Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Big girl! (Long post!!)

It is still hard to say that Kelsey is a year old! Weird! But it is oh so fun! It seems like she is learning new things everyday and she is really starting to show who she is. So this post is dedicated to her! But most of them are already ;)

Kesley is full of personality. She is always making funny noises and faces. Like a screeching noise and this throaty noise. I don't know how she discovers some of the sounds she makes but it is cute. She likes to pretend laugh which makes me laugh for real. She loves to be chased. And she loves chasing Mom or Dad. She laughs hysterically! She thinks it is really funny when I make faces at her when she is eating. She is usually pretty happy! Except when I am in the kitchen trying to get food ready and she is too hungry to take it! I just bought some leap frog fridge magnets which she really enjoys. So far it has helped. It makes me happy! She loves her food! She would eat all day long I think if I let her. Of course her favorite is pretty much any kind of pasta. She doesn't like mashed potatoes though which I think is kind of odd. But she likes pretty much anything else though. Lol.

Her favorite toys are her little blocks, rings, little cars, balls, and her dollies. Her favorite colors are blue and green. It is true. She has favorite colors. She prefers her blue and green balls over the others, her blue and green blocks over the others, and her blue and green rings over the others as well. I think she just knows what she wants! She likes to kiss her babies, feed them with spoons, and with a bottle. She even gives them hugs and rocks back and forth. It is is really, really cute! She loves to dance and wiggle and move. I always find her moving back and forth to any kind of sound it seems. Some days more than others. I have to get this girl in some dance classes when she is old enough! It is just a must! She likes anything that makes noise. Doesn't matter what is is. My favorite thing that she does right now is how she goes into her room and reads her books. She will stand up and pull them out of her little shelf and flip through the pages or just make a mess. She sits in there so quiet and just looks. Sometimes she gets mad if she can't turn a page or the book is over with. When she gets to the end of a book she whines. I turn it back to the beginning and she is fine. Silly girl. She makes me laugh. 

She loves fabric and blankets! Just loves blankets! Especially hers. She goes crazy over it. She chews on it and needs to be washed a lot. It is so fragile though I am afraid it is going to get ruined and then I will be in trouble! It is crocheted and I have to wash it in the tub and then air dry without it being hung. Makes it hard because it takes so long to dry and it is hard for her to sleep sometimes if she doesn't have it. She likes to put it in on her face. I have found that she likes any kind of blanket that is crocheted. She likes the feel of it. I recently made her a little fort. I just put two blankets over a card table and put it by the sliding door so she can look out the window and crawl under the blankets. She loves it. She has her dolls in there and her favorite toys. She loves it when I come sit in there with her and play with her baby dolls. 

Kelsey has discovered the wipe box! More than once I have forgotten to put it up and she has pulled out multiple wipes! Actually she just did it again.....This time she opened the entire thing somehow. Not just the top. They don't fold back together so well anymore. haha. I made her a something similar though that she plays with sometimes. Just a bunch of scrap fabric that I tied together and put in the wipe box. Then she can pull out fabric and I don't care! She really likes the keyboard. Too much. So we got down an old one we don't use so she can pound on that one instead. She likes the piano too and gets mad whenever she has to stop playing on it. Kelsey really likes sesame street. I try to limit the amount of tv she watches. Sometimes she will watch dinosaur train right before but mostly just sesame street. Then I can make her breakfast and get my hair done and all is good! The rest of the day I like to play music on the laptop. Sesame street pandora is a fun one. Just in case anyone was interested =)

Of course Kelsey loves bath time too. I recently started putting more bubbles in the tub. At first she was afraid of them! haha! But she has warmed up to them now and she even tried to eat them. Gross. She is a hands on kinda girl but I don't know what kind of little kids doesn't like that. She loves getting her pictures taken and she always smiles for it. She still has 6 teeth. 4 on top. 2 on bottom. It hasn't changed for a bit. She did like 7 or 8 steps the other day! Some days she is interested. Some days not so much. She still chases me around whenever she can. It will be so much nicer when she can walk and follow me. She always wants to be picked up and held. But she is really good when she needs to be. She really likes other little kids. She loves to watch and play with them. I am glad that she likes to do that. It will be good for the future. It is good for now too though! She also really likes dogs!! Whether she sees them in real life or tv. If she hears it bark she just starts to laugh and gets super excited!! One day we will get a dog. I wish we could now but we wouldn't be able to afford it. But one day, she will be loving that dog! 

