Kalai Kisses

My daughter can now give me Kalai kisses!!! It really doesn't get any better than that! What a wonderful eleven month old gift that she decided to give me!

Purdy Lake

Did you know a snail can sleep for three years? Did you know that Thomas Edison was a vegetarian? What about eating candy before you go to bed can really give you nightmares! For more random trivia, click on these videos!
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http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/top-10-true-urban-myths/uf0kara1

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Yesterday, we got to take Kalai fishing for the first time with Blake and Rachel Atwood and their cute kids! We went to Purdy Lake and had a nice picnic and then the boys went fishing out on the lake. Can't wait to do it again!

Kalai's first play " DATE"

Love in the Air!?!
Although she tries to deny it, Kalai has been having fun hanging out with her "boyfriend" Josh ;)
Here it is again. In this one, you can see better how they interact.

Just what the Doctor Ordered & From the Mouth of Babes

Kalai went to the doctors today to have a weight gain check up. She weighs......drum roll....... 15 lbs 14 ounces! She is still in the less than 5 percentile but she is gaining and increasing on the chart. My doctor feels like it was enough weight gain that she is not too worried anymore and says that we don't need to come back till her twelve month appointment. Go Kalai!!!
In this video she is showing off her sippy cup and talking skills. Listen closely for:
*Dada *Uh-oh *Hi *Mama *Boo *Apple
That's only about half of what she can say so eventually I may catch the other half on tape and post it!
Some of the pictures below are of us and the Green family at the Zoo. Haha, I love it! The Browns and the Greens :)

La La Land at the Park!

Yesterday, we went to the park with a couple of friends. I love pushing Kalai on the swing cause she laughs so hard! I was telling them how Kalai is so active that she never really falls asleep in unusual places like in a high chair or something. Anyways, I was talking to them having a good old time and I looked over at Kalai and noticed her eyes were getting droopy. She fell asleep in the swing and stayed there for around twenty minutes! So of course, all I had with me was my cell phone so here is another bad quality video and a cell pic of her falling asleep on the swing but it was so adorable that I had to capture the moment!

Everthing I needed to know, I learned from Mama!

Don't Tell Me I Never Taught Her Anything Useful! You know the thing where you flick your bottom lip and it makes a funny noise. Well, if you promise not to notice the messy bed, you can watch Kalai do it. I taught her everything she knows! Haha. Oh and sorry, the video is so blurry cause I taped it on my cell phone so I'm not sure you can even tell what she is doing. But she will also do it on my mouth too. In the video she does it only for a second cause she has an obsession with my cell phone so she gets distracted by it.

Ok. Time for me to tell you some PRACTICAL stuff that Michael and I have taught her. She can now also sign more and finished! She says, "Da Da" and "Bye Bye" "weeeee". We discovered this randomly when we were shopping at the Piggly Wiggly. We were gonna walk home so Michael asked her to say Bye and she did! She can drink from a sippy cup and wave hi. In the mornings, when she is done feeding, she will roll over in bed, grab Michael and say "hi". She is crawling on her hands now not just the army crawl. She is pulling up onto objects, letting go and actually balancing for about 10 seconds sometimes! For all the skills she is quickly mastering, this is one I'm so totally not ready for! My baby girl is growing up so fast. She began the crawling on hands, saying "da da" and balancing all just on Sunday. That's three milestones in one day! Impressive.
My photography business is having a great start! I downloaded some pictures of the Green Family on Carissasphotography.blogspot.com and also above in this blog. They were a beautiful and happy family and I believe we captured that well. I had another photo shoot this past weekend so I will be editing those and posting them soon. I absolutely have enjoyed everything about getting this business together!
Anyways, that's all for now. We have been busy with life and lovin' it!

Carissasphotography.blogspot.com

I'm beginning a Photography business!!! Please check out the link to see some of my work. I am trying to build up my portfolio but here are some of my favorite pictures so far. Follow it, make a comment, add it to your blog list or just check it out!

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I was able to do my first photoshot this weekend for James, Paris and Banx Green and am editing the photos now but will be posting them shortly. They are a beautiful family and it was such a good experience working with them. Wish me luck!!!

Kalai's 1st Easter

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Happy Easter!!! It was so fun celebrating Kalai's first Easter. We celebrated with Michael's parents. Here are some of the traditions we established.
* Dye Easter Eggs, Family Meal, Candy trail leading to Easter Basket, Easter Egg Hunt, Family Photos, Golden Egg, and Lesson on Christ's Resurrection.
Kalai got the cutest easter basket. It was her first Vera Bradley bag and we used it as an easter basket. Check out Vera Bradley.com It's really big down South. We filled it with Banana puffs (her treat for finding the Golden Egg), lots of hair bows, sippy cups, a stuffed animal (lamb) from Daddy, a book (Blue Bird's Nest) and my mom sewed Kalai a homemade stuffed Teddy Bear. See picture below of Kalai cuddling with....hmmm...well, we haven't named it yet. Any suggestions? It was so much fun to dress Kalai up as the Easter Bunny all week and to take her out to look for the eggs. As you can tell from the pictures, she really got the hang of it!

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Happy Easter Everyone! I always enjoy this Spring Season where I can reflect on Christ's Life, Death and Resurrection!
P.S. Kalai can now say Uh-Oh ( the whole thing, not just UH and she says it at the appropriate times) and boo (when she wants to play peek-a-boo).