White Coat Ceremony

While Kylie and I have been out playing in Idaho, James has become official (as of the 19th)! Yes we missed his White Coat Ceremony, but thankfully he sent me a couple pictures on my phone and a friend of his took some and put the last picture up on facebook. I wish we would have known before I bought my plane ticket, but James had his parents there for the proud moment!

This is the program:

James' official jacket:

Here he is with a couple of friends from his class, Mike and Mike (sorry so small) :

I'm so proud of James for all the hard work he has done to get this far! He is amazing and deserves the best! I know he will continue to work hard and get good grades. I just want him to know that I love him and appriciate all the tough times he has to go through just to provide a great life for our family. I know Kylie loves him too, she is just asleep right now or she would type on this too! Congrats hubby and good luck with your future patients!

One year older and wiser?

So since I was not around today to celebrate my Hubby's Birthday I figured I would write on here. He has to celebrate on his birthday all by himself. Poor guy, he did however go buy a steak to eat and from what I gather he relaxed instead of studied. He is amazing for all he does for Kylie and I. He works hard to get good grades, yet still manages to spend time with the two most important people! He is a great Father and and amazing Husband! He has made me a better person and I just wish I could have made him a BIG birthday cake! Hope you had a Happy Birthday without your two girls! We love you and can't wait to see you when we get home!

P.S. I hope your white coat ceremony is great because unfortunately we will miss that as well! Love you tons!

Happy St. Patricks Day to everyone as well!

9 months

So Kylie had her 9 month appointment today and she is doing great! Her stats are:

Weight: 20lbs 6oz 75th percentile

Height: 28 1/4 in 75th percentile

Head: ? but in the 90th percentile

She is a big girl, but at least we know she is healthy too! Here is a list of a couple new things she is doing:

• claps


• clicks her tongue


• eating finger foods like her new found love graham crackers


• dances when certain songs come on, i.e. five little monkeys and chicka chicka boom boom (both on youtube) -and-


• WALKING

She loves to walk all over the place. Last thursday night her daddy walked into our kitchen. She turned and saw him. (she was standing holding onto her tote that holds all her toys) She wanted to be with her dad, so she took a couple steps and stopped for a second. I thought she was going to fall, but she didn't Kylie decided to keep going. I called to James and he turned and watched as our 'little' girl walked about 10-12 steps across our living room. The little stinker has figured it out a lot better within the few days since and walks a lot now. She still crawls, but the walking is so much more fun!

Grandma and Grandpa Scheller came up to visit this weekend. Kylie got spoiled and she loved it. Along with all the attention she got from them! James and I also loved it because we snuck out for about an hour and a half for the first time together since she has been born! It was great! We went to our church and played volleyball with our ward! It was the best and Kylie did great at home with Grandma and Grandpa! She was practically asleep when we walked in the door.

And now for all of you who read this and are in Idaho we are coming next week! Kylie and I are at least, James still has classes, boo to classes. But we will be there about three weeks. We will miss daddy, but enjoy the other side of the family for a little while!

Surprise!

Here is a little surprise for everyone that is interested! I'll post more later about it all when Kylie isn't asleep on my lap occupying one arm, hand for typing. Oh and she will be nine months on the 28th.

New Activities

So Kylie is learning new things all the time. Recently she started clapping. She will usually clap when I or someone else claps. We were watching UNC basketball one night on TV and they scored. The crowd was clapping and all of a sudden Kylie started clapping too! It was so funny to watch and the best part was she cheered for the right team!

Next Kylie has been realizing that she can stand...drum roll please.....WITHOUT holding onto anything. She does it for about 10 seconds at a time! It is crazy. She is too young to be doing this I keep thinking. Then the scary part comes to mind, she will start walking by herself next. She will only be 9 months on the 28th of this month. It is so CRAZY that she is doing this.

I guess it is time to start baby proofing the house more! I will try to get pictures and videos of these new adventures on here soon!

Playing in the Snow...

...Or at least sitting in the snow. She wasn't too sure of it once we got her out in the snow. She just sat there and didn't even crawl, but she sure is cute at just sitting there!

7-8 months

So the other day we gave Kylie a teething biscuit. This is the beginning.

This is the middle...

This is getting to the end, end of Kylie being awake...

And she is out! She slept in her highchair for a little while just like this. Poor girl, but I didn't want to wake her up just to put her in her crib to not go back to sleep.




Kylie's 1st SNOW:

This is Kylie's first experience with snow. She really liked it. It's dark outside, but we got a few good pictures. We will try to get more tomorrow, but we are supposed to get LOTS of snow. We will see.

Trying to eat the snow. Just need to teach her that yellow snow is not good!

I'm so thankful for Kylie. She makes my day even when she is grumpy, which is very often. I love taking her to the store and getting stopped by everyone there saying, "Isn't she the sweetest thing!" I sure love how everyone else loves my little girl. It is so cute to watch how excited she gets when daddy comes home. She squeals until they play for a little while, then he is off to study and Kylie is happy to be with mommy again! I love her and her daddy!