Changing / growing so quickly!

Kaylee’s changing so much all the time, it’s hard to keep up and hard to remember what I’ve already recorded…but here goes…

For the past month or so, she has started to say complete sentences to us a lot of the time, examples of what she says to give an idea are:
“Can you help me with this?”
“Daddy, can you fix this?”
“Mommy, can I hold you?” This is her asking me to hold her, which is so so cute, I haven’t corrected her grammar.

Her vocalizations also translate into her self-play. She still loves to play with her baby doll. She loves to take its diaper off and put it on again…she says to her baby, “Are you poopy? Legs up! Time to change you! Owww, you got poopies in there. I’m gonna wipe you.” It’s so cute to see her doing this, it can keep her busy for a long time. It’s cute to see her reflecting things that happen to her everyday, it gives an interesting perspective on her experience to us. She also walks her baby around in the toy stroller we got for her birthday and says, “Does cutie pie want a ride in the stroller? Here we go.”

Kaylee was playing the other day with the neighbor girls (4 and 7, almost 5 and 8). It’s her favorite pastime. They were coloring with chalk and she drew her first triangle. She yelled out, “TRIANGLE!” as if surprised, then called the neighbor girls over to see her triangle, very proud of herself. She continues to try to draw one, and managed one other one. Other shapes she says she’s drawing but they aren’t those shapes. Mostly she’s progressed from just scribbles a couple months ago, to lines to lines concentrated on other images (like faces in a coloring book). One time she was drawing lines calling out that they were Kaylee, Mommy, Daddy, etc…

Kaylee sings lots of songs. She will also sing songs made up herself to tunes she knows well. She was singing a song the other day, calling out all the other things in the room in her singing, including us and then ending with a very loud “Poo!” All I can say, is having a kid is so fun and it reminds you totally that once you weren’t worried about a thing – that you could just be totally silly, uninhibited and pure in everything you did. Being a parent is so fun because you witness that in your child, it’s so refreshing. Reminds you what’s really important…

Kaylee and I made her her first fort the other day to play in. She was wanting to hide under the covers so much I was getting claustrophobic, so I put together a fort and she liked it very much and took a whole bunch of books into her “house” to read.

Kaylee fell the other day at the playground and (we think) sprained her ankle. She and her Daddy were chasing each other up to go down the slide (“Again, Again!”) She was shocked by the feeling of the injury and tried to walk, limping right away but still trying to climb and play and then finally when she got on all fours to crawl across the play equipment, we decided it was time to pick her up and take her home. She limped all night but then luckily in the morning, she woke up with no limp and was fine again. Now she tells the story, “We slide and then I fell down Kaboom! and say “owwie”. Daddy picked up and hold you and we hug…”

Kaylee now sits on the potty lid on the big toilet, but still hasn’t gone. I am in no rush but encouraging signs are she will wake up after a nap or an entire night dry (not always) and she will tell you she’s peeing/pooping while she’s doing it. So she’s getting to that level of consciousness about it that would be required to potty-train.

I have my ultrasound next Friday at the this time. We’re very excited to find out that baby’s okay and the sex! Can’t wait. Kaylee and Eric went with me looking for something in the maternity store yesterday. She left my sight for a moment and then I asked her, “Kaylee what are you doing?” She said, “Mom, I’m looking at the clothes.” She left the store with a whiney, cry pulling on the dresses as we went, she loved the clothes. She’s already a girly, girl what can I say??? She also liked to try on the baby bumps they have to help you try under clothes to estimate your growth in the next trimester. She said, “Mom, look, I have a baby bump!”