Cousins!!

Jer's sister Hannah, her husband Josh, and their girls Lilli and Abbi came to visit for the first part of August. We had lots of fun hanging out with them, and Kaelyn enjoyed playing with her cousins!

We all went to Cedar Point for the day one Saturday. Also, Grandma Susan's biological brother and his two kids, who are college-aged, came along. So, there were 11 adults and 3 kids - we had quite a crowd, but it was a lot of fun. Kaelyn was a trooper and we got to go on most of the major roller coasters. It was a fun day.

The Gang

Lilli and Uncle Nate

The Fam

Jer and his sibs

Josh, Abbi and Lilli

Lilli (almost 4), Abbi (2 1/2) and Kaelyn had so much fun playing together. Abbi especially loved Kaelyn, and liked to do whatever she was doing. Kaelyn loved to watch her cousins run around, and wished that she could run with them.

The crazy girls - it is so hard to get them all looking at the camera at the same time! Here Lilli is making her monkey face.

Abbi and Kaelyn

The paci girls - Lilli still uses her paci for her nap and nighttime, and had the same kind as Kaelyn, except bigger. A couple time Kaelyn tried to take Lilli's paci and use it herself! :) Lilli is saying bye-bye to her paci on her birthday next month - she is going to send it to the babies in the sky!

Just playing together. So cute!

Snaggle-Tooth

Jer's sister Hannah, her husband Josh, and their girls Lilli and Abbi were visiting for the first part of August, so we were busy hanging out with them a lot and slacking on the blog - sorry about that! I'll spend the next few days catching up.

So, Kaelyn got her first top tooth, and it turned out to be her right side tooth, not the middle one, I guess it's called the right lateral incisor. So we've been joking about it that it is a fang, or a snaggle-tooth. It is pretty funny, especially now that it is in farther and you can actually see it when she smiles and "talks". And now her left lateral incisor has broken through, so soon she will have fangs on both sides! :) But, I think that her left middle tooth will be here within the next week or two, so then she won't be so goofy.

Here's a pic of her fang. Her newest nickname is Miss Fang. :)

Kaelyn's First Words!!

Kaelyn has been saying "dada" for the past few weeks and we have been encouraging her that it means daddy, and who it is associated with. We were not sure if she really knew what she was saying or what it meant. Well, on Wednesday night she was crawling toward Skiba and saying "daie", and I said to Jer, she's telling the dogs to die!! We laughed, but she kept saying it, and then it hit me - she was saying "doggie" just without the gg's!! So as far as we can tell, dada and doggie are Kaelyn's first words! I'm a little disappointed that she still doesn't say mama, but I know it will happen soon enough! I'll have to take a picture of Kaelyn with the dogs to put up here, I just don't have one yet. She really loves her doggies! :)