Kristin's Walker

There are two things Kristin loves doing on a regular basis.........

The first is pushing the footrest of the lawn chair all over the backyard. She has even started bringing rocks to put on it and push them around too.

But, her absolute favorite though is the walker. Kristin LOVES this toy. She will spend large amounts of time pushing this around the house. She is a few months younger in this video, so she has now learned that if it gets stuck in the door or against the wall, she needs to walk around to the other side and push it the other way. I think this is the one toy she never gets sick of and plays with everyday.

Kristin has now added pushing Roxy's doggie steps all around the house, as well as pushing boxes, or any object that will slide on the ground. The other night she pulled a box of Kudos out of the pantry and was pushing it all around the kitchen. Roxy knew there was food in there, so she too followed Kristin everywhere she went. When Kristin was done, Roxy then took the kudos box and pushed it all around in hopes of getting a treat out of it.

So Quiet

I think every Mother knows that if your child is being unusually quiet, that most likely means they're doing something you don't want them doing. The other day, I was folding laundry in our room, and Kristin was in our bathroom. I realized after a little while she wasn't making any noise. So, I went into the bathroom and this is what I discovered her doing.

Busted, she had even taken the toilet paper from the other side of the toilet in the corner to tear it into pieces.



At first she was so absorbed in what she was doing, she didn't realize that I had caught her.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Every year for Halloween we go trick or treating with Greg's family. Kristin had a great time watching everyone and she actually really liked trick or treating. She held her own pumpkin bucket until it got too heavy and then she dropped it. She would grab out one piece of candy from her bucket, put it in her mouth, and then put it back in the bucket and replace it with another piece. Her favorite treat was a pumpkin straw that she held onto for the majority of the night. At the houses that let her pick her own candy, she didn't just want one, but the whole bowl. She would grab onto the edge and wouldn't let go. It was a fun night and Kristin was beyond exhausted by the time we got her home and in bed.

Family picture of all of us, (maybe next year I can get Greg to dress up!)



With a group this big, it's kind of hard to get a good picture of all of us, so this is the best we could do.



This is a picture of Kristin in the one Halloween outfit I bought her. You can't see the shirt too well, but you get the idea. She definitely got her moneys worth out of it and looked adorable doing it!

Candy Corn Princess

We went to the pumpkin patch the other day and finally got our pumpkins. We took Kristin in her Candy Corn Princess Halloween costume to get a few pictures....or should I say a lot of pictures. I have to warn you that there are a ton of pictures on this post. There were just too many cute pictures of her to choose from, so I posted a lot.

The pumpkin patch that we go to is just down the street from where we live and we have been going to it ever since we have lived here. It is small and has a little place with animals you can feed or cry at if you're Kristin. You would think that she would love the pigs because they would remind her of Roxy, but no, she cried any time we got her close to them, and really cried when they made snorting sounds.

Southern Utah

Every year all the guys in Greg's family go on a deer hunt in Southern Utah. Kristin and I flew out early to St. George to spend a little extra time with my family. About two hours before we were supposed to leave Kristin did this to her toe. She was playing with the pots and pans, (like always) when all of a sudden she started crying really hard. I knew exactly what had happened...she had dropped the lid on her toe. So I picked her up and started rubbing her leg and foot but she wasn't calming down. I looked down on the ground and there was blood all over. I then looked at her big toe and it was bleeding and turning black and blue. She was still crying, lifting her foot and trying to grab it. I felt so bad for her because I knew she was in a lot of pain. I cleaned it off, put a band-aid on it and put her down for her nap. When she woke up she seemed to be fine, so we loaded up and headed for the airport. Getting through the airport was a little harder by myself but not as bad as I had anticipated. Kristin did great on the plane and we were in Vegas before we knew it.



We got back on Monday and started to unpack. While I was doing that, Kristin climbed into the suitcase and played there for about 15 minutes. She was so proud of herself. Who needs toys when you have suitcases around?

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Child proof latches here we come!!

These days Kristin is into everything. I turn my back and she is pulling the candles off the stand, unloading the DVDs and Cd's, getting into Roxy's waterboy or food dish, putting all of Roxy's bones and toys in her mouth, feeding Roxy from her highchair, pulling the carbon monoxide alarm out of the wall, trying to pull the vase off the end table, pulling the cords out of the computer or off the coffee table, crawling into the bathroom cabinets and unloading them, unrolling the toilet paper, throwing her paci in the toilets (my favorite), trying to play with the toilet scrubber and plunger, opening all the drawers in the kitchen, putting her mouth on all the knobs and unloading the food off the shelves within her reach.

The best part is, when I say "no" to her, no matter what tone it's in she looks at me, smiles, and then continues to do it. If she happens to not quite be to the destination yet, she will crawl as fast as she can in hopes she will beat me there. So this is the daily routine that Kristin and I go through. Since there are cleaning supplies and things that are bad for her under the kitchen and bathroom sinks, the cabinet locks were put in this weekend. It was kind of sad. She would go to each one and try to pull it open and when it wouldn't, she would look at us with the most confused look on her face and then make her rounds again hoping one would open. She is such a busy body now I can't believe it, but it is so cute to watch her explore and discover things.

Kristin's favorite cabinet to open and unload in the kitchen.

This is what I love. When she can't quite reach what she wants, she stands on her tippy-toes.

She looks like a little dancer in the making, with that extended leg and pointed toe.

Kristin's second favorite cabinet to get into is my bathroom. She particularly likes this one because she can climb all the way in, to get to what she wants.