Christmas Fun 2009

This Christmas season was great! The Wednesday before Christmas we went to Peacock Lane with some friends. It was very cold but the lights were neat to see. Then we drove to Astoria to my family there Christmas Eve and then back home Christmas morning. KaeLynn got a lot of fun things and actually did really well opening her presents! KaeLynn is really getting better with her walking. She is becoming very independent. It was nice to see family but I am glad the holiday stress is over!! Now lets get ready for the NEW YEAR!

KaeLynn is Walking!

KaeLynn is actually walking now! Yippee!!!! She started taking a few steps last week and is now really feeling confident. I can tell now that she actually wants to walk. Before she never showed any interest in it. I am so proud of her! I am looking forward to all the adventures walking will bring us.

Update on walking

Monday night I was in the kitchen cooking dinner when KaeLynn was in a bear crawl position. She then slowly took her hands off the floor and lifting her upper body up into a standing position. Nothing holding her up but herself! This is big progress for her! The rest of this week she has been repeating this over and over again! She hasn't really taken any more steps on her own, but this is good progress towards it! Good Job KaeLynn!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

This Thanksgiving we drove up to Astoria to visit my family there for a few days. It was great to be with them and we had a great time!This is Grandpa playing with KaeLynn. She kept do sign language for "more" every time her grandpa stopped playing with her. It was so cute.

Uncle Andy snuggling with KaeLynn.

KaeLynn was not sleeping well for her naps and was getting very VERY grumpy. I couldn't take it any more so yes, I turned on the TV to make her quiet. It worked! When she saw the kitty on the screen she couldn't help but say Kitty Kitty!

This is my baby sister Abby. She could not get enough of KaeLynn. Abby loved to hold her and play with her the whole time she was there! It was great to see every one!

KaeLynn's first step

Tonight Cavan and I were passing KaeLynn back and forth between us to see if she would take a step and she did! She is 13 months old (almost 14 months). The first try we did it I passed her off to Cavan and let go and she easily took a few steps to him. Then she took a few steps back to me! I couldn't believe it! After that she wouldn't do it any more and just wanted to play. Just last Monday she finally got enough courage to walk with us holding only one of her hands. She had been to scared before and would just drop to the floor if we let go. She is definitely making progress and I am so proud of her! This was the only photo I could get. It all happened so fast and then she was done.

Happy Haloween!

This year KaeLynn was a sunflower. We went around our neighborhood with our good friends Trish and Ava while Cavan stayed home and passed out candy. It was so cute when Kaelynn would see her friend Ava knock on a door (she is two years old) and then KaeLynn would put her hand up to the door and do her version of knocking. It was pretty cute. KaeLynn just loves her pumpkin pale that carries her candy. She has no idea what candy is, but she loves playing with it. She will dump it all out and then put it back in her bucket over and over again. Cavan and I just laugh while we eat her candy that she got for us! :)

Carving pumkins

KaeLynn's very own pumpkin. I tried to carve a puppy but it didn't turn out. Now I am not sure what it is, but it is a carved pumpkin and that is all that matters.

Here is mom's pumpkin right next to hers. Mine is just a silly Halloween face.And yes this is Cavan's pumpkin. You are not being deceived... This is truly a butt crack pumpkin. For all our family who truly knows Cavan, knows that he has a weired thing with butts. For all of our friends who just now found this out, I am sorry.


KaeLynn wanted nothing to do with the pumpkin guts. Silly girl, sometimes I wonder about her :)

Hood River 2009

This Saturday we went back to Hood River to enjoy another year of fall festivities. It was an absolutely perfect day. The weather, our family, the food, and the smells (food and fresh air :) all made the day so perfect.Here is a picture of our precious pumpkins (including the kids)!She was very interested in the dirt on the pumpkin.

There were so many good pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. This year KaeLynn could actually play in the patch. Last year she was only a little over a month old and didn't do much.Oh yes bring on the cider... This is fresh squeezed apple cider made right there. They literally squeeze the apples with a machine put in the jug and hand it to you! Yum Yum!KaeLynn and her cousin found some cool tractors to play on.

Here is KaeLynn on the hay ride. She was such a good girl and we had so much fun together as a family! I can't wait to go again next year.

Family Photos 2009

We just had our family pictures taken at a really nice park in Hillsborro. The setting was perfect if only it didn't rain! It was pouring with thunder and lightning! Yikes. We finally found a undercover spot where we took most of our pictures. They still turned out great and I am very happy with them.

On Wednesday morning my mom left to drive back to her home town, Brunswick Georgia. It was very sudden, but needed. She is starting a new chapter in her life and is going back to school. I will miss her terribly, but I know that this is the time that she wants to spend with her mother and find herself. The Sunday before she left I took my mother to the temple tours that were going on and it was a beautiful day! The weather could not have been more perfect. I also learned a lot of fun facts about the temple. After the tour my mom and I sat by the water on the temple grounds and talked. I learned a lot about her that I didn't know. It was definitely a great memory of my mom and I. I'm so excited for her and I can't wait until I can see her again. Good Luck MOM!

KaeLynn's 1 year stats

I wanted to have a record of my sweet girl and how big she is at one year. At her one year check up she weighed 21lbs 7oz. She is 29 1/4 inches tall. She had to get 4 shots to get caught up on her immunizations. It was absolutely horrible! I'm glad she won't need her next vaccinations until she is 15 months old. She now has 6 teeth with 3 baby molars starting to break through (which has been awful). She does say a few words: She definitely knows Daddy and knows who he is. She has developed a habit to say Daddy! to whoever walks through the door (even me). She will only say momma mom, mom when she wants to eat what I am eating. She says Up, Hi, Doogie, Exy (lexy). She also knows how to wave Bye Bye with her palm facing her and her fingers up and down (like she is waving to herself). She is not walking yet but will walk with her cute little baby stroller. She is very picky with her food and has to try something new a hundred times before she decides she will eat it. She doesn't like weired textures of food and and if she feels it with her hands and it feels different she is instantly turned off. She is officially weaned from nursing and is now drinking whole milk. We are now working on getting her to take the milk from the sippy cup instead of the bottle. Our goal is to be done with the bottle by 14 months. She is just a bundle of joy and we love every bit of her!

Rest In Peace Lexy Girl

Our sweet Lexy passed away Friday morning. It was completely heartbreaking and unexpected. She had been sick with what we thought was another food allergy because she has developed them a few times before, but this was much more. We took her to the vet Thursday morning and the vet thought the same thing and we went home. A few hours later Lexy started having seizures so I took her right back in. They kept her overnight with an IV for fluids. When the morning came her organs had failed and she was gone. It was the hardest thing to hear that Lexy was not coming home. She was such a big part of our lives and she will be missed greatly. She was everything I wanted in a dog and KaeLynn's best friend. She brought so much joy into our lives and she will never be forgotten. We love and miss her terribly.