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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 [...]

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 tool. I promise [...]

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 – I love you more [...]

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, if you say “Tada!” [...]

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 [...]

Isle of Palms

Kaelyn and I went on our 2nd beach vacation of the year to the Isle of Palms, SC. Since we’d already been on vacation once Matt couldn’t join us again for this one. We missed him lots but we had tons of fun! We went with Matt’s parents, aunt/uncle, and cousins. There were 14 of [...]

When The Stars Align

Saturday morning we woke up and realized we had nothing at all scheduled for the entire day – a small miracle these days. As “Family Fun Coordinator” Matt put me up to the task of coming up with something fun for our free day. I checked the weather forecast and saw the second miracle of [...]

Parenting and other stuff

I’m excited that our church, Crosspointe, is doing a sermon series on parenting. Yesterday was the introductory message and I think the series will be excellent. I’m particularly excited because this is my first parenting series since becoming a parent myself. The messages are posted weekly on the church website if anyone out there is [...]

Kaelyn Updates

Seems this has been an exciting week for Kaelyn (and us). Here’s a list of new things she’s started doing recently… SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT!!! – I didn’t want to get my hopes up right away, but after the most difficult week of my life of CIO (crying it out, for all the non-parents out [...]

Nine Months

Kaelyn is nine months old today. That means she has been out almost as long as she was in! Here’s a few new things she is up to… She is crawling all over the place now. She has adopted the “army style” crawl for now. She pulls up on things sometimes as long as they [...]

Catching up

I realize it has been a while since I wrote a blog with Kaelyn updates. Seems our life stays pretty busy these days. I’m sure she is doing lots of new things since my last post, but it’s hard for me to remember them all. I’ll try to list a few… She has eaten ALL [...]

Funeral Green Beans

My great-grandmother, Eunice Evelyn Keown, passed away this past Monday at the ripe old age of 96. Kaelyn and I were able to make the trip to SC to attend the funeral services. It was such an honor to know my great-grandmother as long as I did and to be able to celebrate in her [...]

Happy St. Patty’s Day

This blog really has nothing to do with St. Patrick’s Day, but I thought I’d send you a holiday greeting anyway. I did manage to dress both Kaelyn and myself in something green today. Speaking of green, we planted our first tree this past weekend. Well, it was actually about a week long process because [...]

New Do

These aren’t the best pictures ever, but at least you get the idea of my new do. I like it! What do you think? (click thumbnails for a bigger image) BEFORE AFTER

A few quick thoughts

Kaelyn’s new accomplishments the past few days: rolling over from back to tummy (now she can roll both directions!) picking up her legs in a walking fashion when you hold her arms so she can “walk” around saying the “ma ma” sound frequently (gah! – it melts my heart) She hasn’t been eating her solids [...]

Zippity Do Da

One thing Matt and I have learned is that Kaelyn will eat her solid foods better when you get her attention by singing lots of songs. I have remembered so many childhood songs that have been buried in the back corners of my mind such as “Zippity Do Da” and Matt thinks of songs like [...]

A Note For The 30-Something in the House

Happy Birthday Daddy! We love you!!

Staples in My Mailbox

Wow, I can’t believe Kaelyn is going to be 5 months old tomorrow. Time gets faster each month. She is doing so many new things including sitting up by herself now. She starting sitting pretty well around the beginning of January and has steadily improved every day, and now she sits quite a while. The [...]

I’m Still Here

I heard there was a request out for me to post a blog, so here it is! My life pretty much revolves around Kaelyn these days, hence the lack of time for blogging. Kaelyn is about 4.5 months old now and is growing and changing everyday. Matt has been posting some of her achievements such [...]

Two Months

Our little love bug is now two months old and growing like a weed! It has been so much fun this past month watching her little personality really start to shine through. She loves to be talked to and sung to. She will just laugh and smile and “talk” along with you. I really think [...]