Kayla Addison and Peyton Elle: 2009

12.21.2009

December 2009 Blizzard!

Love this snow! Do we live in Colorado?

10.06.2009

Can we stay in this moment forever?

We just got back from the OBX - had an awesome time with the family. Mom and dad, Brook, Sam and Joyce and Jay were all there (as well as Belle, Punky and Cali, of course) - beautiful weather, beaches, fun walks, great golf and fantastic food. Kayla was in her element with all of the people she loves most right at her ready - as well as a pool - she was in heaven. When we got home it was dinnertime and Bryan and I went downstairs to relax for a few minutes before we started dinner. Kayla was downstairs with us and she was her normal busy little bee self - off in the laundry room rummaging around. She came out carrying a new package of paper plates which she was adamantly asking for me to open - to which I obliged because I was too tired to explain to her that there was no need to open a new package of paper plates right now. She then went upstairs. We heard her up there knocking stuff around and giggling... but all sounded okay so we let her proceed. About 5 minutes later she was calling "mom", "dad"...come here! So upstairs we went...to which we found 3 place settings set at our places at the table, paper plates with silverware right beside them ...and a handful of cheerios on each of the plates. She had made us dinner :-) She was sitting at the head of table and said "sit!" which of course we did...and ate our cheerios and enjoyed every one of them. It's so hard to describle how adorable a moment it was...and perhaps it was only adorable because it was our babe and we were seeing in a single act how grown up she has already become...and also how sweet...but it was absolutely the cutest thing. Bryan said "I think this is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me". We are so lucky she is ours ~

9.25.2009

TOP 10 SWEET KAYLA/ ANIKA MEMORIES - DENVER,CO

10.Bathing baby dolls in waterfalls

9. Swinging from closet rods

8. Riding Carousels

7. Taking picures of flamingos

6. Talking to gorillas 5. Practicing somersaults on/off bunk beds 4. Jumping on beds with silk sheets
3. Giggling girls in jacuzzi tubs 2. Dancing around the living room in diapers 1. Flying high and fast in planes, trains, and automobiles (and firetrucks, boats and strollers!!!)

9.01.2009

Backpacks and ponytails...already!?

This morning - as I watched Kayla trot into school with her backpack on her back, her hair pulled back into a beautiful little shiny pony tail of loose red curls, the confidence of a 16 year old in the adorable body of a 2 year old - I could not believe how quickly time flies and how fast she is growing up! She went into her classroom and hung her backpack on her hook and looked back at me with those big brown eyes and I just wanted to scream - slow down honey! This is all going too fast!!! This having all followed her waking up and as I went into her room she was holding her (fake) cell phone and saying "Nel Nel called!" with the phone held tightly to her ear. At least it's still Grammy Nel Nel that she get's excited about getting calls from rather than some little boy...although I'm sure that's not far off either! Can we please slow down time for a little while!?

8.31.2009

Kayla goes to school!

Kayla started preschool this month! The first 2 days were awesome...the first day she was so excited seeing her classroom and all of the fun things to play with. I stayed for about an hour with her...we played in her classroom for a while...then she "giddily" ran down the hall to check out the other classrooms and then we went to the multipurpose room and met a bunch of the kids...there was one girl from the 4-5 year old class class who was really cute and said she would watch after Kayla (she actually wanted to carry her to her classroom...and tried :-) When I left that first day her teacher (Mabel) had set up some art stations in the classroom and so I rolled out playdoh with Kayla and some of the other children and then kissed her on the head and said good bye and she just said "bye mom" and turned back to what she was doing. They said that she did awesome and took to the other kids really well. She also napped fine on the cot which I was worried about because she's never slept on a cot amongst a bunch of children and things to play with before... but Mabel said she must have recognized her sheet because she went right over to it, crawled in and fell asleep. Bryan said she seemed so tired when he picked her up that first day but she was fine/ normal when she got home. The 2nd morning we went into the multipurpose room and she ran up and gave Mabel a hug and I said I was going to sign her in (I wasn't going to leave yet) and she just turned around and said bye mom! and went off toward the slides...So - I was really excited it was going so well/ so easily.

Then... Wednesday happened...:-( She did not want to get out of the car...kept buckling herself back in...when I finally got her into the building she didn't want me to leave and kept pulling me toward the doors. Mabel ended up just taking her from my arms crying and when I called around 10 in the morning they said she was having a great morning and quieted down shortly after I left...and in the afternoon when Bryan picked her up she was playing with the other kids running around happily (and they had water play which they have once a week through the summers and setup pools and waterslides and stuff so I'm sure she loved that). But then dropping her off was worse the next day and it only seemed to get worse over the next two weeks...pulling my shirt off...screaming for me not to leave her! I felt so bad leaving her like that but yet I knew she was enjoying school because every day she would come home and tell me what she learned that day and show me her artwork! But then...last week everything became wonderful! We pulled up on Monday and she goes "yeh" and started clapping her hands. When we went inside she was so excited - showing me all of the dinosaurs and things on the walls. When we got to her classroom it was her friend Aiden's first day (from daycare) and so she was SO excited to see him. When I left she said "bye mom" and was taking him around the class showing him all of the fun things to play with. And that's how it went all week...I would pull up and she would get so excited and start cheering when we pulled in....she would practically skip to her classroom (still holding my hand) and we would put her things away and then she would say "bye mom"...give me a hug...and off I'd go with no tears! What a relief. Daddy even got her to wear her backpack on their way home from school! Today was hilarious...I brought her into her classroom and was talking to her teacher - she said "bye mom" and gave me my hug but since I was still talking to the teacher I hadn't left yet...she repeated "bye mom" and started pushing me out the door:-) I said to her teacher - my - how things change so qui

ckly! I love that girl! Such a riot...

7.22.2009

Hill Graduation!

I can't believe my baby nephew has graduated!!! Off to JMU he goes...Uncle Bryan is psyched!

6.19.2009

KAYLA IS 2!

6.10.2009

SWIMCLASS!

5.30.2009

Wetsuits and Wedgies...

Another awesome weekend at the lake!

Kayla absolutely adores riding in the boat and swimming around in the water...she can't get enough and we can't get enough of her because she's so freakin' cute! She even went tubing and spent the entire time dangling her hands in the water and trying to put her head in the water (Uncle Brook was driving very slow:-)
B & C rippin' it up!