Seriously, Jake?

Sometimes I truly believe my brother lives to annoy me. A few weeks ago he asked me what he should get Kellyn for Christmas. I told him something that would promote learning... shapes, puzzles, colors. So, what goes he get her? A ball pit. Seriously? where in the world am I going to put this HUGE thing with 50 balls.



Look at that thing... it's huge.



Jake believes that it is educational because it is different color balls, which is a shape....



Oh, well she loves it! :)

Dad got her this little pink Radio Flyer Tri-Cycle. She can't reach the peddles yet, but she pushes it around and hides things (like my phone) in the basket.

And of course, she got books that she was obviously excited about.

More than anything, she loved to climb on this box and sit. I suppose it made her feel tall?

Coloring

Kellyn is now 15 months! She LOVES to color and read more than anything else. Luckily we had Christmas with my Dad and brother yesterday and she got some new books. Hopefully, she will like some of those. The child has a large number of books but has 3 that are her favorites and she wants you to read them to her over, and over, and over again. I'm ready for the new books!
Below are some pictures of her coloring.

When did this happen?

I'm not sure when it happened, but my baby is no longer a baby. Everytime I take pictures she looks more and more like a little toddler. I can't believe how much she has changed in the last three months. I had to share these pictures to prove my point :)


She looks so grown up!

Uh-oh

As we all know, Kellyn has a very hard time sitting still. This has been an increasing problem when it comes time to eat. She will eat a little and then want down and play. we have been attempting to get her to sit, even if she is done, until we are done eating. This soon resulted in her throwing her food and/or drink on the floor. Last week Ryan was having dinner with his mom and sister. While eating dinner Kellyn did her normal, throw a fit and then throw the food on the floor. Then this preceded to happen:

Ryan: Kellyn, you do not throw your food on the floor.
Kellyn: Picking up a piece of food, holding it over the floor, Uh-oh as the food drops. (All while looking at Ryan)
Ryan: Grabs Kellyn's hand and slaps it (not hard of course)
Kellyn: Grabs Ryan's hand and slips him back.

A few of my recent favorites

Pleeeeaaaassssssseeeeeeeeeee Can I have the camera!?!?

It's official- We can no longer go in public

On Saturday Ryan and I took Kellyn to Nebraska Furniture Mart. Keep in mind that this is the first time we really have taken her anywhere since she became very mobile. I take her to target for quick shopping trips, but we are typically in and out. She was content sitting in the shopping cart for approximately 2 minutes. Then, she wanted down. We were looking a lamps. With a one year old touching everything and running around like a crazy person. It was anxiety provoking. Her running around wasn't working. She was ALL over the place, going up to every person who would give her the slightest bit of attention, and trying to pull things down. So, we put her back into the cart and she threw a HUGE fit. She was throwing herself back and screaming with her scrunched up fake cry face. Needless to say we were not there long nor did we make any purchases. I refuse to be the person with the screaming kid because I don't like those people and she isn't old enough to really "punish" and then bring back into the store. So, it will be a while before we can take the crazy child into public places.

Kellyn is a little shadow. She will try to mimic everything you do or say. Her new favorite thing is to wear my sunglasses or Ryan's hat. We spend hours with her putting on my glasses and then we putting them on and over and over again. I wanted to get a picture of her wearing the glasses because she looks like a little diva, but she won't keep them on so this is the best I could do.



Not only is she rediculously cute ( and Ornery), but she is very smart. Smarter than most kids her age (ok, that may not be true). She can say... book, banana, cracker, bite, mama, dada, grandpa, bottle, water, bye, RJ, night night and many more. Not only can she say all of those things but she knows where her toes, nose and ears are. AND she is just a genius. At night when she is ready to go to bed she says night night. I ask her to go get her night night book and she goes into her room grabs that one particular book out of her wide selection of books and brings me the book. If you ask her to get anything she will go get it and bring it back to you. Smart. Smart. Smart and cute.... We are going to have our hands full.

Little Lady Bug

Last year we didn't celebrate Halloween. I don't remember why, but I'm sure it had something to do with Kellyn being a month old, not sleeping and Ryan working out of town :). So, this is our first Halloween where Kellyn dressed up and took her trick-or-treating. Well, we took her to the family and Ryan ate her candy.



Playing with a plastic pumpkin. She thought it was a ball, so she would lift it over her head and throw it. so, cute!


Her little wings.... that wouldn't stay on.



Blowing kisses to Ryan.

The pumpkin Ryan carved for Kellyn. It looked good at one point in time.