Happy 2nd Birthday Kaitlyn Mary!!

On Valentines Day 2 years ago we received our best Valentines Day gift-Our Baby Kaitlyn. She was also a huge surprise since I was not due for another month. But God's timing is so amazing and he gave us our Valentine Day Baby who we love with all our hearts. We always tell Kylee that the night before Katie came she prayed at dinner that Katie would come tomorrow. Her prayer was answered. The night before I remember cleaning my baseboards, cleaning my door frames, and even my light switches!!!! Can you say crazy!!! At 2 am my water broke, some of my friends still remember me telling them that after my water broke and before I went to the hospital I took a shower, dried my hair and put a little make up on. That does seem a little crazy but I had cleaned house the night before and you know how unclean that can make you feel. When we made it to the hospital I was only dilated to a 4 or so and they ended up giving me pitocin to speed it up. So at 11:30 am Katie was welcomed into our lives. She weighed 6lbs 2 oz. and was 18 1/2 inches long. Everyone kept guessing she would be 5 lbs. but she was a good size for a month early so she did not have to go to NICU or anything abnormal. She was so sweet and her big sis fell in love with her from the start also. A few days after her birth she struggled with eating and was jaundice. Her weight fell to 5lbs. 5 oz. She was close to being put back in the hospital but she came around and slowly gained weight. She still slowly gains weight. She had her 2 year well child check yesterday morning and she weighed only 22 lbs. 8 oz (7%) and was 35 inches long(80%). She is long and skinny. My doc was not worried but said to add some calories. Like if she has bread put butter on it, no skim or 2% stuff. So if you see us with a tub of butter and a spoon just know we are beefing up the calories and Katie (just kidding:)) This little 22 lb child is full of spunk and loves life. She lights up our days and can make anyone smile and laugh. She is so smart (except every color is blue or purple:)) and loves us and her sis so much!!! If you can tell, I am quite proud of my big 2 year old that God has given us to raise and love on earth. Below are pictures of her from her birth, 1st birthday and most recently her 2nd birthday party. We had a party for her this past Sunday ats the Little Gym. She had a blast running around, jumping, swinging and being her busy little self. It was the perfect place to celebrate her birthday. She had practiced at home blowing out her candles after singing Happy Birthday but at her party when the lady was lighting the candle she just kept blowing it out. Her sis and a few friends helped her with the presents. She was smiling ear to ear the whole time.



Since Katie is two I am going to share two of my favorite things about her:

1. Katie loves the Lord. If you ask her where Jesus lives she points to her heart and says Heart. It melts mine. Her prayers are already so sweet. If we would let her she would pray forever. She just sang me The B-I-B-L-E at bedtime. When we are about 2 miles from church she starts cheering and saying Church Church. I just pray that her knowledge, love and understanding of the Lord and his word will continue to grow.

2. Katie is busy all the time. Maybe that is why she is in the 7th percentile for her weight. I love it because when she plays she is so fun to watch. Her favorite thing is baby dolls. She loves them. She kisses them. She hugs them. They all take naps in her bed with the sound machine on and reminds us to be quiet because they are asleep. She is so gentle and loving to them and this really shows me her heart.



I love this girl and so do her daddy and sister!! Happy Birthday Katie!!!



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I Wove You Mama!!

Today as we were driving home from taking Kylee to school, I heard Katie just talking in the back seat. I was mostly just in my own world but all of a sudden she just kept on saying the same sounds over and over so when I finally paid attention I was blessed with the sweetest words a mom can hear, "I Wove You, Mama!" This is the first time she said it on her own out of the blue not at bedtime or when we say it like she alway does just on her own. I told her I loved her and then she told me I Wove You Mama about 20 times. My heart melted to know she really is getting what love is and that she wants me to know she feels that way for me. I love that girl so much! This past weekend Charley and Kylee went to AR without us. Long story on how we ended up not going but God is so good because on Friday she woke up with a yucky nose and pink eye and on Saturday she was very sick, 102/103 fever. She just broke her fever today, praise the Lord. But on Friday before she got to feeling really bad we had some good bonding time/playtime. She knows Kylee loves to dress up so she found this dress up skirt and thought it should be her whole outfit, like a dress and refused to wear it any other way. It was so funny. She also called everyone on her "phone" and really talked like they were there. She is also on a church kick where she gets her baby dolls dressed and in their strollers and pushes them around saying "We going to church." She was doing that in the picture below. I'm glad she likes church.
She is getting so big and turns 2 in two weeks. I can't believe how fast time flies.

Arkansas vs. Baylor

A couple Saturdays ago we got to go to watch AR play Baylor in basketball at the AA center. Charley got some tickets from work and treated Kylee, my dad, and myself to a fun night in the suite. Kylee was so excited to go. She wanted to wear her cheerleader outfit and even though it was way too short she insisted on wearing it so we wore it with jeans. Don't you love her big eyes picture, thanks to Aunt T she thinks you are to open your eyes this big in all pics. My sister would tell her big eyes for a picture for fun now she thinks all pictures you do this in. We love Aunt T:) I was so glad I got to go with my dad, since they moved here a couple years ago I am really enjoying bonding with him and getting to do this kind of stuff. I think my dad loved the food the most:) We really didn't know if Kylee would get the game or not but she did. She would say if AR didn't score for a while they aren't doing good and scream Yes when they scored. I think Charley is excited he is raising a daughter to watch sports with (or he hopes). I had fun just being together with my family. Kylee fell asleep on the way home so it was a great night and AR won so what could be better!! My girls are in bed so I am off to attempt to organize all my pictures, probably close to 1000, so I can scrapbook or put in a book. I am feeling overwhelmed by the amount of pictures I have just laying around. I need to come up with a plan that I can keep up with.

