Easter Sunday

Sleepy Alec with his Easter Basket

Humm, wonder where the picture went of Kaleigh and her first basket!?!  I'll have to remember to add it again!

Kaleigh really enjoyed the sucker in her basket!

So, we were running a little late for church, and about half way, I realized I hadn't even brushed Alec's hair and had forgotten Kaleigh's pony tail holder and bow.  I know, DISASTER, right!!  So, by the time we went back home for brushing and bows, we were WAY late for Sunday School, so we just took some really cute pictures in the church flowers while we waited for church to start!

Miss Priss!

Alec and Kaleigh, Easter Morning!

Daddy's Girl!

All the kids having a picnic after church at Mimi's House!

Kaleigh was the best eater of all!  She cleaned her plate!

Alec and Kara ready to hunt eggs!

Nana helping Kaleigh hunt!

Alec hunting in the woods!

Kara hunting in the flower bed!

Kaleigh hunting with Ava Reid!

Can't wait till we can get a GOOD picture of these sweet kids together!

My sweet family!

Great Grandmothers!

Skyping with Uncle Arthur in Kuwait was one of the best things about Easter!

Dustin and Paps looking like twins!

Egg Dying is messy fun!

I think Kara's hand is blue forever!

We even painted on each other with Egg Dye, who knew it was so hard to get off!

You draw on me, I'll draw on you!

Kara and Riley!

Sweet Kara!

A pretty day at the ZOO!

Dustin's been out of town for the past two weeks and will be home tonight!!  YAY!  We can't wait to have him back home!!  Today, it was so pretty the kids and I wanted to get out of the house, so we took Sister on her first trip to the zoo!  We had LOTS of fun looking at all of the animals, riding the trian and playing on the playground!

Alec was excited to see the TIGER walking around!

I have no idea how to get a good pic of both kids at the same time!! HELP!  I bet Alec heard "LOOK AT THE CAMERA" no less than 50 times today!!

This peacock was walking around the tables looking for snacks!

I brought my own MONKEY to the zoo!

Look Sister, that's a HUGE alligator!

Sis liked the gator!

One BIG turtle and an ostrich!

Can't go to the zoo without a TRAIN RIDE!

 

Thanks for the good pic of mom and sis, Alec!

Still being a Monkey Boy!

Kaleigh's favorite part...

digging in the dirt like a DOG!

Ten Months

Our sweet princess is ten months old today!!  I can't believe in two more months we'll be celebrating a first birthday.  Lots of things to share since our 9 month update!!  Most importantly, Kaleigh is FINALLY sleeping through the night on a consistant basis for the first time since she was born!!  Dustin had the idea that we put a larger throw in her crib and tuck her in tightly at night.  We  used to do this with Alec and he was always a great sleeper.  Needless to say, the first night, she slept through the night and hasn't looked back since!!  Whew, what a relief!  I wonder what whould have happened if we would have done that six months ago! ha!  Oh well, at least we're all getting some much needed sleep now!

She's also gotten one tooth on the top and I think several more will be coming pretty quickly!  She's 18.6 lbs and wearing a size 9 month clothes.  She seems really big to us, just look at her chunky legs, but she's one of the smallest in her class! 

She is standing up easily by herself and walking around holding on to things pretty well!  We're expecting her first steps anytime now.  She just can't quite get brave enough to let go!

We had a pretty major throw up (YUCK!!) in her infant seat last week, so I went ahead and moved her to a Big Girl Car Seat!  She loves it and seems much more comfortable than she was in her infant seat!  She is certainly a better car rider now!

Uh Oh!!  She's mastered the stairs!!  Our bonus room is the only thing upstairs, so we don't use the stairs on a regular basis.  Alec pretty much stayed off of them when he was a baby, but we might have to put up a baby gate for this Monkey Girl!  She was scaling them in a hurry this morning!

She's crawling all over the house now and it's so fun watching her crawl after us!  We have to watch because if the door is left open, she's crawling outside!  She LOVES the outdoors!

She LOVES to eat Big Girl food and will eat anything we are eating.  We've yet to find anything she doesn't like.  I think her favorite food is spaghetti!  She gobbles it up by the handful!  She feeds herself and will eat as much as we'll put on her plate.  I think she eats as much or more than Alec does at most meals!  Alec better watch out, she might soon be bigger than him!

She was so happy this morning when I took these pictures, but things went down hill in a hurry.  At lunch, her teacher called me to come get her and she'd gotten a fever and was feeling pretty bad.  I took her to the doctor, but they think it's just a little fever bug since she checks out fine everywhere!  Hopefully it'll be a quick one and she'll better really soon!



Busy but Fun!

We have had a VERY busy but VERY fun weekend!  Friday afternoon Alec got to go play golf with Paps and spend the night in Ellisville.  Dustin's been out of town for the past week and won't be home until next weekend, so Sister and I had a fun Friday night at home together.  Then Saturday morning, I took Sister to play in Ellisville and Alec and I went to Hubfest.  We bought some new bows for Sister and Alec said, "Lets find something for brother!" HA!!  He ended up jumping for a while on some inflatables and then we found the splash pad at the train station!!  Super FUN!!  He ended up getting completly soaked and had to ride home stark naked!! 

After church today, we went to Diddy Bobs for some more jumping fun!  Kaleigh LOVED it and can't wait till she can jump with Alec!  Alec wouldn't slow down long enough for me to get a picture!

Kaleigh loved the ball pit!

After Diddy Bobs, we came home and put on our swimsuits and played in our Walmart pool!  Alec has an inflatable jet ski and thinks its fun to slide down the little slide into the pool on his jet ski! 

Cuties in their swim suits!

Kaleigh trying to help Alec with his water gun, but he was not liking her help!

Palm Sunday Singing!

The Three and Four Year Olds got to sing a special song for all three services at church today!  They did a wonderful job!

All dressed up and ready to go sing!

Caden, Will, Patrick and Alec

Singing for big church!

Singing at the overflow service!