Sweet Love

It has been really fun to watch K and B grow in their relationship. B absolutely adores K and smiles and laughs whenever she is around. He loves to just watch whatever she is doing. Not that he can really do much more than that at this point. :) But it will be fun as they are able to play together more and more.

K has definitely warmed more to B in the last month or two. I don't have to worry (as much) about leaving them in the same room together for a second or two. She is becoming more kind and loving toward him every day.



B is always grabbing at K (and everything else) and she says, "Bren likes to grab hair." (or shirt or pants, or whatever he is grabbing). And he wants to put everything in his mouth. So, pretty much he was trying to eat her in this picture. :)

These pictures were actually taken on Oct. 19th, Kaelyn's birthday. So here's her picture with the soccer ball now that she is two! It's so crazy to look back at her monthly pictures and see how far she has come!

Here's a funny video of Kaelyn juggling. Jer was juggling a few of her little balls that she got for her birthday and she said, "I want to juggle." And this is what she did. :) Aren't kids the best!!

Kaelyn Quotes

11/2
Jer has been saying to Kaelyn lately, "Are you my girl?" So yesterday he asks her and she responded, "Nope. Not today." Ouch, that hurts! :)

Here's a few more things that Kaelyn just says on a regular basis that I think are cute and want to remember.

When she hears something and doesn't know what it is she says, "What's that sound noise?"

When we tell her no she can't have or do something she will say, very matter of factly, "Maybe tomorrow."

She loves Brenden more and more each day and is so cute with him. She'll look at him and say, "He's smiling and laughing at me. He loves me."

Jer's sister had a baby girl at the beginning of October and her name is Evalin. She was in the NICU for a few days after she was born because she was having trouble breathing. We would pray for her as a family and with Kaelyn and told her that Evalin was sick and couldn't breathe very well. One day we were looking at pictures on her online and Kaelyn says, "That's my baby cousin Evalin. She's sick right now. I'll help her breathe." Also, we got her birth announcement in the mail the other day and she was looking at Evalin's picture, and she says, "That's my baby cousin Evalin. Awww. She's so cute. I looove her." (Emphasis on the love.) So sweet and cute!

10/19
A couple cute quotes from over the weekend. We were visiting Em's parents for the weekend and celebrated Kaelyn's birthday with them. On Saturday afternoon we were watching football and Kaelyn likes to watch along too. She likes to commentate what is happening in the game, as with everything in life right now. So as a play is happening she says, "He's running. He fell down. They're going to tickle him!" We all started laughing so hard! I'm not sure if she was confusing tickle with tackle because we have told her that in football they tackle each other. Or if she really thought they were knocking him down so that they could tickle him! Either way, it's funny!

And a super cute one. As we were getting ready to leave on Sunday evening, Kaelyn was hugging Papa (Em's dad) and saying goodbye and then said to him, "Do you wanna come ride in my car with me?" So sweet and so cute! She loves Nana and Papa and wishes that we could see them more!

Oh, it's been a while! Finally I remember something long enough to write it down!
10/13
We have been working on potty training Kaelyn since about mid-September. She's doing pretty well. But unfortunately often pees in her big girl undies. We have been trying different treats to encourage her to use the potty. The latest one is marshmallows. She loves them!
So last night we had our church home group at our house and had cake for desert. Kaelyn loves her some cake, so she's already had more than enough sugar for the evening. We were getting her ready for bed and she went pee on the potty. She came and told us and said, "I get marshmallows!" becuase usually she gets a treat after using the potty. Jer said, "I don't know you already had cake, so you can just have one marshmallow." She looked at him with her sweet little smile and said, "I'll have two marshmallows." We started laughing so hard, and she just smiled at us. Man this girl is smart!! :)


I need to update this more, but unfortunately so many times K says something cute or funny but I am busy or distracted and don't make it a point to specifically remember what she said and then later when I want to write it down, I can't remember! :(
8/19
Tonight we had some pretty strong thunder storms rolling through right at bedtime. Around the time we moved into our new house, she started to realize that storms and thunder are loud and she didn't really like them, so I told her what my mom told me when I was growing up - that it is the monkeys drumming on the drums up in the sky. Do you know the book Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb? That's where it comes from. Anyway, she accepted this explanation and has never really showed any signs of being scared of thunder, she just says it's the "monkeys up high in the sky".

So, I'm putting her to bed tonight, despite the thunder, she doesn't really seem to mind, she just says, "No more monkeys drumming on the drums", like the no more monkeys jumping on the bed rhyme. So, we're reading books when there is a HUGE and I mean HUGE clap of thunder - it sounded like it hit our neighbors house. We both startle so bad because it is so loud and she was obviously scared. I tell her it's okay and am reassuring her. She whispers something pretty quietly to me because she's still shaken up and I have to ask her to say it again. She whispers again, "Mommy kill monkeys". HA! When there is a bug in the house or outside that she doesn't want around she always says "mommy kill it", or "daddy kill it". So I'm assuming that she was getting it from that, but I thought it was so funny that I burst out laughing and she just kind of looked up at me like 'what is so funny, I'm serious!' It is amazing what kids will come up with!


7/20
We were sitting down at the table and starting to eat dinner when Kaelyn starts saying, "Amen, Amen." We hadn't prayed before we started eating, but K obviously wanted to. So we stopped and held hands and prayed. Then as we continued eating K kept saying, "More Amen," and "Hold mommy's hand, hold daddy's hand." So we would stop and say a short prayer again. Finally it got to the point that we weren't getting to eat because she just wanted to keep praying and holding our hands. So, I said to her, "You pray Kaelyn, you tell God what you are thankful for and say Amen." I didn't really think she was listening, or understood what I was saying, but a little bit later, she starts saying, "Thank you for mommy, thank you for daddy, thank you for Brenden." And keeps repeating it. I looked at Jer and asked him if he had prompted her to say that - I was distracted tending to Brenden fussing. He said he hadn't prompted her at all. We look at K and we're like, that's right honey, thank you for mommy, thank you for daddy, thank you for Brenden. She continues saying those things, and then starts naming other things - "Thank you for milk, thank you for noodles." And on it went. It was really cute!

Then she started singing Jesus loves me. Jer and I were just so amazed that at such a young age, although she can't really understand who God and Jesus are and it's not necessarily something that we have specifically "taught" her, she knows that they are important and something special. It just struck us as such an amazing example that this is what we are absolutely created for from the day we are born - to be in relationship with God and his Son, Jesus.


Kaelyn has been saying some pretty funny stuff lately, and I wanted a place to record all of the stuff she says. So I'm going to start writing it down here and reposting every time she says something new and funny.

7/19
Jer made these amazing cookies yesterday, and we got some out for a snack this afternoon. K was in the kitchen with Jer and said, "Daddy's cookie," then looked at her cookie and said, "Yours's cookie." (She refers to herself as "you" and "yours").

Then she was out in the living room playing and got out a bracelet that I gave to her for dress-up, she put it on and said, "I have a pretty bracelet." Such a girlie girl!