8 months a Daddy

Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers out there!  Especially to Curtis Connors and Don Sproul, who are wonderful dad's and father in laws to us and WONDERFUL Grandpas to Kaylee!

But most of all I would like to say Happy Fathers Day to my wonderful husband Kevin.  He is such a great dad and has such a great time with Kaylee.  I know that he looks forward every day to see Kaylee when he gets home from work.  He loves to play with her and see her accomplishments.  He is so proud of her and feels so blessed to have her in his life!  Here is some pictures of the two of them together!

Kaylee sure loves her daddy!  I love them both!!

And on another note, for your viewing pleasure:

"I'm not a laundry, I'm a (Kaylee)"

So one of my favorite stories of me as a kid was when I was hiding in the laundry basket.  My mom saw me and pretended she didn't noticed and went on doing laundry as normal.  I then exclaimed, "I'm not a laundry!  I'm a Cindy!"  Very cute!  So I found this to be a fun and easy way to change the laundry loads while Kaylee is awake.

She makes everyday life 100% better.  :-) 

First time at the Zoo

Kevin and I had been to the zoo a long ways back when my niece Paisley was a baby and we were childless.  But for Mother's Day Kevin bought me Zoo passes!!  SO HAPPY!  So last Saturday we took Kaylee to the zoo for the first time.  Of course she hung out in her stroller and drank a bottle not paying too much attention to the animals, but it was super fun!  I love walking around the zoo.  I could have stayed there longer but since we have passes and Kevin has a bad back, we headed back after about 2 hours.  Here is a few pictures of our zoo adventure!

 Me and Kaylee ready to go into the Zoo

 I love her dress!  It reminds me so much of the zoo!  Flamingo!

 Daddy and Kaylee with the flamingos in the zoo! 

 Of course we had to drop by and visit by brother!

 There he is.  Swimming happily in the water!  Too bad we missed his show.  We will catch it another day!

To clear the confusion since clearly I am not a seal myself, my family has many inside jokes.  They all have odd stories.  This one starts without me.  My family (minus me who was living in Joshua Tree, CA at the time) all went to Sea World in San Diego where there was a show called Fools with tools.  It was a Sea Lion/ Seal show.  Charlie and Dad then started calling it Charlie with tools or Dad with tools.  Then somehow that turned into one of them being a Seal.  I side with my dad on this one.  For it is Charlie who is a seal.  I know, it is weird.  But very entertaining for us.  Anyway, it was a perfect day and we had so much fun!  Looking forward to many fun trips to the zoo this year!

Couldn't Resist!

These pictures are from a week or two ago but I realized it was June and I needed to put my pictures on the computer.  I gave her frozen cubes of pureed prunes in the mesh feeder.  Such a mess!  She loves prunes!  Which is good because we have been having poo issues.  Anyway, ENJOY!

Who could resist this face!  And that HAIR!  I love her cute hair!  Long and strait!  Hope it stays that way for her sake!  My hair is crazy.  She gets it from Kevin!

7 month pictures

I took Kaylee to our apartment park for the first time.  Just to try out the swing and take some pictures.  The pictures didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, but they are still cute. 

Love this girl!  I can't believe that 7 months has gone by so fast!

7 months a mom

I wrote this a week ago, awaiting a photo that I am going to take, but blogger was down and I have yet to take the photo.  I will post the photo on another day or post:

Two things happened in the last few days, Mothers Day and Kaylee turning 7 months old!  I had the BEST mothers day.  Kevin made a weekend out of it making me dinner and brownies, doing chores around the house (and I mean big chores like moving an old couch out of the apartment almost all by himself during my nap), and best of all ZOO PASSES!  But what I really want to talk about is being a mother.  When Kevin and I decided to start a family I was both nervous and excited.  But when we finally got pregnant, it wasn't long before that chance was taken from us.  I am so glad that Kaylee stayed healthy in my belly and healthy outside my belly so we could enjoy her presence.  She is such a blessing to us and I feel so happy to be a mom!  So mothers day was so special to me because I was able to celebrate this wonderful eternal calling I have to be a mom.  I am so glad it is forever!

A lot has gone on for Kaylee this month too!  Here are some of the things she can do:
-She can sit up by herself for a long(ish) period of time.  She has even gotten that way on her own before!
-She is really starting to move, and by move I mean crawling.  It isn't the typical baby crawl yet but it is half inch worm, half army man and sometimes a few normal crawls put together.  :-)
-She went on her first flight.  It didn't go horribly, although at times it was rather challenging.
-She got her first tooth in San Diego, and her second tooth last week!!  They are becoming more and more prominent every day. 
-I am pretty sure she is starting to say mama!!  Oh please!  It would make me SO happy!
-She is eating more and more foods, the latest being green beans.  The only food that she kind of cringes at.  She does love her apples and prunes.  I love making her baby food!  It is cheaper and I find it really easy to make.  Except home made rice cereal.  That I am not good at.
-She laughs more and loves to be around people.

I love being a mom and I love watching Kaylee grow up!  She is my little princess and she always will be!

San Diego Part 2

 I think it was the Thursday we were out there that my sister Claudia, Kevin, and I all went to Sea Port villiage while my mom babysat the babe.  I freakin LOVE that place!  Kevin got Kaylee a Penguin toy and we looked at the amazing hammock shop.  That shop IS our future I swear!  They have a hammock that can fit like 6 people!

 Aunt Claudia (Kaylee's Aunt Claudia) LOVED spending time with her neice and telling her that she was the champion of the world!  She is such a wonderful aunt!

 Later on that Thursday we got to see my cousin MARIA!  We went and saw her in action teaching a guitar ensemble group and she met Kaylee!  It was seriously amazing!    You can check out their facebook page HERE if you live in the San Diego area and are thinking about putting your kids in lessons.

Later that night we went to Denny's with Maria, her husband Tim, Claudia, Me and Kevin.  SO fun we had such a great time talking like the old days. 

 This is a random picture of Kaylee in the pac n play my parents bought for her visit!  It is SO cute!  It is winnie the poo and has a little mobile!
 We are so grateful for my parents generosity!  They made our trip so much smoother and less stressful!  They also bought a convertible car seat, and an umbrella stroller (that matched the pac n play by the way). 

 On the Saturday, we went over to my Aunt Claudia and Uncle David's house.  My twin cousin Shannon came over to meet my little girl and catch up a bit with me and I think Kaylee loved her too!

 Above is my WONDERFUL Aunt Claudia and Uncle David!  I am SO glad that I was able to go and see them while I was there!  I love those guys!

 My cousin Andrea also came home while we were there and got to hang out with us!  She even helped Kaylee walk across the room which we did not know that she was capable of doing that!  The things you learn!  Awesome! 

 KAYLEE'S FIRST EASTER!  The Easter Bunny came and brought treats for all of us!  The Easter Bunny and my mom worked together literally as one to put together this wonderful table of gifts!  Thanks guys! ;-)

This is my little girl opening her first basket!  She got some REALLY cool things!  She got a bunny hat, an Easter book from the movie HOP, a pink hippo, some bendy bunnies and a pack of CDS called 150 toddler favorites.  The CDs also have printable activites on them!  Kaylee and I have listened to the first two CDs so far and I have to say it is fun and at times hilarious.  Now for your viewing pleasure: