Saturday, May 31, 2008

What a cutie!

Here are some recent pictures of Kaylee and one of our family as well...

Kaylee's pajamas say it all. What a cutie.

Kaylee's been talking a lot lately. Her vocabulary is really booming. Just about every morning she says to me "swing...slide...park?" She can't just say park. She must make sure they have her minimum requirements. :) The weather has been nice lately so we've been going to the park just about every day. She is also starting to learn her letters. Jeff just told me that she was able to name about 12 letters just a few minutes ago. It cracks me up that every time she sees an "O" she says "oooooh" as in ooh la la!

She is quite the climber too. She climbs up into her high chair and her changing table. She just has trouble getting down. She is also able to climb up on any couch or chair in the house. Of course her favorite thing to climb on is me. I keep telling people this baby is going to come out pretty funny looking with all the jumping around on me that Kaylee does.

It's been fun to feel the baby react to Kaylee - when she climbs on me or is crying or talking loudly, the baby gets really active. I look forward to them growing up together and seeing what kind of relationship they develop.

Oh yeah, her other new trick lately is being able to open the doors in our house. If it's not locked, she's got access. I suppose it won't be long when even locked doors won't be able to stop her. :)

Kaylee has her own fashion sense. One day she decided she liked wearing her shirt up around her head. It worked out pretty well as she was playing with the sand/water table. She managed to keep her shirt dry. :)


Our first real taste of summer was a few Fridays ago when it got up into the 80's. We met up with some friends at a local park and had a KFC picnic by the water.

We're going to stay up in Vancouver for a few days so hopefully we'll have lots of fun pictures to post when we get back. We plan to visit the zoo, aquarium, and science museum. Hopefully we'll also find some time to veg out and relax as well. This is our last get away before the baby comes!

Friday, May 16, 2008

Holland Days

I decided to take Kaylee up to Lynden for the Holland Days Festival so she could connect with her Dutch roots. First we watched the kids dance the May Pole in their wooden clogs. Kaylee didn't seem too impressed...
Here they celebrate the time honored Dutch tradition of child labor: :)
Next I took Kaylee to the Lynden Pioneer Museum. She was mostly impressed with a chair and table she found in the lobby area. Her next favorite thing was going up and down the stairs. Oh well, maybe in a few more years. Then again, in her defense, it was an hour past her usual naptime.

Tulip time!!
Me and my very bad hair day...(it was raining, what can I say?)
On the way back to the car, I was able to have Kaylee keep up with me by holding a cookie just out of her reach. She never gave up trying to get that cookie though, and when we made it back to the car, she finally got it. Here she is with cookie-face!