School

Recently, Jayli's babysitter Kelsi, has been blessed with a new addition to her family. Little Paxton was welcomed on May 22nd, 2009. We were in a bind to find a replacement for her to watch Jayli while Jorgen and Kayla worked full time. We finally came to the decision to enroll her in ECDC (Evanston Child Development Center) It is a pre-school based Day Care. At first we were reluctant to choose the Day Care route but it has proved to be a good choice. Jayli absolutely loves it. She gets to play with a lot of other kids her age and she is learning so much. Jayli loves it when she goes to 'school'. We ask her if she wants to go and she will beat us to the car! They get to make crafts and all sorts of fun things. For mothers day, they took coffee filters and tie dyed them to make butterflies with clothes pins. There is something about the first actual mother's day present that your child makes you and tugs at your heart strings.

SHE"S GETTING SOOOO BIG ;-(

Jayli has recently gotten to be the big girl she wants to be!! We took the side rail off of her crib that Grandpa bought her and she is now in heaven! She has not yet 'fallen' out of bed...... but she does like the fact that she isn't confined!!! One morning she was sleeping in front of her electric fire place on the floor with her baby, another morning she was found in the morning sound asleep in the middle of a pile of toys on the opposite side of the room as her bed. But she stays in her room and doesn't wake us up at night. She likes the idea that Mom and Dad don't have to physically get her out of bed and she likes being able to get in it herself. She is a proud little soul!!!!

Jayli also LOVES her books. She is always reading her book and reading them to us. If you loose Jayli, you can almost always find her in a pile of books in her room!

Tractor Rides

The first Mowing of the year!!!! Jayli LOVED to ride the mower with Daddy. She gets so excited when it is time to mow the lawn, she beats Jorgen to the top of the tractor and mows the whole yard with him and gets mad when they are done and the tractor gets put back in the garage.

Gorgeous Girl

In Feburary, Jayli and Mommy decided to surprise Daddy and had pictures done at Sears for him. He loved them. They are so cute.

My First Haircut

Jayli has some insane hair!!! It is so unruly and think that she now gets a haircut about once a month. Her and Daddy both. She has done better the last couple of times with her haircuts but the first time she was to busy trying to figure out what I was doing behind her she wanted to see what was going on.

Snow Day

Jayli finally got a stab at good ole Evanston winters this year. She is finally old enough to go play in it. She loves to get all bundled up and going out to play while mommy or daddy shovels the walks. She gets so excited when we tell her to go get her snow pants and hat. She wasn't sure the first day but after that it is her favorite!

Family Update

Finally!!!!! Kayla has been working hard to recieve her CNA. On November 15th she passed her State Board of Nursing exam with flying colors. She is now working for Uinta Home Health and Hospice. She LOVES it. Sometimes the work itself is not the great but she loves her job.
Jayli hates it when mom leaves, but absolutely loves her sitter. Kelsi is a friend of ours whose husband works with Jorgen at the Jail and they have a little boy not much older than Jayli and she has a blast with little Chase. She comes home in the afternoon just exhausted! He does teach her a lot though. Kids learn best from other kids! She has learned what scrubs are and she gets upset everytime she sees me put them on in the morning. She has translated that style of clothing to relate to mom leaving. It is sad but at the same time good for her to go play with kids her own age and good for mom's sanity to get out of the house and make some money doing what she enjoys doing.
Jorgen is still at the Jail for a little over a year now and is very happy with where he is.
Jayli is just getting SOOO big. I can't believe it. One day her pants fit and the next we are at the store buying new ones that do! She is quite the talker and is full of energy. She is just all over the place all the time. She is our little climber and always independant. She won't let you feed her or even cut up her meals, she has to do it on her own. She is our little princess and loves to dance. The second you turn music on she is out the doing whatever she does.
Well that is us for now, we are headed into the holidays so there will be more excitement to follow.

Little Bunny Rabbit

Jayli had her first 'real' Halloween this year!!! She was a little bunny and was so stinkin cute. She loved it. She was a little confused at first, we took her the the community trick or treat and was a little weirded out about a bunch of people dressed funny in a dark building putting things in a bucket we made her carry. By the end of the night she figured out that it was candy that people were giving her and she now likes monsters and finds them hilarious!!! Now she is addicted to sugary snacks. Especially DumDums. Jorgen was giving out DumDums when we got home and she was mad that he was giving her suckers to other kids!!

