Kayla through the years!

I can't believe it's been nearly 2 months since I last updated! Bad me!

Since I've updated last, Kayla turned 5! I can't believe that my little baby girl is 5! I honestly don't know where the past 5 years have gone. She has grown up so much. She is in school, plays soccer, reads, draws really well and is so sweet! We took her for her 5 year portraits at Sears a couple of weeks ago and I can't get over how old she looks! I thought I would do the looking back over the years with her too!

Birth
3 months
6 months
9 months
1 year
1 1/2 years
2 years
2 1/2 years
3 years
3 1/2 years
4 years
4 1/2 years
5 years!
It's amazing to see how much she has changed over the 5 years! Happy belated birthday baby girl!

Kayla's 4 year portraits!

I keep meaning to post these! We got her 4 year portraits back and they turned out awesome! They look a little dark but I scanned them in, they look better in person.

Kayla's 4th Birthday

Sunday was Kayla's 4th birthday, and I really can't believe it! I can't believe that the little girl we brought home from the hospital 4 years ago, is going to start school in the fall! She has become such a little lady, she is so smart and every day makes me crack up because of the funny things she says. We had a bunch of people over on Saturday night for a party so I thought I would post some pics.

Blowing a party blower and sporting a pretty cute hat!
Opening up Candy Land!
Some pretty cute clothes
I think she was excited and surprised about a jewelery box!
A pretty bracelet from Grammy
The two of them blowing out candles!

These pictures are from Sunday when she opened our presents.

A dry erase board book to help her write letters and numbers
Some gum, she was pretty excited about it!
A pretty blue skirt (her favourite colour) and shirt for summer!
And I just had to post this pic of Zachary too, so cute!

I thought I would post pics of her on her birthday's over the past 4 years to see how much she has grown up! WOW!

About 2 months old

1st Birthday

2nd Birthday
3rd Birthday
4th Birthday

Wow, long time no post!!

I can't believe that it's been this long since my last post! I honestly don't know where the time has gone! Not really anything new has happened here, that's how exciting my life is!!!

Well, we had another biting incident at our house last night. Juliana was pushing the bar stools around the kitchen and Kayla being her bully of a person sometimes decided to get in on the action and took over. She was holding one of the stools from Juliana so she couldn’t push it and Juliana decided to retaliate. Luckily, the skin wasn’t broken this time, but I think that is because I was able to intervene in time and stop her before she did (Last time, she bit Kayla on the calf and it bled, and of course Kayla freaked out when she saw the blood!). Aw, the joys of having a 3 year old and a 1 ½ year old (note the sarcasm!) Life should be interesting in 6 months when I have 3! Let me just say, bring on October 5th when we go away for the weekend for our anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was pretty funny after Juliana let go, I slapped her hand and told her “no biting” so what does she do? She bites her own arm several times! She really is strange!


(Sorry for the quality of the pic, for some reason my camera wouldn’t let me get a very good close up shot of it. At least you can an idea of the bite, perfect indent of every single tooth!)

Jeff has been busy working on the basement for the past few weeks. For the past week every free minute of his has been spent down there. He'll get home from work, go straight down there, come up and quickly eat supper, go back down and if he has a meeting or something that night he'll come up 10 minutes before he has to leave and then go back down when he gets home and he stays down there until at least 10! The girls miss him but it's to the point it will slow down now. All the electrical is done, and my parents are coming down next weekend to start the drywall!!! YAY!!!! I can't wait until it's done. It will be so weird living with a second floor. Right now we have 1100 square feet for 4 people (2 of those being crazy chickies that leave toys everywhere!) It will double our house when it's done! And the toy room will be downstairs so I'll actually be able to walk around up here without stepping on any toys! We're hoping that we'll be done the whole basement with drywall, painting, drop ceiling, flooring and the bathroom by the time the baby comes. So that gives us 6 months! Here's some pics of the progress.

Here's Jeff finishing up the last piece of tape!

This is where the tv area will be

This is looking at the computer area and the bathroom and bedroom

This is where the kids play area will be and our exercise equipment.

The hall and stairs

Kayla telling a story!

The last few nights before Kayla goes to sleep she likes to tell us stories. So this morning I grabbed the camera and thought I would record one cause they are so cute!!! I'll translate it for you cause it's hard to understand some of it.

"Long, long time ago, I was a baby. And....I....go in the crib, and I cried, and I grew up, and you put me back to sleep, and I grew up, and I was able to talk!"

