End of February/Beginning of March

It's been another busy couple weeks since our last post!

We've been to one of cousin David's hockey games (two, actually - this was a tournament):

Freezing in the stands at the Civic Centre in
Perth-Andover during the tournament.

David playing hockey!

Also, Daddy bought roses for his TWO sweeties, Mommy and Kaylee, for Valentine's Day. Aren't they gorgeous? In fact, they are still on the counter, but they're fairly dried up now. But they're almost 3 weeks old now! They were the most beautiful roses we ever saw!

Mommy & Kaylee's Roses from Daddy

Over the last couple weeks the weather has also warmed up nicely. We've had a lot of gorgeous sunny afternoons, where you can feel the sun's warmth, go outside in a sweatshirt, and the snow has been melting steadily. On the last day we had a good snowstorm, it was pretty warm out, so Daddy took Kaylee outside to play in the snow.

Daddy showing Kaylee the snow...

Kaylee having a great time stomping the
snow all flat with her boots...

More stomping...

Had to come inside so Mommy could
fix her mittens... here she is making a
face for the camera..

Our friend and neighbor, Miss Kelly, took some fun videos of Kaylee as well - I'm going to try and link them here... They're on Facebook, so you might need to log in before it will show the movie...

Movie of Kaylee opening and closing the door on the same day as playing in the snow (Facebook)

Movie of Daddy and Kaylee playing in the snow (Facebook)

Sometimes our cat Mocha will sleep in the recliner in the living room, and then when Kaylee goes into the living room, she will want to spend some time with Mocha. On this particular day, she was watching TV and resting her hand on Mocha the whole time, and Mocha was sleeping. It was so cute. Of course, when I went to take a picture of it, Kaylee moved.. but here is the resultant cuteness anyway...

Kaylee and Mocha in the chair...

As we've talked about before, Kaylee loves throwing her toys over the baby gate between the living room and the kitchen. Sometimes, if Mom is sitting on the chair at the kitchen counter, Kaylee will even throw extra hard, maybe trying to hit Mom and get her off the computer...? Hehe... We'll try and get a movie of this because it's so cute, but we've already had to remove some of her heavier toys due to them possibly getting broken from being lifted and heaved over the fence.

Our neighbor downstairs can hear the Little People getting chucked over the fence and sometimes will burst into song on her Facebook status saying how "It's raining Little People." (Cue in music for "It's Raining Men" here...)

One Fisher Price Little Person going up....

and OVER!

And an action shot! Notice that the white Little Person is
still in mid-fall and hasn't hit the floor yet!

All done throwing Little People, and back
in the chair with Mocha for some more TV.

Kaylee giving Mocha some snuggles in Ian's office. She
has a blankie that is usually in a sunbeam in Ian's office
and Kaylee makes a beeline for her when we let her run
around the apartment. Mocha's pretty good about these
snuggles, and is very gentle and docile with Kaylee.

Kaylee also has access to the kitchen cabinet that is directly under the sink. We store our Tupperware and other plastic storage containers in there, and she *LOVES* to play with them. Here's a movie or her opening and closing the cabinet and playing with the dishes...

And here's a photo of the aftermath of a
few minutes of playing with the dishes.

Also happening this past week was Mommy's birthday, which is Kaylee's half-birthday. The birthdays are exactly 6 months apart - Kaylee is September 5, and Georgine is March 5. To celebrate, Miss Kelly came up one night and we baked a giant cupcake, just like the ad on TV. Isn't it cute? Kaylee loves having some chocolate cake after her lunch every day.. (and Mommy likes it too!). Thank goodness Pillsbury made some reduced-sugar canned icing!

Our giant cupcake cake!

Before we got to making the giant cupcake, we had dinner. Kaylee went a little nuts right before we ate, running around and around and around the apartment... Kelly and Molly were visiting, so you'll see Molly walking around with Kaylee... Kaylee and Molly get along very well with each other - you should hear Kaylee giggle when Molly gives her kisses...

Movie of Kaylee running in circles all around the apartment (Facebook)

Kaylee and Daddy ready to go play outside again on a
different day. It was so sunny she needed shades!

We went over to Nana and Papa's for Mommy's birthday supper of lasagna, ceasar salad, and chocolate cake tonight, and while we were there, we took a picture of Kaylee doing one of her favorite things at Nana's house... Nana has a big basket where she keeps all her scarves for winter, and Kaylee loves taking them all out, dragging them around, putting them on, and being a little runway scarf model.

Kaylee wearing one of Nana's many
pretty scarves.

Well that's all for this time, folks! Enjoy the beautiful Spring weather and we'll be back again soon with more of what Miss Kaylee's been up to!

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...