting it off.  I decided why not because what an awesome Valentines Day gift if it was positive and low and behold it was.  Shaun was shocked and didn't understand.  It was all I could do not to cry and scream and dance while he was still sleeping.

Kaitlyn is going to be a big sister.  She has been pretending to be a big sister to her two little sisters and her baby brother for months now.  We aren't telling her yet because we don't want the whole world to know.  HA HA.

Kaitlyn has told me "first mommy will have my baby sister, then another baby sister and then my baby brother."  We shall see if she is right.  Little Scott or Aubrey is in there baking away.  When you put the info in on line it gives a due date of October 15th.  We shall see how this all works out.

Very excited!

Mom's a Slacker

LOL

So it's been way too long since I have updated this!  In 25 days Kaitlyn will be 2!  I can't believe that she is almost 2!  Where has the time gone?

Kaitlyn isn't in daycare anymore so she is spending her time with Mom, Dad, Neeno and many other wonderful family members that have been helping us out when we run into a scheduling problem.  She is so full of energy and gets into anything and everything.  Her most recent favorite activities are making everyone in the room get up and dance with her, paying outside in her pool, watering her garden and climbing anything and anyone she can.

Shaun planted a garden with Kaitlyn packed full of tomato's, broccoli, lettuce, green peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, zucchini, strawberries, radishes, corn and sunflowers.  She loves to water the plants and has tried to water dad on occasion.

Kaitlyn will repeat almost anything you tell her to.  If what you are asking her to say is to long she will just repeat the last word.  She has a memory like you would not believe, Shaun painted the front deck the other day and she walks out each day and tells us "Daddy paint this".  We got Tylers hair cut and when you ask Kaitlyn is she wants to go see her doggies, she will tell you "hair cut, tyler, hair cut".  Her newest things are "Here I am" when you aren't looking for her, lol.  "Hear that?" when she hears that dogs or a noise outside or in another room.

Kaitlyn likes to sing and will sing along to most of the songs on the radio.  She will also randomly sing, twinkle twinkle, bringing home a baby bumble bee, row row row your boat, itsy bitsy spider, happy birthday, and I am sure there are others i am forgetting.

Her newest fun quirks are that her to nails must be painted.  She knows she has earrings and wants to show them to you, she will tell you to turn "light on" so she can go up or down the stairs.  She will climb the fridge to make the door open and then bring you something random from it...frozen hot dogs, soy sauce, lol.  She is very independent and will tell you "don't want to" or "do it myself".  Recently she has started to say "no picture" and scrunch herself up when she doesn't want to  have her picture taken.  She had her first icecream cone on memorial day weekend and when i told her to eat it before it melts, she told me "No i lick it".  She is so stinking smart!

Kaitlyn lost interest in potty training but has recently been doing better with it.  She will tell you when she went and will sometimes tell you she has to go on the potty.

Kaitlyn has also taken an interest in tv and movies.  She will sit and watch a show, answer the questions that Dora, Mickey, Umizoomi or Bubble Guppies asks, and interact with the show.  She will ask to watch movies, like tinkerbell and others.  She loves Bubble Guppies.  "Watch Guppies".  We took her to see Rio in the theater she was pretty good, she watched most of the movie and we were able to at least stay in our seats.

I love that little girl more every day.  She is so awesome!

Shake Your Body

I am on the couch listening to Kaitlyn through her monitor. Shaun is
up there with her cracking up.

Kaitlyn is saying "shake your body, shake your body".

Too funny! Shes jumping around and dancing! What a nut!

You're Welcome

Kaitlyn has started to say Thank you and You're welcome to everything. I gave her some juice "Thank you". She gave me her toy I said thank you, "you're welcome".

My favorite of the day was when she gave the dogs their bones, stood back and looked at them with her hands clasped in front of her and said "You're welcome".

Such a sweet and polite little girl!

19 Months!

I have been telling myself every day to update this blog and I always forget to do it. AND when I sit down to actually do it I can't remember all the stuff I wanted to put in it! I will try to do my best...

