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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!