Kinley is just growing away. I can't believe that she's going to be one next week. Neither can her daddy. She is no longer our little baby, but our little toddler. I'm not sure if either of us are ready to accept that. She is just toddling around all over the place. She's been able to walk since early December, but she wasn't ready. She would only try when she REALLY wanted to. After Christmas she started walking more and more. For most of January it was only her convenient means of transportation. She would only walk if she was already standing up, and would crawl if she was sitting down. For the past week and a half she's been doing more walking than crawling. The past 2 days - she's barely crawled at all. She's getting so fast too. We still have our bumps and bruises, but knowing her family, I think she'll be in for bumps and bruises for the rest of her life haha. Hopefully I'll have a video in this post for you (if I can figure out this new phone).
Here's from last weekend.
Kinley talks all the time. She tries to repeat everything we're saying. Her favorite word is hot. She'll point at the stove and say hot, or if you say hot she'll repeat it. She also says mama, dada, baba, yup, up and shit among other things. Yes...shit. I think she's trying to say sit because I'm always telling her to sit down in the cart, but it comes out shit. She likes to make the water noise shhhhhhhhhhhhhh so she's really good at the shhhhh part. Sometimes she says things that really could be i'lldoit. So we're being very careful about what we say in front of her now.
Along with walking we've started the transition to whole cow's milk this week. She seems to be doing alright so far. I guess we'll see how it goes. We started the bottle-to-cuppy transition a while ago and are down to 2 bottles a day. I think she's trying to wean herself off of them in general because she'd rather eat food than take a bottle anyways.
Kinley still only has 2 teeth. Her other bottom middle tooth decided to pop through on New Year's and that's about it. I think she's trying to get a fang, but I can't really tell. So we'll see. Don't let her lack of teeth fool you though, she can munch food down with the best of them, and there really isn't much that she can't/hasn't been able to eat. She brushes her teeth everyday with mommy :).
Kinley loooves bananas. They are without a doubt her favorite food. We cannot walk by them in the produce section without her going into hysterics until we get them in the cart. I'm not even kidding. Her play-date pals (see below) even mentioned to me one day that she sure loves bananas!! She loves all fresh fruit, and most cooked veggies including broccoli. That seems to be her favorite veggie. She is a fantastic eater!!
In exciting/sadder news (exciting for Kinley - sadder for momma) Kinley has started going to a play-date one to two days a week instead of coming to work with momma. Yes, yes a sitter, but I like to call it a play-date. It makes me feel better emotionally. She went to Clarissa with no problems whatsoever the first day and was super excited to see mommas when I picked her up...for 30 seconds. Then she was ready to get down and play some more. Clarissa has two super sweet girls that are a few years older than her and Kinley love love loves to play with them. I'm so happy that we have started doing this because I know she is happy getting to play all day, and it's good for her and momma to have some separation sometimes. Honestly though, I cried driving her there that morning, and I cried a few miles down the road after I left. It was seriously way harder than it should have been. I did get a lot done at work and the second day - I didn't cry at all! Progress!! Kinley never cried once. She was so excited to go play the second day. I couldn't ask for a happier/sweeter place for her to go. Clarissa is one of the sweetest ladies I've met out here and her girls are darling. I guess I should just say in exciting news!!!
We have her one-year doctor appt scheduled for the 13th. I didn't want to do it before our trip to Kansas because she gets a pretty good fever every time she gets her shots. Fever + flying = not a happy momma/daddy/baby/rest of people on flight. She was 28.5 inches tall and weighed 19lbs 7ozs at her ear infection doctor appt a few weeks ago. She had a double ear infection but it's all gone now! Hooray!!
So we'll be in Kansas for Kinley's first birthday!!! Hooray! We're so excited to see everyone. We're having her birthday party on the 11th probably at Christine's at 9:30am. Anyone that wants to come is more than welcome.
We had an early b-day party for her here with her GG and grandpa Green and Uncle B since grandpa will be gone most of February. It was a lot of fun. I made her a stacked birthday cake and she got a playhouse and a slide-climber from her grandparents and Uncle B and a Tinker Bell chair from us. She seriously loves it and has figured out how to climb up the slide and the climb wall part. She goes in the door to her playhouse and then comes out the door. She's sucha silly girl :)
And she's waking up from a fantastic nap! See most of you next week!! :)
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