June Wrap Up

On Saturday, we packed up and headed to a family reunion. Kaylee's grampy has like 30 something 1st cousins(!) so there were plenty of people to meet.
Of course, Kaylee was far more interested in the teenager technology that was to be found.
So Daddy helped Kaylee have her very first jam session.
A rockstar is born!
Here's a group shot of those present for a while. Obviously not all of Grampy's cousins could make it, but it was nice to see some faces I hadn't seen since I was...oh Kaylee's age!
Great-Grandma Chip was in attendance, so Kaylee got to catch up with her. She also got along swimmingly with her cousin Julianna, who neither of us had ever met.
Thick as thieves after only minutes...
The cuteness in the room was overwhelming, obviously I am biased, but these are 2 good-looking cousins if you ask me!

And of course, when it was time to say good bye, they did so in the traditional Italian manner.
Yesterday, Uncle Ben and Auntie Danielle came over for a long over-due visit. With Ben's help we set up our new child-proof entertainment center...and Ben then lost no time showing Kaylee how to sword fight with packing Styrofoam.
Kaylee was a quick study.
Then it was a quick tickle break...
and a quick smile for the camera...

before Kaylee and Auntie Danielle waged war on poor Uncle Ben.
I think Ben may have been sorry he taught Kaylee how to sword fight...
Then this morning we headed down to Grammy and Grampy's to visit with an old high school friend of Grammy's who was visiting from Maryland. Janet thought she might have to buy Kaylee's affection with a Little People Gift.
But as she soon found out, the way to Kaylee's heart is through reading her a book.
And that was our weekend! Omg, tomorrow is July!!!

a week in the life....

Wow, its been a crazy week. I haven't taken any pictures this week, but I did last week, so we'll start with that.
Last Thursday we went to Jackie and Emily's place and went to the indoor pool with the kiddies.
As usual, Kaylee loved being in the water.
There were lots of floats, but Kaylee seemed to really like the bear.
Awww big hugs for our friend Emily.
Smile for the camera please Levys.
Christina and Henry were there as well, Henry loved the water, as long as he could cling to his Mommy. Phoebe and Sophie were there as well, but I guess I didn't manage to snap a photo of them.
Then on Friday, we had an Italian dinner at Phoebe/Ron/Sophie's house. Daddy played with the girls while the table was set and last minute preparations were done. I didn't help though, Phoebe is most definitely the "hostess with the mostess."

Emily and her parents were there as well, and while the adults ate at the table, the girls tried out an indoor picnic style dinner.
I didn't think Kaylee would do very well at that...but she did just fine.
So the adults could finish dessert, we put the electronic babysitter on for the girls...even though Sophie isn't a big Sesame Street fan, she allowed her guest to choose the programming, so Kaylee was enthralled and not at all paying attention to her hostess.
On Saturday, G-Pa Ron came down for a visit, although Kaylee seems to be settling on "Gumpa" as a name for him.

We played outside since it was so nice.
And I even managed to snag some photographic evidence of Ron's visit, for a change!
Of course, even a visit from "Gumpa" doesn't negate the need for Sesame Street, but luckily Ron didn't mind watching with her.
Well that's it. We've had a really busy week, but apparently I haven't bothered with the camera. So you'll have to settle with what I give ya.

Oh my, how time does fly.

I know, I know its been too long, but what can I say, I'm tired, cranky and pregnant...blogging is not all that high on my priority list. However, I do have some cute pics so I am going to share despite the fact that I probably should be napping while Kaylee is.
Today was playgroup day and it was nice (after several days of chilly rain,) so we had the kids outside. Now there were plenty of photo-ops, but lazy-bones here (that's me) didn't bother retrieving said camera until Kaylee and Henry went on their 'second date.' See their first date below.
Apparently the conversation was scintillating.
"Check please," Henry seems to be saying!
On Saturday, Christina, Jason and Henry had all of us over for dinner. It was pretty nice, so the kids got to play outside for a while before it got too buggy. See how chivalrous Henry was being. It was almost like their first date. Not really obviously, I think its almost creepy when we moms reference stuff like that...but still...
Then it was inside for 15 minutes of the electronic babysitter while we got the table set and the food off the grill. A good time was had by all!
Kaylee loves Loofy.

Actually she really loves Petra, but Petra runs away from Kaylee's affections while Loofy tolerates them, so I only have photographic proof of her love of the Loof.