Kaitlyn is now 19 months old! Time is just flying by! She is so much fun right now. Kaitlyn likes to play quietly with her toys by herself sometimes, she likes to line up her little people and then put them in their house and then pull them out to look at them again. She LOVES to color, about a week ago it was all you would hear in our house. COLOR COLOR COLOR like a parrot. This past week she has been more interested in her baby dolls, putting them into the stroller and out of the stroller. Shaun also gave her my old Coach purse, the little one, and she LOVES it. She is putting everything and anything she can find into her purse then out of the purse. One of her favorite past times is to put her purse on the stroller handle and then tell me that it's stuck and freak out until I make take it off the stroller and give it back to her. She has gotten better at getting it off the handle herself as the week has progressed. Kaitlyn still loves to talk on her phones, she likes to dance and has recently started to sing (more on this in a bit). Minnie Mouse is her favorite character of the moment through Dora and Diego are still a staple. New shows that Kaitlyn likes are Little Einsteins (she likes to pat, pat, pat to help rev up rocket and to blast off, it's really funny) and Chuggington.

Kaitlyn is like a parrot, anything you say she will try to repeat back to you. She has repeated the names for all family members, the other night Shaun was taking Kaitlyn to my parents and he asked her "Do you want to go see Neeno?" Kaitlyn answered "and Poppy". Mommy and Daddy are frequent words around our house these days. She will repeat colors but doesn't know them if you ask her what color something is. She knows most of her body parts: fingers, toes, arms, legs, knees, feet, hair, eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, belly, belly button, bottom. Kaitlyn will count with you and has a pretty good grasp on 1 -10 she will tell you the next number up to 10 then she will repeat you up to 20. We haven't tried to go any higher yet. Kaitlyn has started to sing along, she still does the EIEIO part of Old MacDonald but she is also sings ring around the Rosy (and spins around and falls down) and twinkle twinkle, she starts to sing her ABCs and if you are singing with her and stop she will keep going. She doesn't really say all the letters but hums/sings something that sounds pretty close. When we are in the car Kaitlyn will sing along to the radio, some of these I am ashamed to admit but it's the truth so here we go. She likes anything that has repetitive sounds so Katy Perry Firework, Rhiannon What's my name?, Ke$ha we r who we r, and most recently Bruno Mars Grenade. The Bruno Mars song was a surprise this week, Kaitlyn would start to sing the next line before it started, it wasn't words it was like she was humming or saying la la la but the tone and pitch were right. She really loves music! Kaitlyn is also starting to recognize her friends, when we went to playgroup a few weeks ago Kaitlyn said "Eee'Ah" when we pulled up. Adorable!

Bed time has changed to 9pm. Around Christmas Kaitlyn started to stay up late and now it's a battle if we try to get her in bed before 8. So we just let her stay up because it's more time to play with her and love on her after work. She has been going down pretty easy and has been sleeping really soundly through the night since her eye teeth have come in. She has given up her milk before bed over the past week. There have been a couple days recently when I have had to wake Kaitlyn up (which wasn't easy) to get her ready for "school".

Kaitlyn has been very interested in her potty! At Faye's Kaitlyn will go on the potty 2 or 3 times, we try to get her to go at home and most of the time we have been able to get her to go in the morning or when we notice that she has a dry diaper. She is starting to understand that Mommy and Daddy are proud when she goes on the potty. Today we drove to the beach to help my mom move some boxes into the house, when we got there Kaitlyn was dry so I held her on the big potty and she went and then she went again before we left. I am so proud of her she is really getting it. I don't think she is really ready yet but the time is coming!

Kaitlyn has been more interested in movies lately. She really like Beauty and the Beast and has sat through most of the little mermaid and watched despicable me with Mike and Jen tonight.

Kaitlyn is an amazing little girl and I love her so much. She is so much fun! We are taking her back to the little gym starting on Monday and Kaitlyn and Eva are enrolled in soccer this spring, it should be so cute!

18 months

Kaitlyn had her 18 month appointment today.

She is

31" tall
21.2 pounds
and her head is 19"

She is still such a little peanut!

First Haircut

Kaitlyn's first haircut was today! Just a trim to even out her scragglies. Thanks to Karen @ Pagave. She is the best!

Pictues to come

New York, New York

We took Kaitlyn to New York for the first time today. We drove to the Metro Park in NJ and then took a train over. Kaitlyn loved the train rides and the subway. She made A LOT of friends! Who says New Yorkers are grumpy and mean, so many people offered us their seats on the subway because of her.

We went to Ground Zero, passed by central park and the plaza, FAO Shwartz, the Disney store, times square, the m&m store, rockafeller center, s'mac (they have kinds of mac & cheese)for dinner with Auntie Oriana. Then we headed for home.

