Little Big People Food
(Ok something's wrong...I can't make a title to this post...oh well, this was Monday July 2nd)
Anyway...Kaylee has progressed to yet another stage in "Adventures in Eating."
For breakfast she is now getting cut up fruit (as opposed to stuff I have to puree--huzzah!)
She really loves strawberries, as you can see.
She'll eat bananas in a pinch, but she seems to be a strawberry girl. We've also tried cut up blueberries which were met with a luke warm reception and raspberries which were mostly thrown off the tray to the circling sharks (erm I mean dogs.)
Later that same day I made the mistake of getting up to get a paper towel while leaving Kaylee's lunch, in this case ground peas, chicken and brown rice on Kaylee's tray. Well needless to say that in less than 2 seconds, it became finger food.
I told her she should use a spoon...so she looked at the spoon and weighed her options.
"No Mommy," she said, "it's definately finger food."
Well she managed to get some of it into her mouth anyway.

Bocce Barbecue!

So yesterday Kaylee decided to have a few guests over. Since her great Auntie Lynn and Uncle Mike were leaving to go home to the Seattle area the next day, she wanted to see them off in style and decided to throw a little barbecue for her family. In attendance: Auntie Lynn, Uncle Mike, Grampy, Auntie Jacqueline, Great-Grandma Chip, Bob, Pookie, and her friend Bailey and her mother Shana (though there's no photo proof of those last 2) and of course Mommy and Daddy.
After we had the good eats: salad, fruit salad, hamburgers, hot dogs, sausage and cookies (Mommy was busy that morning) we decided to play that family favorite: Bocce Ball. And we definately have the yard for it, lots of hilly terrain just to make it interesting.
And of course, its the most fun when everyone plays at the same time, no use letting people get good at it, one ball for everyone!
You can see that Auntie Lynn was really getting into it, although Daddy and Grampy seem to be interested in the patterns on the balls.
And Mommy couldn't resist making everyone do a stupid pose...I mean what is Bocce without everyone being silly anyway?
Look Auntie Lynn managed to take a picture with Mommy that Mommy actually likes!

And here's Kaylee watching the Bocce festivities with Great Grandma Chip and Pookie--go team go!
Kaylee was kind of fussy the whole week when Mike and Lynn were here, she is going through a very Mommy phase right now...but she did finally manage to let Mike hold her on the very last day, if only for a moment!
And what could Kaylee be so happy about now that we went inside to have some cookies?

Why its the fact that she decided to let Auntie Lynn hold her for a moment before she left! OK, maybe that's not what she was happy about...but I figured I had to try!
Oh! This is what she must be happy about, we decided to let the expert golfer (Uncle Mike) show us how it was done with Wii Golf! Even Daddy got into the swing of things! (nyut nyut nyut)
You can see the rest of the crowd was absolutely rivited by this rousing round of golf. Its almost as exciting as watching the real thing (please understand the voice in my head that narrates as I type is dripping with sarcasm here.)
Oh yeah, and on Friday, June 29th we went down to Grammy and Grampy's to have some good nosh there and besides the attendees above, add to the list: Auntie Diana, Cousins Don and Beth and Auntie Jackie's hubby Darren!
Woot! I am doing well so far for a Monday morning, I wonder what this week will have in store.

Happy 4th everyone:)

~*~k80

swimming!

"So Mommy, what are we going to do today?" asked Kaylee ever so politely.
"Well," I replied, "since we got your bathing suit and sunscreen on, I thought we'd try out your kiddle pool."
"Really!!!" exclaimed Kaylee excitedly. "That sounds like fun, I love baths, I bet the pool will be great."
"Well it might be a little chilly," Mommy said.
"Let's give it a try."
After a few timid moments of thinking this wasn't such a great idea, Kaylee splashed around for 5 or 6 minutes and seemed to rather enjoy herself in her big green pool.
"This is a lot more water than a bath Mommy," Kaylee mused. "But I know I'll be ok as long as I'm with you."
So that was today's adventure. We finally had a swim in our pool!

