GA Aquarium

Jamie had yesterday off work for New Year's, and we made a last-minute decision to take Kaylee to the GA Aquarium. The only aquarium she'd been to is the Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg and she was only 7 months old when we were there. Big difference 2+ years makes! She was most excited to see the penguins and ride the whale slide over and over and over.

She loved crawling through a tunnel to get to see the penguins up close.


Not too sure about that giant turtle, but enjoyed checking out the "fishies!!" and sea worms.



Just one of many trips down the slide. Also, on the moving walkway with Daddy under the huge glass tunnel of fish, sharks, etc. A huge ray, a huger whale shark and ...not sure... trying to break into the tank?



She thought it was funny to lie in all the bubble openings and didn't want to leave to give others a turn! And when I told her the funny looking creature (below right) was a "sea dragon" she said, "what?!?!!" in a high-pitch voice - sort of like she was saying, "no way!" (I apparently say "what?!?!!" to her all the time when she says/does crazy things and she picked it up.) A woman standing next to us thought that was hilarious...it was pretty funny!


She was interested in touching the water, but did not want to touch any of the sea life (again, taking after Mommy?) She finally - reluctantly? - agreed to touch the little ray that kept swimming past. It kept swimming low/out of reach, but I think she eventually did reach it a time or two.


With the lionfish.

Cousins' Christmas

On New Year's Day, we enjoyed a late Christmas celebration with my mom's (aka Gramma's) family. Here are a few photos of Kaylee and some of my cousins' kids. Caleb, Ethan, Ryker, Esther, Kaylee & Brennan.

Eating machine!

Kaylee often comes up to us after finishing a meal or snack and says, "I'm still hungry!" (where "still" has 3 syllables and pitches - as in "sti-iii-iiilll") But what she really wants is more snack type food, fruit or a cookie/something sweet, even though she's not truly "hungry." This is what she just ate for dinner tonight...I seriously expected her to be done after the cookie, so I guess she really was hungry!

blueberries
slice of bologna
grape tomatoes
cookie (after which she asked, "what's for dessert?")
goldfish crackers
2 slices of pork tenderloin
1/2 banana

Her stomach made a funny noise a few minutes after she ate the banana and she laughed and said, "now I'm full!" Finally!

Quick update

Last night I finished painting the letters to hang above the crib in Andy's room; I did them to match his zoo bedding set:


And here we are last weekend, 32 weeks pregnant:


At an appointment yesterday, everything is still good. My blood pressure was just 104/50 - even lower than usual! It's usually somewhere around 115/60, give or take, but it just seemed really low to me yesterday (still good and normal). Maybe because Kaylee was at a friend's house all day and I had time to get in a nap before my appointment? Otherwise all is well, too; heartbeat still nice and strong, and I didn't even gain a ton of extra weight thanks to Christmas eating. :) Just 48 days left now, but who's counting??

Birthday Cupcakes

Happy Birthday to Jesus! Like last year, our church gave out cake mix and frosting to the young kids so they could bake birthday cakes for Jesus' birthday. Of course Kaylee wanted to make them as soon as we got home, but I held her off until yesterday. When I went to get her in the morning I said, "good morning, sunshine!" She replied, "I'm ready to make cupcakes now!" and hopped out of bed. The kid does not miss a beat!

The first photo is at church; she's standing by a Christmas tree made of balloons. The rest, obviously, are from our baking, frosting and eating cupcake session...

8 weeks to go!

Hard to believe Andy will be here in 8 weeks! We are so busy through the end of January it should make the time go faster...hopefully the last couple weeks won't seem like forever. :)

Here's Andy & me the weekend before last (at 30 weeks pregnant):

Preschool Christmas Program

Kaylee's preschool Christmas program was on Friday. She was one of two kids in her class who did the hand motions and sang along to the 3 songs they performed. Gramma, Grampa, Memaw & PawPaw also came to see her performance; she was very excited to see them all there!





With her friend Olivia, who is in the next class year, and Olivia's little sister, Kendall (their big sister, Katie, had school). The last photo is Kaylee being silly in the bathroom afterward.