Kaelyn's 6 months old!

Can you believe that our little Kaelyn Ann is 6 months old already?! Half of a year, where has that time gone? I finally believe what everyone tells you, time goes faster the second time around. I feel like I don't take enough pictures sometime and document all the little things like I did with Ashlyn. But my 'spare' time is next to nothing. Ashlyn doesn't nap during the day anymore so I don't get any so called breaks during the day are gone.  Now I can't give my mom such a hard time about not having my baby book as filled in as my older sister :)

Kaelyn had her 6 month check up with Dr Knudson today and she is doing GREAT! He said she looked happy and healthy. She is following in her sister footsteps with her height and weight too.

Her stats:

28 inches (99%)

19 lbs 13oz ( 99%)

~ Happy, happy, happy girl! She only really cries when she hungry or gets stuck (see below)

~ Rolls everywhere! Amazing how much ground she can cover in just a few minutes

~ Grabs everything and shoves it in her mouth

~ Starting to sit alone for a short time

~ LOVES her big sister. Ashlyn can get her to smile and laugh every time!

~ She has two teeth and will chew on anything

~ Sleeping pretty good. 8pm to 7:30am. Up once on good nights ;)

~ Still likes to sleep on her tummy but rolls over to her back when she wakes up and plays for a little in her crib

~ Wears size 12 month clothes

~ Talks a lot, blows bubbles, squeals and giggles

~ Has a couple crazy cowlicks which is resulting in an impressive mohawk - so cute!

~ Starting to eat solids more regularly. So far we've just tried rice cereal, squash, and banana. We'll get out the puffs and toast soon.

Proud big sis wanted in on the photos

LOVES her jumper!

sugar, sugar

My little helper making oatmeal cookies with her cool new piggy utensils from Aunt Mary in Iowa. I left her alone to help Kaelyn for one minute - in the same room - and she said she had "just a little taste" of the sugar... I actually remeasured the sugar just to make sure there was enough left! What a little stinker :)

Here she is with her brown sugar goatee!
 

fish gazer

Kaelyn enjoys watching the fish swim
 

more easter...

Easter Day out at G&G Loula's. (thanks for the pics Aunt Mary :)) Kaelyn and her bunny

Ashlyn barefoot enjoying the weather

Connor and Ashlyn running around

easter egg hunt

Hunting for eggs in the house.

Ashlyn went to the Jaycee's Easter Egg Hunt in St Peter.

Cheese!

She filled her basket up with candy filled eggs. It was freezing out!

Showing off her taffy... ahhhh

 

LOL

I just had to post this picture. It totally cracks me up! Ashlyn likes to hold Kaelyn and usually wants me to take a picture of them. This one is just too funny looking. Ashlyn has a crazy smile and Kaelyn has a 'get me out of here' look. Oh, they make me laugh every day!

 click on picture to enlarge it and get the full effect :)
 

5 months old!

Kaelyn is 5 months old! When I took her in to get her ears checked a week ago she weighed 18.6lbs!! WOW, she's growing like crazy. We only have a few more pounds to go before she outgrows her infant car seat. I'm ready for that since it's getting harder and harder to lug that heavy thing around :)

What she's up to:

~ Chatter box, talks all the time. Especially when she sees her reflection in the mirror.

~ Blows bubbles and raspberries

 ~ Kicks and pumps her arms when she's excited.

~ Started ROLLING back to tummy today!!

 ~ Sleeps from about 9pm (up at 2 and 6am to eat) up at 7:30am.

 ~ Loves bath time

~ Smiles at anyone

 ~ Loves watching her big sister do anything

~ Is startled easily (gets that from her mom!)

~ Is a total snuggle bug, love it!

 

Rolling!

Kaelyn rolled for the first time back to tummy this morning! How exciting!

Stroller Rides

It was finally nice enough to take the girls for stroller rides the first week in April.
Oh how we miss that warm weather!

Loving the fresh air!

Rain coats and tractors

Ashlyn wanted to wear her rain gear even though it wasn't raining and go
out in the shop to see what daddy was working on.

 

Rice Cereal

Kaelyn got her first taste of rice cereal a couple weeks ago. She didn't seem to mind it! She still only really wants a few bites but we're in no hurry to start solids. I had to take her in to the Dr to have her ears checked since she hasn't been sleeping very good the last few weeks and this weekend was terrible. I think she was up every 1-2 hours and didn't really take any naps during the day. She wasn't all that fussy, she just wouldn't sleep! Sure enough, she has an ear infection in her right ear. Lets hope the antibiotics do the trick and we can all get some sleep again!

 

Minnesota Zoo

Joe wanted to take Ashlyn to the zoo since she had been missing him big time while he was on his last snowmobile trip of the year out west.  So we took her to the Minnesota Zoo on Saturday, March 26th.  She absolutely LOVED it!!! She literally bounced from one exhibit to the next. We only really did the indoor stuff since it was still pretty cold out and we will definitely be going back again this summer!

Flamingos!

Ashlyn called this Malayan Tapir the "Stinky Anteater"

It really did smell bad!

Looking at the turtles

Checking out the monkeys

Discovery Bay

First day at the park

It was finally nice enough to go to the park. Ashlyn had fun and Kaelyn enjoyed watching.

Ashlyn can climb all of the ladders and go down the big slides!