How Common is Your Name

I was just looking at a website for fun about how common names are.  For Kymber....

KIMBER is the #2454 most common female first name

0.002% of females in the US are named KIMBER.

Around 2450 US females are named KIMBER!

 

But when you spell it Kymber this is what came up....

KYMBER is a very rare female first name

Very few female first names in the US are KYMBER

Be proud of your unique first name!

 

 

Cailey's Work

Cailey is such a hardworker and strives to do as best as she can in everything.  She has struggled with speech but after 2.5 years of working really hard she graduated!! :)  She still is academically behind quite a bit (3 year old level for alphabet and numbers).... so we are working really hard on it.  We labeled things in her room, practice writing her name and numbers, and different activities.  Even when I say we are done, she keeps working.  I'm so proud of her.  I'm going to track some of her writing progress on here.  Here's her name from the beginning of the year.  She wrote her name herself (looking at mine to copy) and then traced 2 of mine.  The numbers are the numbers she can recognize in print.  We are almost to 4. When we play a game to find numbers she will get 4 most of the time :)  I don't have the other page, but she can write a 1 and is working on a 2.  When we do letter searches she can always find the C. 

Little updates on the girls

Cailey's doing great at school.  It was king of sad, on the first day I had asked her if she had made any friends and she told me yes, but then her friend met another friend so the girl told her she would only be her friend one more time.  Well, today Cailey came home and told me it wasn't true, because they are still friends!!! lol

Kymber is saying and doing more and more but she still won't talk around other people :( She used to not repeat words when Jeirme came home though, and now she is so maybe not long.  Today her and Cailey were playing marbles and she kept saying bahble.

She's learning so many body parts, teeth, tongue, mouth, eyes, ears, nose, head, hair, toes, feet/foot, hands, belly/belly button,  .... around 12.  She's done a couple others but not consistently.  I was watching the video and she started pointing to her different parts when she heard me on the video lol.

The girls are enjoying their swingset.  Kymber is out there everyday while Cailey is at school and they both go out there and play when she comes home. 

First Day of Kindergarten

I took Cailey to her first day of Kindergarten!! She was so excited, we did her hair, her nails and she wore a new outfit Grandma Pat had bought her for school.  Kymber and Cailey held hands and walked to her classroom.  We found her cubby and put her things away and she went to her desk, a little girl that sits next to her helped her put on her name tag.... I already can tell they might not be sitting next to each other for very long!!! uh oh!  :)
She was really excited and barely said goodbye... I'm so happy for her, she has been so excited for this!

When we were leaving the teacher handed me a stapled piece of paper.  Kymber and I walked back out to the car and I opened it up.  I can tell you that I was not the least bit upset, sad, or anything about Cailey starting school.  We have both been SO excited for this. BUT when I read this poem I did get a few tears :)  So, those of you with little ones going to school, be prepared to read it!!! :)

Her teacher seemed amazing at meet the teacher night, and again she seems amazing today.  I can't wait for our year with her and to see how much Cailey progresses!!!!! I'm so excited.

THE FIRST DAY

I gave you a little wink and smile 

As you entered my room today.

For I know how hard it is to leave 

And know your child must stay.

You've been with her for five years now,

And have been a loving guide,

But now, alas, the time has come

To leave her at my side.

Just know that as you drive away

And tears down your cheeks may flow

I'll love her as I would my own

And help her learn and grow.

For as a parent, I too know

How quickly the years do pass

And that one day too, it was my turn

To take my child to class.

So please put your mind at ease

And cry those tears no more

For I will love her and take her in

When you leave her at my door.

Girls' Rooms are finished

The girls rooms are just about done, I think I'm going to get a shelf to hang Cailey's medals from and get a rug for Kymbers room.  All the other rooms still need a little something here and there to be complete.

Her pictures look uneven for some reason in this picture, I think it's the way I was holding the camera.

Caily-isms

I don't have a lot to write about today.  Tried to get the garage sale set up to have it today but it turned into a disaster!  The girls had a great day playing outside though, so atleast they enjoyed the day :)  Hopefully tomorrow will go smoother and we will have the garage sale. 

