Pumpkin Patch-Oct. 2011

For Kylie's preschool fieldtrip we visited the pumpkin patch and Kylie got to pick her very own pumpkin.  Everyone had a really great time!  Kylie is doing awesome in Joy School and making some really great friends.

Memory

This is what Kylie and I play, everyday.  Kylie and Alyssa, Kylie and Trevor...whoever will play with her. :-)  Memory is definitely her favorite game right now!

Happy 4th Birthday Kylie!

June 21, 2011

Kylie is 4!!  We started off the morning opening presents! 

She had her first "friend" birthday party this year.  She invited 8 little friends to our house for a "Dora" party and everyone had a blast!  They made necklaces, colored, played games, and ate cake and ice-cream!

...and opened presents too!

Kylie is such a sweet little girl and we feel so lucky to have her in our family! :-)  Here are some things about Kylie:

*She started off the year having some trouble going to Primary, but is now doing great and loves it!  She usually goes right in with out a tear, and we are so proud of her!

*She is coming out of her shell a little more and is making more friends.
*She will start pre-school this August and she is getting very excited.  She has asked me a few times, "When am I going to start preschool?"  We are doing Joy School this year with 5 other little girls in our ward.
*She continues to have a great imagination.
*She is hilarious!  She makes us laugh all the time.
*She loves to play with Little People and her dollhouse, Trevor and especially Alyssa, and she loves loves loves puzzles!
*She LOVES milk!
*She is a terrible eater.
*She still loves doing laundry!

Kylie turns 3!!!

This was a fun birthday for Kylie (and us) because she totally understood what was happening.  A week ago we told her that her birthday was in 1 week, and she would say, "only one more week till my birt-day!"  Then the day before her birthday we told her that it was tomorrow and she would say, "Tomorrow I be fwee!" 

She opened Alyssa and Trevor's presents first thing in the morning.  Trevor and Alyssa always get so excited for Kylie's birthday, but Trevor was especially excited this year.  He was bouncing off the walls at 6:45 a.m. and ran around and woke up Kylie, Alyssa, and me.   

Kylie was pretty tired from being woken up so early.  After she opened her presents she just laid on the couch, so quiet.  I asked her how old she was now so this is her showing me 3 fingers.

Her birthday pancake.  She didn't want to blow out the candles.  For some reason she just wanted to suck on her hands...?

Later in the day when Mark got home from work, she opened our presents.  She loved her shopping cart and immediately went shopping at "Target" (she said, "I go shopping at Target now") and loaded her cart up with pretend food and items around the house.

Kylie loves Disney characters from watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and is always talking about Daisy Duck...

Her princess cake that Daddy picked out...so cute!

Again, she didn't want to blow out the candles...?  Trevor helped her out. :-)

Enjoying her yummy birthday cake...

Kylie was thrilled to see this new Princess bike from Grandma and Grandpa Telford. :-)  

Well my youngest is not a baby, or even a toddler anymore.  She has told me a few times since her birthday that she is "a big girl" now.  And she is!  But she's still so cute and tiny.  I'm not very good at journaling, so...a few things about Kylie:

*She is really easygoing and good at entertaining herself.  She has the best imagination of all of my children and will talk to her babies and Little People and play pretend.  I love to quietly watch and listen to her as she plays.

*I love the 3 year old brain...I took her to Build-a-bear today with some of her birthday money, and she named her stuffed bunny "Foo-fee."  And she has been talking to foo-fee and calling her foo-fee all day.  Haha, love the name.

*She takes herself potty all by herself now, YAY!

*She HATES to have her hair brushed.  She starts crying the second the brush touches her hair, even before there is a tangle.  Then she puts her hands in her hair so I can't brush it...it's a struggle, every morning.

*She has a hard time saying the "S" sound especially when followed by a consanent.  So she can say sun, soup, socks, but spot is pot, story is tory.  So I will say, "Kylie, can you say...sssss-tory?"  and she'll do it.  So now, if I ever can't understand what she is saying she thinks "sssss" is the answer.  One time she was saying she wanted to play with the lion and I couldn't understand what she wanted, so she was like, "Ssssssss I want to play with the lion!"  She does that every now and then. :-)

*She LOVES to do laundry!  She gets SUPER excited about it.  It is funny.  If she hears me in the laundry room, she will come running and say, "Don't do laundry wit-out me!"  I put the wet clothes from the washer on the dryer door and she pushes them in, and then puts a dryer sheet in.  She'll also say, "Mom!  The laundry's done!" sometimes a few times a day...even when I'm not even doing laundry, in hopes that there's laundry to be switched to the dryer.  She also LOVES to sort through the laundry basket full of clean clothes and put everyone's clothes in to their own separate pile.  She's going to make a great little mommy someday. :-)

Kylie we love you!  Happy Birthday!

