Kaylee's 2!

My sweet baby girl is two today and I can hardly believe it.  She feels like she has been a part of our family forever but it also seems like she just joined us.  What a joy she has added to our family. 
Kaylee: I want you to know how much I love you.  You certainly keep me on my toes. Here is a list of what you are all about at 2 years old.
- You are so sweet and loving.  Anytime anyone is crying or upset you take it upon you to comfort them.
- You love to play chase and you are always looking for a way to start a game of chase.
- You are a wonderful eater.  I have never seen a child love food the way you do.  And you have the belly to prove it:)
- You are active and always on the go.  You love to copy Lily when she practices gymnastics and you love to dance to any music you hear and you love to jump when you are excited (it's the cutest jump you ever did see too!)
- You are usually very quiet but when you get upset or want to be heard you can scream louder than anyone. 
- You are very curious and you don't let anything get in your way.  You have figured out how to break through child safety locks and because of you I have the # to poison control memorized.  Luckily you have been just fine each time.
- Your older sisters adore you.  Erin tried to tell me the other day that she loves you more than I do.  Ahh if only you both could understand how deep a mothers love can run.  But you will someday.
-   Your love for books is growing each day.  If you ever see anyone sitting on the floor you assume that they are simple to read you a book. 
- You are very nurturing.  Your favorite toy is a  baby doll and you love to feed, bathe, rock, and put your baby to sleep.  This is good news to me because it means you can take care of your baby along side me when I am taking care of your baby brother who will soon be with us.
- You love to color.  But my favorite thing is you color for a moment and pick your paper up to show me saying, "Pretty?"   I always assure you that it is very pretty and so you color for a moment more before asking again. 
- You give the absolute best hugs.  Nothing makes me feel better than a hug from you.
Kaylee let me just say how grateful I am for you in my life.  I love you bunches and bunches.  I look forward to watching you and teaching you and learning from you.  Happy Birthday sweet girl!!!
Love Mom

(I will add some pictures soon... hopefully)

The parent curse...

Yes the parent curse of I hope you have a child just like you came true for me.  Only I think she is worse, I don't remember being this bad...  What am I talking about you ask.  Well the other day I found Erin writing a note to a boy is her school class.  After reading it I believe I am going to buy a cage for her birthday and lock her in it until she is 23.  Here it is.

See what I mean????  What do I do with a child like this???
Just so you know this note "disappeared" before she could give it to anyone...

Speaking of this child look what happened to her this past week.

Silly toothless girl.

Bed Time

For some reason when we tell the girls that it is time to go up stairs an go to bed they think that this is the only way to get up there.

I wonder what James is going to do when this next one comes????

A fun party with cousins

Okay so I am late at getting to this but better late than never...right? 

So last year after the cousins gift exchange we talked about doing something else instead.  So this year I had an idea that I thought would be spectacular and threw it out to all my siblings and they all loved it.  So instead of buying presents for cousins we rented out the gym that Lily goes to gymnastic at.  It was VERY affordable and so much fun.  Each family had to chip in less than $30 for they gym and food which is cheaper than buying presents anyways.  We got the gym for 2 hours and everyone had soo much fun.  I think some of us "adults" had way more fun than we should have.  So here is a bunch of pictures.  Sorry they are all blurry but the lighting was not ideal and for some reason people would not hold still for a picture.

The favorite for sure was the foam pit.  Even Grandma couldn't resist it.

Don't worry we did other stuff too, like jump.



And play on bars

And some other stuff...

It was so much fun!  And rest assured no one was seriously injured.  Every one agreed that this was better than presents.