Seems like Cailey hasn't said as many things lately, or I've just been so busy that I've let them slip by :(

She is all excited for school to start but then today when we passed the school she asked me if she would be in school forever.  I told her atleast until she is 18.  Her reply, very worried sounding said "So I will be in school forever with no days off?!" She was almost in a panic!! I reassured her she would have weekends and summers off.

Now that we are no longer living in the country Cailey knows we cannot have animals like we could out there.  So, in the car she told me that since we cant have a bunch of animals at our new house when there was a wishing star, she was going to wish for something different now.... but she couldn't tell me what it was.  I told her I wish I could know.  Her reply...... "well then that's what you can wish for on the wishing star."  Thanks Cailey :)

Meet the Teacher, Cailey's starting school!!!

Tonight we went to meet the teacher at Mathews Elementary for Cailey's back to school night.  She picked out her cubby, found her desk, and we listened to information about this coming school year.  I am so excited for the next milestones in Cailey's life, and all the fun things that come with being in school.... all her activities at school, homework (yes, I'm excited to help her with homework, I'm a nerd, I know! lol), seeing her progress, after school activities, school festivals, artwork, girlscouts, field trips, sleepovers, SOOOOOO many things!! I can understand parents get upset because their child is growing up and its bittersweet, but I just don't get the crying over it and being completely sad about it.  Sitting in the orientation in her classroom, there was a mom sat at her childs desk crying....its only orientation... what's she going to do on the first day?!  Well, I hope it goes smoother for her, I myself am so excited not only for the fun things to come but also for the BREAK!!!  Cailey is an angel and a breeze compared to Kymber.... but her mouth moves nonstop and sometimes that peace and quiet is prayed for! :)  I'm a little nervous though about her attitude and her talking in the classroom..... we shall see!

Picture Day

It's time for Kymbers 18 month pictures!! Pictures have not been easy from the beginning, before she screamed the entire time.... this time if I tried to make her sit, she screamed then tried to take off running.  She wanted to play chase and play with the chairs and anything EXCEPT sit for pictures.  Cailey was an angel and posed and was so patient with her! We got a few good ones, and there are quite a few crazy ones!

Bowling

This is the last week of summer vacation for Cailey!!  We went bowling today, she hasn't bowled since her 3rd brithday!!! It was Kymbers first time at a bowling alley and she helped to push the bowl and really enjoyed watching Cailey and the other people there.  Everytime the ball went down the lane she would clap then go back to watch for the ball to come up, then jump back when it came through.

Kymbers first online purchase

Today I got onto my Groupon app on my phone to see when my groupons expire.  I saw one on there for The Cake Truffle Store..., $8 for $16 in cupcakes!  I hadn't purchased this and thought maybe it was put on my account by mistake.  But then my bank account showed it had been charged.  Kymber plays with my phone and I remember she had gotten the Groupon app up on the phone before, but I didn't realize she had purchased something!!! Atleast it was something cheap.... and something good!!!  I'll be removing that application from my phone. 

I dont know where to start...

I have been using facebook basically as a blog, updating it with things Kymber does, things Cailey is involved with and funny things she says.  But I think its time to move it to a blog, and somewhere I can save it instead of lots of status updates!  I'm also tired of facebook, but will probably will get tired of this too.

I dont know where to begin since Cailey is 5 and Kymber is 17 months.  There's so much I could say to start.

We now live in Nixa.  We have a 3 bed 2 bath 2 car garage and we are enjoying it.  First real home.  We plan to stay in this home 3-5 years and then upgrade.  That's also when I plan to go back to work, after they are both in school.

Kymber was an extra high needs baby with colic and severe GERD which has now turned into an extra high needs toddler.  I feel like nobody can possibly understand, especially if majority of children are like Cailey.  She was and still is a breeze.  This site really explains Kymber to a T... http://www.thefussybabysite.com/causes/characteristics-of-the-spirited-child/. To explain Cailey, just put the opposite for each thing listed :)

Cailey is very out going, has an attitude and says the funniest things.  She starts Kindergarten on Monday the 15th.   If Cailey wasn't so good, maybe Kymber wouldn't seem so bad LOL.

Jerime works lots of hours right now, being promoted and really moving up in the company.  Very proud of him.

Somedays I just feel like screaming and running away.... but it's all worth it.