2 1/2 year stats (and other notable notes)

Kaylee had her 30 month check-up a couple weeks ago (although I prefer to call it her 2 1/2 year check-up because, c'mon, are you seriously going to be calling your 10 year old child 120 months?) She was 29 lbs (60th percentile) and 37.5 inches (85th percentile). She's always been on the tall side, but Morgan was 50th for weight and height last time, so it will be interesting to see if she starts catching up with Kaylee.

I thought I better record some fun stuff that Kaylee does for record keeping sakes because, let's face it, I'm so flaky these days that I will forget it if I don't write it down. On a side note, I seriously can't believe my flakiness. I've always considered myself a very responsible and reliable person. But lately, it's all gone out the window. I've missed a dentist appointment, a primary presidency meeting, a conference call for work and have not responded to countless texts, phone calls and e-mails. And this is only in the last month! I think my brain went out the window with my 2nd child.

Okay, back to the real purpose of this post. Kaylee cracks me up on a daily basis. She always refers to herself in 3rd person. "Kaylee wants some milk. Kaylee is wearing a pink dress. Kaylee loves this song." She always speaks like this unless she is with Grandma Karen. Then it's, "Grandbaby has piggy tails in her hair. Grandbaby wants to watch a show." You get the picture.

Her new thing lately is watching home videos. She especially loves our wedding video which she refers to as, "The show about Mommy & Daddy." She also loves any shows with singing and dancing in them. We've been checking out dvds from the library (free!) and her new fave is "Yule Be Wiggling" an old Christmas Wiggles show. The funny thing is that she hates typical kids cartoons on Disney and Nickelodeon and even gets bored watching Sesame Street. It has to be something that she can sing along with.

Speaking of singing, she literally sings all day long. My babysitter told me she thought Kaylee was crying the other day when she put her down for her nap, but when she checked on her, she was just lying in bed singing!

We have a new obsession at our house with "Fancy Nancy" books. They are the cutest books that teach words like delectable, exquisite, extraordinary, etc. She literally has them memorized and can recite them as we read them together. Plus I LOVE the artwork in them. I would highly recommend them for any little girls out there.

Kaylee was complaining last week that her tooth hurt, so I took her to Dr. Albrecht's pediatric office today. By the way, if you are in the Cedar area, we LOVED his office. So great for kids, and Dr. Tyler and the assistants were all wonderful! Anyway, Kaylee and I have been chatting about the visit and I told her they would take pictures of her teeth and clean them with a special toothbrush and then the doctor would come count them. I was a little nervous that she would freak out (I have plenty of crazy memories from the old days of assisting the hygienist at Dr. White's office) but Kaylee did AMAZING! She held completely still for the x-rays and even let them prophy and fluroide her teeth! I was such a proud mommy watching my big girl be so brave. And to top it off, she doesn't have any cavities and the x-rays showed her adult teeth coming in just right. I couldn't have been happier and Kaylee loved watching the assistant feed the fish in the big tank and get her a toy.

Wow, I have clearly been rambling, but I like recording this stuff for journaling purposes (and for Grandma!) I'll wrap this up with a couple of funny pics of my 2 girls!


After I bathed Morgan the other night, I came back to the bathroom to find Kaylee in her little tubby. Silly girl!

Morgan trying so hard to sit up.

Progress!

This is how we spent most of our day:


Carpet = 1

Potty = 3

Wahoo! Gotta love those little buns!

And the score is...

We have continued our quest for potty training today.

Potty = 0

Carpet = 3

Better luck tomorrow!

Thank you for calling, The Merryweathers.

When we were growing up, we had the same message on our answering machine for years. My dad left it and it was very formal sounding. I can still remember what it sounded like. At the end of the message, my dad said, "Thank you for calling...The Merryweathers."

Well, it's been many years now and our family of 4 girls has sure grown. We had new family pics done this Christmas. Check it out! Poor Morgan was just too sleepy and couldn't stay awake, but don't you love the puffy vests? Thanks again Mom & Dad!

The Dirty Queen

Today was another one of those days when I am reminded of how quickly kids grow up. Kaylee has a little white board, alphabet book where you can practice writing your letters. I listened to her today as she read the entire book aloud (from memory) but then went through picking out letters and saying things like, "K is for Kaylee." I always stay stuff like that to her, but I didn't know if it would stick! She also drew all over her hands and then showed me how she had written a letter K on her hand too.

Tonight we went to get ice cream at DQ and Kaylee kept saying how she was so excited to eat at The Dirty Queen! Any time we eat out, Trav and I will both get food and then just share with Kaylee. For the first time tonight, Kaylee wanted her own ice cream cone. It made me so sad to see her sitting there with ice cream dripping down her chin and arms because I truly don't know where the time has gone. What a big girl. Now if only we could get the potty down!


In other news, I went to the eye doctor to get some new contacts yesterday and I tried a new brand. I have really sensitive eyes, but they are supposed to be the most comfortable out there so I gave them a shot. Right away they irritated my eyes but I thought they just needed some time to adjust. By nighttime, I could hardly see a thing. I drove to my book club and I literally could not see the street signs at all! When I put them back in this morning, I had super blurry, double vision. I went back into the dr this afternoon and he said I was having an allergic reaction and my eyes were getting swollen! I went back to Acuvues and my eyes immediately felt better, but my vision is still a little blurry. I've always been paranoid about having permanent damage to my eyes if I ever had Lasik, but I never knew how quickly they would react just to the new material in the contacts. Crazy!

5 Months Old!

Holy cow, I can't believe how time has flown. In my mind, I think Morgan is 2 or 3 months, but almost half a year has gone by! Morgan has been such a wonderful addition to the family. Other than NOT SLEEPING (actually last night she slept until 5, but we're still awake at 6:15 to do this post!) she has just been such a fun, happy girl. She's getting her first tooth, so we'll be glad when that finally pokes through. She's a fantastic eater and always gobbles up her cereal. We were supposed to start her on vegie baby food first, but I already had banana in the house, sooo.... let's hope she won't just like the sweet stuff. But she loves bananas! I haven't been following "The Rules" as closely with her as I did with Kaylee. I think after the first kid you just become a little more lax and flexible. Whatever works, right? It's so interesting to me how different she and Kaylee are. Kaylee was much more physical and at this point had been rolling for a couple months and was already sitting on her own. Morgan on the other hand is quite content to just hang out and lay there! She has rolled a handful of times, but nothing consistent. She loves toys and Kaylee is so good to always get her something to play with. If she ever takes a toy away from Morgan, she'll always get another one to replace it with...so she thinks she's being nice. Morgan loves giving kisses, dancing, singing, and splashing in the water. She and Kaylee already have a great relationship, so let's hope they stay that way!

The saddest face you will ever see!

When we were in SLC over Christmas, I was up late one night with Morgan and my sister Lisa. Lis was making faces at Morgan and for the most part, Morgan smiled and laughed. Then she pulled a face and this was her reaction:




So sad!