happy thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving, we finally were able to celebrate with family! (the past few years daddy and/ or I have had to work, and with the traveling to be with family it was never possible)  So this year, mommy's family came out to our house and we celebrated!   We had Grandma and Grandpa Meyer, and aunts Jenny, Katy and Ali, also mommy's aunt and uncle Sara and Bill joined us, and cousin Mark and his girlfriend, Katy. We were only missing 2 members of out of our 2 families, Uncle John and cousin Lauren, we missed both of the very much!  We all gathered in our, small little house, and yes it was crowded, but we still had a very fun and memorable time (and enjoyed some yummy food!)  The rest of the weekend was spent pretty low key, then Sunday we finished up celebrating Thanksgiving with daddy's side of the family down at Grandma and Grandpa Thornsbrough's, with Uncle Kory, and daddy's aunt and uncle Debbie and Barry.  Another fun celebration!

A few pictures from the holiday weekend!

 playing with daddy on thanksgiving

 not into the baby bjorn anymore!

 bella clearly enjoyed it more!

 playing at the park with aunt jenny!

 park time with aunt ali!

 going down the slide!

 the girls!

 loved playing on this!

 model baby!

15 months!

oh my goodness, I can't not believe it has been 15 months since K has graced this world with her presence!  She is so much fun to be around, and let me just say she is not always our sweet little k, she has developed quite the attitude!

She loves  to say "no! " , yet she does it in quite the adorable way, she kind of shakes her head and scrunches her little face up and says "nooooo, nooooo"   Hopefully she outgrows this stage of saying no to pretty much everything!

She had her 15 month check up last week, and is quite the big girl!  26lbs 12oz {90%}, 30 inches{50%},and her head still measures above the 97% (full of brains!) Of course her fifteen month check up included the dreadful shots, seriously they don't get any easier (for me or K!) and Dr. Bob found that K had the start of an ear infection :(  Her first one, and he caught it ahead of time so we treated it and she didn't seem to bothered by it, thankfully!

K still only has her 2 bottom teeth, but over the weekend, Grandpa Meyer {her dentist :) } said he thought it looked like the top two were ready to pop through, and sure enough we noticed one cutting through yesterday!  It is impossible to look inside of her mouth though, she fights us on it!

A few more fun things she says now:
"go-go!" (thanks to watching college football!)
"i love you" (She used to only repeat daddy on this one, but now says it all the time!)
"Minnie" (the girl loves Minnie mouse)

She walks, runs, and can climb the flight of stairs in the blink of an eye!

She loves to dance still, and we can say "shake it " and she shakes her butt from side to side, and then we can say "drop it" and she drops her butt to the floor...ha ha!!  No idea where she picked up these dance moves, but it is quite the entertainment!

Enjoy a few pictures of our beautiful Kiley!

 playing in her toy bin

 our little walker

 passed out

 she loves to stick out her tongue!

 this happens quite frequently in our house

messy face!

tub time!

Well we had an eventful" bath night tonight!  For the second time, Kiley pooped in the tub (gross I know, but when it is your own child, it doesn't seem so bad.)  Anyway I thought I would document our little memory we shared tonight!  Thank god Kyle was home when it happened so he could hold onto our wet little girl as I drained and refilled the tub.  Luckily it happened at the start of her bath, and before all of her toys made it in the water.

Despite tonight's episode, Kiley still very much enjoys her baths!   Although now she spends most of the time standing in the tub!!

 playing..

 loves to play with the water! (and stand in the tub!)

 drying off!

showing off her new butterfly towel!!

kiley's message to her daddy!

Daddy was away in Des Moines for work earlier this week and we decided to send him a video message from K!   An accumulation of some of her words she loves to say!

happy halloween!!

We celebrated K's second Halloween!!  Over the weekend, Aunt Katy and I took K downtown LaSalle where they had trick or treat with some of the businesses, and a little Halloween festival.  Nothing too exciting, but it gave us an excuse to dress K up and take her somewhere!   Her costume for that day was a little pink and purple monster!   Then today, on actual Halloween, we visited my work earlier in the day.  Then trick or treated at Hy-Vee, visited Tami, and went to another friends house!  Today's costume was  a cupcake <3  Enjoy some pictures!

enjoying her balloon!

 <3

 thanks for taking me aunt Katy!

 our walking little monster

 attempt at a Halloween photo shoot

 back view of the cupcake

 so not interested in getting her picture taken!

 distracted by the balloons at hy-vee!

 

we ran into Kiley's friend from daycare, Natalia!! They LOVE each other!!

love this little cupcake <3

13 month update!

13 months old, well actually closer to 14 months now!  My how the time just flies!   Quick little update and some photos of little K!

*We have a WALKER!! Within the last week she has taken "baby steps"-how fitting!  But I now consider her to be a walker!  She is not to the point where she runs everywhere, but I am ok with that!! ha!

*2 teeth, yep thats right, just 2!

*says a handful of words: mama, dada, dog, bottle, night night, Bella (our dog's name), hello, bye-bye, no-no, I know there are more but that is all I can come up with

*knows where her tummy and nose are

* waves hello and good bye with two different types of waves.  (we like to call one of the her "pageant" wave)

*likes, no wait, LOVES to dance.  To anything.  Her favorite moves are shaking her hips, and also holding one hand up above her head and shaking it!  You can tell her "kiley, shake it, shake it" and if she is in the right mood, she will bust a move.

* she loves to hug her babies and stuffed animals (especially Minnie and Mickie Mouse) and will even pat them on their back!

Each day gets more and more enjoyable with her!  She is BUSY BUSY BUSY, but we still love her and still have a so much fun with her!

Enjoy a few photos of our little love <3

 figuring out how to take steps!

happy girl!

bye bye paci!

no more pictures like this!

Kiley has been officially paci free for about a month now! Wahoo!   My first goal was to be paci free by 6 months, well that never happened , so then it was by a year.  I also had my dad (and Kiley's future dentist!) on me about getting rid of it at age 1.   Well we kind of weaned off of it from about 9 months old, using it only at nap time and at nights.   At about 11 months she was down to only nights, and could go without it some nights!  So I just slowly took it away everynight.  There was a few nights after she turned 1 that I allowed her to have it (she was teething and was having some bad nights.)  So I am proud to say, NO PACI for Kiley! :)  So glad we stuck to it and didn't give in to her!!