Tap Dancing

Spring Weather

We are having a blast with the spring weather. It is so nice to get outside. Kaelyn has been asking to go out all the time and keeps herself pretty occupied out there playing with the goats or digging in the dirt or trying to figure out how daddy's trailer works. The only vice of outside has been the peeing in the dog house. It is inevitable. We are officially potty trained except for that and night times, so the dog house is now off limits (locked) as of today. Kaelyn has hopped over that last hurdle in day time potty training to where she takes herself to the potty or tells us she needs to go. She has gone 5 days now without an accident aside from the dog house. We are so proud and can now be in big girl panties full time (no more training pants).
Kaelyn has been saying some fun things lately that just keep us rolling. Today she out of the blue said "Christmas morning" several times in a row. I was like ok, Christmas morning, what brought that up. Well, there was a gift bag sitting on the counter from my grandmother for her and she was thinking it was a Christmas present. It was so cute and amazing that at this age she is remembering things from several months ago just out of the blue. I loved it.

Some of my favorite phrases are "mommy, hold you?" for hold me, "bye bye, see you ater" for see you later. She has also been mixing up her sentances and it is so cute like her saying, "help you dishes do". She has helped a couple of times with the dishes (really just playing in the bubbles) and anytime she sees me doing them she goes over and gets her chair and pulls it over. I love it.

Here is a favorite conversation as of late:
Kaelyn: mommy, watch couple streets couple minutes? (Seasame street podcasts)
Mommy: not right now
Kaelyn: ummmm, watch Cars, minute?
Mommy: no, we aren't watching TV right now?
Kaelyn: ummm, watch Dora
Mommy: what did mommy say?
Kaelyn: watch Liego (Diego)
Mommy: mommy said no
Kaelyn: ok mommy

Oh there is so much to Post

Kaelyn has been a bundle of joy as well as a bit of a toot lately. Everyday is an adventure that is fun and keeps us on our toes. She has made the transition to a big girl bed very well. We ended up having to rig up a side rail, but it works well. She did great for two nights and then the next night she fell out twice. Poor baby. I felt bad, but problem fixed now. She has decided to test me a bit though and has climbed out of her bed and gotten a toy or her shoes and runs straight back to bed. Too little to know that mommy can figure that out easily when she wakes up with shoes on or is caught throwing a ball out of her bed. She is sneaky though and hardly makes any noise now once I put her to bed. The other issue is her taking off her pj's and diaper every night. I have come to discover that she is sweaty lots, so I can't get too mad, but it still requires having to go in and put them back on before I go to bed. Otherwise she wakes up cold and or wet. There is always an adventure.

We are having a blast with all of the things that she comes up with to say. She is talking so much. I love it when she asks, "how you doin day?" She says,"help you" for help me, and loves to tell us who things belong to. "Mommy's cup, daddy's chair". Today she was talking about Wyoming. Today while I was fixing her hair, she said, "more, more" I asked more what, and she said "more daddy" She wanted her daddy home. She is also really into noises. "Hear dat, mommy? Choo train" or "airplane" or "uh oh, what's that" or "daddy's home!!" It is so cute.

She has become a bit of a stinker though when it comes to doing what mommy or daddy says. She has started flailing some and screaming and running the other way when she is asked to do something. It is a bit frustrating I must say, but she wouldn't be a normal kiddo is this didn't happen though. It is teaching me to be sensitive to what is important to her and teaching us better to communicate. The time out chair is a common occurance right now. This to will pass. Along with it though as come a purposeful "I am going to find another place to pee instead of the potty" situation. She knows when she needs to go and goes to other specific places to do her deed now. We were doing so well. It will click soon. I hope that having daddy home consistantly will help this along. I think that is enough for one post.

which ball should I throw first
Kaelyn loves to get in her rocking chair and read. Her favorite book to read is her "Bible stories" That blesses our hearts so much. She has been talking about the things God made and about baby Moses in the basket. Too precious.
Yes, I let my daughter play with pins. Crazy I know, but she wanted to help me while I was sewing and this kept her occupied for a long time instead of her being in my lap while I was trying to run the sewing machine. She felt like she was helping because mommy was using the pins too.
Dress up has become lots of fun lately. Don't you love the outfit. She loves her "ballet" costumes.
Miss cool sitting at her table.
Just lounging around. She looked so cute today and I just wanted to squeeze her onry self all day long if she would let me. Growing up too fast, but each step is soooo much fun.
Cute stuff
"Look it mommy, look it" She has decided that coloring on herself is more fun than on paper. Well, she knows otherwise, but that didn't stop her from looking at mommy to see if I was looking before she took the marker to her face. She said "uh oh" as soon as she noticed I saw what she was doing.

New Big Girl Bed

Kaelyn has done great transitioning into her toddler bed. We took the crib rail off on Monday and she has stayed in her bed now for two nap times and one night time. She is on her second night time right now, and is not asleep yet, but is in her bed. Yeah!!! I thought this was going to be soooo much harder. I hope she keeps this up. Here bed doesn't have a rail on it, but she seems to be doing well with it. We thought we would give it a test last night before we invested in one. She has done great so far. We will get one if we need it though.

Kaelyn Funnies

Today Kevin was teasing Kaelyn and trying to tickle her and she put a grumpy face on and didn't want him to touch her so she said, "My kitty cats, my kitty cats!!!" She had on a shirt that had kitties all over it. We hadn't talked about the kitties or anything or that it was her shirt. It was so out of the blue and funny.

Oh, and it looks like we are going to have to move her to a toddler bed soon. She has been trying to climb out of her crib. I was hoping to wait until we got to Wyoming, but we may have to hurry.