Daines Family 2016

Daines Family 2016

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Growing Up

Over the last few weeks I have really noticed signs that Kenlee has become a toddler and a pretty smart one at that. She often goes down to her room and plays for a while but today I realized things had got pretty quiet so I went to check on her and found that she had climbed into the big chair in her room and was reading a book. It was so cute! The funniest part was that when I got out the camera she looked at me several times like I was interrupting her reading time. Funny girl!



Also she has decided that she loves to color. I got the jumbo crayons as a test to see if she was interested in coloring and she has loved it. I was writing out my grocery list yesterday and she decided that she wanted to draw too. Instead of letting her draw all over the list like she wanted to I got out her crayons and a piece of paper. She sat and colored for quite a while. I was impressed because she never holds still to do anything. We will have to make coloring an activity more often.

I can't believe she is so grown up. Everyday she surprise me by showing me how well she understands things and comprehends what we are asking her to do. For example when we get ready to go some place we ask her if she wants to get her shoes and she runs down the hall and points at the basket where her shoes are kept. She has also started pointing at her jacket before we even ask because she knows thats what comes next. Then she makes sure we have the diaper bag and if she thinks we may have forgotten it she tries to drag it down the hall to us. Then she makes us get our shoes and jackets on. If we are not fast enough for her she goes and gets the shoes and puts them on top of our feet. Then she points at the key hanger and makes sure we don't forget the keys, then she knows we are ready and she knocks on the door until we open it. She is so smart that sometimes it scares me. I know that I really need to be careful of what we do because I don't want her learning bad habits so little and I want her to keep learning good things like putting things away (she loves to try to put things back where we got them from even if it means asking us for help by grunting and screaming) and the new challenge of teaching her to share her toys.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Halloween 2010

This is Kenlee's Halloween shirt for this year. It says "Daddy is under my spell."


Doesn't she look so big?

Here is my cute little pumpkin :


She really didn't want to hold still so I had a hard time getting a picture of her in her costume but she was so cute!

Blake was "Where's Waldo" and he had a great time with it too. At work they played where's waldo through out the whole store. He would go and hide and then the other manager would make an announcement that waldo was hiding in the store and whoever found him got a bag of candy. I think that was one of his favorite days at work.

We took Kenlee trick-or-treating at a few houses and then went to a party at Blake's friends house. Then on Sunday we had another Halloween party for Karlee's birthday. All of us dressed up. It was a really fun Halloween and it just makes me look forward to more years of dressing up my little girl.