Bows bows bows

Kylie always brings me TONS of bows and wants me to put them ALL in her hair. She says to me, "Two...bows!" or " Four....bows!" Even though there are always 6-10. :-)

Kylie's 2nd Birthday

I've been slacking on my blog so this is a little late, but Kylie turned 2 last Sunday! Happy Birthday Kylie! :-) I think every birthday is going to be bittersweet for me. She gets more and more fun the older she gets, but I get a little sad when I think about never having a baby or 1 year old again. Not sad enough to have another one though. :-) She is just getting so big. She is talking up a storm which is so fun. My favorite thing she does is pause in between each word she says, like she's trying very hard to enunciate each sound of the word. "NO....nap" "Trevor...back...hit" (trevor hit my back). Anyways she is just so fun. Although she is HORRIBLE at going to bed and taking naps. For the past week, she has thrown a fit at every nap and bedtime, and the fits are Looooooong. She also started her b-day off with a nice little 2 year old fit. She woke up at like 6:30 and wanted a sucker and of course didn't get one, so she cried for about 15-20 minutes about it. We were like, "who told her she was two?" :-)

This pic was actually taken at the end of the day right before bed. These are the cute jammies her Aunt Tarah, Uncle Travis, and cousins Bryson and Lucas gave her. She was twirling. :-)

This was after we got home from Disneyland (the morning of her b-day was spent driving home).
She got a baby that swims...

And a "My first dollhouse" with some extra furniture. After each present she opened she would say, "More!"
Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Telford's house where she got a fun play sink for outside, and some cute new clothes. (she looks so tall and old in this pic!)

Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Campbell's house for MORE presents and cupcakes. She got some new baby stuff: stroller, swing, highchair, crib, etc and a new baby! She LOVES loves loves babies.

It took Kylie a few minutes to figure out how to blow out her candles, but she did it!

Diva!

Kylie loves wearing these sunglasses. She'll put them on and leave them on for over an hour, going about her normal business. :-)

Kylie is soo in to babies right now. She's been carrying around any baby she can find around the house (there are many) for the past few weeks feeding them "ba-ba's" or giving them binkies. This night she insisted on having her baby eat with her at dinner, and call her my 3rd child, but I let her, and she was feeding the baby her dinner, it was cute.

18-month old Kylie

Kylie was playing with Mr. Potato Head and Mark and I were sitting on the couch not really paying attention, and she walked up to us like this, laughing at herself. We cracked up.

Also just for the record, since she is the 3rd child and sadly, I haven't kept a baby book for her, these are the words she says at 18 months...there aren't many but that's okay. :-)

Ma-ma,

Daddy,

uh-oh,

candy (nanny),

bye (bah!),

baby (bah-bee),

Cheese! (Dee! for the camera),

Alyssa (Ah-ah),

Ho ho ho! (When you ask her what Santa says),

Weeeee! (when sliding down Grandma's slide)

Okay those last 2 aren't really "words" but I'm counting them.

Just a few fun pics

Kylie has pretty much mastered eating cereal all by herself (even with milk in it! Very exciting).

Trevor and Alyssa thought it would be fun to put Kylie in this doll stoller and take her for a ride. Kylie thought it was soo fun. :-)

Kylie loves to color

Kylie is getting to be such a big girl. She LOVES to color and write on paper with a pencil. She is borderline obsessed with it actually. Many many times a day she will find a piece of paper and bring it to me and say, "Uh uh uh uh." I know that means she wants something to write with. We have to watch her carefully though. She's actually pretty good about keeping it on the paper, but of course she is only 1 and I've found her art work on the floor and cupboards a few times.

:-)

Kylie's 1st ice cream cone

Kylie only eats 1 thing...

You always hear that kids love consistency and repetition, but when it comes to eating, they can be SO NON-consistent. Kylie is 14 months and I think this is the hardest age to feed. At this age, they can no longer get the nutrients they need from formula, and Kylie thinks she is much too old and sophisticated for baby food, even though she only has 3 1/2 teeth. Sometimes I don't think she eats enough food in a day to keep a bird alive. She'll down something one day and won't touch it the next. I find myself offering her up to 4 different things for lunch before I find something she will eat, if anything. For a while, she was thrilled with the idea of using a fork, so anything she could pick up with a fork, she ate. That lasted a few days and was GREAT. Although, now she thinks she has mastered utensils and wants to eat EVERYTHING ALL BY HERSELF, including yogurt and oatmeal. Yogurt isn't too bad because it kinda sticks to the spoon. But oatmeal is just a mess and she doesn't end up eating very much. But the excitement of the fork has worn off now and she usually just picks something up with her fork, then takes it off with her fingers, and chucks it across the table. Ughh, anyway feeding her is just not my favorite right now. BUT, I have found something that she loves and it's not messy. She is in love with yogurt drinks. She DOWNS them. She usually drinks 2 in a row. After she finishes the first one she is SO upset that it's gone. I'm sure next week she won't touch the things, but for now, it's one thing I can count on her eating, or drinking. Here she is this morning before church with her yogurt drink, and yes, that's drool on her shirt and dress...I think she's getting a few more teeth.

Oreo Baby

Alyssa and Trevor were eating Oreo cookies and Kylie reeeeally wanted one. I felt bad so I let her go for it. She seemed to enjoy it. :-)