12 Month Stats

Kylie had her twelve month doctor visit today.

Drum roll please...

She's gained one pound since her nine month visit and now is 23lbs 14.5oz which is in the 88th percentile. She's 29.5 tall (96th percentile) and her head circumstance is in the 93rd percentiles. And the doctor gave me the a-okay to give her 2% milk instead of whole since she's so high on the percentiles. She got a few immunizations today too, which made her cry a bit but we are both glad they are over. I think she cried harder when the doctor was trying to peek inside of her ears. She's been pretty happy tonight and is sporting a nice looking pair of band-aids on those legs!

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Happy Birthday Kylie! We love you SOOOOOOOOOOO much!

Yesterday was munchkin's first birthday! We had so much fun. She wasn't feeling very well most of the day and was really sleepy, but she still had fun. We made cupcakes for our little "cupcake" and we sang "Happy Happy Birthday Kylie Dear..." many times to her during the day and she'd start swaying back and forth. I love that she loves music and songs!

We sang to her and she got to "blow" out her first candle. She didn't seem very interested in attacking the sugary creation. She took a few tastes of the frosting with her fingers, but the cupcake pretty much stayed intact. We've loved every minute of this past year having you with us and we can't wait for many more to come. Happy Birthday love!

Sneaky

My little Kylie has learned something new. I store the diaper bag next to the basket of toys we keep by the side of the couch. Kylie's discovered that I keep a zip lock baggie full of Nilla wafers in the diaper bag. Several times today she fished the baggie out of the diaper bag and brought it to me wanting a snack. I don't blame her... I think Nilla's are yummy too!

Tamara Needs...

So I took this idea from my friend Corrinne's blog. Do a google search for your first name and add "needs" to the search. So for myself I googled "Tamara Needs". See what you come up with.

(Ahem)

Tamara needs a little guidance.

Someone has a hard time accepting Tamara's needs for structure.

He has a much harder time accepting Tamara's needs for structure. His craving for Tamara was hot, but his desire to understand her as well made him an incomparable hero. (yikes!)

Tamara is described as having a sweet spirit. Her foster mother tells us she doesn’t think she’s ever seen her get mad. Tamara needs a forever family. (okay this one is sad)

Tamara needs your help.

Tamara DEFINATELY needs some help.

Tamara needs $600 to re-stock her inventory for the holiday season. (hey, I like this one)

Tamara needs your subscriptions. I need them.

Tamara needs a date to the prom at Los Amigos High School.

Tamara needs counseling and jail. Why do I stress that she needs jail? Because quite obviously, letting her out of jail causes car wrecks.


So it looks like the general consensus is that I need a date to the prom (better take that up with Jared), need guidance and structure, subscriptions, need some counseling and jail time and that I NEED six hundred smackers to buy more stuff for the holidays.

The Munchkin...

What's Kylie been up to these days you ask?

1. Walking. About two weeks ago she had mastered the art of taking 6-7 steps at a time. With all the excitement over last weekend, and plenty of cousins worth chasing after she can now walk from room to room without too much trouble. Still wobbly *very wobbly* but she's definately walking now. Way to go sweetie!

2. Slamming doors. She's learned how to push a door that's ajar open... or slam it closed. Which is extra nice when I'm trying to take a nap.

3. Her three tricks she's learned so far are clapping, waving hi and bye, and making the motions when you put your hand on your mouth and make silly sounds. But according to Aunt Julie, they aren't really tricks since she's not a sea lion. So we'll call them Kylie's talents just for Julie's sake.

4. She's decided that playing in nursery is much funner than sitting through Sunday School class.

5. Looking ADORABLE in her holiday dress. Black & white & silver plaid taffeta with a black sash and red flower at the waist. Yes it's a little early. But I found it on clearance a few moons ago at BRUs and I'm worried she may outgrow it if I wait till December. I'll take some pictures soon.

6. Anticipating her big 1.0 birthday this next Sunday. Can you believe it's already been a year? I can't belive it's already been a year. Where did my little baby go?

7. Loving having a play group in the neighborhood. This chickpea LOVES social interaction and is always much happier when we can go play with some friends and toys.

8. There are only a few inches left in Kylie's LAST can of formula. This week I've started to transition her. Started by mixing half and half, and then just decided to go all out. So far so good and she seems to like it. I'm very happy to not have to buy formula any more!