I asked "And now what are you?"

"A big girl!!!! I like that story! Right?"

Kayla's New Glasses!!

Sorry for all the weird things happening with the blog posts last time. I don't know what happened????

Anyways, I took Kayla to the eye doctors about a month ago because her right eye kept turning in if she was trying to focus. At first she just did once in a while and we thought it was because she was being silly, but then it got to be more often. So I took her in and he said that her vision was pretty bad (worse than mine even!) so he had me take her back a week later to perform some more tests just to see what prescription she needed. She was so good at the eye doctors, she wasn't scared at all (actually she was quite the talker!) and sat really still for the doctor. He even said she sits still better than some 11 year olds!! So we got a prescription for her and went and ordered her some glasses. They finally came in today so we went and picked them up. They are a bit big for her but they were the smallest frames in the store. She got used to them pretty quick, the only problem is her ear started to hurt towards the end of the day. I think we need to take them in and get readjusted. She looks pretty cute in them! And I was amazed at how well she is took to them right away. I put them on her before we left the store and she has been wearing them since. When she first had them on it was like a light bulb was turned on, she could see so much better! She was looking all around at everything like she had never seen any of it before. And in the van, she read books the whole way home!!! I feel a lot better about her having them cause I know they improve her vision. It was pretty cute, she was looking up at the screen for the DVD player and said in awe "Look mommy, it's bigger!" Then she moved her glasses up and said "Smaller!" and kept doing it over and over. Then she looked at me and said the same thing!! Here's some pics of her in her glasses. There is still one pair coming in this week.



I just hope and pray that kids will be kinder to her than they were to me when I was a kid (I wore Coke bottle thick glasses with bi-focals in them for years). I guess only time will tell!

Kayla's birthday celebrations!!!

Well, we had quite a busy weekend with Kayla's birthday! It seemed like we were partying it up non stop!! LOL!!!! Friday night it was just us with her, opening presents and I made a little cake for her. She was pretty excited to open presents. We spoiled her!! She got lots of Play-Doh sets from us so we had some fun playing with those later after Juliana went to bed. She had lots of fun! Then Saturday morning we went to Windsor and got her 3 year portrait taken. She did so good, it was almost like she was a model. The lady taking the pictures would just move her body all over and tell her to smile and she would. We get them back in a couple of weeks so I'll post them on here. Then Saturday night we had Jeff's family over for cake and presents. She got spoiled again! Sunday my parents came down for the afternoon and then we had some people over for pizza and then afterwards cake and presents, and she got spoiled again!! On Monday she was so sweet and said "My birthday is all over, no more presents" with a cute little pout on. I told her that her birthday would be coming again in another year. Jeff told her we would leave all the balloons and streamers up until the weekend. She was happy with that. Here's some pics from the weekend!

Here she is hugging the Max & Ruby dolls we got her. She was
pretty happy to see these since the last time we were in
Wal-mart she saw them and asked for them.

Here we are reading the card I made for her.

She's opening up a fun Dora horse trailer toy from that they both love!

She's showing off the cute bathing suit and game from
Grammy & Papa! (Jeff's parents)

This is the cake I made for Saturday night, Wish Bear
(she loves Care Bears!)

I know this picture doesn't have anything to do with her birthday,
I just thought this was a cute picture of her with her arms
wrapped around daddy during story time.

Here she is opening the cute "meemo" (Nemo) lamp from Grandpa Bob. The funny thing is that night we put the night light part of it on and she woke up in the middle of the night screaming because of the "eye". I think she wasn't used to it and it scared her a little. She was fine the next night with it! LOL!!

Here she is modeling the cute Minnie Mouse coat from
Papa & Gramma (my parents)

Look at that smile! Here she is showing off the Love-A-Lot Bear cake I made for Sunday night's party. Can you guess what her favourite cartoon is right now???

During the party we looked over and saw Kayla & Grandpa Bob reading books. Curious George books, her favourite!!!

Well, that just about sums up the weekend! She had lots of fun! It was a wonderful birthday for our girl. It's hard to believe that it has been 3 years already since she blessed us with her presence! God blessed us with such a wonderful, fun, smiley angel that has become such an important part in our family. She is so smart and I know she will go far in life. She has such an awesome personality and makes me laugh daily at the things she comes up with. Jeff and I thank God everyday for the 2 angels that we have. We love them so much!!!! Happy birthday, Kayla boo!!!