Day 3 – Lazy Day

Kaylee is sitting on the foot rest of Aunt Jo’s recliner. Aunt Jo is in the recliner and they’re having a picnic of oranges. Kaylee is in her Pj’s and her Easter hat and her Easter purse. When Kaylee woke up this morning, the first thing she asked was if she could open another Egg. This time there was a cute shirt in the egg. Kaylee had Jo take the ribbons from the egg from yesterday and today sew them on her hat. Very cute. Kristina made some breakfast for Kaylee, Sandy and herself. They were sitting at the table when Kaylee said something. Kristina said, “I don’t know you at all” and Kaylee said, “Ya you do, My name is Kaylee.” Pretty funny. Kristina’s Aunt Lorie and Uncle Paul came up from Kentucky. We ended up in the living room sitting around singing songs while Paul played the piano and Jo played her guitar. Kaylee danced around and sang. Again, pretty cute.

Day 2 – German Town

We got going around noon. Uncle Dick made us breakfast. We got dressed and headed out. We went up north and went by their old house. We were on our way to Frankenmuth. It’s a German town similar to Leavenworth. On the way Kaylee fell asleep. Dick and Jo drove us through the town. Pretty cool. Kaylee woke up with an attitude. I had to buy her some candy to get her to cheer up. We went to Bronner’s which is a gigantic Christmas store. Thousands of Christmas ornaments. We met up with Dick and Jo’s daughter Stacy. Stacy bought Kaylee a little fuzzy lamb. Kaylee had a good time looking at every ornament. We headed back to the homestead and watched American Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Kaylee got to open some Easter gifts. She got an Easter hat that’s white and got to open a paper egg that Jo made. It’s about the size of football. A little white purse was inside.

Day 1 – Travel

We were traveling on Monday to Michigan. Kaylee did really well on the planes. We flew to Minnesota and from there to Detroit. She slept most the way to Minnesota probably most likely to the Benadryl that she took. We bought her some new coloring books and a new Strawberry Shortcake DVD. Minneapolis’s airport felt more like a mall than an airport. We sat next to a very nice guy on our way to Detroit. He talked to Kaylee pretty much the whole way. Kaylee sat between us and she held hands with both of us on takeoff and landing. It was pretty cute. We got to Detroit and there was snow on the ground. It took us about an hour to get our bags and Kaylee ran around like a caged animal that had finally been set free. Kristina’s Uncle Dick and Aunt Jo picked us up from the airport and we drove to their place just outside of Flint. We got to sleep just about 2am Michigan time.

Saturday

Today was a good day. We started off with Kaylee's gymnastics class. She has so much fun there. She runs around and tumbles and flips and falls and jumps. They have a different theme every week and try to teach them something new. We then grabbed some Old McDonalds for lunch because Kaylee wanted the toy. They're doing Monsters vs Aliens right now. When we got home we had lunch and then met with our financial planner. He informed us that under our new plan we'll have our house paid off and be completely debt free in 10 years. Wow!

After he left, I passed out in our bed. I thought Kris and Kay went to sleep in Kaylee's new full size bed but apparently that didn't work so well. Kris laid down on the couch and Kaylee was watching cartoons. When I got up, Kaylee was asleep on her monster chair sitting up. So cute!

When they woke up, we went to Taco Time for dinner of course and then went to see Monsters vs Aliens at the Landing theater. Kaylee was scared thru most of the movie which was a downer but she was a trooper and stayed for the whole thing. I thought the movie was cute and the older kids that were there said they liked it.

We're back at the homestead and Kris is talking with her mom and Kaylee is picking the toejam out of her toes and chasing us with it. I love the sound of my girls laughing.

Nana

My mom was here recently and she got a whole week's worth of playing in with Kaylee. They played with Barbies and Critters and played dress up and Candyland and Dollies and and and and.

I really admired her ability to sit and play with Kaylee for long periods of time. I get bored playing with dolls. She said it's because when you're a little girl you play with dolls. Then when you're a mom you play with dolls with your daughter. So by the time you're a grandmother, you're used to it. I guess as a Dad, I don't have much experience playing with dolls. But I did have some Star Wars action figures when I was a kid. My dad really enjoyed putting together things like the Millenium Falcon. Probably almost as much as I enjoy putting together my daughter's doll houses. Cheers.

Favorite Number

I don't know if little kids can have a favorite number but Kaylee sure seems to have one. It's the number 50. Why 50? Who knows? The other day I was working late and Kristina and Kaylee brought me some dinner and on their way out Kaylee said, "See you in 50 hours!"

We were playing with her kitchen and she said we were making a cake or something and I asked her when it would be ready and she said 50 minutes. Kaylee has a cash register and we were playing grocery store and I asked her if I could buy some grapes and she said that would be 50 dollars. Wow, those are some expensive grapes. Grandma Debbie was watching her a little bit ago and Kaylee said something about 50 hours there too.

Haircut

Back in January, Kaylee got her hair cut much shorter than it has been. Kaylee wouldn't let us put it in a pony tail or pigtails so Kris asked the stylist to cut it down. It ended up being a little above the shoulders and had a little curl to it on the bottom. Kaylee was so good. She sat there still as a statue. Here's a photo I took with my phone.