Where's Kaiya?

Kaiya's first swim

Kaiya much like her cousin Mac is not too thrilled with the swimming pool. I expected more screaming but she just whimpered when she wasn't being held against my shoulder. Overall she tolerated it maybe next time she'll enjoy it.

My little number crunchers

John loves to help Jay on the computer. Every time Jay uses Quicken, John is right there to help him. Like father like son!

I love clothes with ears!

It had been rather cold here so Kaiya had to wear her jackets and hat lately. A lot of them have little ears on them, which I think are adorable.

So tired

Kaiya loves to watch everything that's going on. Most weeknights she's helping me make dinner for the family (thank you Tim and Jamie for the Bumpi). The other night she was jabbering away and the next thing I know it's silent in the kitchen. When I looked over here's how I found her. I guess all that talking and cooking did her in.

It even snows here..

We even managed to find some snow here. We had to drive for 1.5 hours to find it but it was worth it. Kaiya didn't seem to mind the cold or the snowflakes but she would get ticked off when her hat covered her eyes. Plus I found another reason to shove her in her Halloween costume! It was the warmest thing she had.

Superstar

John is the superstar for the week in his Kindergarten class. He gets to tell his class more about himself, he also gets to keep the superstar bear for the weekend and take him everywhere he goes. We are hoping to go find some snow to play in this weekend. On Friday John gets to invite a guest to talk about what they do and how they are involved in his life. He has graciously asked his mom to be his special guest on Friday! I think the flight suit beat out Dad's shirt and tie!Kaiya thinks it's pretty cool too.

Homework time

Poor John gets more help than he bargains for when he does homework. The girls love to watch him write his letters and numbers.

Thunder thighs

Kaiya is getting quite the thunder thighs. These pictures don't do it justice but Jay won't let me post naked pictures on the internet. As you can tell she is a happy, HEALTHY baby.

Catfish

My good friend Catfish (Catlin) came to visit with her mom, Francis. Catfish brought the kids books which they loved and Kaiya got a comfortable lap to sleep on! Fish plays a good game of Chinese checkers, but John beat her in a close match. Thanks for visiting Fish!

More pics...

As you can see John and Chloe love entertaining Miss Kaiya. Kaiya loves to watch them play.

The greatest gift ever...

One of the greatest gifts that we received was a stocking knitted by Grandma Maria. We all love our stockings, you can tell that Jay's has a little more wear and tear on it. We were worried that Kaiya would miss out because I knew Maria was cutting back on her knitting. Thanks again Maria, the stockings are one of the most precious gifts we could receive!

Christmas morning

We had some happy kids X-mas morning. Kaiya got an exersaucer from Santa, she's still a little small for it buit is starting to get the hang of it. The older kids got a Wii from Santa, we had a blast playing tennis/bowling/boxing and Mario/Sonic olympics. Though I was extremely sore the next day, need to get in Wii shape. John also got plastic Army men, which I think he liked even more than the Wii, he spent the whole day lining them up for a fight. One little soldier even lost an arm! Santa had a harder time finding the plastic army men than he did the Wii!

Christmas

Just wanted to post a few pictures from X-mas! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.

Star Wars

Who's your Daddy? I'm not really sure...

Just kidding, thanks for the great onsie Oliver! Only a true Star Wars fan would send a little girl a Darth Vader onsie. Jay only has one thing to say..."Kaiya...I am you father."