After a few rainy days, finally it's beautiful in Minnesota! During the rainy weather, Kaylee's daycare provider did an excellent job of keeping the kids active and engaged. On Wednesday of last week, they went to Chucky Cheese and Kaylee won her first prize. She wouldn't let the kids keep their prizes out so when Eric came to get Kaylee that day. She screeched, reaching for her coat, "Pocket! Ring!" He didn't know about a ring and didn't know what to do, but she insisted, "POCKET! RING!" and he found her winnings - a little green glittery ring with a hand on it.

Then the next day, her daycare went to (her husband owns a business where they have those bouncy things for kid parties) bounce in one of those blow-up things. You can see the photos below. She said Kaylee was unsure of what to do at first, sitting down in there and watching and then slowly started bouncing on her butt and then ramped up to a full-on bounce with the other kids. We've noticed in general Kaylee is a cautious kid and not overly physical - she takes a while to feel comfortable. She had so much fun at the end of the day she bounded over, bouncing and saying "Momma! Boing Boing Boing!"

Kaylee's new favorite thing to throw into her sentences/stories is "around the corner." She has just learned this one and is anxious to include it all the time, "Daddy is around the corner." "I dropped it - I pick it up just around the corner."

Kaylee really likes large trucks, buses, airplanes, etc. Her new favorite is the garbage truck. She has yelled out for quite a while, "Shool bus" but now she adds, "Garbage truck!" She helped ERic in throwing something in the garbage, calling herself the "garbage man." She also has begun to love to identify motorcycles. When she sees a car on the street when we're playing outside or taking a walk, she cried "Car!" She's very aware that she is not supposed to be in the street when there is a car. She tells the neighbor girls not to get too closed to the end of our driveway while playing and I've had to explain to her it's okay for me to check the mail because Mommies and Daddies know how to check for cars and be careful.

For her birthday she received some very nice shape puzzles. She can put them all together. She knows circle, triangle, oval, square and rectangle. She has trouble doing the triangles and needs help. It's cute to see her have a sense of accomplishment at finishing on and moving on to the next.

Yesterday was the first time Kaylee told me, "I love you" without any prodding from me or my saying it first. I was drawing with chalk on the driveway and she turned all the sudden to me and said "Momma I love you." I melted of course! I have heard her say without any prompting "Daddy I love you" before too. :)

A boy at Kaylee's daycare really likes her and yells out "Kaylee! Kaylee!" when he first sees her. His mom said at home he calls her, "My Kaylee." He is a little over 3 years old.

Kaylee loves to dress herself up (kind of strange). Yesterday I found her playing in her room with a winter hat on, mittens, a bib, and boots. She wore this get-up most of the morning. I asked her if she wanted to put on her dress-up stuff and wanted a wand and the answer was no. She was happy just inventing it herself. :)

Kaylee tells little stories and they are not always true. We have heard her say that someone hit her when we know that they didn't and she's said she's hit us when she hasn't. She uses it to create the drama and then do the "hugs and kisses, I'm sorry momma." Very strange, I've read about this on-line and it sounds like kids her age just do this. They are finding out about the power of the language abilities and testing it out.

opps, being called by little one. GOtta go. have a great rest of thew eekend!