Fall Fashion

As we move into the colder months, I thought some of you might like to see some of the cutting edge fashion for the season.

A shirt from 6 months ago, no pants, grey socks, and pink sandals in November - brilliant.

Notice the jeans under the dress? Also notice how nothing actually matches - that is the true genius of my fashionista.

Gotta love stripped stretchy pants and a blue shirt.

At first glance, this doesn't seem that odd - she's wearing her pajamas and has a towel for a bath. The true fashion genius of this is that this is the outfit she chose after her bath. In fact, she put the outfit I selected for her back into her drawers and picked this one.

Milk

Keeley primarily exists on milk, fruit, and a few carbs (crackers, oatmeal, and waffles). She still refuses to eat meat and will eat vegetables only occasionally. I have tried. I continue to put lots of healthy options in front of her, she just chooses to eat fruit and drink milk.

I thought that I had won a small battle in the food war the other morning. Keeley actually climbed into her chair to have some cereal with me and she did so without her glass of milk. She picked up a piece and said "nummy nummy nummy". I was trying to be calmly excited and continued to eat my own cereal and take care of Kayden.

After a moment or two, I noticed that she had bested me again.Notice all the cereal on her mat? She was taking each piece out of the bowl and sucking all the milk out of it and then placing it on the mat. She was not eating her cereal. Oh well. I guess I'll keep trying.

Crawling and more

Kayden turned 6 months today. I'll do an official six month post after her doctor's appointment on Monday but I wanted to spend a minute talking about her movement. She learned to crawl yesterday. Yes, crawl. She's been getting around by sitting up and then leaning over and then sitting up again. Yesterday she figured out how to crawl with both arms and legs working together.

She is already all over the house. Quickly moving from the living room to the tile in the hallway or kitchen.


She is climbing into the end tables.
Today, she pulled up on the chair that has Keeley's highchair in it. She is six months old and she is already pulling up!!!! It just lasted a fraction of a section and I couldn't catch her on film all the way up, just in the process. It was too cute though because she would look up and then grab on to that bottom rung and try to pull herself up. Her still wobbly legs were not helped by the scarf at her feet!Watch out Keeley, Maggie, and Carbo! Kayden is on the move!!

Christmas Cookies

In an attempt to start some new holiday traditions, I thought it might be fun for the girls to bake and decorate cookies with Mom the day after Thanksgiving. I thought it would be fun to start now and, as the girls (and their attention spans) grew, it could take up more of the day and all Kelly and I to get some of the Christmas decorations up. That time is going to be a long way away apparently.

I bought some slice and bake cookies and had them ready to go when Mom got here. Keeley was all excited about the sprinkles - but only the sprinkles. Mom tried to ice one of Keeley's cookies to show her how to do it and Keeley got very upset and said "away" until Mom took the cookie away. Because she refused to ice them, most of her sprinkles fell off as soon as she picked the cookies up.She solved this problem by eating some of the sprinkles with a spoon.

Kayden got to have some fun too - she only had crumbs in her mouth. I didn't actually let her eat a cookie.

It was still fun!

Here's some string

Keeley has gotten in the habit of taking Kayden's toys from her. I know this is totally age appropriate, but it is still sad. After several times of being told to be nice to her sister, that Kayden was playing with the toy first, that Keeley needed to find another toy, etc. Keeley developed a new strategy - replace the toy she is stealing.

Here's how it has played out until today. We put Kayden down and give her a toy. Keeley decides she wants the toy. Keeley tries to take the toy from Kayden only to be reminded that it isn't hers. Keeley then goes and looks for another toy and gives it to Kayden. This is frequently a very uneven trade. Today, for example, Kayden was playing with the magnetic barn from the dishwasher and Keeley wanted it so she gave Kayden some green string and then moved away to play with the barn by herself.

This usually works. Today, however, Kayden learned to crawl. Look out big sister! Kayden is going to chase you down now!

Big week

Apparently, we are going through a developmental explosion right now with Keeley. I thought it was just with gross motor skills. Today, however, it is proving to be with vocabulary too. While Mom was watching the girls, Keeley said her first sentence- "Me go"! Later when I was putting her down for her nap, I handed her a pacifier and she said "blue". It is fun to watch her becoming more in control of her own world and more able to convey her thoughts.

Kendall and Mom, I'm sorry

I was a challenging kiddo in a lot of the same ways my little ones are proving to be. I was also very interested in my little brother in a lot of the same ways that Keeley shows her interest in Kayden. To both of you, I'm sorry. I am certainly getting what I deserve now.

Kayden is very busy lately. She took a super short nap this morning and, when she woke up, spent about 30 minutes playing with the turtle on her crib rail. It then took an hour to get her down for her second nap. About 20 minutes after I finally got Kayden down, Keeley woke up from her nap (WAY too early) crying. This quickly woke up Kayden.

This left me counting the minutes for the day to be over because I had two very tired kiddos (and a total of 20 minutes of time to myself...). I finally talked Kayden into another nap about 10 minutes to 3. Keeley was playing and reading quietly in her crib. After a few minutes, Keeley decided she didn't want to rest. I practically ran in there to get her up so that she didn't wake Kayden. Keeley and I went in to my room when I noticed that she had a snuck a pacifier. I asked her to go put it back in her crib and I ran to the restroom. No more than 45 seconds later I hear "HIIYEEEEEEEE!!!!"

Keeley had put her pacifier in her crib and then decided to open Kayden's door, climb into her crib, and sit on top of her. I walk into Kayden's dark room and look into her sweet little face which is looking at me quite confused. Life's rough as a second sibling!

When I called my mom to vent, she said that I wasn't much older when I started doing that with Kendall (by biting his toes) and then telling her with a shrug "he woke up". I'm so, so sorry to you both!!!