Tanganyika!

Yesterday morning we left for Wichita and headed to Tanganyika! It was a blast and by far the best place that we have been to! (not that we have been to very many places lol). Ansley seemed to enjoy herself and we had a blast feeding the animals! We were there two and a half hours and left tired and hungry. Ansley was so tired that she fell asleep at the very end! :)    I would highly recommend going! I took over 130 pics!!

Yes we were that close! We even got to pet them!!

Feeding the lorikeets! We had a blast feeding the birds and giraffe's that we went back twice! Seth got peed on both times lol!

 

feeding the lemurs

Tired baby! Love this pic! more to come! thanks Greg and Teresa for taking us and Ansley says thanks for the giraffe!

Oklahoma Aquarium

Thursday morning we left about 9am for the Oklahoma Aquarium! It took us almost 3 hours to get there and had a great time! If you've never been and have small kids I would highly recommend it! It took us nearly 2 hours to get through the entire thing! Lots of hands on activities for young children to see and touch. You can touch star fish, sting rays, shrimp and lots of other fun sea life! You can also feed the turtles and shrimp!

Zach had to work so we went with grandma Teresa, Great Grandma Carolyn and Aunt Davalyn (who was here visiting from Colorado!) Thanks again for taking us with you we had a great time and can't wait to go back! It was a long day and finally made it home at 5:30. Ansley did great and really seem to enjoy watching the fish!

                                                               Lots to touch!!

The Family

Go check it out!!

Behind!

I'm so behind on blogging that I don't even know where to start! I guess I'll start with the most exciting, Ansley's 9 months pictures are up!!! Big thanks again to Laura for doing another fabulous job and to Zach's grandparents for letting us use there home! Click here and check out all of Ansley's pics! Password: melissa, under client viewing! In just 3 short months we will be doing her 1 year pics :( Time has flown by and a big bithday bash to help celebate!

Zach and I have both started our new jobs and we both seem to be adjusting well and enjoying our new jobs! Big change for me and I'm trying to get use to everything and in time I'm sure I will!

Our basement is officilly complete! It has been for about 2 weeks (see I'm behind) and plan to post pics soon! We love it and it's so nice to have my upstairs back to normal.

Yesterday we went to the Oklahoma Aquarium with Teresa, Carolyn and Davalyn! We had a great time and my next post will be all about our fun!

Sorry for the delay in blogging and hope to get back into the groove SOON!

9 months!

Another month has passed and in only three short months my baby will be one!! Goodness time flies!

• Pulls up to any and everything with no problem
• Has stood by herself for a few seconds a few times, but doesn't seem too interested in walking yet
• hasn't figured out how to walk behind/push her walker
• wearing 6-9 month clothes and size 3 diapers, however at night she wears 12month sleepers
• has 4 teeth and working on the 5th! Teething is not fun!
• refuses to eat baby food! She is a snack junky and is a picky eater!
• She is becoming quite independant and refuses to let us feed her with a spoon or fork
• crawling all over the place
• getting into any and everything that is not a toy!
• Sleeping better at night she may wake up once, but she puts herself back to sleep and is taking naps quite well :)
• refuses to wear headbands so I've started to put clips in her hair
• HATES shoes!
• Loves popsicles! Zach brought home some gatorade popsicles that are delicious!
• Talks and talks to herself and loves making funny noises with her mouth
• Would love to play with our dog Otis, but he is too scared to let her get near him! (we have a retarted dog that is scared of everything. Zach is wanting a new dog that can play with Ansley and is friendly)
• uses a sippy cup with no problems
• usually eats 6oz of formula during the day and 7oz before bed
• Loves to play patty cake, but she won't clap! She will take your hands together and make you clap! Silly girl!
• Loves to dance and will normally dance on command! :)
• waves bye-bye all the time

We just left the doctors office for Ansley 9 month check up and shots! Had 2 shots today! :( Ansley weighed in at 19lbs 5oz (50%) and is 28 3/4 inches long (90%)! Now I know why were in 12 months sleepers! lol I'm still trying to figure out where she is getting the height from! We were up for a couple of hours last night and she offically has her right front tooth in!

Ansley had her 9 month pics taken Sunday by Laura! Can't wait to see them and hope she got some good ones. She was a little cranky after outfit number 1!  Laura does an amazing job and haven't been disapointed yet, so I'm sure they will be great!

I love you so much monkey and I couldn't imagine our lives without you!

Celebrities

Well here we are!! We officially made our first appearance in the Winfield Courier! lol. Its a great picture huh? lol I'm sure your blinded by my white body!! Anyway, Kristi, Ava, Kane, Jeff, Betsy, Emily, Ansley and I decided to go to the pool on Friday! It was a great time and is always nice to catch up with everyone. While we were playing in the baby pool the photographer from the Courier came over and asked if she could take our pic, so here we are!! Kristi and I tried to find a way out of it, but as you can see that didn't happen!

We don't get the paper, but Zach picked us up one on Saturday and I already cut it out of the paper and hope to get it laminated this week for Ansley's baby book!

