Toby

Bailey met the newest member of the Kemp Family today. His name is Toby. Bailey's Uncle Ryan just got a new dog and brought it over to play for a while. I think Bailey liked it. She thought he was soft. They chased each other around for a bit in our back yard.

"Trick or Treat"

Bailey's second Halloween. She was much more excited and involved this year. She was a lady bug. It took her a couple of houses to realize what was happening, but when she realized that all she had to do was knock on the door and say trick or treat, then someone would give her candy, she turned into a pro. Her cousins were great role models as well. They had a lot of fun together. She walked her little legs off until finally, she went up to Nana and said, "Nana, carry me....my legs are broken."

We also went to Trick or Treat Grandpa Kemp and Uncle Jason.

Now she has lots of "treats" to eat for the next few months!

Bailey Quotes

Bailey has been talking so much lately. And singing. She loves to shout the ABC's from the top of her lungs while riding in the car. She does great and only skips over a few letters. The Bumblebee song, Itsy Bitsy Spider. She sings songs from school, which TJ and I haven't heard of but we can piece together it pretty closely. "sophie sophie get in the middle....your turn to wiggle wiggle wiggle....turn around, sit back down."

While TJ was flipping through the TV channels, Bailey looked at him with a furrowed brow and said "What you lookin' for?"

When playing with Play-Doh Daddy rolled out a color like a pizza crust. She took it and pretended to eat it, then cocked her head to one side and said, "You want a bite?" with her voice getting higher as the tone of her inflection indicated a question.

While sititng on the toilet and pooping, "My poop fall down!!"

While being carried in a parking lot and seeing another car backing up, "Don't wreck my car!"

And her favorite right now, "You want a haircut?" with her voice going up and head cocked to one side. She sits me or TJ down in front of the couch. She gives us a blanket to put around our necks. She gives us one of her bears. Then she gets her yellow notepad of paper and a pen, lays on her belly in front of us, and squiggles a couple of lines. That, on the paper, is our haircut. TJ and I love it! We just look at each other and think "What will she say next?"

1st Vomit

This morning Bailey threw-up for the first time. Well, the first time as a "kid." She threw-up/spit-up for the first 6 months of her life.

She had woken up early this Saturday morning and we weren't eating breakfast right away so she had about a half cup of milk while we watched a video and cuddled with Daddy. Forty minutes later we fed her some oatmeal - which she usually eats in 6 bites - and after just one bite, it all came back up, curdled milk and all. She was kneeling on a chair at the breakfast table and up and out it came. Three times. Then out of her nose. TJ and I just sat there for a second and stared, then rushed up and got a towel. It's really hard to watch your kid vomit, knowing there really is nothing that you can do. She started crying afterwards, as I'm sure it scared her. We got her cleaned up and changed and she was running around like nothing happened. Later, I told her that she "puked! and it came out your nose!" She started giggling and said "Came out nose!"

Hot Air Balloons

Bailey woke up at 5:10 AM this morning. We were up already, so we took Bailey to Ann Morrison Park to see the hot air balloons at 7:15 AM. This weekend is the balloon festival. She couldn't believe her eyes when she saw all of those balloons fill with hot air and float away. Her reactions were, "Fire!," "That's tall!," "There goes 'nother one!" "That's B's balloon," "That's Momma's balloon," "That's Daddy's balloon." She had a great time and couldn't stop talking about it the rest of the day.

I am glad she woke up so early!

Cute Pictures

I just really like these two pictures of Bailey. In the first one, Bailey had gotten ahold of her "butt cream" (Vitamin A & D ointment) and rubbed it in her hair. Greasy!! In the second one, she is sitting in her chair opening a soccer ball gift for her 2-year-old birthday. Mama took lots of pictures to get this cute one.

Will Bailey ski this year?

Fall is in the air and Winter is just around the corner. Susie and I are excited for another great ski season at Bogus Basin. Is this the year that Bailey will strap on some sticks and swoosh down the mountain? If her excitement over trying on ski boots is any indication, then it will be. She saw me pick them up off the shelf and couldn't get out of her crocks quick enough to try the boots on. She was able to stumble around pretty well in them. I hope we can get her on skis toward the end of the ski season.

Two Year Checkup

Today we went to the doctor for Bailey's 2-year-old checkup. She happened to be the first patient of the day, and the first patient of the office using the electronic medical records. She had her blood pressure taken for the first time, but did great as the cuff was put on tightly. She weighed 25 pounds (25 percentile) and was 33 inches (23 percentile) tall. She checked out perfect and got a good bill of health.

First Haircut

Bailey's hair was getting long and wispy after not being cut for almost the first two years of her life. It definitely needed a trim. Bailey went with Mom and Nana to their haircuts and after watching us get our haircut, she was ready to get up there in the chair. No fussing, no crying. She did absolutely wonderful. Afterwards, she got a Dum-Dum sucker for being so good!

72 Hours of Binki Withdrawal

We decided to get rid of the binki, rather abruptly this week. Last week she had a fever and had been sick, so we were a little more lax on letting her have the binki more often than just nap/bedtime. I found this Bronco Binki in the drawer and for some reason, she got really attached to it. She would cry for it, saying "Bronchi Binki!" anytime she wasn't happy. Bailey was addicted.

Bailey had been real good at brushing her teeth at night, but lately, due to the Bronco Binki, she wouldn't even want to brush. TJ took Bronco Binki and the two others out of the crib that night on the First and that was it. She wailed for about 20 minutes that first night. It was torture to listen to her as she tried to fall asleep without the comfort she has only known in her life of 23 months. We quickly told her that Bronco Binki was broken and left it at that. The next morning, she was up at 5:15am. She had probably woken up and after not finding her binki to pop back in her mouth, she freaked.

The second night was tough, but a little better. She only cried for about 15 minutes. And she slept until 6:30. The third night was only 5 minutes before she realized that Bronco Binki was still gone. The next few days, she asked for it only occasionally and each day has gotten better. She now sleeps to her normal average wake-up time of 8am.

The binki had to go and it had to be done at some point, and some point soon. With moving into our new house in 10 days and already preparing Bailey to switch from the crib to the "big girl bed," the timing ended up being perfect. We didn't want to conquer both of those transitions at the same time.

All in all, it was one long week that we'll look back on and say, "that wasn't so bad!"