Hats, Pups, and Daddy.

I found this hat a couple weeks ago in the Target $1 bin.  I couldn't resist.  I'm glad I didn't.

She's so stinkin cute!  We were just getting her dressed last weekend and had to play around for a minute. =D

But this quickly happened =p :

Kourt has been in town for spring break so we went out to lunch for her birthday.

It was a mission to get everyone to show up this much, but Dominic still is covering up Kayden.  Whopsie.

And we can't wait til Kayden's new little baybay friend gets here!!! =D

I looove this picture.  They are having a blast!  Laying on stuffed animals .. =) .. Dominic is such an amazing daddy!  Riley loves Kayden so much, it's so sweet.

Zoom out a little bit.  Doz is parked by mama. =)

Lots of play time this week =).  Yesterday Kayden and I made white chip chocolate cookies again for Matthew's birthday.  Then we went to the park.  When we left it was perrrrfect, and literally, one block away to the park, we got there and it was soo windy!  But we hung out a bit, played on the swing and sat on a blanket and just enjoyed the nice spring weather, and slobbered on some toys of course ;-).  Pictures soon to come! =)

Kayden weighed 18lbs 14 ozs on Monday and was I think 26 1/2 inches long!  =D  Whoa girlfriend!

Woohoo we went to the ZOO!

Kayders has officially been to the zoo! =D  We went last Sunday.  She was in a bit of a grumpy mood (tired), thus the kind of grumpy faces and constant sucky in her mouth ... but she enjoyed walking around in the stroller, outside, more than anything else that day!  We were thinking she would fall asleep while we walked but no such luck, so she just watched and hung out.  But she had a couple of good happy baby moments! =D

Dominic HATES to ask people to take pictures of all of us (and I will die without them) so we've resorted to taking many self portraits lol.  This was taken at the last second, as Kayden got extra grumpy and the camera was dyyying (which I try to never let happen!)  But we got one, =D so I am a happy camper!!!

Family pic - first day at the zoo! =D =D =D

(yes she got my hair w that quick little hand of hers!...)

She was such a cutie, looking out and watching all the animals!! =)  (Pictures are still practice, but I'm keeping them anyway to look at my ... hopefully improvement.)

Dominic being such a great daddy that he is!  =)  "It's ok, go take pictures up there (on the stairs) I'll wait! =)"  He's so sweet.  Sooo.. I got this picture of him. =D

The polar bear is probably my favorite thing to take pictures of!  I think he looks so cool in any season, trees dead or green!

I love this picture!  It may not be the best picture to all you photo experts out there.  But I love it.  I love that the bottom is a hippo, and then the city of Albuquerque, and then the trees!  =)  Dominic was saying, oh psh, wait until it's summer it will be so pretty!  Buuut ... I don't think you'll be able to see the city through the trees the same.  We'll see, I'm sure we'll be back there this summer ;-).

This was soo cute!  Cuddled up on his mama.

And these were from last Monday.  (This is what she is doing RIGHT now.  Daddy is sleepin and she's about to go back down for a nap.)  She is so sticking cute.  Each morning we wake up, do all the necessaries (diapers, bottles etc ;-) ) and then play.  We plaaaaay.  (We do this all still in our jammies of course ;-) )  And then she watches her morning shows -- ALWAYS Mickey Mouse Playhouse.  And usually Handy Manny (the tool guy =p) and Agent Oso Special (the special agent that solves any mystery of a task a tiny tot can't figure out how to do ... hop, fold a towel, set out the table settings, etc).  So that is that.  She loves her morning shows.  But the cutest part is how she does it.  She sits on the floor with her little sucky and her basket of toys.  She gets realllllly into it, but once in awhile she look back at me and smile. =D

She loves to put her sucky in all by herself now!  My baby is getting so big!

She holds onto it like this almost the whole time, and tips it towards her, lets it go back up, tips it towards her, lets it go back up.

Alrighty.  Sorry I've been such a slacker.  There's the picture update from last weekend =p.  Hopefully I'll post this weekend more quickly!  She is such a riot these days.  Last night K & D were daaaancing and she was cracking up!  Like uncontrollably!!  She's too funny!  She loves any and all dogs.  Whenever we go to someone's house with pups, she just stares and stares and wants them to come play with her and lick her to death like she is used to lol.  She loves to "talk" and take her sucky out, put it in, take it out, put it in.  She will rarely rest her head down on my anymore, she likes to fight it, especially when she's tired and she knows its almost nap time.  But once in awhile she'll be so pooped and she will do it, and it is the most precious thing everrr!  I miss those days of when she would always cuddle!  I simply cannot believe that her 1 year birthday is in 5 months and 3 weeks!  Ahhh that seems so soon!  Crazy chickadee slow down your growing!!

Our mini update: (This is mostly just for me to remember things, so I'm sorry if you think we are boring to read about lol)  Dominic is playing football again, so I'm sure there will be many pictures of that to come.  I think I posted some of us watching the other week - from the car ;-p it was freezing though!  I have been happily and gladly super busy with KG so that has been taking up a lot of my "spare" time.  We're still trying to work on the house (the bathrooms and backyard mostly) but it is very hard!  I finally got our first family picture framed and up on our living room wall this week! =D (This is a huge deal because 1. D hates to put holes in the wall so I've finally convinced him that we've gotta have family pictures up, and we're not going to regret putting it up because of a little whole.  I think he is getting there =).  And 2.  It is so hard to find the time/motivation to actually get stuff done around here ... she's napping, no hammering, etc.  But we got it!!  I must admit though, I thought I had this great plan of using hallow mirror thingies as extra frames around our large family picture.  Dominic insisted that it wouldn't work.  And guess what.  They sure didn't.  They all fell down the same day.  So now I'll have to figure out something else to do to make our family picture that is finally up, actually look good lol.  I have so many projects going on in my head.  What elllllse ... I think that is about it for the update now.  =)  

