Busy Babies

Dillon has discovered that he can get anywhere that he wants to go now. If he wants me, instead of sitting and crying, he'll simply crawl after me. He's also figured out that he can explore new things and places. He crawled over to Kayda's kitchen while she was playing and decided that he wanted to play too. Kayda decided that she didn't want to share the kitchen so she left but he stayed and opened and closed the "oven" and "refridgerator" he had a great time until he moved himself over to one of our kitchen table legs and got stuck!

Kayda has decided she knows how to change a diaper. She was trying to put one of her diapers on her little tiny baby doll, after she tried several times I managed to find a size one diaper hidden away by itself and put that on the doll for her.

She decided to help me change Dillon's diaper today and I was giving him raspberries on his tummy. She thought that was funny so she started doing it too. They both thought that was incredibly entertaining!

So Incredible...

Yesterday Kayda, Dillon and Daddy were sitting on the couch. Kayda was sitting on one end on her own while Dillon was sitting next to Daddy. She decided, for reasons unknown to us, that she wanted Dillon to sit by her. She also decided that she was going to do it herself. Poor little Dillon was dragged across the couch by his big sister. Of course he thought it was hilarious. Good thing they love each other so much!

I have been swaddling Kayda's baby doll for her the last few days before we lay it in its "bassinet". Kayda decided today that she wanted to be swaddled too. At first she was trying to have me do it with her favorite baby blanket but of course she has grown considerably and it just isn't sufficient for the job any longer. So I got a big purple blanket we have and swaddled her. Once she was swaddled she decided that she wanted to hold her baby, of course her arms are tucked in so that meant the her baby got tucked in as well. She didn't want to be held by either Daddy or Mommy and she didn't want to lay on the floor or in the bean bag chair so I set her in her Dora chair. Well, being the determined little girl that she is she decided that she didn't want to be there any more so she got on the floor and actually managed to stand up and "walk" around in her blanket! I think she is going to be a professional potato sack racer!

Kayda has developed a fake smile. It cracks me up because it is most definitely NOTHING like her real smiles!

Dillon is becoming more and more independent. He is still very attached to me but he's starting to crawl around after things and explore. I was down on the floor trying to take pictures of him crawling and he decided he was interested in the camera so I got a VERY close one but I think it's cute. He's getting really FAST now it's amazing! Today we were going to have a barbecue/cake thing for Daddy's birthday but he wasn't feeling well. He's got a cold that knocked him out for an extra couple of hours this morning and left him feeling dizzy whenever he stood up the rest of the day. I got this shirt for Dillon and thought it was appropriate for "celebrating" Daddy. It says "If you think I'm cool you should see my dad". Notice Dillon is standing up with the assistance of Kayda's push car. Well, I let him keep holding on to it and he started walking around it. He ended up tipping it over. Just before this he was "superman" on the side of the car, I thought he was going to be stuck but he managed to get up. Like I said he's getting REALLY mobile and is crawling everywhere and pulling himself to standing on anything he can get a hold of.

Good night, sleep tight...

Tonight Dillon had a couple of firsts! He was having a hard time settling down so I left him in his crib with the lights off. I went back in when he got upset and he was just sitting up in his crib... I'm not sure if he got to sitting from laying down or if he used the crib railings. I laid him down and he was still squirmy so I left again. I went back in to check on him and he was STANDING UP in the crib!!! YAY Dillon! I laid him down again, patted him, he was still wiggling like crazy so I left again and guess what he did! He PUT HIMSELF TO SLEEP!!! I wasn't even in the room!!! Hurray Dillon! Now if he could repeat that it would be fantastic!

Kayda is doing pretty well going to sleep again. She was getting pretty dependent on us coming in and calming her down again but we're breaking that habit. She has added a new thing she likes to do before she goes to bed. It's not every night but it's pretty consistent. First a little background. On Monday we got together with her cousins (Ella, Peyton, Mikey, Jarret and Chase). Ella had a highchair for her doll which Kayda LOVED. So when we got home I turned an extra basket I had into a little "bassinet" for her baby doll. Well she is very attached now and likes to tuck the baby in at night and then wants the baby in the basket, in her bed with her. It was very cute!

Better late than never...

Grandma Peggy came by a while back and took pictures of our sweet little babies at swim lessons, since we obviously couldn't do it. Kayda can swim around on her own with the noodle now. She just lays over it and kicks her way around the pool. She loves it! We also let her try a life jacket and she really enjoyed that too! She was actually wanting to wear it at home and fell asleep in it once! She absolutely LOVES to jump in from the side. She's gotten really good about waiting until we tell her to go. She'll end up touching the bottom of the pool and can get herself back up to the surface most of the way. She's just shy of getting her mouth out of the water to take a breath so we watch her real close. She can also climb out of the pool on her own and climb along the walls to get where she wants to go.


Dillon has always been really good about floating on his back. He's not perfectly comfortable but he does MUCH better than Kayda does. She does not like being on her back. She'll do it but wants to flip over as quickly as possible. Dillon can hold on to the wall as well, he can't crawl along it yet but he enjoys holding onto it. The only problem is he also likes to "eat" the walls so we can't let him stay there for long. We let him "jump" as well. Kayda likes to help him, we'll say "ready, set, go" and she'll help by pushing from behind. He does really well going under water. We just count to three and pull him under the water towards us. It's so much fun swimming with them! We're taking a break this month which Kayda isn't too happy about. If she sees her swimsuit or swim diapers she'll start trying to put them on and she'll start doing the arms for the crawl stroke to let us know exactly what she wants to go do. She even knows where the pool is. We were driving past it to go to Costco yesterday and she pointed to the place where we turn into the parking lot for the pool. She's so smart! I'm proud to say that I have the water babies that I've always wanted!

Behold the sibling bond!

Apparently this morning while daddy was getting ready for work he set Dillon down on the floor with some toys and turned on the cartoons. Kayda immediately walked over and sat down behind him and watched cartoons all snuggled up with her little brother. It's so fun to have them close in age like this. I hope that they stay good friends as they get older!

Wow look at him go!

Tonight after the bath Dillon was playing in front of Kayda's mirror while I got her into her jamas. Daddy had gone out to answer the phone so when she was dressed Kayda decided to run after him. Well, Dillon LOVES his big sister and decided that he had better chase after her so he got up on his hands and knees and crawled all the way down the hall. Kayda came back and started crawling around on the floor with him and he faithfully followed her anywhere she went. He ended up making it almost to the kitchen and back, with shorter trips back and forth in between. It was so much fun to watch! I'm absolutely amazed! He's just like Kayda in the fact that when he decides to do something he just does it. It might take him a while to decide but once he does he's committed and nothing can change his mind!

The only way Kayda will have milk...

This seems to be the only way we can get Kayda to have milk... she'll eat milk products but she won't drink plain old milk, we've even tried chocolate milk. Course she doesn't like juice either. The only beverage she seems to like is water and the little sips of pops she can get from the bottom of daddy's empty cans. She really only takes about two sips of anything that's not water. I'm hoping that when Dillon switches to whole milk she'll decide it's interesting again. She used to like it... until we took away the bottles...

Dillon has decided that this is an exciting activity. He'll stand next the exersaucer and rock it for quite a while. He also crawled across the room several times today. there were a few times he was chasing after Kayda and one time that he wandered into the laundry room to explore on his own. I'll be spending this weekend sifting through all the things Kayda has dragged out to get anything he shouldn't put in his mouth out of his reach. It's so much fun to watch!!!

I got one of him crawling while these were loading! Check it out!!!