All about Kyleigh

Kyleigh playing peek-a-boo

When we had time off over Christmas break, it seemed like Kyleigh's vocabulary suddenly exploded. She was talking up a storm (some words we understood, but most still sounded like gibberish). Just in the last couple of weeks, it has started again. Now she repeats many of the words we say.

Last night, I picked Kyleigh up from her school (daycare, but we call it school because they do have teaching time already at the age of 2). Since it was a Friday, we had to take home her bedding from naptime and so I had my arms full of a sheet, blanket, her sweater from earlier in the day and her lunch, so I had her hold my hand rather than carrying her. She was such a big girl and walked the whole way to the car and then stood by the door while I opened it up for her. She'd asked for a bottle and so I got her in her car seat and reached into her lunch bag only to find it almost empty. I grabbed one of the bottles that I refill it with and asked Kyleigh to hold the lid for me. She seemed pretty excited to help Mommy (she loves to help!) and I said, "Thank you, sweetie!" She looked up grinned and said, "Tank oo, eetie!" Such a little mimicker!

Today, I got up and needed to work on the mess that is my kitchen and so I put Kyleigh in her high chair for her breakfast and turned on some cartoons (I mean what is a Saturday morning without some cartoons!). Her breakfast consisted of a pretty good size bowl of Honey Nut Cheerio's (without any milk on them), though she did have a bottle of milk to drink. She has also recently found our Pit game that has one of those bell ringers (the kind that Doctor's offices often have on their counter to ding if they aren't around). When I went to put her into her high chair, she saw the Pit game and wanted to hold the bell. So she was dinging it. When I got her the cereal, she put it aside into one of the cup holders on the high chair tray and started eating.

This freed me up to wash some dishes and load my dishwasher. I was almost done with the dishes I was working on when she decided she was "All done!" (this she says very clearly). I guess she didn't think I heard her (although I can see her the whole time from the sink and knew that she thought she was finished), so the next thing I knew she was pushing the bell and saying "All done" as she pushed it. Too funny!

I had one last big pot to do that takes up the whole entire sink, so I wanted to get that one washed and out of the way. I was finishing that up when I heard what I thought sounded like, "big mess!". I wasn't too concerned because she'd only had dry cheerio's and that doesn't take much to clean up. Shortly after hearing that, I was trying to rinse off the big pot and had to use the sprayer when I sprayed it all over me (this is pretty normal for me when I do dishes). I rinsed it all off, turned on the dishwasher and then headed out to see what "big mess" she'd made. Well, she wasn't joking there were cheerio's everywhere on the floor. I said, "I see you weren't kidding about the big mess." She pointed at my shirt and said, "Mommy, mess!"

I went into my room to get a dry shirt on and came back out and started picking up the Cheerio's. She told me again that she was "All done!" and I told her I was trying to pick up the mess, I believe my exact words went something like "Kyleigh made a mess and I'm trying to get it cleaned up." Next thing I know, she starts giggling and saying, "Mommy made a mess! Mommy made a mess!" over and over. I said, "No, Mommy didn't make the mess. Kyleigh made the mess." She thought this was pretty funny and just kept laughing and saying "Mommy made a mess!"

After getting the mess cleaned up and then vacuuming the floor, I finally got Kyleigh out of her high chair. She went to play for a little bit and then looked like she was making her "going to the bathroom" face. Shortly after that she came over and wanted to sit on my lap and watch cartoons together (something we do frequently). I decided to check her pants and sure enough, she was stinky. I went into her room getting ready to change her diaper and she went and grabbed her "puppy" that talks to her (It's a Fisher Price Learn and Play puppy, I think). She was pushing the buttons on her puppy while I changed her diaper and the puppy said, "You're wonderful!" and she said, "I know!" I had to try so hard not to laugh.

I think she is pretty wonderful, but I didn't know she agreed! Life with Kyleigh is so much fun and I'm so blessed to be her Mommy.