9 months!

my sweet little love bug, you are 9 months old!

 The little miss found her 'sticker' today, and would not leave it alone!! 

You are wearing 6-12 month clothes....and fit in some 12-18 month clothes, which makes me shed a few tears!

 We have your 9 month appointment tomorrow, so we will find out your stats then!

You are still going to bed between 7-730 and wake up between 530-630.  I have tried keeping you up later to see if you will sleep later and apparently it just doesnt work like that. 

You think Kobe is the best thing since sliced bread...I dont know if he is on the same page...

You are still taking 2 naps a day (most of the time :) at about an hour or so each.

You drink about 4-5 oz every 4 hours.  You are loving your solids for breakfast and dinner.  You pretty much love it all! You also have a snack during the day depending how your eating falls. 

You are loving some table foods such as cheerios, (is that considered a table food?  I think so), yogurt, pancakes, rice, and applesauce

You are a crazy mover!  You are crawling all over the place and pulling yourself on anything possible.

You love to clap......but you love even more when we clap for/with you!

You know how to crawl up the stairs...you dont seem to be afraid of much

You can 'say' momma & dada and a few other babbles as well

You get so excited when your daddy gets home from work.  You crawl as fast as you can to the door!  It is pretty cute :)

You are growing so fast it is unbelievable.  I cant believe in 3 short months you will be turning ONE!  That is just hard for me to grasp!!! 

We love you so much Kallen.  I think if we loved you anymore our hearts would explode!

visit with daddy

On Thursday we went down to meet daddy at work!  We went to lunch (& Grandma met us there as well).  It was a lot of fun and momma was able to go to the farmers market too!  It was hot hot hot out but we enjoyed every minute!

 Kallen being awesome at lunch

 

 This little babe was tired after our afternoon!  She fell asleep in her car seat before we were out of the parking garage! 

 

the beautiful flowers I got!  I love flowers!!!!

 

This is honestly the best picture I got of these 2!  Kal wouldnt look at me and everytime I went to take the picture Joshua would start talking.  We will have to work on that!!

Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful Labor day weekend, I am SO excited for FALL!!!!!!!  It is my favorite!!!!!!!!

wordless wednesday

 almost 9 months going on 16????????  This was a scary sight! 

Weekend

We had a wonderful weekend!  I didnt take my camera out of the diaper bag to document...I need to get better at that!

On Friday we went down to the Gaalswyk's house for a fun night!!  Melissa made us a delicious dinner, Kal played with their adorable boys and we laughed so hard our cheeks still hurt yesterday!  I cant believe I didnt get any pictures.  Melissa also recently took Kallen's pictures and posted a few on her photography blog so I got those on Friday and was just tickled!!!  They turned out so good!  I cant wait to get them up!!  She is one talented momma! 

Saturday night we ended up at Uncle Jayson & Auntie Beth's!!  They are finishing their basement and have been busy with that and it is turning out just gorgeous! 

The little sass (she has deemed that nickname ALL on her own, trust me!) was up quite a bit last night so we missed church this morning and have been trying to recoup from a sleepless night.  Kal is finally getting her first tooth and boy oh boy has it taken its toll on our sweet girl.  I'm not going to lie, I am pretty curious if all of her teeth are going to cause this much drama.  Ha!  I am worried she might have her momma's pain tolerance.....or lack there of I should say...

Well I'll leave you with a few pictures of our girl.....who is almost 9 months old!  How does this happen??? 

Trying to talk to daddy while he was grilling

 

She absolutely loves looking out the window.  It is a struggle changing that girl!

 At great grandpa & grandma's house for ggpa's birthday....Kal was successful in grabbing his cake!  I am not worried about her being shy for her first birthday :)

 

On a run enjoying the beautiful weather...we love our BOB!   

 

 At Mall of America to meet some friends, Kal loved checking everything out!

Have a great week!

Wordless Wednesday...almost.

 

 

Kal has been LOVING the swing lately!  Good thing there is one at grandma's and at the park down the street!  Happy Wednesday!!

auntie nikki

On Monday, my baby sister went to college!!!  I cannot believe it.  She is 6 years younger than me and just cannot believe she is old enough to be off at college!  She is at the same college as my brother is, which is about 3 hours away.  I am glad they didn't move out of state, but it isn't the quick 15 minute drive that it was!!  

 

We had Kal represent Winona onesie at church on Sunday for her auntie (and uncle) on Sunday!

 

First time Nik held Kal!

Kali will miss her auntie!  Good thing we will see her soon!

We are so proud of you, you are very smart & will have tons of fun!  

We love & miss you auntie Nikki!  Go be a 'dangerous student'!! 

south dakota

We had so much fun in South Dakota!  We went for my cousin Amanda's wedding the last weekend in July and I am so glad we went.  We were debating because of the long drive (4.5-5 hours without stopping) but we did it and it was well worth it!  We have a cabin there as well, but just dont get there enough because of the long drive - it is hard to justify that long of a trip for only having one 'full' day there!  

On our way, miss K sleeping in her big girl car seat.  We only stopped once for Kal's bottle, she did awesome! 

First time on the boat!  She was NOT a fan of the life jacket.  But did love the boat :)

She was a little shocked with the immediate cold water in the lake so wasnt the biggest fan....

Uncle Ricky!

Amanda & Tyler had so many cute little details, it was just a perfect beach wedding!!!

Kallen fell asleep right after the ceremony (of course ;) and slept for a little bit at the reception

She loved pulling herself up on the stroller

Shelly & Dana's speech, they did just awesome.  It was a 'amanda & tyler' rendition of Letterman's top 10, everyone was laughing!

Bride & Groom thanking everyone

Auntie Jen

Kallen with the beautiful bride!  She was getting hungry at this point so we couldnt muster many smiles....

 

Daddy & Kal

 

Auntie Nik & Kallen

 

Shelly & the little sass.  Shelly is Amanda's sister/moh, our cousin is just gorgeous.  She is marrying Dana next summer, and we are definitely going back for hers as well!

 

Fell asleep on the boat....

On our way home.  Kal did so well and I was so thankful!!!  We definitely wore her out but had so much fun!  Another cabin trip is in order!