This morning Kacey was putting on a little rock show for us. She was a great sport and even let me video tape her!!! Make note that at the end of singing the ABC's she demands "Next time you WILL sing with me!"

David is enjoying this little ride on Dinosaur lately (Thanks Nana Rie and Babu!!!) He moves his feet and actually goes backwards! Kacey hopped on and followed him around. She said they were going out for ice cream. :)

I thought Kacey looked extra adorable and girly so I wanted to take her picture. She wouldn't come out from this tree. Just kept saying "I'm camouflage mommy!"

Yesterday we were at a friends house and David was rolling around, playing with toys. I looked over and he was sitting. I asked my friends if either of them sat him up and they both said no. His leg was kind of stuck under a chair so we thought maybe if was a fluke and the chair gave him some leverage to sit up.

Last night we were at an event where he was again rolling all over. Then I SAW HIM DO IT!!! He kindof rolled on his side and pushed up on his arm and kept pushing.... then he was up! It was soooooo fun to see. He did it again about 20 minutes later. A confirmed skill! Not a fluke! Woo-hoo!! Hopefully crawling is next!!!

Mr Adorable is 9 months old today. I should have taken his weekly picture on Saturday but I forgot so I took it today instead. Oh well it works out. He had his 9 month appt at the doctor and he is thinning out!!! 24.5 pounds which puts him at 90-95% and his height is 29" which is 75%. The interesting thing is that before his weight was so much more than his height that the combination was off the chart, now the combination puts him back on the chart at about 95%. So yay for getting taller! In big head news, his head is still 50% at 17 3/4". He got his polio vaccination today so I am expecting a not so good night. Hopefully I am wrong since Kacey has a cold again and isn't sleeping wonderfully either.

Look what Kacey helped me do (but to give credit where credit is due, Garo, Taline's daddy did most of the hanging!)

Kacey has had the Pinata experience 3 or 4 times now and she has always reacted the same. She does not run wildly screaming and stuffing tons of stuff into her bag as quickly as possible. Nope. She stands back and watches the vultures descend and slowly makes her way in. She works from the outside and eventually finds herself in the center of the fray picking and choosing what she wants to put in her bag. I got this video about halfway through at Andrew's train party. Most of the kids had left the scene as their bags were overflowing. Kacey stayed behind. I think she has been the last one at a pinata demolition each time now. Just call her the pinata sweeper.

Just a few notes so I don't forget:

- Kacey is still doing the "Why?'s" but they are getting less and less. She is constantly saying "I have idea!!!" and then proceeding to tell you what she wants to do. If I tell her I don't like her idea or no, she tells me "But I like idea, I said yes!"

- If I tell her I love her, she smiles and says "I don't love you." To her credit, with the smile and tone of voice it is almost as sweet as if she were to leave the "don't" out. BTW, yesterday we were at Taline's house and Kacey gave Garo (Taline's daddy) a hug goodbye, she then said to him "I love you!" Harumph I say!

- David is all about clapping now. He claps when he is happy and when he is frustrated. If he is tired and starting to get whiney he will sit there and give a whine and then clap. It's quite cute. He took my hands the other day and clapped them together! He is also very into banging things together. Kacey never really did this so it is fun to see something different.

- David is not crawling yet but he is starting to get on his hands and knees and rock back and forth a bit. He can scoot forward when he is sitting and if you set him down he will laydown and roll ALL OVER! He is rarely where you left him a few minutes later.

- Both kids are sleeping through the night about 85% of the time. It's lovely to have them both in bed by 8 and sleep through til 6 for Kacey and 7 for David. It makes the nights when they don't do it extra rough though because we are getting so spoiled!

- Speaking of sleep, I recently took to laying down with David around 1:30 or 2 in the afternoon on our bed and nursing him. He then falls asleep and usually sleeps for 1.5 - 2 hours! Most of the time it coincides with Kacey so I get a little snooze and then an hour or more to myself!!! Heaven!

I like taking a picture of David when he is doing something that reminds me of Kacey. I LOVE this pic of Kacey. She was soooo enraptured by the Valentines Day balloon and she took it everywhere with her. In comparison, David likes it too although he is not quite dragging it around yet. :)

On Sunday, Jamie and Kacey got up at 6am and left the house!!! Happy Valentine's Day to me!!! I got to sleep in until David woke at 7. They went downtown to eat breakfast..
Then to the flower mart where they picked out this arrangement for me. :)
Then they went back to the beach because this weather is just too good to pass up!!!!

Jamie took all these with his phone, not sure when this fog happened but according to the time on the pictures it rolled in and then rolled back out!
Kacey loves the ferris wheel from what I hear. I hope to go on it too someday!

Her favorite part of the day was meeting Elmo!!!

We went to Andrew's 3rd birthday party at Travel Town. We had fun riding on the train and Kacey enjoyed exploring the big trains with Daddy.




