Purses

Kylie puts everything with a strap on her arm and carries it around like a purse.  I always love looking in her purse to see what she has in there.  I have found her hairbrush, a large spoon, spatula, stuffed cat, shoes, crayons...all kinds of important things!

a "purse" on each arm!

no purse in this pic....Kylie is apparently sensitive to BBQ sauce also.  Like any good mom, I googled allergy to bbq sauce and ranch dressing and found some interesting things....both have fish products so it could possibly be a sort of seafood allergy, it could be from MSG, preservatives, or a million other things.  I am going to make my own ranch and make my own BBQ sauce and see if she's able to eat those without a reaction.  She's running out of things to dip nuggets in!

Christmas Card Pictures

Last year, I dressed Kylie up, sat her in front of the Christmas tree and she stayed in one place while I took pictures for our Christmas card.  For some reason, I thought it was going to be that easy again this year.  I dressed her up, put her in front of the tree and off she ran, over and over again!  I finally sat her on a chair next to the tree and luckily she stayed put for some pictures!

oh, did you want me to actually smile for the camera?

finally some cute pictures!

AND SHE IS DONE!

Christmas cards will be posted later.

Christmas Tree

So far, Kylie hasn't messed with the Christmas tree so much, though it does help that it's blocked off by a gate the majority of the time.  She has taken some of the "balls" off to play with, but that's about it. 

She was looking at her reflection in the oven :)

Decorating For Christmas

I wasn't real sure how much I was going to be able to decorate for Christmas this year with a toddler in the house.  I knew that several places I usually decorated were going to be off limits, but I figured I would just do the best that I could.  As with everything else that I do, I had a helper decorating.

There's a tree in the house!!!!

looking at the tree~love the face she is making!

this Santa was mine from when I was around Kylie's age :)

Kylie's stocking

Graduation Part 2

There was a brother and sister graduating together and they were surprised by their dad being there to pin their badge on~he is in the military and was able to get special permission to come home for the ceremony!

Family Pics

I LOVE this one!

Graduation

Kylie got to go to a police graduation and she did a great job sitting thru it!  I had a bag full of distractions~crayons, books, snacks, milk, magna doodle~ and didn't have much hope that I would be able to watch the whole graduation, but she made it!  She did a lot of walking back and forth between mommy and daddy, but she was soooo good, we were really proud of her!

Kylie's learning early that every special occasion calls for a pretty, new outfit!

Kylie has been fighting me on bows and headbands for a while now, one day at Target, I put a regular headband on her and she left it on for a long time.  I decided to go ahead and buy it just to try it out.  I'm sure glad I did because she will leave it on and I can clip most of her bows to a headband!

waiting patiently for it to start



and it's doing the random thing where it won't rotate some pictures....



it's starting finally and Kylie is sitting so nicely in her stroller and drawing....

then they start marching in, headed right towards us, and she didn't know what to think
We were laughing at the look on her face at first and then realized that she was about to burst out in tears.  I quickly picked her up and all was okay.  I guess it could be a little bit scary!

waiting for badge pinning

To be continued......I'll try to get the rest of the pictures up tomorrow.  Also, have several more posts I need to do soon.