The rest of the story...

I know I already did 2 posts about our weekend.

But, I'm going to share the entire story :)

Thursday - Josh got rained out at work, so we headed to Pensacola to get Wendy & Savannah to spend the weekend with us! We saw their amazing new house and then went to Nikko's for Hibatchi with their family :)


Friday - We got up early and headed to the zoo, had lunch at Subway, went to the exploreum, then we walked around Downtown Mobile.
We looked at several "monuments" and studied up on our history! ;)

{Another post on that to come this Summer!We're planning a History Day with the girls!}

Luckily, K was wore out from all the fun...

So she got in a very good nap while we drove around before heading to the theaters!

We saw 'Shrek 3D'! K was good about 1/2 the time, then she was OVER her busy day.

Good thing this Shrek wasn't my favorite-HA!

Josh had praise&worship practice, so we all just hung out with him and then went to Mexican for dinner-YUM!

Saturday - Josh got up early to go fishing.

Me and the girls stayed in bed until about 8:30, then got up and had a good breakfast.

We had plans to go to the Blueberry festival and to a youth rally, but K had different plans!
She was beyond ill, seriously!

We decided to head to Old Navy and then we picked up McD's for lunch!
We came home and ate watermelon :)

Then, I cooked some yummy Chinese food for dinner.
K went to bed and we stayed up and watched some movies :)

Sunday - Josh got called into work, so just us girls went to church.

K gave us a big scare! She loves standing up in the pew and looking at everybody. She has learned to "rock" herself, too. Yesterday, she decided to mix the two and BAM!

 She hit her little mouth on the bench.

She had big tears streaming down her face and was crying louder than ever before.

She finally let me open her mouth and she was bleeding! :(

I panicked!! I got up to carry her out and a man made a face at her and she started laughing and clapping. SO, I knew she was OK! :)

After church, the girls and I went to Cracker Barrel for lunch.

She really enjoyed playing...and eating NON-eatable things..

K got her first meal at a restaurant :)

She ate about 1/4 of the grilled cheese and a pretty good bit of the apple sauce :)

We came home, got on our lounged clothes and at more watermelon!

The girls left around 3:30 and K fell asleep and slept until Josh got home about 5:15!

She was one tired girl :)

ZOO!

Yesterday was a lot of firsts for K!
First thing we went to the Mobile Zoo!

It was Josh, Kaidence, Wendy, Savannah, and myself.

It's a very small zoo. It was still nice, though!

The animals aren't in glass cages, they are just in fences. There might be 2-3 feet between you and the animal!

See...

{we were standing in front of the first fence you see! the white tube is where you feed the animals peanuts!}

Kaidence was very good the entire time! She rode in her stroller and just watched all the animals like a big girl :)

This little monkey loved the peanuts! It was so funny to watch them crack them open-HA!

These 2 Bengal Tigers were gorgeous. They were up walking around and didn't even pay us any attention...

I think these white tail deer had the right idea chilling out in the shade. It was H-O-T!

There were peacocks just roaming around all over the place!
I was zoomed in AT ALL - this is how close it was to us. I was for sure Kaidence was going to get pecked!

And, here's some of snapshots of just us!

And, two of my big girl.

She was amazed with Wendy in these pictures, but they're still cute to me!

Thursday - Saturday

We had lots of fun this weekend. Family was down, we had great food, went to the beach, and did lots of shopping. But, I didn't get very many pictures :(

Thursday{I know it's not the weekend..} K learned to stand up in her pack-n-play! Wednesday night she learned to stand up in the tub. I don't think anything around our house is safe anymore-HA!

Friday - We decided to head to Dauphin Island. We have been going a lot lately, but with this Oil Spill you never know when it's going to hit! We want to soak up as much beach time as possible.

K loves the sand. She rolls, she throws it, and she eats it! Every.single.time we go to the beach she has to have a little sand snack.

After we left the beach, we went to Bass Pro. Another place we seem to be going a lot-HA!

Josh had to get a bigger fishing pole for his fishing trip Saturday, and I wanted to just be out of the house.

My sister, Heather, got here Friday afternoon and we headed to Mississippi for Josh to get his saltwater fishing licence.

My mom & sister Amy got here later that afternoon.

Saturday - Josh got up before 4 AM to go on an off-shore saltwater fishing trip. Let me just say, Josh is the hardest person to wake up..but, on this particular day he was up and going before the first alarm went off!

That man was ready to fish-HA!

While he fished, we headed to Spanish Fort to pick up my cousins Wendy & Savannah. We had lunch and then met Whitney to pick up precious Katie Beth! {Can you believe I never got a pick of the BFFs?!:(}
We shopped & shopped & shopped after we got KB! 

I bought the little ones matching dresses for a little photo shoot to come!

We came home to see Josh's "loot'! Let me just say, we have enough fish for a long time.

They caught TONS of fish!!

Josh had praise & worship practice, so us girls headed back out to Chili's & Target!

Since this post is already long, I'm going to break our weekend into 2 parts!

Part 2 coming tomorrow... 

Thankful Thursday

Yes, I am thankful for her everyday, but today she has been the sweetest little lump of love! :)
She has boycotted her morning naps, so we played in the living room floor instead.

She is ::this:: close to real crawling! I'm excited :)
Also, she has a new BFF ... the vacuum!
She loves it! She squeals and tries to "catch" the light. It's adorable!

