Trip to Oregon

This past week Mommy and I headed down to Oregon to visit Nana and Papa to celebrate all of our birthdays. It was GREAT fun! I had a blast and completely wore myself out!


SUPER excited about my new tent!


Playing in my tent with Papa


Serving tea from my new Curious George tea set


Playing dress up


Driving the ship at the Salem Children's Museum


Nana with me in a very big girl chair!

I'm TWO!

I am a big girl now! I am two years old today! I sure had a fun weekend celebrating! Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes and gifts!


On Friday I got this great bunch of balloons and teddy bear from Grandma and Grandpa!


Then I got to help Mommy frost my cupcakes and lick the knife!


Getting ready to blow out my candle


Mmmmmmmm....frosting!


Opening my presents with all my friends helping


Testing out a couple of my new gifts


Today was also my friend Matt's birthday so we went over to celebrate with him. We got to lick some of the frosting off the cake before it was cut :) Yum!!


Great Grandma Simon sent me a cool backpack and books for my birthday - as you can see I had a good time opening them!

Toddlerisms

Kelsey is quickly nearing 2 and as she does she seems to be gaining those typical toddler traits. She wants to be very independent and loves trying to dress herself - even if she's not always successful. She also has a strong opinion on what she does and does not want to wear. Her language and object recognition is growing so quickly its amazing. It seems like just last month she was only using one word to describe things and now she's using complete sentences. Her favorite sayings? "I got it" and "I do it" :) It'll be interesting to see how much more she advances in the upcoming months...


Here is her usual "cheese" face that she now makes for the camera


Attempting to put on a shirt. She was determined to get it on by pulling it up from her legs instead of over her head.


Yes - we actually went out in public like this. She did NOT want to take off her swimsuit! :)