New Room for Kaylee

Kaylee's new bedroom set arrived today and she is very excited to spend the night in her new room! She's actually been sleeping in there for 2-3 months now, unless company comes over (it was our guest room), but all of her things were still in her old room. So we figured it was time to go ahead and get her some furniture so we could move everything over and let her have just one room again. We haven't bought a bedspread/comforter yet, but she loves her Rapunzel sheets (and also has a set of Disney Princess sheets and some nicer cream color ones from her great-grandparents). The drawer under the bed is a trundle with a mattress in it - she really wants to try that out, too, I just don't want to have to wash twice as many sheets! But we'll probably let her sleep in it for a few nights soon to get it out of her system. :)

Kaylee's First Day of Pre-K

Kaylee's first day of Pre-K! She was very excited about starting and loves her new backpack, which she insisted get a photo of its own. She didn't know anyone in her class, but said she's making new friends already. Here's our big girl, all ready before her first day of Pre-K at a new school!

Little Talker

As of last Wed (July 4), Andy has said a couple two word sentences, both involving Mickey Mouse.  :)  On the 4th we went to my cousin's house for dinner and Andy brought over a book with a picture of baby Mickey Mouse sleeping and he said, "night night, Mickey Mouse." (Of course, it sounded more like, "nei nei, mama.")  A couple days later he was watching an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and when it ended he said, "bye bye, Mickey Mouse."  And he's said that after watching it a couple times since, and he'll say it when we finish reading a Mickey Mouse book we have (or in the middle of it as he closes it indicating he's done reading it).

Doing her job

One of Kaylee's jobs is to feed Tigger in the morning and evening.  Just after we finished eating, she was sent to her room until bedtime.  A few minutes later she came down the stairs (to the locked baby gate at the bottom) saying she wanted to do her job; I told her to go to her room, I was going to feed the cat tonight.  She said, "don't do my job!  I'm going to figure out a way to get out of here and do my job!!"  Someone said sounds like she has a killer work ethic.  I think she just knows that no work = no pay!  (She earns poker chips for good behavior and for doing her job and can cash them in for various rewards.)

Beef turkey?!?

Jamie took Kaylee grocery shopping.  I guess they got some free samples while they were there.  When they got back Kaylee came in and said, "I had beef turkey at the store!"  I asked her what that was and she said, "you know, turkey that you have to chew a lot."  I said, "oh, you mean beef jerkey!"  hah - Jamie said she kept calling it "beef turkey" at the store, too.

Baby #3

Little Caesar #3 is set to make his/her debut right around Christmas this year!  We had our 12 week ultrasound today and everything looks good! Of course baby is either modest or stubborn...legs crossed the whole time and while the tech was trying to check gender, even stuck a hand down there to cover up more!! Strong heartbeat - 160 beats/minute.

After we got home and picked up the kids from a friends' house, we told Kaylee and she is SUPER excited. I showed her one of the ultrasound images and she knew it was a baby and asked some questions then asked how they take the pictures from the mommy's tummy...I told her the doctors use a special machine to see inside, etc, then asked her who she thought the mommy was? She said she didn't know. I said, "I'm the baby's mommy." Her eyes got SO huge and she said, "we're having another baby?!??" and when I said yes she danced around the room for a few minutes singing "we're having another baby! We're having another baby!" I should have had a video camera rolling. It was seriously so cute!  She then went over to Andy and asked him if he wanted to have a new baby and he nodded and made his "yes" sound.  hah!

Shortly after all this, Kaylee and I were sitting on the couch and Andy climbed up, then onto me.  Kaylee looked scared and told him to get down, that he was going to break the baby!  Protective big sister already??

More of Andy's words

Some words Andy has either been saying that I forgot to put in the last post, or that he's started saying in the past few weeks...

*bath
*dance
*doctor (because of a book "Corduroy Goes to the Doctor" - he just calls it Doctor)
*fish
*kiss
*Mickey Mouse/Minnie Mouse = mama (if he just says mama he means Mickey, but if he sees Minnie, that's what he calls her, too)
*star
*thanks
*Thomas (as in, Thomas the Train)