Mommy & Kylie

Kylie and I had a date night and went to see the Nutcracker. I was skeptical because she is only two, but I had high hopes because she loves to watch people dance and I knew there would be plenty of princesses to watch.

We went to dinner at the Bristol first and then made our way to watch the ballet. Nana, Katie, Austin and Maggie were with us as well as my mom's best friend Tina and her daughter and two granddaughters. We all had a great time and Kylie did great. I can't wait to make this a yearly tradition with Kylie. Next year we will make a bigger deal about it and go out a buy an entire new princess dress for it for her to wear. I can't wait!

My Miss Priss

This little girl is a diva. She has just recently turned into one. That may be because I have introduced her to pink nail polish, lip gloss and pretty hair bows...but still. She loves it and so do I. She still has a little tom-boy in her because she loves to wrestle with her bubby and kick a soccer ball.

She also LOVES her baby dolls and pretend cooking. She recently started using a pad of paper and a pen to 'take our orders' to eat. It's too cute!

2 Cute Videos

Below are two very cute videos of Kylie Rose. The first video is her performing Roll Call from Micky Mouse Clubhouse. She says everyone's name and she is so excited about it! Don't forget to mute my playlist on the bottom of my blog to hear her sweet voice!

 

Roll Call from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

This video is of Kylie when she should be taking a nap. She decided to stand up in her bed and perform for us. This video is from my phone looking at the video monitor. I think we have our hands full!

Kylie Stats Update

We went to the doctor yesterday for Kylie's two year check-up. She is a happy and healthy little girl! Her stats were:

33 lbs, 3 ozs - 95th Percentile

36 inches long - 95th Percentile

19 inches - head circumference - 85th Percentile

My baby girl is getting so big!!

A Sweet Little Birthday Party

On Saturday we celebrated Kylie's birthday all day. We had a Minnie Mouse party at our house with a lot of family and friends. The weather turned out to be perfect so the kids got to play outside all day. There are so many people who love Kylie and it showed today at her party. I think she had a wonderful day.

Below is my picture dump from the day. I loved the Minnie Mouse theme! I also must say that I made the cupcakes myself which was a first for me. I used the box cake but the icing was homemade and I must say it turned out great.

On Saturday morning before Kylie's party, I participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer's with a few family and friends. We did it in honor of Mamaw Sarah and I felt so proud.

Happy Birthday, Kylie Rose!

Happy Birthday, Kylie Rose!

Today is Kylie's 2nd Birthday! It doesn't seem like it has been two years. She is such a little diva but the sweetest little girl.

Here are some interesting things about Kylie right now. I will be doing another post on all of her favorite things so this is just a brief summary.

- You love you big brother. Anytime he does something, you have to be right behind him and do it as well. Monkey See, Monkey Do.

- Even though you love to wrestle with your brother, you are a little diva. You even shake your butt when you run!

- You are very attached to one of your babies, your blankie and your paci (yes you still love your paci). You must have all three of them when you go to bed at night or when you don't feel well.

- You are talking so good. Your favorite thing to do is sing and some of your favorite songs are Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle, ABC Song, and You Are My Sunshine. See video below for proof!

- You love to dance. Whenever you hear music, you start to shake your little butt.

- We go in a couple of weeks for your yearly check-up but here are some of your stats that I know:

- You weigh around 33 lbs

- You wear a size 5 diaper

- You are wearing 3T and some 2T clothes

- You wear a size 7 shoe

- You loved swimming in Nana and Papa's pool this summer.

- You recently started at the same daycare as Blake and you love it.

- You go to bed around 8-8:30 and sleep until 7ish.

- You love all kids of foods but some of your favorites include: grilled chicken, rice, beans (funny that these are the key ingredients used at Qdoba), crackers, milk, apple juice, any kind of pasta and anything that mommy and daddy are eating.

- Everyone says that you look just like me. I will take that as a compliment.

Here are some pictures of when Kylie was born. I love looking at them and remembering how little she was! She actually wasn't too little since she weighed 10lbs when she was born!

This was Kylie last year on her birthday.

This was Kylie this morning before daddy took her to daycare. We sang happy birthday with two candles in her sausage biscuit which she loved.

And we had a birthday celebration dinner at Chuck E Cheese tonight and here are a few pictures from the night.

Lastly, here is a video of the kids one night this week. Beware I also sing a bit with the kids. There is also a brief fight fight because Blake wants to sing it my himself. Love these kids! (Be sure to mute my playlist below to hear the kids sing)

Happy Birthday! from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

Monthly Catch-Up

So I have been incognito lately. You would think I have so much extra time since I am not taking a class right now but I think it makes me even more busy because I am trying to do all of the stuff around the house that I can't do when I am taking classes. I have gotten a lot of stuff done but I still have many things on my 'to do' list.

 

So what's been happening around the Thacker household?

• The kids have absolutely LOVED swimming in Nana and Papa's pool. There are many pictures and videos to prove that including this video from tonight.

Blake's Summer! from Kaelin Thacker on Vimeo.

- Kristin, Megan and I got to go to the NKOTBSB concert and it was awesome! I felt like I was 13 again.

- One of my best friends is getting married in a couple of weeks and we had a little party for her a couple of weeks ago. It was great seeing many great friends.

- We had a family trip to Cincinnati and went to a water park and the kids had a blast.

- Blake had his check-up at the ENT and his hearing test results were great! Thank God!

- Kylie has turned into my little singer. She loves to sing Twinkle, Twinkle and Happy Birthday.

- Speaking of Happy Birthday, the big one for me is just 9 days away...Oh goodness.

- My job has been crazy busy, but I still love it.

- We made one more trip to the zoo and one to Chuck E Cheese with Blake's class. Both were so much fun!

- I finally started and finished Blake's big boy room! I painted last Friday after work and finished putting his room together on Saturday. I love it and so does he! I still need to put things on the wall but I will take pictures soon and post.

- School starts in 2 weeks and I am taking 2 classes which I have not done yet since being in the program. I'm a little sad knowing I will be away from the kids 2 nights a week.

- Aaron has ONE more class left and then he is DONE! I'm so happy for him and of course very jealous :)

 

And here are some pictures from the past few weeks. Of course I have been keeping up my other One Frame a Day Blog with some of these so if you follow us on that blog, some of these are duplicates.

I think the kids look so much alike in the next two pictures!  You can definitely tell they are brother and sister. Look at those smiles!

Visiting Daddy at work...

Kylie's Birthday is a little over a month away. I cannot believe that she is turning 2! I have already started the planning :) She is also starting at Blake's daycare next week and I know I am going to cry when I drop her off. I know she is going to love it!

For some reason I think I will do better updating the blog when classes start. It will be my excuse to get away from school work for a minute. I am making a promise now to update the blog more often :) Maybe I should show Aaron how to update the blog since he will have so much time on his hands.....I won't hold my breath.