Arggh

How did I get so lucky to have been blessed with someone so cute??

Love you, my little french fry pirate !

My girl wants to party all the time....

This weekend we had a lot of parties to attend. It started Saturday when we were supposed to go to Aunt Cyndi and Uncle Eric's to celebrate Uncle Eric's birthday. I told you that we would go after you took your nap, which lately has been around 12 or 1. So, we laid you down only to find you jumping around in your crib with your shorts and diaper off. Clearly, you weren't going to nap. So we got dressed and headed over. I figured you would just take a nap there. We got there around 3 and had a lot of fun. You played with Brandon and Aidan, however, you did more bossing than playing. Before I knew it we were eating dinner and opening presents and you still hadn't had a nap??? At this point I was trying to keep you up so that you would fall asleep on the way home and hopefully be out all night. I was, however, very impressed with your behavior. For not having a nap, you were pretty happy. So we played some more and then the boys headed upstairs for a bath. Aidan took one first and when he was done, you became very interested. So you and Brandon took your first bath together. It was very cute.

You were very interested in his extra parts and couldn't figure out what it was. When I asked you, you said it was "poop"? After the bath you kept staring some more and at one point even looked at yours, like "Where's mine?" It was really funny. After the bath we decided that it was probably time to go. It was almost 8 and I could see the grouchiness coming. So we say good-bye and got you in the car. It didn't take you 5 minutes to crash and be out for the night.
Today we walked over to your friend Evan's house because it was his 1st birthday party. You have been looking forward to his birthday party for weeks now, so of course, you didn't take anap before going over there. Again, we laid you down , and again you took off your diaper and jumped around. Evan had the bubble lady come to his party and you were so brave.. you volunteered to stand in the bubble.


After the bubble show, she let the kids play with her bubble toys and you had more than a good time with that.





We stayed at Evan's for a little bit and watched him open his gifts and then we walked home. On our way, we stopped next door to see what they were up to and baby Tessa was there with her mom and dad. We hung out there for a while and started dinner until you had a little tantrum and we had to come home. We tried to give you your dinner in your high chair and you picked up your plate and threw it on the floor. It was then that I knew your party weekend must come to an end. And so you went to bed at 7pm. I wonder if you will last all night? I hope so because tomorrow we are going to the beach:) Love you, french fry. Thanks for a fun weekend, but we really got to work on the napping. Jen Jen is going to kill us if you keep this up :)

23 down 1 to go.....

Today you are officially 23 months old. I can't believe that in just one month you are going to be 2. There are sooo many things that make me feel, "Wow, you are only 2?" but then there are soooo many more things that make me feel, "Aw you're 2 already?" So I'm sorta stuck in the middle. All I know is that you are definitely the smartest and cutest 2 year old I've ever met. No one we meet can believe that you are just turning 2. You are speaking so much and your vocabulary is so advanced that sometime I forget you are just almost 2. You are a true blessing. Here are some of your favorites these days......
food: grapes
drink: lemonade
animal: all of them
movie: Jurassic Park (yes the real one) you will sit and watch the entire thing almost without blinking an eye.
thing to do: swim
saying: "Yep"
character: Mickey Mouse
toy: dolly and/or your bike
tickle spot: neck
comfort spot when sleepy: ear/neck
my favorite sentence: "I need paci, it ni-night time." :)

I feel so blessed to be able to spend so much time with you this summer and even more excited and lucky that you have so many loving people that come to see you and want to spend time with you. You are a very lucky little girl and I thank God for you every minute of every day. I love you genius:)

The many faces of Kendyl

The "I know I'm cute" face

The "happy" face

The "sad" face

The "silly" face

and the "grape" face


I love each and every face you make Kendyl. Happy Friday!

I scream, U scream, we all Scream for ice cream

Today we went to California Adventure with Lisa, Robert and Braden. We were really going to just get them in, but we tagged along for a few hours. We had a lot of fun with them too. We went on most of the rides that you are able to get on, but boy was it hot!!! Here you are getting a free ride.

Here are you two going down the rock slide.


We didn't stay that long, but on our way out we got a special ice cream cone to share.


I let you hold it once it was almost gone, basically to the rim of the cone and you licked away all the way out of the park. We said goodbye to the Lopez's and then headed to our car (which was in BFE). Not even 3 minutes later, a girl said to me, "Oh, she's spilling her ice cream." Sure enough, you had fallen asleep and turned the cone over and it dumped out on your thigh and down your leg. It was dripping off your shoe. It was sooo funny. I just wish I wasn't alone, so I could take a picture of it. I thought the million people that were walking by might think it was cruel of me to let you sit there asleep in ice cream so I could snap a picture. So I didn't (this time). As I grabbed the pile off your leg, you woke up for a second to say, "Where's ice cream?" then crashed back out. It was so cute. You slept all the way to the car and all the way home. It was a great ending to a very hot day. Love you french fry. Thanks for always giving me a reason to smile.

Little Swimmer and Jumper

This summer you have really become comfortable in the water. You love to be in it whenever you can(even the bath). You just can't get enough. You even are comfortable enough to swim by yourself, of course with a few hundred floating devices, but still by yourself :) Here's some video of your swimming feat... not bad for not even being 2 yet :)
Last week we went over to Cici's and you were jumping off the side of her jacuzzi to me. Today we had a lunch/playdate and you, yet again, amazed me by jumping off the diving board. You have no fear sometimes and I love that about you. You are almost always willing to try something once.

Too bad our photographer didn't get you mid-air:) Cici has some mid air ones from last week so we'll get those to post too. Love you french fry. I am sooo sad that our summer fun is quickly coming to an end. I have had the best summer ever.

No pictures

while I'm on the potty


I did it!!


You have definitely been getting better at the potty thing. Today at grandma's you even went on the big potty (1st time for that). Thanks for a great weekend. Love you.