9. We've had fun this week blowing kisses and making noises in the nape of her neck. She starts laughing hysterically. It's cute to watch.

10. We've learned that Kylie LOVES music. Anytime a song will come on she'll start moving back and forth. It's cute to watch. And you'd think she'd died and gone to heaven when you pick her up and start dancing to the music. There was a little disney carousal/merry-go-round at the children's center at the temple last week and she was absolutely fixated with it! It had music that it playd as the characters went round and round. She's either going to be our little muscisian or she's going to be asking for an Ipod by her second birthday.


Well that's all folks.

We are off tomorrow to the pumpkin patch to find a large pumpkin for our little pumpkin. Catch that?

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Hey all of my blogging buddies...

I'm on the search for a plain long sleeved onsie or long sleved dance leotard (white or lavender) sized about 18m or 24m. The purpose you may ask? It's Halloweeeeeeeeen time my friends. And I've been working on munchkin's costume.

I've been around to a few stores but haven't found anything. If anybody has any ideas of where I could buy one, or if anyone has anything like this in their bins of baby cloths that I could borrow for the week of Halloween will you let me know? No long sleeve onsies or dance leotards will be damaged in the process. Email me or leave a comment. Thanks!

A Blessed Girl

So if you didn't get enough pictures here are a bunch from Sunday's blessing. And for those inquiring to know about the dude in the background in my last post... that's our one and only BIL Jordan! You should have seen how hard Jared was laughing when he saw that picture.

Now back to the original topic...

This past Sunday morning was blessed by her father. We have so many good friends, and people who I genuinely love in our ward "family" that I really wanted to share that experience with them too. They know the trials we've been through over the last year and I was so happy that we could share this happy day with them. I was able to hold Kylie in my lap while her dad, grandpas, uncles, and favorite cousins laid their hands on her head and gave her a name and a blessing. It was absolutely beautiful and I couldn't help but cry through most of it. We are truly blessed to have Kylie with our family.

I am so grateful to have a loving Heavenly Father that would answer our prayers, and also the prayers of our most favorite Abbie. Our little girl is loved by so many people and will always be. This beautiful little girl has affected so many lives over the past year and a half for the better. In her blessing a statement was made… "From your birth you have been the means of bringing souls to Christ and will continue to bring souls to Christ throughout your life."

I truly feel honored to be her mother and love that she is absolutely adored and cherished by her father. She has truly brought joy to our family like no one else could ever have. Kylie, thank you for making such a difference in so many lives. We love you SO MUCH!!!

Eternal Blessings

This past weekend our family had the most beautiful, busy, crazy and absolutely-worth-it-weekend one could imagine. Saturday morning we were able to be sealed to our most favorite little girl in the Jordan River Utah Temple. Kylie looked like an angel in her cotton gown. I searched high and low for the perfect dress and fell in love with the pin tucks, embroidered details and pearls. She looked breathtaking. It was the most wonderful feeling in the world to be with our daughter in such a holy place. Being in the temple just seems like a natural place for little children to be. The ceremony was simple, peaceful and beautiful. Kylie was much more tired than I anticipated her being and she laid her head on my shoulder several times. She did fuss a little bit through the ordinance because she likes to have full reign of her hands and didn't want to have her hand on top of ours the entire time.

After the ceremony we were able to take a few pictures outside the temple. I didn't have much hope for the pictures because the weather was down right crummy and it was lightly raining and a bit chilly. It was supposed to snow that afternoon but ended up just being a murky, cold and wet day. But there are quite a few that turned out really nice! Now if I can just get some time to sit down and finish editing them!

Sealing Invite

Here are the invites I put together for Kylie's sealing this weekend. I LOVED how they turned out. Though, I was less than impressed for how they came out from the printer. My chocolate brown backround turned out sort of navy-bluish. Oh well. I'm so excited for this weekend though I have a lot to do before then!

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And for some SUPER CUTE pictures of Kylie at her cousin Aiden's birthday party click on my sister's blog on the side panel (Vaylene and Jordan). ------>

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Jared and I just laughed when I took a picture of the munchkin yesterday.
















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I can hardly believe this was our itty bitty baby just 10.5 months ago. She doesn't even look like the same child! She's grown up way too fast (cue my own frowny face) !
























P.S. But isn't she cute!