Fallon County Fair

Last weekend was the Fallon County Fair, in Baker. We took in all the festivities, starting Thursday evening with the Variety Show. Friday, Kynlie and I wandered over and watched a little of the livestock shows, they had a free stage with some sisters that were amazing singers and some dirt bike trials riders that were fun to watch. Friday evening we went to the ATV rodeo and a comedian. Saturday morning we watched the parade, Kynlie wasn't too fond of the race cars burning out in front of us and revving their engines. We went to the rodeo Saturday afternoon and Chris Young and LoCash Cowboys put on an awesome concert Saturday evening. Sunday, Kynlie and I went to another rodeo- it was "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" so we wore pink shirts. Kynlie has plenty of pink shirts, but I had to borrow one!! Sunday evening was the highlight of the fair for us. Neil does the Demolition Derby.

I made Kynlie a little onesie that says "Dad's Biggest Fan" on the front, then on the back it says "B-34" and I sewed some ruffles on the butt.

She thinks her daddy's shirt is pretty funny.

Neil did great in the derby, they put a flag in the middle of the arena and the first person to hit it gets some money, he got the flag. He won his heat and did amazing in the championship heat. He didn't win, he broke his drive line, but he got second and put on one hell of a show.

The fair was a great time, but I sure am glad it is over! Kynlie was perfect the whole weekend for being drug around to everything.

Busy times

We have been very busy this month, doing nothing of great importance, just seems like it's been go, go, go.

Kynlie has been trying a lot more foods lately. My mom was eating some corn on the cob and Kynlie grabbed it and put it to her mouth and tried eating it. I gave her some of the Gerber yogurt melts, she's not quite sure about them but she keeps eating them. My dad bought her a snow cone at the fair last weekend and she wasn't fond of the ice, but kept opening her mouth to eat more, then would make the funniest face when the ice got in her mouth. We found at the derby that she LOVES popcorn, she was trying to grab the whole pieces out of my hand before I could get the kernels bit off for her.
I got her a jumperoo when I went to Bismarck with a friend for the weekend. It's her new favorite thing to do. She jumps like a mad woman and plays with all the toys on it. It's pretty neat, it's a Baby Einstein one and there is a little piano on it that is different shapes and colors. You can put the settings on music, piano or it will say the shape and color in English, Spanish and French.

Kynlie has found her tongue and this is how she looks most of the time now. She makes funny faces with her tongue sticking out of her mouth. I was eating a piece of pie at the fair last weekend and she looked like she was licking her lips, wanting a piece.

She is still not crawling but is getting good at scooting and rolling to get where she wants to go. I'm in no hurry for her to crawl because I'm not going to be able to take my eyes off her because she is going to be into everything. She still only has 2 teeth, but there are at least 2 more trying to poke through.

10 Months

My baby girl is 10 months old today. I can't believe that she is almost a year old. I told Neil the other day that I thought that we should just celebrate her birthday in January, when it should be, there is no way that she is almost one! Her adjusted age is 6 months old and she is between there and 10 months for her milestones.

Sterling has taken a liking to here, wherever she is laying, he is right beside her. She was really watching him eat his treat.

She is a BUSY little girl. She never stops moving unless she is sound asleep. She rolls over to get where she needs to go, but she scoots a little too because I have laid her down facing one direction and gone back a minute later and she is facing a completely different direction.
She has 2 teeth poking through on the bottom and tries to put anything and everything she can get her hands on in her mouth. She likes the teething biscuits, yogurt melts, watermelon and grapes and the only baby food she doesn't like is chicken and noodles. She eats 3 meals a day, fruit and oatmeal in the morning, meat and veggie at lunch, then a fruit and rice after her afternoon nap.

"What is this thing?" Kynlie has started to notice everything that goes on around her and she had obviously never seen a pineapple before this picture! She watches between conversations, she really watches when people are eating, which makes me feel bad eating in front of her, she follows Sterling when he is walking by her and when we were camping last weekend, she was laying in the middle of the bed in the camper, watching the leaves blow outside the window. It is amazing watching her watch things because she was 24 hours away from possible blindness.

She is wearing 3-6 month clothes finally! At least she gets a lot of use out of all her clothes. We have to mix and match most outfits because she is so tiny on bottom that none of the pants that go with shirts will fit her. She has some 3-6 month tops that are getting too short for her, and the bottoms are 2x too wide for her! She is still in size 1 diapers and will be for a long time still, the tabs still overlap in the front when we put her diapers on.

She reaches for everything she gets in her sights, has the cutest giggle in the world and giggles at pretty much everything. She is very much a drama queen and can go from happy to sad in no time flat. She still has a pretty pathetic sad lip that I just can't help but laugh when she does it.

She gets cross eyed when she is tired, like she is in the picture above. She usually goes to bed at about 8:30, eats at 3, 6 and sleeps in til 8. Some days she will take a nap in her crib, some days I have to lay beside her in bed and nurse her to sleep, then sneak out of bed and hope I don't wake her up, some days she naps in my arms. I figure that as long as she will sleep in her bed at night, I will hold her during the day, she won't want me to hold her forever!

Today, she sat up by herself in the grass for a short bit. She could sit by herself if she wasn't so squirmy, she holds herself up with her hands but then has to try to grab something. She babbles all day long, sometimes super sweet words, sometime super sassy words.

I love this baby more than I ever thought was possible, I love to wake up to her sweet coos and smiles, to play and giggle with her during the day and to kiss her chubby cheeks when I lay her down at night.

Bbq

We had a little bbq on Thursday evening for my family and my brother's groomsmen that were here for his wedding that was on Saturday. The wedding was beautiful, the reception and dance were a blast. We are so happy to have Ashley join our family (yes there is a "new" Ashley O'Donnell).

~Hi Mommy~

I remembered that I had some sparklers in the camper from a couple years ago so I got them out for Matthew to do.

Then, Lincoln did one

Then Kynlie did!

Phase 10

Kynlie played her first game of Phase 10 when we were camping.

"No Dad, not that card"

"Play this one"

"Oh, Nevermind, I just wanna eat em"

Mmmm, Sand

Kynlie got to play in the sand for the first time when we went camping at Bowman Haley the first of August. She thought the stuff was pretty cool.

Mmmmm, it taste's good too!!

Wait, mabye not.

She also got to put her feet in the lake, she didn't like the cold at first.

Then she decided that mabye it wasn't so bad after all.

Annual Boating Trip

I had it all planned out in my head, the pictures I wanted to take, the blog post I was going to do. Then, Bill soaked everyone and everything in his boat, including my camera, (which still works now that it's dry). Since my camera was soaked, I didn't get any pictures besides Kynlie playing in the sand and one to save for the next installment of "My daddy dresses me."

Kori did an awesome post about our camping trip so you can check it out here

http://karyfamily.blogspot.com/2010/08/this-is-how-we-do-it.html

It was a great weekend with some great friends. We look forward to it again next year.