Kadyn gets Ears pierced

Easter 2009

Kadyn Oct 12, 2009

First Snow

I really need to get better at writing on here. Kadyn had tubes put in her ears on July 9th and she hasn’t had an ear infection since. It has been so nice. She seems to be happier and it seems was talking more instantly. We also have some exciting news!! We are due with Baby #2 in early January, (hoping for Dec J) We found out 2 weeks ago we have a boy on the way! Baby is due the week Kadyn turns 2 so they should be almost exactly 2 years apart. It will be nice the have a little on in the house again. Kadyn is getting so big and is so much fun. Since Dan is the only boy this is the chance for the Nelson name to be carried on in his family. Now to choose a first name.
Kadyn loves singing and dancing, having her nails painted (purple) and puzzles are her new favorite thing to do. She has been pointing to my belly and saying “Baby mama belly”. If you ask her how old she is she says One and holds up her finger. Sometimes she also go ah ah ah after the one just like the count on sesame street. Such a character.

I will post more recent pictures soon.
Katie

Kadyn had a big day yesterday on Dan’s 30th birthday. She went potty on the potty chair for the first time!! Wahoo! We had just got back from going out to dinner and we had borrowed the chair from Carm and put it in the bathroom, put her on it as we waiting for her tub to be ready and she got up and she had peed. All in about 3 minutes. Now I am pretty sure we were just lucky on that one but what a big girl.

She is on another antibiotic for another ear infection. We have to bring her back for a recheck when she is done with her meds and if either the infection isn’t gone or if she gets another one soon we may be looking at tubes. Her doctor said she is on the border line of getting them with this last one and one more would put her over. Hopefully she starts feeling better soon.

We had a fun Surprise party for Dan up in Duluth this past weekend. He really enjoyed seeing some of his buddies and his family. Dan had thrown me a party March 28th at Dave and Busters. We had a lot of fun playing games and I was totally surprised.

Kadyn is working on going down steps. She is getting better. I think I just get so nervous watching her.

Dan started working again last Friday!! We are in the process of interviewing daycares. Until then Dan’s sister Dory is watching Kadyn for us. We have another meeting tonight and I am hopeful we will like this one. I know she will like being around other kids her age.

Well better get back. Hope all is going well.

Katie

Kadyn pic 1 yr Birthday Party

So much going on!

It has been quite a while since I have blogged. Kadyn is running now instead of walking. She loves to be chased. Kadyn had a great Christmas. We celebrated with the Kneelands the weekend before and then were in Cloquet Christmas eve and Christmas day. She got so many fun gifts. She received a ball pit that she really likes to play with and grandma and Papa got her a kitchen set. She likes to play with the dishes and open and close the oven and other doors on her play kitchen. She is talking more and says daddy instead of dada. That is new this past week. She also thinks anytime I am on the phone I am talking to Grandma or Papa. If she sees me on the phone she stands next to me and says Grandma Papa. She is still really really into Dora and Elmo. If you ask her where Dora is she will look at her shirt to see if she is wearing anything with Dora on that day. She likes to play with her baby dolls and feeds them a bottle. She is quite the little kisser too and kisses her dolls and mom and dad. We are working on blowing kisses and she is getting better at that. Sometimes she just makes kissing noises.
She is such a good eater. The only thing she has refused to eat is peas. Other then that there isn’t a food she won’t eat. She loves her veggies and pasta. She ate chicken last night and ate a good amount of that. Her favorite snack is Nilla wafers. The only thing is she stuffs the whole thing in her mouth and then chews it.
We had so much fun at her 1st birthday party and received so many wonderful presents. It was really nice to see her play with other kids since she rarely gets to play with people her size. We were able to visit with the Ogrens and Kadyn was able to play with Julia. Again so nice for her to see kids her age.
She is having a sleep over this weekend at Grandma and Papa’s house so we can go to a birthday party for one of Dan’s friends in Cloquet.

I have had some changes at work and in January had a pay cut and now starting in Feb I will only be working 32hour weeks. Hopefully it won’t be long term since Dan is still laid off.

Other then that things are going really well.
I will write again soon and post some pictures.