Picture(s) of the day

October of 2009

Fairy secrets.

Kay-Kay get a sprinkle of Pixie dust from Tinker Bell herself.

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Kaelyn looking all pretty and "springy" after church today.

Kaelyn and Joy posing in their "brown hats".  This is another picture from when Kaelyn and I were in Indiana back at the beginning of April.

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Kaelyn and her cousin Emilee.  She LOVES Emilee!  This picture was taken after my Grandmother's funeral back at the beginning of April.

Picture(s) of the day - Oldie Goldie Day

Kaelyn's class picture for this year taken a few weeks
ago. The lady sitting at the front of the group is
actually a sub. since their regular teacher was out
for 3 weeks after having surgery on her thumb.
The other two ladies are both full time aides in
Kaelyn's class. Also, there are two of her classmates
missing from the picture as well.
As with any pictures on the blog, you can click on
the picture to enlarge it and see it better. (This
one is a lot further back then most pictures I post.)


REAL, REAL Oldie Goldie for the week:

I'm the charming little girl on the right with the
beautiful hair just in case you couldn't tell. (I tried
and tried as a little kid to get my mom to comb my
hair every day not just twice a week but she just
didn't see the need for it. :) Actually, that's as far
from the truth as possible since she probably combed
my hair twice a day and never could seem to win
the battle with my messy hair).
Rachel is the one on the left - with perfectly neat hair
I might add. She never got holes in her tights, or
dirt on her clothes, or her hair in her face. :)
Lynette is the star of the show standing up on the
chair in the middle with the microphone right in front
of her. :)
We were such beautiful, talented children! :)

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Kay with Beauty and the Beast - Epcot - 12/12/09

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I'm not really sure why, but a few days ago Kaelyn was determined to give Buster a bath (even though I had just given him one a couple days before that.) It was actually pretty funny because she had put both his dishes and a couple of his toys in the tub all in an attempt to "bribe" him into the tub because he jumped out every time she put him in. He doesn't usually try to get out when I give him a bath but he wasn't very cooperative for her. :)


Yes, she did have the water running even though
you can't tell it in the pictures.


P. S. I know these are just supposed to be pictures
of the day but I always seem to have to include a long
explanation. Of course it's always your choice to
skip the text and just enjoy the pictures.

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I stole this picture from Rachel - okay, actually she let me borrow it. She took this picture yesterday when they were here. Kaelyn apparently decided that Snoop would like to look at her book about Pinocchio. Such a great picture!

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This is a post that I posted on facebook yesterday but my pictures for today go along with the posting so I copied and pasted it to here:
Tryin' to start teaching Kaelyn about working, money, etc. I had her help clean up in the kitchen tonight - as much as a 4 year old can. As soon as she finished, I gave her a quarter to put in a new money bank we got her. I explained that everytime she does "some jobs" I will give her a quarter to put in her money bank. She went skipping off excitedly and said, "That sounds swell!" :) We don't want to "pay" her for every chore and we will separate regular responsibilites from extra chores as she gets older but we want her to begin understanding that you have to actually work to get money and you have to have your own money to buy things.


She was so proud of this money bank. We found
it at the flea market yesterday for a few bucks.
She carried it all over the place very carefully.
It IS hard plastic though and not breakable.


It's just perfect for her with some of her
favorite characters on it. She is really
excited about the whole "helping out/
getting quarters for her money bank" thing.

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So I'm a little late getting my picture of the day up today. I actually had better things to do today than post pictures online - mainly just spending the day with Kevin and Kaelyn. :) But... I am sticking with my "commitment" to post at least one picture a day though a bit late. :)

Kaelyn is very fascinated with my MP3 player since Kevin got it working for me again (after it sat idle not working for a couple years). I'm afraid she's going to claim it for herself but that's another story. Anyway, I was listening to various songs last night and I had my earphones in. She heard me singing along and realized it was a Disney song she loves and she wanted to hear it. So I gave her one of them and she ended up sitting beside me listening to music with me for awhile while I was on my computer.

