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The daycare offers a service where they take lots of pictures at school and upload them to a website. So I'm sure I'll be sharing lots of those. At first when I was flipping through the site, I couldn't find any of Kaitlyn. She is only there M-W-F most weeks, so I'm sure that contributes.


Here she was on Grandparents day. They got sprinkles to put on a cookie. She wasn't interested in the cookie, but was interested in playing with the sprinkles.

Here is why I think she isn't in many photos - she doesn't participate with the group. She is off to the side in this one during story time.

But surprise, surprise - she's sitting in a teacher's lap (rare occurrence). She looks like she is enjoying it!

Things Kaitlyn Has Picked Up at School

Kaitlyn has finished 5 weeks at school. Here are some things she has picked up along the way:

2 colds! During her 2nd week at the daycare, her nose got runny. She only ran a slight fever one night. Eric called a nurse help-line and they gave us some great tips on how to suction her nose. That is never fun, but it sure does cut back on what comes running down her face. And since she hates to have her nose wiped... I guess you pick your battles. I don't think she was over the cold a week and it seemed to come back again. Oh well, we knew this was coming.

A bite!! One Friday when Eric went to pick Kaitlyn up, they let him know that one of her "friends" bit her! Apparently another child was playing with a book that made noise. Well, Kaitlyn loves toys like that. So she proceeded to walk over and push the button so the book would make noise. This kid rewarded her by biting her in the arm!! I should have taken a picture. We could have identified this kid using the mark he left on her arm (I'm just assuming it was a boy)! You could see the entire mouth on her poor little arm. At least it didn't break the skin!

Red clothes!!! Kaitlyn has gotten to "paint" at school. The first time she did this (to make cute hand print cards for grandparents day), she had it all over her dress. I didn't think too much of it because I figured it must be washable. But hmm, no luck. Maybe they can tell us in advance when they are going to paint and I'll send her in that same dress?!?! Oh well, she had already gotten a lot of use out of that dress.

She also has learned to kick her toys. If you stack blocks for her, she walks over and kicks them over. Kinda cute. And great for her future as a soccer player ;)

On the bright side, she has learned to sit at a little table and eat her meals. We ask her if she is ready to eat and she runs over to the new little table we got for her, climbs up in the chair and is ready to go. And good news is she now lets her teacher feed her. For the first couple of weeks the poor girl came home super hungry because she wouldn't eat at daycare.

She seems to love it. She doesn't cry when I drop her off anymore. She seems super excited to get down and get playing. Gotta love it!

Houston Trip - August 2011

In August we made a trip to stay with Aunt Denise and Cousin Lauren. It was our first trip out of town with her in quite awhile, but she did great. On the way to Houston, we got in the car right after she ate lunch. Our plan was that she would nap most of the way. It started out as predicted - she was asleep soon after we left San Antonio. But an hour into the trip, she stirred and woke up. Then she was up for the rest of the ride. Oh well, we put in a DVD and she was entertained.

On Saturday, Uncles Scott and Russell came over and Kaitlyn got some pool time in. Here's some pictures of her splish-splashing around.

On the way back to San Antonio, we knew better than to plan for a long nap. So we headed out a little earlier. We stopped to grab lunch when we were halfway home. I fed her and then expected a little bit of a nap. Wrong again! No nap. Oh well. She was still great in the car.

Recently Kaitlyn has started to really appreciate her "blankie!" She'll often grab it in the morning and carry it with her as she starts her day. And she has been cuddling up to it at night and even using it like a pillow. So cute!

Candid Family Photos

Here's some recent candid pics of our family. Self portraits are always lovely - especially on a cell phone!

And here we are tuned into Kaitlyn's favorite show, Wheel of Fortune: