Is 11 months too old to change a name?

Somehow we acquired a dog last week. I'm still trying to remind myself how it happened. Just kidding, his owners were getting too old to keep up with his energetic personality so we took him over :). He is an 11 month old Pomeranian name R.J, but I'm trying to change it to Roger. J.R. or Roger (whatever you want to call him) is house broken and very well behaved. Kellyn pulls his hair and climbs all over him and he just sits there.
At first Kellyn HATED him and anytime he came close to her she was throw her arms up in the air but she soon found out if the dog gets close to her face he would get into trouble. Once she figured it out she would lay down on the floor right in front of him and look at him like come get me! Ornery little thing! Now they are best friends as you can see from the pictures below.

She's a walking!

Okay, she isn't actually walking, but she is taking a few steps. She will walk from our recliner to the coffee table. It is a very slow and unbalanced walk but she takes about 5 steps to get to the coffee table. I'm not sure if it's because she is so little or because she has tiny little feet but watching her walk is pretty hilarious. She will let go of the chair, put her hands up in the air and slowly put one foot in front of the other taking her time to regain her balance after each step. She will probably be running by her first birthday!

Sorry, no pictures. My camera had a little accident with a leaky bottle in my purse. I'm considering having a funeral or at the minimum a wake to celebrate the camera's life. Hopefully a new camera will come my way soon! :)

Hello all. It's Kellyn

Mama said today is my 11 months birthday so I decided I would post about all the cool things I am doing. Well first off let me say that although I'm 11 months old today it's not a good day/week. Mama says that I'm gross because I have snot running out of my nose and a cough that hurts. Anyway, now that I'm almost a year I have become a pretty cool kid. My favorite games to play are patty cake I'm awesome at clapping, rolling it up and pitching it in the pan, peak-a-boo, and being chased, especially by daddy.
My vocabulary is also growing. I say a lot more but people don't understand my language. When I want to go outside I wave and say bih (bye), I love to read and will find my book and say buh (book), I can also say baba (bottle), whenever I fall down I say ooooooh, I love to give kisses and then say awwwe. I can also say mama, dada and papa. Mama says I am ornery and as of late I have been put in a pack-n-play in a dark room for 1 minute when I keep doing something mama tells me not to do. She is mean. I'm just playing.
I'm still not walking. I probably could walk, but I choose not to. I crawl really fast. I do walk around the furniture and if someone is holding my hands.



This is me and Pa. I pulled up another one of my mama's wine corks from her wine cork mat. She gets frustrated because she says it took her a long time to make and I keep pulling up the corks. They are fun to chew.

That is all for now. I need to go take a nap since I was up coughing all night the last two nights.

Best birthday gift EVER!

I pride myself in being very thoughtful and creative when it comes to giving gifts, but I think I may have out did myself this time! :) Ryan's 28th birthday is this Tuesday. For sometime I have been trying to come up with something awesome to give him, but he isn't helpful in the gift department. Whenever I asked him what he would like for his birthday he would tell me socks. Who wants socks for a birthday gift???
Ryan and I have both wanted to go sky diving for some time. It is something that is always talks about, but never scheduled. So, I scheduled him to go sky diving for his birthday. I really wanted it to be a complete surprise, but I had to tell him about 2 weeks a head of time because I needed to make sure we didn't have anything going already planned.


Baby Skydiver! Ryan had to be at Sky Dive Kansas at noon, but didn't jump until 3. Luckily the skydive location was in Osage so Kellyn and I hung out with the parents.



Ryan and Kellyn before he jumped. I figured I should get a picture in case he didn't survive! :)



The little piddly plane. After Ryan jumped they PUSHED the plane into the hanger.




Ryan falling from 10,000 feet.





Successful landing.

Ryan was full of excitement and adrenalin after his jump

I'm sure Ryan was talking about how awesome his jump was

All in all I believe it was a successful birthday gift!

Out little shrimp is now our little flirt!

I'm highly considering changing the name of this blog to Our little flirt.


My Brother and his girlfriend had a housewarming/ birthday party tonight and the boy in the picture is Kellyn's boyfriend. She was ALL over him and he obviously was trying to escape.



She would kiss him



Or touch foreheads (weird thing she does) and then say awwwwwww.

Ryan was traumatized and may need to start therapy now to deal with his anxiety about Kellyn and dating.

When did my baby get so big?

Since Kellyn is almost a year ( I know, it's hard to believe) we have started letting her drink water out of a sippy cup with the hope she will prefer the sippy cup to the bottle. So far it appears to be working. I was doing the dishes last Monday and I looked over and saw her sitting on the floor drinking from her sippy cup like a big girl. It amazes me how fast she grows and changes. By the time she is one I'm sure she will be running around the house being more ornery than she is now!






She hasn't mastered the skill just yet.

Watch Out

For those of you who think Kellyn is always sweet and smiling think again!

More Pictures

This after noon we went to my cousin Nicole's baby shower at Gage Park in Topeka. Since, she was late to her own baby shower :) we took some pictures and played outside until she arrived. It was a nice baby shower and Nicole and Kevin got a lot of cute things. After the shower was done we all rode the carousel. I thought Kellyn would love it, but I was wrong. I ended up holding her while it went around and around.

Please play with me!

If you have ever studied human behavior you know that it is common for people to long for attention from those that don't give it to them. This is no different with babies. Below are pictures of Nicholas and Kellyn. Kellyn is desperately trying to get Nicholas to play with her.

Little Fish

Oh the life of a baby... Eat, sleep, play and swim! Kellyn LOVES the water more than most babies, I believe. If she hears the bath tub turn on she crawls lightening fast to the tub and bounces up and down with excitement. She also LOVES swimming. Below are a few pictures of the beautiful child.