Camping Out!

With Kali turning 23 months old last week, Daddy felt it was time to take her on an adventure. Camping. As much as I love spending quality time with my family, I'll admit that I was NOT looking forward to this excursion. I was like, sleeping in a tent? With Kali? For 2 nights? I was fully expecting for this trip to be a complete disaster. But, once again....Daddy knows his baby girl. Kali was absolutely picture perfect! She loved being out with all of our friends and their families. She seemed to like every single experience....including her first trip to the beach! At first, she wanted no parts of the waves but once she realized the waves weren't going to hurt her, we couldn't keep her out of the water. She had a blast from start to finish!

Believe it or not, the little girl that she's leading by the hand is only a couple of months older than Kali! Kalissa was so happy to have another little person to play with. She immediately went up to her and starting saying, "Hi girl! Hi girl!" I think Kali was expecting her to have a conversation since she was so much bigger than her, but she doesn't communicate as much as Kali yet. So Kali just took her by the hand and started walking her around saying, "C'mon girl! We're walking!" It was the most adorable thing.

We had such a great time that we will officially add camping to our roster of family activities!

I Love Giraffe

Woo Hoo! The sun finally peeked out today after another week of cloudy skies and cold temperatures! What to do, what to do?? Daddy was game for the zoo, so that's where we headed. And as soon as Kali spotted her favorite animal of the week, she yelled out "I love giraffe!" I guess she was just in a lovable mood (even more so than usual) because moments before she declared her love for the long-necked animal, she was asking strangers for hugs!!
Now that's an all new level of friendliness, even for her!

....I really hate that her hair bows photographed so "orange"!! When I put them in her hair, they did look much more peach to me. Then again, I'm getting old.

Hello Sunshine!

While the rest of the country is scorching hot, we are freezing over here in San Diego. By freezing, I mean 64/65 degrees...in the middle of June! We are definitely experiencing the infamous "June Gloom" and I'm starting to get irritated by it. I'm sure Kali will second that. But today, the sun peeked out and we immediately ran for the park so that Kali could get out some energy! One would never guess that she is actually just getting over a 24-hour bug. She had a fever of 102 on Friday night, which had Daddy and I tag teaming to keep her comfortable and hydrated all night long. By yesterday evening she was her normal happy-go-lucky self. Turns out it probably wasn't a bug afterall...her second molars are coming in, so that just may have been the culprit. Poor baby.

She has a pretty nasty looking gash on her left cheek. And that's because she landed face first on one of my high heels!! On Thursday, she was clip-clopping around in them and left them in the middle of the floor. Next thing ya know, she dove onto a palette that Daddy made for her, but somehow misjudged where her pillow was and instead, landed right on the heel of my shoe. I was at work but Daddy sent me this photo to lessen the shock of seeing our baby's face like this:

It took everything I had not to immediately leave work and tend to my baby! Of course the fresh picture looked 10 times worse than what it did by the time I got home. Maybe the insta-picture wasn't such a good idea. *lol* After I made sure she was fine, my concern turned to, "I hope that bruise is gone in time for her photoshoot for her 2nd bday next month!" *lol*

Needless to say, my shoes are now off limits. But unfortunately, she's such a daredevil that I know this is just one of many more scrapes to come. *sigh*