First Flight

As you can see we went to Chicago as a family while Clayton was there for a training related to his job. We weren't going to drive all the way, so we took a chance a flew with a near 7 month old baby. After hearing some horror stories from family and friends, we were quite nervous.


To our delight, aside from the normal baby fussiness, Kaylee did quite well on the 3.5 hour flight. Both the trip out and the return flight went well. The return flight was especially nice because the woman at the gate moved the person sitting next to us so our little family could have an open seat and extra room. Thanks American Airlines (but not really since you made us pay to check our bags) for moving that unknown person.

Chicago

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

We need to get some pictures off of our phone, so this isn't comprehensive. You can still enjoy a brief show of our trip to Chicago. Special thanks are due to the Pike family, for sponsoring our trip so we didn't have to sleep in the Hostel and carry our bags everywhere. Thanks again for a great time and the help. (By the way, Clayton went to be trained for work, but that isn't exciting so we didn't chronicle it)

Curly Hair

If we had the pictures of Kristi and I when we were younger you would see some curly hair, so we think that Kaylee is going to have some very curly hair. Here is a picture of here after a bath showing how her hair will have curls. (Thanks to Joe and Marilyn Pike for letting us stay over) While we were in Chicago, the humidity really brought out the curls but we didn't get any pictures of here showing the curls

Floors!

We now have our concrete floors in the basement and the garage. This means that are ready for the framing. Progress is moving along well. However, we still need to find someone to take our dirt. If you know of anyone please tell us.

Thanks for looking, and the pictures are in the link below (if this works)

She's growing up.

Just a quick word to others who may the same situation. I went in to work yesterday to do a few things and left Kaylee home with Grandma Fulton. This is a good practice, because I am going back to work next week. I will be working about 2 days a week this school year.

Kaylee woke up as I was leaving and Grandma went in to take care of her. I came in to give her a kiss as I left. Well, she was fine when I in, but she started screaming knowing that mommy was usually the one to come get her in the mornings. I heard that scream continue as I walked down the hall and out to my car. I love my job and I am glad to be doing speech therapy, but that was a hard realization that she can't watch me like when she was younger.

I had to put in a sad face to go with the situation. But she was okay, had a great day with grandma and it will be good to her to be with people other than mommy and daddy.

Kisses

Well, just thought I would share a cute moment. Kaylee woke up a little earlier than normal today and I put her in bed with me for a little while. She likes to get up on her hands and look around. While she was doing that, she leaned towards me put her open mouth on my cheek. She proceeded to intermittently lick my face and then blow softly to make a funny sound. She then would then lean away, lean back, and repeat the process. So I got 2 or 3 fun kisses from Kaylee today. My favorite was one of the first kisses. She sat open mouthed on my cheek blowing and licking and then she took her hand to feel my face like she likes to do. But in her feeling my face, she got a few fingers up my nose. So I had her licking and blowing on my face with a few fingers up my nose. Oh the joys of motherhood:)


So I obviously don't have a picture of her giving me kisses, but I seem to have a hard time adding a post and not putting a picture of Kaylee. So, here is a cute one of her yesterday.

Sundays

It was a crazy Sunday with bumps and scratches. First, during sacrament, Kaylee was given one of the little plastic water cups to play with. She was enjoying herself with the smaller half of the cup for quite a while. Then, without Clayton or I seeing, she flipped it around and got the whole cup stuck in her mouth and the edge was just sharp enough to cut her gums! Who knew it was possible? So, we ended up having a very upset baby with gums that were bleeding!

Then, that night, she was playing with the banister and had her arms resting against it. Then, all of a sudden, she pulled both of her hands out that she was resting on and bumped her head pretty good on the banister. We should have taken a picture last night, but I didn't until just now. So, last night, the entire side of her forehead right above her left eye was red with a very purple bruise. You can see the small bruise there now if you look closely. It looks like a small purple circle.

Just wanted you to see her first bruise!