The World Needs More Ninjas

I really should try to do a better job updating our blog here. There are so many impressive and funny things that Kaelyn does and I should share them with our loyal readers as well as have it be a little record book for my own memory (which is notoriously horrible).

Kaelyn is now 19 months old and baby girl #2 is 32 weeks developed in my belly. We still have not decided on a name for baby girl. I’m not sure what we are going to do or how we are going to make that decision, but we are SO ready to just decide! At the moment it is still between Lila or Evie.

Kaelyn is really talking up a storm these days. She knows all her ABCs like I mentioned before and recognizes all of her numbers from zero to ten. She is just starting to count on her own as well. For example I was counting her toes this morning “1, 2, 3, 4, 5″ and then she adds in “6, 7, 9, 10.” Nevermind the missing number 8.

It seems she can say pretty much anything she wants and will repeat everything you say (watch out!). She is stringing together two and three word phrases as well. It is so fun to hear what her little mind is thinking about and also helpful to know when she wants something. Here’s a cute example…the other night Matt heard Kaelyn saying something in her bed and he went in to check on her and she was wrestling around saying “leg stuck, leg stuck!” Apparently her leg was wrapped up in her covers and she couldn’t get it out.

Kaelyn LOVES to be outside and enjoyed several egg hunts over the past few weeks. We spend lots of time at the playground these days where she is getting more and more brave every time we go. She is also a dancer. We go to a music time at a local coffee shop each week and she will stand right up at the front and just dance and dance the entire time and do all the motions to the songs. If I turn a CD on at home she will dance for the entire length of the CD.

Kaelyn is such a fun and loving girl. She is really sensitive and cares deeply for others. I think she is going to be an amazing big sister! Just this morning we were at library story time where we just moved up to the next age level and I wasn’t sure how she would like it. It is longer than the baby story time and has activities that require more focus. She just listened and listened, and I was impressed that she focused for that long. One of the things they did was a puppet show. The puppet show was about this rabbit who had her kite stuck in a tree. All these other animals came along to try to help the rabbit get the kite down but none of them could help. Kaelyn was so sensitive. She literally started crying every time the animal would leave without helping get the kite! Finally a wind came along (all the kids blew) and the kite was rescued.

Okay, I’m sure I could keep going and going and thinking of more stories to share, but I didn’t intend to write a book here. I will hopefully do better (at least for the next 8 weeks) on sharing the updates.