Kaelyn's First Haircut!

K's hair was getting a little crazy, shaggy, and more and more mullet looking. I really did not want to cut her hair - I wanted her to be 2 or 3 and have beautiful hair and be able to say that she'd never had her hair cut. But alas, it was not meant to be. So, I trimmed it up a little in the back last night. I was a little nervous because I don't really think I know how to cut hair, and I didn't want to mess it up, but I think her baby fine hair is pretty forgiving.

Here are some before and after pics. I don't have any pics when I was actually cutting it, because Jer was filming it with the Flip, but I haven't had a chance to upload the video yet. (Video's take a lot longer than pics).

Before

And After - she was done with sitting on the chair and didn't want her picture taken so these are best I could get.

I think it turned out pretty cute. It's like a little bob in the back. If you have any tips for cutting baby's hair I would love to hear them!!

Just a few more...

Here's a few more pics from Christmas time. The day after Christmas we tried sledding with Kaelyn for the first time, as you saw on our video. She was not a huge fan, but it was fun to have her experience it anyway.

Getting ready to go sledding

The Family sledding

K with Aunt Laura

And K wanted to help Grammie in the kitchen, so Grammie gave her an apron to match! :)

Grammie and Grandpy Sutton got K a new high chair for her birthday and Christmas. She loves it!! And we love it too!! So much easier to clean than our ancient, garage sale find. Thanks G&G!!!

Happy New Year! The Fam before Jer and I went out for a nice dinner on New Year's Eve compliments of Grammie Susan watching K. Thanks Grammie!!

Happy Birthday Aunt Rachie!!!

Today is my Aunt Rachie's birthday, she is 24! I am so thankful that she is my aunt, I love her very much! Happy Birthday Aunt Rachie!
P.S. Check out the awesome gift bags she's making - Sunflower Sacks!

Christmas Pics

Here's some pics from Christmas with our families. They're mostly of Kaelyn because she's the star of the show these days. :)

On Christmas Eve we went to Jer's parents' house for dinner after church. They got Kaelyn this cute chair - she loves to sit in it.

With mama and daddy on Christmas Eve in her Christmas pj's.

Christmas morning - K was pretty impressed by the presents under the tree.

K's first Christmas present from her stockingOpening it - a book of course!

Reading it with daddy

At Grammie and Grandpy McClements' house. She was pretty excited about all the gifts - she liked the wrapping paper the most of course - she was rolling around it it.

At Grammie and Grandpy Sutton's house. Once Jer opened the Flip Camera we didn't take many more pics - we were too busy taking videos!
Kaelyn got another cell phone, she loves her phones! So happy!

Fun in the Snow

It snowed a little today, but Kaelyn really had the itch to go outside. She was asking and asking Jer to go outside. So, he decided to take her out and try pulling her around in the sled that I found this summer at a garage sale. When we tried this at my parent's house over Christmas, she hated it - and actually cried the whole time. But, this time around, with the dogs running around, and less snow than they had up in MI, she really enjoyed it. When we tried to take her inside because we were getting cold, she cried and wanted more. Here's a little glimpse of the fun she had being pulled around in the sled. Now, if only we could figure out how to harness it to the dogs and have them pull her around - that would be fun!

Monday

Monday was Jer's first day back to work after the long holiday weekend. We had such a great time just hanging out together as a family for 4 days. So, yesterday was K and I's first day together all day in what seemed like a long time.

I love Kaelyn so much when she first wakes up in the morning. She is always so happy and sleepy and cute. I took a few pics to share her sleepy mornings with you.

Also, yesterday was a beautiful day. The sky was beautiful blue and the sun was shining brightly. It looked like a warm spring day from the inside, but it was still pretty cold out. K and I bundled up though and spent some time outside with the dogs to enjoy the sunshine. K loves to watch the dogs run around and laughs with glee at them. She also loves to throw the ball to them, although she's not very good at it yet. When Jer saw these pics last night he was totally making fun of me about how bundled up I had Kaelyn. He goes, "Good thing she was ready in case there happened to be a surprise blizzard." Hey - it was cold out. But, she did have a really hard time moving around. :)

O Christmas Tree

Kaelyn loved our Christmas tree this year. We got a blue spruce, it was beautiful, but had really sharp and poky needles. It actually worked to our advantage because it kept K away from the tree and pulling on it and the ornaments. She loved to stand and look at the lights, and she loved to be held and point to and be told about all of the different ornaments - she would ask to be held to look at the tree and the ornaments and then if you would try to put her down she would cry and want to keep doing it. I think she could have looked at the tree for hours.
I took some pics of K with the tree hoping to get some good shots to maybe use for a Christmas card (well, that didn't happen because I didn't get too many good pics, and didn't take them in time to actually do a Christmas card, oops - maybe next year!) :) It was also her 14 month birthday, 12/19/08, and I realized that after I stopped taking the month birthday pictures that I wasn't doing a very good job of documenting her growing and changing. Here are a few of my favorites from our impromptu photo shoot.

Videos!!!

My parents got Jer (well I guess, really all of us) a Flip Video Ultra camera for Christmas! If you have not seen one, you have to check them out because they are so cool, easy to use and take good videos. We are so excited about it! Excited that we get to take lots of videos of K and that they're not crappy like the ones we used to take on our digital camera, excited that we will have it for the new baby, and excited to post lots of videos on the blog! Jer already posted the first one of Kaelyn sledding and now here's one of her opening presents at Grammie and Grandpy Sutton's house.



Stay tuned for lots of Christmas pics!!