She can sign please really good. She used to sign more but now she just does please. haha! Oh well. And if you haven't seen my video of her saying touchdown, you should watch it! Her first words! We are so proud!! haha! It kinda shocked me. And the fact that I got it on video makes it even more awesome. She has said it like 3 times but now whenever we say "Touchdown!" she just looks at us and smiles like it is some kind of joke. She has also been working on eating with a spoon by herself. The food has to be sticky though. So far we have done oatmeal and yogurt pretty good. She can dip her spoon in the yogurt and then put it in her mouth. She does so good! With the oatmeal I just put it on her spoon and put it in her hand and she puts in her mouth. She is so big! =) Love that girl!



Alright. I am sure I could go on and on and on! (Like I haven't already right?) But I will leave it as this. I guess this is more for me than anyone else. I don't blame anyone if they didn't finish this post. It looks long! I do love my little girl more than anything though. She is my life and she makes me completely happy! She is so fun and happy and I just love her!








Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Happy Birthday Kelsey!

You read it right! Kelsey turned 1 year old!! Is she seriously considered a toddler now? Can't be! She is still my little babe! A cute little babe too! The best thing about her being one you ask? No more nursing! I am a free woman! =D Took her to the Dr yesterday for her 1 year check up. Here are her stats:

Length- 28.5 in.
25th percentile

Weight- 18.5 lbs
10th percentile

Head- 17 in
5th percentile

Since her last apt she hasn't gained any weight. But I am not sure if it is completely accurate. They weighed her with Trent and then just Trent alone and figured out the weight that way. Why they did that I am not sure. At her WIC apt a couple weeks ago they said she was 17 lbs with no clothes. So right now I am kinda confused. lol. I do not believe WIC because before she was 18.5 lbs. So ya.....She was kinda not feeling well the week of her apt so maybe she just lost a little weight. Who knows. Either way she is still my little munchkin. She is pretty petite. When I was a year old I weight 17 lbs so she will probably just be a little shorty like her mama.

Anyway back to Kelsey's birthday! =D What a fun and exciting day! I was way more excited than anyone I think. I made pancakes for her breakfast and we got pizza for lunch. She seemed to like it pretty well. Who doesn't? And her dinner was awesome too. Spinach noodles with pesto sauce and chicken. Lucky girl! Her party was so fun. My sister-in-law Mallorie and my brother James made Kelsey's cake. Ever since Kelsey was little she has had a Raggedy Anne doll that my Grandma gave her. She liked it so much that I bought a bigger Raggedy Anne and Raggedy Andy for her. So I knew her cake had to be Raggedy Anne! Just hadda! Mallorie is so talented and they did a great job. It is the best cake I have ever seen! And it was soo yummy! I loved every thing about it =) I made a little "I Love You" cake for Kelsey because Raggedy Anne has a candy heart that says that. If you ever see a doll and lift up her dress (I know it sounds weird!) you will see the little heart that says "I Love You". Pretty cute. We had a lot of my family come over and she opened her presents which she enjoyed. She likes tissue paper best. She got a bunny from my grandma from build a bear, a mickey mouse doll from my the James family, clothes from my mom and baby crocs, and more cute clothes from the rest of the fam. Trent and I got her a book of first words and a Disney princess baby doll. It is Belle and she loves it. She got two other dollys for Christmas too that she likes to push around in the buggy that we also gave her for her birthday. It was mine when I was little and she likes it way better than the walker we got her for Christmas. Then we had cake! Kelsey loved it! =) That's my girl! At first she looked at us like "is this ok?" She played with the frosting for a minute and kept trying to give it to me. Then we cut into the cake a little bit and she dug right in! Cutie!!!! It was a lot of fun and I am so grateful for everyone that came and enjoyed it with us!
This last Sunday we celebrated again with the Caudles. She didn't eat cake this time but she did enjoy opening her presents. She got some really cute clothes! =) I am glad that she has so many family members that love her. She is one lucky, loved girl! =) So that was her birthday. I will do another post of her favorite things and things that she has done lately in another post. I don't want to make this too long where people won't want to read it! But it is already past that.......