Online Photo Album

We now have a online photo album on shutterfly.com I will keep it updated with ALL the photos we take! The web adress is

thisisourstory.shutterfly.com

add it to your favorites or favorite links on you own websites!

Jayli is ONE!!!!!!

Our little angel is one all too soon. Mom is sad and didn't want to admit that her little princess was one ALREADY!!! Hard to believe it has already been a year. We had a fun celebration-family came from both sides of the family and we BBQ'd and had a fish theme cake. Jayli wasn't too sure about the cake though, she got scared and thought she was going to get into trouble for digging and smashing food, after all, any other circumstance, she does get into trouble for smashing food!!

Update

Well we finally got all moved in!!!! Kayla HATES moving reguardless but it went ok! Kayla is done with school for now, she just has to pass the board now to be a CNA. Over the next two years she will work on her prerequisites that she needs to apply to nursing school. She is a little excited, anxious and nervous all at the same time.

Lost Charger!

Sorry for the delay in updated photos! Some time in our busy summer, Kayla has managed to lose the power cord to recharge the camera and it is the only camera we have. We ordered a new one, when we get it look forward to many new photos!!

Just perfecting the art

Just another video of Jayli walking, I have many requests to post more videos of her, I never post them because they take so long to upload.

Silly Girl

She not only climbs the couch to get

the fish, to get the lamp too. She sees

us turn it on and thinks she needs to

as well.

Get the Fish

She loves her fish so much she is willing to climb the couch to get to them, she will actually open the top and try to climb in- I can see how that could be bad once she is big enough to climb all the way up there and we turn our back for a second. I had to stop the tape- I was getting nervous since the floor under her is a rock and cement pad.

Jayli Walking - better video

Better Video of Jay walking- She gets so angry when we want her to walk and she wants to be picked up and we just keep walking away from her to make her walk to us.

Jayli's Fish

Jayli LOVES the fish!! She has always been facinated since the day she was born. When she wasn't mobile, she would lay in front of the fish tank in her swing for hours and just watch the fish. Now that she can climb and stand, she climbs the couch and puts her forehead on the glass to watch them. When we won't let her climb the couch she stands on her tippy toes to see the fish. She even has her own one gallon tank next to her bed with baby guppies that she watches at night when she doesn't want to go to sleep yet.

Our big girl!!!

Wow! Jayli is growing and developing so fast that we can literally not keep up with her!! Sometimes I enjoy that I can just set her down outside or in public and she will be able to stand next to me. Sometimes I wish she was still my little cuddly baby all wrapped up tight. I just posted on July 10th that Jayli can stand on her own. July 13th she took her first steps and was a pro by the end of the day!!!

Jayli is always into EVERYTHING!!!!! Anything she sees mom do, she thinks she can do!!! She saw me get a diaper out and now that is all she ever thinks she needs to do. Take all the diapers out and climb into the cupboard. She recently learned how to shake her head 'no' and is just finding out how to use it as a reaction. So naturally she does it ALL the TIME! Inevitably, when I tell her no and to get out of the cupboard, she shakes her head 'no' with the biggest smile on her face! I can't wait till she learns 'yes'

She also has discovered the straw. She can't do the larger ones but she can do the smaller ones that are in juice boxes. She has also learned the cup. She now refuses a bottle and is strictly on sippy cups but she only will drink milk out of a sippy, juice has to be out of a straw or a cup or she doesn't want it. She is my big girl!

Our little walker!

Jayli has learned how to stand. Since this picture, she can stand on her own and even stand up from the floor without any help for balance. She is trying to walk, she just has to figure out how to transfer her balance to get weight off of one foot. She has taken two steps on two different days then fell before she could complete the step. She should be running around in no time! I can't believe she just turned 9 months!

I love my Daddy!

Jayli absolutely adores her Daddy!!
And is ALWAYS in the middle of
his video games, so much that we
just bought her her own chair!
And she knows that she is
'oh so cute'



Don't let the cuddles and smiles trick you, she still has her moments and has a big attitude to back her up!! She is 100% her Mama's baby!