Keeping Up with the Taylor Tots

Thursday, November 13, 2014

The Lost Summer of 2014

This was a tough summer for our family but we are so thankful for the love and support of our friends and family. We FINALLY moved back into our house just before Halloween. It will take a little while to get settled back in but I’m planning to catch up on blogging now, before I get TOO far behind.

A few notable events over the summer:

Elise is still a string bean, 10^th percentile for length and 75^th for height at her 6 and 9 month check ups. She is sitting up, crawling around and even pulling herself up to standing now. Such a big girl! She’s eating solids and has even moved to more table food recently. She's a great eater! She says Da Da - still working on Ma Ma. J She got her first tooth in September and they're coming in fast and furious now - she has 6 teeth now! She’s an absolute delight! Now, if only she would sleep through the night.

Ashton has become such a little boy – no traces of baby at all. Sniff, sniff. He started going to the Goddard School 2 days a week in August and has recently transitioned to full time. It’s been such a great experience for him – he’s learning lots of new stuff and is making great progress on potty training. The power of positive peer pressure! He’s such a sweet, funny little guy!

Looking forward to a fun-filled holidays!

Hotel fun!

Elise's 1/2 bday

Jeff's bday

Off to school!

YUM!

Love,

K & J

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Weekend in the Woods

In honor of our 5^th wedding anniversary, where ‘wood’ is the traditional gift, we rented a cabin outside of Mohican State Park. The park is about 1.5 hours from our house, making it the perfect spot for a quick weekend getaway. We had lots of fun relaxing at the cabin, hiking, making campfires and smores, visiting a local farm and eating picnics. Ashton had such a good time that he cried when we got home. :)

Love,

K & J

Friday, June 13, 2014

Mother's Day

Mother’s Day was a beautiful spring day and I had a lovely day out with three of my favorite people. I got to sleep in an extra half hour, which was a great start to the day! We then went to church and on to brunch where we had a delicious meal and an outstanding bloody mary. And bc it was a special day, after brunch, we went to get ice cream. Ashton was in heaven! We walked around downtown a bit and then headed home for a group nap. :) We capped off the day with a yummy bbq of oysters, shrimp and chicken and a wagon walk around our neighborhood. Such a wonderful day and so thankful for my beautiful darlings – I’m a very lucky mama!

Tummy time!

Love,

K & J

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Elise's Room

There was a great debate in the Taylor household while I was pregnant with Elise…to move? Or not to move? We ended up deciding to stay put and turn our former office into Elise’s room. It’s a tiny room – I’m talking no closet tiny. I like to think of it as cozy. :)

In any event, some of you will know that I love dragonflies and so we decided to go with this as a loose ‘theme’ for the room. And while I love pink, I kinda wanted something different, so we went with aqua and purple. It was a bit of a labor of love bc I don’t think we got more than 2 pieces at any one single store but it all seemed to come together in the end. Elise especially seems to love the chandelier and all of the light that it casts and Ashton always asks to touch the dragonflies. For a room that was once lovingly referred to as a closet (you know who you are!), we are happy with the end result!

Love,

K & J

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter this year! Of course, it was made extra nice with the addition of Elise and as an added bonus, Grammy was in town also. And as if all of that wasn’t enough…the weather finally cooperated and we had a beautiful day!

Both A & E made it through Easter mass pretty uneventfully and were great dining companions at brunch. Later that day, we opened Easter baskets and had an Easter egg hunt for Ashton, which he loved! Not sure what he was more excited about…running around the yard finding the eggs or opening them up to find rubber snacks and lizards. J