Well…my mission has continued for the apparently no longer made silky. It has taken a different turn though. I’ve looked on ebay and bid on ebay without success. The new ones go up to as much as $50 for something under $7 originally. That’s just ridiculous to me. I know K loves her silkIES but I’m not willing to pay THAT much for some additional loveys! Sooo….last week we had an appt with the ENT for K’s post op 6mo visit. While up in the “BIG” city we stopped at JoAnn’s. It’s actually new to that area. I’m not used to one being so small….but they had what I was looking for. I bought some silky fabric for some new silkies. It is chocolate with pink polka dots. I also bought a some what coordinating chocolate pink stripe and a minky dot fabric for the back. I’m going to try making one like she already has. Actually making two. My PLAN is to let her keep one of the originals a pair it with a new one. So I can wash a set and give her a set without any going missing. I bought plenty of fabric for several. At this point I’m not certain if I’d prefer to use the extra for other silkies in the future OR just make her a big silky blanket to carry around at home or sleep with.

It’s been kind of crazy and stressful here lately. School has been very stressful for not just myself but even others I work with. *sigh* I’m looking hopefully toward December……HALF WAY THROUGH THE SCHOOL YEAR! Haha…

Anyway….I won’t bore you with the details of the craziness. How about the cute stuff?

We were curiously wondering how many words Kayla can say so we began writing them down. This was started the first week of Sept. and we are now up and passing 30 words. She also has a few phrases too. Good Girl. Thank you. I love you. Peak a boo. Here you go. This is pretty good to me considering at her 15 month appt she was only saying meow and uh oh. Of course she still just says things when SHE wants to say them.

Today we enjoyed our Saturday. We planned on going to the local state park. Apparently they were having a save my park day or something. So we went to the state park and playing on the playground for a little while. Kayla LOVED it. I will have to say she fell out of the swing. It was one of those toddler swings with the holes in it. The only problem was it had a chain on one side (open sided). Kayla didn’t want to be in it so she was leaning forward and just flipped forward. We also put her on the slides. These were the ones that had the bumps going down for slowing down the kids. She loved the BIG one and even the straight slide. I see a slide in the future for this girl.

Afteward we went to the local strawberry patch. They are opened year round just not with strawberries of course. We walked around and looked at the animals. We played on their playground as well. Kayla thought it was funny when mommy went to catch her at the bottom and she knocked mommy down with her feet into the sand. We bought fresh squash, frozen blueberries, and ladyfinger peas. Yum! They were out of the apple bread we wanted. I hope we make it back during October for their fall festivities (corn maze and pumpkins, etc.). I am also hoping to go apple picking too!

I can’t think of anything else at the moment so I’ll leave you with a couple of pictures of recent activities and a video from today.

Ballet.....but really part of my costume for fall festival

Just being silly

Ready or not here I come!!

Don't my panties go on my head?

Watching the bubbles