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These 2 pictures are from Disney on Ice back in March. We went with Rod and Betty and the kids down to Ft. Lauderdale to see it.


Don't ask... (or better yet ask Lex) :)



The three of us waiting for the show to start.

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This first picture is Kaelyn outside of Winnie the Pooh's house in Pooh's playful spot at Magic Kingdom. She got to play in the area one last time a couple weekends ago when we were up there. It is now being bulldozed for a massive expansion at the park. :( It was a really cute area with Pooh's tree house you could play in, a slide, giant honey pots you could climb on, etc.



Peeking out a window of Pooh's house.



And... since I've missed all my family terribly since coming
back from Indiana, here is a "goldie oldie" so to speak...


This was a November here in Fl. I think it was '99
or 2000.

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Here is a picture that was taken sometime last week. (This one was also previously posted on facebook so some of you have possibly seen it already.)

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Once again, I managed to "find" two pictures rather than one. These are from last month. Kay LOVES cookies. We had some just out of the oven cooling off and she was dying to have one. After they had cooled off and Kevin put them on a plate, he told her that she could have one now. She walked out to the kitchen and promptly grabbed the whole plate of them! :) We got a couple pictures before we took the plate away (she probably could have about eaten the whole plate and I'm not exaggerating by much).


This was after we had taken some off and Kevin
sent her into the living room with just a few on
the plate for her and I both to have.

A picture for the day

Here is a new picture for today as already posted on facebook so if you are friends with me on facebook you have already seen this (the first one anyway).


Kay with Alice from "Alice in Wonderland"



Okay, so I decided to "grab" the one next to
it and post it as well. Enjoy!

P. S. Gonna' try to make this a "feature" - at least on here.
So we'll see if I get one up tomorrow. :)

Epcot Flower & Garden Show part 1

Two weeks ago Saturday, we went up to Disney's Epcot for the Flower and Garden Festival that they have every year. We got up early that morning and drove up to Orlando and then came back that night so it was a LONG day but it was worth it. The weather was about perfect and the park was absolutely beautiful. Epcot is one of Disney's four amusement parks (that our passes are good for). It's a cool park anyway but it was unbelievable to see all the plants and topiaries and things set up just for the F & G festival. There were topiaries of MANY different Disney characters, both classic and a few more recent ones. I don't know what some of the parts of the topiaries are made from but obviously most of it is plants. There was a special fairies area (based off the newer Tinker Bell movies) complete with a butterfly house filled with plants as well as the butterflies. There were flowers and plants ranging from common plants to ones from different places around the world. There were a couple special play areas brought in for kids just for the festival as well as gardening demonstrations, hands-on projects, etc. It was all so amazing. Of course we did some of the normal rides and saw characters as well.
One of the funniest parts of the day was Kaelyn's "camera". They were giving out seed packets in the fairies garden area for kids to take home and plant . We had just taken a picture of Kaelyn by one of the topiaries and she was trying to get Kevin and I to stand in front of it and then she walked away. We didn't understand what she wanted at first but it finally dawned on us that she was pretending to take our picture. She held the seed packet up in front of her face and said, "Say cheese!" Then she made a clicking noise. She said, "One more" then turned the packet the opposite way and made a clicking noise again. She said, "That's perfect! Good job!" Kevin and I couldn't stop laughing. And so went most of the rest of the day. We tucked the packet in our pockets and tried to make her forget about it but sooner or later, she would beg and beg for it and make Kevin and I "pose" for her. It was funny and a little embarrassing all at once. When she "took a picture" of Kevin and I with Mary Poppins, we sheepishly explained what she was doing and of course, Mary Poppins took it all in stride and told Kaelyn (in her very British accent) that she LOVED her imagination. After we would get pictures of Kaelyn, Kaelyn would say, "Everyone now." So we would all get our picture taken and then she would run in front of us before they could hardly get a picture of all of us so that she could take our picture with her "camera". When she took a picture of Kevin and I with Pooh and Tigger, Kevin could hear Tigger laughing inside the costume (and you NEVER hear the costumed characters make a sound). Kevin muttered, "She's been taking pictures of us like this all day. I can't wait to see how those ones turn out." He said that he could hear Tigger really trying to keep from laughing then. Had I known that was going to happen, I would have taken one of her disposable cameras from home but we weren't about to pay Disney's prices to buy one in the park. At least it wouldn't have looked quite as ridiculous though. We laughed so hard but I could feel myself blushing so many times. Gotta' love her and the way she thinks! Overall it was a great day and we had so much fun having family time and just walking around and having so much fun together!

