Agapelife

My life, chaos and all...

4th of July!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th. I know we certainly did. we didn't get to go to Canute like usual because Heath got stuck working. However on a side note that means my backyard wasn't the smoke bomb factory this year lol! However I hated it for Heath, 4th of July is like his Christmas. He LOVES it, he gets to play with fire and NOT get in trouble lol. Eric and Heath lit smoke bombs in Canute that you could see from the first Elk City Exit on I-40 last year lol.
However we got to hang out and spend the 4th with the whole family and the Elk City Fire Department this year. It was nice not to be around the chaos and dangers of the over crowded park...not to mention we had front row seats to the fireworks show!
Thats really about it but I have lots of pics to share...

My baby blue eyes, isn't she a doll...


My best friend Julie and I



My other best friend Wes


My Momma and Kaykay


Mikayla lighting her first fire cracker


The firecracker she lit...


hiding by her daddy while it burns


With her cousins...


Miss Boss tellin them something important I'm sure lol!


Sparkler girl...


Look at her go with 2!!!


And ofcourse I wanted to play too!


The fam watching the big show at Elk


Just a couple from the big show...



It still amazes me how far we have come from Kaykay's first 4th of July in the NICU. We are very blessed, and thankful. I hope your 4ths were as awesome as ours was. I'm sure next year I will be blogging about smoke bombs again, but this year was all about family.

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Camping Trip 2008!!!

Oh Goodness! Where do I begin? How about with the first night and the tale of the "Great Feather"...

So we make it to camp and decide to just take it easy and kick back since its already pretty late and we have had a busy Sunday. Well Our dear friends had been havin a couple cold ones and were bein a lil silly... Wes decided to go on an adventure. It was quite the adventure because on it he fought a wild dingo that snagged him with a tooth, found a Bald Eagle feather and ate a Bald Eagle omelette to save its young from having a horrid death anyway. And to make a long story kinda short the "Great Feather" puts off a purple aura that protects him from everything except the lil green jumping bugs that like to crawl on you. You know, the bugs that come from chopping the head off of a wild dingo zombie. On the second day of camp we went swimming and had a blast makin smores, mud fighting (see pics), and just kickin back. On the third and final day Kaykay came up and helped me make pancakes for everyone, went swimming and all together wore herself out LOL.

I cant wait until our Fall camping trip!!! I better not forge to pack the "Great Feather" LOLOLOL! OMG my friends are dorks!!!

Here are all of the pics that I'm sure you will not find nearly as entertaining as I do LOL!!!

"Camp"


Wes and the "Great Feather"


Heath relaxing enjoying the quiet.. and the wild dingo tales


Me!!



Julie not buying into the wild dingo tales or the "Great Feather"




The great Mud war of 2008!!!


He so snuck up behind me!!


Grabbin clay for my revenge...


Yes we are covered in it!!


We were fleeing from Julie


Julie gettin ready to get Wes back...


Heaths AWESOME campfire!



Heath havin his first smore


Kaykay helpin with the pancakes! (gotta love her cheesy smile)



Gettin ready to go swimming!!





Thats about it for the camping trip I will make sure and post anymore tales of the "Great Feather" as they come along.


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Princess Mikayla and her Royal Celebration

On June 22nd, 2008
At her Grandmommy's house,
Princess Mikayla Dawn and all of our family and friends helped celebrate her 2nd Birthday!!!


There we swam and slid into Grandmommy's pool.




Jumped and slid on the giant castle moon jump. We had dress up outfits for all the kids, young and old!!! LOL








Hot dogs and Grandmommy's baked beans were served and everyone ate to their hearts content.

We had a cake fit for a queen and perfect for the Princess. It was 3 layers and consisted 3 different flavors. Christina from Small Town Specialty Cakes made the tasty and beautiful treat for us. It was perfect!!



Princess Mikayla was dressed in her royal gown...


and loved the mud!!


The Princess received too many prizes and thank you to everyone for thinking of her, and celebrating with us.




Princess she may be she had the most fun when she was digging in the sandbox or splashin in the mud!!!




We had a wonderful day filled with wonderful people. Thanks again to everyone who helped make is so special.

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Wow..its been awhile!

21 months 2 weeks, and 2 days adjusted....

Her adjusted age is the age she is supposed to be, if she wasn't born 3 months early.


Holy cow!!! Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was sitting at the switchboard wondering if I was actually pregnant or not lol. And now just 2 short years later I have the most beautiful, smart, and might I add a spitfire of a lil redhead. We came home weighing in at 5lbs 6 oz, and now 2 years later she weighs in at 27 lbs and is getting crazy tall (she is built like her Daddy...TALL). She is amazing! I wish you all could see some of her attitude and goofy girl antics lol. I loved having the sweet lil baby (dont get me wrong lol she went kinda extreme with the little lol but she has always been a lil lover) and miss it sometimes, however at night right before I lay her down for "nigh nigh" she wants me to rock her in my arms like that lil baby and say "ahhhh sweet baby" over and over until her eyes get heavy. Whats funny is if I stop saying it she starts singing "ahhhhhh" it melts my heart. I still think being a mom is by far the GREATEST thing I will ever do. There are so many things in this life I cant wait to share with her, my daughter, my heart, my Mikayla.

