Kalia : 19.5 months

These past few weeks have been busy busy busy for Kalia!  She :

• had a playdate with Ashleigh, who she thought was a lot of fun.  Any adult that is there just to pay attention to her is amazing!  :-)
• pretended like she was going to go pee pee on the potty, then ran over to her bath mat, squatted down, and peed on it.  Then laughed.  Argh.  Potty training is back on hold, that's just annoying!
• had a play date with Blake and Erin.  She likes to 'hug' aka strangle Blake.  We put her wig on Blake that her Granny got her, and she decided she'd let us put it on her too.  After walking to the mirror, she decided it was "ALL DONE!!!".  She prefers the bald look!
• is actually getting enough hair to have bed head.  We're not used to it...she goes everywhere with hair sticking up.  Oh well, it's cute still at 1!
• went to the zoo with her friends Aila, baby Conner, and Harper.  She talks about Aila and "baby Nonner" all of the time.  She also talks about all of the animals at the zoo too.  She rode on the carousel for the first time and screamed "ALL DONE!!!" almost the entire time.  I thought with her little friends on it with her, she would think it was a blast.  She thought they could have all of the fun without her though.  The same went for the choo-choo train.  She hasn't stopped saying "choo choo TRAIN - ALL DONE!!!!!!!!".  We only made it as far as sitting on that before she threw a ginormous fit, so we had to get off before it started.  I hated roller coasters as a kid too (I still hate them, I think I went through a few years where I pretended to like them, but anything where you're excited at the end that you're alive is no fun for me!), so maybe she takes after her Momma there!
• knows all of her capital letter's from her bath toys.  She gets in the bath all excited to play with her "Bath.TOYS!", dumps out the bag, and then says "pick up!" and says night night to each letter as she hands them to you.  She's actually picking out letters in books and on signs too.  
• can count to 10.
• met Yulander at the zoo and held his hand almost the whole time walking around.  She tries to hold everyone else's hand now too, but no one else lets her like Yulander did.  The two of them were quite a sight!  They gave each other hugs, but when he went in for the kiss, Kalia backed away.  She let him know that her Daddy said not until she's 30!
• says the same thing over and over and over again until you acknowledge what she's said by repeating it.  She steadily gets louder with it too, and she's not exactly quiet to start off with!
• still calls all of her toots, "poop", and will call anyone else on it too.  We were standing in line at Target and a man let a little one slip, and Kalia wouldn't stop yelling "POOP!!!" until I finally said "yes, Kalia, poop."  I tried telling her to hush, but that wasn't working...at all!
• met Reese at the zoo and had a blast playing with her in the water.  We went and saw the baby elephant and baby hippo (which she hasn't stopped talking about either!), and then when it was time to leave, we got the girls in their swim clothes and just let them go to town.  They ran around and played played played so hard and so well together.  It was amazing!  We only had to intervene once when Reese laid down on a splash fountain thing that Kalia was playing in, and Kalia decided she'd just pick Reese up by her swimsuit and move her.  Other than that, we actually got to hold an entire conversation for awhile!  (As a side note, I don't bring my camera to the zoo when it's just Kalia and I going...it's too hard to contain her and get pics at the same time!).

Onto pictures!

Play time with Ashleigh!

Chris walked into this one evening when he got home and thought he should get a pic of it.  Kalia insists that "Mommy SIT!" when she's sitting on the potty...so it's either on the floor or on "Mommy's potty".  Oiy.

"Oh HI Daddy!!"

Hanging out in her tent with her karokee machine.  She can't get enough of that thing!

The wig experience with Blake!

"Why are you laughing Mommy?"

"I gotta go check this thing out.  "Mirror!!""

"ALL DONE!!!"

 "Bye bye Blake!"

"Hug!  I'll miss you!"

Being sweet to her Daddy!

"Kiss Daddy!"

"Hug!"

Smile Kalia!

Saying "CHEESE!!!" in a desperate "I'm all done taking pictures" kind of way!

This is how Kalia gives me kisses half of the time.  I have no idea how my cheeks aren't bruised!

Walking Kodi...

Attempting to jump. 

End of jump.  She just squats and goes quickly to her tiptoes with her chest sticking out.  We'll get off the ground before too long.

Love :-).

She loves to have the palm tree brushed into her face.  She thinks it's funny!

Being so cute!

"Hug Elmo!"

"Mommy, COME!" (I think those are her new two favorite words).

Hanging out in her "ball pit" with her karokee machine!  I reserve this time for while I'm cooking dinner - it's amazing!  She'll stay pleasently occupied in there for a good while!

Getting ready for bed with Daddy!

Coloring...

Going through her tunnel with her "Baby Katie" which she LOVES to do.

Singing a song and dancing around!

I couldn't stop laughing at this one.  She's sitting on her doll house's potty.  Oiy!

She decided she wanted to play dress up with her headband...it looks so much smaller now!

Kodi giving her kisses!

Going absolutely crazy in her jumperoo.  She has started asking to get back in there again, and just bangs around in it!  I'll have to put it up before too long, but the real reason I took this picture was so you could see all the hair on the back of her head!  It's coming!

Getting ready to head somewhere with Mommy in the cold!

Being such a goofball with Daddy and Kodi and her giant balls outside!

"Did you hear what I said Kodi???"

Kodi has actually started saying "enough" in a gentle way with Kalia when she gets too crazy.  He lets her get on him...

...and then gently rolls her off.  It's funny...Kalia just yells "OH NO Kodi!!!" and laughs.

With Yulander at the zoo!

Oh...and for those of you wondering if her zip up pj's are still necessary, the answer is yes :-).  We ran out of them and had to use a onesie after we learned our lesson the hard way.  She still thinks it's great fun to empty out her diaper.  Gross!!