8 Months Old

I can't believe my little baby is already 8 months old. In fact, she's going to be 9 months here in about 2 1/2 weeks. This is her in her new dress last Sunday. Doesn't she look so grown up?
This was on Monday morning at 6:45am. We had to wake her up to go to Day Care, and she had a stuffy nose. She actually LET me use the boogie sucker without a fight! The she crawled away with it really fast and turned around to smile at me. If you zoom in, you can see all seven of her teeth. Next thing you know, she'll be all grown up!

Swimming, Dancing, Biking...What Next?

Okay, so maybe she's not actually swimming yet, but Kylee does love water a lot. She'll play in the bubble bath (and eat the bubbles) for over 1/2 an hour until we make her get out because the water is cold.
And of course, she takes her bubble bath in the kitchen sink. She outgrew her baby tub, and she's too slippery for the whole regular tub...so she decided that the kitchen sink is just her size! She likes to splash all the water out with measuring cups.
The other day Aunt Rachel came over to play dress-up's with Kylee in her old dance outfits. Kylee says, "Oops mom! The skirt is too big!"
Now she's all ready to go. I'm not sure what the facial expression is supposed to mean. It's like she was just humoring us with the whole dress-up game.
...And FINALLY....the long-awaited bike trailer has arrived! We took Kylee out around the neighborhood on Saturday because it was cold and cloudy so we couldn't go on a real bike ride. She thought going over the speed bumps was funny.

Grandma Day

On Saturday, Sept. 13, Andy & I went to our annual Associated Foods Lagoon Day. Kylee spent the morning with Grandma Watkins, and the afternoon/evening with Grandma Timmins. I think Grandma Timmins thought we lived someplace really cold. She put Kylee to bed with a onesie on underneath her jammies. But hey! The next day Andy just got her up, took off her jammies, and she was all dressed and ready for the day. It's a great idea!
While at Grandma Timmins' house, Kylee played with the big happy face beach ball. In this picture I think she looks like she's plotting some kind of mischief.
"Look grandma! The ball is the same size as me!"
My mom took Kylee on a walk up the canyon in the late-afternoon, but then she couldn't figure out how to collapse the stroller. She drove home with it hanging out of her front-passenger window like this...right in the middle of post-BYU game traffic!!

East Idaho State Fair Demolition Derby A.K.A. "Our Redneck Weekend"

Every year for the past FIVE years, Andy & I have attended the East Idaho State Fair. And every year, I am completely grossed out by the animals, and experience a feeling of deja-vu in that all the booths are exactly the same, in exactly the same places they were the year before. The first year that we went, before Andy and I were even dating, we made the BIG mistake of wearing khaki shorts, flip flops, and sunglasses. People looked at us as if we were from outer space. Luckily, we have more common sense than that now. Andy even remembered to bring his Dodge T-Shirt that we got for free at the Pleasant Grove rodeo last year. He ended up being matching with Merlin, who apparently also attends rodeo's. Anyway, this is Kylee feeding herself at the fair. Good redneck parents ALWAYS let their children feed themselves. It makes a bigger mess that way!!
Grandma Timmins DID NOT get the memo about how to dress at the fair. Luckily, there's always next year! And Kylee enjoyed eating grandma's necklace like a good redneck baby.
For dinner, we OF COURSE went to the nearest Wendy's, where all the employee's looked like they wished they were dead. Merlin put a For Sale sign on my car as a joke, and somebody actually wanted to buy it the minute the sign was up. Who knew my car would be so popular?

The real tradition that keeps us going back to the fair year after year is the Demolition Derby. This was our 4th year in a row. What started out as just Merlin, Candice, their 2 kids, and Andy & I, is now the 6 of us plus one more kid for them, Kylee, Todd & Tiff, Karen & Rachel, Crazy M, and John & Lindsey. I'm pretty sure the ticket woman thought I was insane when I called her way back in July to order 12 adults and 1 kid ticket, and asked her to ship them to Utah. Luckily, we were smart enough to bring Kylee ear plugs. We left that place with our ears ringing...and Kylee took a nap for 1/2 the time. She never even tried to pull them out!!
I really don't have anything left to say, except that Kylee now has SEVEN teeth, for those of you that are counting, and if you don't get the joke of all the capital letters in this post...let me know and I'll share a really funny blogspot with you. I just feel that Kylee is such a wonderfully perfect baby, I am seriously...so blessed.