Our week...

Happy Birthday Great Gram!! On Monday we celebrated Great Gram's 77th Birthday. This is the best picture I could get of the two of them....uggg.



She smiles!! Lately I can never get Kinley to look in the direction of the camera let alone get a smile. So I just had to post this. How cute she looks with a smile. :)


Happy Retirement Jayne!! Thursday we celebrated at Fiesta for Jayne's retirement from teaching.



Playing under the coffe table....this was fun for about a minute....untile she discovered she was stuck...



Happy Memorial Day!! We went to the Memorial Day parade in Downton Bloomington with Joe, Lindsey & Audrey and Sarah & Reagan.

What a Weekend!

So....Saturday we headed to the Quad Cities for Maddux's 4th Birthday party. Well....it just so happens that Matt's favorite show on TV is based in a town 20 minutes from Elisha and Dustin's. Matt loves the show American Pickers....and we went to their antique shop...Antique Archaeology. It was very cool. We were surprised that a lot of the things we saw them pick on the show were still for sale in their shop! We met and talked with Danielle and got our picture taken with her. She was really nice and said she had no idea until a couple weeks ago that the show was so popular...kinda crazy! There were lots of people driving by and taking pictures...but not many were brave enough to get out. :) Riley didn't want to get out of the car....I think he was nervous because his Dad was. :) He survived and thought it was pretty cool. Maddux had a monster truck themed party, we all had a great time!

Then....on Sunday Kinley and I ventured south of Springfield to see brand new baby Luke and Jina at their baby shower. Luke was such a cutie! Kinley did great in the car for being on her second road trip in two days! :)

We had a great weekend, but are looking forward to a Memorial Day weekend at home! :)

20 Months!

Kinley is 20 months today! I can't believe it, we'll be planning her 2nd Birthday Party before you know it! :(

Kinley is quite the little talker these days. You can often find her at the window saying bunny, birdie, sunny, rainy. She also loves to say "okay" and "yeah," I guess she has officially turned into a teenager and can no longer say "yes." The last couple weeks she started the "why" for everything you say, so far that one hasn't made much of an apperance this week....which is nice. :) She has also started to put together two or more words. She has her own version of "whatcha doin" and a few others....I'm drawing a blank. Whenever I'm in the kitchen she's usually not far behind saying "peece" (please)...for more food of course. She hasn't slowed down on the eating...at all! She is a great little eater and eats everything. I seriously can't think of anything that I've fed her that she's left on the plate! I really hope she keeps this up! No picky eaters please! :)

Kinley also LOVES music and to dance. Most mornings involve at least several songs from her Little People CD on the way to daycare. Her eyes light up as soon as she hears it and is then singing along to every song with a big smile on her face. Such a cutie!

Kinley's favorite things are still her pacifier and blankie. She usually just has her paci at naps and during bedtime, but her molars have been bothering her quite a bit so she's definitely had it a little more here lately. Poor thing! I can't wait until this teething thing is over!

Here are some pictures from the last month or so.

All dressed up for Mother's Day

watching TV in her wagon

Snackin' on strawberries

Windy Easter Day...