Summer

Since I blogged last time (a month ago!), we have been keeping busy. We went to our church camp and had a good week there. Kylee had been in a swimming pool once before, but I took her at camp every day. She didn't quite know what to think of all the water. She didn't cry, but wasn't took excited about it either. Part of it was that we went right before her afternoon nap every day, so she was tired already. She was doing a lot better in it by the end of the week. I'm sure she will get to where she loves it. She really liked playing in the dirt after a little bit. She liked to get cleaned off afterwards though.
Corenne, Michelle, McKayla, & Esther
Tea & Kylee
After we got home from camp and were doing the laundry. Kylee was trying to help by taking the wet clothes out the dryer and I was putting them in :-), and she slipped between the wall and the dryer door and made her lip bleed, etc. I don't do good with blood anway and with it being on my little girl made me think the worst. I was sure the she had broke her nose or something!!! Joshua had to fix her up! She was actually pretty cute with her first owie after it was all done and over with. After it was almost healed up, she fell again and got some scratches on her nose and lip again. This will be never ending, especially if she takes after her Daddy.
Kylee's first 4th of July. Her shirt says "American Cutie". I thought it was appropriate. :-) We spent the day with Joshua's family that live here in Crowley. They barbequed, etc. We had a good day. Kylee was asleep when we went to see the fireworks which was a bummer, but there were some people down our street that were setting off some in their yard, so she stood on our couch and watched out the window until they were done. She really liked those.
Here is Kylee doing her talking thing while pointing both of her fingers at the same time. It's quite humerous.

Yesterday evening, we drove to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to see out niece Tana who was down here for a missions trip helping out with stuff from hurricane Katrina. On the way, Kylee was playing with an old cell phone and was trying to talk on it. It was backwards and no one was on it, but she thought she was doing a good job talking on it. Too bad she doesn't do so well when people are actually on it. She would rather listen than talk when someone is on the other line.

Here is Kylee and her cousin Tana.

There wern't very many places to eat that were open. The town is still not in very good condition. Anyway, we took Tana to Sonic. Kylee enjoyed eating outside. Here are all of us.

Here is Kylee being the little diva that she is! I think she knows that she is cute.
We are keeping a piano for some friends until they get their house built, so Kylee was having fun on it this morning.
Yesterday she learned to say Moo. She doesn't always perform on command, but I got her to do it for the video camera finally. Also, you ask her what the ceiling fan does and she waves her arm in circles. Just now, she learned to say Papa (what she calls Joshua's dad).

Joshua's parents are going to be here next week, so that will be fun. We leave for NYR next Thursday night. This will be Kylee first really long trip since she was 1 month old. She is used to going on 4 hour trips, but not much longer. Hopefully she will do good. We are going to switch her carseat so she is facing front so that should help. We will get to see my parents while we are there so that will be fun.

Kylee's first birthday is coming up on August 5th, so I will try to post pictures etc after that if I don't blog again before that.

Kylee's New Kitten

Well, so much for blogging once week. We moved back to Crowley, LA the first of June. We have been busy getting settled back in our house and with the church. VBS was the fist week we got back. It went well. I think our biggest night was about 125 kids. The theme was Fiesta. Our neighbors across the street have a million cats. Maybe I'm exagerating, but they have alot. Anyway, one of them decided to have her kittens over at our house. One of them had a bunch of stuff in her eyes and couldn't get them open, so Joshua cleaned her eyes up, and now she follows us around whenever we are outside. She is so tiny and Kylee thinks she is pretty exciting. We are hoping that maybe she will stick around our house so Kylee can play with her when she is outside. We named her Serendipity. Kind of a big name such a tiny kitten, but I am sure she will grow into it. Our friend Dianna is staying with us for a few weeks and going to camp with us. Kylee has lots of fun with her. She was excited here because we let her play with a cup. Why do we even have toys for her??? She would rather play with paper, pots and pans, cups, etc.!!!!
Kylee went swimming for the first time yesterday. She didn't really swim of course. She didn't really know what to do with being in the pool and had a blank look on her face most of the time, but we got a few smiles out of her toward the end. Maybe by the end of camp she will love being in the pool.

We are headed to our church camp next week. This will be Kylee's first time at camp, so it should be fun.