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Epcot Flower & Garden Show part 2

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Video clips of Kaelyn

I put together a slideshow of some video clips of Kaelyn at Epcot this past Saturday. I still might decide it's a dumb thing to have posted and decide to not leave them but anyway... It was just so funny and cute to see some of the interactions with her and some of the characters. She LOVES seeing the characters and has never been afraid of them but sometimes she's not sure what to say or do (particularly with the uncostumed ones that actually talk to her) because of her lack of conversational skills. So when the characters take extra time to interact with her, it's really special to her. When we went to see Tigger and Pooh, "Tigger" was the funniest one we've ever seen. She wanted to bounce with Tigger because some of the Tiggers have done that with her before but she's not usually sure how to "get them to" bounce with her on her own without coaxing. When Tigger saw her come "bouncing" over, he crouched down and started bouncing all over the place. Thankfully, Kevin was videoing it with the camera. You can hear several other people in the room laughing. I could never bounce around while being crouched on my knees like that, let alone in a big costume. It was great and Kaelyn was definitely amused! The second time she went to see Mickey they had to do a switch out right before it was her turn. The workers say that Mickey "has to go eat some cheesecake and he will be right back." The worker told Kaelyn that he was back eating and that if she called to him, he would come out. So after he had walked back and double checked :), he had her yell for Mickey. When [the new] Mickey came out, he peeked around the corner at her and she thought it was so funny. You'll also a couple other clips with Pluto and K dancing with Minnie. Kaelyn was waiting her turn to see Donald after she had seen Minnie and the next people had not made it to Minnie yet. Minnie was "dancing" to the music in the background so when Kaelyn walked back over to watch her, she took Kaelyn's hands and danced with her. I posted each clip a few slides apart so hopefully each one will be loaded by the time you get to them. There is a lot of background noise in them just because there are so many people around. I'm also guessing that it might take a bit for the smilebox to load since it's videos (depending on the speed of your internet).

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Odds -N- Ends

Back a few weeks ago, Rod did some landscaping work in our front yard and it looks SOOO nice. For some reason I kept forgetting to get pictures of it in the daytime. It's a BEAUTIFUL day outside today and I actually thought about grabbing the camera when I got home from picking Kaelyn up from school. Most of my 6 blog readers probably won't find this interesting but there might be about 3 of you who have been to our house and will be interested to see the difference. Everything you see in the front yard is new with the exception of the two potted plants. It's kind of a pain that the window is not centered but we can't exactly change that so Rod just centered the rest of the stuff around the window rather than the real center of the front. I am very pleased with the way it turned out!


A view of the whole thing.


closer up views

A cute lawn ornament. :)

Ahhh----finally warm enough to wear new

spring/summer clothes.

Mommy's little cutie indeed!

Mommy/Daughter day out

I had several different coupons, gift cards, etc. for different places so today Kaelyn and I went on a little "outing". We actually only ended up with some much needed clothes for Kaelyn and a couple of things for Kevin before I was "shopped out" but we still had a good time. We started out eating a late lunch/early supper at Chili's and then we headed to the mall to go to JC Penney. We only went to Penneys at the mall and then we headed over to Kohl's. By the time we were done there, we were ready to call it a day (other than our regular grocery shopping). :) Here are a few [not very good] pictures:



A couple quick pictures Kevin took of us before
we left.




She thought she was hilarious of course and
wanted me to take a picture of this.





Lunch together.




A fuzzy attempt at a self portrait.