Uncle Doug

I took Kaylee over to the Robinson house last night. Kristina’s president was in town so she had to work late. Before we headed over, I made sure to find the shirt that Uncle Doug bought her. It says something like, “My uncle bought me this Tshirt because he loves me. Key West.” It’s still a little big on her but she’s cute none the less. It’s really cool to see how much Kaylee loves Grandpa, Grandma Debbie and Uncle Doug. Uncle Doug loves wrestling around with her. They played a game yesterday where Kaylee would throw her stuffed penguin to Doug and he would throw it back. I don’t know why but she was laughing hysterically at this which of course made everyone else laugh too. Debbie made us a nice steak dinner and Kaylee ate like she had an empty leg. Must be all the play time.

Camping

Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve made an entry. We’ve been busy traveling. Kristina and I went down to Catalina over Labor Day weekend. Lil’ girl stayed with grandma and drove her crazy but in a good way. This past weekend we went camping with our friends up at the Dungeness Spit north of Sequim. We took the ferry over and that’s always a hit with Kaylee. She especially loves the vending machine. This time she picked Pop Tarts. Dad is such a sucker. We bought a portable DVD player for using in the car. Kaylee watched Fraggle Rock for about an hour after we got off the ferry. We got up to the campsite and set up and pretty much went to sleep. Kaylee has a little couch that folds out into a bed with Little Mermaid on it. She also has a Cabbage Patch Kids sleeping bag. We set her up next to us in a 4 man tent. It works out pretty well. Not sure what we’ll do as she gets bigger and/or gets a sibling. The big event for the day on Saturday was going down to the Spit. It’s about 4 miles long and ends at a Lighthouse. We only went about half a mile down the beach. Kaylee ate her fair share of sand. She gets it on her hands and then licks it off. I think she likes the crunch. We then headed back and she pitched a fit but by the time we got to the head of the trail she was her normal happy go lucky self. We finished the day with a camp fire. Kaylee liked the marshmellows. There was a little boy there who’s 5 and they “got married.” It was pretty cute. They were holding hands walking around most the weekend. I can’t believe I’m having to watch out for boys already. Sunday we packed up and went West to visit Kristina’s Dad’s cousin Skip and his wife. They live in Sekiu. We spent some time at the beach and Kaylee tasted the sand there as well. After that we headed home and stopped in Tacoma to have dinner with Sandy and Marty. Kaylee was pretty much a total angel the whole car ride home. Kaylee asked as soon as we got home, “When are we going camping?”

Night time routine

We have a night time routine that we pretty much follow. After work, I usually pick Kaylee up from daycare. Sometimes we'll go do something fun like the library or the park. Then we go home and have dinner. After dinner, it's bath time. Kaylee likes for me to leave a trickle of water coming out of the faucet. She'll use a cup to drink the water or just play with it. After bath time, I put Kaylee in my towel. She doesn't like using "baby" towels. At that point I usually take her into our room and we get her into her PJ's. Then the whole family wrestles around and she dances and does somersaults for us. Bath time is around 7:30 and we try to have her in her room to read stories by 8:30. In the middle of this time, we brush our teeth. I brush my teeth while she brushes hers. I use an electric toothbrush so Kaylee hums in order to maker her brush sound like mine. Then we read stories and after that Kaylee asks me to lay on her floor. I've put a sleeping bag down next to her bed to lay on. I lay in there for a couple minutes and then I tell her I need to go check on something or some other excuse. She usually falls asleep at that point. There's nothing like a sleeping child.

Davis Flip Flop Party

We took Kaylee over to our friends' place yesterday. Joel and Judy were having their second annual flip flop party. Kris bought Kaylee some flip flops just for this party. They're pretty cute. They are pink and sparkly. Judy gave Kaylee a badge like you'd find at the county fair. It's purple and says Very Special Person. She's been wearing it all day today. Joel set up the game called ladder golf in his backyard. It looks kind of like this photo. Kaylee likes running into the middle of the game to grab the balls. She usually gets them all twisted up. There were several little kids there and as usual Kaylee did not particularly like the boys. There was a little girl there who was about a year younger than her and they enjoyed playing with the ice in the drink cooler. Kaylee also got to run through the sprinkler because it was such a warm day. I also can't forget how much she loves their bean bag chair and the stuffed peeps. She asks about the peeps every time we head over there.

The Dark Side of Kaylee

Today was a not so good day. When I picked her up, Mona let me know Kaylee had been put in time out twice for hitting. She even hit her best friend Moraya. We met Sandy for dinner at the Rock in Auburn. The whole way down Hwy 167, Kaylee was whining about her shoes falling off. At dinner, she whined about not having the right bread. She did eat an entire piece of pizza. She cried when Sandy left. She whined the whole way home about the fact that she didn't want to go home because she wasn't sleepy. I put her in the tub for a bath and she screemed at me that she wanted me to leave because she wanted her mommy. I went in to the bathroom a little later because I heard a crash and she had knocked her toys all over the floor. She told me again that she didn't want to wash her hair. I told her we needed to so she spit a mouth full of water at me. She screemed the whole time I was washing her hair and until her mom got her out of the tub. Kaylee finally calmed down after the bath because Kristina let her have some lotion. She's been pretty mellow for the past little bit. Tantrum anyone?

Blackberries

I felt like I hadn't really been doing anything new and fun for Kaylee lately when Kristina was gone. We'd either go to the park or just go home and watch some Go Diego Go. Diego is Kaylee's boyfriend by the way. Then I noticed blackberry bushes all over the area and thought Kaylee would enjoy going berry picking. Kristina got us a bucket before she left town. I wanted to take her on Tuesday but it was raining. We went right after daycare yesterday and we picked enough to make a pie and a half. Kaylee enjoyed every minute of it. She only ate about one out of four berries she picked. She noticed some small plants coming out of the ground next to the bushes. I let her know that they were baby blackberry bushes. She looked at them and said, "Oooh, they're so cute!" I laughed out loud at that. She only got a little scratch on her ankle when she took off too quick after some picking.

Taco Time

Kristina is out of town today in Portland. So after I picked up Kaylee at daycare, we swang by the bank, post office, library and PetSmart. She loves the pet store. Ooh, look at all the fish. We finished our evening having dinner at Taco Time. Kaylee loves cheese quesadillas. We usually will get take out but she always says how she wants to eat inside. We ate inside this time and she loved it. She said she felt like a big girl eating inside. She liked peeking at the people at the other tables.