Woo Hoo

I have posted!!! I keep saying I am going to get better but I can't seem to get my act together so for now you get a bunch of posts with 3 videos included. I figure I needed to make up for the absence of posts.

Kaylie update:

Miss K is doing fantastic!!! She has come so incredibly far and is accomplishing so many of her goals that have been set for her in the past few months we are all blown away. As of now she no longer needs physical therapy or occupational therapy. She needs speech but only for help with her receptive side of things. That means she is needing help understanding what you are saying/asking. Her vocabulary is amazing and she is truly talking up a storm. Spend five minutes with her and you will be busting a gut at the things she has to say. She definitely takes after her mommy in that she has an opinion.

A few weeks ago we completed an evaluation for the preschool program for children with disabilities through our school district. Once she turns 3 she will no longer be able to do ECI so they have to transition them to the school district. The only catch is that they have to qualify. Since Kaylie does not struggle with her cognitive abilities they were thinking about putting her in walk-in speech only. After providing everything we could possibly think of they decided to go ahead and recommend putting her in the preschool program to help fill in the gaps and help with the social side of things that she currently struggles with. We are very grateful for this because we have had so much support we fear losing it would put her more behind. She will start with two weeks left in the school year and then continue once the 2010-2011 school year starts. I can't believe my baby girl is old enough to go to preschool.

Weight wise...After having gained less than a pound since November her body has finally given in and we are now 24 lbs. She is no longer the weight of a 12 month old. Height wise their is really no concern. She is on the charts with that and the doctors are thrilled.

Health...Everyone is so pleased with her progress! We are taking her off her inhaler and changer her to Flovent which is huge. Since we got her immunity fixed her illnesses have been mild compared to the illnesses she had prevaccine. What a blessing. GI wise...he is also thrilled. Weight wise they are no longer concerned and we are not having as many issues with throwing up as we had. We have been slowly increasing her volume of food and she is for the most part tolerating it. The only semi negative thing we have is with her ears. We have one ear that is about to be tubeless. It is pretty much stuck in wax. It has definitely come out way to soon. Hopefully, we will not have any issues from that.

That's about it for now. Enjoy all the pictures!

Early MD present

Since we do not have another MOPS meeting before Mother's Day we were blessed with an absolutely adorable craft from our kids. I so appreciate this craft because as I read it I know that the majority of the answers truly came from Kaylie. I can picture her saying the entire bottom paragraph. These are the gifts that truly mean the most to me. I will cherish this for a long time.

Scooooooooooterrrrrrrrrrr

I am still shocked at how well she can ride it!!!

Bunny helmet

The other day we were at our neighbors house playing and after watching Kaylie play on the scooter they offered it up to us since they were all too big for it. Miss K was so incredibly excited and wants to play on it ALL the time. She loves it so much she tries to sneak it into the house to play. If it isn't visible she will ask for it until she finally gets her way.

With her daddy being such and outdoorsy person we decided to go ahead and get her used to wearing a bike helmet. We figure if we start pushing this now it wont be a problem once she starts riding a bike. Surprisingly, she didn't mind it. We tried on several helmets and this is the one she chose...pink helmet with bunnies.

The first time she wore it we had a hard time buckling it. She got pinched and then refused to wear it. When we told her no helmet, no scooter she quickly changed her mind and put it on. Now she asks for it even when we are not needing it.

Trying it on.

Our first ride with the helmet.

Kaylie's play kitchen has a phone on it. One day after breakfast I realized she was having a pretend conversation with her daddy. When I asked her to do it again this is what I got.

Spring time flowers

This year Jason and I decided it was time to do some serious planting. With the last freeze behind us we have spent several weeks buying and planting flowers. Luckily we have gotten a good amount of rain and our flowers are absolutely gorgeous. We also lucked out in that we went a little early in the season and found some flowers we had never heard of and probably wouldn't have bought if we had waited. So far we have been super pleased with how our yard looks. Now the goal is to keep up with it.

On a side note...Kaylie was wonderful during all of our shopping adventures. The first day we went to Calloways. After a few minutes of fighting her we gave in and let her be. By the end she had her shoes off while bear walking down the aisles. Thankfully, it wasn't busy at all!

Merry Go Round

We have slowly worked ourselves up to this moment. As we walked by the Merry Go Round Kaylie asked to ride it. When I let daddy know mommy doesn't do well going around and around

he gave in to her beautiful blue eyed baby girl and took her on her first ride on the big girl horses. She loved it. Daddy loved it too with the exception that he was a little nauseous when he got off. That was the exact reason why mommy didn't want to go.

Hi Daddy

Occasionally I will try and send daddy some video or photos of our day. She wanted to let her daddy know how much she loves him.

Cheese

After church on Easter Sunday we decided to go out to lunch. Jason took us to an area that had a beautiful landscape in Allen. Yet again another perfect picture opportunity. Kaylie helped by hamming it up. She had a blast running around and finding all of the ducks. She was exhausted by the time we left.



I absolutely love how good she is with her Ruff Ruff and Meow Meow. She is so sweet with them.


I love this picture. Their was a loud bang and the birds went flying. This is the, "I'm scared" look.

Hooray...daddy finally found where we were hiding.

She is growing up so fast. She no longer looks like a baby.

I was surprised the waterfall did not scare her. Usually she wants nothing to do with things like this.

She happened to see some bronze horses across the pond. This is her neighing at them.

Another one of the, "I am growing up" pictures.

Deep thought...actually she's watching some kids jump from rock to rock.

Poor duck never had a chance with Kaylie around. We started to fear the duck would attack so after a minute or two of her chasing it we called her back.

We do not tell her to kiss things. I would actually prefer she didn't. For some reason she feels the need to do it. I have to act like I don't see these things.

She kissed him as well.

She insisted on walking on the ledge and was even more insistent that daddy walk with her. She was in charge of where we walked the entire time.

We tried to get her to sit WITH Meow Meow. She didn't want to.

Happy Easter

Post church photo shoot.

Easter morning

The Easter Bunny was very good to Kaylie I am guessing she has been a good girl this year. My favorite thing was the princess soccer ball. Now she can really soccer kick down the side walks in front of our house.

She got two Hot Wheels cars. She made daddy open them right away. The Easter Bunny got her two purple cars. He must have known that purple is mommy's favorite color.

She didn't know what to make of the soccer ball at first. It wasn't until it was opened and Bailey and been kicked that she started to understand what it was going to be used for.

Her eggs had "Easter monies" in them as Kaylie called it. This quickly became her favorite over everything else.

One Sweet Chick

This year we went to our annual egg hunt at what Kaylie would call "the girl's" house. This is the 3rd year we have done this and Kaylie loves it more and more every year. She is getting good at this egg hunt thing.

If you are going to go you should go in style. She loves her sun glasses and refused to put her beach bucket down. We ended up making use of it by putting the filled Easter eggs in it.

She actually went up to her daddy to pose with him. I didn't make her do that.

We tried to take a picture with her sunglasses on her head just like mommy but it didn't work out too well.

Kaylie and "the girls." They treat her like she is a sister. She even looks like she could be a sister.

Lexi takes the best care of her. I know Kaylie is not getting into trouble when Lexi is watching her.

Since Kaylie was the youngest by a few years she was the first one out. Good thing...the other kids were fast!!!

Daddy was their to help. Mommy was their to take pictures. Shocking I know!