Eating Worms

Two weeks ago was Kurt's spring break. There was great weather to play outside and we took advantage as much as we could.

We went for walks around our block, went to Old Town, visited friends, and spent a lot of time at the park.

One of these trips led to Kylee finding a worm and thinking it might be some nice tasty thing to eat. I think she ended up deciding to leave the worms to the birds. At least I hope.

First Encounter with Spray Paint

About a month ago I found this little kid's bench put outside for garbage. (Kurt always makes fun of me about this since I have gotten lots of toys and carseats this way for Kylee and to sell on Craig's List.) Anyway, I thought it would be a fun project to clean the bench up and make it a little cuter.

Here is the BEFORE:

Here is the AFTER:

It ended up turning out cute, but it ended up being a WHOLE LOT more work than I originally expected. I ended up having to sand all the paint, prime it and then paint again, again, and again. As Kurt will let you know, there are some runs from the spray paint here and there and it took a lot of coats over and over before I didn't have brown where pink should be and the other way around. Oh well, it's done and I am happy with my first spray paint project! :)

Big Girls Don't Cry...

I don't think Kylee has gotten this memo.

She has now been crawling and pulling herself up on everything. It has been interesting coming a round a corner and seeing Kylee standing up and look at you like a little girl.

With her learning to stand up on everything has come the lesson of her falling in order to get back down. This has lead to ALOT of crying the past week until she learned how to fall down on her butt.

Thank goodness she learned how to not land on her head. I will admit it was trying my patience having her cry every couple of minutes.

Harrisburg and Hershey

So two weekends ago we visited Harrisburg and Hershey, Pennsylvania. I wanted a little weekend getaway and there ended up being a horse show for the Horse World Expo in Harrisburg. Poor Kurt. We did end up getting a discount on our hotel though thanks to the horse expo.

Our hotel had a pool so Kylee got to have her first swimming experience. She was nervous and whined at first, but once she was given her favorite tub toy, tiger, she was fine. She didn't want to relinquish tiger though for the life of her. She was not much of a fan of her mother dunking her under the water either. She gave me a look of betrayal and mistrust. I couldn't help but laugh.

On our way home we stopped at the Hershey Chocolate Factory. As anyone knows whose been there, you don't actually get to enter the real factory. They have a tourist center set up for you to watch movies, taste chocolate, take a ride, and display all their types of candy for you to buy. Kylee wasn't old enough to enjoy the full benefits of being surrounded by candy, but her mom and dad sure enjoyed it. We contained ourselves to only buying a few things. It was hard though.

Overall, it was a nice weekend to just get away and spend time as a family. (Yeah!! No Internet or Xbox to distract Kurt). :)

SUN!!

I forgot how great it can feel to walk outside and have the sun on your back. It is amazing how much the sun can lift your spirits. Kylee and I have tried to take advantage of the warmer weather and sunshine over the past couple of days. I am just hoping the oncoming rain doesn't stay for forever and that the weather will turn nice again. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

I will update soon with pictures of our last couple weeks of activities.

One Crazy Girl

It's crazy to think that Kylee is now seven months old! Here comes the age old saying: Time sure flies! It's so true though; I am sure all can relate.

It has been fun watching more and more of her personality come out. She is one funny girl that cracks herself up, plus me and her dad. One night during dinner, her and I just laughed at one another the whole time.


Don't get me wrong, there are times that I am ready to go crazy and counting down the minutes until her dad gets home to pass her of to him, but she has definitely brought a lot of joy into our lives.

Love you little crazy girl!

There's No Place Like Home....

But Alexandria and Washington D.C. are feeling pretty close to it right now with all the white winter wonderland that surrounds us.

We were warned that a storm was coming that would dump 1-2 feet of snow, but I was still skeptical. Well, Saturday morning proved me very wrong when we could barely find our car.

It was fun to take Kylee out in the snow and let her experience it. She didn't mind it unless she got too wet and cold.



This was the first time we have had to actually shovel 2 1/2 ft. of snow off and from around our car. These are the times when neighbors are forced out and get to know one another. I enjoyed meeting people that I would never have probably met otherwise. The bad side, supposedly another storm is on its way Tuesday/Wednesday.