September Football

We had two games in a row at the beginning of this month.  I forgot how much fun it is to make sure that all of the laundry is done on Thursday night, four bags are packed, and everyone is ready to jump in the car immediately upon my return home from work on Friday.  Whew!  We love it though.  Visiting with family and friends makes me forget all about the two days of craziness prior to our weekend stay to the Upstate.

These guys still love a good tailgate!

And, some football watching on the TV.  They love the new tailgater this season.  The TV and Satellite are set up within minutes!

They also love a good time!

But, this year they are missing Matthew!!  Orlando is too far away!  Quit hanging out with Mickey Mouse and come to a Clemson game!!

We took Kamdyn to the 2nd tailgate.  She enjoyed hanging out with sweet little Ellie!

Karcie loves Barney, too!

It turns out that Karcie and Kamdyn actually have something in common.  They both LOVE Barney!  Looks like I will be bopping to our Barney CD in the car soon.  This is the stillest that you will ever see Karcie!  She is enjoying Barney on Georgia's TV. I love getting these sweet little photos while I am at work.  They put a smile on my face.  Our family will forever be indebted to Georgia for the love and care that she has given our two little girls!

Art class with Ruthie

Ruthie took Kamdyn to an art class the first football weekend.  Kamdyn loved it and painted the cutest little owl.  I think her owl is pretty awesome for her first "real" lesson.  Thank you, Ruthie!

Catching up on STATS! Poor Karcie!

I did so much better keeping up with each and every milestone that Kamdyn ever reached.  With two children, it is a little more difficult to keep up with everything on a day to day basis.  I looked back on the blog and realized that I haven't posted any stats on Karcie since she was 3 months old!!  :(  So here is my attempt at catching up and remembering.

6 Month Check Up

Weight - 18lbs. 6.6 oz.
Height - 27.77 in.

She was in the 97th-98th percentiles for both height and weight.  Karcie loved baby food from the get go.  She has had teeth since she was about 3-4 months old.  She was eager to eat finger foods too.  Her favorite baby foods were bananas, green peas, and any mixed fruits.  She loves pasta and Stage 3 Lasagna. She isn't a picky eater, but if you feed her something that she doesn't like she quickly swipes her hand across her high chair tray and sweeps everything into the floor.  It is great for clean-up time!

10 Month Check Up (we missed 9 months)

Weight 20 lb. 12 oz.
Height 29.25 in.

Again, she was in the 97th-99th percentiles for both height and weight.  As soon as we knew that she had surpassed the 20 lb. mark, we got rid of her infant carrier and put in the big car seat.  I was so relieved to not have to carry that huge, cumbersome carrier.  She continues to eat and sleep well.  She took to a sippy cup immediately.  She loves to throw her cup on the floor and have someone pick it up for her, only to do it all over again.  She started eating table food.  She didn't love cut up bananas at first and would gag horribly.  But after several tries, she loves them. She likes macaroni and cheese.  She loves the Gerber Graduate ravioli pasta filled with cheese.  She likes grapes and pretty much anything that we give her.  She still takes three bottles per day prior to her naps and bedtime.  She is still taking two naps per day - one in the morning and one if the afternoon.  She is a wonderful sleeper at night.  She has only been sick ONCE!!  It was in January with breathing treatments, antibiotics, and everything.  It was enough to last me a lifetime.

13 Month Check Up (we were late again)

Weight: 21 lbs.
Height: 30.5 in.
Head Cirumference: 18"


I scheduled Karcie and Kamdyn's yearly check-up on the same day not thinking anything about it.  Kill two birds with one stone, right?  Well, it turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated.  Karcie is a little tornado and had to be held the entire time for fear that she would tear the doctor's office apart.  Kamdyn was petrified of getting a little finger prick...still dramatic as ever.  When Kamdyn found out that she did, in fact, have to have her finger pricked, the waterworks  began.  When the finger was pricked she yelled to the top of her lungs!  She informed me that I wasn't worried about her at all because I was too busy holding Karcie!

When Karcie got her finger pricked, she barely winced.  She was only mad because the nurse wouldn't give her hand back as she was attempting to collect blood in the vile.  Karcie got two shots, too.  She did cry for these, but she was also mad because the nurse and I were holding her down.  I always feel sorry for my sweet girls when they get shots, but trying to keep up with the both of them was crazy.  The nurses kept coming to get Kamdyn to get her vision checked, then her eyes, and then to re-check her blood pressure.  In the meantime, Karcie is running around the room restless as can be.  WHEW was I glad to get out of there and boy, am I thankful to have two healthy girls with very different personalities.  My beautiful, dramatic, rule-following, tender hearted Kamdyn and my little tornado, rule-breaking, loud, but, oh so very cute and precious, Karcie!! 