{don't know why the picture is so off color! Sorry!}

Kaidence's 1st BDAY Party Ideas

Ok, I do realize K's BDAY isn't until September. I just want to have a 100% game plan-HA!

I haven't purchased anything yet, just been getting lots & lots of ideas.

We are doing zebra print & hot pink!

I plan to make what I can myself to save money!

CREDIT

I love this! I plan to make the Happy Birthday banner myself & have it behind her cake/food table. I am making the hats from other "whatever" hats. Like How Does She posted a tutorial for.

I am getting cupcake toppers along with some fun zebra print trays from http://www.michaelandshaepage.blogspot.com/

CREDIT

How cute is that invitation & water bottle label?

I think I might have to call on K's Aunt Amy to help with those ;) HA!

CREDIT

Another idea for her invitation.

CREDIT

I love, love, love that sign for the front door. Except minus the cupcake!

CREDIT

I think Kaidence needs that snazzy little hat to wear for her BIG DAY! :)

CREDIT

And, I'm going to make 2 lollipop trees for the gift table!

CREDIT

And, I'm going to make this cute cupcake stand!

I plan to make her a '1' shaped smash cake.

And, of course, I'm going to have zebra print, black, white, and pink pom-poms!

Yeah, if you couldn't tell I'm pretty excited! :)

And, because I know grandparents are just looking at this for a picture...

It's not the greatest because it was taken on Josh's cellphone.

What Kaidence Eats...

I have had several bloggers e-mail me about what I feed Kaidence.

So, instead of e-mails I just decided to post this.

{this is all the things she has had this far}
Breakfast:

1 egg YOLK

Small bowl of baby oatmeal/rice/barley cereal with cinnamon

1 Stage 2 Fruit

Gerber yogurt

Fresh fruit

Small pancake {No butter or syrup}

Lunch/Dinner:

1 Stage 2 Fruit or Veggie

1 Stage 2 Meat

Bread

Sliced cheese or Shredded cheese

Gerber pick-up ravioli

Peas{rinsed in water after cooking}

Beans{rinsed in water after cooking}

Noodles{no butter or salt}

Small "strings" of chicken{no seasonings}

Snacks:

Yogurt melts{all flavors}

Puffs{all flavors}

Mum-mums

Biter biscuits

Wagon wheels{only had veggie!}

Fresh fruit{strawberries, pineapple, apple}
Fresh veggies{cucumbers, carrots, broccoli}

I don't hesitate to give Kaidence food. {as long as it's healthy - NOT COOKIES!}
Some things she doesn't always like, but I don't give up!
I give her small amounts and watch her VERY closely when she eats just to make sure she doesn't stuff too much in her mouth!

I do plan to keep her on baby foods as long as she will eat them, but I also want her to be adjusted to table food!

If y'all have any suggestions, at all, about other healthy snacks I can give her please let me know!

{K's breakfast on her 8 Month Day! Small bowl of oatmeal cereal, Stage 2 applesauce, 4 ounces of pear juice, and that wittle cute star is her very first pancake!}

{Also on her 8 Month Day, she knocked her sweet peas out of my hands and then she played in it. SINCE it was her day, I let her have fun-HA!:)}

8 Months Old

STATS:

When you went to the pediatrician 04/30/2010 you weighed 20 pounds & 3 ounces. I'm guessing you now weigh 21 pounds


NEW:
You now have 6 teeth!
2 on bottom & 4 on top!

EAT

You still eat like a CHAMP!

You have about 6 6oz bottles per day and solids at every meal.

You love snacking on wagon wheels, puffs, mum-mums, fresh fruit, and biter biscuits.

You love to feed yourself now, too!
You feed yourself cheese slices or shredded cheese, peas, beans, bread, and all your snacks!

SLEEP

You are still a wonderful sleeper!

You go to bed around 7:00 P.M., sleep til 5:00A.M. have a bottle and then go back to bed until at least 8 A.M.

You have pretty much cut back to just 2 naps per day now though!

PLAY

You are turning into a little SASSY lady!

When you don't get your way you 'growl' at us!

You still love to laugh, and have a really deep belly laugh.

You are army crawling now.
You still love to roll around, too.

You love, love, love to be outside!

Your favorite 'baby' is your glow worm! When you see it, you get all giddy. We love it! :)
You say "mama" & "dada", but you don't associate it with us!
You can also say "HI!". It's your FAVORITE and say it a thousand times per day!

CLOTHING

You can still wear some of your 6-9 month clothes, but mainly 12 months and some 18 month tops {you do have a Thames' head!;)}

You're still in a size 3 diaper.

You are also still in size 2 or 3 shoes.

You wore your first piggy tails this month!

My heart melted, for sure! :)

And, since she's now 8 months old...

She decided it was time to start working on her fitness some-HA!

Happy 8 Months,

Sassy Pants!

Kaidence is Tutu Cute in her new shirt from Molly!

I mentioned in my previous post Kaidence won a shirt from TuTu Cute by Molly It came in Friday!
I was so excited for her to wear it because it was super cute!

Here's Little Miss in her adorable new shirt..

{she got 2 packages in the mail Friday. Her shirt & Kula Klips I won!}

{She was so excited!!}

Pictures from Saturday Morning..

She wasn't cooperating too well because it was a little too early for her!

{I have a 'weekend recap post' coming tomorrow}