Joshua Graduates

Joshua graduated from Tech School on May 12th here at Keesler AFB. He was going to have to do some on-the-job training, but the reserve doesn't have the funding for it right now, so they are sending him home. Now we just come back for one weekend a month and 2 weeks in the summer. We are packing up this week and will move back this next weekend. Below is a picture of Joshua's short ceremony that they do for them. There are always classes graduating, so that is why it's not a huge thing. They did let me come and watch, so that was nice.Here is Joshua and the class that he graduated with.
Last week, we took Kylee to the beach a couple of days and took her 9mo pictures. It gets too expensive taking her to a portrait studio every 3 months! Anyway, here are some of them. The wind was blowing quite a bit the first day, so her hair was going everywhere!
She has been into clapping normal now lately. She thinks everything is exciting and claps!She likes the new bucket and pail that we got her, but she would rather get the sand out of it than put it in. She likes to take everything apart (she must take after Joshua in that!!)

First Step!!!

Kylee Paige is 9 months old today. Wow! She has grown so much. She took her first step on Sunday night. She actually took two steps, but at different times. She hasn't done it since, but I know that time is coming sooner now (that's kinda cool, but scary!!).
Joshua is graduating from Tech School on Friday!!!!! That means that he can live with us again. He had to help with the Special Olympics this weekend that take place on Keesler Air Force Base. It's not bad, except for that he doesn't get to leave base until Sunday after their (Joshua & his roommate) Special Olympian leaves. Oh well, he is almost done living on base anyway. After that, he will probably have some "on the job training" that he will have to do before we go back to Louisiana.
These pictures are from this week when I was with a friend of mine and her twin daughters. We took them and Kylee to a park on the Navy base where she lives. Kylee got to play in the sand for the first time. She didn't quite know what to think of it, and wasn't extremely excited that it wouldn't come off of her hands, but thankfully kept her fingers out of her mouth. That would have been interesting. She had a good time.
She also tried watermelon today and didn't know at first what to think of the texture, but soon wanted more. I knew she would take after me with loving watermelon. She didn't have a chance with how much I ate when I was pregnant with her last summer!!

Trip to Minnesota

Kylee and I just got back from a trip to Minnesota to see my sister and her family, my parents, and Joshua's parents (they got to come up for a day). We had a great time (except for missing Joshua lots) and Kylee got very spoiled, which she loved!! Now she has to get back to reality of having to play by herself on the floor and not getting held all the time. :-)
Here are some pictures of our trip.
Aunt Amy and Kylee
Nana & Kylee reading a book they got her
Papa & KyleeAunt Chris (my mom's sister) and Kylee
Grandma Betty and Kylee on the trampoline. She had so much fun on it.
Kylee and Aunt Christy
Kylee and Grandpa Wayne
Kylee, Kalai, Malia, & DJ (3 of her cousins) at Como Zoo. Kylee liked the monkeys the best of all because they were moving more than the tigers, lions, etc.We got to see some friends while we were there. We decided to take a sisters picture since there were two sisters from each family there (just to clarify that we aren't all in the same family, although that would be fun!!!!) Abbi & Anna, Betsy & Jessica, me and Christy. It was fun. We also were able to see Abbi and my cousin Ken's new little girl Megan who was 3 days old. :-)
Here is a picture of Christy with her.Part of the beach is open now here in Biloxi, so I am going to try and take Kylee there some this week and get some pictures of her in the sand, etc. It should be fun and it will be a new experience for her.

Classic Pictures of Kylee!!!!

Here are a few more pictures of Kylee that I took on Wednesday. I caught some classic expressions that just cracked me up. Thought you might enjoy them, too.

Nice Day Outside

I caught Kylee in one of her happy moments today. She has been having a rough time lately with her gums hurting because of teething.
It was a gorgeous day outside, so she sat in the doorway of our apparment and watched the workers putting shingles on the next building over. She is very nosey, so she has been enjoying all the construction that has been going on in our aparment complex because of damage done by Hurricane Katrina.
Well, we are going to pick up Josh this evening from the Base (Keesler Air Force Base) and then have dinner before Church.

Hello!

Well, I decided to start our own web blog site so that maybe all of you will be able to see pictures of Kylee more often. I haven't been that great at it lately. Hopefully I will be able to write once a week or so and put some new pictures up of Joshua, Kylee, & me (but mostly of Kylee probably!!!). So just check out our site once in awhile and see what we have been up to.