My Pregnancy Journal

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Kalia : 20.5 months

These past few weeks have been more crazy for Chris and I than Kalia with getting a few house projects crossed off the list (I'll post pictures soon hopefully, and then post on my Kara's Korner blog for the before and after's), so I didn't get to take an obscene amount of pictures over these past few weeks (don't worry, I'll make up for it, promise!), so it shouldn't take you an hour to get through all of these :-). As for what everyone cares about, Kalia :

decided she was boycotting naps after coming home from the panhandle (where she did well with naps!). Between that, and Daddy going out to Dallas for work later on that week, AND Grandma and Grandpa Drago coming over when Daddy got back, Kalia decided there was just too much going on in life, and she wasn't going to sleep through it!
went to our half marathon with Gma and Gpa Drago and watched both Mommy (1:50) and Daddy (1:59) cross the finish line. Everytime she see's the clothes that we wore on race day she says "run!!! RUN, RUN, RUN!!!" and swings her arm. She has such an incredibly memory!
went to the playground with us and Gma and Gpa Drago and figured out how to climb up the rope steps pretty much all by herself! She normally gets confused between sitting and standing on the rope part, but she did it all by herself a bunch of times. Of course I was there to make sure she didn't fall, but she's getting so independent!
has dance parties almost every morning after breakfast, and if she can get away with it, after nap, and after dinner too. The girl loves to run around, twirl around, yay while running, and make Kodi get into it too. She does the "side step" and "gets low" thanks to Daddy.
says "I love you". So sweet!
wants to help with everything. Her favorite new words are "D-ya do it!!" She has started 'helping' me make coffee in the morning (or spill water and coffee grounds everywhere, how ever you want to look at it!), washing dishes (she sits on the counter top and rinses them off in the sink when I'm done washing), putting away more dishes than just the tubberware (she'll carry the cups over to where they go and then I pick her up and she stands on the counter top and puts them away), and pretty much anything I'm doing, she wants to help!
loves helping with laundry. I asked her if she wanted to go to the zoo or do laundry, and she said laundry. And she meant it. It's like her favorite activity. She helps me sort by putting the clothes in the pile I tell her to, and then she helps me carry the clothes to the washer, puts it in, and pushes the button when I tell her to. Sometimes I don't carry anything, I just let her run back and forth from our bathroom to the laundry room. She loves going from the washer to the dryer and from the dryer to the basket, and she'll put all of her clothes away in correct drawers. She knows what top left, right, middle, and bottom left and right mean. She's not as good at putting away our clothes, she just shoves in drawers (I'm continually finding Chris's socks in my drawers), but she has a grand time doing it!
loves reading magazines during second breakfast. She was pointing out who the girls and boys were in there and when I asked how she knew if they were a boy or a girl she said "hair". Then she grabbed her little hair at the back and said "D-ya hair. Need more. D-ya need more hair". Great. Already the little kiddie magazines are giving her a complex!! I told her we're working on it, it'll come!
had Reese over for a playdate. She loves playing with BOTH Reese and Amy!!
says "your kidding me!" and "no way!!!". I hear her say both of them to her dollies all of the time.
absolutely loves playing with all of her babies, dollies, and bears. She can't get enough of them! She will sit and chat with them for HOURS!

...onto pictures!

Dance party!

"Allright, this is fun!!! MUSIC!!"

"YAY!!!!" (that's literally exactly what she's yelling in this pic!)

"c'mon Kodi, DANCE!!!" (also exactly what she was saying!)

I took a million pictures of her in her little dress she wore for Valentine's day. She looked so darn cute in it!

Mommy : "Kalia, show Mommy your pretty pretty dress!" Kalia : "Um, here it is? Can't you see it??"

"Um, yay dress??"

"I'd really rather play with my potty and toy doll right now Mommy!"

"Haha Mommy, catch me with the camera if you can!!!"

Playing in her stove. She LOVES to cook!

"Mommy are you done yet?? All done camera!" (she was literally saying Allll DONE camera!!)

"Okay fine, I'll hold up my pretty dress for you to get a picture. Can you come play with me now?!?!"

"yay Daddy's home!!! I know this picture this is almost done with now!!"

"Daddy, no way you expect me to actually smile after a million pictures, right?!?!"

Kodi deciding he wanted to get in on the Valentine's day lovin'...

"Oh HEY Kodi!!" (really says that)

"Oh Kodi KISSES, OH KODI!!!" (really saying that)

"Oh KOOOODDDIIIII!!!!!!!" (yep, saying that too!)

"forget all of you guys, I'm gonna get on my bike and get outta here!!" (sidenote : I meant to move that out of the house before Daddy got home! It was raining, so I had to improvise. I might have gotten asked why in the world there was a BICYCLE in our home...oops!!)

Kalia loves loves loves to play "night night" with her babies and dolly. Too bad it's just a game!!

"Night night dolly, night night baby Katie, night night D-ya!!!!"

I get asked about her eyes all of the time, they change a lot. Here's a close up of them on this day. Such a cute little face!!!

"Yes?? Can I help you??"

"Silly Mommy!!! Time to play!!"

These next two aren't the best, but I wanted to show her little messed up hair! It's a comin'! I think she's slow to grow hair because she'd look like a mess in public otherwise. I walk around with bed head, why can't she??? :-)

The End! More soon...promise!

