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A sad 2 year WCC.

On her 2 year well child check-up Kaylee Isabella,
weighed: 21 lbs. 8 oz, 1% (that’s up from .5%!)
height: 32.5 in, 12%
head: 18.5 in, 33%

She is doing great with her slow climb up the growth chart. After months of weight checks everyone is happy to say that Kaylee just has a FAST metabolism. She is also after only two months POTTY TRAINED! After the first month she was only having one accident a weeks and over the following month she became a pro. It helped that she hit a growth spurt so she can with the help of her stool get on and off by herself. It’s VERY exciting! We haven’t really tried nights yet. She was freaked out the one time we sent her to bed in panties (had an accident at 1 am). And now requests diapers at bed time. 🙂 So even though she wakes up dry most morning we let her have the comfort and security of a night diaper. (She is still so young.) She has funny conversations with us using multiple word sentences. She is very active. Loves going on walks, helping me clean house and take care of Regan. She is such an awesome little person. Which is why Jon and I felt just so horrible on Friday afternoon when we had to hold our baby girl down so the nurses could do a blood draw. What’s worse is that the first vain they tried didn’t work so she got stuck TWICE! It was awful hearing her scream, “HELP ME MOMMY!”, and “HOLD YOU DADDY!” over and over and over. But the blood draw was to help pin point her allergies and hopefully help us get her skin cleared up (her whole body looks like her hand in the picture) a little better. We are also meeting with a surgeon (referral from her pediatrician) to get a newly developed hernia looked at. So Kaylee has a possible surgery in her future. 🙁 So it was a sad WCC for little miss. They did give her an otter pop which she enjoyed very much. And her arm bruises are starting to look better. Hope you all have a happy week!

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guess i wasn’t fast enough for her liking…

due to a rashy bum Regan was air drying after a diaper change. Kaylee in her infinite cuteness decided to help by fanning Regan’s bum and singing the tushie drying song. so i ran to grab the camera!

fanning and singing the song.

trying her hardest to get the darn thing on!

Regan thought the whole episode was hilarious! HAHAHA! so did i!
i so very much LOVE these two cutie pies.

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And then she turned 2!!!

Today our little girl turns two. I am very emotional. Why? Well I can’t help but remember how painful physically and emotionally it was to get Kaylee here. All the excruciating pain for 9 months, drugs, extra ultrasounds, hospital visits, contractions every 10 minutes for half the pregnancy. And I’m grateful! We fought to get her here and she is WAY more than worth it. I wouldn’t change a thing about her. Sure we would be o.k. with fewer tantrums, but then she wouldn’t be HER! And she’s not just feisty and sassy. She is sweet. She caring. She is so full of love. She is smart. She is beautiful. She is an awesome little Mama. She is an amazing sister. She is Kaylee, and she is 2!

We had a party for her on Saturday with family and friends. It was so fun! Thank you everyone who came to help us celebrate! I made egg free cupcakes for her this year. 🙂 Her Papa turned 52 on Friday so they blew out candles together. Then Papa smushed cupcake on Kaylee’s mouth. She LOVED it! She got lots of fun stuff, and even tried to put on one of her new dresses. She is ALL girl.

Later that night we went bowling. My Dad loves bowling and it was Kaylee first time. She now loves bowling too. It took her a bit to understand that we went in order for turn taking. (She wanted to go every other person.) Thanks Jack’ee and Jason for treating. And Justin is was so fun spending time with you!

Sunday was Barry’s farewell. And after we had a family dinner and Jamie and Linda’s house. After dinner we went and took family pictures at the Opera House. I’ll post all that later. Right now I’m going to dish Kaylee up some of her favorite pizza, and a special birthday root beer float, climb in our big bed and watch a movie. Why? Because these are Kaylee’s favorite things and it’s her birthday. 😉

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