16 Months and Learning to Talk!

Kendyllee is now 16 months old and is wild and crazy as ever. She destroys the house on a daily basis and I have learned to only clean once a day! After she goes to bed then I take a few minutes and put all the pillows back on the couch and the shoes back on the shoe rack. She is beginning to talk a lot and we definatley know what she is trying to say.

Here are some pictures of what she can say!

BABY
POOH BA (pooh bear)
GMA (grandma)

HEIDI (she usually says this thru her tears when she is in the corner)

PUPPY

UH-OH AND NO NO NO MOMMY

DADDY

She can also say BYE BYE and HI. She is learning more and more words each day.

This next picture is a picture of what she is like during the day. She climbs on everything all day long. We have had to rearrange our furniture and move things away from the computer desk and place the chair in the spare bedroom, when we are not using it, to keep her off of it.

Letting go of my baby...one step at a time

So this last week or two, Kendyllee has really grown up. She understands what you are saying most of the time and is willing to help out and do what you ask. A couple months ago, Owen asked me when I was going to stop using the monitor. I told him that I was not ready yet, since she is across the house from us. But then one night about a week ago, I forgot to turn the receiver on in our room. And guess what? We both lived thru the night. And I have not turned it on since then, so I am going to pack that up today and put it away. I figure now that she is old enough to get out of her bed and yell for me, it is time. We also started brushing her teeth on Friday. The Dr wanted me to wait and start after her last two teeth broke thru the gums so I did not irritate her mouth any more than it already was. Since they broke thru last weekend, I wanted to start brushing her teeth twice a day. We do it after we fix her hair in the mornings and then after her bath when we are brushing her hair at night. She seems to like it and loves the taste of the Mixed Berry toothpaste that came with her first toothbrush. I am just having a hard time with this whole growing up thing. Owen and I talked about it over the weekend. It seems like just yesterday that she was born and we were holding her for the first time and now she is telling us "NO NO" when we are doing something she does not want us to do. I love that she is becoming her own person, I just do not know if we are ready for this part. I just want to hold her like I used to when she was little.

I guess this is what being a parent is all about. I am sure that there are some of you that are reading this and thinking..."Well Duh!" And Mom and Cynthia, I am sure you are thinking that it was just yesterday you both were holding us for the first time. But that to me is reassuring. Because then I know that I am not the only one having a hard time with this.

Last swim of the year

This weekend was the last weekend for the Fruita Pool to be open. So we thought we would take advantage of it one last time. We went on Saturday and had a great time.

Daddy and Kendyllee just relaxing and taking in some sun while I put on my sun screen.

This is the funniest picture of Kendyllee. If you look close at her legs, you can see that she has her legs crossed a little bit. It reminded me of how pageant contestants stand when they are posing for the swim suit contest.
She loves her floaty. She can still touch the bottom and walk around in it. It just helps her keep her balance.

Once she saw these other girls in the pool with out floaties, then she wanted out of hers.

So we thought we would give it a shot. She did really well for a while and then she decided she was going to try and run to daddy. And I was not far behind her, but I ended up being too far behind her. She was only a couple steps in front of me when she slipped and lost her balance and went under the water face first. Now those of you that know me, know how terrified of water I am. I was scared to death! I felt like I was being held down and could not get to her as fast as I wanted. She just floated up to the top and was not moving at all. What seemed like minutes before I could get to her was only seconds. When I finally reached her and pulled her up, I looked at her and then realized that Owen was at the edge of the pool ready to jump in with his shoes on and all. She was coughing pretty hard, so I turned her over and let her cough up the water she had just swallowed. The life guards saw what happened and came over to see if everything was OK. I handed her to her daddy and he calmed her down while I gathered myself back together and then we put her back in the water without her floaty. I did not want her to be afraid of the water. Once she realized she was ok, I put her back in her floaty for a minute. And then she was done with swimming.

It scares me how daring she is. She does not understand that there is danger and that she should be afraid of some things. She wanted to jump into the pool more that once before I was ready. I am hoping this is just a stage and she will grow out of it. It is not that I want her to be afraid of the water, it is just that I want her to understand that she could get hurt very easily. Am I just a worry wart of a mom? Or is this normal?

Fun at the Park with Daddy

On Saturday, we decided to take Kendyllee to the park and have some fun. She is getting to the age that she wants to play on the toys and understands what she is supposed to do on them. It took some convincing on the tube-thingy but once daddy went in with her, she was ok.

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!! They are pulling the exact same face. How great is that?

Here she finally decided to do it by herself. What a big girl!

She has always loved the swings.

Kendyllee is cookin Pork for dinner.

While I was making dinner on Friday, Kendyllee decided she wanted to make her own dinner. She drug out the pots and pans and lids, then I gave her a spoon. She had the best time. In these pics you can not see it very well, but behind her on the rug is her pig and there were times it was in her pot and she was just-a-stirrin away. What a hoot she is!

What ever she was making was sure yummy, cause she sure did a lot of taste testing. And she was even kind enough to share some with mommy!
I love this pic, because her arm is blurry so you can see how serious she was about stirring her creation!

Aww! So cute!

I had to have these pics, cause Kendyllee never sleeps normal. She always is sideways with her arms or legs hanging thru the slats or her head is at the other end, or all of her bedding is on the floor and she is in her bed. So the these are very unusual.

Here she is waking up and wondering why mommy is leaning over her with the camera in her face while she is trying to sleep.

Putting all those teeth to good use

Kendyllee loves to eat corn on the cobb and now that she has 16 teeth, she can eat it very well. Here she is eating it for the first time all by herself. She was so excited and felt like such a big girl.

Here is her cobb. She ate all the way around it and then did not realize she needed to eat where there was corn. She was chewing on the cobb in one spot until there was blood on the cobb. Funny girl!

A Yogurt covered Kendyllee

Yesterday, Kendyllee was eating her yogurt after dinner and I had to go to the bathroom, so I hurried and went. This is what I found when I came out. These pics prove how little time it takes for her to make a mess.She is so proud of her masterpiece!

In this pic you can see her two new teeth she broke this last weekend. Hopefully we are done now for a while!

Notice her nose. It is also covered.