Boys wrapped around her finger

A couple of randoms and this cute girl with her daddio and gunkle cwis wrapped around her little finger ;)

the girl loves goodies.

This girl has a sweet tooth .. like serrrrrriously sweet tooth.  A couple of quick shots of her enjoying a treat or two, and giving me a silly face or two ;)

xo

Wild thang.

Wild thang!  She is such a nut!  We are now to August, by the way people.  Big things, big things! =D She just kills me with her little backpack, and her keys.  She's becoming such a big girl, who totally knows what she wants!  It's an interesting time, and is continuing to be - with her feistiness mixed with her sweet helpfulness <3.  

And a couple of crazy hair (and living room) just to make you smile =D

Sidewalk Chalk & Puppy Love.

Whewfta!  It's been another BUSY couple of weeks!  We've been busy with lots of graduations, holidays, birthdays, etc - but I'm glad we can find sometime to just hang out outside and play with some chalk.  =)

She is SUCH a collector!!  Anything, everything, into any type of container.  She totally loves it.  =)

And a few randoms, trying to get caught up on editing pictures (I am still super behind, these are from January, so those waiting on pictures of a certain event, they're coming, I promise!).  =)

Habits.

Alright - now we're caught up and back to current day where penguin doesn't leave Kayden's side.

I love how she holds her little wing like this =).

(Even though she's throwing a fit because we took her suckie out to take a couple pictures.  That thing is not nearly as cute nor accepted into photo shoots, as penguin is.)

And one of her favorite activities lately - coloring.  We've had quite the time trying to teach her what is acceptable to color on.  (Yes, we've already had wall, couch, computer, books, and movie case incidents...)  In these pictures she's coloring on an old kohl's coupon ... we soon learned that it was not a good idea to give her 'whatever we don't need' to color on because that was apparently confusing ... so that has stops and we've moved onto coloring books, bought and home-made ;-).  But she's catching on...lol

She's super hard to get pictures of her doing something candid now.  She absolutely loves the camera and as soon as she see's it, much less hears the shutter click, she's already hopping up to say cheese:

But sometime's she'll still let me get a few, if I take a suffice number of her while saying cheese...

I love this one!! :

She always grabs any camera she finds (our little one is shock proof, whew.  and she's happy with the flip in it's hard case) and puts it up to her eyes and walks around saying cheeeeeeeeeese.  I've been trying to get a picture of that... but hopefully soon =).

She's getting SO big!  We took her to the Dr. last week and they said she's the size of a two year old!  (She won't be two for 5 more months!! =( .. which really is already to fast for me, but she's already the size of a two-year-old?!?!  Noooo ... too fast, too fast!!)  They said she's doing great, and so smart and friendly (duh, we already knew that ;-p).  I'm so proud of her, more and more every day.  She's started "reading" a LOT lately too.  She'll grab a book and just reeead and read, and Dominic and I just look at each other and smile.  Can't believe she's ours!  <3

The other way to sit...

Whopsie, these are from back in November, but I got mixed up.  I love to watch her when she's doing something all on her own, or her own way.  It's fun to watch her go into her room and choose what she's going to do.

She cracks me up when she squats like this.  And she LOVES those blocks!

"Uhh hello .. you're distracting!"

Definitely not as much fun to sit the regular way...