The World Needs More Ninjas

Kaelyn’s loves onomatopoeias. Here’s a list of some of her sounds…

II EE (in a squealing fashion, for a monkey)
Arf, arf, arf (usually for a dog, but sometimes for a bird too)
Roooaaarrr (tiger)
Room, room (kind of a grunting noise really, for a car)
uck, uck (duck, not sure if she is trying to say duck or trying to quack)
eeeooowww (cat)

She does a few baby signs now. The most common is an arm sweeping motion that she uses in her high-chair when she is “all done” eating. She recently started doing the sign for butterfly which is super cute. She can also recognize and point to a few body parts: nose, hair, her whole self, and bellybutton.

She loves to climb…up and down the stairs, up and down off the couch, up on the dishwasher (when it’s open), and up and down the inside of the refrigerator. The other day I had the fridge open while I was busy cooking dinner. She usually plays with the bottles in the door. On this particular day she was climbing up onto the fridge and she had found a bowl at the back of the bottom shelf. This bowl contained watermelon and was covered in saran wrap. She had managed to pull the bowl to the front of the shelf and take off the saran wrap, and there I found my little lady very proudly eating some juicy watermelon.

She is so enthralled with the world. She is always making her mouth into this little “O” shape and she points at everything and says “oooohhh” like she is in such amazement. She loves seeing her baby friends, airplane, food, her wagon, and the list goes on. She will just get so excited and point and “ooohhh”. One of her favorite things right now is candy corn. I try not to let her have too many pieces each day, but every time she sees me having a piece of course she wants one too. I guess she is doing a good job of making sure I don’t eat too much candy.

I’m sure I could go on for pages about Kaelyn, but I do have a couple of other Miller news items. One very exciting thing is we just got a new tv last week. Now this is very exciting because our previous tv is literally the tv I got from Santa when I was in the 5th grade. It still works, but everything is kind of green. Our new tv is a big, shiny, flat kind with HDTV. It’s amazing how much better everything on tv looks. I had to call Matt into the living room the first night we had it because I was so excited about how pretty the colors were on “Wheel Of Fortune”, haha. Matt has really been enjoying watching football on the new tv all weekend.

Also last week I decided to start a part-time job for a company called Freedom Managers. It is a completely work-from-home job and very flexible. I hadn’t been looking for a job, but this opportunity came up and it seemed like too good to pass up without at least trying it out. I just worked on my first job assignment this weekend and I think it went really well. I’m excited about doing a little professional work again and making some extra spending $$$.

We went to SC a couple of weekends ago for my high school reunion. It was really great to catch up with some old friends. I also got to take Kaelyn to her first Clemson home game with my brother and my friends Lisa and Michelle. We also had a bunch of family and friends over one afternoon to have a mini-birthday party for Kaelyn since most of my extended family couldn’t come to her big party in August. It was a busy but very fun weekend.