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Christmas Letter 2011

Dear Friends and Family, We hope this letter finds you well. We have had a fun-filled and busy year with much energy devoted to raising our two beautiful daughters, Kaelyn (who turned 4 in August) and Evie (who turned 2 in June). Some highlights for the girls were their first trip to the circus, a [...]

Fun Run

I’m copying this blog I wrote for the MealBaby blog here for you to enjoy too. ——————– I am a runner and I love that my children seem to love running as well. They will put on a watch and run around the house as if they are running a race. Sometimes they’ll even put [...]

Halloween Montage

The girls had several opportunities to dress-up this year for Halloween festivities. For each event they picked an outfit out of their dress-up box so we had many different costumes this year. Why pick just one when you can be something different every day? The first day was a festival at Matt’s work. I forgot [...]

When You Wish Upon A Star

Bedtime conversation with Kaelyn: “Mommy, I wish a wishing star would go by so that I could wish for these things: I wish I could tie ribbons, I wish I could live at Caroline’s house, I wish I could have all the other princess dresses, and I wish I could stand on top of the [...]

One Year!

Evie’s birthday is still a couple of days away, but I thought it was close enough to go ahead and wish her happy birthday here on the blog! This year has been very busy and gone by so fast – I can’t believe my little baby is a year already (sniff, sniff). We had Evie’s [...]

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 to also think about [...]

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 I didn’t have [...]

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 was that Kaelyn [...]

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. ========== Evie ========== Baby Evie is almost 4 months old already!! She is a little mover and shaker. She is so curious about everything and always so wide [...]

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 all the [...]

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 polls, asked our friends [...]

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 potty but [...]

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 now 19 [...]

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 all the letters of [...]

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 picks have been books from [...]

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 on to [...]