My Pregnancy Journal

See the previous post to hear about the details of the road trip! Here's my iphone pics of the car and Niceville!

All loaded up and ready to go! Only toys and food were in the car. Everything else was in the trunk!

Reading her violet books

Playing with playdoh, noodles, and cheerios. Amy showed her this one the last trip to Fl, and she LOVES it!

Onto the aquadoodle!

And then the 'crafts'...

Finally, stickers get us the rest of the way to Birmingham. She was such a trooper! I actually think she kind of weirdly liked it. She got a lot of attention! She did ask about an hour into the trip if we could go home because she was all done with the road trip, but that was the only negative thing said!

Mommy and Kalia on the way to Tampa! She found the headband in her backpack. Too cute!

Next up, robots and cars on the cookie sheet!

Singing!

Spider bite :-(. That looked good compared to what it wound up looking like!

Ended up with some more aqua doodle!

Tampa!!! Two beautiful girls to a beautiful Momma! Was SO happy to get to meet them!!

All I managed to get of Kalia at a pee break stop on the way back to Niceville.

Niceville / Destin! A beach with a playground - Kalia was in heaven!

Her and Daddy took turns burrying each other...

Another beach another day!

This time we dug her a big pool with a mini slide because the ocean was pretty rough. She thought it was great!

Lunch with Granny and the alligators afterwards.

Beach date!

Melting Pot date!

And back on the road again!! Playing with letters...

Then playdoh, noodles, and cheerios again!

Amy had printed up a bunch of pictures from the time before when we were there and gave us a copy. Kalia stayed entertained for awhile looking through those. They made her happy!

Singing!

And finally, sticker shock, aka, losing our minds ;-).

Whew! What a FUN and EXHAUSTING trip!!

This month was another big one for Kalia. She :

went to a hot air balloon festival, except it was too windy for the balloons to go off, so there weren't any hot air balloons at the festival, ha! The carnival rides weren't open, but she had an ABSOLUTE BLAST running around. She went down the big slides with Daddy, sat on the carousel (she's never liked them, but not moving, they were perfect!), fished with fish nets to find goldfish, fished with a magnetic rod to find magnetic fish, rode around on the bumper cars with me while Daddy pushed, and just had a ton of fun being a goof. Our friends Kellie and Adam and their two sons, Luke and Micah (2 and 1) came and joined, and after the non open carnival part, we walked around and saw the kites and other adventures that were going on, and built another truck from a kids workshop Home Depot thing before leaving. She wanted to go back there AGAIN after we got home, ha!
loves to play soccer in the backyard with Kodi. Clothes are optional. I don't know why the child likes to be naked so much!!
likes to "exercise just like Mommy and Daddy" and does leg stretches, spastic jumping jacks, and push ups (not really!), but it's really cute!
went to the beach pool for the last time before it closed!! It's only opened on weekends and September, and our weekends got cut short because we...
went on a huge road trip all the way from McKinney, TX to Tampa, FL. It was SUCH a whirlwind of a trip!

we took Kodi with us and drove from our home on a Friday to Birmingham to spend the weekend with Shawn, Christina, Maddie, and Granny (who came up from Niceville). Kalia did so so so amazing the whole 10+ hours, but she did not sleep. She is a stomach sleeper and I'm convinced that's why she doesn't sleep in the car.
we spent the weekend playing and visiting and seeing their new home in Birmingham. On Sunday Chris flew out to Europe and I drove Kalia down to Niceville (Granny took Kodi!) for the night.
the next morning I got up and drove with Kalia down to Tampa and spent from Monday afternoon - Friday morning there. The reason for the trip was because Ashleigh had her twin baby girls (Emery and Paige) and I really wanted to help and see them!!! Kalia got a spider bite or something the night before / morning that we left, and by the time we got to Tally, her leg was warm and hugely swollen and she was so upset. I stopped and gave her medicine and pushed back the chair so she could elevate her leg the rest of the way down to Tampa. Poor girl was a champ! Luckily my friend Amy's husband Greg is a doctor, so he saw Kalia when we got in, popped the random blisters that popped up, ensured me that her leg wasn't going to fall off, and gave her some antibiotics to clear it all up. She didn't walk on it and limped for about a day and a half, but after that was as good as new!
spent Tuesday and part of Wednesday with Grandma Drago (who came over to help out with Kalia so I could go help out and visit with Ashleigh) and Amy and Reese. There was so much excitement for her that she didn't nap at all (esp with being in a big girl bed now!), but overall she did really well there. She LOVES Reese, Amy, Greg, and baby Paige. Poor baby Paige got pulled quite a bit between Reese and Kalia. They both kept saying 'mine!'.
spent Thursday afternoon with Janelle, Yulander 3, and Ydris playing at the park, going to Sam's, and then going back there for dinner and bath (and big Yulander too at the end!) and didn't want to leave. She misses her friends from Florida so much, but it was nice that she had friends to come home to this time!
we drove from Tampa to Niceville on Friday. Kalia threw up within an hour of being in the car. It was my fault, I gave her her medicine and then strapped her in and couldn't get her to eat her breakfast while I was driving, so antibiotics on an empty stomach = no good. After we stopped and got cleaned up she was really good though. That girl is a champ!
Spent Friday through the following Saturday in Niceville. Chris flew in late late Friday night into the airport up in the panhandle. We went to the beach a few times, played at the splash park and playground, went on walks to a playground, and had a lot of good fun family time! Chris and I even snuck in another date night!
Drove entirely too fast and made it back from Niceville to our home with both Kalia and Kodi in a little less than 11 hours. Oops! We sang songs, played with playdoh, colored, aqua doodled, read books, and just did whatever to keep Kalia entertained. She was a champ. So was Kodi! We all deserve gold stickers for such a successful first road trip!

We came back from our road trip to the weather in the 50's and it was in the 100's when we left - craziness here!
did amazing at getting back into her routine and napping in her own bed once we were home, woo hoo!

Onto pictures!

Naked soccer...

Looks totally innocent from the front...(yeah, blurry iphone pics)

...not so much...

Non Hot Air Balloon Festival!

Girl loves her some spaghetti. And headbands.

Testing out her Halloween costume from last year to see if it'll still work for this year! She had chicken pox last year so she couldn't wear it and I worked hard on it!! It was huge last year and just right this one, woo hoo!

I'll post actual road trip pictures in a separate post, but here's the pictures of our visiting before my camera died (and I forgot the charger at home - boo!)

When we first got to Birmingham, this is what Kalia and Maddie did!

Maddie's name for Kalia is "that". :-)

Granny getting her some grandbaby lovin!

Then it was off to Tampa!

And the reason we went - look how adorable!!! 3 lbs people, THREE pounds!!!

The Kalia and Reese show. Silly girls!

Attempting to high 5 each other...

Amy gave Kalia her first ponytail! One day she'll grow hair...one day!

My giant baby...

Hair and makeup play time. Kalia thought this was amazing!!

Bath time!

Kalia loves to dunk her head under water and bring it back up soaking wet. Or have you dump water on her head (odd, I know). Reese thought it was hilarious!