Kylie vs. the goat

It all started when Kylie noticed this cute little goat standing on this wooden post. She walks up to him and bossily declares: "Get off goat. You not supposed to be on there."Here she is trying to scoot him off when the goat ignored her command:

Then they both got distracted by something over in that direction:

But Kylie managed to refocus and push that little goat off the post. She then proceeded to claim it as her own:

The goat noticed that he had been tricked by this little girl. She wasn't trying to keep him out of trouble, she was trying to steal his seat:

So he tried to push her off. Repeatedly.

Here he is finally giving up, and Kylie looking pretty proud of herself:

But I think she was worried he might get a second wind, so she told him: "Go over there goat! That looks like fun!"

Winner of "King of the wooden post": Kylie.

And how did Miss Eve do with the goats? Let's just say that I don't think she has ever been happier. Her squeals of excitement even caused other little kids to follow her around and "Eve watch" instead of "goat watch." Next time I'm bringing my camcorder.

"I wanna draw a happy face."

Those words were uttered to me by Kylie a couple weeks ago. So I gave her some crayons and a piece of paper and she amazed me. She actually drew a smiley face and added some legs. She has drawn several more since then, and even has even added arms to some of them. I had to take picture of her first "real" drawing. Well I guess she has previously drawn lots of worms, snakes and legs. Seriously, she used to draw lots of lines and tell me they were either worms, snakes or legs depending on her mood. She has also recently tried writing the letter "K for Kylie" as she calls it, but it ends up being three parallel lines. This usually frustrates her because she's such a little perfectionist. Oh well, I keep telling her that she will eventually be able to write "K" all by herself and that she's getting bigger every day. This seems to comfort her. In the meantime, we have fun finding "K for Kylie"s and "E for Everz" everywhere we go. (She is recognizing lots of letters now.) And of course, drawing "happy faces."

We've also started cutting and gluing. Here she hard at work with her scissors:

Kylie's dermatology appointment

We had our follow up appointment for Kylie's eczema today at Children's Mercy Hospital. They confirmed that her skin was looking fantastic. It really is so much softer now that we put vaseline on her twice a day. We aren't having to use the steroids as much, which is good, but there are still a couple spots that seem to need it every day. Since she's still scratching (and whimpering) in her sleep, they decided to add prescription benadryl to her list of medecines. So now she's supposed to take zyrtec in the mornings and benadryl up to twice a day. We are going to try to stick to once a day for the benadryl, but the dermatologist said we could do it twice a day if we felt she needed it. We have a follow up appointment in 3 months, let's hope they don't add any more medecine next time we go.



On a side note, look how adorable Kylie is in the hospital gown. While we were in the room waiting for the doctor, Kylie told us that she had to go use the potty. Jason took her down the hallway to the bathroom and I could hear the nurses and doctors "ooh"ing and "ahh"ing at her cuteness all the way from our room.

From the mouth of my 2 year old

We all know that veteran parents tell us to write down all the cute and funny things your kids say. Great idea, only I always forget to do it. So yesterday, I decided to jot down a few during the day. At least the cute things they said yesterday will not be forgotten even if I forget everything else (which I will).

Here they are, in no particular order:

• We have had some ants sneak in and crawl around the computer desk. Kylie loves trying to get them to crawl on her and she loves to tell me about it: "Look mommy! I have an ant on me." Well yesterday, there were no ants on the desk and although I was happy about that, Kylie was not. She was in a little ball crying by the desk, big fake crying which was cute in itself and I tried hard not to laugh as she said: "Ants are all gone. I'm sad. I want ants to crawl on me." I sympathized with her, but her pathetic, dramatic fake cry was making me laugh inside.

• Kylie told me: "I have peanut butter all on my foot." I checked it out and there was no peanut butter but quite a bit of blood. Nothing a bandaid couldn't take care of, and Kylie wasn't any pain although she wanted to know where the peanut butter came from.
  

• I had made some bread dough and was forming it into little rolls. I let Kylie taste a little piece and I told her that she could only have a tiny bit because there was yeast in it and it would hurt her tummy if she ate too much. She got all wide eyed and asked: "There's geese in the bread mommy?" I told her it was yeast, not geese but she didn't believe me. I let her give a very tiny piece to Eve who had been sitting there begging the entire time. Kylie gave it to her and said: "Just a little bit. The geese will hurt your tummy." Once again I tried to correct her but Kylie just got mad: "No! It's geese! There's geese in the bread mom!"

• When Jason had to leave for work, Kylie was so sad about it. She was all cuddled in his lap when he told her he had to leave soon. Kylie said: "I don't want you to leave, EVER!" Ok, so this quote was actually quite sad, but it was so completely adorable the way she said it to him. Jason told her that he never wanted to leave, ever, either.

