Happy 5th Birthday Kylee!!!

On April 9 2003 at 3:29 p.m. I began my journey into motherhood with the birth of my precious Kylee Brooke. She weighed 7lbs. 2 oz and was 21 inches long and as beautiful as any mommy would dream. She came out screaming and kept screaming for about 8 weeks. Yes, she was colicky and made my start to learning about being a mommy very hard (but since this is her birthday blog I will only say happy, cheerful things). I instantly loved her and thought she was amazing. I looked at her this morning and thought how did you grow up so fast into this wonderful 5 year old who is so much more than I could have ever dreamed of. She is truly an angel to Charley and I and greatly loved by her little sister.
Where did this baby go? Is she really 5? For lack of keeping up with digital photo files. These first few pics are from the first 6 months of her life. I still see little glimpses of my 5 year old in her baby pictures. I'll tell you going through these brought tears to my eyes and lots of sweet memories.


This is from her first birthday. I thought she was a big girl then but look at the next picture to see my big 5 year old!
Her shirt say it all!!!

Interview with my 5 year old:
Favorite color: Purple
Favorite place to eat: Nikki's and Corner Bakery
Favorite food: Spaghetti
Favorite place to go: Church and Chuck e Cheese
Favorite thing to do at school: Play outside with friends
What do you play outside at school: Mermaids and Superheroes
Favorite movie: Barbie Rapunzel
Favorite Song: Twinkle Twinkle (I think she started to get tired of me asking questions about here)
Favorite thing to do with mommy: Play Games
Favorite thing to do with daddy: Date days
Favorite thing to do with sister: Play Caribou
Favorite thing to play by yourself: Polly Pockets


More Birthday Celebrations
Kylee had her Birthday party a couple weeks at Build A Bear. She had the best time and had a lot of her favorite friends and family at the party so it was a perfect day for her. I have learned through parties that if the party girl is happy then it was a success. She had fun picking her dog she named Flower, stuffing it, brushing it, naming it, playing games and being sung Happy Birthday to, but most of all she had fun being with her friends and family:)




Kylee with her dog, flower!
Kylee and all her buddies that came to the party.
Kylee's cake and blowing out her candles.

Kylee and her very proud mommy and daddy!

Now I get to share my 5 favorite things or memories of Kylee:
1. She loves the Lord. She reminds me every night to read her bible story to her. She makes up songs about Jesus all the time and I catch little peeks of her heart through these. She says some of the sweetest prayers. She loves church and can tell you so many bible stories.
2. She has a string on her blanket that she has to hold every night before she goes to sleep. I seriously think I will have to cut it off and send it to college with her one day.
3. She tells me and Charley every night before she goes to sleep to check on her, cuddle and do something hard (she says this last one because she thinks if we do something hard she will wake up and get to see us. I have no idea where she gets this from.). She never misses a night telling us this and we do all of the things on her list and she has never woken up. My idea of something hard would be a sweet kiss on the cheek:)
4. She is so sweet to Katie (most of the time) . She has set a good example for her that Katie does everything she does from putting plates in the sink to being an expert at sommersaults. She plays dolls, games and kitchen with her daily.
5. She loves life and is excited about everyday. She ask first things what are we doing and she is pretty happy with just about anything except cleaning or laundry days. She loves most school days and play days with friends.

Charley and I feel honored the Lord is allowing us to raise her and call her our child on Earth. She is truly a joy and we can't believe it has been 5 years.

Happy 5th Birthday Kylee Brooke!!