Kylee's Family Night

Kylee is quite a family party planner. When Charley got home from work the other night she said I have our night planned. We will play musical chairs, play Disney DVD Bingo, and watch a movie. As you will see from the picture we did play musical chairs with just the 4 of us. This included tons of laughing from Katie who thought we were playing chase around the chairs. It made all of us laugh. Then we played our new family favorite game-Disney DVD Bingo. This was a gift from Santa. He did good because we all love this (from Toys R Us). It is so much better than Candy Land for the 50th time or Pretty Pretty Princess for the 100th time. I will say we have played Disney DVD Bingo at least 4 times every day since we opened the package. It is fun and if you are a disney fan it is even more fun. It has all the princesses, mickey mouse characters, most movie characters from Lion King, Bambi, etc. and a lot of princes too. It would be fun for girls and boys, young and older. We have recruited Grandmommy and Grandaddy on two different occasions:) Anyway, Kylee thought it was the best Family Night ever and we loved spending special time with our two girls. Katie does try to play the Bingo usually that consist of screaming Play and dumping the pieces on and off hers and sometime ours:)
Daddy tried to steal Kylee seat at Musical chairs.

Christmas Fun

We have been so busy with our Christmas Celebrations. This was our year to celebrate in AR with Charley's family. My girls had the best time. They love seeing all their family their and hanging out with cousins they only see once or twice a year. It is so priceless. We have so many pictures that don't even describe the fun times.

HANGING OUT WITH THE COUSINS




CHRISTMAS EVE AT NANNY AND PAPAWS

Christmas Eve at Nanny and Papaws is a huge gathering. I think there were around 55 people their this year. We eat , Play Chinese Christmas or better known as who get the best gift cards game, sing the 12 days of Christmas with little cups, and laugh and have a ball. Kylee got Hannah Montana Barbie at Chinese Christmas. She was so excited. Her picture below tells it all. Then in the next picture Katie got Hannah Montana and tried to sing in the mini microphone. Silly:)

There is a picture of the preparing for the 12 days song. Which is so fun and I am so glad we do it:) Charley's grandparents are so hospitable. The welcome so many people into their house and have the philosophy the more the merrier. I would love to be more like that. They make our Christmas celebration so wonderful.

PREPARING FOR SANTA TIME

Here are Kayden and Kylee making cookies for Santa. Then Pops read The Night Before Christmas to his grandkids, minus Katie, who couldn't stay up another minute. Her daddy read it to her before she went to bed.

CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH THE KIDS

This was the best picture I could get off all the Moore kids. There are 6 of them now and boy do we enjoy seeing them. Kylee and Kayden have a sweet bond and now Hudson and Katie are two little peas in a pod. They sound alike and look alike and had more laughs together than anyone else.
Kylee's gift is Polly Pocket Race to the Mall. This girl loves Polly Pockets.
Katies favorite gift-a stroller. She also got a baby doll to go in it but had more fun sitting in it and Hudson pushing her around the house. She did however break one of the fabric straps so it needs some repairing.

Katie and Hudson sat and ate a bag of gummy worms that were in his stocking. They actually were feeding each other at one point. I told you they were quite the pair. Sweet Cousins


CHRISTMAS AT GAN GAN'S

After we open gifts, we get ready and head over to Charley's other grandmothers house for his dad's side of the family celebration. This involves a lot of people also. It is so fun at all the traditions they have from a football game, to gift exchange, and some good eating. His Gan Gan is also so hospitable and kind. She is someone who I hope as I grow older I will be like.

Katie was obsessed with this rocking chair and wanted Gan Gan to hang out with her at the chair. Kylee has a little blackdog in her hand. It is a Webkindz. We got it for her for Christmas and have yet to get on the computer with it yet. Her cousins had one so she wanted one so very last minute we added this in and she was more excited about that then almost everything else.









Hey Aunt Robin. Told you I would say Hi in this blog. My girls love Aunt Robin. She and Gan Gan played with them on a slide and swing while the guys played football.



CHRISTMAS IN TEXAS WITH MY FAMILY

When e got back from AR we still had to celebrate with my family. So on Friday we all got together for our family fun. We have a much smaller celebration. But still so fun . We opened gifts, had lunch and then my family and my sis family headed to Playhouse Disney. So we stayed very busy.

The girls and E helped my parents open their gifts. We got them pictures of the 3 grandkids and framed them. They were so excited about them.

This is the best of the 3 grandkids at this celebration. Katie and E loved my dads train so much. I wish I had a picture of that. My dad always does a train around the tree. He has done that since I was little and it is a very special memory of our Christmas time together. I am so glad my kids get to enjoy this too.
Well there it is our fun Christmas. We have also all been sick during Christmas from stomach bugs, ear infections, breathing treatments, etc. So we feel blessed to all be well and ready for 2008.
God Bless you all in this New Year!