Kayla's 3 Month update

Wow, it seems like just yesterday I was writing about Kayla's two month update and here I am writing about her three month update already.  Time is flying by and my baby girl is growing so fast. 

Kayla is such a sweet baby.  She is so content, easy going, and rarely complains about anything.    

Her smile is so infectious.  She smiles a lot and talks a lot!  Sometimes she would rather talk and smile at me than eat.  Sometimes when she gets excited she starts smiling, squealing, and kicking her feet.

She just very well may be a red head.  I am not sure if you can tell in the pictures of not but her hair is strawberry blonde.  So pretty!

She really likes to suck on her hands. 

She is still being swaddled for naps and night time sleep.  I tried laying her down for her nap with her arms unswaddled a couple time but she wasn't having it.

She still loves taking baths and being naked. 

I think she will forever be nicknamed Baby Kayla and Kayla Girl.  Joshua has started calling her by these two names and it is so stinkin'cute.

She loves the ceiling fan. She stares and smiles at it just like Joshua did.

She is starting to notice Joshua more.  When we eat lunch I always sit her in her bouncy chair and put her right between mine and Joshua's chairs so she can see both of us and she usually just stares at her big brother. 

Sleeping is going pretty good.  She gets her bedtime feed at 6:30pm and is up around 7:30/7:45am for the day waking once in between for a feed. 

She still takes 4 naps.  The first two naps are pretty predictable and she goes down with little to no fussing and the last two naps can be a little more stubborn but are getting much better. 

Smiling at my Mimi

Hanging out with Auntie Brooke.

I just love that smile!

"Omah and Papa think I am the cat's meow!"

Clean baby!  She still loves her baths and still just kicks and splashes like crazy.

Joshua thought this would be a good place for his flags. 

Joshua LOVES when I put Kayla in her crib with him.  Someday soon she will think it's a blast too! 

Joshua is such a sweet big brother.  Here he is turning on the music for her.  He always makes sure that her bouncy seat music is playing when she is in it. 

What a face!  I was making the same noise that I made when I got Joshua to giggle for the first time.  She obviously had a much different reaction 

Relaxing after a nice meal.  Life is good!

 

She hasn't rolled over yet.  She is actually really close to rolling from her back to her tummy though.  She rolls to her side and just lays there.  **UPDATE** Kayla rolled from her tummy to her back the day after I originally posted this blog.  I was vacuuming and I think she was trying to find where the noise was coming from.  Joshua was laying right next to her doing his tummy time when it happened.

"Oh Daddy, you're so funny!"

 

She loves her big brother!

Doing some wrestling tummy time on Joshua.

 

We sure do love this sweet girl! 

 

Joshua the Fish

 

Joshua LOVES swimming!  He is so brave; he loves to jump in, kick his feet, and occasionally likes to be dunked under water.  He is our little fishy.

  

Here are some pictures from this weekend's trip to the neighborhood pool. 

 



 

Kick, kick, kick!

 



I like the progression of the next three pictures of Joshua jumping in the water.  

 

 

He started jumping in the water last year and then would sign "more" each time.  This year he can verbalize, more, that was fun, do it again, jump in water etc.  Crazy how fast they grow!

 

He loves noodles.

 

More jumping.

 

 

Going for a noodle ride.

 

 

My bathing beauty watching her boys swim! 

 

Isn't she just so delicious?! 

Butterflies

My Dad and Step Mom sent Joshua a fun b-day package that included a butterfly habitat.  If you missed that post you can read it here. 
 
We spent the last two weeks watching our little caterpillars crawl around, make their cocoons, checking up on them to see if were doing anything exciting and then finally watching them turn into butterflies. 
 
We watched them fly around in their habitat for a few days, picked flowers to put their sugar water on to feed them, and we read books about the process. 
 
Checking out the first butterfly that emerged...
 

 

 

Putting in his freshly picked flowers.

 

Showing his neighbor friend his butterflies.

 

Getting ready to release our butterflies.  Before we released them I gave him a pep talk about how they were going to fly away when we opened the top.  They were going to be all gone and we will wave bye-bye to them and not cry.  I kept reminding him that they were going to fly away and he said, "go catch them."  He did great!  He loved watching them fly out one by one and waved to them.  

 

 

I tried letting him hold one but it flew away.  Then he put his hand in and was able to touch another butterfly before it quickly flew out.  He thought it was pretty funny how fast they reacted.  When we first unzipped their habitat they didn't fly out.  He was ordering them to "COME OUT!" 

 

It took this one a while to fly away.  He landed in our rocks and stayed for a while. 

 

Saying bye to our butterflies. 

 

The day we picked flowers for our butterflies he also picked me a flower.  I went ahead and put it in with the butterflies.  It was a yellow one and the ones we picked for the butterflies were white.  As we were releasing the butterflies he reached in and grabbed the shriveled up yellow flower and said with such excitement, "Mommy's flower!"  and gave it to me.  AWE! 



 

Joshua is such a thinker so it was so fun watching him during this whole process.  You could see the wheels turning as he studied his little pets. 

 

Thank you so much Grandma and Grandpa!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Father's Day 2013

 

This is one special dad!  He loves and affirms his kids and would do anything for them. 

He is a fun Dad!  He plays all sorts of games with both his babes. 

Joshua already looks up to his Daddy so much.  Whenever I need him to do something that he doesn't want to do usually all I have to do is tell him that Daddy does it.  For example, "Daddy wears his hat when he goes outside."  And on goes the hat.

 

To show this special daddy how much we love and appreciate him, Joshua made him a very special card.

Joshua worked very hard his Daddy's card. He spent a long time drawing balloons then decorating it with stickers and then putting more stickers on.  And then he put stickers on the stickers ;) 

Here are his balloons he made all by himself. 

And the finished product. 

Giving Daddy his card and present.

He got Daddy some nuts.  Joshua knows he can't have nuts and whenever he sees us eating them he tells us, "nuts, older" meaning "I can have nuts when I am older."  Since he couldn't eat any he offered to feed some to Mommy and Daddy.  Here he is digging in to get some nuts to feed Daddy.

A Father's Day hug. 

 

Later that day we had Daniel's family over for a BBQ.  So sad, but not at all surprised, that I didn't get a picture of Daddy with both kids.  In my defense Kayla is hardly awake long enough to snap a picture.

Helping Daddy prepare the marinade.  And no he absolutely did NOT sneeze in the marinade from all the pepper. 

Taste testing our ice cream for Father's Day.  He wanted to eat ice cream for dinner.  Then the next morning he asked for ice cream for breakfast.  I told him we would eat ice cream when Papa comes over.  A few minutes later he falsely declared, "Papa's here!"  Can't blame him for trying. 

 

Keeping cool in the kiddie pool

 

Skyping with Anna and Noah.

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy Joshua and Kayla could ever ask for.  You truly are an amazing Dad!  You love Joshua and Kayla so selflessly.  They are blessed to have you!