10 months old?!

I've been taking a picture of Kyla every month on her "birthday" day (every 1st day of the month). This is what her 10 month old picture looked like. She smiled so big and cute! (If you look carefully you will notice how you can see her top tooth:) I'll be adding more pictures of her teeth soon.) A fun fact about Kyla: She can almost say Jesus when we show her a picture of him! We say, "Whos that? Is that Jesus?" and most of the time her response is, "Jeesss". Another fun fact is that she knows where my eyes, nose and mouth is. I can ask her, "Where's mommy's nose?" And she'll point to my nose. Then I ask her the same with my eyes and mouth and she knows where they are. It's great! Now we just have to work on having her point to her own nose, mouth and eyes.

The many faces of Kyla--She always scrunches up her nose and face and makes a noise as if she's sniffing or something. I have no idea where she picked that up but it's so stinking cute that I finally took a great picture of the moment. She's so silly.

Hyrum's birthday was on the 3rd of this month. Kyla and I couldn't wait any longer to have Hyrum open his gifts from us so we did it right after we all woke up (as you can tell, they're still in their pjs!) One of the gifts that Kyla gave him was a Nintendo Wii game. It's called Surfs Up and you obviously can tell he was pretty excited! It's a really fun game though.

Kyla was playing in the tub yesterday and since she loves bubbles so much, I decided to give her a bubble bath. She had a blast! She was so excited that she was eating the bubbles and came up out of the water with a bubble beard! Another fun fact about Kyla: On Hyrum's computer there is a screensaver called bubbles and when Kyla is fussy, we tell her that we're going to show her the bubbles. She gets really excited and then we show her the computer with bubbles going everywhere on the screen. She stops fussing and gets so excited, smiles really big and tries to say bubbles and points at them. It's the cutest thing.

This is my most recent project that I've done. I've been obsessed with wreaths lately but I didn't want to go to the store to actually buy a pre-made wreath since they're usually about $20.00. So I decided to see if I could make one myself. It turned out better then I thought it would! I just bought the grapevine wreath by itself and then bought the fall flowers and stuck them in the wreath. I made my own arrangement for less then $10.00! The great thing about doing this myself is once fall is over, I can take out the leaves in the wreath, and arrange it to look Christmas like with poinsettas and other christmas type things. I'm pretty excited!

Halloween

We dressed Kyla up as a ladybug for her first Halloween! I got her wings at DI (like a goodwill type of store) for $1.00 and then collected a bunch of other stuff for her outfit at numerous stores and made some of it too. Her whole costume probably only cost about $5.00! GREAT DEAL! We took her trick or treating to a couple doors in Hyrum's parents neighborhood and to a couple friends' houses. She liked eating the wrappers of the candy and she had a lot of fun! We took some photo shoots of Kyla and her cousins, Courtney and Kyler all dressed up. It was a fun night! Today, I went to Wal-Mart to decide what costume Kyla would wear next year. I found a cute little lion outfit for 1/2 off! It was only $5.00. I was so excited. I'll probably put a little bow in it or something in case people mistake her for a boy which happens way too often then not.
FYI: Kyla slept through the night once a couple days ago! It was heaven! However, she has decided that she doesn't want to do it again...:( Bummer! We're still working on it though.

The Long Stand

A couple days ago, there was a cartoon on TV that Kyla was extremely interested in so Hyrum placed her in front of it standing and let his hand go from off her back and she stood on her 2 feet all by herself for 30 sec! It was the longest she's ever just stood there like that. It was pretty exciting. We can hold her by one hand now as she walks...very wobbly. It's very cute. She'll be walking any day now! :)





Kyla was playing at Grandma's house for a little while and they played in the leaves with her cousin Kyler! They had fun! Kyla likes leaves.

Kyla Speaks

So as I was reading one of my friends' blogs about their little one saying his first word I realized that I haven't even mentioned anything on here about Kyla talking! It was about a month or so ago when she said dada and actually knew who "dada" was. She said it a few times before and she called everything that. She still calls a lot of things dada, but now she can actually call dad "dada"! A couple weeks ago she started saying "mama" but she only says that when she wants food or is tired, of course :) Then a couple days after that she started saying ball. Her favorite word now is ball and gets really excited everytime she sees a ball. She points at it and says "Ball, ball ball ball" Sometimes it sounds like "ba" other times it sounds like "baw" (trying to get the L sound or something.) As of yesterday, she's been trying to say buh bye and I think she actually did a couple times. It's amazing how smart she is.
Another thing recently is that her top right tooth broke through the gum finally!! It has seemed like a 2-3 month battle to get that one tooth through. I can still see 3 more top teeth trying to come in also so hopefully it won't take another 2 months to get those in! It's been a rough couple months teething wise for her. But she's such a trooper and is so good about it.
She's also getting so close to walking! She walks along all the furniture but it just too scared to let go. Whenever I walk with her holding her hands, as soon as I let go, she sits down in a very graceful way. Sometimes I try to trick her and she actually stands for a sec or two, but once she realizes she's doing it her self, she'll sit back down again. I know she can do it, I just don't think she has any desire to right now.
Anyway, that's the recent update on Kyla! She's such a cute little one though. :) We love her soooo very much.

The Twins--Only with different moms

So I had the funnest week. A couple weeks ago one of my best friends from HS, who is now living in Utah, came up to visit Kyla and I. Her husband was busy with school and work, and so was mine so she came up to keep me company and to keep herself from getting too bored. Her baby Makella is only 6 weeks younger than Kyla so they were both crawling everywhere and having so much fun playing together. It was great to have them here! One day we bought them matching outfits and went to take their pictures. They looked so cute! They look like twins from the back, but once they turn around, the look completely different. I consider them twins however, just one came from me and the other came from Bonnie! We definitely had fun though!

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SNOW?!

It snowed here in Rexburg on October 6th, the weekend of General Conference. It was exciting because we could take Kyla in the snow! She loved looking at the snow come down. They were coming down in huge flakes. Here a few pictures to capture the moment.

NYC

This is a few of our Pics of NYC! The first picture is of our little family with the city behind us. We were on a ferry headed toward the statue of liberty and Staten Island. The next is at the oreo finale event. There was an oreo mascot guy and Kyla loved him! He was lots of fun. Then it's the guys singing on the stage. They did so great! Then of course, the host of the finale event was Carson Daley, and the guys took a picture with him. Kyla and I got a pic with him too. I must say, he has pretty eyes, but WAY too much makeup. :) The guys unfortunately didn't win but we all had so much fun in the Big Apple! Of course New York is famous for our country's freedom symbol, the Satute of Liberty. It was an amazing site to see. It was neat being able to see it in person instead of so many times on TV. I definitely left New York feeling patriotic after seeing Lady Liberty. Hyrum was so nice and watched Kyla for a few hours in the hotel while I went with a couple other couples to see the Broadway show Les Miserables. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life. The actors/actresses were phenomenal. The actress that played Fontaine (the mother of Cosette) was the singing voice of Mulan and Ariel from the Little Mermaid. It was great! Well that's just a little about our trip. Thanks to everyone again for their support and especially for the votes to get the Kreamy Krunchies through to NY! It was an experience of a lifetime!