Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Next climb...Mt. Everest!

Our girl is a climber! We didn't expect her to able to climb her rock wall quite yet, we really only put it on for the bigger kids who come over. She showed us.....


She has also now conquered climbing the ladder on the back side of the swingset by herself as well. Oh Lordy are we in for it....

Sorry the video is sideways..I'm trying to download software to edit it now...but until then...here it is

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Dying Easter Eggs...

On Saturday, we went to our 2nd home, "the River House" (I mean my parents house), to take Kelsey out on papa's boat again. It was a gorgeous day! Kelsey kept telling us it was"windy" and moving her hair out of her face and she kept saying "faster daddy". It was too cute. After lunch we put her down for a nap there. When she woke up I brought her out on the patio with me and she went over to where the life jackets are kept, got her, brought it back to me, told me "life jacket on", put it on, and said (and pointed) "papas boat"! We tried to go out again, but the tide was too low. We decided to dye our Easter eggs there before heading home. PLOP/ CRACK!! That would be Kelsey throwing the egg into the bowl of color. Lou trying to show her how to gently put the eggs in the bowlShe started out dressed, wearing a bib. But Kelsey didn't understand how to "gently" put the eggs in and would basically throw them into the bowls of color. Needless to say some splashed on her, so we stripped the dress off (ran it under cold water) and proceeded to dye eggs.This was her softest dropped one.
Watching the eggs while they sat in the color
Kelsey & Daddy w/ all the eggs in the color So excited they are all done and out to dry!Kelsey & Mommy w/ the eggs

Snack Stealer....

In the afternoon I brought her snack (Annie's whole wheat bunnies) out with us to the swingset. I was giving them to her a few at a time, until she decided she would rather steal the box from me and eat them on her own!










Friday, April 10, 2009

Loves to play w/ her eggs...

When we get home from the park, I usually open the slider and let Kelsey play on the back patio while I make her lunch. When I came out to check on her, this is what I found...so cute!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Unprompted Thank Yous....

I just noticed this past week/end that Kelsey has started saying thank you without being prompted. If I hand her something while I am driving (like her water or snack or a block) she will say "Thank you Mommy". It's so freakin' cute! Granted she doesn't always use it when she should, it's nice to hear it when she does!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Hey Nana & Papa....

I'm drinking milk in your bed!!!!
And wearing your slippers!!

We stayed the night at my parents house Sat night...Kelsey had fun, but was a little confused as to why "nana & papa" were not at their house too!

Photo Shoot

I dressed Kelsey up the other day to take some pictures of her with my diaper clutch. I needed a picture for my website and decided it was more personal to have a picture of her, rather than just a picture of products. The combination of her being a toddler and my camera not being as fast as I would like left me a little frustrated. But we did get 3 good shots. My sister Cindy helped me out some and we picked a final pic and I sent out the info to my web person tonight!!

Papa's Boat!!!!

This weekend was beautiful. We spent Sunday at my parents house and our friends joined us in the morning for a boat ride, cook out, and some water skiing (during naptime). Kelsey was so excited that her 2 best buds, Jack & Maddie, were going to go on Papa's Boat with her.
After an alarming start (the boat alarm went off b/c of low drive oil), LOL, we finally got the boat pulled out to enjoy a "cruise". Beautiful weather and the kids were FABULOUS!!!! It was a great day!
Kels & Mommy
It was very windy in the front of the boat
Helping Daddy Drive the boat
Cap'n Kelsey!
Kels, Jack and Maddie in the front of the boat
Checking out the water/sites in front
Maddie & Kels (Superstars!!!)
Getting ready to pull out from the dock.

Easter Egg Hunt #1

Kelsey and her friends had an egg hunt this morning at the park. Below is a picture of most of the kids in the group. Kelsey is in the front row next to her friend Madeline (who's in a yellow shirt) The kids made their own bags before the hunt. I carried the bag and Kelsey would put the eggs in when she "found" them. This is the only picture I have. See the camera hanging on my neck...nice that I forgot the photo card for it at home so I had no memory to take pics.After nap I took her out in our yard (both front and back) and we had about 6 more egg hunts. I added in the extra empty eggs I had at home. She really loves to clean up, so she was very good at this game and had fun doing it. I would throw the eggs out in the grass and she carried her basket and picked/cleaned them all up. Hopefully I'll have more pics after Friday's egg hunt.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Chck Enchiladas and Ceasar Salad

There's a little more competition in the family now for mom's (Gramma McD's) Sour Cream Chicken Enchilada's.