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Kalia : 20 months

More craziness over these past two weeks! Kalia :

likes to pick up sticks and break them into pieces. She likes to run with them, so I started breaking them up to be really small so that if she falls, she doesn't hurt herself. Now she thinks snapping them is a fun game.
walked .95 miles with Mommy to go get my car from getting it's oil changed. She refused to get into the stroller and kept saying "D-ya WALK, all-DONE stroller" until we were almost there. We walked really slowly, but it was still a lot for her!
caught what I think was the norovirus the day we went for the long walk. She got home and slept for a few hours, and then woke up screaming crying, and when I ran into her room, there were PILES of puke everywhere. I thought I had just over-heated her. She puked pretty much non-stop from 430-930. We'd get her to sleep, and she'd wake up and puke.
The next morning she woke up without a fever and kept down some cheerios and water, so we headed up to the panhandle to visit with her Great Granny (and Granny and Grandpa too!). She didn't throw up the entire way there and even slept for 30 mins of the trip (which was a small victory, even if the car ride was 7+ hours!). She ate a little bit and drank some, so we thought it was just the over heat thing and she was fine. Then she spiked 103 fever after we got there and started going out the other end, even to the point that she went and slept in it and we had to wake her up to change her :-(. It lasted a few days, and then she over it. She still played a ton while she was sick, she just got sort of sedate at times and didn't eat much. I think it was the norovirus because...
was very generous with her virus and gave it to her Daddy, Granny, Grandpa, Great Granny, and also our friends Lindsay, Jamie, Kenley, William, and Truitt, who were taking care of Kodi while we were gone. Yep, my name was off that list. I took emergenC and prayed a lot!! Someone had to take care of everyone else!! Kalia's poor Granny was sick taking care of Kalia's Great Granny getting sick. Kalia says she's so sorry!!!
cut in three new teeth (her canine's) while she was sick at Granny's house. Poor girl, when it rains, it pours!
does not like puppies. Debra (Granny's neighbor) has a little lab puppy and a 6 month old mix puppy that we got to play with while we were there. She says "oh no Puppy!!" for the puppy, and then doesn't stop talking about Murphy (the bigger pup!). She thought the little puppy was too much with all the excitement and jumping. She's used to being in charge on the dog front!
started going down slides all by herself. She gets so proud of herself at the bottom! Sometimes she's a little scared, and certain shoes can trip her up, but she does pretty well for the most part! Now if I could just get her to stop thinking it's fun to jump off the 10 ft high drops in the playground, I could let her run around all by herself!
loves loves loves to climb. On anything and everything. I meant to write this in the last post, but she's started climbing on the ottomans and furniture. I was cooking dinner one night, and hear a little sweet voice saying "Hi Mommy!!" and I walk away from the stove to see Kalia standing on the little ottoman stools in the living room, waving at me. It took me a second to understand why in the world she was 5 ft tall. She thought it was hilarious. I actually had to let her fall off her ottoman in her room (I just walked away when she started climbing) because she won't listen to "no climb". Now she says "No Climb, OUCHIES!" to the ottoman in her room.
loves to climb steps and little rock wall thingies at the playground. We count the steps as we go. She'll go up a few by herself and count them all by herself too...it's cute!
had Blake Harvey over for another playdate and didn't want to share any of her toys with him. She is kind of obsessed with her karaoke machine, and Blake loved the microphone. I told Kalia she needed to share with Blake, and she turned and told Blake "share!" and then sat on Erin's lap. I think she was telling Blake if she had to share her toys, he had to share his - his Mommy!
has little pretend conversations with her dollies and babies all the time.
is still working on jumping, she likes to practice a lot!
is still taking off her diaper and clothes if we don't have the zip up and button ones on her in the crib (picture below!).
had Ashleigh and JB over for a playdate, and won't stop talking about "JB'd". While JB was here though, she kept calling him Murphy!

Onto the fun part!!

"Hey Mommy!! I'm jumping!!"

I tried to not put her in her zip up jammers, and heard her saying "night night", and came into this...

"Excuse me, can I help you? I'm busy going night night with Violet!"

"What Mommy? I'm sharing with Blake, I just have to show him how this works!"

Giving Blake hugs...

...and then going in for the choker hug. What can I say? The girl is an aggressive lover!

Taking pictures before heading to the zoo. She HAD to have on all of her beads! She's getting pretty heavy by the way, it's getting increasingly harder to hold her and pose for pictures!

Giving her Daddy kisses...so sweet!

Before church! Kalia's showing off her pretty dress that her Great Granny got her for Christmas!

The only real way I know she's teething anymore - she chomps on her fingers like crazy. Not suck, chomps! They come out looking horrible!

At the playground in Niceville! This was after she broke her fever, but you can still tell she's pretty exhausted from it - she zoned all over the place!

Slides all by herself!

She wasn't sure how to do the tunnel slide, and decided it was just easiest to go head down. So silly!

She LOVES turning wheels too!

She wasn't so sure about this little pink car this time around. She wanted to get in it, but only for a few mins before it was "alllll done!!!".

This little smirk just cracked me up!

Kalia told me I had to go down the slides too. She said "Mommy do it" and pointed to the one slide and "D-ya do it" and pointed to the other slide. I think I could've just laid down on mine and been at the bottom!