18 Months Old

Kaelyn is now 1 and a half!!! Wow!! That went fast. She is such a delight to us and keeps us in stitches all the time and brings us to joyful tears often. She loves making animal noises and spotting animals and pretending to be animals. It is so cute. She is talking in sentances now and tells us that she loves us. She seems to really love Grammy because she says out of the blue, "Grammy, I love you". We have to ask her to say it to us. I know that will change. Grammy loves it.
Today, Kaelyn had her dr's appointment and it went very well. Stats are 27lbs 4oz (75-90%), 32in (50-75%) and her head is in the 90th percentile. The Dr. told us that Kaelyn is functioning developmentally like a 2 and a half year old. While she was sitting there getting examined, she all of a sudden said "pee pee". We had to take a potty break in the middle, but is fabulous that recently she has gotten better at telling us that she needs to go. Dr. A was very patient with us. We sadly had to tell him that this will hopefully be our last visit because of our move.(hopefully meaning that we don't want kaelyn to get sick enough to have to come back in.)
Kaelyn loves listening to music in the car. If she doesn't have her music on, she lets you know, but she is learning to appreciate mom and dad's music too. I think that is all for now.
Don't take my picture mom, just let me outside PEEESSSE!!!!!
It was finally cold enough to get all bundled up in our coat and gloves. She looked cute and enjoyed her gloves.
The other day I found her in my craft/laundry room having found my bag of ribbons. She took a few off of the reels. It was quite a moment of exploration.

Animal noises

So, our cute toot has been up to a lot of learning these days, both good and bad. The good is that she has master most any animal noise we can think of and imitate. She has started to pretend to be animals which is so much fun. The best is when she comes out of the bath with her lion towel and walks around roaring and then laughing. She loves reading her books, more by herself than with mommy or daddy, but that is ok for now. She continues to aquire new tastes and food is always a plus around here. If she doesn't eat well it most often means that she is sick or that she is stressed. We have occasionally had the battle of wills but have learned that a time or two in time out fixes it very quickly.

Kaelyn is finding more and more ways to entertain herself as well, her favorite being a tub of beans and things to pour them into. Putting things in and out is the most interesting thing for her now. She has also figured out how to get the water dispensor on the fridge to work. Thank goodness for the built in lock system. Same goes for the buttons on the washer and dryer and the dishwasher.

She has gotten to spend lots of time with some friends over the past two weeks, at mom's group and our new Bible study. At the Bible study, she would go outside and play and after a few minutes, would walk back in and find me, give me a hug, say momma, momma, and then go back outside and play. She just wanted to know that I was still there. She is very afraid of me leaving right now. Whenever Grammy comes by or we go and see her, Kaelyn gets very clingy and doesn't want much to do with Grammy. If I budge from my spot, especially if I go anywhere near the door, she starts to cry or whine. Tender time right now for her.

Let's see, what else has happened in the last two weeks for our Kaelyn. She has enjoyed so much getting to see daddy lots lately. She still has her days where she wants mommy instead, but she doesn't cry if I leave and she is with dad. In the video you can see what they have been upto.


We had two days of no accidents, but that didn't last long. Right now, there seems to be a potty protest, but oh well, give it a little time and tender love and hopefully the wheels will turn back around. Enjoy the pics.




Itsy Bitsy Spider, her favorite song

So innocent

She loves feeding her animals

Watching the ducks at Hafer Park
Now, she has started a new trend, arm and face painting with the finger painting. Boy was that a mess to clean up. Thankfully the paint washed out of the clothes. Time for painting aprons.
Bubble baths are always fun with daddy
She looks so grown up doing the dishes

She looked so cute in the hat and we weren't fast enough to get the camera, so this was the reaction when we tried to put it back on.
Her new thing is to slosh her water around in her mouth before swallowing

Potty Stories

The realm of pottying has beena wonderful adventure around here lately. We seem to have really gotten the nack of this thing down as long as Kaelyn and I tag team it. For the last week, we have managed 1 to 2 accidents a day, and most of those have been in the evening or when she is outside. She has been so cute about it and gets so excited when she goes. She has gotten used to using other peoples potties too. Yeah, I don't have to carry the potty in my bag everywhere. It stays in the car, but it doesn't have to always go in now. Today, she came running to me and said "pee pee" pointing to her panties and we ran to the potty and she went. As of late, her saying "pee pee" has been an after the fact thing, so this was an awesome step in the right direction. She is dry most mornings now and at nap times, so my diaper wash has been almost nothing. I have really enjoyed learning so much through this process and Kaelyn enjoys being successful. One of her new favorite things is to put on her Elmo panties. We only wear these in the house for now, but you mention them and she goes buserk, "elmo, elmo, elmo" over and over again. She won't let you help her put them on. Of course she doesn't quite have the nack down yet, but her efforts are priceless. She most often gets both feet in one hole and then tries to pull them up and starts whining. It is really cute except for the whining.

She can say her Name

Kaelyn said her first and last name today. I was trying to get her to coroporate with something and so I was using her full name. Next thing I know she is saying "Kayin Gurmin". It was too cute. And then she counted to ten two times while we were playing with a mancala board. She skips out on seven but belts out eight and gets all excited when she says ten.

Another cute thing was that she was coloring a picture yesterday and when she was done she came into the kitchen and put it in the trash can, opened the drawer with the towels in it and then started scrubing the floor with it and then proceeded to wipe of her table and then unfortunately her nose. Yum yum. She certainly is an imetater. And she has started to crawl around like different animals and makes animal noises. I love it because it is a game she will let me play with her.

Amazing

Friday was an amazing day for Kaelyn. When Kevin came home from Lawton, Kaelyn saw him at the door and started saying daddy, daddy, daddy really loud and running toward the door. She gave him a huge hug and kisses. She has never done this before to either of us when we come home from being gone any amount of time. It was so very precious. She used to just snub us when we came home as to say, "I'll teach you to leave me again".


The other amazing thing that she did on this fabulous Friday was count to 6 almost all by herself. I don't even remember what it was that we were counting, but I said one, then she said one, two, I said three and then out of the blue she said three, four, five, six. She had only ever said one two before and all of our counting books only go up to five, so I have no idea how she learned six. They pick up things so stinkin fast.


She has been working with Grammy doing a cute song with actions called Teddy Bear. I had done it with her maybe two times before and when we did it this weekend, she did all of the hand motions. it was too cute. I am going to try and get it on video soon. We love our onry cute toot. That is all for now.




She looks too grown up in this pic. She is sporting her new recycled wool shorties I experiment with making.
I also made some flannel fitted diapers. I like them a lot.
Love the open mouth before the bite is even on the spoon. I know, maybe not appropriate, but this is after her bath running around with her lion towel on her head and for some reason carrying a Supernanny book. She was having lots of fun.
checking out the cute baby lions at the zoo. They are starting to get big now and were playing lots, putting their paws on the glass.