Kinley is a little human.

Ok so Kinley is so grown up these days it is absolutely ridiculous. I LOVE IT! But at the same time, my heart can't stand it because she is totally not a baby anymore. I tell people all the time I definitely do NOT want Kinley to be a baby forever. I didn't have kids to breastfeed them and change their diapers for the rest of their life. It is SO MUCH FUN whenever Kinley learns something new or starts doing something she hasn't been able to before. But it is so weird when I realize how quickly she grows up. I'm like wait, you just started doing something hilarious yesterday and a couple days later she's mastered it and it's not quite as hilarious anymore. It's bittersweet. Because I seriously love to see how quickly she grasps new things.

Here are a few things I have been keeping a mental note of for a while that remind me Kinley is a little human trying to learn all this new stuff...

• In the shower she holds out her hand for me to put soap on her. Once I do she rubs it all over her belly and legs and sometimes her hair. It's adorable and I love that she caught on to this. Of course, she doesn't clean herself well enough so I still have to do it over again, but I just love it. When she first started doing it she would get the soap and immediately put it on her face and all in her eyes. She had me cracking up. 
• She also loves to brush her teeth. She doesn't like it when mom and dad try to do it, but if she gets to hold the toothbrush, she is a happy camper. She also does the same thing with a hairbrush.
• This is probably one of my favorites, but when it is time for dinner Taylor and I will get the utensils, cups, and plates out of the cupboard and hand them to her and she will bring them over to the table. SHE LOVES to help. I mean LOVES. She is just beaming the whole time she does it. I love having her help and making her feel like she is a big kid. 
• This morning at breakfast we didn't say a prayer and before she started eating she folded her arms and looked at us. Lol. 
• This summer we put arm floaties on her in the pool. And she does great and she loves it. I tell her to kick her legs and she does and she actually has really good ability to get around the pool and do what she wants for a kid her age. I mean seriously, she's just too grown up. She's not even one and a half yet.
• She blows people kisses. I love it! At first though we would ask her to blow kisses and she would just smack herself in the face. It was so funny! She's a crack up and she knows it, cuz she'll start laughing too. 
• When I tell her we need to put on shoes she brings me her shoes and then just stands there and lifts up one of her legs like she's going to be able to put a shoe on that way. Haha. 
• A lot of times she will demand to sit at the table, NOT in her booster seat. This one gets me cuz it's just not fun having a kid in a chair that they can't see the top of the table. 
• She saw my mom painting and had to join in so we gave her water and a brush and she just had at that wall. It was completely soaked by the time she was done. 
• We just started doing the elmo slide song and she is so fun to watch. She follows the directions elmo gives half the time, but the other half she is just too excited about the song to even keep herself standing. 

Basically Kinley is a little copycat a ton of the time. She sees what we are doing and has to join in. It is so much fun and I love to teach her new things but I honestly don't know how she catches on to some things so quickly. We love our little girl. 

Nothing to explain...

Titles are...lame. This is just a miscellaneous post with no purpose, really.

Kinley is cute, and I'm starting to get nervous about a 2nd kid. But not in the way you would think. I'm just nervous to not have me and Kinley time anymore. It's weird that I won't be able to just give her all my attention. Hopefully she loves her little brother so she doesn't mind. She met her newest cousin on the Ball side last week when we went to Newport and was IN LOVE with him. She wouldn't stop giving him kisses (Sorry Meg), and just wanted to be around him all the time. If that's how she reacts to her new brother I still may be in trouble because I won't be able to give him any distance from her....

and he will need his distance because...

Kinley likes to hit these days. A LOT! And it's really bugging me. Every time she hits I calmly tell her no we don't hit and say "We need to be soft" and show her how to be soft, I hold her hands down, and I have her give hugs before she's allowed to keep playing. It doesn't seem to be working, so I need a new plan. Yesterday morning before church, Taylor took something away from her and she got so upset with him. Threw a half second tantrum (Quite literally) and then CHASED him down. Seriously, ran after him to hit him. We were in shock and could NOT stop laughing. We just kept saying to each other, "Where the heck did that come from?" Then later at church she was hanging out by the nursery gate and her and another little boy kept poking each other in the face and laughing hysterically. But when another little boy came up she smacked him on the face and he started crying. I just took Kinley and ran (After apologizing). I almost started crying myself. I felt so bad. Ugh...kids are hard. So ya, hitting, we are having fun here ;)

Kinley loves to help out around the house still. She gets upset frequently when I am doing chores and not paying attention to her. But if I give her some way to help out, her demeanor and attitude quickly change. This morning I also noticed her grabbing hand towels out of the cupboard in the bathroom and scrubbing the floor. Haha. I must clean too much...or something.

We went to Newport 2 weeks ago and Kinley had lots of fun. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!!! She was hesitant of the sand and water at first, but learned to love it. As long as we held her hand in the ocean she was all giggles. She loved going for walks and holding our hands (And we loved it too). The weather was so nice, it was hard to come back to Vegas where you melt, or at least feel like you are melting, as soon as you walk out the door. 

Here is our beach video I put together from this year. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqkG7ED3P9k

And just for me because I love this kind of thing. 2010 (the year of our marriage) we didn't take pics at the beach for some reason?!?! Makes me mad! But here is our progression through the years. Haha.

2011. We still didn't take a picture together,
but we took a picture with Camden. Lol.
Pretending he was our child I guess? I may need to photoshop these.

2012- Just us. 

2013 Us plus Kinley

2014- Us, Kinley, and a baby bump to go with it. Next year there will be a boy in this picture too! AHHH.
(And excuse the black thing...It was the only place to put my lens cap). And I am normally not one to post pictures of me in swimsuits...but it just shows our growing family, so I had to!

 Less than 3 months now until this little boy is due. No name picked out yet. Curse the naming thing. We are excited though! It seems like such a crazy change for some reason. I feel like 2 kids is a bigger step than 1. I was trying to explain this to Taylor. It just feels like we are "advancing" somehow. Like right now with one kid we are just sorta at a stand still. I don't know. I'm never very good at explaining myself. That's all for now.