15 Month Check-Up (one month late) Do you see the pattern? 

Weight: 22 lbs., 15 oz.
Height: 31.5 in

Todays visit (9/27/12) was much better than our previous one.  Karcie wasn't a little tornado this time.  She made friends with a little 15 month old boy in the waiting room.  They were really cute.  This time, Kamdyn was only there for the ride so she wasn't worried the entire time about getting her own shots/finger prick.  Instead, she kept telling Karcie what was about to happen to her.  Thankfully Karcie didn't have a clue.  Dr. Foushee said that Karcie looked great.  She said, "Wow, she's feisty!"  Yep, we know.  She was having none of the stethoscope and when she tried to look into Karcie's ears, Karcie had a fit moving her head back and forth.  The fun came when the nurse had to give her two shots.  Holding Karcie down against her will only results in sheer screaming from her.  This time was no different.  She cried with both shots, but was almost instantly better when I picked her up.  Poor baby!  Our next appointment is on her 18 month birthday.  This time we won't be late!  :)

The Ba-Ba is GONE!!

Karcie finally gave up her bottle a few weeks ago.  We knew at age 1 we were supposed to start weaning her off.  Her doctor said not to worry about it and that she would eventually lose interest.  Part of her problem with not giving it up was her Mommy.  Giving up the bottle was one step closer to my baby growing up, which I am avoiding.  I also loved seeing her walk to the pantry door each night, reach up, and say "ba-ba" in her sweet little voice.  I knew it was time so I started skipping a night every now and again.  She didn't seem to miss it.  So we're done!

Her babies have bottles that she loves to pretend with.  She feeds the babies and she will put the bottle in her mouth every now and again.

She's still a baby.  She still wears diapers and she still adores her "pappy."  She doesn't talk nearly as much as Kamdyn did at this age.  I went back and looked at what Kamdyn was doing at 15 months.  She was a talker!  Karcie keeps her "pappy" in too much to be able to talk.  Besides, she will talk when she is ready.  She can say the most important words - sissy, da-da, ma-ma, na-na, pop-pop, georgia, bite bite, and pappy.  She understands pretty much everything you say; however, she doesn't always listen.....especially when it involves telling her no!

I realized that I haven't posted her stats since she was 6 months old. I have them all combined in one post, but it's awaiting her 12 month stats along with her 15 month stats which will come after September 27th.  Poor thing is the 2nd baby and I'm not nearly as efficient as I was the first time around.  :) 

Labor Day

Our Labor Day was spent at our neighbor's pool with some sweet girls, friends, and food!

Olivia, Shelby, Kamdyn, Caroline, and Kate.

All I want for Christmas...

Looks like she will be asking Santa for her two front teeth!  The 2nd one unwillingly came out this weekend.  After hours of Kamdyn crying, the tooth bleeding, and our nerves being frazzled, I finally took Kamdyn into the bathroom and refused to exit until the tooth was out of her mouth!  It was stubborn and was refusing to turn loose in one spot.  After some twisting, turning, and lots of tears, it came out.  Daddy sure was happy!  He was packing up his two TV's and was moving downstairs to watch his Tigers play if he had to listen to one more second of tooth drama.  :)  Kamdyn was all smiles once it was out, too.  She even decided to create her own tally chart/graph to chart the day of the week that she loses each tooth (this is something she has been working on at school).  So far, Friday is in the lead.  The tooth fairy left her a teeny tiny note again along with $5 and a golden chocolate coin explaining to Kamdyn that she left a little extra this time due to the stubbornness of that tooth.  That tooth fairy is something else!

My sweet toothless baby!  She looks so precious and I love to hear her talk!

Wearing our Orange and READY for football!

Kamdyn, Karcie, and I proudly wore our orange on Friday.  We took the girls to dinner at our favorite downtown Mexican restaurant.  As I was paying, I noticed that Richard exited with the girls in the direction of the karaoke and the fountain.....two things that Kamdyn loves! Before I knew it, both girls were soaked and having a blast.  I loved watching them play.  Karcie, of course, was fearless!  She ran under the fountain numerous times and didn't want to leave.  We were so proud of our Tigers on Saturday night.  Football season and many weekends out-of-town have already filled up our calendar!