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

Summer fun

I apologize for my lack of postings. This summer has consisted of many fun activities for Kellyn. She took swimming lessons. This was a huge success and we met a young couple in Baldwin (always a plus).

See the large slide in the back of this picture? Kellyn LOVES going down the slide by herself. One night after swimming lessons she wanted to go down the slide. I went up the slide with Kellyn and our new friend, Amy and her son. I was talking with Amy and Ryan was at the bottom of the slide (suppose to catch) talking with Sterling (Amy's husband). Kellyn went down the slide and well... no one was paying attention so she took a nice plunge into the water. Luckily Ryan felt her and she was not under the water long. After nearly drowning our child we convinced her to go down the slide again. Luckily, she is not afraid of the slide, but she does want to make sure that we will catch her and that she will not go under the water.

We have spent a lot of time at the park. Mostly in the morning when it is not ridiculously hot.

Kellyn's new favorite toy is her hula-hoop.