talents & grammy's visit:)

so, i'm not doing a super-spectacular job at keeping up with the blogging, but i think i've had at least one per week :) with my mom visiting, things got busy pretty quick & with the warm weather, we were outside more than inside (near my computer). but i digress...

many of kennedie's talents came out during grammy's visit. my mom got to spend a week and a half with us, which was awesome! she got in lots of quality kennedie time & mommy got a clean house :) how grammy does it, i don't know - i think one day she did 12 loads of laundry (let it be known that we still had pleanty of clean clothes to wear w/o the laundry being done!), cleaned the kitchen & the windows -  she's superwoman! at any rate, kennedie enjoyed her time with grammy very much and shared with her just how smart she is!

sorting her letters by color

all done!

kennedie loves letters - i think it's because her mom is a kindergarten teacher :) she got this leap frog phonics magnet set for valentines day & adores it - and any other version a friend may have at his or her house! on this particular day though, she was all about sorting the letters by color! 

 

kennedie's most recent accomplishment (i think) is learning to pedal her tricycle :) kennedie & grammy ventured out at least once a day to get a ride in, sometimes twice!

musical talent also runs in the family - well on daddy's side anyway :) and kennedie was showing her stuff with her ukulele as she sung & played along with playground music! 

kennedie is also a master puzzler - grammy got this abc puzzle for her (52 small pieces to misplace, lose, suck-up in the vaccuum) for being such a good girl one day! she loves it & can focus on it for all of about 5 minutes, placing pieces correctly, before throwing them all over the place - but that's what 2 year olds do - right?

grammy shared her green thumb with kennedie while she was here too (hopefully her's is greener than mommy's). we should have sunflowers sprouting soon! 

stories are a big hit with kennedie anytime, but especially before bed. her new favorites are a set of curious george books i got from our school book fair! she loves his adventures & pretty much knows all 6 by heart. grammy enjoyed doing the bedtime routine while she was here. they also read lots of books - or rather a couple books lots of times each - every day. kennedie also enjoys reading herself - first it's mommy's (or daddy's or grammy's) turn, then it's kennedie's turn! she begins each page "once time" (for once upon a time) and then proceeds to talk about the pictures - tonight it was p1 "once time, a little dolphin," p2 "once time a little fish," p3 "once time a little sun, a big sun," p4 "once time a little moon, a little dophin, good night" - that's pretty much the jist of the story anyway :)

we had a wonderful visit with grammy & are so thankful that she got to see so much of kennedie!  miss her bunches already!