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February Fun

Enjoying a pleasant February afternoon in North Carolina with a walk to the neighborhood playground (and it was Evie’s first wagon ride)…

Jumping on the Potty Train

Many months ago Kaelyn seemed interested in the potty. I bought all the potty gear and let her go when she wanted. I never really “trained” or pushed the issue. Honestly I think *I* was not ready. I was just too busy either being pregnant or taking care of a newborn [...]

Christmas Comparisons

Kaelyn
December 6, 2007 (a little over 3 months old)

Evie
December 5, 2009 (6 months old)

Evie’s Birth Story

Another friend of mine just wrote up her new little baby’s birth story and it reminded me that I never wrote up Evie’s story yet. Better late than never!
Evie’s birth was actually very, very similar to my birth with Kaelyn. My pregnancy with Evie was pretty much the same too except [...]

Fall Fun

Matt has had a couple of days off of work this week (hooray!!). On Thursday just the 4 of us went to the Durham Museum of Life and Science which is always a fun day. Kaelyn loves visiting the new dinosaur exhibit there and seeing the bugs. The new surprise this visit [...]

Our Girls

So this post might be a little lengthy since I have failed to update for the past couple of months. Things have been crazy busy around here.
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Evie
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Baby Evie is almost 4 months old already!! She is a little mover and shaker. She is so curious about everything and always so [...]

A Day of Firsts

We woke up yesterday to just another normal Saturday which quickly turned into a day of firsts for Kaelyn.
In the morning we decided to go strawberry picking. I was a little nervous that Kaelyn would just want to run right through the plants, be more interested in bugs, or try to eat [...]

A Naming Story

We have had a difficult time choosing a name for baby girl #2. In the beginning we just couldn’t seem to agree on any names. Finally we narrowed the list down to two names – one was Matt’s favorite and one was my favorite. How would we ever decide? We took [...]

Business

Seeing that Kaelyn is only 19 months old we haven’t really started doing anything proactive in terms of potty training yet. I just didn’t think she was exhibiting all of the signs yet of “being ready.” She does have a little pink potty chair and a couple of books about going to the [...]

New Pictures

We added some new pictures tonight…
Easter 2009
April 2009
March 2009
Also created a new album for baby #2 which includes weekly shots of my belly. You can compare baby girl #2 belly shots to my belly shots with Kaelyn if you are really bored.

Overdue Updates

I really should try to do a better job updating our blog here. There are so many impressive and funny things that Kaelyn does and I should share them with our loyal readers as well as have it be a little record book for my own memory (which is notoriously horrible).
Kaelyn is [...]

ABCs

Kaelyn may have been a “late” walker, but she sure hasn’t wasted anytime learning her alphabet. She’s been doing this for a few weeks now. She can also do her numbers from 0-9. We’ll get a video of that soon.
Without further ado, here is Kaelyn Rose at 18 months saying [...]

Go, Go, Go!

Kaelyn is a pretty big football fan. Anytime she sees football on tv she does a little arm pump and yells “Go, Go, Go!” It’s daggum’ cute.
We always let her choose a few books from her shelf to read before nap time and bed time. Lately her two favorite [...]

Seriously Outnumbered

That’s what Matt is now that he is going to have a house with three girls! Me, Kaelyn, and our yet-to-be-named baby

GIRL!!!!

I’ve neglected to post much lately, especially about the fact that we are having another baby, but I figured most of our readers knew about that already. We had our ultrasound today [...]

She Did It!

After 16.5 months Kaelyn is finally walking!!!!
Around mid-October last year Kaelyn would stand and take 3 or 4 steps occasionally. She did that for a few weeks and then completely stopped. She hasn’t seemed interested in trying to walk at all since then. She would walk as long as she was holding [...]

II EE and other fun noises

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 [...]

Babies vs. Adults

For the most part, babies love creating noise and in general adults like eliminating noise. Here’s a couple of stories to prove my theory.
Squeeeeek No More – this is one of the BEST products ever invented. If you have any squeaky spots in your floor, please spend the $20 for this [...]

August 27

Exactly one year ago today I was almost dilated to 10 cm and my life was being changed forever. At 5:45pm we welcomed into the world Kaelyn Rose.

It’s been the most amazing year of my life. It’s hard to even remember how life was without her.

Happy Birthday Kaelyn [...]

Quick Update

Kaelyn is doing all kinds of cute new things lately. She is definitely working on her verbal skills. If you ask her “What does a doggie say?” she will answer “Arf, arf, arf”. Also when someone says “Bye” she will throw her little hand up and wave and say “Bye!”
Also, [...]

Sunday Evening Thoughts

My new lullaby for Kaelyn. To the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (obviously).

Twinkle, twinkle you’re my star
And I love you just the way you are
With your big, bright eyes of blue
I could kiss all over you
Twinkle, twinkle you’re my star
And I love you just the way you are

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Today at Ultimate we were [...]