Happy 2nd Birthday Kinsey!

 Happy Birthday Kinsey!  We are so lucky to have you in our family!  You are so full of spunk, attitude, mischief and cuteness. (I really think the cuteness must be necessary your survival, because you get into a lot of mischief, and you think going to bed at 10pm should be the norm). :)

You are obsessed with the Disney story and characters from "Frozen." You've only seen the movie a couple of times but you know all the songs, shriek "Elsa and Anna!" whenever you see their pictures on boxes of cereal at the store, on little girl's clothes or on books at the library. You pretend to call Anna on the phone to see if she can come play with you. We hear you ask the phone, "What you doing Anna?" all the time.  You even ask for "Elsa and Anna banannies" (I finally figured out that mean a frozen banana)

You are a binky girl.  You prefer to go to bed with one in your mouth and one in your hand, wrapped in the "Elsa and Anna blanket" grandma Sue gave you for your birthday.

When you hear Daddy come home you race to the bottom of the stairs to make sure it's really him, then you bounce up and down while chanting "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!" Until he can take off his backpack and scoop you up.

Your vocabulary has really taken off in the last month. "What's happening?!", "I need dinner." or "tortillas and cheese please!", "Go play with Yayak?" (Zedek) and "I love you." are some of the most frequent things we hear you say, although you carry on discernible conversations with us on almost anything now.

Your Frozen obsession is slowly being overtaken by "The Chronicles of Narnia." You saw the movie on one of our trips back and forth from Richfield, and have carried Bracken's little book with pictures of the characters from the movie around until you have them all memorized.  You tell me, "I like Lucy." "I love the Beavers." "I don't like the naughty lady." (the White Witch) You talk about Aslan, Lucy, Susan, Edmund and Peter all. the. time.

We love you Kinsey!  I don't love that you wake up so early and climb in my bed every morning before 6am, but I love when you stroke my cheeks and repeatedly say "I love you Mommy" until I wake up and get you breakfast. (Or if I take too long you pull on my face and yell for "Tortillas and cheese!" or "I need dinner!") I love seeing your imagination develop and watching you play dress up and tea party and pretend with Bracken and Chandra.  It cracks me up how you go to the bookshelf and pull off a dozen books and then sit in the middle of them reading and tell me "I'm doing my math." You are a huge tease and often call Chandra by the wrong name on purpose just to rile her up. You sing songs while dancing and then wait for our applause.  If it doesn't come fast or loud enough you begin to clap and cheer "Yay Kinsey!!" enthusiastically until we all join in.  We love you!

 A backyard birthday tea party.

 Kinsey is singing, "Happy Birthday to Me" while nodding her head back and forth.