Nyla is 5!

Nyla had her 5 year check up last week. She is 42 and 1/2 inches tall and she weighs 37 pounds. She also had a hearing and vision test. Hearing was fine, vision was not perfect but must have been in the acceptable range at this point. Nyla also lost her second tooth yesterday.

Lowe's

Wyndee and Nyla drove by Lowe's today, and Nyla offered her opinion of the store:

Nyla: Lowe's is the most boring store ever. Why would they even make such a boring store?

Wyndee: Would it be better if they had a toy aisle?

Nyla: Yes, that is what it needs. If I had a toy I could hold while we were at Lowe's, that would be better.

Cincinnati Zoo

Grandma Terri visited us for a week, and it was wonderful! One of the fun things we did together was travel to the Cincinnati Zoo. Nyla, wearing her zebra print skirt, was beyond excited to see the zebras:

Celia's favorite animal was actually the owl, but we couldn't get a picture of him since he was in the dark (on account of being nocturnal). But she liked the lions too:
Unfortunately, Wyndee fell into the mountain lion pit. She was mauled rather severely, but managed to get this really nice shot before things turned ugly:

A visit from the tooth fairy

Nyla lost her first tooth! This actually happened about a week ago, but we just now got around to blogging about it.

Congratulations Nyla!

The Lexington Public Library has a summer reading program. People who finish their reading logs get their names put in a drawing for prizes. Nyla won this book. She was so excited we had to go to the library right then to get it.

Late July 2011

Here is Nyla helping me make kolaches. She is a very good helper, she filled them all with poppyseed filling.
Here is Celia in her room on her big girl bed. She is not actually sleeping in the bed yet, hopefully it will still be a while before she starts climbing out of the pack n play. She also has a new quilt for her bed that I made for her this spring.

Here is the rest of the room, I recently repainted it lavender, it used to be sky blue.In other news, Nyla has her first loose tooth and will be losing it any day now.

4th of July

Nyla, Wyndee, and I stayed up late to light fireworks last night. I thought Nyla would enjoy sparklers, but my safety talk ended up being a little too effective, and Nyla was terrified of them (she didn't even want to go near unlit ones). As Wyndee and I were playing with our sparklers,

Nyla (running away): Just stay away from me with those things, because I am not so fond of sparklers.

She loved the fountain/flare fireworks and the ground bloom flowers, though.