This is waaaaaay past due, but after our friend, Chad's, surprise birthday dinner on White Rock lake we took a stroll around the park & fountains. Here's one of Kella, she took one of us which turned out great and I was hoping to share, but for some reason when adding pics to this post they came out sideways.... after several tries.... forget it. sorry!
I admit it. I'm a Bachelor/Bachelorette/andnowBachelorPad Junkie!! I made it to Heather's annual Bachelorette finale and I had to bring some sweets! Do you accept this rose? Why, yes! Yes I Do!
I try to incorporate some creativity into meal time whenever I can. Can we just say Kella is the worst eater in the world! I've talked about this before, we try not to make breakfast/lunch/dinner a dreaded experience so here's a peak at some of our creations! Who wouldn't LOVE getting their initial made out of toast?! 
Another project we've tackled this last month was switching the girls' rooms. I had a wild hair one day... it went something like this:
Me:What would you think about switching the girls rooms?
Kipp:Hmmmm.....weeeeeelllllll.....
Me: I mean, why is Kella in the smallest room in the house when she has the most stuff? Why did we do that when we moved in? Do you remember even considering putting her in the other room?
Kipp: No, i don't. I don't know what we were thinking. (As I can see his wheels turning, wondering....what is she going to ask me to do next?)
Me: That's what we should this weekend.....I guess I better run this by Kella first & see if she's up for it!
Me: Do you want to switch rooms with Ryan?
Kella: (Looking puzzled)
Me: Would you like to move your big bed into Ryan's BLUE room and put her crib in the pink room?
Kella:(Eyes lighting up) I can sleep in Ryan's bed?
Me: No silly, you can't sleep in the crib, you're too big!
Kella: (giggles)
Me: We'll move your big bed into the blue room and then.... the blue room will be all YOURS!!! Do you want that?
Kella: (running to find Kipp) Dad! I get Ryan's BLUE room!
So you can see how we spent the weekend...
We haven't gotten Kella's storage bed yet or taken Ryan's name down, but things are slowly getting put into place.
Here's Kella in some of the last pics of the pink room....I must admit, I was pretty emotional painting over these stripes. Since we didn't know if K was a boy/girl, this room didn't get painted until after she arrived. Since her room was basically the pack-n-play next to our bed for the first weeks of her life, I painted away during nap time. A couple gallons of paint and rolls and rolls of painters tape later, her room was finished! When I started painting Kella came in and said, "MOM! What are you doing?" I said, "I'm painting the room." "Oh, you are?!" (This is her typical response these days) "Yep! Say, Bye-Bye pink walls! They aren't going to be pink any more." She looked almost sad and for a moment I felt a little flutter that she might talk me out of painting, but she then chimed in and sang "Bye-Bye pink walls! No more Pink!" So, I loaded my rolling brush, wiped a tear and painted the room a color I thought I would never have in my house.......WHITE!
Since Ryan's bedding matches the blue from her old room I had to incorporate it in some way. Kipp thought it would be too weird for both of their rooms to be the same color..."That's way too much blue..... Our room, Kella's room and now Ryan's room, too? That's too much!" My response? "Our room is 'smokey slate', NOT tiffany blue like theirs!!! (he's right though, i've never thought about, but they are pretty similar. So, creamy white is what I painted the walls, but since her ceiling is so stinkin tall, I painted the ceiling blue to get the color in somewhere. More pics to come...
Since Ryan's bedding matches the blue from her old room I had to incorporate it in some way. Kipp thought it would be too weird for both of their rooms to be the same color..."That's way too much blue..... Our room, Kella's room and now Ryan's room, too? That's too much!" My response? "Our room is 'smokey slate', NOT tiffany blue like theirs!!! (he's right though, i've never thought about, but they are pretty similar. So, creamy white is what I painted the walls, but since her ceiling is so stinkin tall, I painted the ceiling blue to get the color in somewhere. More pics to come... 