Shaun got to see the tree lit and I got to go to times square. We know Kaitlyn was too little to remember this trip but Shaun and I made alot of memories today that we will never forget!

Kaitlyn's new things

Kaitlyn is 17 months old. She is busy busy busy and into everything. She is playing with her toys more and will stay entertained for awhile on her own which is great for getting stuff done around the house. She will play with her beads forever, and is still into her baby dolls and coloring! Everytime she sees a peice of paper she starts to say color, color, color. She pats the ground and says here, she wants you to sit and color with her. She will share her crayons with you. Shaun is pretty sure she said her first sentence the other day which was "can I color?".

Kaitlyn can repeat alot of what you say and mimic your tone. New things come out of her mouth every day! She is getting better at peoples names and now when she is crying you can ask her what she wants or what is wrong and she will answer you yes or no. She is addicted to Lollipops or "pops" and M&M's which we have started to call "mores" because Kaitlyn will stant there and point to them and sign and say, more more more. She is all about chicken nuggets, we bought her dino nuggets from BJs and she will shovel them in. It's amazing how much she eats sometimes.

Kaitlyn is getting very good at her animal sounds she knows cat, cow, pig, duck, sheep, dog (she pants instead of saying woof), lion, bear, horse and mouse. She is really enjoying putting things together and taking them apart like her beads and blocks.

We are not sure what Kaitlyn will do this christmas. At friendsmas on Friday Mike & Andrea brought Kaitlyn some presents and she took forever to unwrap them. She pulled off one peice of paper at a time and then took it to the trash can. This could be a VERY long christmas! Kaitlyn did a very good job of sharing at friendsmas. Dante was here and we got to meet little Vinny, and Joey G was here as well. Kaitlyn shared all of her toys and showed them to the boys. She was excellent! Alot better then I expected. OH that reminds me of Friendsgiving, Eva came down to friendsgiving which was at the beach this year so we could enjoy the new completed addition upstairs. When Matt & Jane left with Eva Kaitlyn pointed at the door and just cried because her friend left. it was ADORABLE!

Kaitlyn went to her first movie today. Mommy took her to see Tangled, she was very good for the first 45 mins. The movie was VERY cute but i think it was too new Kaitlyn wanted to play with the aisle lights and causing problems. She seemed very confused about the giant screen. She was better then I expected though. I think that if Shaun and I had both been there it would have been easier to keep her in a seat and watching the movie. Or if it was a Dora or Diego movie she would have sat mezmerized for the whole thing!

Kaitlyn has moved on from Handy Manny and is obsessed with Dora and Diego, she will say both of their names when the show comes on and she rolls her R's when she says Dora it's funny! She did the funiest happy dance the other day when i put on Micky Mouse Club house for her and can point out Minnie Mouse and tell you who she is. She likes Chuggington as well, she really likes Choo Choos.

This year will be Kaitlyn's second christmas. She is more aware of the decorations this year, we put up the tree while she was asleep one night and she came down the next morning and when she saw the tree she rubbed her eyes got a very confused look on her face. She pointed to the tree and looked back at me and asked "tree?". It was too cute. I bought her a Little People Santa set, so she would hopefully recognize Santa. She does recognize him and can point him out in books or toys or on tv. When we took her to see him she waved and pointed and said Santa. I tried to put her on his lap and she lost it! Tears and screaming. The picture is AWESOME! We also took Kaitlyn on the Santa Express with Joey, Shannon & Russ. She loved the train and looked out the window the whole time (I think she liked being able to look out while we were moving instead of being strapped into a car seat). She and Joey had a great time until Santa came to see us, she freaked out again. Poor little Kaitlyn. Hopefully next year she will like him. We are going to try to leave cookies out for Santa this year more for the pictures then for her to understand it. I can't wait for Christmas, I think she is going to be so cute.

That's all for now, more to come soon!

Updates

Kaitlyn is now 16 months old.

She is talking more, both baby babble and actual talking. She will answer most yes and know questions. Do you want some juice? No, Do you want milk? Yes. Do you want to go to bed? Yeah and she heads up the stairs. Do you want more grapes? Yes. Do you want this book? No. This book? Yes

She sings some songs, twinkle twinkle, old macdonald, hop up jump in from Handy Manny. She LOVES to dance. Sometimes I think she is going to loose her mind she has such a good time dancing to the themes for Dora, Word World and Go Diego Go. She likes to dance to almost any music that comes on.

