A Style Milestone

Well, Kaiya has reached another important milestone in every little girl's life. She can now have her hair styled into pigtails!


I was looking through some old pictures for a project I'm working on, and I found some pictures of Haylee, when she was about Kaiya's age, maybe a little younger, and she was rocking the pigtail look, so I started playing with Kaiya's hair, and voila! Piggie Tails! Of course, I had to bribe her a little by letting her watch TV while I was putting her hair up, but it was worth it!

You may also notice the aftermath of the "Unfortunate Incident" I don't know if you will be able to see it in the low res pictures, but you can see her purple gums from biffing it on her bike. Poor sad baby...

A New Toy & The "Unfortunate Incident"

Well, we have a new favorite toy in the house... Kaiya has her first "tricycle". I am a little hesitant to call it a tricycle since it has 4 wheels and no petals, but it is definitely in the tricycle family. Kaiya just calls it the cycle. She LOVES this thing! She has been minorly obsessed with motorcycles, bicycles, tricycles for some time now, but on Halloween we realized how serious it was because she wanted to stay at the neighbors' house and ride their cycles that were to big for her, rather than eat halloween candy.

So I searched and searched for the right one for her, and finally found it...

She was so excited!

In fact, she was so excited, that most of the pictures we have of her on it, she is concentrating very hard, and won't even look at the camera...

Well, we had the cycle about a week or so when the "Unfortunate Incident" occured. Kaiya was riding the cycle in the play area, which is tile; and she stood up on what is essentially the front axel. It's the red cross piece, that has a wide plastic thing, that kinda looks like a foot rest? See it in the above picture? Well, Kaiya stood up on that thing and leaned forward. She consequently went face first into the tile; or I guess more specifically teeth first into the tile.

Kaiya was crying harder than I have ever seen her cry before, and bleeding like crazy. I couldn't tell, but it looked like the blood was coming from between her gums and front teeth. It was quite scary. She usually bounces back very quickly from falls, but not this one. She cried for almost an hour. Eventually the bleeding stopped, and I let her suck on an ice cube (which she loves to do) and we read her favorite book of the week "Curious George and the Puppies" so that kind of cheered her up. I think one of the craziest things was that she never even got a bump or red splotch on her nose or forhead, so she really did take the whole brunt of the fall on her teeth.

I called the dentist, and she was semi helpful. She said there was nothing they could do until the trauma went down, and if the tooth fell out, don't worry about it, it's just a baby tooth. Kind of comforting I guess.

The next day when she woke up, her poor little gums were black & purple and her front teeth were wiggly. VERY scary to me, so I called Tara's pediatric dentist, and they told me that the teeth will probably re-secure themselves into the gum, but that it is fairly likely that one or both of them will turn grey!!!! Contrary to popular belief, a grey tooth does not neccesarily mean that the tooth is dead, and in this situation it is more that the blood has gotten down in the tooth cavity and essentially made a permanent "bruise" inside her front teeth. I mean SERIOUSLY people, is this insane or what???

One thing I was proud of her about was that she did get back on the cycle, and she still likes it. We are just a little more strict on the Evel Kenievel action now.

So that was over a week ago, and her teeth are less wiggly and still white, but it could take a month until we know for sure what the status of them is...I just keep telling myself, "at least it's a baby tooth...at least it's a baby tooth"... anybody have any advice???

HA!!!

HA HA HA HA!!!! Jamie and I laughed the entire time we were looking at these T-shirts from mentalfloss.com. If you are interested in some things that will make you use your brain before you laugh, go check it out. I am seriously thinking about ordering this shirt; even though if I was on "What Not To Wear" Stacy and Clinton would make me throw it away... I guess it is kind of a sad statement on my Friday night activities when my shopping mantra is "WWSCD" (what would Stacy & Clinton do). Anyway, that is another post in and of itself...

