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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving Blessings

Happy Thanksgiving. After spending a wonderful day with family and eating way too much food, it's nice to be at home with my two most favorite people in the world. Chip and I have so much to be thankful for today. Karlee is the biggest blessing in our lives and we thank God for her everyday. She is so spunky and her personality is growing every minute. She was nonstop today playing with everyone and was just overall a happy baby today and all days.

With the economy crumbling down around us, we are so fortunate to have a stable home and family. I am so thankful for my wonderful family (Chip's included). I'm especially thankful for a wonderful husband who would go to the ends of the earth for us. I'm also thankful God has gifted us with the most precious little girl; thankful she's healthy, happy, loving, and ever growing. I don't know what I've done to deserve such a great gift. I am truly blessed.


Monday, November 24, 2008

Christmas Pictures - take 1



So, I tried to take a few pictures Friday of Karlee in her Christmas dress. This dress was all hand-made by my future sister-in-law's mom (no not engaged yet but its coming). Karlee was totally not interested and didn't smile once until I got her back inside. Maybe it had to do with it being 42 degrees outside!!

Riding Karlee Style

Karlee loves her little "bike". This is the way a child is supposed to ride it:


This is the way Karlee chooses to ride it and play on it:


I think I have a dare devil on my hands. When I push her around the living room on the bike, she says "oooom oooom" and turns the steering wheel.

Friday, November 14, 2008

What else can she get in to?

Karlee has a new interest: opening drawers and cabinets. I've already had to empty the bathroom drawers and cabinets because she plays in them when I take a shower. Now, she has found the DVD cabinet in the living room. This is what the cabinet started out looking like.



She started out removing one DVD, chewing on it, and then moving to another. That quickly got boring so she just grabbed a handfull and let them all topple out.




I know. Get baby locks you say. I did on Wednesday and that is our project for the weekend. My advice for the preggers out there: baby proof now. You'll see that time flies by so fast after your baby is born.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Cherished days off






I truly can't wait for Thursdays to end and hate for Mondays to end. I work three days a week and stay at home with Karlee on Mondays and Fridays. In the beginning, I was doing some work from home on Mondays because Karlee was still sleeping a lot during the day. Now that she is only on two naps a day, it is so much more fun to play on Mondays than work. Karlee and I had a nice lunch at Amsterdam with Chip today then off to Hickory Dickory Park we went (minus Chip). It was a spur of the moment thing as I was driving by. I thought it would be fun to see how Karlee liked the swings.

Karlee had a ball. I would say "Weeee" and she would laugh and say "EEEEEEE". I even sat in the big swings with her and she smiled and waved her arms each time we went backwards. She even liked the little tunnel and pulled her lunch bag in it with her. We may make this a weekly activity to get out of the house before it turns too cold. Today was just perfect and beautiful.