Kourt bourt is coming into town today!  Yay! =)

Randoms from the tele. (phone.) =)

Kayders is watching the Disney channel (our morning routine) and daddy is sleeping in, so I thought I'd post a few from the phone camera real quick.  As I was uploading these I realized that I didn't take one single picture of Kayden yesterday, on her 7 month birthday.  =(  Sadddd day.  I'm a slacker.  But I suppose I'll just take a zillion today!  =D

These are from about 2 weeks ago.  She got her first cart ride!!  I had to run into Walgreen's real quick, and they have those little tiny carts, it was perfect!  She LOVED it ... and LOVES it!! =D

Wahoooo!

 This is just from the last week or two, I just think her eyes look awesome! =)

"Oh hey mama.  Check me out!  I'm sitting up like a big girl with my arms out!!  Looking at everrrrrryyythingggg!!! =D"

And this one is from the beginning of February I think.  Hanging out with Great Grandpa Kitts.  She loooves the table cloth at Grandpa Kitts'.

So far it's been a lazy Sunday (it's only 8:37 ;-)) and I'm not sure what we're doing today but we'll figure something out! =)

Kayders went to the Aquarium!!! =D

Last weekend it was kind of crappy out.  We've been talking about getting a membership (again ;-) yes we had one, even when we didn't have a muchkin) to the zoo (which includes the aquarium and botanical gardens).  So we finally did it last weekend, since we weren't sure what else to do because of the weather, and so we went!! =)  (I looove the zoo and aquarium, I would go everyday!)

She wasn't too sure at first!  (This was at the open tank of sting rays, they were swimming by and splashing and she was on gaurd!)

But then she LOVED it! =D

She watched and watched and didn't want to move on!! (This is at the very front/beginning!)

Going through the aquarium.

This is totally not a good picture, but being the person that I am, I needed a picture of her first trip to the aquarium!!!  (with me, because I knew I'd be behind the camera the rest of the time! ;-) )  So whatever.  I'm glad I got one lol.  Next time I'll know to get ready, and we'll try to get Kayden to look in the remote direcion.

She loved the jellyfish too!

Kayden size jellyfish!! =)

Doing their favorite game.

This turtle is so cool.  He was laying on the bottom and woke up to go eat, and Kayden watched him sloooowly get up, and kind of swim, kind of float up to the top. lol.

Mr. Turtle going up.

And just a couple from the botanical gardens.  Practicing ... 

It was too much fun!!  I've been trying to get us to get out of the house on the weekends, but it's hard when the weather is crappy.  Welp, now we can go to the aquarium every weekend!  Just kidding ;-).  

Let's see ... what's new around here?  Kayden is getting VERY good at sitting up.  She's pretty much a pro ;-).  At the moment she is rolling around by my feet, making lots of loud noises, and sucking on her toes, and watching Handy Manny, all at the same time.  She's been teething really badly!  She loves to turn on and off the light switches and is always trying to steal the remote or our cell phones.  She's so funny how her little personality is starting to come out.  When she is super duper tired, and I take her into her room, she will start to try to dive into her crib.  It's the most precious thing, like "Oh ok!  Yes, you sure can go to your crib!!" lol  I think she is starting to learn what putting my arms out means (to me anyway--it means for her to put her arms up so I can pick her up), because I do it a lot when she is in her bouncer toy, or when I'm getting her up from her crib, and as soon as I put my arms out to pick her up she gets soo excited!!  Yesterday she sat on the kitchen counter while we made the chocolate white chip cookies (see previous post).  We took them to Daddy at his work to visit him because he wasn't able to come home for lunch.  It was good to see his face light up when I took little muchkin in with some yummy treats.  From what I hear, they were a hit ;-)

Dominic and I have been same 'ol.  Staying busy in between Kayden, work (yes, I call KG my work now, it's a LOT of work!! but i'm not complaining!!!), cleaning etc, all the other biiiiiiz, and trying to get back into the motivation mode of getting house stuff done.  Our goal is grass by August (for Kayden's birthday), and we still need to finish our bathrooms.  And our gorgeous back room that we finally finished, sits, empty, and lonely.  So I hope to someday, somehow, soon, figure out what we're going to put in there, and put it in there.  But we'll see.  Time is flying by.  I can't believe Kayden is a whole SEVEN months TMR!!!  Ahhhh my little baybay!!!  And that means only 5 more left for grass ... uh oh!  I better go!  haha!

xo =)

A Smorgasbord.

Of events in this post.

First one of the cute chick! =)

Last week Carol and Rick were in town staying at Chris and Ralph's so we got to hang out with them for a bit.  =)

Aunt Carol and Kaydenpoo.  I love this one.

Chris and Ralph's pretty dogs.

Playing with Uncle Ralph.

Kayden and Daddy both love this game lol.

Last weekend Dominic had his first spring outdoor game, during the day even, so we were looking forward to hanging out outside and watching him.  Unfortunately, it was freeeeeeezing!!  So we sat and watched from the car!  =)  Kayden sat in the front seat watching out the window like a big girl.  =D

 "Yeahhhhh, did you see Daddy?!  He's so good!" ;-)

Went to lunch with Grandpa Conn and that side of the fam last weekend as well.

And I just had to share my chocolate white chip cookies that I am super proud of cause I think they look pretty scrumptious if I do say so myself! ;-D