National Trails Day

Well, last weekend was National Trails Day, so we loaded up on Saturday morning and went to hike along the shores of Lake Texoma.  We loaded up 3 hard boiled eggs, 2 pieces of toast, a banana, some Cheerios and raisins, 3 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, some cheese sticks, pretzels and cliff bars and 4 liters of water and hit the road.  Kaylee and Michelle ate breakfast in the car.  It was a good thing that we took so much food, because we forgot our wallets and could not buy lunch on the way home.  We started hiking at 9:30 from Juniper point.  We passed lots of beatiful areas and it was mostly shaded.  There was also lots of poisin Ivy, but we all came home itch free, although Kaylee and I used several of the poisin ivy wipes at each stop.  Kaylee was a big help.  She took the picture below and would hold Mom’s hand to help her up the steep parts.

 Michelle wanted to carry Keslyn’s kid carrier pack so that I would be free to catch Kaylee in case she wanted to jump off of a cliff or something.  Keslyn seemed to really enjoy the ride in the carrier.  She really enjoys anything outdoors. 

We saw a few trail runners out on the trail.  one man passed us several times.  He told us that he was preparing for a race next month, but still had time to talk to us each time that he passed.  He was running laps on the 2.5 mile section of the trail that we were on (for a round trip of 5 miles).  He passed us about 4 times and I am guessing that he was running 15 to 25 miles for the day.  After the 3rd time, Kaylee decided that she would be a trail runner also and stopped him the next time that he came by to say that she was going to a race next month also.  He said that he “would see her at the starting line”.  The pictures below show Kaylee practicing for the race.

 

 We stopped somewhere around 1.5 miles for a break.  Keslyn got to get out of the pack and Kaylee got her feet wet and throw rocks in the water. 

 

After we all had a little rest and something to eat, Kaylee and I decided to go look around.  I saw a log that was leaning against some other trees at an angle about a foot above the ground. 

It looked like there was hair growing on the bottom of the log so we went closer to see what it was.

When we got closer, we found that it was a huge colony of Daddy long leg spiders.  They were covering 5 to 6 feet of the underside of the log.  They were moved in so close to one another that it was hard to tell them apart.  There were thousands of them.  Kaylee and I went and got mom and Keslyn to show them the spectacular find and then take some pictures.  Kaylee is starting to take some good pictures.  After that, we loaded up and hiked back home.  Overall, we went close to 3 miles. 

Kaylee had 1/2 a peanut butter jelly sandwich and the last hard boiled egg for lunch.  Michelle had peanut butter sandwich and pretzels.  I ate a sandwich and a warm Dr. Pepper as we drove home.  Everyone napped on the way home except for me.  Keslyn had already started napping, as you can see.

Keslyn’s first photos

Here are Keslyn’s first photos.

 Keslyn with the bow in her hair that they put on in the nursery.  She was supposed to be eating when this picture was taken, but she was sleepy.

Here is Kaylee watching Keslyn while pushing her down the hall from the nursery.

Here is Kaylee holding Keslyn before Kaylee finished her course on how to hold a new born.  In the future, mom and dad will be sure to teach proper techniques first and take pictures second.

Here is Kaylee holding Keslyn a little better. 

Here are the photos that we took as we left the hospital.  We realized that although this was supposed to be a picture about Keslyn, Kaylee was still the focal point of the first picture, se we did a retake.

Sunday morning, Kaylee wanted to watch Dora video with Keslyn.  Kaylee likes Keslyn to be with her when she watches Dora because Swiper scares her.

This is the last picture for now.  You can see Keslyn saying no more pictures.

New Baby Keslyn

Well, Baby Keslyn Ray Kampschroeder is her.  She was born Thursday Morning, December 13 at 3:30 AM.  She weighs 8 lbs and a few tenths of an once.  She was 21 inches long, I think.  She has hair which is brown, and much different than Kaylee who barely had hair.  Keslyn has blue eyes just like Kaylee.  Everything went well.

In November, Michelle had said  that she thought that it would be neat if Keslyn was born on the 13 since hers and Kaylee’s birthday’s are both on the 13 of the respective months.  I should have paid more attention and been a little more prepared.  We did decide that we would hire someone to paint the bedroom instead of doing it ourselves and the painter luckily had to move us up due to other jobs cancelling.  So we did have the room painted and the crib was set up before she was born, but that is about it.  Michelle’s mom and aunt washed and folded lots of clothes the first few days.

A neighbor watched Kaylee until a friend who has a boy and a girl between 5 and 2 years old could come and pick Kaylee up.  Kaylee spent the night at their house and did very well.  She found a open place in the coat closet and kept all of her things organized there.  She slept by her self.  When I called the next morning to tell her that I was going to come and pick her up, she told me that I could wait another day if I wanted.   I decided to pick her up anyway. 

Kaylee did well in the hospital when I took her to see Michelle and Keslyn.  Kaylee at one point was feeding Michelle while Michelle was feeding/holding Keslyn.   I will get pictures out in a seperate one.