Kalia : 20.5 months

These past few weeks have been more crazy for Chris and I than Kalia with getting a few house projects crossed off the list (I'll post pictures soon hopefully, and then post on my Kara's Korner blog for the before and after's), so I didn't get to take an obscene amount of pictures over these past few weeks (don't worry, I'll make up for it, promise!), so it shouldn't take you an hour to get through all of these :-).  As for what everyone cares about, Kalia :

• decided she was boycotting naps after coming home from the panhandle (where she did well with naps!).  Between that, and Daddy going out to Dallas for work later on that week, AND Grandma and Grandpa Drago coming over when Daddy got back, Kalia decided there was just too much going on in life, and she wasn't going to sleep through it!
• went to our half marathon with Gma and Gpa Drago and watched both Mommy (1:50) and Daddy (1:59) cross the finish line.  Everytime she see's the clothes that we wore on race day she says "run!!!  RUN, RUN, RUN!!!" and swings her arm.  She has such an incredibly memory!
• went to the playground with us and Gma and Gpa Drago and figured out how to climb up the rope steps pretty much all by herself!  She normally gets confused between sitting and standing on the rope part, but she did it all by herself a bunch of times.  Of course I was there to make sure she didn't fall, but she's getting so independent!
• has dance parties almost every morning after breakfast, and if she can get away with it, after nap, and after dinner too.  The girl loves to run around, twirl around, yay while running, and make Kodi get into it too.  She does the "side step" and "gets low" thanks to Daddy.
• says "I love you".  So sweet!
• wants to help with everything.  Her favorite new words are "D-ya do it!!"  She has started 'helping' me make coffee in the morning (or spill water and coffee grounds everywhere, how ever you want to look at it!), washing dishes (she sits on the counter top and rinses them off in the sink when I'm done washing), putting away more dishes than just the tubberware (she'll carry the cups over to where they go and then I pick her up and she stands on the counter top and puts them away), and pretty much anything I'm doing, she wants to help!
• loves helping with laundry.  I asked her if she wanted to go to the zoo or do laundry, and she said laundry.  And she meant it.  It's like her favorite activity.  She helps me sort by putting the clothes in the pile I tell her to, and then she helps me carry the clothes to the washer, puts it in, and pushes the button when I tell her to.  Sometimes I don't carry anything, I just let her run back and forth from our bathroom to the laundry room.  She loves going from the washer to the dryer and from the dryer to the basket, and she'll put all of her clothes away in correct drawers.  She knows what top left, right, middle, and bottom left and right mean.  She's not as good at putting away our clothes, she just shoves in drawers (I'm continually finding Chris's socks in my drawers), but she has a grand time doing it!
• loves reading magazines during second breakfast.  She was pointing out who the girls and boys were in there and when I asked how she knew if they were a boy or a girl she said "hair".  Then she grabbed her little hair at the back and said "D-ya hair.  Need more.  D-ya need more hair".  Great.  Already the little kiddie magazines are giving her a complex!!  I told her we're working on it, it'll come!
• had Reese over for a playdate.  She loves playing with BOTH Reese and Amy!!
• says "your kidding me!" and "no way!!!".  I hear her say both of them to her dollies all of the time.
• absolutely loves playing with all of her babies, dollies, and bears.  She can't get enough of them!  She will sit and chat with them for HOURS!

...onto pictures!

Dance party!

"Allright, this is fun!!!  MUSIC!!"

"YAY!!!!" (that's literally exactly what she's yelling in this pic!)

"c'mon Kodi, DANCE!!!" (also exactly what she was saying!)

I took a million pictures of her in her little dress she wore for Valentine's day.  She looked so darn cute in it!

Mommy : "Kalia, show Mommy your pretty pretty dress!"  Kalia : "Um, here it is?  Can't you see it??"

"Um, yay dress??"

"I'd really rather play with my potty and toy doll right now Mommy!"

"Haha Mommy, catch me with the camera if you can!!!"

Playing in her stove.  She LOVES to cook!

"Mommy are you done yet?? All done camera!" (she was literally saying Allll DONE camera!!)

"Okay fine, I'll hold up my pretty dress for you to get a picture.  Can you come play with me now?!?!"

"yay Daddy's home!!!  I know this picture this is almost done with now!!"

"Daddy, no way you expect me to actually smile after a million pictures, right?!?!"

 Kodi deciding he wanted to get in on the Valentine's day lovin'...

"Oh HEY Kodi!!" (really says that)

"Oh Kodi KISSES, OH KODI!!!" (really saying that)

"Oh KOOOODDDIIIII!!!!!!!"  (yep, saying that too!)

"forget all of you guys, I'm gonna get on my bike and get outta here!!"  (sidenote : I meant to move that out of the house before Daddy got home!  It was raining, so I had to improvise.  I might have gotten asked why in the world there was a BICYCLE in our home...oops!!)

 Kalia loves loves loves to play "night night" with her babies and dolly.  Too bad it's just a game!!

"Night night dolly, night night baby Katie, night night D-ya!!!!"

 I get asked about her eyes all of the time, they change a lot.  Here's a close up of them on this day.  Such a cute little face!!!

"Yes??  Can I help you??"

"Silly Mommy!!!  Time to play!!"

 These next two aren't the best, but I wanted to show her little messed up hair!  It's a comin'!  I think she's slow to grow hair because she'd look like a mess in public otherwise.  I walk around with bed head, why can't she???  :-)

The End!  More soon...promise!