Playdate!

Blakely and I went on a fun play date with some friends at an area museum that has an area all set up for little toddlers to explore! It was fun and will be a great place to go inside when the weather gets nasty!

Blakely and Preston

The whole gang...got Hudson looking!

One more try...got Harrison!

Another try!

Ok, that's the best we could do! Trying to get four little ones to all look at one camera while lots of fun stuff is happening around them isn't going to happen! ha!

-Mrs.

15 Month Doctor's Appointment Stats!

We had Blakely's 15 month doctor's appointment the other day.

Here are her stats -

Weight: 26 lbs 3 ozs

Height: 32 inches

Both are 80%!

She is meeting and exceeding all of her developmental milestones and is a healthy, growing toddler!

Also, we just had conferences at her daycare today and the teacher kept saying how much they love her! They have a nickname for her at daycare and they call her "Juicy B!" ha! They said that she is very independent and gets along with all her friends and teachers. She loves arts and crafts and follows instructions well! They also said that she is always happy with a smile on her face and has a great personality. They said she gives lots of hugs and when a little boy got hurt the other day she went and patted his back to make him all better - such a little mother hen. Also, they said she is very smart and is learning lots of new things. We feel so lucky that she is so loved at daycare and enjoys her time there - she waves bye bye to us and off she goes to play with her friends and teachers when we drop her off which is reassuring.

I decided to make Blakely at tutu for Halloween, she loves wearing it around! Sometimes she goes and it gets it when she wakes up the morning and wears it over her pj's!

I have made her a few for other Holiday but this time I tied some Halloween ribbon onto the tutu and I like it even more!


and so does Blakely!

-Mrs.

KU vs. KSU Game

Blakely got a new KU dress and was excited to wear it to Aunt Kandace's and Uncle Matthew's house to watch the KU/KSU game!

Cheesing it up for the camera.


With Daddy


With Mommy

Pointing at the game, telling KU to score some touchdowns and stop KSU!

Took a break to play blocks with Daddy

Our little Jayhawk sandwiched between KSU spirit!

More block building!

Puppet time

So Cute!

Coming to get Mommy!

-Mrs.

15 Months!

Look at that precious face and smile. We could not love her more...she is an absolute joy and such a source of happiness for our family. She amazes us over and over again and we just love her beyond words!

Watching her learn new things and begin to communicate more and more has been such an incredible and wonderful thing to share.

Wow...where to even start with her 15 month recap?

I don't even know where to begin with EVERYTHING that Blakely is doing now! I feel like overnight my baby girl turned into a TODDLER!

• Blakely is wearing size 18-24 months (sometimes I try to squeeze her into some 12-18months things to get "one more" wear out of them because she looks so adorable in her outfits! She wears size 5 or 6 in her shoes and weighs around 26 pounds.

• She goes to sleep around 7 or 7:30 and has been sleeping till 8 or 8:30 in the morning!!!! She always wakes up so happy and smiling. When we go to get her out of the crib she laughs and dives into a corner of the crib, then pops up, bouncing all around and then reaches her arms up for us! She has to have her lovie to sleep and we are still using the paci but we are going to try and start weaning her from that - but it's going to be hard!

• She still takes 2 naps at home but only 1 at daycare and it works out good so far!

• Blakely is still a good eater and usually eats pretty much anything! She loves cheese, turkey, tofu "dogs," crackers, any type of fruit, waffles, eggs, french toast (her new favorite!), chicken, pasta and ?

• She is saying LOTS of words or at least trying to! She says Tucker, Mama, Daddy, Please, Cracker, Shoes, Socks, Chalk, What's that? and Hi!

• With chalk, she says "Chock" when she wants to go outside and draw on the sidewalk with her sidewalk chalk.

• Also, when she sees things around she says repeatedly "What's that?" but it sounds like Wha-Tha?

• She also nods her head yes or no if we ask her questions.

• She waves bye-bye and blows kisses when we leaving or someone is leaving her. She even does this at the store when we walk by someone - as we get further away! ha!