It's Official

Well, I finally had to take the list of words off the blog, because basically, now Kaiya says anything she wants to; which in 99.9% good. Unfortunately she is also a very very very good mimic, and will repeat any interesting word she hears you say in a sentence. Most of the time this is hillarious because she says things like "catapault" or "ambiance". I am pretty sure she has no idea what they mean, but she says them just the same. Unfortunately this little skill also extends to words you would rather not hear come out of her sweet little mouth. Jamie said the word c-r-a-p (that was me spelling it, instead of saying it, by the way) and out it popped from Kaiya in the back seat. Luckily it hasn't popped out again, but I am just waiting for her to bust it out...maybe it just hasn't been quiet enough in Sacrament Meeting yet.

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Boo at the Zoo

Well, all the fliers in the mail finally worked; we decided to go to "Boo at the Zoo". Jamie, Kaiya & I went with Jen, Hannah & Haylee and it was pretty fun. It was soooo cold, (that was my favorite part) and the girls all wore their costumes. Haylee was Tinkerbell, Kaiya was a 50's girl & Hannah was a cheerleader.

We didn't really know what to expect, so I think we would do it differently next time, but there are shows (some with animals, some with people), some carnival games, and "treat stations" where you can trade in your tickets for yummy goodies (they give everyone 6 tickets when you come in). There are also little vignettes set up around the zoo, so of course we had to pop a pose every time we passed one.

Kaiya got to have some bonding time with Daddy.

But my favorite moment of the night was this one.

I am working on a scrapbook page that I got the idea for out of my "Creating Keepsakes" Magazine. They suggested taking a picture of something you are grateful for, every day for a month before Thanksgiving. So I decided to give it a try. Monday was the first day, and that is what I am thankful for... sweet sisterfriends. I am so grateful that even though Kaiya is our first baby, she has two sisters that look out for her. I love you girls!

Squirrel Crazy!

Our dog pepper thinks that she is a mighty tracker. When she goes outside her nose goes directly into the grass and she follows invisible trails all over our backyard. She can sit as still as a statue on our bed looking out the window for hours, waiting for some hapless creature to wander into her domain; just so she can bark menacingly at it.

One summer we had a few doves visit our yard on a regular basis. Now, I personally think doves are some of the most stupid animals on earth and here is why. These doves would come and land on the grass in our yard and just kind of stand around. Pepper would see them out the window and whine and cry like a puppy possessed until we let her outside. Then Pepper would run at top speed, barking at the top of her lungs aaaaaall the way around 2 sides of the house until she got to the side of the yard where the dove was. All this time the dove is just standing in the grass kind of looking around thinking little dovey thoughts like maybe "hey, I wonder where all that barking is coming from, oh, look a dog coming straight at me...hmmm..." So Pepper is coming at top speed at this dove which is just chillin in the grass and she gets all the way up to it barking like a ferocious beast and the dove doesn't fly off, it just stands there! Well Pepper has never caught anything in her life, so she gets about 6 inches away from it and stops, and looks at the dove like "uhh...psst...Mr. Dove, now is the part where you fly away..." So Pepper and the dove stand there looking at each other for a full 10 or 15 seconds before the dove finally realizes, "OH NO! It's a dog" and flies away.

So keep that in mind while I tell you about the squirrels. This time of year the squirrels are going crazy collecting food for the winter, and they run accross our back fence all the time, so when Pepper sees one, she runs crazy back and forth in front of the window crying and barking to be let out, if we dont let her out she hops up on her back legs and stares out the window. Well as you can imagne all this is absolutely facinating for Kaiya, who now loves to look for squirrels too! We keep the curtains in her room open alot and she will look out there and if she sees one she shouts "Squirrel!!!" (Which actually sounds more like "skirls"). Well now she and Pepper have joined together in the great squirrel hunt and now when Kaiya yells squirrel, Pepper comes running!


By the way, this is the closest Pepper ever gets to Kaiya of her own volition.