Singing

For your enjoyment, Kendall sings!

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

My Baby Can Read

Not really. But she knows her letters.

Kendall loves mail, and she reads all the magazines. Like the flooring tile magazine in the video above. I was trying to capture one of the stories Kendall was telling us as she flipped the pages of the magazine - 'Once upon a time, a boy and a girl..." Not sure what happens after that, but I think they buys some pretty awesome carpet tiles.

Little Swimmer

Kendall has been in swim lessons over a year now - we started her at 6 months. Looking back, it is crazy how much Kendall has changed in the last year, and how awesome it was to take her swimming for the first time. Since that first swim lesson, Kendall's love of the water has only grown. Now when we put her in the tub she floats on her back and sings "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" to us, just like in swim class. And after we clean up all the bath toys, she lays on her belly kicking like she does in the pool and yells "SWIMMING!".

When we get up on Saturday morning, she asks "Swimming?" and on the way over to the YMCA she chants "Swimming, Swimming, Swimming". The kid loves to swim.

And now, she can do almost do it without mommy. (Videos below are on the long side)

Swim instructor told me last week that she will probably be ready for the next swim class in 6 - 8 months. What? I don't think I will be ready to give up my mommy and me swim lessons by then. How can she be getting so big already?

But then again, toddlerhood is fun. Just look at those hugs!

Draft

This is from back in April. Kendall has been missing football, and searches the house to find Daddy's football whenever she can. So when Daddy busted out his Bear's jersey again, Kendall got excited, and Mommy groaned because it meant Daddy would be sitting on the couch watching the football draft for 3 days.

Kendall used the time wisely and practiced her running and passing. With a bit more training over the summer she will be ready when the season starts in the fall.

Working on our letters

Lately Kendall has been very into her letters and numbers. Whenever we are out, she points out all the letters and numbers she sees on signs. In the grocery store, she points to the number above each aisle and announces it for us. Kendall can count to 20, sort of, but she can only identify the numbers up to 10, so when you get to aisle 12, it is 1 and 2!

She has her ABCs down pretty well, although sometimes she likes to free style the song a bit and sing them out of order. We have a set of blocks with letters on them, and inside the blocks are something to represent the letter - like in the in B there is a bunch of bananas, in N there is a nest. Her favorite is the M with a monkey in it. Why? Because of the Monkey? No, because when you turn an M upside down it is a W.

I was admittedly kind of shocked when I first saw her do this for the first time. She was sitting in the living room flipping the block right side up, then upside down, saying "M", "double" (aka "W"). Where did she learn that?

Cooking in the Kitchen with Momma

I'm on a video kick this evening. I'll set this one up for you.

Kendall has her own set of kitchen utensils. They were purchased to stop her from opening the kitchen drawers and pulling everything out. The utensils failed in their task, but they do prove to be quite entertaining while mommy makes dinner.



No More Monkey's Jumping on the Bed!

And you thought this would actually be a video of Kendall jumping on the bed.