Vacation 2009

Kaylee had her first beach vacation and words cannot express her excitement or LOVE for the beach. We headed down to Galveston for a week of family fun.

We went to the Aquarium in Houston and it was really neat as they had a lot of activities and even RIDES that catered to Kaylee's age. My favorite experience was watching Kaylee ride an up and down roller coaster for the first time. I have captured a little bit of her reaction on the below video.

Beach Fun!

When we first arrived, Kaylee didn't want to even have her feet touch the water. By the end of the week - she was running and jumping over the waves! She loved playing in the sand, building castles, making mud pies, feeding the always hungry birds and flying her Elmo kite!

After we would play on the beach, we had to hit the pool for a little swimming fun. She insisted that when she becomes a big sister, she will go under water, but for now it just wasn't for her! I give her props for trying - she did go underwater twice and decided that was enough! :-) The pool was really neat because it looked like it didn't end and you could still see the ocean from the pool! It was a cool effect!

More chocolate cake?!?! I definitely must be on vacation!

Kaylee LOVES playing putt putt and the course there was really neat. Some of the holes were really unique that we had never seen before. She improved her game by 40 strokes between the two games we played that week!

Kaylee's Christmas Program

Kaylee had her Christmas program on Monday night and she was such a joy to watch! She loved getting all dressed up and as you can tell - LOVES the camera! Both Chad and I got teary eyed seeing her up there and how fast she is growing up. Her whole fan club (Granny, Papa, YaYa, Papou, Poppy and the Beavers) was there to cheer her on and she was SO excited to "Lot's of people" clap for her! I had to download the last 2 videos to youtube so there is a link that you can click on to view as these videos were too big for this site. Hope you enjoy!

She was not shy once she was on stage...


She sang her school spirit song...

and her Christmas song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5U9TbNPI4

Then it was time to dance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGdYx3BJdk


the best part of the night for Kaylee (besides having her fan club there) was being able to dance and sing on stage with her best friend Emily! What a pair!

October Fun!

Kaylee has had quite a month starting out with celebrating her 3rd birthday. She had a Hannah Montana party and she dressed and played the part well!

We had an inflatable or as Kaylee would call it "Jumpy Thing" and she jumped to her hearts jamming along to the music of her fave Hannah Montana. I thought her cake was really neat. It was shaped like a guitar made out of cupcakes! We had such beautiful weather that day it couldn't have been any more perfect! After the party, she played dress up with her new Hannah Montana wig!

We made a quick trip to Eldon to visit Aunt Boo and attend the Turkey Festival. It was a busy weekend but we had a blast! I love this picture of Kaylee and Aunt Boo.

We thought Kaylee could explore her sporting ability and decided to enroll her in a 3-day soccer clinic! She was excited to play for the first 20 minutes but was done after that. She would rather play catch than try and kick the ball! We did get some great pics and a video of her playing. I do have to say she has Daddy's natural athletic abilities - lucky girl!

Kaylee warming up!

Kaylee making a goal... (ignore my annoying voice) as I told her that I would be cheering for her!

It was Kaylee and Mommy's first experience at a pumpkin patch and what fun we had! We went on a hayride, walked through mazes, got to ride a train and pick out some great pumpkins! Kaylee was very sure to make sure and pick out a wonderful pumpkin that she could call her own. Little did we know that the one she got attached to was already a little soft but hey - we were not going to say anything as she loved her pumpkin! Again, the weather was perfect so we were able to really enjoy the whole day playing outside!

Of course, we end the month with Halloween. When we asked Kaylee what she wanted to dress up as she was VERY much set on being a princess! Boy did she play the part too - she started to get tired of walking so she said "Daddy, you carry me and I will get the candy..okay Daddy?!?" She filled her pumpkin up and every morning begs us to have candy for breakfast! Her sweet tooth has awakened! (not that it isn't in her blood to LOVE sweets anyways!)

These a few of her 3-year pictures! She had a good time playing model that day!

To end this I thought you would enjoy a little performance from "Cheerleader Kaylee". YaYa was trying to teach her the 2-4-6-8 cheer and this is Kaylee's version of the cheer. She loves making up cheers and dancing around. Truly a GIRL!

Just a Tad Behind!

Well, needless to say I have gotten a little behind on my blog. As I sit here watching Kaylee sleep in our bed, I was thinking - what can I do? And wholah - here I am. Her tummy is hurting her tonight so I am cuddling with her when she wakes up and lulling her back to sleep so we can hopefully beat this tummy ache! We have been pretty busy but having lots of fun! Here are a few highlights of our summer fun...

Kaylee's Great Aunt Carol made this dress and Kaylee was loving modeling it! The blue really brings out her eyes (I think!). thanks Carol for thinking of Kaylee and sending this dress to us!

She is definitely Daddy's little helper outside. She loves to ride with him on the mower and it's bonus if Daddy pulls out the trailer! She is such a great helper to me as well - we got very lucky!

Granny came to visit over the fourth of July and we took Kaylee to her first fireworks show! She was quiet through the whole show and we thought she had fallen asleep, but no - she was taking it all in! After the show, we would hear pop after pop in our neighborhood and she would get so excited to look for the fireworks in the sky. Her love of fireworks was created that night and we look forward to many more shows in the future...

We have also explored the wonderful world of animals. We went to Animal Paradise which is a drive through park where you can feed many different exotic animals such as emus, water buffalo, deer, camels and many other animals. She was a little scared at first, but warmed up to the idea of being able to throw food out the window! Her favorite of course was "reindeer" which is what she calls all deer!

A few weeks later, Chad and Kaylee found a turtle that was crossing the road and rescued him from danger. We were having a major heat wave that week and so they put him in Kaylee's pool to cool off and she named him "Tuck". She was so excited to show me her new friend when I got home and then we decided that we should let Tuck go free to get to the river. She waved goodbye and I never saw a turtle move so fast once he was set free!

We had our first getaway weekend at the Lake with the Beaver family and had a blast!! Kaylee got to hang with her best friends Emily and Cory and best of all swim to her hearts content! She loved the pool, but it took a little longer for her to enjoy the lake. When she first sat down, a boat went by and of course made waves - well one wave was just a little too big and that scared her...Once she got used to the waves and saw Emily and Cory having fun in the lake, she soon joined in!

Kaylee went to her first production on Sunday. The Backyardigans were in town so we surprised her and took her to go see them. When they first came out on stage, she got really quiet and Chad and I wondered if she was okay...she then really started getting into the show by yelling out answers to their questions and helping them save the big green egg! She was knighted by them and she has her shield to prove it! Whenever they would start the music, she was a dancing and singing machine -

To end this lovely blog, Kaylee wanted to end with a performance. This is a pen that plays a Hannah Montana song and she likes to use it as a microphone...a little diva on our hands - what do you expect coming from 2 dramatic parents?!?