Kaylee is walking a few steps at a time, at her own pace when she is in the right mood for it. She is still quite hesitant, and needs to feel comfortable. When her aunt and uncle visited the other day, she had fun showing off all her new skills for them. She looked very proud and dainty walking toward her aunt, her arms twisted slightly to the left to keep her body more in balance. She also loved showing them her walker and her rocking chair.
Kaylee's been responding to any question I ask her with a "no". It's her favorite thing to say. We are hearing more and more her repeating words and sounds she's hearing. The other day I told her "you are so cute" and she said "so cute" twice. It was hard for her to say but she did it. I can't remember whether I posted that she was trying to sing Row Row Row your Boat. She would sing along and say "row row row" and then when Merrily, Merrily came us she would say "Mer Mer..."The other day when I dropped her off at daycare she looked very happy to see her friend and I said, "Kaylee, can you say Hi, Kayla?" and she said, "Hi Kay." It's fun that she's stringing together two words now sometimes. She still loves to say "woof-woof" around the dogs. She also says "quack-quack" for duck.
I took Kaylee for her one year photos the other day. It was an experience....sort of a pain. They started the appt 40 minutes late which is not good when you have an infant = she was very tired when they finally started. During the first few mins, she was happy to show off her rocker to the photographer and she shot a few cute portraits but then she realized that I wasn't going to stand next to her and began crying. Then she got really attached and wouldn't let go of me. There were tears until the last few minutes, when we were able to distract her with a fake flower they had. My arm was in a few cute photos we had to erase, but we did capture the best photo candidly with her and the flower near her face. I'm glad we went but it was a pain at the same time.
I thought Kaylee had gotten over the stealing nukies from other babies at daycare thing because I hadn't heard anything about it from the teachers...However, yesterday when I picked her up she was in the wagon with William and excitedly flinging around his nukie (on a string), she was squealing and exclaiming in her baby babble. William was looking on in wonderment and not crying (which is unusual for him). Maybe he gave her his permission? :)
Eric and I went on a date on Saturday night and it was very fun. It was great to sit together, talk as adults and have a couple drinks. It was very nice to have someone babysit. I wasn't quite ready for babysitting until recently. I still feel very connected to Kaylee but somehow not quite as much since she's over a year old now and I know she doesn't need me quite as badly as she did, it makes going out more enjoyable.
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