Um..Yummy..I like it!!
She also chowed on some Ceaser salad

Gift from Curtie Poo and Manda

My cousin Amanda and her boyfriend (Curt) stopped by the other night on their way back to school just to say hi. They had spent their spring break in the keys and picked up a little gift for Kelsey. How sweet is that?? Here's a few pictures of her in her new bib.

Friday, March 13, 2009

An Afternoon w/ Daddy

Since daddy has been working hard with school this week, we met him in Orlando for the afternoon. It was so good to see him and I think he would've held Kelsey the entire time if I hadn't told him she was tired and could ride in the stroller. (so cute how much he loves his babygirl) We went to Downtown Disney and just strolled along. Went in all the stores and stopped and played with the Legos. It was a really great time.

Look Daddy!! This Dragon was made of ALL Legos
Trying to play Legos...we realized the pieces were to small for her little hands!

Fun Times

w/ Aunt Kellie and James
TAAA-DAAAAAAA!!!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Bubble, Bubble, Bubbles

Such an inexpensive toy, yet it is always entertaining. Kelsey had a blast chasing the bubbles on the patio and into the grass. She kept saying "catch it catch it".

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Crazy Foods...

It's been a while since I posted anything about Kelsey's eating habits. I'm happy to say (knock on wood) that Kelsey is still a good eater. So here's 3 quick food quips:

(This one is for T-dawg) I was at the grocery store by myself (aaahhhhhh heaven!!) and I was walking down the canned fruit/veggie row. I scanned the shelves and looked up and saw beets. I decided I would pick up a small can and let Kelsey try them. As my hand reached for them I chuckled (partly to myself, partly out loud) for 2 reasons: 1st being that I don't think I've ever eaten beets (intentionally at least) and 2nd it brought back a memory from college when my roomie Tracy opened up a can/jar of beets and started eating them. I laughed at her then thinking she was so weird!! My chuckle came from realizing my child is gonna be the weird roomie now! (Love you T)

Pickled Ginger...I bought some sushi rolls at Publix the other night for dinner. Kelsey and I were eating out back b/c it was so nice out. She looked at my tray where the ginger was and said "try" and put her finger in her mouth. (I put peanut butter on her finger the other week and told her to try it) So I figured what the hay...I'll let her try it. She ate the first piece and said "I like" and asked for more. So she ended up eating 3 of the slices of pickled ginger. Crazy Girl!

Eggplant..I made eggplant tonight (she's had this before and I've posted about it). This time she was saying eggplant though and kept saying yummy as she would eat it. Of course when I turned the camera on, she would no longer say yummy. It was still cute though.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The next soccer star...

I bought Kelsey her first soccer ball. Since what seems like forever, I've been bouncing a bouncy ball off her head to get her ready for "heading" the ball. She always just laughs when I do it. She does kick the ball (pretty well), but most of the time would rather pick it up and carry it around.

My Ball

Where'd it go??

Ready for Mardi Gras...

The other week it was chilly here in FL, so we put Kelsey in footie jammies for bed. 2 mornings in row...we found her with her jammies unzipped, down around her ankles, and attempting to remove her diaper!!! Oh my goodness! The 2nd morning the zipper was all mangled in her attempt to take them off. Needless to say at naptime she's wearing pants to sleep and now we just put her in her pant jammies b/c she can't seem to figure out how to get those off...for now!

(On a sidenote some people told me to avoid this to cut the feet out and put the jammies on her backwards so she couldn't get to the zipper. Unfortunately that defeats the purpose of "footie" jammmies for us since she won't keep socks on either)

Summer is her favorite name.....

Kelsey has been learning her full name. She LOVES Summer (her middle name) and says it all the time. On the wall in our kitchen we have a plaque that says "Villa Roselli" and she always points to it while she's eating, so I always tell her it says Roselli and that it's her last name.

She can think...

So we were behind a school bus at a light and I was telling Kelsey about it. "That's a school bus Kels. It's yellow! A school bus takes kids to school" her instant reply was "like daddy". (Daddy is away at school this week) So simple, but amazed me nonetheless that she logically put the two together. Crazy that these little beings we create can actually think!

Sorrrryyyyy..

Kelsey has started saying sorry to us. We are not quite sure where she picked it up from since we really haven't focused on that yet. For the most part though she uses it in correct context/situations. She's so cute, she leans her head to her shoulder and says sooorrryyy. How could you ever stay mad at that? (sorry for the bad filming...I put the camera on the table so she would just behave normal and not get "stage fright"...so much for that in the beginning)