Update on the little ladies

So, Bailey and Kya are growing so quickly!  Bailey is now on solid foods and loves food!  She was not sure what to think the first time she tasted rice cereal, but it has grown on her!

Bailey's first feeding!

I think she likes big girl food!

Her favorite foods so far are any fruits, sweet potatoes and carrots.  Man, she can down some carrots. She does not care for peas, though....

She also loves to bounce and roll around on the floor.  She can even get her legs underneath her belly - I don't think it will be long before she crawls. AND she turned 5 months on June 28th.  I can't believe it is going by so fast!

She still laughs and smiles a lot.  We love making her laugh and tickling her.  She gets the biggest kick out of us lifting her arms and tickling under her arms.  I love it!  She still sleeps great at night and goes down so easy.  It amazes me.  I will try to rock her and she just throws her head back because she wants to be in her crib.  Kya used to have to cry herself to sleep sometimes, but we haven't really had that problem with Bailey.  I think it's because she hates napping, so she is exhausted at night.  I know I am so fortunate to have two great sleepers.

Kya is growing up to be such a sweet spunky little girl.  At her 4-year-old check-up, she was in the 80th percentile for height and 90th percentile for weight.  I am not sure if this will keep up or not, but Eric and I were always the smallest in our class, on our sports team, etc.  She was so good the whole time, and even took her FOUR shots like a champ.  We had a little crying, but nothing a milkshake from Sonic couldn't fix!

Right now, she loves the words poop, booty, and poot.  She loves to joke about poop ALL. THE. TIME.  She just loves being silly!  I am ready to quit joking about poop, though!

She has proven to be quite dramatic about everything (like a girl), and we are trying to steer her away from the drama....  My mama didn't put up with it, and neither will I!  She does crack me up with her talks about getting married and asking me who she will marry and when.  Then, she told me she would get married when she is 25 after she finishes college - I said that is a great plan.  My 4-year-old planner!

She still insists on wearing dresses all the time and loves pink (and chooses food items based on its color - pink ice cream, pink cupcakes, pink snow cones, etc.).  We started her in dance last month, and she already loves it.  She is doing ballet and tap, and it is so fun to watch her.  She has a few girls from her daycare in her class, so that makes it even more fun for her.

First night of dance class!

She did the sweetest thing the other day - she started randomly praying for her friend Bella who has been pretty sick the past few weeks and asked God to make her better.  It was the cutest thing, and I was so proud of her.  Then, a few days later we were talking about how we give money to the church because our money is from God and that we should give some back to him, and she said - BUT, I don't want to give any back.  Baby steps, baby steps!

Graduations, Birthdays, Holidays, Baby Dedications and Fun!

June was quite the busy month! Starting off June, we went to my cousin, Macy's graduation in Huntsville. She graduated third in class and is attending A&M in the fall! We are so proud of her! I was sad we didn't make it to my other cousin, Nicole's graduation as she is a national award-winning speaker and gave a speech at her graduation. I'm so proud of these two young ladies and can't wait to see them succeed in college! Kya did pretty well at Macy's graduation and talked Pop into buying her a doughnut at the concession stand - oh the things your parents will do for your kids that they never would have done for you!

Then, we celebrated Father's Day and somehow, I don't have any pictures.... Eric had mission trip the week before and told me all he wanted to do was sleep! My mom and dad came to help me with the girls which was such a blessing, but we were glad to have Eric home that weekend.

The third weekend we celebrated my 31st birthday. Eric was so sweet and planned everything out from getting my parents to come and watch the girls and even ordered dinner from Antonio's to celebrate with my parents that night. Kya woke me up at 6:30 with "Wake up, birthday girl" over the monitor. It was so sweet, but I wanted to say - GO BACK TO SLEEP! She couldn't wait to "surprise" me and spilled the beans immediately about everything Eric had gotten me and planned. She has a hard time keeping secrets when she is excited (exactly like me!). We went to Whataburger for breakfast (like we do every Saturday) and one of our fave employees was working and made sure to ring us up and hook us up with some free breakfast. I love that place! Then, Kya and I got our hair cut and got back in time for my parents to come watch the girls so Eric and I could go out to lunch and go shopping. Going shopping without kids is the most amazing thing and I took it for granted for so long!

The last weekend of June, we had Kya's Frozen birthday party! I cannot take any credit for how well it turned out because my mom made it her mission to get the invitations together, get all of the decorations and supplies, make things for the activities, make sure I ordered the cake in time (and gave me a coupon), and came and helped me shop and make the food for the party. I was sooooo grateful because my job at WM has changed quite a bit and I have been a lot busier, so it made having the party a lot less stressful with her help! We loved having all of Kya's friends from daycare and church over.

Then, on Sunday, we had both girls dedicated at the church. Yes, I know Kya is 4 and we are just now dedicating her.... We were going to do it when we moved to Texas, but we wanted to wait until both sets of grandparents could come, then, we decided that we would just wait until the second kid..... It was really special to me that both of our families were there to have the girls dedicated, and we are grateful for the awesome grandparents that they are to the girls.