Thanksgiving 2009

This year we went to Mom and Dad's house for Thanksgiving. We had a great time and of course ate way more than we should have. Keltie had fun playing with her cousin Trent. She wanted to play wii with him and was getting in his way. Mom got out my old stepper and a remote control and she was as happy as could be.

Drinking like a big girl out of her new glass.
Trent helping out.

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"Can I play again?"

Tis the Season

Kevin's family has started the tradition of decorating Christmas cookies at Thanksgiving time. Well, we were extremely excited this year because there was going to be 3 little girls under the age of 2 to help out. Thankfully, they did a good job and were excited about it. They were troopers. There was 5 ice cream pails full of cookies. Keltie and Ella made it through all the buckets. Kylie got bored with it earlier. Autumn and Addison were great big helpers. I'm not sure anyone would want to eat them after they saw the grubby little hands touching them, but they had fun.

Waiting patiently for my first cookie.
Granny showing me what I should do.

Just a little bit at a time. So pretty.

The finished product.

As soon as she was finished, Keltie wanted to bite into her cookie.

"How does this thing work?" Check out that face.

"I'm ready for another cookie."

Coloring with Autumn and Addison.

Princess and the Pea

This weekend we decided that it was time to move Keltie to her big girl bed. She does a great job of sleeping in the crib, but lately she's been moving to the top and can't get down while she's sleeping. The other night she also got her leg into the railing and couldn't get it out. We were going to wait until Christmas vacation to do it, but decided it was time. Keltie, Grammy and I went to Kohls on Saturday to pick out her bedding. We were all excited.

Yesterday we took the crib downstairs and made her bed. The whole time Keltie was in the room climbing on everything. We were happy about that because we figured she should be able to help. We ended up having to rearrange all her furniture, but we eventually got it figured out. Kevin put her in the bed a little while later for her nap. He said that she kind of looked around, but didn't make a sound. We checked on her about 10 minutes later and she was sound asleep. She slept good last night as well. She did wake up around 3:30 and started to cry. (She did this the other night as well.) Kevin went in and laid down with her. They both fell back asleep in there.

We are hoping that this good trend continues. I don't think that it's going to be too bad of a transition for her. It was bitter sweet though putting the crib downstairs. When I looked at Keltie taking her nap I of course came out crying. I told Kevin I couldn't figure out if it was because she's growing up too fast or if it's because she's such a good girl about new things. Either way, I love her.

Helping Daddy set the bed up.
As soon as we put the boxspring down, Keltie had to climb up on it.

Keltie pretending to go night-night.

Just relaxing.

Getting down all by herself. She is just as graceful as her Mama.

The finished product.

Keltie was too busy playing in the picture to want to lay back so I could take a picture.

Sweet dreams, Princess.

We got Keltie's pictures. We are so impressed with them. It was so hard to choose which ones we liked the best. I was so happy that they turned out because all she wanted to do while Connie was taking the pictures was move around. It's hard to get an 18 month old to sit still for a long time. These are a few of my favorites. Thank you again Connie!

Look at her, she's flicking us off.

"Where's my Daddy?"

"I love you Mallory."

19 Months Old

Keltie is 19 months old today. It's so amazing. She has changed so much over the last few months. I was telling her this morning that 19 months ago today she turned Mommy and Daddy's world upside down, but that we wouldn't trade it for the world. She looked at me and just smiled her cute little smile. We are so thankful for her.

I should be able to post some of Keltie's 18 month pictures soon. Kevin just got the CD today so we are excited to look at them. Thank you again Connie for doing them.

She's Making A List

Keltie grabbed the Menards flyer and started to look through it last night. I guess she's making her list for Christmas.

Daddy's Helper

Last night Kevin got an inversion table for his back. Needless to say, Keltie thought that she had to help Daddy put it together. Unfortunately, her definition of helping is a lot different than Daddy's.

"This looks like fun. What can I do to help?"
"Do you need a calculator to help you?"

"Are you sure that you don't need the calculator?"

Crazy Hair Day

Check out that hair? She looks like she belongs on the Little Rascals. Keltie must have been embarrassed though because she didn't want to show her face. What a sweetie!

Like Father Like Daughter

We've all heard the saying, like father, like son. Well, I think it's sometimes like father, like daughter. From day one, Keltie has looked like her Daddy. Now she's started to act a little bit like him. We watched the Packer game yesterday and Keltie got into it. She has never really paid any attention to it, until yesterday when Daddy was watching. She had to sit on Daddy's lap. When he cheered, she would cheer. She became upset when it went to commercials. She would point to the TV and start talking (which sounded like complaining) until the game came back on. It was cute to watch. I'm just glad she didn't have a blue yummy in her hand like Daddy!

Happy Halloween

Last year we didn't take Keltie trick or treating because we didn't think she would get too much excitement from it. We kind of felt the same way this year, but thought that we better give it a try. We weren't sure if she would want to wear her Tigger costume or not. She had worn it earlier in the week at daycare, but Cathy seems to have the magic touch on things. She did wear it, but didn't like the head put up. We just went to Keltie's grandparents, great grandparents and great aunt and uncle's. We ran into a bad streak where no one was home, but it was fun anyway. I'm still not sure that she understands Halloween, but there's always next year. Now, we just have to keep away from her candy!

Here she is on Halloween morning. I wasn't sure if she would put on Tigger so I dressed her in Halloween clothes just in case.

"Get this silly head off of me."

Great Grandma Will reading a story.

There was lots of breakable things at Great Grandma Will's house so it was hard to keep Keltie away from them. Luckily she found the doors to play with. It was all good until she opened them up and found more breakable stuff inside.

This is how she had to ride around all day, with Tigger looking over her shoulder. Luckily, it didn't bother her.

Great Grandma Hemmer and Keltie. Daddy was fast taking this picture so she couldn't get the head off fast enough.

Great Grandpa Hemmer