Fun Weekend!

Dear Caylee,
You had a great Memorial Day weekend this year. On Saturday we went to North Carolina for Cade's birthday party. You had a really good time! You got to see lots of your family.There were balloons,which you loved! You made new friends, and you learned to swing on the big girl swing all by yourself! You were really excited about that.

The next morning you ate breakfast three times. (aunt Tiffiny bought donuts!!) After visiting with everyone for a while we left for home. You must have had a really great time and tired yourself out because you slept the whole 3 hour ride home. (You usually only sleep about half an hour.)

Today you got to visit Debbie in the morning, she brought you to Bob Evan's for a late breakfast. Later we went to visit your friends Josh and Callen. You stayed in the pool ALL DAY!! You love to be in the water. You had a great time going under the water. NO FEAR!!! Most of the time you had on floaties, but a few times we would take them off and let you try to swim. You did a much better job kicking your feet with your floaties on. When you figured out that you got to go under water without your floaties you decided that it was fun! You like to stand on the steps and go completely underwater and pop your head up at the last minute. I hope that you will learn to swim without your floaties soon!

Once again you wore yourself out!! You were so tired when we got home, but I know you had a great time!

Catching up

Dear Caylee,
It's been a few weeks since I have blogged for you so I thought I would catch you up. You have been having a great time playing with Josh and Callen on the weekends, you love to play and swim together. We told you that you did a great job swimming last weekend and you like to remind us frequently and say"great job swimmin' day." You are very proud.

Sunday Mommy let you skip your nap. You were playing with your friends from 1pm until 6:00. It was a big day of Swimming and jumping on the trampoline. When we got home you barely made it through bath time, you were asleep before I even got to put on your PJ's!! You were SO tired!!

You have not been doing such a great job of going to bed latley. Every night seems to be a bit of a power struggle. You get up over and over again and we keep putting you right back in bed. You are trying so hard! One night you pulled out all the stops and laid in bed crying "hep me, hep me, hep me" ( help me) It was really pitiful!!!

Your favorite book is "The Family Book." We read it every night, you especialy like to say "some pam-pees cwy-at, shhh!! an some pam-pees noy-see. awwwoo!!!" (some families are quite and some families are noisy)

This weekend we are going to a birthday party for your cousin Cade. I know you will have a great time playing with all your cousins and family!!

Swimming

Dear Caylee,
You are getting better and better in the water! Last weekend you figured out how to move in the water with your water wings on. You have known for a while how to spin around in a circle. Last weekend you were going after a toy that got away and when I told you to "run" you started moving your legs and you were SO excited to be able to move like you wanted to. You swam a lot that day.

Today you had a great day. We went to Debbie's to jump on the trampoline and swim. You were suppose to take a nap there, but you refused to fall asleep. Later you got to meet two new friends that are from Guatemala too. They are both 6 years old. You had a great time playing with them. You especially liked jumping on the trampoline with them. Tonight you went to bed an hour earlier than usual you were sooo tired!!

You still love to go to school. Every day you ask us if we had a good day at school with our friends, and you love to tell us about who gets in trouble in school. You are learning new songs and getting better and better at saying the pledge of allegiance.

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

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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!