Happy Birthday Kaylee

Kaylee is 2!! I can't believe how fast time has flown!! Here are some fun things about Kaylee at 2 years old:

1. Her favorite foods these days are her "ready-set-go-milk," granola for cereal, her smoooovie (smoothie), cottage cheese of course, and she loves oatmeal of all things!  

2. Kaylee got a baby doll for Christmas that she named "Baby Lauren."  I'm not sure why she chose that name, other than the fact that she got to know her cousin Lauren over Christmas time.  She has another older baby doll that looks almost the same.  She can tell the difference though, and it is so funny!  I can cover up both babies in blankies with only their head sticking out, and she can tell me which baby is Baby Lauren, and which one is Baby.  At night and at naps she will hold each baby doll in one arm and fall asleep that way.  When she is upset or sad, she always asks for Baby Lauren.  It is sweet to see that she finds comfort in her baby doll, as if it is real.  She finds comfort in something humanlike.  

3. Kaylee has been experimenting with going potty.  She will go potty on demand really well.  She can't tell me, though, that she has to go yet.  That will take time.  But if I know she probably needs to go, I can plop her on her little potty and she will do it.  She gets all excited when she does, and wants to participate in dumping it into the big potty and flushing it away.  One time, she actually went poop in the potty.  She stood up to look at her results and exclaimed, "Ice Cream!"  She thought her poop looked like a scoop of chocolate ice cream.  That was the funniest thing I had ever heard from my kids learning to go potty!  I won't forget that one!!

4. Kaylee loves to read.  Her favorite book these days is Bob the Builder: Happy Birthday Bob.  She will read this book over and over and over again!  She loves how Wendy bakes a cake for Bob and then they all surprise him after he's done at work.  And she loves to sing the birthday song to Bob!  Another of her favorites lately is "the doctor book."  This is an Usbourne First Experiences book that has a story about going to the doctor.  We read it over a few times before I had to take her in to see the doctor, just to prepare her for the stethoscope and the otoscope, etc.  She still hated the doctor when we went, but now she just loves reading about the doctor in the book.  I think the book came to life for her when we went to see a real doctor, and the doctor did the same things to her as he did in the book.  I think she thought that was neat.  So we read "the doctor book" over and over too!

5. Kaylee loves to sing.  She is a great little singer that stays in tune too.  Her favorite songs these days are "Give Said the Little Stream," "Twinkle, Twinkle," and "I am a Child of God. I would not be surprised if one day she really did learn to sing well.

6. Kaylee is really funny about medicine.  We've been sick a lot the last month and she's had to have ibuprofen, tylenol, and some antibiotics for ear infections.  She would put up the biggest, most horrific fight over taking these medicines, that we were blown away!  We tried to trick her by sneaking them into her smoothie, ice cream, milk, chocolate milk, yogurt, etc...etc....She could sense that it tasted different and would say "no like it."  We even tried chewables and told her they were candy.  It was horrible to have to force her to take them!  We tried playing games, everything!! Finally after several days of this, she realized that whether she liked it or not, she would have to take the medicine.  So we got her to take them by alternating a tiny sip of medicine with a big sip of chocolate milk, over and over again till the meds were down.  What a stinker!! 

7. Kaylee loves Baby Dawson.  She loves him to pieces.  She smothers him with her love.  She brings him toys.  She undoes his buttons and takes off his diaper to change him.  She feeds her baby dolls on the couch next to me while I am feeding her brother.  She adores him.  It is really sweet to see her love him so very much and want to take care of him.  I'm so glad she was not jealous or bitter towards him, but rather, she loves him like he is her own baby doll!!

8.  Kaylee loves storytime at the library!  She loves the stories, the books, the songs, the bubbles, the scarfs, the shakers, the wheels on the bus, the puppets, and the toys.  It is a great story time.  Her little friends that she enjoys it with are Ari and Rhett, and Carter.  

We love you Kay Kay!! You are our joy!  Happy Birthday to You!!