Ten on Thursday

I'm a little behind on updating so here we go with a ten on Thursday!

1. Big CHANGES in the McCaslin house hold! Zach and I both got offered new jobs and will be starting next week! We actually got offered on the same day! I will be working for Winfield EMS and Zach will be working at Clock's medical supply as a delivery driver! I think we are both a little nervous about the new opportunities, but in the end will be better for our family! I will miss Wichita and the crazy life that people live there, but it will be nice to be closer to home and Ansley if anything ever happened.
2. Swimming and softball are both over for the summer and now we are enjoying our time together in the evenings!

3. Ansley is getting her 9 month pictures taken on Sunday! Very excited! Can't wait to see you Laura! This dress was made by Brandy and I love it!! LOVE IT! She did an awesome job and can't wait to get some pics next to my dad's John Deere tractor in it!
4. Girls weekend is planned for next month and I can't wait to go! We are going to Kansas City! We found an awesome second hand store there last year and are going back in hopes of finding fall/winter clothes and a halloween outfit! :)
5. We offically bought our first can of formula last week! YIKES that stuff is expensive! Since Brandy, Kristi, Jamie and I were all prego at the same time we traded the formula samples that you get in the mail with each other and Zach's cousin had some extra formula from their baby that they generously gave to us! As we were standing in the aisle at Walmart Zach looked at me and said "can't you start producing milk again?" too funny! I'm currently using Similac coupons, but only have 5 more left. :(   if you have any that you aren't using please send them my way! :)
6. Zach was using the weedeater last week and accidently broke out our front door window with a rock! I swear I'm starting to think that being a home owner is not fun!
7. Basement is officially painted and pictures are back on the walls! just waiting on carpet then we are finished! :)
8. Went to my first Tastfully Simple party a couple of weeks ago and received my stuff in the mail last week! If you have never tried or been to party it is AWESOME! I'm thinking about having a party because there is so much stuff that I want to buy!
9. Why is it that everytime I mop the bathroom floor Ansley decides to pee on the floor while her bath water is running?! lol silly girl!
10. I can't leave without a pic of my beautiful monkey!

Cowley County Fair

Ansley made her appearance at the fair this year and I have to admit that she didn't seem too interested! lol Maybe next year she will be able to enjoy herself. Greg and Teresa took her to the fair on Saturday while Zach and I were out of town. We all adventured back Monday evening for her first on the carousel. My parents and Zach's parents helped Ansley enjoy her night. We visited the animals and saw the rides, but was only big enough for the carousel. Before heading home she ate some shaved ice from the snow cone booth. Grandma Teresa tried giving her an actual snow cone, but I wouldn't give in! :) I'm a mean mommy! Our trip to the fair was short lived, only there an hour and a half and headed home for bed! Too hot to stay any longer or go any earlier in the day. I'm ready for fall!

Our First Build a Bear!!!

Last friday Zach took off work early and we headed for wichita with Zach's parents to let ansley build her first build a bear! We decided on a monkey being that Ansley is our little chunky monkey. Ansley was mesmerized during the stuffing watching the lady very closely as she stuffed her monkey! We had alot of clothes to choose from but Ansley finally settled on a cute denim skirt and pink harley shirt! (Daddy didn't have anything to do with that!!!) Grandma and Grandpa McCaslin also bought her a dress and a  Texas Longhorns shirt and hat! Daddy's a Longhorn fan too!

watching her monkey get stuffed and picking out a heart for her

giving her monkey a bath! :)

dressed and ready for a motorcycle ride

My pics are not cooperating today!! So forgive the mess! I'm sure this will not be our last trip to build a bear and I'm sure many more "bears" are to come! :)

very bad: part III

I realized that I haven't blog in a few weeks about the progress that our basement is making! It has been a long month and we still have no finished basement! Things are looking up and as of today painters are here! Trim was put up on Monday and last week Furniture Medics (name is a little ironic for me lol) came and took our entertainment center, coffee table and end tables (thanks Greg for being here when they showed up)! They are going to sand them all down and refinish them and are suppose to be delivered on the 16th! Tomorrow the construction people assured us that the painting will be finished and the carpet was ordered today! we are making PROGRESS!! :)

If you don't remember our trim before was all white. We were not a big fan of the trim and still have the white trim upstairs, but now we have beautiful oak trim with a clear finish! LOVE it!! It looks so much better and will go better with the theme down stairs! I'm hopeful in another week we will be back to living in our basement!! :) 

love the trim! those door are also going to be painted brown like the walls

and of course this little monkey was hollering for me while I ran downstairs to take pics! :)  waiting on mommy!

Swimming lessons with daddy!

We finished up aqua babies last week and Ansley seemed to really enjoy herself. She even received a card stating that she passed swimming lessons! She is such a little fish in the water and I'm so glad  she isn't scared of the water. On her last day of swimming I worked so daddy got to swim with her! Here are the pics from swimming lessons with daddy!