Baby Girl's Nursery

We finally have the nursery completed (except for her name on the wall!). It has been really fun working on the room. It is definitely a lot different than Kailey's room! We had to do some major rearranging, to turn our guest rooom/office into a nursery. We have moved a lot out of the closet and into the garage, and then a portion of the closet is still going to be used for some of our stuff, but that's ok!







Her name will go above the dresser. I just ordered it from Etsy, and I think it is going to be really cute! Whenever I get them, I will post a picture of one letter, just as a teaser so you can see the design and make your guesses about the name.



This is the diaper stacker. I was really blessed to get this! It was the last one in stock ANYWHERE!


My sister, Emily, painted these giraffe pictures, and she won the zebra picture at an auction for us.




The bedding that I chose started being discontinued about mid-way through the process of designing the nursery. We weren't able to locate the mobile that came with the bedding, but my mom found this mobile, and she just recovered the arm and the umbrella to match the bedding. It turned out pretty cute, and it is pretty crazy because she did it in Kingwood, and didn't have the bedding with her to match the colors!



Casey painted the walls and replaced all the baseboards. He also replaced our celing fan, which normally isn't that difficult, However, we could not find a brushed nickel fan with black blades, so we bought one with white blades and he painted them!He did a really great job, I think!




A little less than 7 weeks to go!

Easter Weekend

We had a very full 4-day Easter weekend. We got a lot done, and had a lot of fun, but I am tired! Casey and I were both off on Thursday, so we headed down to Austin to get some baby stuff for the nursery. (as soon as I hang the artwork I have, I will post pics of the nursery!) On Friday Casey's parents, his sister and her family, and my mom and sister Emily all headed into town. We decided to meet up in Waco at the Cameron Park Zoo. The weather didn't look very promising, but we decided to go anyway, and I'm glad we did! It was overcast and not very crowded at all! Kailey and Caden had a good time looking at the animals, and they didn't even mind that they had 9 adults tagging along with them. (that zoo made a killing off of us!) Here are a few pics from the zoo:







On Saturday, we went to an Easter Egg Hunt at First Baptist Belton. (Our church didn't have one this year :( ) It was fun. They also did the Easter story for the kids using resurrection eggs, which was pretty cool.







On Saturday afternoon and evening we made Easter bunny cookies, did an Easter egg craft, and dyed Easter eggs. If you'll take a look at this post from last year, it is pretty amazing to see the difference! She was way more into dyeing the eggs this year, and had a lot more fun!










On Easter morning, Kailey woke up and found her basket full of Easter goodies. She was pretty excited about all of it. She got this book called "That's not my bunny.." which is very similar to this one that she has called "That's not my puppy..". It was so funny because she got it out of her basket and started "reading" it..("Thas not my bunny!!"...) as if she knew the words. Then she pulled out her blue stuffed lamb and said " Oh lamb! Old Macdonal has a farmer....LAMBS! Baa here Baa there eieio..". It was cute!




Then we all got dressed in our traditional color-coordinated easter outfits. This year it was purple and green. First, here is last year's picture: (If you want to do some more comparing..check out this post from last year)



And here are some from this year:



And finally...we had one final Easter egg hunt in our yard for Kailey, Caden, and Caden's half-sister Jade. It was pretty wet, due to the rain that morning, but we made it work. The kids either didn't want to touch the eggs because they were wet, or they opened them and dumped the jelly-beans on the ground and ate them!





Ok, so maybe now you can see why I am so tired!

Early Easter Fun

I am trying to be a creative mom with the Easter Holiday approaching, so I have picked out lots of crafts and recipes to try with our Kailey-girl. Since we have a 10 day revival starting up at church, I decided to go ahead and do a couple of the activities today, even though it is a few weeks early. We made bunny cupcakes and our craft was an easter egg tree. Kailey seemed to enjoy the cupcake making way more than the tree, go figure.














What is really cool about this picture, is you can see the baby growing out of my back!! ( J/k. But seriously. I am huge!)

Spring Break

This week has been Spring Break. I can't believe it is almost over! I am totally bummed. We had a good laid-back week. Most of the days were very Spring-like, so we were able to play outside a lot. We even went up to Ft. Worth to visit our good friends, the Dugans, and go to the zoo. I don't have any pictures from the zoo however, because it was the busiest day of the year, and basically you just has to kinda walk in slow moving lines past the animals. But we will go to the zoo in Waco soon, and I'll post pics then! Here are some pics of Kailey playing outside:







My biggest goal for Spring Break is to make some major advances in the whole potty-training thing. I tried to potty-train Kailey over Christmas break, and that did not work at all. This week I started on Tuesday, and Tuesday didn't go very well, but Wednesday-Friday went awesome! She was a pro at going in the potty, even if it was just for M&Ms! Today did not go as well though, so I am pretty frustrated. I'm like "how can you not have any accidents for 3 days, and then not go in the potty at all today!!!" ARGH! It is very frustrating to say the least. But here is a pic of our girl on the potty! Pretty cute!



Random Pic: Kailey has also been wearing some pretty cute clothes lately, if i do say so myself, so here is one of my favorite outfits of hers:

Random Happenings

I feel like I have a bunch of little things to blog about that have happened the past few days, but none of them are big enough to make their own blog post. So, this is my Random happenings post!

1. This past weekend my mom and sister Emily came to help get a few things done for the baby. We picked a paint color for the nursery, and sorted Kailey's old baby clothes. Kailey was born in December and this baby will be born in May, so they are opposite seasons. :( So, the onesies and sleepers worked, but a lot of the clothes won't work for this baby! Another bummer was the stains! I thought I had done such a good job of getting stains out of her clothes, but apparently not! I wonder if being packed away in the attic makes stains stand out in clothes? I dunno! It's a good thing I love shopping for baby girl clothes!

2. Kailey has been doing a pretty decent job of staying in her big-girl bed (with the exception of a few weeks ago when the Dugans came to visit. She was up until 10pm one night and 1am the next). Anyway, the only thing she does differently now, is she wakes up at 6:30am instead of 7:30am! So yesterday, we thought we would try something new and tell her she had to go back to her room and play until we came to get her. At first she pitched a fit, but then she began playing. All of a sudden it got very quiet, which should have been a ginormous RED FLAG! I was getting ready for work so I said to Casey "she sure is quiet..I wonder what she is doing". He just said "oh maybe she went back to sleep". We should have known better! I went in there several minutes later and she had pulled a bucket over to her dresser, and was standing on it with the top drawer open. For some unknown reason there was a sharpie inside that drawer, and she chose to color both of her hands, pretty much completely black! Not only that but she opened a tub of neosporin and squeezed it on her hands like lotion!! Thankfully the sharpie came off with some nail polish remover, and a bath.

3. Tonight Kailey felt the baby kick for the first time. I wish I had thought to have a camera ready. Her face was absolutely priceless. She looked at me just in complete awe. She has been really sweet the past few days. She has been talking to the baby and kissing my tummy, without me even telling her to. Then after she felt the baby kick tonight, she just kept her hands on there way past what I thought a 2 year old attention span could endure. So sweet!

I think that is all of my random babblings!