Our Happy Little Family: Updates and Other Random Things

Kassi is going to be three years old! It is so hard to believe it has been three years since we welcomed this amazing little girl into our lives. We are so blessed to have come together as a family and I thank God everyday for it.

The transformation from a baby to a little girl has been so fun to watch. Now that she is a big girl and using the potty she thinks that means she can do all big girl things and can do most everything by herself. If I am going to change laundry she tells me it's okay she can take care of it. When it comes time to get her clothes or jammies she tells me let her be she can do it as she is a big girl. Her vocabulary is like that of a young adult. She speaks very clearly and precisely. She uses words that most teenagers don't even use. There have been a few times lately when she has really surprised me with her comments or observations about something. She did catch me way off guard the other day by coming up out of the blue and telling me she wanted a baby brother. She has done this twice now. Right now she if very interested in how she is related to who and who Wes and I are related to. You really have to watch what you say around her too, because she does not forget anything and will remind of you things even weeks after you have said them. She is growing up and while I am excited for each new day and each new stage I am also sad to see each day go by and when we outgrown a stage.

Recently Kassi decided she wanted to gather all of her stuffed animals up and keep them in her room from now on instead of in the various rooms they have been spread around in. So we began the task of gahtering and organizing so that they would all fit. Throughout this I decided I was curious of just how many she has, this does not include what she has at Grandpa and Grandma's...I stopped counting at 140. I told Wes the next person to buy her a stuffed animal gets to take them all. Then I stopped and realized I had bought her last one for her...oops.

Wes has been busy with a big project at work. He had to remove a sweeper body and all of its components from a cab and chassis so we could have a new sweeper put on it. After work he has been staying busy with the Fire Department and Nina. He has two rookies to train now so he is gone two nights a week which really does affect our evening schedule, but Kassi and I are starting to get back on track. Bird season starts tomorrow so Nina will be going out for the first time in the morning. She is only six months old so we don't expect much of her, but you can tell she is constantly hunting for something and she points at a lot of things so I think she will do well.