One More Time

This weekend we went over and saw my sister and her family for dinner on Friday. Kaylee and Maleah played really well together. Little Xaden is really starting to move. When he decides to crawl after something he's pretty quick. Saturday I went to my friend Brian's bachelor party and Kristina and Sandy took Kaylee to the Cheesecake Factory. On Sunday we went over to Randy's house to celebrate their anniversary. Kristina made a delicious lasagna for us to enjoy. Kristina and Sandy had gone to the store on Saturday and bought Kaylee a fun game. It's an elephant that shoots butterflies out it's nose called Elefun. This brings me to the title of the post. Whenever we try to stop something Kaylee is enjoying and move on to something else, it's always "One More Time." One more time playing a game, one more time playing a dvd/video, one more story, one more tickle fest, one more sucker, one more popsickle, one more, one more, one more. She shows us all that life's too short to put off what you really enjoy.

Busy Weekend

We started Friday night by going to a local steak house for Uncle Doug's birthday. Kaylee had fun. This place had peanuts and you throw the shells on the floor. She loved that. Saturday morning I went Lodge and got elected Treasurer. While I was there, Kaylee went with Kristina to a Halloween store to pick out a costume. She's going to be a bumble bee. Apparently she got really scared because there were some bloody skeletons in the store. Saturday night Kristina and I went to our friend Judy's surprise birthday party. She turned 30. So we gave Kaylee over to Sandy for the night. Sandy said they played for a while and that Kaylee wanted to go to bed. They read a couple of stories and she passed out. Lucky!

Sunday was a big day. We went to the pumpkin patch. It's a place called Maris Farms down near Bonney Lake. You can check it out online. http://www.marisfarms.com/ Kaylee got to go on a pony ride, a tractor ride, get her face painted (she got a penguin), watch some pigs race, watch some apples get shot out of a cannon, watch a monster truck and pick out the perfect pumpkin. We then headed for home and she passed out in the back. Quite a busy weekend.

Bed Time

Sometimes when Kaylee is having a hard time going to sleep we'll let her sleep in our bed. Last night Kristina and Kaylee went to sleep. I came in after an hour or so and carried sleeping Kaylee to her own bed. I'm not sure why but this makes me really feel like a dad. I remember being a kid and we had driven home from a Mariners game and my sister and I would be asleep in the car. My dad would carry my sister in first and then me. Most times I was awake but I'd fake being asleep so my dad would still carry me. Ahh.

Birthday Party

On Saturday we went to a birthday party for a little boy from Kaylee’s daycare. He turned 2. Kaylee’s best friend from daycare was there. Her name is Mireya. The daycare lady calls them partners in crime. The kids had a great time. It was an Elmo theme. Lots of pizza, cupcakes & ice cream. They brought in a lady to paint faces. Kaylee got a kitty on one cheek and a dragon fly on the other. She was upset the next day when she noticed they were gone. The little boy’s dad was upset with his wife because she said no to serving alcoholic beverages. I would be upset too. The last thing you want if you have a dozen screaming kids is not being able to have a drink. Oops, did I just write that.

Bubbles and Poop

I read somewhere that folks with kids might find stories about poop more interesting than those with no kids. With that in mind, this story is about poop so you may not want to read further. Little kids poop in the tub. This is a fact. I thought though that we had passed this part of our lives. We let Kaylee play in the tub by herself. We hang out in the living room and listen and go in every couple of minutes to check on her. One of the problems with this approach is when good old #2 happens. A few months ago Kaylee shouted "A Turd!" We went in and she was holding a turd in her hand. Yuck. Not really a five alarmer. We took the turd and flushed it. Kay was easy to clean up as well.

Tonight was a five alarmer. She shouted for me and I went in. She had had basically diarrhea in the tub with her bubble bath. Funny, I didn't even gag. I thought it was really gross but my gross factor has changed so much since having a child. I got her out of the tub and did a preliminary cleaning of her. Got all the crap out of the tub and scrubbed it down. Then we took a shower and got her all scrubbed down. Afterwards she sat in the chair in our front room and watched a few episodes of Diego. No big deal. Ick.

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?”