Kaleigh Month 10

I know I say this every month, but how is Kaleigh 10 months old? Time is f-l-y-i-n-g by. Everyone tells you it does but you just don't know until you experience it. It just seems crazy to me that we have a 10 month old. Here's the review:

 We celebrated that a year ago on October 17th we got the call that we had the privilege to be the parents to this little girl. 

 We visited Appleworks. It was fun to go out there and we plan to make it a yearly tradition. It is a pumpkin patch that has a petting zoo, a corn maze, games and all kinds of fun things!

 We went to a fall fest and Kaleigh got to pet an alpaca!

Going to our Church's Fall Festival!

Ready for some trick or treating...aka go say hi to all the neighbors

First wagon ride!

Trick or Treat!

One day Kaleigh decided she would like to crawl, pull up and try to stand on her own. Seriously?? A few days later I was in the kitchen making lunch and walked around the corner to find this. She only did it if we were standing there until this day. 

10 months old already!!

Things she is doing:

*crawling

*pulling up

*walking if you hold her hands

*standing on her own for a few seconds

*clapping

*eating table food

*got one of her top teeth

Things she likes:

*hearing cock-a-doodle-do

*standing-all the time 

*peek a boo

* "If you're happy and you know it" she almost always claps her hands!

Things she doesn't like:

*falling :(

*honestly it's been a hard month (more in a later post) so there has been plenty she hasn't liked, we just aren't real sure what it was!!

Kaleigh is such a blessing to us and we are so thankful for her sweet life!! 

Kaleigh Month 9

So here we are, 9 months old. Our little girl is not so little anymore. I have already started thinking about her first birthday party! This should not be happening!  We are so in love with her! We have had a very busy month. It all started with a trip to TN...

Kaleigh's cousin Shelby hadn't met her yet. She was precious with her! She fed her and wanted to hold her and talked to her. She has even named some of her baby dolls Kaleigh and makes her mom call her Mary Leslie because "she's baby Kaleigh's momma." PRECIOUS

We got to see Katie and Levi. Katie and I have been friends for many, many years and I am so thankful for her continued friendship. It was so fun to catch up and for her to meet Kaleigh. 

 Kaleigh loves spending time with her Poppy and Nonnie!!

We have watched lots of UT football and cheered them on. Go Big Orange!! Some people become UT fans, but some people are born UT fans :)

All ready for church!! 

One day we were giving her puffs and this is how it ended up! I love how it looks like she has buck teeth. She hasn't quite mastered feeding herself. She puts it in her palm, closes her hand around it and then sucks on her hand. Surely she will figure it out one day!

This little girl wants to crawl so bad! She will get up like this and then just kick her legs but doesn't go anywhere. She did get rolling down though so that is her mode of transportation. Also, if she is sitting up and falls over and we cheer for her she laughs and smiles, if we don't cheer she cries!

Our sweet little pumpkin! 

We were suppose to go to a Fall Fest with some friends, but it rained all day. I was so bummed. Here is a family picture anyway! 

Sweet Jenni moved to northern Indiana and was driving through Columbus so we got to see her! Love this girl and love that she got to meet Kaleigh! 

Isn't she so big! How did this happen?!

We got to spend a day hanging out with Graham and Aunt Jaye! They actually acknowledged each other's existence this time!!

It's starting to get chilly in what I like to call the "frozen tundra." Being from the South, that is what it feels like. Anyway, the point is, Kaleigh got to sport this cute little jacket!!

Our sweet baby girl is 9 months old!! Words could never, ever express how much we love this sweet girl. She is such a blessing and a joy and we are forever grateful for her! 

One sad thing did happen this month. On September 28th my sweet grandmother passed away. She has had Alzheimer's for about 10 years so it wasn't unexpected, but still sad. Most of my childhood memories have her in them. My brother and I were the only grandkids so we got lots of attention. They came every Christmas Eve and spent the night with us, we went to lunch at their house many Sundays (she would cook for a small army and it was GOOD!), they made sure everything was even-if they spent $1.06 more on my brother I would get that much in an envelope!, they came to school and church programs, they helped us so much when my mom was sick, they gave towards a college fund so I could be debt free and they loved us. Oh they loved us! This was my last living grandparent. I am so thankful that I had her as one of my grandmothers. She was precious and will be missed. We did get to go to TN again and see family and friends so we are thankful for that. Also, when we were in TN in June Kaleigh got to meet grandma. I will treasure this picture forever. 

As far as Kaleigh goes these are things she's doing, things she likes and things she does not like

Things she is doing:

*rolling everywhere

*sometimes waving bye bye

*got her second tooth 

*getting up on her knees and rocking

Things she likes:

*talking, talking, talking

*JUMPING in her jumper

*when we blow on her stomach

*playing peek-a-boo

*She smiles every time someone says "what does a cow say? moo" LOVES it!

*looking at books

Things she does not like:

*she really, really hates not getting her way! she is such a sassy pants!! 

*she also doesn't really like solid food-she could take it or leave it

Kaleigh Month 8

Oh my word, how is it even possible that Kaleigh is 8 months old? There are LOTS (that's possibly an understatement) of new babies at our church and as I have visited them they seem soooo little. It's hard to ever believe Kaleigh was that little. Here's what our month looked like:

 First family picnic! We have some great parks around here so we decided to go for a picnic and give Kaleigh a try at the swing. She alternated between loving it and being unsure about it. Heath also took her down the slide which she wan't too fond of! 

 I decided to dress Kaleigh up for a mock photo shoot. Mock would be the key word there! Ha! I'm totally ridiculous!!

 Her first tooth popped through! She likes biting on our fingers and one day she bit down and it hurt-those suckers are sharp! No more biting on our fingers

She started sucking on her toes and I think it's precious! 

GO VOLS!! Some people become TN fans and some people are born TN fans. This little girl was born one! 

Watching the first TN game online with Mommy! (I may be a little obsessed with UT football!)

Trying out her new "big girl" car seat. I think she's a fan!

Family pic!

She loves this book. She just giggles and giggles when we read it to her. She likes to look at books a lot too. I love this pic of her and Heath! 

Her hair is long enough to put a bow in without a headband. I think it's the cutest thing!

These are 2 normal things around here-food all over her face and her tongue out. How is she so cute?!?

We have no clothing with her name or initials on it and I really wanted something so I decided to make this shirt for her. Heath couldn't tell it was a "K" so my friend Jenni helped me out and now we have a "K" shirt!

8 months old!!

Things she is doing:

*sitting up entirely on her own (like leave the room, come back and she's still sitting there sitting up)

*talking A LOT and usually pretty loudly! 

*moved to a big girl car seat because she is too long for her other one

*got her first tooth

Things she likes:

*our good friend Kendall got her a stuffed frog and she LOVES it

*still jumping in her bouncer (have I mentioned it's the best $3 I've ever spent!!)

*bath time!! she loves splashing around in the water

*going for walks...sometimes at night she is totally losing it but if we go for a walk she is completely fine (this could cause problems this winter!)

*field trips; she loves being out and about. We go walk around Target more times in a week then I care to mention-good for her, bad for my wallet!

*her little bear Marilyn gave her. We have it on her changing table and as soon as we put her down to change her she grabs it and plays with it-it's seriously so cute

Things she dislikes:

*other than not getting her way, there is not a whole lot she doesn't like at this point. She's a happy baby!!

Kaleigh is such a blessing and a joy to us. We are forever grateful for her!! Can't wait to see what next month holds for us!