• Right before bedtime, Kylie and Jason were playing some weird game where they made us funny sound and made up words and the other one repeated it. After playing for a little while, Kylie came up to me and exclaimed in a tattle tale voice: "Daddy saying weird things mommy." She really emphasized the word "weird" which was pretty funny.

• So this isn't a funny kid quote, but I didn't want Eve to feel left out and she doesn't really say that many words. I swear she kept saying: "I want more momma" as she kept emptying her plate. I can't say that I blame her, it was my homemade chicken alfredo which is delicious. She's said the word "more" quite a bit and we all know that she knows the word "momma", but it really sounded like a sentence: "I want more momma." I could have just been imagining it though. The girl loves food, so this wouldn't be all too surprising.
  

• This last one comes with a picture bonus. Kylie was helping me change the plug in scent dispenser and I told her to smell the empty one because it still smelled good. She took a big whiff and said: "I don't let this touch my boogies."
  

  

Yesterday's outfits

Look how cute Eve is in this little dress and funny face she makes when she's really excited about something (hence the clapping):
She's 13 months old and that dress is size 3-6 months, like a good chunk of the clothes she still wears. Here's a picture of Kylie that I dug up wearing the exact same dress at 4 months old. It's so weird to see clothes that Kylie wore as a baby on Eve as a toddler.

But what's also weird is that I noticed that Kylie was wearing a skirt she was wearing a year ago. Here's 28 month old Kylie showing me her mustache with a stick she found:And here's 18 month old Kylie wearing the same skirt. I know she wore it before 18 months, I just couldn't find a picture of it. I swear Kylie's been the same height for the past year.

Girls will be girls

There's been a lot of wrestling in our house lately between a certain two year old and one year old. Thankfully, the wrestling is accompanied by lots of giggling, hugs, tickles and cuddles, so I know it's all in love. These girls just love to play rough together, but as long as they are both having fun and no one is in danger or getting injured, I have no problem with it. In fact, I think it's adorable. Kylie even lets Eve tackle her, although I think that Eve is starting to figure out how to hold her own. Even when it's Kylie who is doing the tackling, she is pretty gentle with her little sister. I guess "gentle" is a relatice term when it comes to wrestling, ha! That last picture is a hug, although it does kind of look like Kylie was putting Eve in a headlock. Maybe she was just prepared in case Eve decided to do a surprise attack.

Kansas City Zoo

We bought a year's pass to the Kansas City zoo. We spent about three hours there last Tuesday and didn't even see everything. It was lot of fun and I can't wait to go back to visit the parts we didn't have time to see.

Before we left, we asked Kylie what animals she wanted to see. She told us "worms and snakes." I was on the lookout for worms, but I never did see any. We did see some neat snakes and she was very happy about that.

Check out who discovered sliding doors that open when you run toward them. That kept this little 13 month busy for a little while:

Recent Dr. Appts

We had two doctor appointments this week: Kylie's dermatology appointment at Children's Mercy Hospital and Eve's one year checkup.

Let's start with Kylie:

It went pretty well. We now have two different steroids gels to put on her twice a day: one for her body and one for her face and around her eyes. We are also supposed to cover her skin in vaseline (petroleum jelly) twice a day. Along with the steroids, they prescribed an allergy medecine similar to Zyrtec to give her once a day. I'm so glad her insurance covers it; those over the counter allergy medecines we were buying for her weren't cheap. It's been about 5 days now that we've started this new treatment and her skin looks fantastic! The only thing that I don't like is that the gels and vaseline have a tendency to somehow get in her hair and make it look really oily like we haven't washed it in a month. We are learning little tricks to keep it out of her hair, but it's not always successful. At least her skin looks and feels fabulous, it makes the hair issue not so important.

They also weighed her at 27 lbs (40th percentile) and measured her at 35.5 inches (still almost 3 feet, I swear she has been stuck here forever! 75th percentile)

Now on to Eve:

She is 13 months now, but the doctor's office didn't have her vaccinations at the time of her birthday, so we had to postpone her appointment for a month. On her first birthday, I weighed her on Wii Fit and it said she weighed just barely over 15 lbs. This followed her previous growing curve very well, so I'm pretty sure that was right. However, there was a week after her birthday where she seemed to get significantly bigger every single morningI got her out of her crib. Other people noticed it too and told me how much bigger she looked (for Eve anyway!). Well, at the doctor's office, just five weeks after I weighed her on the Wii, she weighed in at barely 17 lbs. (For some reason, her doctor always has us leave her clothes and diaper on, so without it, I think she would have been almost 17 lbs.) So she really did gain some weight this month! She is still in the "less than 3rd percentile" area, so I don't know her exact weight percentile. She was 27.5 inches long, so exactly at the 3rd percentile. So, she's pretty tiny, but I feel like she has gotten bigger based on her own little bitty growth history.

