Kaylee, Kaylee, Kaylee

This girl is keeping me busy these days. She is constantly getting into things and thinking of something new to try..she is one busy little girl!! John and I were talking this morning about how she can't be left unattended for even a second because she will be into something. She loves getting into makeup, lotion, wipes, shampoo and perfume and anything of that nature. She LOVES to make messes but she HATES to clean up haha. She keeps me laughing (most of the time) at the things she comes up with and I can honestly say that at the end of the day I am exausted from trying to keep up with her lol.

The other day she wanted to play with flash cards in her room so I told her she could play with them but she had to clean them up all by herself if I let her play with them...so of course she strows them everywhere and when I tell her its time to clean them up she tells me I need to help her because she is "too wittle". I told her if she was big enough to make the mess she was plenty big enough to clean it up.

Thursday she was in rare form...she was into everything...I mean everything..when I got home from work my mom said she had been a handful all day and that she had colored on the wall. After that I was changing Kyles diaper and she got my makeup out of my purse and went in the bathroom and put mascara all over her face..when I found her she said "look mommy Im pretty". A little later I put her and Kyle down for a nap and I went back to check on them and she had gotten into diaper rash cream...apparantly she thought it was lotion and she had put it all over her face, arms and legs..and of course it was all in her bed..so I got that cleaned up and put her back in bed. About 45 minutes later I went to check on them again.. she wasnt in her bed and she was no where to be found. I always put up the baby gate when they are taking a nap and close the door, because if not she will come out of her room and getting into who knows what. So I knew she had to be in there...I was looking under the bed and calling her and I finally opened the closet and there she was sitting in her toy box. She said "haha mommy Im so funny" I explained to her that it was not funny to hide from mommy and every time I call her she better drop what shes doing and run to me lol!! Shes is such a character these days. Im going to try and blog all the funny things she does and says because I know I will forget it all if I dont!!

Kyle's First Birthday

Im a few days late, as usual, but Kyle turned 1 on Saturday. I can't believe it..no more babies in our house!! We had a little family party for him Saturday afternoon and he got some cool toys and some cute new clothes. His favorite part of the party was smashing his cake..he had no problems digging in and getting messy haha...he started to cry when I took it away and then he realized that there was still cake all over the tray so he just started licking that off lol.

I took him to his 1 year old appointment on Tuesday and he weighed 23 1/2 pounds. I dont remember how tall they said he was but they did say he was tall for his age. They said everything looked great except his iron was low so he has to start taking polyvisol. Kaylee had to take the same thing when she was a little younger that him and she got better within just a few months. He had to get 4 shots and he hasn't been his normal happy self since then. He has been running fever and not sleeping at night so I'm hoping that he will be back to normal soon.

He is a GREAT eater...It amazes me how much this kid can eat..we are trying to get him on only solid foods instead of baby food because when he eats baby food he doesn't get full unless he has 5-6 big jars per meal. He loves peanut butter and jelly and he loves fruit. He doesn't give me problems about eating veggies like Kaylee did at his age..so Im happy about that. He will eat pretty much anything I give him. He has 8 teeth now so he can chew pretty much anything!!

He isn't walking yet but boy is he a fast crawler. He stands and walks all around holding onto things and will stand by himself but he wont actually take steps. I think he could do it if he wanted to but he wont try because crawling is just faster...I don't think it will be long though!! He is such a sweet boy, I cant believe it has already been a year since he joined our family!!

Twinkle Toes

I sure thought it would be a lot later in life that Kaylee started asking for something just because her friends had it lol...well I was wrong!! Last week she started telling me she was wanting something but I couldnt figure out for the life of me what she was saying. The next day we went to school and she pointed to a little girls shoes and said "Tinkel Toes"...I asked her if she was saying she wanted Twinkle Toes and she said "Yessss" So I just kinda laughed it off and said yea those are cute we will have to get some someday, thinking she would forget about it!! That afternoon that was all we talked about and I pulled them up online to see if she would recognize them and sure enough she did. I thought they were really cute but they were a lot more than we usually would spend on a pair of shoes for her...so I told her to ask her she'd have to ask her daddy when he got home from work. Sure enough as soon as he walked in she said "Daddy I want tinkle toes" so I showed him what they were and we told her she would have to be good for a lot of days to get twnlke toes. So last night John was headed to the store and Kaylee said "bye daddy you going to the store to get my tinkle toes" he kinda blew her off and said we will see. So he finally found some that were on sale and Kaylee was ecstatic lol..she wanted to wake her brother up to show him and then she wanted to wear them to bed. I finally pried her off them before bed and as soon as she woke up thismorning she brought be some socks and asked for her tinkle toes!!!
You cant tell from the picture but they have really bright lights all down the sides and in the toes!!

