Bound to happen

Dear Caylee,

Well, I guess it was bound to happen eventually. This weekend you threw your first public temper tantrum. We were at the mall playing in the arcade. When I told you it was time to go you started throwing a big fit, and when I put you in time out (which has always worked before) you threw an even bigger fit! You refused to sit down, arched your back, screaming and crying and you even pulled out a new trick, hitting! You stood in front of me swinging your arms while Mommy and I looked at each other in shock. We just were not quite sure what to do. So, we put you in your stroller, strapped you in and took you to the car. I hope this won't be a normal occurrence.

You have been talking a lot lately. Last week when I was putting you to bed you started saying something I could not quite make out, so I listened really close. You were saying the pledge of allegiance I could not understand you until you got to "one Na-chun uhh god in-bis-pu li-ty juss por awwww" (one nation...) You are too smart!!

You love to sing too. You are learning lots of new songs at school. You surprise us all the time. You can sing "baby bumble bee," "twinkle twinkle little star,"the jumping song," and you LOVE to sing ABC's!!

Tonight you talked for about 2 hours non stop. After a big day of playing on the trampoline and the pool at Debbie's, you had some dessert. I think that's what had you so wound up. You were really cute, talking and singing non-stop!

eeeeggs arrr you? (Eggs where are you?)

Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Easter

Dear Caylee,
Happy Easter! At school on Friday your class had an Easter party. When you came home you told us “fine eggs.” You had a really good time. On Saturday your friend Christian from next door came to your house to play, and later we had an Easter egg hunt for both of you. You had a great time. You really like Christian. You think everything he does is funny. You always look for him when we are outside.

On Sunday when you woke up the Easter Bunny had paid you a visit. He left Easter eggs all over the floor. You noticed the eggs and picked up a few. You were happy to see the Easter basket, but when you found out that there were M&M’s inside the eggs you were really excited. You started flapping your arms and laughing.

The Easter Bunny left you lots of candy, a “Samari Pie” Tyrone (from your favorite Backyardigans cartoon), a horse flashlight, a coloring book and a few other fun things. I think you like the candy best.

You are taking vitamins now too. Flinstone vitamins. You really like them and never let us forget them. You say “purpoo pink!” (purple Pink.) to let us know you want your vitamins.

You are such a smart girl. You are doing really great with counting and ABC’s. We got you High-ho Cherri-0. It is a counting a game, and you LOVE to “p-yeah che-wees” (play Cherries) You don’t quite understand the whole game just yet, but you love to count the cherries and put them in the buckets.

At bedtime you just have to have your story, and now you want to have your baby “read” your story to you. You want me to have the baby move her head and help to turn the pages. You don’t really want to lay down and be quite, but you usually do it because your baby is sleeping and you think you need to be quite.

We have been taking you to visit Debbie and to jump on the trampoline at her house. You have so much fun doing that. You ask to see Debbie a lot now. Tonight she came to visit and you were so excited to see her. You ran to her and threw your arms up for her to pick you up for a big hug.

We are having a great time with you. Your personality is starting to develop even more now. You really like to be funny and you have a great sense of humor too. We always get such a kick out of seeing you laugh at a movie, especially when we weren’t quite sure you got the joke. You have such a great laugh!!!

Slumber party with Grandmommy and Grandaddy

Dear Caylee,
You got to spend last night with Grandmommy and Grandaddy. They came to stay the night with you at your house while Mommy and I were out to celebrate 10 years together.
You were not feeling very good when they arrived, and you were making sure everyone knew it. Especially me! The spring pollen got the best of you and you were coughing and sneezing and had a terrible runny nose.

Of course right after we lest you must have been feeling much better, because Grandmommy and Grandaddy said that you were a very good girl. Very tired… but very good. You fell asleep in Grandaddy’s lap 30 min. before you usually fall asleep.

You are so smart! You amaze us all the time. The other day we figured out that you were singing the “baby bumble bee” song that you had learned from school. It’s very cute!!

You love the little boy from next door Chrstian. He has a soccer ball and a slide and he always plays very nice with you. You ask for him every day. You say “see Crispin” You like Stacey and Debbie too. You usually ask for Debbie and want to go to their house to jump on the trampoline. Debbie always bribes you with good food and Diet Coke. You really like her.

You are starting to get pretty interested in wearing panties. You have some with Elmo, Nemo, ponies and of course Cars. You want to wear the “pa-nees” but not enough to go to the potty just yet. I know it won’t be too much longer. You are just getting SOOOO big!!!

Easter is coming up soon. I know you will have a great time at the Easter egg hunt. I can’t wait for you to see your Easter basket in the morning!!

spring 2007

Photo and video editing at onetruemedia.com

Miss Manners

Dear Caylee,
My computer crashed so I have not blogged for a while. You are doing so many cute things. You have such nice manners. You love to say “pank you Mama” (Thank you) every time I hand you something. And when I say “thank you” you always say “welcome.” When anyone sneezes you say “bess you” (bless you) and when I cough you say “guness gway-shus Mama.” You really are very sweet! It’s very cute to see you say sorry when you make a mistake. You hang your little head low and make sad eye’s

You are also quite the little actress. You like to make sad, mad and happy faces, and you have a really great fake cry that you put on when you say bye to someone (even if you don’t really like them.) While we were at Walmart you put on the fake cry when the lady in line tried to tell you bye too.

You really like your school. When you wake up in the morning you like to say. “ ga go school see fins, Tammy” ( Gotta go to school and see friends and Ms. Tammy your teacher) At night time you usually tell us about your day. You tell use “Dawson truuubooo” (Dawson got in trouble) and sometimes you tell us your teacher Ms. Tammy was in trouble too.

You are still hooked on the movie “Finding Nemo” and love to play cars. We are trying to get you to like another movie because we are so tired of watching Finding Nemo!!

You have started to like to play with your babies too. You like for them to read stories with us at night and sometimes when we sit down for dinner you let us know that your baby is hungry too, and we let her sit at the table with us.

You LOVE to eat “apple-saw” (applesauce) and drink “Mee Mulk” (Minnie Milk.) Minne Milk is Strawberry flavored milk. We put it in a Minnie mouse glass and you get to help put in the red syrup and stir. I’m not sure if you like the helping make the milk or drinking the milk more.

You are so much fun to have around. We love to play with you and you really are a very good girl. We love you SOOOO much!

Vacation!!

Dear Caylee,
We had a great time on our cruise together. We left from Myrtle Beach on an airplane. You like to say “up up sky” After some slight changes in our flights and some misplaced baggage we met our friends Robert and Ruben and Kristi and Charlci in Miami for dinner.

The next day we left on the “bee shp” (big ship) for 7 days of fun. You had such a great time. We decorated our door on the ship with lots of your favorite pictures. You liked to walk down the hall to find “tayee’s dour” (Caylee’s door)

You were a little shy with “Cha-see” and “Krispee” at first, but you warmed up to them pretty quick. You loved to tell Charlci “no book mouth.” We’re not sure why you kept telling her that, but it is from one of your favorite Mickey Mouse books where Pluto was holding a book in his mouth.

You had a great time swimming in the pool, even though it was very cold. You learned to turn around in a circle while you were wearing your arm floaties. You also liked to play in the whirlpool with the “buu-boos” (bubbles.) You were afraid of the toddler pool because the slide was shaped like the mouth of a dolphin. I guess you thought he was eating all of those kids!

You like the pirate party and the other family dance parties. You were so cute dancing with the other kids. You did not like the adults as much. You were scared of Rosie (O’Donnell) too. The only thing you would say to her was “piz-zaa” (peace out)

You had a great time at the beach too. You were afraid of the waves at the first beach we went to because they were a little rough, but at the second beach you had a great time! “Krispee” and Cha-see” brought you some great beach toys to play with and by the end of the day, you were having a great time playing in the waves too.

You were a pretty good girl on the trip. You did get a little nervous around big crowds and when you saw strangers in the hallway. There was a melt down or two after a long day of playing, and for some reason taking both taking a bath and getting out of the bath were big issues.

The best part of the whole trip was getting to spend time with our family and friends. When we left “Krispee” and “Cha-see” at the airport, you were sad. You were crying when you had to say bye-bye.
We had so much fun with you. We can’t wait for our next trip together!

Goin' cruisin'

Dear Caylee,
We’re goin’crusin’. Saturday we leave for our second cruise with you. I have been telling you all about it and now you are telling me about it too. You say “up, up sky” because you know we are going on an airplane, and you say “ship” and “fins” (friends) because we have told you that you will meet lots of new friends too. We are bringing along lots of your favorite toys like cars and Mickey and Minnie Mouse. I hope you are a good girl. We have a few long plane rides and you don’t usually like crowds.

This week at school you had a valentine party. You got to bring Valentines for your friends and M&M’s. You really liked putting the heart stickers on the Valentines, and you really liked the candy that the other kids brought you too!

My new favorite word to hear you say is Ketchup. You say “check-up” TOO CUTE !!