Jason stayed home with Kylie to do some homework, while I took Eve to the doctor. It was so much fun to go out with just my little baby. Now that she's one, her personality is staring to show and it's so fun to watch develop. I will have to write a whole other blog post sometime about this little Miss Ornery; for now I'll just stick to how funny she was at the doctor's office. She was walking all over the waiting room, walking up to every person to look at their face to try to get them to pay attention to her. She was squealing and giggling all while paying attention to who was watching her. She had so many adults laughing at her and she was loving it. She was honestly working the room and it was cracking me up. If anyone smiled at her, she would giggle and prance about. Seriously, prancing, with her little hips shaking and little hands waving at her side. When no one would pay attention to her, she would do her little fake cry. It's obviously fake because she can't even keep a straight face while doing it. A mom next to me even asked me if she was fake crying. What a silly girl. I'm glad to see her start to break out of her shell and becoming less attached to me. I do love how much of a momma's girl she normally is (most of the time, I need a break once in a while though!) but it's nice to see this side of her as well.

Potty training while...

... watching TV, reading the Bible and making silly faces.

We took a long break from potty training. I was ready to give up until Kylie realized she was the only one in middle school who still used a diaper. Thankfully, for Kylie's sake, Jason helped us get back on track. There is absolutely no way I could do this without his help. Now, we are finally at a potty success rate of going in the potty over half the time. I don't know the exact numbers, it would be weird if I did know the actual rate, but it just feels like we are finally making good progress. Thanks Jason! Kylie will thank you too when she goes off to school diaperless.

Jason also bought that toddler Bible for Kylie a couple weeks ago, It's a great collection of Bible stories appropriate for young children. It has great pictures and the stories hold the short attention span of a toddler while still holding their biblical integrity. Anyways, Kylie has learned that God made all the animals, all the people, the sun, the moon... She will often tell us: "God made the birds!" (or any other animal, but it's usually birds) "God made mommy. God made Kylie" It's pretty cute. There is a drawing of Noah and the arc on the title page of the Old Testament and she's convinced that the picture of Noah is a picture of God. I've told her that it's Noah, but since she has two different friends from church named Noah, she didn't believe me. Oh well, she'll figure it out eventually.

A couple more park pictures from yesterday

Look at Kylie climb all over the big toys! She was definitely the littlest kid up there and I heard parents warn their kids "Watch out for the little girl!" This cracked me up because she was holding her own and even being a little agressive herself. She made friends with a lot of the "big" girls who just loved playing with her.

Eve wanted to follow her up the big toys too. Ummm I don't think so, but it made for a cute picture:
Eve did follow her into all the smaller toys, like this one (and somehow she even managed to climb up there by herself a couple times):

Look at my little monkey swinging:

She was really sad that she couldn't climb this, but I promised her she would be big enough someday and she was excited about that:

You should have seen some of the looks that Eve got for climbing all over the playground and walking everywhere. I kept getting asked how old she was and all the grade school aged girls swooned over her. Grade school girls always fall in love with Eve and want to pick her up and carry her around. The only problem is that Eve does NOT want to be picked up by anyone but Mommy and she would rather walk around on her own. It's hard to believe that she really is a year old since she only weighs 15 lbs or so. I don't know about her weight right now, but I think that this last week, she has really gotten longer which helps make her look more her age. (By longer, I mean longer for Eve, which still isn't that long but just not so insanely short).

This face cracks me up:

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL (and it kind of shows that big belly she has, well big as in proportionally big to her tiny body):

See-Saw

Taking the girls to the park is so much easier, and much more fun this year now that Kylie is two and Eve is one. Kylie can do everything on her own, so I don't have to follow her all over the playground equipment carrying a newborn baby. Well that's what makes it easier, what makes is more FUN is that the girls play together a lot. They are really turning into best friends which is so much fun to watch. The pictures above are the girls playing on a see-saw together. Kylie loved making it bounce which just made Eve giggle and giggle and giggle.

My one year old is finally teething!

And no, that is not an April fools day joke. I can feel one sharp little tiny bottom tooth just barely sticking out. Her gums are also swollen and she lets me know that they hurt! We tried pears in her mesh food eater and that soft texture seemed to be really soothing on her teeth: she ate an entire pear by herself!

No pictures of the little tooth yet, you can't see it, but you can feel it if you stick your finger in her mouth.