An Overdue Top Ten

Here is an updated top ten of what Kelsey is up to these days:

10. Dancing and singing any second she gets. She likes to use her microphones or anything resembling one. Who knew a turkey baster would get so much use as a microphone?

9. She has enjoyed being outside with the temperatures having been in the upper 30s and 40s. She has shoveled with Daddy and recently even got her bike out.

8. Princess anything! This girl is a princess fanatic! We have Snow White, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, and Cinderella everywhere. If this baby is a boy, he is coming home to a princess castle and we will need some blue to toughen the place up! If it's a girl, we are set!

7. Watching videos on Matt's phone. Matt downloaded an app that has videos for her and she loves it. She also likes to play games on his phone as well. Is it amazing or a little sad that a 2 year old can work a smartphone?

6. She likes being video taped. She will ask us to tape her while she does random things. Then she wants to watch it back right away.

5. Helping to bake/cook. She always pulls a chair up to the same spot and is a great helper. She especially likes to mix things.

4. Going to swimming lessons. She does really well and enjoys the water. Although she likes to do her own thing at times, we can tell she is retaining skills from one week to the next and is starting to get the idea of the front crawl.

3. Going to dance class. I am not sure whether she likes dancing or socializing more. On the way there she always lists all the friends she will see and then has to be sure to say hello to all of them as soon as she sees them. There are times she will go stand by them to dance and leave me by myself. So much for mommy and me!

2. Her wide vocabulary. She throws out words sometimes that seem too big for her. Yesterday the word she kept saying was "actually." "Actually, I want apple juice. Actually, I like Little Mermaid." She carries on a conversation with ease and is so good about getting her point across. It is not always the clearest, but she can be easily understood most of the time.

1. The #1 best thing right now is that Kelsey is potty trained. (I hope I am not jinxing anything!) With the baby coming soon we have heard regression is normal, but hopefully we won't have to deal with that. But for now, we have met the stage where she tells us she has to go and we do not have to sit by the potty for a long time to wait for her to go. She still wears a pull-up to bed, but she wakes up dry almost every night. She has been doing this for about a month now. Way to go Kelsey!