too many words! :)

I can't keep up - Kaylee seems to be adding a word or two to her vocabulary every day. It's crazy! I don't even remember all her new words...eat, fan, nine, no, yay...probably more, just don't remember!

These are some pics from last Monday when Ellie and Erin were over.

Guess whose idea this was? :-D


Fun in the sun!




I like this one - they were both running top speed through the spray over and over!

words (updated v. 3.0)

I figure I'll post this here, in case I don't get around to writing it in her baby book anytime soon. Then at least I can look back here while I'm filling it out!

Here is a list of what Kaylee can say as of today (just over 16 months)...

apple
baby
ball
bamboo
banana (ba-ba-ba)
bee
beep
book (bits)
bye-bye (or just "bye" now)
cheese (ahzaa)
cookie
cow
Dora (d-d-d-Dowowa)
duck
eye
go
hat
hi
hot
house
ice
knee
me (mmEH)
mine
more (mmAH)
night-night
please
puffs
roll (wAH)
shoe
this (says "iss" - often a question as in, "what's this?")
uh-oh
uh-uh (for no)
up
whale
whee
yes (she either says what sounds like "si" (Spanish yes...maybe she's bilingual :) ) - or she giggles, "eheeehee")

people:
Alice (Awiss)
Baba (Grandma Barbara)
Brooke (Bits - says and signs it like it's "book")
Daddy
Ellie (E-E)
Erin (Aowa)
Katie (Tuh-Tee)
Kaylee (De-Deee)
Lane (Nah - sounds just like Nate)
Mama
Memaw
Nate (Nah - sounds just like Lane)
Nemo (either Neno or Memo; can't quite put them together yet)
Olivia (Aow - more like an O sound, though)
PawPaw (Pa-Pa)
Winnie the Pooh (Bah-Boo)

animals/sounds:
if the animal name is in ( ) she doesn't say that yet, just the animal's noise - which I've tried to spell out as she says it. :) Basically she only says bee, cow, duck and whale, plus all the noises listed.

bee - bzzzzz
(cat) - bow (as in "bow before the king" not "hair bow" :) )
(chicks) - beep beep (instead of peep peep)
cow - meuuu
(dog) - panting
(donkey) - ee-aw
duck - gac-gac
(elephant) - high pitch "oooh"
(horse) - brrrr
(lion) - roars
(monkey) - aah-aah
(owl) - ooh-ooh
(pig) - she snorts
(seal) - oohooh & claps
(sheep) - ba-ba
(snake) - ssssssss
whale

I'm sure I'm missing a few, as she just says more and more lately - probably has added 4-5 new ones just in the past week. Like this morning: I got ice from the fridge and she said "ice"...I didn't even say what I was getting, she just said it!

She also says some two word phrases - here are a few I can think of:
Hi Mama/Daddy
Bye Mama/Daddy
Bye bow (she calls cats "bow" - her word for meow--see above)
more please (new fave of hers!)
up please
duck ball (she has a ball with a duck face on it)

She also still signs some, but as she learns the words she stops signing it as much, so her signs are getting fewer!

New word

Yesterday Kaylee learned the word "mine." Today Ellie and Erin are over and I've been hearing her say it a lot - oh, no! I thought we wouldn't have to deal with that until closer to 2 years!!!

Some pix from yesterday after church:


Jamie taught Kaylee how to listen to the iPod by holding one of the earphone pieces up to her ear. Kaylee wasn't too sure about his choice of music (Coldplay). :)

Visit with Great Great Aunt Ollie

Kaylee and I picked up my grandparents (Memaw & PawPaw) this morning and drove to my Great Aunt Ollie's house. I don't think we've seen her since before Kaylee was born! So here are a few photos of Kaylee and her Great Great Aunt Ollie. Kaylee's wearing the outfit that Memaw made for her - Ollie made the same one for her granddaughers, Maggie (21 months) and Gracie Kay (17 months).

Little Worm, etc

Modeling her new dress from Auntie Cheriene - she keeps Kaylee in high style all the way from across the pond!


Here's our little bookworm! We start most mornings with story time - quite often before breakfast! - and read to her (and she "reads" on her own) all throughout the day. She also loves playing in diaper boxes; I guess she's glad we buy in bulk. :)




Helping unload clean dishes (and helping dirty others):


Wearing her matching hat and swimsuit for the first time together! Completely coincidental, as she got the hat as a gift, and I bought the swimsuit not thinking about the hat. Super cute combo, though!

more Maine pix

Kaylee's not too sure about the life vest. On the boat: it's 5 o'clock somewhere!


At the Rockland Jetty for the parade of tall ships:



We stayed at the Clary Lake B&B...Daddy with his Burger Queen.


Grampa and Kaylee outside the B&B:


above right: Uncle Jeff reading to Kaylee at Great Aunt Lynnie/Great Uncle Swazi's house.

Grampa and Kaylee mesmerized by a Baby Einstein video. Kaylee checking out Uncle Jeff's lobster dinner.


More boat time; Kaylee had gotten to steer on her previous trip, so she was allowed to have full control this time.



Daddy trying to sleep...Kaylee has other plans!


Grampa and Kaylee walking back from the dock:


On the hammock - I think Kaylee was ready to get down by the time we took a family picture.


Great Uncle Jerry (aka Grampa) and Nate in their Hawaiian shirts, with Kaylee


Kaylee was worn out by the end of the day!!

Family Reunion Group Pix

I have not yet downloaded all our vacation/reunion photos, but these are the group photos we took on Monday (from my dad's camera).

Top row, L-R:
Jamie, Kaylee, Julie, Sedge, Lynnie, Jeff, Vivian, Sharon, Dick, Sheila

Bottom row, L-R:
Jerry, Liz, Brian, Kim, Brandon, Margaret, Nate, Sharon, Dan, Randy