Walking

Keila is pretty much just walking now. She still crawls a tiny bit, usually if she is sitting down and wants to get somewhere. She doesn't do that very often though. I got her some shoes for Christmas and she loves them! She has been really fascinated with socks lately...tries to put them on all the time even if she already has something on her foot. So, I think that shoes must be even better to her. She has actually cried a few times the past couple days when I take them off for nap time. She laughed while Jared was home with her today though, it must have tickled. She got some really cool presents for Christmas and loves playing with them. I went and bought her a cabbage patch doll and doll stroller set (comes with crib and swing/car seat and a couple other things) with the money that Jareds parents sent, and she loves it! She was trying to get the doll out of the box as soon as I got home, so I opened it up. Then I got the stroller out of the box for her and she was pushing it around for a long time. Of course, I had to keep putting the doll in the stroller because she kept throwing it out, but she will get the hang of it, haha. She was getting a little nicer when I told her to love her baby, but then she would just kiss and hug the doll and then put it in the stroller and then take it out and throw it. I think she didn't like the doll being in there because she kept wanting to sit in the stroller herself. She seems so much older now that she is walking. It's as if crawling longer kept her a baby, even though it didn't.

She is also picking up on a lot more words. Last night she added Cheese to her vocab. She had said it before but in the food way...now she says cheese when smiling...for a picture or something. If we say it to her, she will say it a million times. It's cute.

Baby Detergent...

So we got a new washer and dryer...front loaders...and you can only use the HE detergent with them. Well, I have a brand new container of target brand baby detergent that I can't use! I bought it before we got our new 'equipment' (haha) and we weren't even thinking about getting new ones yet, and I don't have the receipt to take it back. I was thinking of just selling it for $5 or free if the budget is tight. It does 65 loads I believe. Let me know if you would like it! I will be in Eugene tomorrow and Lebanon on Christmas if you live in any of those places!

Pictures

Here are the pictures of Keila that I promised. They were taken over the last few weeks with my new camera. I was able to catch some awesome shots :)

Walking to a box


Eating Blueberries:
She loves to stick her tongue out like this right now...and she licks her lips too


Smile!


Laughing and covering her mouth...freakin cute!


Another tongue shot...it looks as if she is professing something, haha.


My favorite picture right now...peeking around the chair


Petting Paislie...see how Paislie is flinching! haha


These were taken while trying to get cute christmas card shots:

Playing with my shoes and chewing on the laces...


Confused at what I was saying or something. I got a few shots of this face. I love it.


Singing! She loves to sing right now! It is so cute. I will sing something first and then tell her it's her turn, and away she goes!



Have a wonderful Christmas! Happy Birthday Jesus! (ok, so it's not his real birthday, but that's okay!)

Where has the time gone?

It feels like I just posted something last week! It is Christmas in a few days, and Keila is getting closer to walking on her own. I took some awesome pictures with my new camera I bought a few weeks ago. I got the Canon SLR XSi camera and I love it. I took our Christmas pics with it and have already captured some shots I wouldn't have been able to get with a slower camera. I still use my other smaller camera...I carry it around in my purse. I will try to put some pics on here later tonight or at least this week.

Our Christmas plans consist of staying with Jared's brothers on Christmas Eve and then going to my Grandparents (with my Dad and brother) on Christmas Day. I can't wait to see everyone and eat some yummy food!

Walking and Talking

This past week has been filled with taking steps and saying new words. Of course she doesn't say the new words around me, but she is still saying them! My friend who watches Keila during basketball practice said that she was saying Kiss/Kisses the other day and then giving her a kiss. Very cute! She also tried to say Lucy, which is her dogs name. Keila is getting a lot better at standing by herself, and is doing it constantly...she jsut tries to walk and move too fast, so when she takes a step she is leaning too far forward. Yesterday she was walking towards the sliding glass door, and banged her head against it. I thought it would leave a huge bruise, but it didn't.

Keila is definitely a basketball lover...she squeals and gets so excited when she sees a ball. Hopefully she will love it when she gets older too!

Walking

Keila is starting to take a couple of steps by herself! She started a couple days ago or so, and she would just take 1 step. Now she is taking aroun 4-5 steps, but I don't really think she knows exactly what she is doing, haha. She doesn't really do it at home though, just at other places. Maybe she knows that at home she can just crawl around and find something to hang on to. I just want to get it on video at some point!