Teddy Bear Picnic

We were given the opportunity to attend the local heritage museum's first annual teddy bear picnic.  We brought her favorite bear, packed a picnic lunch, and went to enjoy our afternoon with friends hunting down bears.  While there we listened to a ten year old story teller, made a bear puppet, and went on a bear hunt through out the museum while learning about our cities heritage.  I enjoyed being able to learn about the town and Kaylie enjoyed hunting for bears.  Once we found all the bears we were given a goody basket with a bunch of activities and some local honey. 

FAC

With Eli and Nonna in town we decided to beat the 100+ heat by going to FAC.  They had so much fun and loved all of the water slides and lazy river.  We spent several hours there and were definitely worn out by the time we got home.  

Just because...

Ms. Kristin's wedding site was beautiful.  If it wasn't for the fact that it was 108 out we would have been outside a lot more letting Kaylie run off some energy but as it was the 15 minutes we were outside was enough and then it was time to go back in to the AC.

 

K's first wedding

Kaylie's first wedding was an absolute success. We were invited to Ms. Kristin's wedding and was incredibly excited to go.  She asked a lot of questions and enjoyed being there.  During the reception she enjoyed looking at the cakes and snacking on cheese.  All in all it was a great experience.  Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Reed.  We are so happy for you!

Eli and Kaylie

We love having Nonna and Eli visit.  They really love each other and want to do whatever the other on is doing.  Their relationship grows stronger and stronger every time they are with each other. 

 

New do

The time has finally come to take the chance and cut her hair.  We have been working hard to bring her hair line up so her forehead didn't look so big and her hair had the ability to do a bunch of different things.  After many arguments, chasing a naked child in a bath/shower, and refusals to let me brush her hair we did it.  She got a bob.  She has had this style before but she was a lot younger and we were working on shaping her hair from baby hair style to toddler.  This time around I was hesitant because I feared it would make her look significantly younger.  As nervous as I was I knew it was the right move and when all was said and done we both loved it. 

She has never had her hair washed before so I didn't know how this would go.  After seeing a girl a year or two older do it she decided it would be ok. 

The muscles in her neck were so incredibly tight but she did it. 

You think we could have found another pillow or two?!?

We ended up taking off a good 4 to 6 inches.

Proud and happy...loving her new do!  Ignore the pieces of hair hanging down in her face.  We are working on growing her bangs out and we are needing to train the pieces of hair to stay back.

Kaylie and London

Kaylie and London have been friends from the first day they met at school.  They will be friends for a long time to come.

Rainforest Cafe

Hungry for lunch we decided to take a risk and try out the Rainforest Cafe for the first time for both the three of us.  We figured the food would be pricey and probably not very good but to our surprise it was pretty good.  As you can see by Kaylie's face in the first picture she was definitely not sure what to make of this place.  The animals moving and the rain coming down freaked her out.  After going over to the animals and actually getting to touch them to confirm that they were not real she started to warm up.  At the end she kept asking to have the monkeys start to talk again promising she wasn't going to be scared anymore.