My girl has been a little under the weather...we both have been, actually, with runny noses, congestion, cough. Let's just say we've not been far from a box of tissues for the past couple of days. We did have a nice warm up in the weather yesterday, and some sunshine, so Kerry got to enjoy a little bit of outdoor play.



She loves her sandbox.

And never tires of bubbles.

You can tell she's feeling a little "blah" in this photo...but she's hard to slow down, even when she's a little bit sick.

I liked this shot, even with the...umm...mucus. Poor baby.

She's played pretty well today, too, but we did skip church services just to be safe. I want her to share with her church nursery friends...just not germs. I took the above photo just about a half hour ago and she's now napping soundly with robe. Yep, she still loves robe and sleeps with it every night and at naptime unless we happen to be out and she falls asleep in the car.

And now for a little Kerry update:

I found out this past week that she knows which is left and which is right. I tried to trick her to see if she was just a good guesser, but nope...she knows every time. I haven't worked with her on this yet, so I don't know where she picked it up. She surprises me like that sometimes. She is full of imagination lately, and pretends to open the gate at the top of the basement stairs for us with her "magic key". She'll also say "oh no, you in twubble, I hafta rescue you!" and then she'll pretend to do so. She also likes to put on her "Umi-Goggles" and pretend she has a "belly screen", and she'll say her pigtails are like "Milli measures", (if you've ever seen Team Umizoomi, you'll know what this is about). She also likes to play "pirate" and still loves to have tea parties...sometimes she combines both.

Kerry quote from yesterday:

"I'm not Mommy's baby, I'm Mommy's Kerry"

Yesterday we got a break in the constant rain we've been having lately so we went to a nearby playground to get some fresh air and soak up a little bit of sunshine. We ended up spending almost 2 hours there.

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She could swing all day...she loves it. A far cry from the baby girl who hated swings when we first brought her home. She would cry as soon as her little bottom hit the swing seat.

Now she begs for mommy to push her "way higher!"

This girl loves to get outside...and so do we. Funny how that works out =). Seriously, it was obvious from day one that we fit together perfectly as a family, and I thank God everyday for that.

Today, she decided she'd rather hop like a bunny than walk like a little girl...

And I, of course, decided I needed to snap some photos of Kerry, and her pigtails, in action.

Despite the fact that she's pretty darn cute, she's actually quite difficult to photograph simply because she's always on the move. This, combined with the fact that her idea of smiling for the camera usually involves a cheesy grin and the "pirate eye", makes a good face shot next to impossible most days. Thank goodness for a digital camera, patience, and the occasional stroke of luck...which was not on my side today. So...I guess we're sticking with action shots today which is fine since, well, she's all about action.

Quote from Kerry: "I'll like Sa-yem when I'm bigger"...ha ha. I Guess poor Salem is just going to have to bide his time until them.

They actually tolerate each other pretty well until Salem decides he wants to be a part of what she's doing or he gets curious and sniffs her toys. She doesn't like that so she'll yell "No Sa-yem! No eating my stuff!"