• She also say hi to EVERYONE!

• Blakely points to her eyes, nose, mouth and will point to them on our faces too!
• She dancing to music all the time either bouncing up and down or leaning side to side - it's adorable!

• She signs more, eat and please.

• She shows us her belly button or tummy often! We will say "Blakely where's your belly button?" and she lifts up her shirt and pokes her belly button.

• When Neal and I came back from Cabo she was doing the motions to the Hokey Pokey when you sing it like putting her foot in and turning all around.

• She will follow simples requests, such as "Get your shoes" or "Bring the phone here."

• She has her two front teeth coming and still just the 2 front on the bottom.

• I went to pick her up from daycare one day and they were outside playing. Blakely did not see me right away so I just sorta stood back and watched her, she climbed up the play slide and went down it ALL BY HERSELF! I was freaking out, I was so proud of her! So, I went home and found a used slide on craigslist so we could do this at home and she absolutely loves the slide. Pretty much anytime we go anywhere we have to slide before we leave or when we get home because the slide is right by the cars and she says "slide" over and over!

• At home diaper changes are nightmares, she just does not want to lay down while we change her diaper, she is all over the place, kicking her legs, flipping over, screaming - its pretty much awful! Hopefully this phase will pass, I try everything from giving her special toys to singing to standing her up but still the screaming and once we are all done she is just fine. I think she just does not want to take a break and be still for even a few minutes because she is so busy!

• Sometimes she goes around the house, roaring like a lion especially if she sees her lion bib.

• Also, she is going to be Pebbles for Halloween and we have been practicing "dabadabado!" and she gets out "abba-do." ha!

• She gives lots of hugs and kisses - my absolute favorite is when she runs into my arms for a hug and I also love her sweet baby kisses.

• Sometimes she shrugs her shoulders and holds up her arms when I say "I don't know" or "Where is it?"

• She is just so funny and entertaining. She is into everything and all over the place. She is starting to figure out how to get her way with use of the "fake" tears and crying - it usually gets us every time! She loves playing with her toys in her room or in the family room and loves to be outside. We have so much fun!

-Mrs.

School Pictures

Blakely had picture day at daycare last week so we got her all dressed up like a little school girl! I had to snap a few pictures before she left for school because she looked SO cute!

Adorable!!!!

-Mrs.

More Cabo...

More pictures from our week in Cabo!

The view from our hotel room on the last morning!

Our view from the pool.


Our sunset boat cruise to celebrate our 5th anniversary! We thought it would be a nice relaxing ride with several other couples...little did we realize that it was a "party boat cruise!" Complete with a disco ball and lots of dancing by middle aged men that had a few too many mai-tai's!

Before we set sail!


A view along the way.

A pretty picture that Neal took of "Lover's Beach," on the calmer gulf side of the rocks.

Another pic of the rock formations.

A great shot of the pretty rocks...I have no idea what they are called.

You can see our hotel in the distance, the white buildings.

A shot of "Divorce Beach" which is on the pacific side of the rocks and a bit more rocky than "Lovers Beach."

Neal posing in the sunset.

Cruising on the boat.

Headed back to town.

Neal after our cruise outside the boat.

Neal in front of one of the big pools.

Our last walk on the beach before we left...we had to write our names in the sand. However after our previous LARGE waves I wrote in the sand and Neal was on the look-out for HUGE waves so I did not get washed out to sea.

She was never far from our minds...so we wrote her name too!

Us on the beach.

One last shot of the beach view.

At the airport headed home we found some awesome Chiefs gear..if only we had known that they would be doing so well we would have splurged on it!

Taxing in the plane to the gate in KC, we can't wait to see our BABY!!!!

Reunited!

Blakely brought us a "Welcome Home" balloon and made us a sign!

Then she showed us all the new things she learned while we were gone like the "Hokey Pokey!"

"Turning herself around."

A wonderful end to a great trip!

-Mrs.