Waiting for our turn to ride the train.

Alex with Lorelei and Garo with Taline
Stefan and Lilli and Kim with Oliver

Last weekend the weather was GORGEOUS (sorry East Coast readers!) We took advantage and took David on his first hike. Fortunately we planned ahead and Jamie wore his hiking backpack and I wore the Ergo just in case the big kid needed a ride at some point. She very much did on the way back and considering it was 1.5 miles each way, that Ergo was a lifesaver!

Kacey did tons of walking on the way to the waterfall by herself. She would stop alot to jump off rocks and pack her pockets with acorns. She would then hold the acorns out and call out "Skwellls!! Come out, I have acorn for you!!! Skwwwellllssss!!!" She would then drop the acorns on the trail and tell the squirrels she was leaving them food in case they got hungry later.

Kacey LOVED going over the stream "by herself".
The waterfall payoff! So lovely and worth the walk!


I carried David back because Kacey wanted daddy to carry her. I tickled his feet and he would just randomly start giggling along the way. I think David really enjoyed it!

The not so good part about this particular trail is the VERY steep "road" that leads down into it. It is a hike to get back up. Took 30 minutes to go up just that part.
Overall it was wonderful and so fun to get out as a family into the outdoors!

Lots and lots going on with him this week!!!!

I have never had such a terrible night of sleep... non-sleep.

Kacey woke up screaming at 12:30, unfortunately when she wakes up in the middle of the night it is usually screaming. Not sure what woke her, bad dream, blanket being messy? Who knows. Anyways it woke up David. I am trying to not nurse him at night anymore as he really does not need to nurse and so it ends up just being comfort and he really needs to sleep train a bit. So trooped Jamie is working on winning the saint dad award for the year, he went in there. He went to Kacey first and rocked her for a bit. She calmed down and David ramped up. He put Kacey down and started rocking David. David calmed a little bit but then Kacey ramped up. I went in and rocked Kacey in the rocking chair while Jamie rocked David standing up. It was a bit comical if you were a fly on the wall.

I put Kacey in bed and she actually stayed pretty calm. David calmed a bit too but every time Jamie tried to put him down or stop rocking the crying started again. Then Kacey would start again. After 40 or so minutes, Jamie gave up. I suggested we put Kacey on our bedroom floor and let David cry it out. Jamie agreed and Kacey jumped at the idea. So he dragged her mattress onto our floor and put David in the crib. 1:08 am. Kacey fell asleep and David screamed louder and louder and it was heart-wrenching. I had to keep repeating to myself, babies don't cry themselves to death. He will have no memory of this. I won't take more than an hour. He will still love me in the morning.

At 1:21 he was asleep. It only took 13 minutes. WOW! Jamie and I settled in to salvage what was left of the night or so we thought.

Kacey then woke up EVERY SINGLE HOUR. Screaming and crying. Her blanket was messy, she needed some water, she wanted up, she wanted in our bed, etc. It was awful, awful, awful. I have no idea what was wrong with her. No real idea why she kept waking up. It went on every hour until 7am when we finally gave in and we all got up. She is not sick, no fever, no vomiting nothing like that. Just a whiny mess. I cannot wait until naptime which will be at 12 today. She has literally been in the living room for 30 minutes now with a constant whiny cry. UGH!

Tonight better go better, that's all I have to say about it.


****Update - David woke up so I put Kacey's bed back together, put her in bed and told her to go back to sleep. She cannot come out of her room unless she stops crying. I really hope she falls asleep, she is a mess.

Good thing is, David woke up smiling, he was not permanently damaged from crying it out last night!

Ayyyyy, yiiiii, yiiii! I can never stay caught up on this blog anymore! I read a few blogs that seem to write every day (even though I only read them once a week or so) and I just don't know how they do it. OOH! That reminds me of a compliment Jamie gave me yesterday. He was getting both kids ready for the day and I was busy doing something else. He got frustrated or worn out or something and blurted "I don't know how you do it!!!" I told him thank you. Oh my that just made me all warm and fuzzy inside. :)

Big news for David, on Thursday night I was giving him a bath. He was facing me and grabbed onto the door rail. All of a sudden it looked like a light bulb clicked on in his brain. He held on tight and stood up!!! He got that super proud look on his face and started giggling. He then sat down and did it again and again and again. I didn't have my camera and couldn't leave him to get it. Boo me. I did put him in his crib later and tried to get him to do it there but he wouldn't. That I got on camera and hope to post tomorrow. He did it for Nana on Friday night and for Jamie last night. Jamie actually got a bit sick of it because that was all David wanted to do and you kind of feel obligated to be down near him in case he falls hard. I just realized I could have tried to get it on camera with Jamie or my mom and never even thought of it. Harumpfh! maybe tomorrow.

Well here are some pics: