Valentine's Day - A New Picture Post!

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Recently, Kaylee had her first balloons given to her - two mylar helium balloons from a nice lady at Superstore. Kaylee LOVES them and we got some cute pictures of her walking around with them.

Then, we had a busy weekend. First, Flat Stanley came to visit with us for a couple of weeks, arriving Friday afternoon. Then, Mommy went out to play guitar Friday night, so Kaylee and Daddy had an evening together... Daddy made cookies - probably after Kaylee went to bed...

Saturday we all got up early and went to New Denmark Rec Center for their Valentine's breakfast - we had chocolate chip pancakes (one of Kaylee's favorites), eggs, sausage, toast, and pan fries. Yummy! Flat Stanley decided he likes New Denmark Potatoes!

Then we got all bundled up and went to the World Pond Hockey Championships at Roulston Lake in Plaster Rock. Flat Stanley got a little cold, because being from Florida, he didn't realize how COLD it was here, and his hosts forgot to get him a coat and touque and mittens. He had fun though, and decided to ride in Kaylee's backpack most of the day to keep warm. He saw an Inuksuk ice sculpture and learned about native culture, as well as gaining an appreciation for hockey. We must have walked about a mile by the time the day was finished.

Later, we went to Uncle Jeremy's for a few hours to hang out with Jeremy, Karen, and Nala, and even had a short visit with Nana and Grammie Rioux. Finally, Kaylee got sooooo tired and after supper, we went back home, and she went to bed without a peep.

Today we are still catching up on our rest from the last week of activities - in fact, Kaylee is napping right now, and Mommy is going to take a nap in a few minutes, as well. Just wanted to get this post finished up first.

Here are some pictures.

Just taking it easy watching TV...

Kaylee's new balloons!

Where the balloons live when they're not playing with Kaylee...

Kaylee sitting at her little table and watching
Sesame Street on TV - see how she's got Elmo
and Big Bird right there with her?

This is the cupboard where we keep our
plastic dishes for leftovers. Kaylee loves
to play in that cabinet and pull them out
all over the floor and carry them around
the house.

Playing with her balloon while waiting for supper.

Eating one of Daddy's chocolate chip cookies for dessert.

Daddy lifing Kaylee way up high to the
ceiling, like a balloon!

Hanging onto both balloons in one hand
while playing with her music table...

Still holding onto the balloons and contemplating what
to do next.

Kaylee loves to sit with Daddy in the big
chair and watch TV.

Flat Stanley enjoying breakfast in New
Denmark - he loved the local potatoes!

Inuksuk at World Pond Hockey

Kaylee, Daddy, and Flat Stanley posing
with the statue at Roulston Lake.

Mommy and Kaylee at the Lake. It's hard
to see it clearly, but Kaylee has a big smile.

Kaylee examining her Valentine's Day
chocolates from Nana and Papa.

Kaylee eating her chocolate. Mmmmmm!

Still eating chocolate, just picking it into tiny
pieces - she does this with a lot of her food.
She also is wearing her Valentine necklace
from Mommy and Daddy!

Kaylee feeding chocolate to Flat Stanley.

Kaylee with her Raggedy Anne and Raggedy Andy dollies
from Uncle Tim and Aunt Jennifer and her cousins in FL.
She LOVES them! What a great smile!

As you can see, it's been a busy week or so. Hope you are having a Happy Valentine's Day! Thank you for all your love and for the sweet gifts for Kaylee! She's a very blessed little girl!

Until next time!

I, G, & K

An Early Greeting...

More Pictures... still playing catch-up!

These are a few more pics from November and December I had to share with you all... I'm *still* getting caught up, if you can believe it!

Surrounded by toys

Watching Yo Gabba Gabba

Family Picture - taken at Mom and Dad's 40th Anniversary

Kaylee's friend Hailey came for a sleepover
(she also brought her Mommy, Christine!)

Kaylee *loves* Nana's furry scarves...

Kaylee's book corner

Must have been a busy night in the crib...
(found her like this again this morning, but
with the opposite arm sticking out!)

Christmas Eve Day at Uncle Jeremy's
spending time with her cousins...

Helping Kaylee unwrap her first gift...

Cool! A Fisher Price Little People Nativity Set!

Christmas Morning... having fun opening gifts...

Kaylee checking out Nala from the other side of the window

Back home, MORE PRESENTS!

But first, SLEEP. It's been a long couple days!

After all the gift unwrapping movies from a previous post...
just checking everything out again...

Enjoying all the pretty lights and decorations.

Kaylee really loved the Christmas Tree this year.. she loved to walk all around it, touching all the branches and ornaments and lights on the bottom half of the tree. I put all the breakables up high and we let her touch everything, supervised of course. She was pretty good about being gentle and not yanking everything off the tree, but the candy canes were too much for her and she kept yanking them off. The last few days the tree was up, she started pulling on the beaded garlands as well, so I finally took the tree down and put it all away (mid January). It was so cute watching her so intently touching everything very slowly, feeling everything with purpose and intensity, and seeing her curiousity get the best of her.

Also fun was after the first couple gifts when she realized she was ALLOWED to rip the paper off the boxes. She loved it! And she loved seeing what was inside, usually pausing to look up and smile at us, when she recognized a new Sesame Street character or saw a new toy or book.

We enjoy all the memory making opportunities we are having with Kaylee and enjoy documenting her life in photos and movies, and through this blog, sharing them with you.

Law and Order: Sesame Victims Unit

Kaylee chucks toys over the fence, but usually just groups of one type of toy at a time. Usually it's the Fisher Price Little People pieces, but one day I caught this grisly and gruesome scene.

Law and Order: Sesame Victims Unit. Dunh dunh!

Lots of Movies

I know it's been such a long time since I've done movies... I'm sorry about that. It takes forever to upload them and format the posts. So be patient with me.... and enjoy!!! The first few are just random funnies over the last couple months, and the last few are from her opening some Christmas gifts. I'll try and do better with getting movies uploaded a little more frequently. I've been having a few technical difficulties which I hope to sort out soon.

Kaylee is still changing so fast - her growth has slowed a bit, but she is learning new things every day and starting to imitate us. It's quite funny to see the things she has learned lately.

On with the movies:

The Dance of the Cheerios


LED Necklaces


Putting on her boots... (note the cute monkey
PJ's she's wearing - my favorites!)


Turn, turn, turn....


Mommy and Kaylee having fun...


Christmas Presents....


Just starting to understand there are toys
INSIDE the paper... and Kaylee loves the
Fisher Price Little People - listen to Ian's
comment at the end... :)


Starting to get into ripping the paper off...


Opening a photo book I made for her. There
is a picture of the three of us on the front, see
her reaction when she recognizes us...


Need a little help from Mommy...


This one needed a little extra help.. Kaylee
LOVES the Fisher Price Little People stuff.


Oh, I really REALLY LOVE Elmo! (and Big
Bird, Grover, and Cookie Monster!)


Thank you everyone for blessing us with your love,
sweet gifts for Kaylee, and even though it's past the
middle of January, have a wonderful and blessed
New Year in 2010!

Love,
Ian, Georgine, & Kaylee

Quick Update

Kaylee had a checkup and shots appointment last week - just thought I'd share her stats and start uploading the movies I've been talking about.

So as of 1/7/10, Kaylee is:

32 1/2 inches tall (90th percentile)
22 lbs. 14 oz. (45th percentile)
and her head circumference is 47 cm (75th percentile).

So she is long and lean - she burns it off as soon as I give it to her. Her numbers are pretty consistent from visit to visit though, so nothing to worry about. All I know is she's so wiggly that it's hard to carry her up and down the stairs now. Forget carrying a few grocery bags AND Kaylee at the same time...

There should be a big change this summer when she'll learn how to walk up and down the stairs... so far the stairs are too big for her, she can crawl up and down just fine, but they're too big to step up and down for her.

Oh, did I mention it's now January 18, and I am JUST taking my tree down? Well, it's undecorated now... but anyhow, we love it, so that's all that matters, right?

Kaylee LOVED checking out the tree, especially wanting
to touch all the glittery balls. She always had glitter on
her fingers through this Christmas season...

Kaylee Loves TV

"Experts" sometimes say that children who watch TV are less intelligent than their peers. I say that those "experts" probably don't have toddlers.

I am thankful that there are dedicated channels for toddlers that play mostly educational, age-appropriate programming. My favorite channel for Kaylee is PBS Sprout. They play Sesame Street, which is my personal favorite... But Kaylee's favorite is on a Nick Jr. I don't care for most of their programming, but they play "Yo Gabba Gabba". She's in a trance when this show is on, and I know I have 20 minutes to myself when it starts playing - I can wash my hair, do dishes, get dressed, etc.

Anyway, enough about TV. Here are some cute pics of Kaylee watching TV. Oh, by the way, she *does* have several chairs of her very own, but now that she can climb, she seems to prefer OURS. Hehe... And we're still shopping for a couple of love seats, so there is a lot of floor space in the living room right now.

On with the cuteness:

Kaylee sitting just like an adult! Total relaxation...

Sitting at her small table and chairs set...

Sort of sitting... hehe.... she likes to climb up on the table
top and we're constantly telling her to "SIT DOWN!"

Sometimes she likes to sit in tiny spaces
that only her little butt will fit into...

I guess all babies love boxes? :)

Something is really making her smile here...

Here she is, in the rocking chair, smiling at
D.J. Lance Rock (on Yo Gabba Gabba)...

This is the day we had to take the shelf out of the bookcase.

She's starting to get tired here, decided

to lay on the floor to finish the show...

She was REALLY tired here. She has started putting
herself to sleep when she can't take it any more.

Kaylee Halloween

I know some of these posts are out of order, but I don't really care. I need to get this blog updated and I have so many cute Christmas movies coming...

I dressed Kaylee up as Minnie Mouse for Halloween this year. I was inspired when I went into the Disney Store while we were in Florida in September. The Minnie Mouse outfit was really expensive though, so I didn't buy it. The ears, however, were only about $7.00... I took our favorite sundress and decided to wear it as Minnie's dress, and just threw a pair of yoga pants and a long sleeved onesie underneath, and it was perfect!

My mom has many more excellent shots from this evening (we took her out) and once I get a copy, I'll update this post with a few more pics...

Kaylee Mouse