I think we've almost got it!!

The potty training that is!! We finished the 3-day potty training system and things are going pretty good. At the end of day 3 Kaylee hadn't had a single accident all day. I was so proud of her. She continued to do good the next day but she had a rough time on Wednesday at school. She had 3 accidents while she was there because she refused to let her teacher take her to the potty. She said only her mommy can take her lol..so she ended up in a pull-up. She hasn't had any accidents today so I had a talk with her about letting her teacher take her to the bathroom and hopefully she will do better tomorrow at school. It has been so nice only having to change Kyles diapers. I am hoping she can get over her fear of going at school and we can be done with the pull-ups for good. She has learned that anytime she says she needs to go to the bathroom, no matter what we are doing, we drop it and run...so shes figured out that at naptime and bedtime if she keeps telling me she has to go potty she can stall for a little bit on her nap...haha!! She is such a little stinker :)

Potty Training day 2

Yesterday was a much better day than I thought it would be. Kaylee ended up only having 4 accidents all day and 2 of them weren't really accidents she just waited a little to long to go to the potty and had a few dribbles!! I am so proud of her. I was extremely hesitant to leave her in panties at bedtime but thats what the program said to do!! I was completly shocked when she woke up dry and was standing at the door thismorning telling me she needed to go potty!! Maybe she is really getting it this time :) She has had one accident thismorning and that was when she was sitting in her highchair playing with playdough so I think she was having so much fun she didn't realize she needed to go!! I am hoping today we have another successful day!!

Potty Training....AGAIN!!

We have made a few attempts at potty training in the past few months and so far we have not been successful!! I know Kaylee is ready to be potty trained. She can't stand to be wet or to have a dirty diaper and she takes them off herself everytime she goes in them!! So we are tying a new method starting today!! We are using the "3 day potty training" system e-book by Lora Jenson!! I have had a lot of friends use this method with their children and have had great results!! Its a little scary because once you start you only use panties from then on out...even at naps and throughout the night!! So Im prepared with lots of panties and extra sheets!! The guide tells you that it should take 3 days and you should plan on staying home for 3 consecutive days and do nothing but work with the child on potty training...so since we are out of school on Monday we decided to start today!! We have been up for 2 1/2 hours and so far not a single accident. She has done all her buisness in the potty!! Im keeping my fingers crossed that she is going to get this. I will be so happy when I only have to change diapers for one kid!!Proud of herself because she went pee pee in the potty!!The pile of panties at the start of the day...hopefully we wont need all these!!
We are doing everything we can to stay busy while we work on our potty training skills...Kaylee loves play dough!!

Preschool

Its been a while since my last post and things have been really busy around here. This week was the first week of preschool for the kids and they are doing great. They are doing MMO at our church and they go three days a week. I help out in the 3 year old class while they are in there classes and we are had a great first week. Summer was great but its nice to be back in a routine! I was sure Kyle would do fine in his class but I wasn't sure that Kaylee would like it because she isn't always to fond of going in the church nursery...but she is doing great. The first day she cried when I dropped her of but her teacher said she didn't cry for long and today she didn't even cry when I dropped her off. On Monday when I picked her up she said "mommy I love school" I was so happy to hear that!! I'm so glad she is able to have this opportunity because I know she is going to learn so much..she is really enjoying doing watercolors in her class and thats is what is keeping her wanting to go back lol. She also loves the playground of course. She has been a big girl and has not been using her binky at school and she actually has only needed it when she goes to bed. I am going to try just making her leave it in her bed and hopefully we can get rid of it all together soon!! I wish I would have gotten a picture of them on their first day but I forgot my camera...they both looked so cute with their little backpacks on and their luchboxes!! Kaylee loves wearing her "pack pack" haha. Kyle is doing great in his class also. Their are only 3 babies in his class so he gets lots of attention...he loves going on their daily walks..they have this big six seater stroller and his teacher walks them all over the place in it..they look so cute!! I am the teachers assistant in the 3 year old class and I am loving it..we have 13 kids in our class and its so neat to watch them learn new things and they say some of the funniest things lol...I am sure I will be posting lots about school this year and I will make sure I add some pictures of them with their cute little backpacks next week!!