My Pregnancy Journal: Kalia : 18 months

Kalia :

spent her first weekend without Mommy and Daddy. Granny called a few months back and offered to come down and watch her and Kodi while we went to Jenny's wedding in Ponte Vedra Beach (I was one of the bridesmaids), and we took her up on it! It's one of the reasons weaning HAD to happen! She did really really well!
has started putting her hands in her diaper and spreading her poop everywhere...ALL over her, the crib, everything. Her Granny started putting a onesie overtop of her pajamas to keep her hands out of her diapers, and that's the only thing that works. We eventually gave in and got some zip up pajamas with a button on the top. She's in a size 3T in pj's. What the ??? We got some footed ones the other day and she fully fills it out length wise. They barely make ones without feet in them, and they don't make them that aren't pretty expensive. We have to change her into her zip up jammers for nap and bed, else Kalia, and everything in reach, are covered in poop. I apparently used to do the same thing. Kalia could've taken after her Daddy here, I would've appreciate it!
had a whirlwind of a week! Granny came over for the weekend and Mommy and Daddy left, and we got home Sunday late afternoon, and then headed to Uncle Shawn and Aunt Christina's with Granny and Grandpa Hoskins for Tuesday through Thursday, then to Grandpa and Grandpa Drago for the next weekend and visited with Grandma and Grandpa Taggart and all her girl cousins and Aunt Jennifer and Aunt Jessica! Whew!
decided that she didn't want to sleep...at all...at Uncle Shawn and Aunt Christina's house. Too much fun going on with Maddie around!
has a really great memory. Maddie has a duck bathtub that Kalia became somewhat obsessed with, and she keeps talking about Maddie, the duck, and open the door (which we had to do to let her see the duck). She also talks about Noah, their dog, quite a bit!
is trying to talk in sentences. We were sitting at the pool this weekend and Kodi barked to be let in and Kalia said, without Chris and I saying a word "go around Kodi, go around!". She might hear that a lot!
loves to play with puzzles, dolls, Elmo (of course), and has a newfound love for Mickey and Minnie. Maddie had a Minnie doll that Kalia loved. We have Mickey and Minnie Christmas nightlights, and she goes crazy over them!
loves her Christmas tree, the giant polar bear out front for Christmas decorations, Santa, Snowmen, and finding where her Elf (for Elf on the shelf) is every morning. Overall, she loves Christmas already! She wakes up every morning and asks us to turn on the Christmas Tree and to go outside to say hi to the Polar Bear.
likes to run, run, run! Chris and I are training for a half marathon, and took turns doing sprints around our circle and taking care of Kalia, so now she's decided she wants to run fast too. Really fast...we have to keep a slow jog to keep pace with her. I've made her go around with her bike helmet on after she fell and hit her head a few too many times for my liking. She hasn't figured out that if she's running forward, she can't look back without falling flat on her face!
got her first trike from Grandma and Grandpa Taggart and loves it! She's on that thing all of the time!
had a few playdates with Reese! They're so cute together, they're really starting to play together on their own and show each other things!
says "O" before names when she thinks you're being silly. We hear "Oh Kodi!", "Oh Mommy", and "Oh Daddy!" quite a bit around these parts!
is in almost all of her 2T clothes, and the 3T dresses and shirts aren't really that big anymore either. She's in a 5 1/2 to size 6 shoe now too.
broke through another molar (that's 3) and the bottom tooth on her right side too. Those are teeth 11 and 12 (4 front, 4 bottom, 3 molars, and the one next to the bottom now). I wish these would get done already, I'm ready to sleep again!

Onto the good stuff - pictures!

Thanksgiving!

Kalia : "I'm really supposed to just smile with all of these other people running around like crazy people?? Umm...cheese??"

Kalia : "Woah...my cousins are kind of crazy..."

Kalia's tricycle!

Back at home...prepping for Christmas!

"Mommy, I don't have time for this picture taking nonsense, I've got my Christmas apron on so I can get to baking!"

"Allright, lets see...first up I'll need two eggs..." :-)

Fun time outside! She picks out what hats she wears...

"Allright Mommy, put down the camera and come play bubbles. Yes, THAT camera!"

"Open!!!"

"Yes?? Can I help you?? I'm just popping bubbles, why do we need pictures of this??"

"Oh Koooddddiii!!!"

Playing peekaboo with her hat. She grabs the hat...

...covers her face and says "D-ya!" which is how she says her name...

and then comes out giggling. Such a silly little girl!

She loves to fill her buckets with water from the house and then put this strainer in there and watch the water come out of it.

Santa's Little Helper!

She thought this shirt that I was wearing with Cookie Monster on it was the coolest thing in the entire world!

Attempting to finger paint. She's decided she likes it in theory now, but doesn't like the mess that it entails. THAT, she MUST get from her Daddy. That certaintly does not come from me!

Fun time with puzzles!

Insisting that I come play too!

Playing with Reese at the park (Amy took the pics with her iphone and shared - thanks Amy!). Amy put in one of Reese's bows in Kalia's hair and she left it in there for quite some time! Everyone keeps telling me how cute "he" is, maybe that would help!

"Amy - can you please tell my Mommy what's in this goodie bag of Reese's?? My Mom doesn't give me this good of stuff, I just get plain boring cheerios!!"

I promise all of you that Kalia gets at least half, if not more, of her loudness from her Daddy. He's just undercover around the rest of you!!

"Oh Daddy, you are so entertaining! Keep it up!"

She climbed into one of her play baskets half filled with dolls and kept telling me to get more dolls or more babies. She thought it was great!

Kalia's multi-tasking at it's finest...

She keeps pulling off all of her clothes and asking to sit on the potty, but runs around, naked bottomed, getting stuff to keep her entertained while she tries to do her biz (we just try 99% of the time anymore). I told her potty was all done and she promptly carried it out to the kitchen and grabbed her computer while sitting on it, so I flipped over her basket to make her a table...

...but it kept slipping, so I got her chair instead.

"Oh hey Mommy!! I'm trying to go pee pee! I've got important stuff on the computer to finish up too though, so I'm multi tasking!"

"Lets see...now...where was I??"

"Sigh...too much work, too little time!"

I'll post the outtakes of Christmas pictures, but I tried for a round two solo, and didn't get very far. She just wanted to play peek a boo with me!

Loving on Blake Harvey...a little too hard, ha! He wasn't sure what to think about his agressive lovin'!

Daddy taught Kalia how to play golf. We started with a tennis ball :-).

"I do what again Daddy?? Too many words...lets just get to action!"

"I swing and hit the ball like this! I got it!"

"And when I'm done, I put my clubs in my bucket!" (Yeah, note the big red bump on the middle of her poor head!)

"Mommy, your turn!"

Trying really hard to actually push the pedals down on her bike. She normally just sits on the bike and walks it around with her feet. I showed her how to do it right though, and she's trying! She's almost there!

Hanging out in the hammock with Daddy while Mommy cooks dinner. She kept blowing me kisses through the window!

...and then thought Daddy needed to blow me kisses too!

Out in front with our giant polar bear that she loves so much!

Play date at Reese's! They were painting with markers before this (she liked that a lot more than finger painting!) which is why they're both in their dipes. Kalia was scared of Reese's little trampoline to start off with, but kind of got into it after awhile. She went down to the neighbors and saw theirs and went crazy saying "jump, jump, jump!!!" I think she loves it now!