beading with girlies.

A couple snapshots of girls day and beading.  I get so proud of her when she picks up things so quickly, and her fine motor skills impress me, even if they don't impress anyone else lol.  ;)  She loves these - she'll just bead them, unstring them, bead them, unstring them.

Chicks exploring.

The sweet girlies love Explora.  Kayden and her bestie, Addy, are so much fun to watch grow and learn together.  Melts my little heart when they hold hands and help each other with something =D <3  It's just amazing to watch them check everything out, I could just watch all day.

Doy - how did I not crop my finger out of this?!  Ugh, too late, too much to do at this busy time of year haha.  Sorry anyone out here to looks at this lol, how embarrassing.  

Funny Munchkin.

This silly girl is a riot.  I keep trying to upload a video but I guess it may be too big =(  I hate that.  I'll try to put it into two or something.  She's so hilarious though.  In the video she shows us all her "stuff" - eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, fingers, etc"  Sweet little smartie.

Her faces alone, simply kill me.  Lol!

Silly girl lol.

I love her little features.  So small, and soft, and perfect.

Snack time.

She's so big these days.  This is also still back in Feb. so she's gotten even bigger but it still amazes me that the same little baby that needed us to feed her a bottle and support her head, is now climbing up onto the couch with her snacks and watching her little movie while giggling at the camera (most likely just to float my boat).  I just can't believe how fast the time flies!!

To some people, I'm sure some of the pictures I post on here are so random, but to me their specific little things that I never want to forget.  Kayden loves Baby, and it cracks me up the places I find her!  Kayders loves her little car, so why wouldn't Baby, right?  Duh.  We've found her so many places, in kitchen drawers, and block wagons, in the stroller (thats a pretty normal one, precious right?), and all tucked in with a pillow and blankie on Kayden's bedroom floor (pretty normal too, precious as well right?).  I think it's so sweet that she doesn't want Baby to miss out on any of the action, and she always knows just right where she left her, I can search and search, but all I need to do is ask Kayden, she'll know.  =)

She LOVES to walk in our shoes.  Loves to!  It's adorable, and hilarious, simultaneously.

More posts to come, catching up on pictures, and when I say "catching up" I really mean "trying for dear life to catch up but who knows if it will ever happen again.." ;)

-xo-

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...

Messy kid.

Lemme tell you, this girl can make a mess in two seconds flat.  We turn our head for no more than two seconds, seriously, and this is what happens.  Gah, she's a wild one, and fast too.

And she LOVES beans!!  We loves a restaurant here called Twisters, and I like mine with no beans; which has become beans on the side for little Kayder tot here, who goes.TO.TOWN!

She doesn't even have to pay attention.... lol!

Lol I think she does it on purpose -- to get to take a bath later.  Crazy, messy girl!

<3<3

Zoo day!

Kayden gets really into it these days and loves to watch the animals!

Tickles from Daddy can't distract her ;-p

Loving the monkeys!

Making monkey noises!

We love the zoo!  It's finally getting warmer again so we'll be going a lot more often I'm sure! =)

I couldn't get the video to upload =(  But I'll try again later.  I don't get this thing sometimes...