Today our little princess is only one month away from being a big 2 year old!!! We are super excited to celebrate her birthday with all of her cousins this year. She will have a birthday party in Sunriver, Oregon with all of her cousins from Jon's side of the family and then a week later in Alaska with her cousins on my side of the family.
Kyla suddenly seems like she is growing up so quick. Last month she gave up bottles, we put away the highchair and switched from a crib to a toddler bed. Now she is talking sooooo much more, putting several words together and saying more compliated words. The other day she said "different park" when we told her we were going to a new park. She is now putting up to four words together to create a "sentence". She is also getting more and more opinionated and strong willed every day. I wonder all the time where she learns some of the things that she says and does. The other day I was scrapbooking and I told her not to touch the paper I was working on, she looks at me with a sneaky little smile, puts one finger out touching my paper and says "touch". She also was sitting at the dining room table and put her foot on the table, Jon kept asking her to take it down and she said "NO!", now she thinks it is a game and puts her foot on the table every meal! It is so hard not to laugh, which of course encourages this type of behavior. She is definitly at the stage where she is really testing her limits to see what she can get away with.
This month has also been the most exhausting month we have had with Kyla. She has so much energy and is getting close to no longer needing a nap, but while making that transition we are all on an awful sleep schedule. She absolutely refuses to take a nap or even rest during the day, but by 4 or 5 p.m. she is exhausted and crashes. Then after a short nap she is full of energy and does not go to bed until 11:30-Midnight! As soon as she can get by without that little late afternoon nap I am hoping that she will get back to going to bed early. I am sure that her sudden change in sleep has to do with no longer being confined to a crib as well as having the sun up until midnight, but it is sooooo hard to get her to sleep.
Kyla is enjoying summer so much and has been having a blast spending so much time outside playing. She loves swinging, slides, anything invloving water, sand boxes, blowing bubbles, playing in her car and so much more. She also has been really loving books and singing lately. She finally is sitting still and letting you read books to her, we can read probably 50 books at a time. She is starting to know that names of her books and asks for certain ones. Her favortie books lately are "Roar of a Snore" and "Pinkilicious", they are both very cute! Her favorite songs are now "If your happy and you know it", "Rain, Rain, Go Away" and "It's Raining, It's Pouring". We have probably only had five rainy days this summer, but she wants to sing these songs all day everyday! Kyla has also now started to like cartoons and will actually sit still for maybe 10 minutes and watch a cartoon early in the morning and before bed at night, she really likes Elmo and Dora and gets very excited when we turn them on.
Kyla also loves dressing herself now! She gets into the closet and seriously trys on every single pair of pants that she has, many of her coats, all of her shoes.... and makes a huge mess!!! She is very very picky about what she wears and will not let you pick out her clothes, once she has decided what she wants to wear there is no talking her out of it! This is why Kyla is in rain boots most of the time now! She is also this picky with pajamas at night, no matter what pair we pick out for her she has to go find a different pair to wear.
It is so fun watching her grow and see all the funny things that she does. She is such a love bug and even when she is testing her limits and stressing us out we love her sooooooo much!
I am about to have 5 weeks off and we are going to go on some trips and really enjoy summer! We are going to my parents cabin where we will play outside in their yard, go 6 wheeling, boating and fishing. The following week we will go to Hawaii for almost 2 weeks to visit my sister and her family and then we will go to Oregon for our family reunion followed by another week at the cabin with my parents and my sister and her family while they are up here visiting. We are really looking forward to all of these trips and can't wait to spend so much time with family and enjoy some hot weather!
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