Welcome Dallas!

On Dec. 6th my brother Justin and wife, Summer had their baby boy! Kelsey's first Kelly cousin! And my first Kelly nephew! I was so excited! And so was Kelsey! He is such a cute little boy and I cannot wait for him and Kelsey to play together someday. Love that little boy! Congrats Justin and Summer! =D


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Christmas


At our church Santa came to visit. So I decided that I would just have Kelsey sit on that Santa's lap instead of going to a crazy mall or something. Let's just say Kelsey did not have it! Of course. What little kid loves Santa? None that I really can tell of. Haha! But at least I got a photo with Santa.


We went down Peacock Lane this year of course like we do every year. I was really excited for Kelsey to see all the lights. She really likes lights and I thought for sure she would love it. Unfortunately we set out a little late and Kelsey fell asleep before we got there. We put her in the stroller and walked around while she slept. I was sad she was sleeping! Then right when we finished she woke up! I almost wanted to walk down it again! Oh well. At least I have next year to look for!

This year a week before Christmas we found out Trent's Dad had to go into the hospital. He was having some pain in his chest. Turns out he was very close to having a heart attack and that he needed to have a triple bypass surgery 3 days before Christmas. It was a very stressful and emotional time for us all and we are so glad that Dave went in when he did so that nothing serious happened. The surgery went well and we were all able to visit him in the hospital and know that he was doing well. I hope that he will recover quickly. So grateful that is doing better now. It made me too emotional having him in the hospital! But it really made me feel the Christmas spirit even more. Family is so important to me and it really reminded me of that. We had a little Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and then went to the hospital and did a little Christmas program with the kids.It was so sweet and it made me teary eyed. I hate crying in front of people! But the nurses were crying and it was just hard not to.

This year it was my family's turn for Christmas. James and Mallorie were able to come for Christmas this year too! It was good to have everyone together for Christmas. They were able to be here for a week which was awesome. It is always sad to see them go.












Family Pictures

I wanted to go out and take some family pictures since Kelsey was almost one. So we took my camera and had my Mom take some pics for us at a park nearby. They turned out pretty cute! I love my family =D






 

Fall

Wow. It has been a while since I have posted. Ever since Trent has started working grave yard I haven't had a chance to blog since he takes the lap top to work with him. I like to blog at night while Kelsey sleeps. I finally convinced Trent to take our old one to work with him so I could have this one with all the pictures =) So here is to a good blogging session. I hope....

Halloween was fun this year. I can't wait til next year because Kelsey will almost be 2! I am sure she will have fun next year since she will be able to walk and actually walk herself to get her own candy. We were able to go to the pumpkin patch and look at the pumpkins and animals. Kelsey really enjoyed touching the pumpkins and just being outside. She loves being outside. It was kinda cold and we went kinda late. We wanted to go on the hay ride but we didn't get the chance to =/ Maybe next year tho =D

Halloween I made Kelsey's costume and we went trunk or treating at the church. I found a blue swimsuit bottom and a green t-shirt and dressed her as Pebbles from the Flinstones. It is weird how kids don't really know who they are now. It makes me feel old! But she looked adorable and made the perfect Pebbles! I was pretty proud of her costume. Trent and I helped her walk around the halls and get candy. She had fun while we held her hands. What a cutie pie!

















November wasn't too crazy. But it has been so long since I blogged that I can't even remember November at all! I did turn 24 though. Crazy! I am getting old! And Thanksgiving was good this year too. We celebrated with the Caudles and we had a nice enjoyable evening and ate yummy food! I love Thanksgiving not only because I was born on that day but because it is one of the most honest holidays. It truly is about being thankful. It isn't about candy or bunnies or santa. Purely about being thankful and having gratitude for what we have and the people in our lives. Believe me. I like to count my blessings! What a wonderful Holiday!