Ribfest--June 24th

On Sunday, our neighbors, Shana and Casey had tickets to Ribfest in Merrimack, NH. So they packed up their 9 month old, Bailey and we packed up our 9 month old, Kaylee and off we went. (Oh we packed also packed up Mike, because he was here too!)
We all had fun tasting all kinds of world famous barbecue and rib recipes. I think the boys enjoyed themselves more than us girls; but it was still a hoot!
Kaylee and Bailey held hands a few times but mostly just interacted from their strollers as it was warm out and we just wanted them to be comfy. But they still smiled and babbled at one another, quite cute as usual.
We also took in an arial show which was quite fun, I'd never seen one before...and neither had Kaylee:)

Daddy's haircut, and more visits--Junes 23rd

On Saturday morning Daddy was finally able to squeeze in some time for a haircut. Hey, did you know there was a face under that shaggy mane? Kaylee really liked Daddy's new look, and she wanted to show off her vest as well--as the last days of cool spring seem upon us and Mommy prepares to break out the shorts and bathing suits.
Our friends "uncle" Ben and "uncle" Mike came for a visit too. Once again I didn't take any pictures of Ben, but I did remember to take some pictures of Mike as he did come all the way up from NY to meet Kaylee for the first time.
And keeping with her love of the boys; she really loved her new found "uncle" Mike.

visits; June 21st

OK, again we're playing a bit of catch up here...Last Thursday, June 21st, we journey down to Newburyport to visit Grammy and Grampy. We also got to visit with long time family friend, Ann. We went for a nice long walk downtown and ended up at the playground so Kaylee could watch the kids which she really liked.
It took a bit of time for Kaylee to warm up to Ann, but eventually they were very good friends. And of course, we had to take a picture showing that Mommy and Kaylee were wearing twin hats...Go Sox!
Later that afternoon/evening--when we were back at home, our realtor, Harlan decided to drop by for a visit. He did really well by us and we like him a lot; but were very surprised by the visit. He wanted to meet Kaylee; then again, who doesn't? Unlike poor Ann, Kaylee took to Harlan within minutes. She really is a flirt-in-training--she likes the boys.

a week in review

OK well, I wasn't a good girl this week; I haven't updated in 8 days. But here we go, a slew of new pictures of our gorgeous girl.
First off, while she still isn't crawling, Kaylee is working on strengthening her legs. She does not pull herself up to a standing position, but she can stand on her own if you give her something to lean on.
"This is easy, Mommy" Kaylee says. "I could do this all day long." OK maybe not all day long--but she does it for several minutes before she gets bored or distracted and in baby time, perhaps that qualifies as 'all day long.'
Yesterday, June 20th--our weekly visit with Jackie and Emily. Kaylee, the gracious hostess she is, slept for about 2/3 of the time Emily was here; but at least they got some face to face time in.
And Emily was kind enough to be interested in Kaylee's toys and dogs for long enough to give Jackie and myself some time to do some scrapbooking while Kaylee slept. I am actually caught up with my calendar now and can get back to the big book.
Kaylee's hair is starting to get long. We had some fun in the bath over the weekend with her hair, we decided to give her a little shampoo mohawk. As usual, she finds the fact that her parents are so easily amused, a bit amusing in and of itself.
Here's a close-up of her Alfalfa-like do!
On Father's Day, I didn't take any pictures of Kaylee and Daddy together. Instead we took the opportunity to educate Kaylee about the Red Sox as we expect her to be an avid fan for the next 100 years or so. She listened as we explained the game and why the Red Sox are the team to cheer for.

She got really excited when we told her about the 2004 world series and the amazing come-back.
She was also thrilled when we told her about how well we were doing this season so far.
And of course, we had to tell her how we feel about those Yankees. She gets it already! She's gonna be a great Red Sox fan.
On Saturday, Mommy decided she wanted a picture of Kaylee sleeping. So when Kaylee's nap was almost through she crept into the room and took a picture of her sleeping angel.

Unfortunately for Kaylee the flash in the dark was definately enough to end the nap, and she wasn't too happy about it.
Kaylee made sure that looks could kill when she communicated to Mommy that she was not happy about being woken up.
Last Thursday, June 14th, Grammy, Grampy and Great-Grandma Chip came up for a visit. Kaylee had a great time singing and dancing with the visiting Gs.
And look at that smile: she loves her Great-Grandma!
More later!

Ciao