Happy Birthday Kylee!

I can't believe my baby girl is one today...time goes way too fast. I still remember the day she was born. Ryan and I went and saw Batman the night before. I had contractions through the whole movie and we joked on the way home about going into labor that night. Well, I must have been exhausted because I woke up at 5 AM to contractions and slept through all the contractions I had during the night. We get to the hospital at 7:30 and I was at a 5. Kylee arrived not much longer at 1:45 PM. We are so blessed to have this sweet little girl be apart of our family. Of course I came 3 weeks early and my doctor was out of town, but I was just happy not having a Halloween baby.

Kylee has always been easy going and such a good baby. I never had to train her to sleep, she would just do it. At 2 months she got RSV which I wish she never got. I caught it really early which was good but we dealt with mucus in her lungs till she was 7 months. We were both happy when the doctor finally prescribed an asthma steroid and she hasn't had congestion since. This past week, Kylee took her first steps and can walk across the room if she really puts her mind to it. She can be lazy so she always crawls but she is definitely a no fear little girl. She will be walking along the couch and then let go and walk towards the middle of the room. She does this on anything she walks along. She loves to climb also and has the bruises to prove it. Her favorite thing right now is this nasty squawk. Oh, I can't stand it, but if she wants something, she will squawk and it will gradually get louder and longer. She does it more in the afternoon and by the end of the night, I have no patience for it. We are trying to teach her not to do it, but I guess it beats screaming on the top of her lungs.


Kylee now weighs just under 18 pounds. She doesn't have her 12 month check up for 2 more weeks because this week she got an ear infection. So I decided to wait 2 weeks so the doctor can check her ears then to make sure the medicine got rid of the infection. So I will post her stats later. She can say Mama and Dada and Uh-Oh, which is her favorite. She's not really into TV which is fine but loves to play with the tv boxes. She drives Drew crazy when she keeps turning them off. I think she does it on purpose to make her brother mad...she is quite smart. She loves to mimic and try and do the same sounds Ryan and I make with our mouths. It is hilarious to watch her try and do what we do. I am so happy the weather is so nice now, because Kylee loves to play outside and it is nice for me to have a little peace and quiet. I am trying to think of her favorite toy but I don't think one stands out above another right now. She loves playing with different toys everyday but loves the hard plastic ones, none of the soft fabric kinds unless it is her blanket. I guess that would be her favorite toy, her blanket and binky. She has started to build a strong attachment to both lately, but don't worry, I learned my lesson with Drew. The binky will get cut up at 15 months.
We are bad and turned her car seat to facing forward this week, because I couldn't take her screaming in the car anymore. She loves facing forward and the first day she rode in her car seat that way, she giggled and smile all the way to the store. No more fighting and screaming to ride in the car anymore, so I think it was the right decision. Anyway, we always celebrate their birthdays with a kids meal, usually at Chick fil A, but we went their for lunch yesterday, so we are going to Jason's Deli. We went their last month for the first time and loved it. Drew and Ryan loved their free ice cream...yes I have 2 little boys at times! Kylee loves anything with chocolate, that's my kind of girl and of course she loves ice cream.

I love this last picture.
All these pictures are some of my favorites this past year.