Random update on the wonderful world of a three year old with an attitute...

 We have always had a constant struggle to get Kellyn to eat anything. Last night, she wanted a cookie. She was told that she could only get a cookie if she ate her chicken nuggets. She went into the kitchen to eat her nuggets and about 2 second later came out and said she was ready for her cookie. I asked her if she ate her chicken on all gone, while Ryan went to look at her plate in the kitchen. As he walks in the kitchen I hear Kellyn whisper.. ' don't tell mom'. Seriously?!? Her nuggets were not gone, for anyone wondering.

 Last night while she was going number 2 ( she will thank me for  this someday) she told that she likes to go poo in her bathroom because she is okay with the smell of her own butt. :)

Her new favorite sayings are " You've got to be kidding me", "what in the world", "Oh my Gosh, that is sooooo cute!",

Family pictures- 2012

-Some of our family pictures we got taken.

Batarina!

Kellyn has been sick with a fever basically all week. She missed her school Halloween party yesterday and still had a fever on and off all day.

Luckily, she felt well enough to pose for pictures and to do a little trick-or-treating in our neighborhood.

Ryan was going to be Robin and Kellyn was going to be batman for Halloween this year. Kellyn was super excited because she is really into superheros at the moment. However,when we go to get the costume she HAD to have the 'Batarina'. She has been begging me to let her wear it to school for the last two weeks.  Ryan was really upset that she didn't want to be batman... between you and I- I think he was mostly sad that he no longer had an excuse to buy and wear green tights :)

3 years old!

 It's hard to believe but Kellyn turned three ( almost a month ago). She was sick on the day we had her birthday party planned so we ended up having three parties. Poor girl thinks that her birthday lasts for a week.  Ryan was in charge of the gifts so she got a t-ball set (below), a TON of K-state gear and a golf set.  Luckily others members of our family realize that she is a girl.

An added bonus- cute picture of Kearstie and Khloe!

School update

Kellyn seems to enjoy school, for the most part. She has not been overly willing to discuss school. Mostly she will let me know what she had for snack  (but unless they eat goldfish for snack every day I don't think she is being completely honest).  A few weeks ago I think she had some problems with talking in school because all she would say is that you're not suppose to talk in class.

She went on a field trip to the Pumpkin patch in Lawrence. She appeared to enjoy her self.   Above is a picture with her and some classmates on the swing.

Those kids she is sitting next to are NOT her friends. She likes the one in the K- State jacket the best, but don't get the confused for friendship. Kellyn does not like the kids in her class because they are 'little people' and she does not like 'little people', only 'big people'.  

She also does not need any more friends because she already had three and you can't have more than three friends.   I purchased a book on friends and friendship. We've been reading it nightly. :)  Hopefully she will learn that she can have a lot of friends, or she will soon have none. 

Kellyn's sweet moves

Some recent pics

Kellyn and her 'baby Lucas' chillin'

Kalen's birthday party.

Kellyn and her uncle Preston.

Khloe!

First day of Preschool

Today was a big day in our house. Kellyn started preschool. She has been begging to go to school for the last year, but the last week or so she has had some obvious anxiety about school. She said she did not want to go to school because her teacher would be mean and that she was nervous about making new friends. I acknowledged those fears but ensured her that it would be great and she would love school.

This morning she did not want to go to school unless I was going to stay with her. I finally distracted her enough with her cool new book bag that she HAD to have. I tried to get her to get a hello kitty bag, or a princess bag, but nope. Cars it is. Below is a picture of her bag. 

She finally got excited for school as he were leaving and arriving at the school. When we walked into the school she looked at Ryan and said "this is my school! Do you like it?". We put her bag in her locker and she walked right up to her teacher (whom she had never met) and said "Hi Miss Dana, I'm Kellyn". She then went into her class without telling us bye or anything.

I knew if we went into her class to tell her bye that she would not want us to leave and would cry so I told Ryan that we needed to leave before she sees us. He did not want to leave. I literally had to force him to leave. Then, as we were walking out the door we heard a little girl crying. It sounded like it may have been Kellyn. Ryan had a look a pure sadness and a need to go in and rescue her. I told him that it may not be her and that we needed to leave- she will be fine. 

While waiting to pick her up the Director came up to me and was talking about how Kellyn is so 'out going' We all know that this could be a good or a bad statement. She went on to tell me that she was talking to Kellyn while she was working on a project and Kellyn bluntly told her that she was in her way. She was laughing, but hopefully this isn't the first of many 'talks' we have with her teachers about he attitude.

When she came out of her class she was excited to see me and seemed unharmed-emotionally and physically. I was asking if she made friends, who she sat by, what kind of snack she had and so on and she kept answering all my questions with 'no'. Then she finally said, "I'm tired and do not want to talk to you about school". So unfortunately, I have no other details about her first day of school.

POTS

My very good friend, Rebecca, was diagnosed with POTS disease last year. She is hilarious and her stories about her hundreds of test of procedures are fall over, cry, and pee your pants funny. She has started a blog to chronicle her experience.  I encourage everyone to jump over to http://fabulouswithpots.blogspot.com/ and learn about POTS and read her story.

Happy 30th Birthday Ryan!

Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead

 We took Kellyn to the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead yesterday. It is a really neat farm in Overland Park. It was relatively inexpensive with a lot of activities. Above is Kellyn admiring the Chickens. 

 They have a old one room school house. They have actual lessons every few hours. We did not participate, but Kellyn enjoyed reading an old book.

 Kellyn mined for Rocks. We now have a bag of minerals that I'm sure will be found randomly throughout my house. 

 You are suppose to be three to ride the Pony, but she is practically three and really wanted to ride the pony. She did really well.

 She fed the ducks and geese- this was her favorite thing to do.

 She attempted to bottle feed a goat. However, the goat attacked her and one goat was trying to eat her shirt. So I had to hold her and feed the goat while trying to stop the other seven goats from jumping on me! It was crazy.

Overall, it was a fun day!

 Kellyn has recently become obsessed with having a sister (wonder who put that thought into her head...grandmas?). She is not getting a sister at this point in her life so apparently she made up a sister. She told Nicole that she is going to have a sister. This is obviously far from the truth and when asked why she was telling people things that aren't true she responded with... "mommy, that's the way the cookie crumbles." Upon further questioning I found that her sister is in her belly and that she does not want to come out because she does not want to get all "yucky". 

 Kellyn also does not want to be called Kellyn most days. She prefers to be called, ice cream vanilla, batman, and spider-man. I suppose it is good to have an imagination, but it's difficult when she won't respond unless she is addressed correctly, but it's also hard when she will not tell you what to call her.

 She is also recently obsessed with having a colored tongue. She chooses food and beverages that will make her tongue a different color not by taste. 

Can you believe that she will be 3 in a little over a month?!?

Kellyn has developed a pure unadulterated hatred for my hair being in  a pony-tail. It has become a huge source of anxiety. The first thing he says every morning is, "don't put your hair in a pony tail.". If I happen to put my hair up (bad hair day) she will literally throw herself on the floor, hit me and tell me to take my hair out. If I don't follow her order she will give me the silent treatment. Yet, she thinks it is completely acceptable to wear this outfit (shoes) in public. I'm baffled.

4th of July