A Few Milestones

Well I am finally going to get around to posting about a few happenings in our house over the past few weeks.

First I will get you up to speed with Kaylee's happenings. She came home from school with another treasure chest with a little baby tooth in it last week. That makes tooth number 5 that she has lost since school started. I cannot believe that she has grown and changed so much since the first day of school. She is very proud of the fact that she has lost the most teeth in her class so far and she has 5 gold dollars from the Tooth Fairy:) The things that children get excited about are too funny.

Kaylee is doing great on her reading. Her favorite school day if she had to pick would be Library Day. She usually returns home with some kind of animal book which reminds me of myself at her age. When I say animal book I mean one about taking care of a specific animal or information about the different breeds of that animal. We all end up learning a few facts before the next Library Day:)

This week they had some standardized testing Monday -Wednesday. Kaylee got in the car Monday telling me she had to go to bed early and I needed to cancel her dentist appointment. There was an important note in her backpack I had to read and follow the directions. (The teacher had sent the standard note about getting to bed early, eating a good breakfast, and if you have any doctor's appointments then you need to change them because there will be no make-up testing.) My girl is such a rule follower:)

I also had a substitute tell me that Kaylee was a huge help and a real sweetheart. I asked if she was too helpful because usually that is teacher code for she told me everything I was doing wrong. But she said no Kaylee was just very helpful and let her know all of the daily routine. I hope she is always so sweet to subs:)

The next big event is that Campbell is potty trained!!! Her sweet teachers kept telling me that she was going when the other children went to the bathroom and I noticed that she was staying in the same diaper all day so I decided before Spring Break to try the Pull-Ups. Well she did great, even when we went to my parents' house and she did not have one accident...not even at night. So when we returned home we made a big deal about being a Big Girl now, she was so proud! We still have a whole package of Pull-Ups that we have never used. I am so glad that she turned out to be as easy to potty train as Kaylee. Now if we could just get rid of the paci:)

Also Campbell has recently changed her name to "Rachel" because we have been taking care of my friend Rachel's son, Mason, occasionally since she went back to work. Campbell loves Mason, some times a little too much. She has even named her pink baby doll Mason and carries he/she everywhere. Here is a picture of Mason the doll in the baby swing I pulled out for the real Mason. She is such the "little Mommy" these days. We cannot leave the house without baby Mason, her purse (with keys, make-up compact, 2 cell phones, 2 baby bottles for Mason, baby's lovie, and her juice), and now we have added a note pad to the mix.

One final Campbell story is from when Cary was putting her to bed last night. They were talking about Jesus being born. Campbell chimed in with, "There was no room so he had to sleep on a table!" After a little smile Cary told her he slept in a stable. I can definitely see where she would get the two confused:)

On a different note our portable DVD player that we only use in the car on out-of-town trips and the rest of the time it resides in the playroom bit the dust. It has been fairly traumatic for Kaylee because she likes to watch a movie every now and then and draw the characters from the screen. She is a really good artist! Then there is Campbell who only wants to watch Blue's Clues lately which is not on Kaylee's top 10 things to watch all day so that has caused some meltdowns by Campbell. I finally broke down and got this today...



Needless to say the girls are very excited that they have a pink Princess TV, the screen is bigger than 8 inches, and there is a wand remote. (At least they will be pleased until they realize this one does not fit in the car.)


Hope you are all having a blessed week!