What she's been up to.

My girl is a very busy lil' munchkin with energy to spare. We figured out early on that if she doesn't have a regular and easily accesible outlet for her energy, she starts to get restless and grumpy. This is why we take our daily walks. Sometimes twice daily, in fact. And she has a mini-trampoline in her basement play space that she goes crazy on regularly. It's great for the winter months and on rainy days. But when the weather is nice, you'll find us outdoors. Recently we went to one of our favorite places, Bernheim Forest, to let her run loose for a few hours.

She talked with the ducks and swans a bit..



had some fun with these great natural building blocks in the play area of the visitor's center..

These photos were taken seven months ago at the same table. See how much she's grown ?!






There's still lots of time decicated to blowing bubbles...

She took some time out, one day, to organize these soda bottles. She's still really into collecting objects of similar size, shape, function, whatever..in handy containers.

She's helped feed our fish every afternoon...

and even stopped to contemplate life by the pond.

She's still obsessed with the "fwabbers" that we consider weeds. Somedays her pigtails take on a life of their own....this was one of those days =).

And this one....this one I don't really have an explanation for. It's just cute.

Have I mentioned lately how much I adore this girl-o-mine? Even on her orneriest day she makes me smile, and I can't resist showering her with hugs and kisses at least a dozen times a day. She is our joy-baby, our blessing, and sometimes it's hard to remember what life was like before she came along.

She's had some leaps in developement lately, too. It's as if the moment she turned two, someone flipped on another switch in her brain and suddenly she can consistently identify 7 colors (red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple, pink) and she's learned to recognize the letters T, K, E, O, H, and W, or "dubbee!", as she say's it. And this week she's finally started trying to put together 2-3 word sentences. Since this blog will serve as a scrapbook for her, I thought I'd better document these things.

She had just learned to blow bubbles on her own when I took this photo. *sigh*. Slow down baby girl, you're growing up too fast.

The adorable lil' sweetheart in this photo with Kerry is Hannah. I've posted about her before as she just stole my heart and seemed to be such buddies with Kerry.

When we were traveling to Florida last month, we had to opportunity to meet and spend some time with her Mama and Daddy in Georgia over dinner. They are such wonderful people and Kerry was really taken with them. As we were leaving, she even ran back to give Lois extra hugs. She never does this for someone she's just met. Lois and David are waiting on TA so they can finally get their sweet Hannah. I know how hard it is to be so close and waiting on one of the last things that stands between you and your child. Please pray with them that that much needed TA comes very soon.

Sunday Sweetness

She's taken to picking stray dandelions on our walks, lately. She calls them "fwabbuhs" (flowers)

I love this little dress on her, it's from the new Liberty of London line at T*rget

I love this photo, but I would have loved it even more if I could have gotten her to look at the camera, but she was too busy watching "Max and R*by".

Bracelets are supposed to be worn on your wrists, sweetie =).