A while back Papa and Grandma Jen bought Kylie a big red tricycle with a wagon and today Kylie rode it for the first time while actually pushing the peddles. Grandma Jen was nice enough to take a video with her phone and send it to me to watch, and I have to say it is really cute. Eventually I plan on making a page for the videos I have (all from phones, so they are small) like I did with the voice mails. Until then you will have to take my word on it. 🙂
Category Archives: Kylie
Wiard’s Country Fair
Today Kylie, Melissa, and I all went to Wiard’s Orchard for their Country Fair. Kylie was very excited about being able to pet and feed the goats and llamas that were there. Melissa and I took turns taking lots of pictures of Kylie and when I get them off of my camera I will be sure to get them up into the gallery. After we were done playing and feeding the animals we went over to the Country Store and bought some Apple Cider and Cider Doughnuts, which we ate outside on some picnic tables, Kylie really enjoyed this treat, as did we all. I also picked up some barbeque sauce and mustard made from apples, they just sounded too good to pass up. It was a lot of fun, and I will have to add it to my mental list of fall activities to share with my daughter.
K-y-l-i-e
Today Kylie was in the car with Mommy and Grandam Jen going to the store, and during the course of the trip Grandma asked Kylie if she could spell her name. Kylie said yes she could, and then she spelled her name out without any hesitation or help. Mommy and Grandma were both taken aback as Kylie had never spelled her name out by herself before. Needless to say we are all very proud of her.
Gallery Update
I finally got around to adding some more pictures to Kylie’s gallery today. I even added some of the pictures from Jackie and Russell’s wedding, not all of them, just a few selected ones from the wedding that have Kylie in them. Eventually I hope to get a good portion of the wedding pictures up and added into the gallery, probably not all 500+ of them, but some. Enjoy what is up for now, it will be some time before I get to do the wedding pictures.
Slides and Motorcycle Rides
Today Kylie, Daddy and Melissa went over and played at the park. Kylie had lots of fun climbing on all the equipment and has finally decided to start going down slides again. A while back she had a bad experience when a slide ended up being to hot, and it gave her a little burn on the backs of her legs. Since then she has been very hesitant about going down slides, and honestly it was a little disheartening for me to see her be so weary of slides. Today, however, she had no problems going down one of the slides, and after she went down it the first time that was all she wanted to do. So she would slide down and then run around to the stairs and climb back up to go down again. Then we went and played on the swings for quit a while as well.
When we came home I parked next to my motorcycle and when Kylie got out of the truck she asked about it, and if she could touch it. I answered her questions and told her that of course she could touch it. Afterwords I asked her if she would like to sit on it with Daddy, and she said yes. So I sat on the motorcycle and picked her up and put her in front of me. She had lots of fun sitting there and looking at all of the forward controls. Then I picked up the kick stand and rolled the motorcycle back and forth with her on it. She really enjoyed the little ride, but wasn’t to fond of when I would slightly lean the bike to simulate a turn. She would say “No Dad, don’t do that,” and make me bring the motorcycle back to full upright. Melissa was nice enough to use her phone to take a couple of pictures of Kylie and I on the motorcycle together, too. Kylie really seemed to enjoy being on the motorcycle, and that gives me a lot of hope that when she gets older she will enjoy riding with me. Maybe when she gets older she will want to learn how to ride all by herself!
Chuck E. Cheese’s
Today I got to take Kylie and Mommy to Chuck E. Cheese’s thanks to winning a raffle. I have not been there in a very long time, but Kylie has been there recently and seems to enjoy it. As such I have been looking forward to going there since I won the raffle. We all had a lot of fun, watching Kylie run around and ride the little rides was great. She really seemed to enjoy putting the coins in the slots, sometimes more so than the rides or games themselves. At the end she had even more fun putting the tickets we had won into the “Ticket Muncher,” she insisted on putting them in one at a time and liked the “munching” sound that the machine made (this was Mommy’s favorite part too). It was a really fun time and a great couple of hours. I still need to find the time and a few extra dollars so I can go to Jungle Java with Kylie, as I know she enjoys that place as well and I have yet to be there.
Kylie’s Voice Mails
A long time ago I mentioned that I had found a way to get voicemails off of my phone and save them. Ever since that time it had been my intention to find a way to edit those files and remove the unnecessary information (some of the automated systems comments and options) from the files in hopes of posting them so I would have a central place to listen to them. In addition to the memories each of these recordings provide for me, it is also a nice audio record of Kylie’s growth and development. I can hear her voice change over the course of the voice mails, and I can hear her vocabulary grow and improve as well.
Recently I found the software that I need to edit these files, and after editing them all, today I was able to upload them to the server and create a page for them. The page can be found off to the right in the navigation pane under the collections page and is listed as Voice Mails, or you can go to it directly by clicking here. I am lucky enough to have recordings going all the wat back to 2006. Hopefully I will add many more messages to this collection as she grows and continues to leave me messages when I am unable to answer my phone.
Play-Doh Fun Time
Today Kylie came over and she brought her new Play-doh creativity center with her. She has had actually had this for a little while now, but has not had the room at Mommy’s house to play with it, so she asked if she could bring it to my house. Of course I said yes and when she came over we opened it up for the first time. This thing is amazingly fun! When we opened it and took the top off the table we found a bunch of containers of play-doh, and a lot of various play-doh toys. Like molds, cutters, forks and knives, all sorts of fun things to play with play-doh with. In addition the table itself has a bunch of half molds built right into the top of it! We only opened one bag of the various play-doh toys and we still had fun playing together for well over an hour before it was time to put it away for lunch. Kylie and Daddy are both looking forward to playing with play-doh together again real soon!
No, I do it myself
Tiffany got a very nice report from Kylie’s teacher today when she picked her up from daycare. Apparently Kylie is her class leader. She reads to groups of children and sings them songs and leads them in group play activities. She does it all on her own and when a teacher starts to sing or read with her she holds up her hand and says “no, I do it myself.” We are so proud of her and hope she continues to lead as she moves up into her new class the begining of next month.
Wedding Rehersal
Today Kylie, Tiffany and I drove out to Mecosta, MI to get ready for Jackie and Russel’s wedding tomorrow. Kylie is the flower girl so we needed to go to todays rehersal. They are having the wedding at Russel’s Uncle’s cabin, a nice little place out in the country sitting on a lake. We didn’t have any trouble finding our hotel in Mount Pleasant and were able to meet up with the groom and some of the wedding party at the hotel. We then all drove out to the cabin and had the rehersal and lunch. I personally thought the rehersal was a little rushed, but the preist had another engagment to attend and the ceromy looks like it is going to be short and simple. Everyone loved Kylie and she had fun running around with David, the little boy who is going to be the ring baerer. A number of people commented to us on how polite Kylie is, and what an extensive vocabulary she has. We are so proud of her! After the rehersal we all hung out and talked, ate and drank, and around 8pm we headed back to the hotel so Kylie could get some sleep. She didn’t have a nap today and we want to make sure she has plenty of sleep for tomorrow, no one wants to have a cranky flower girl.