Awwwww, nice hugs Kaylee.

Here she was actually moving in for a quick smooch.
Ewwww doggy lips (at least, that's what Grampy would say.)
He makes quite a comfortable pillow you know.
"Alright, I'm bored," says Kaylee. "Enough puppy-lovin,' time for something fun."
That's a pretty good smile huh?

Here's a similar pose, sans smile.
Kaylee even wore the skimpy-nightgown-style summer dress Grammy and Grampy got her it was so stinkin hot here last week. Ninetees for 4 days in a row!
And as promised, here are a few not so great pics showcasing Kaylee's new digs. Here she is on her big-girl Tinkerbell bed. Gotta love the bed-head. We always get Kaylee dressed first thing in the morning, however, hair usually doesn't get done until after breakfast.
And here she is taking books from her shelf looking at her big girl bed.
And that...as they say...is that!

Sorry its been so long...

Unfortunately, this is the last picture I took of Kaylee and her Great-Grandmother. My Grandmother passed away early Wednesday morning, and I am mainly telling this as a cathartic exercise for myself and to let any family know that my mom may not have talked to yet. In the Jewish tradition, she was laid to rest only 48 hours later, before the Sabbath, so my mother has been understandably busy. Grandma Mitzi died in her sleep, which is the most anyone can ask for in my opinion. On 1 hand, I am kicking myself because I didn't think to start taking pictures of Kaylee and she until after Kaylee had started becoming cranky and we were packing up to leave. On the other hand, I am so thankful that we just visited her last month and we got to say goodbye, especially since we were so close to calling the whole trip off at the time.
Grandma, we love you and we're sorry Kaylee didn't have more time with you and that #2 won't get to meet you at all.
Now, after that, is it even possible to share what's been going on in our mundane lives? I say yes, because Grandma would have wanted to know...
At our local homemade ice-cream parlor, the MOMS Club got a little tour prior to daily opening to see how they make ice-cream. And of course...what tour would be complete without samples? As you can see, Kaylee quite enjoyed her first taste of ice-cream. It was fresh out of the machine, and I must say, it does taste pretty darn good before frozen!
At first, Kaylee didn't want to try it, so Mommy took a bite and then all of a sudden it seemed more interesting. So she took a bite. "Nummy," she grinned. Yeah, that's what Mommy thought!
We finally got some sand for that sand and water table, and Kaylee dug right in! Half the sand is now on our driveway...but, fun was still had!
In fact, it so much fun that Kaylee called her friend Bailey to come over and check it out!
Bailey approved of the whole thing and the girls did a pretty good job sharing the toys at the table and not throwing sand at each other.
"This is pretty cool, Mommy!" Of course now it turns out that Kaylee might be allergic to the sand as she has broken out in a big rash all over her arms, legs and torso after playing in it...but more experiments will have to be conducted. The rash is gone...and its been about 6 days since we've let her play at the table. So if she breaks out again after we let her play next, I think we'll be able to confirm it.
Kaylee can count to 10! She likes to count her toes. Daddy caught her in the act one morning... But he was soon discovered and the counting stopped!
Lots of new things are happening this weekend. We just moved Kaylee into her new bedroom, complete with big-girl bed (pictures to come.) She's still in her crib as we want her to get acclimated to the new room before we try to move her to sleeping in a bed, but we're trying to get her out of the crib by the beginning of August so that all ownership of said crib will be forgotten by the time #2 gets here. Along with her new bedroom digs, we've rearranged our living floor, so that 1 room has no toys in it (although obviously she brings some in) but the idea is, there is one sort of adult room and then 1 playroom. Kaylee seemed to appreciate the new set up, and now she can see all of her toys as opposed to digging through her toy box to find something. The old toy box is now in her new bedroom.
To demonstrate the ridiculousness of New England. Wednesday-Friday of this week ranged in the high 50s to mid 60s for temperatures, and was accompanied by rain and clouds and general drear. Yesterday (and today and until further notice), the sun showed up and it was in the 90s! So to alleviate some of the heat, we broke out Kaylee's wiggly sprinkler which I bought at the end of last season for like $3. Kaylee was not too sure how she felt about being sprayed with cold water...but my guess is after a few more sessions, she'll be running through it.
And well, that's basically all the pictures I've taken since my last post. So that's the end of the update.