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?!?