She has been paying very close attention to tv lately. She will sit and just watch a show, where before she would get bored after awhile. She listens to what they are doing on the show too. For example, yesterday she was watching dora and they were saying Shake Shake shake and she was doing the same thing they were doing on tv. She is a very smart little girl.

We are getting better with her paci. She doesn't use it for most of the day, she only really needs it if she gets upset about something or is getting ready to take a nap. I am currently working on getting Kaitlyn to leave her paci in her bed so that she doesn't see it all day and therefor doesn't miss it. So far it's working out well.

Kaitlyn knows the difference between the dogs now, she can point out Dilion, Tyler and Bailey. She loves to give them hugs but doesn't always love the kisses that she gets back. She is getting alot better with petting gently and loving on the dogs. They love their Kaitlyn too.

Kaitlyn now has a real pillow in her bed instead of a boppy. She seems to like it and doesn't miss her boppy. We got her a little travel pillow, it's very sweet to see she snuggles up and falls right to sleep.

Kaitlyn will give you kisses and hugs and blow kisses. She waves hello and good bye. She says HI, bye, when you aske her to say night night she says bye bye. She says dis (this) and dat (that), yes, no, pop (lollipop), kitty kat, woof (dog), she will say boo, moo and quack, choo choo. She says something that sounds like Peek-a-boo and very clearly says I see you. She will mimick alot of things you say including I love you. Which is my personal favorite.

Kaitlyn is growing up very quickly. She loves to play with her baby dolls and pat them and feed them and push them in the stroller. She likes to play with little people and this weekend started to play with choo choos and ask for them. She still loves her kitchen and books. She is starting to like puzles and loves the ball with the shapes that fit inside.

I think I say this every time I update but Kaitlyn is very smart and super sweet! I love that little girl!

Almost 16 months

Tonight as I was putting Kaitlyn to bed she carried her baby to bed, tried to change the babies diaper as I changed hers. Put the baby on her boppy, patted her, cover with a blanket and said “night baby”.

Kaitlyn is such a big girl now! She will be 16 months old next week. She is doing some very fun things; she really understands what we are saying. Shaun was cleaning the basement and she brought him a roll of paper towel, so he told her to bring them all over and put them in a certain spot and she did. She will put things back or put them away, she will go get things you tell her to get. This week she really likes talking on the phone and will talk on any phone and carry it around with her. When she wakes up in the morning she wants to put on my swim cap and goggles which are on my nightstand because I was swimming for a while (it is pretty funny to see).

Kaitlyn has started to tackle her friends; Faye said that she is the bully at daycare which is not good. She grabs Nathan by the shirt and shakes him and yells at him. She fully body tackles Giada. The other day at play group Kaitlyn looked like she was going to hug Eva and then jumped on her! We are going to have to work on being nice to our friends!

Kaitlyn has a play group every other week with some friends that we meet at the Little Gym. Eva and her mom Jane, Ethan and his mom Kelly, Lana and her mom Becky. We have a lot of fun when we go over there and it’s nice to talk to other moms. I am really enjoying spending time with them.

Kaitlyn has almost all of her teeth, her k9s are starting to come in on the top, she has all her top teeth and all 4 molars, she doesn’t have a few teeth on the bottom but I think they might be on their way in as well. I feel like a bad mom sometimes when people ask how many teeth she has and I can’t tell them the answer. It makes her so mad when you try to look at her teeth that she screams and screams so I would rather have a happy baby then know how many teeth she has.

Kaitlyn has gone #1 and #2 on the potty. It was just a coincidence both times that she did it. I noticed that her diaper was dry when I was going to the bathroom so I would sit her on her little pink potty as I went to the bathroom and she has gone. She does like to sit on the potty she is very cute about it. She will learn eventually, no rush but I think that it’s good to give her a chance to go.

She is very happy to see me when I come home from work and likes me to pick me up so she can show me all kinds of things around the house. She has become obsessed with lollipops and knows where we keep them and throws a fit while pointing to them if you don’t give her one.

Kaitlyn is eating all "adult" food or table food, she is done with bottles and drinks out of sippy cups. She isn't the biggest fan of milk but she drinks it before bed and when she wakes up at night, sometimes in the morning. She isn't sleeping through the night consistently but will go back to sleep after some milk. She still has her paci but if you tell her "Kaitlyn give me the paci you are a big girl, big girls don't need paci's" she will give it to you and walk away to go play. She only "needs" it to go to sleep, I am thinking when she is a little older we will try the put the paci's a basket for the paci fairy to take them to babies who need them idea, but i think we are ok for now.