Here are what we call the "Birthday Bear" pictures. I take them about every 3 months, it is awesome to see how much she is growing. I want to continue this tradition until she graduates and then when she has kids I will give it to her. Hope they like pink lol!

3 weeks




3 months


6 months


9 months


1 year


15 months


18 months



2 years

(I am goin to re-shoot this one soon, my camera lens is messed up)

We have only had 1 hospital stay since leaving the NICU and it was because of her "reactive airway" aka bronchial spasms ( i refuse to say asthma lol). Its a common thing to happen any time preemies get sick, even just with allergies. We were only there 2 days then we got to come home. Nothing way serious just not fun at all.

Here is a pic of my lil trooper...

This was the day we were getting to come home. Her cheeks were still red from the tape her nasal O2 was attached with.

Other then that lol she has been great! A few tummy issues but they say everything will work itself out by the time she is 3 and the preemie days are OVER!!! She has all of her teeth and is due to be gettin some more molars in soon!! She is not the least bit picky when it comes to veggies or any other "bites" as long as you don't try to feed her lol. She still gets whole milk just make sure it is flavored with a squirt of strawberry lol, I still have to really stay on top of her diet to make sure she is getting plenty of fiber, iron, vitamin C, and enough fat and calories. She drops weight really easy if you slack off even a day she will drop a pound on ya and her clothes wont fit lol. Boy if she can keep this metabolism into her teen and adult years she will LOVE it lol. We have tested out of all of her development teams. The only thing her doctors say is that she is awesome, and needs to work on her coordination and fine motor skills lol...aka..she is a lil clumsy LOL! But come on! She is 2!!! But we are going to put her in dance as soon as she is potty trained (we are going to start that as soon as we get back from the camping trip this coming week...wish me luck lol) She talks all the time!! She will repeat anything you say and will go off into rants and raves where you can understand about every other word that she is spitting out like a fully automatic weapon!!! She still loves Peek-a-Boo, Patty Cake, and "Where is Kaykay?" and that warms my heart. No matter how big she is getting she is still my babygirl. Her love for dancing and music has grown even more, you can be playing or talking to her and some music will come on and she completely shuts you out and focuses on it until its over. She loves to write or draw especially on her Grandpa's tablet. She loves her sidewalk chalk, and Mommy's stickers lol. She loves being outside and usually plays by herself or with her cousins. She is perfectly content to just play her own game and enjoy her own company. She loves to be inside boxes, tents, even cages lol. I couldn't tell you why, maybe from her days in her days spent in the NICU "box" lol. Okay, enough ramblings...

Here are some pictures:


Mikayla's first visit to her Dentist

(She was listening very intently when he was explaining things to her lol)


Getting to hold his mirror too


She made me so very proud of her and how big she is.



Mikayla loves to help me with the laundry, she insists on putting everything in the washer and dryer by herself, and I better not dare help her or I get in big trouble lol.


(Pictures are fuzzy but they were takin on Eric's phone)



She is my girly girl! She absolutely LOVES to put perfume on and make up and anything else that Mommy gets to use lol!



Ready to do some magic it looks like lol...



My Princess Mikayla



She is getting so big



Isn't she beautiful



Playing in the bouncy thingie that her Aunt Tata got her lol..



Sidewalk chalking with her G-Pa





I told yall...she is a lil spitfire lol!!!



She is the best sous chef in the whole wide world!!!



Getting ready to go to her first car show!!



With her Auntie Julie being a silly girl.



Her faces are getting quite entertaining...



One of her favorite past times with one of her most favorite people!!!



She really, really, really loves her tents.




Helpin her Daddy dig out a fence post.



Shootin some hoops in the backyard.



She loves anything and everything that has to do with water.







Like I said she likes stickers...



And of course Mommy is a good sport lol...



Swimming in or new pool




As you can see we have been quite the busy bunch lol. Her schedule hasnt really changed all that much; bedtime is 8:30 and she wakes up between 9 and 11 in the mornings lol! She takes a nap around 2p.m. and it lasts until about 4. She puts herself to sleep for both her naps and her bedtime. However she insists on sleeping in her playpen, but we are hoping to have her back in her big girl bed very soon.

She doesn't go anywhere without her "silkie"...


Her silkie goes everywhere with us. She might not always need it in her hand but she wants to be able to have it if she does need it lol. This was takin tonight, her hair is even still wet from her bath. She falls right to sleep at bedtime.

I think that about covers most of the things we have to update on. I will be posting her birthday party blog tonight probably if not tomorrow.

sweet sleep to you all

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