100 Things I want to do with Kaylee

This was an original post on the Journey to Me journal. I have had so many responses to it, I was asked to share it on this blog. The original posts were done in four parts, but here is all 100.

1. Rock her to sleep. 2. Go to the zoo and meet the polar bears. 3. Bake cutout cookies for every holiday and decorate them with icing and sprinkles 4. Go to Build a Bear and actually look like I belong there! 5. Go to Chik-fil-a and watch her play in the play area 6. Teach her how to play the piano 7. Share with her about the love of God. 8. Dress her 5 times a day (there are plenty of clothes for that!) 9. Go to Walt Disney movies at the theatre 10. Sit for hours and color in coloring books 11. Go to the park and play with the dogs 12. Finally go to a mother-daughter tea as a mother. 13. Start new Christmas traditions 14. Go see Santa at the mall 15. Go see the Easter Bunny at the mall 16. Sit and read story books 17. Sing her lullabies 18. Sit outside and play on the blanket 19. Have a picnic in the living room for lunch 20. Buy Father's Day cards and presents for her Daddy 21. Fill up the bathtub with bubbles and watch her play 22. Painting pumpkins at Halloween together 23. Showing her how to lick the cake beaters 24. Go to McDonald's and actually order a Happy Meal 25. Pick out the perfect Halloween for Grandma to make 26. Make homemade pizza with all our favorite toppings 27. Sing songs together 28. Make play dough masterpieces 29. Have tea parties 30. Make Mickey Mouse pancakes 31. Play Candyland and Memory 32. Go to the mall and finally push a stroller 33. Exchange priceless stories about MY daughter 34. Fold tiny clothes 35. Finally get to check on my daughter in the nursery at church 36. Buy baby food and toddler snacks 37. Wash beautiful black hair 38. Give kisses to my very own baby 39. Make presents for her daddy 40. Fill up a stocking with "Kaylee" on it 41. Clean the crumbs out of the back seat 42. Wipe runny noses and dry tiny tears 43. Finally have a child to take to all the kid birthday parties I am invited to. 44. Make birthday cakes and plan birthday parties 45. Share our adoption story 46. Buy a play house 47. Sit and stare at her most beautiful face 48. Go to Baskin Robbins and eat blue icecream 49. Teach her about Noah, Creation, and Jonah and the Whale 50. Watch her as she sleeps in her crib and get on my knees and thank God about for the most wonderful gift. 51. Watch her put her first tooth under her pillow and then see the smile on her face when she wakes up 52. Sit for hours and blow bubbles and drive the dogs crazy 53. Read the same book for the 100th time and still enjoy it like the first time 54. get really dirty 55. Roast marshmellows and force Daddy to eat one (he doesn't like them !) 56. Watch her scream at a spider one day and hand me a bug the next day (thanks, Jan, for that one!) 57. Snuggle with her after she crawls out of her bed and into our bed. 58. Teach her how to tie her shoes (no velcro please!) 59. Chase her from the bathtub as she runs naked and free giggling and squealing with delight as i call her back to the bathtub! 60. Watch her as she tries to glue everything in the house to construction paper 61. Watch her try to ride the goats (the goats are not here any longer, but I am sure she will try to ride something with four legs) 62.Watch a Pooh Bear movies on a blustery night sipping hot chocolate when she has a cold (thanks, Jan, again!) 63. Watch her walk around the house in my size 10 shoes or daddy's size 12 boots! 64. Watch MY daughter sing her heart out in the children's program 65. Make cupcakes to take to her class party 66. Watch her attempt to wrap presents and play in all the ribbons and bows to just wrap herself. 67. See her smile when she first wakes up 68. Watch her ride with daddy on his BIG Kubota tractor. 69. Make snow angels 70. Listen to her babble in the monitor 71. Hear the word "Momma" and know that it means me! 72. Mail Kaylee's picture in the holiday greeting card 73. Catch lightning bugs and keep them in a jar. 74. Hear her squeal when she catches her very first fish in the pond with Daddy. 75. Exchange kisses and hugs every night at bedtime ( I just can't wait for that one) 76. Lay in the backyard on a blanket and watch the clouds go by. 77. Lay on the blanket at night and count the stars 78. Take her to Incredible Pizza 79. Ride in the Tahoe and sing " You are my sunshine" at the top of our lungs 80. Make the most incredible ice cream sundae to share with a mountain of whipped topping 81. Take her to Target and shop (mommy's favorite store) 82. Take her to the mall to ride the carousel 83. Comfort her after a bad dream. 84. Take her to get her nails done (and toenails!) 85. Drive her around to see all the Christmas lights 86. Watch her eyes light up the first time she sees fireworks 87. Put out marshmellows for Santa's reindeer. 88. Mail a letter to Santa 89. Display her latest artistic masterpiece 90. Pat her sweet little bottom to sleep 91 Watch her dress herself for the first time 92. Dress her in her dance costume for her first recital 93. Show her how to plant a flower 94. Pick out Valentines 95. Lay in the bed and have a long conversation 96. Peel the apple so she will eat it 97. Have a movie marathon, complete with popcorn and Dr. Pepper, with "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, "Charlotte's Web", "The Wizard of Oz", and "The Grinch". 98. Watch "Rudolph", "Frosty", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", " A Year without a Santa Claus", and "Jack Frost" while decorating the Christmas Tree. 99. Make homemade Christmas Ornaments. 100. Love her and hold her and tell that she is my sugar pie honeybunch, pumpy, upmy , umpkin, she's my sweetie pie, she's my cuppie cake gumdrop, snookem, snookem, snort, the apple of my eye!

This is the end of the first 100 , but it is so addicting, I am sure we will have a second 100 things.. sequel coming soon!