Kaitlyn LOVES to dance. She loves music and noise she is so funny to watch dance and "get down" do her music.

She is saying Mommy, Daddy, bottle, bubble, apple, doggie (comes out dought de), wee when she she comes down the slide, hi, bye, night night, and baby on a constant basis. She will wave and tell you bye bye before she goes to bed. She is a good girl and learning alot everyday.

Kaitlyn is such a big girl now! I can’t believe how fast time has flown by! I know we have many more milestones and wonderful firsts and great memories and I can’t wait to be there for all of them!

Our Baby is a Big Girl

Kaitlyn has been up to a lot recently. She really has become such a big girl!

She is very helpful, she will follow directions. Put this back, give this to daddy, give Bailey a kiss, pick that up please, lets clean up etc. She understands so much. Shaun and I had a conversation last weekend about when we will have to start watching what we say around her so she doesn't repeat it to the wrong person. I can see it now XX mommy and daddy said your a punk. Can't wait for that...(SARCASM). Kaitlyn has been VERY talkative recently. She will talk all day and sometimes just wants to stand there and tell you all about it.

Kaitlyn has moved to a big girl bed over the last two weeks. She has done OK. I know she fell out one night because I heard THUD...CRY. The first week was very easy because she didn't realize she could get out once we put her to bed. This week has been more challenging, you put her in the bed, tell her night night, leave the room and you immediately hear feet hit the ground and crying heading toward the door. I think that teething and not feeling good has played a large part in her not falling asleep/staying asleep as well. But she knows that if she is out of bed and crying we come right into the room, so she uses it to her advantage. Shaun decided to move her to the big girl bed because she is really starting to climb on things and he was afraid she would climb out of bed.

I think my favorite big girl bed story so far was one morning this week Shaun had to get up early to go to a meeting. We ran out of toilet paper in our bathroom and there was none in the hall closet, knowing there was extra in Kaitlyn's bathroom Shaun decided to sneak into the bathroom and get some. He snuck into the room, into the bathroom, shut the bathroom door, turned on the light, got the TP, turned off the light, opened the bathroom door and there is Kaitlyn standing in front of the door looking up at him with the "what do you think you are doing" face. I can only imagine how funny it was to actually be there!

Shaun also turned Kaitlyn's car seat around, so now she is facing forward. She seems to enjoy it, she can see out the window a little bit better and we can talk to her when we turn around. I have a hard time seeing her in my rear view mirror (I think it's because I am so short) I really have to angle it down if I want to see her. Shaun says she dances in her car seat on the way home sometimes. (More on dancing later). Kaitlyn is very good in the car she is pretty content to sit and look out the window. She likes to take her shoes off while we are driving as well, mommies girl!

Kaitlyn is starting to show us all that she has learned. She will sing songs with you. When you sing Old MacDonald she says "E-I-E-I-E" she will woof like the dog and say quack quack for the duck. Sometimes she will do something that resembles a moo. She really likes reading books with animals and making the noises. She will say Kit Cat when we get to Faye's in the morning and point to the cats. She also waves and says Hi to dogs and cats on tv, which is really funny. This weekend Kaitlyn started to spin in circles and sometimes "fall down" when you sing ring around the rosey to her.

Kaitlyn LOVES to dance. She swings her arms, shakes her butt, spins around, wiggles, moves her feet, bounces, squats, sways and claps to the music. I tried to get some good video tonight but she was more interested in the video camera then dancing at that point. You can ask her "Kaitlyn do you want to dance", and she will start dancing right away no music necessary. She does have her favorite songs though. Currently her favorite jams are OMG by Usher, Who let the dogs out, Dynamite by Tao Cruz, and she still loves Follow the Leader by the Soka Boys, but she will "get jiggy" to almost anything.

Other things that Kaitlyn has been doing. She will make you food in her kitchen, she stirs the pot and then feeds it to herself and says UUUMMMM, she also feeds her babies and will share with you if you ask. She pushes her babies around in the little stroller (she is determined when she wants to go somewhere she will find out a way to get around that corner or through that door or through the gate with her stroller). She hugs and kisses her babies and will pat their backs, very cute. She loves playing with her "Little People" she has a school that Eva gave her for her birthday, I was amazed the other day when she put the people in the merry go round and then moved them into the desks, she gets them to fit in the circles where they go with no trouble. It's amazing. We now have a play group of kiddos from the Little Gym, we have our second play date this week.

Kaitlyn is very determined, when she wants to do something she does it! She will throw a mini fit if it doesn't go her way but then takes her time and tries again. Neeno thinks Kaitlyn is going to be an engineer. She is very interested in how things work. She likes to open and shut things, looks at the screws, bolts, connections, figure out how it opens, shuts, folds, fits, feels etc. Sometimes you can see on her face, what happens if I do this. She is such a little explorer.

It is very surreal to look at pictures of Kaitlyn when she was just born and only a few months old and look at how much she has grown and changed. It's already hard to believe she was ever that small when you see a newborn! I had to put away most of her 12 month clothes because she is too long in the torso so they are really stretching to cover her or the head holes were too small and she would SCREAM when you were trying to get them on and off.

Kaitlyn still likes her bath time. She likes the pool (as long as it's not too cold) either her little one in the back yard or a big pool. We took her out on the boat a few weeks ago and while she hated her life jacket she didn't mind the noise of the boat. I can't wait to take her to the beach next week for vacation!

Kaitlyn is growing up so fast! Every smile is precious she won't be this little for long! She is so much fun!

Pictures from the trip to Ohio

Kaitlyn and Daddy at the Splash Park in Ohio.

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July 2010

What does the Doggie say?

Kaitlyn is starting to really interact with the world around her. She picks up on little things that you tell her and ask her. She understands little things, like "can you bring that to mommy", "Show daddy the ducky" and she will do it.

The newest things are:
Kaitlyn what does a doggie say? She will make a noise like blowing air that is definitely "woof woof".
She will also mimic the inflection in your voice and copy you when you say "I love you". Just about melted my heart tonight when Shaun and Kaitlyn did a demonstration tonight.

Our little girl is AWESOME!

Baby's First Road Trip

Kaitlyn went on her first real road trip this 4th of July. We went to Ohio to visit some family that I haven't seen in about 9 or 10 years. It was really nice to get to see all of them and to let Kaitlyn get to know her Mommom Betty & Poppop Fred. Poppop Fred was her BUDDY! She would randomly wander into his office and climb into his lap where they would talk and talk.

Kaitlyn did very well on the 9 hour drive! We had snacks and drinks and DVDs to keep her entertained and we left after dinner on the way out so she slept most of the ride. We left around 4 on the way back which was a little rough because Kaitlyn was awake for more of the ride, she was also very congested and didn't sleep very well. Overall she did very well and is no worse for the wear.

The 4th of July was right we went to Cousin Kathy's farm and got to go on hayride, see the cows babies and all. See the bunny and lots of cats and swim in the pool. Kaitlyn is such a good girl she really just goes with the flow in any situation we throw her into!

Thanks to everyone who made this trip what it was. I would like to do this trip again when Kaitlyn is old enough to remember. Shaun and I had a great time too!

Check up

Kaitlyn had her one year check up on Tuesday she is 18lbs 14oz, 28 3/4
inches and her head is 18".

She only "grew" 3/4 of an inch so we had to measure her twice they
think they might have measured wrong last time because she was so tall
and grew 2 inches from her 6 month check up. That was the only big
news.

She is 10-25% in weight 25-50% in height and her head is in the
50-70%. Dr. V says she is fine very well proportioned.

We can start giving her whole milk, she can have honey and if there
are times when she doesn't want to eat as her growth slows down that
is fine.

Kaitlyn is saying hi, uh-oh, no, mama, dada, sit down, dis (this as
she points), dat (that when pointing), she copies what you say dog,
tree etc but hasn't started to say them on her own. She has started to
say something that sounds like apple or abba not sure what that is.

She is running everywhere and has started to climb things and knows to
turn around and go backwards when getting down. She's getting so big
and so smart! She plays with her toys really well and likes for us to
play with her.

She is so awesome! Love that little monkey!

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!

Happy Birthday big girl! We love you very much and we are very happy that you came into our lives. You make us smile everyday and you fill our lives with laughter. We are so proud to have cute little adorable you as our daughter. Happy Birthday sweetheart! I know you don't understand all of the singing and fuss now but someday you will be able to see how special you are and have been since the say we first saw your little face. You have grown so much but no matter what you will always be my little baby! I love you from the bottoms of your pudgy little feet to the top of your head (where the hair is starting to curl)!