Kiley's favorite things

In keeping with Kiley week, I thought I would make a list of some of Kiley's favorite things at age 2.  Here they are, in no order of importance, just how I can think of them :)

1.  Dogs-Kiley is OBSESSED with dogs.  She loves Morgan and Madison, but she also just has a love for dogs in general.  When we go for a walk or are at the park, she spends most of her time looking for and pointing out dogs.  Maybe we have a future vet on our hands.

2.  Garbage trucks.  Kiley loves to watch the garbage man out of her window.  This morning she wasn't even up yet when I heard the garbage truck pull up in the alley, of course, a second later I heard Kiley screaming truck, truck.  Kevin went to get her up and had to immediately show her the garbage truck.  Perhaps we have a garbage woman on our hands :)

3.  Elmo!  Hence her 2nd b-day party theme of Kiley Street.  She loves Elmo.  She really watches no tv other than sometimes requesting to watch Elmo and even then it is only for a few seconds.  I think her fondness of Elmo came from the Ipad app. 

4.  Favorite songs--ABC's, wheels on the bus, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Pat-a-cake.  She requests these all the time and must do all the hand movements with them as well.

5.  Taking pictures.  She loves to hold the cell phone up to "take a picture."  She just walks around saying cheese.  She sometimes does it also with things that she thinks are cameras--such as flashlights, remotes, etc.

6.  She is really into labeling whose things are whose these days.  For instance, she recently has decided that all the remotes are daddy's.  She is very particular on who can use certain things--and of course, does not like when Ella touches things that she has deemed as hers.

7.  Babies--I think this one is because she is such a great big sister.  She just loves babies and points them out all the time.   I was watching the Today show this morning and they were covering the election and she pointed out the one token baby in the crowd--ha, how's that for observant.  She also loves to change diapers and feed and burp babies (and sometimes her friends as well).  We are trying to work on her not checking other kids diapers or burping them--what a little mom she is.

8.  Running.  She loves to run these days and points out people running all the time.  She has the funniest run that I will have to get on video sometime.  It's kind of like those people that are serious speed walkers. 

9.  Books.  She loves books.   She doesn't always have the attention span to sit and listen to books all the time, but she loves to look through them, pass them out to everyone (dogs included), read them to herself.

10.  Purses, jewelry, all things girly.  This one has been a favorite for awhile.  She just loves being girly.

She is so funny these days and as her speech is increasing she is getting funnier by the day.  Oh the things that she says and does just make me laugh. 

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Kiley's Birthday week

I am dedicated this week to all things Kiley as this Sunday my baby will be two years old.  I know, how is that even possible?  It seems like just yesterday I was in the hospital on a Thursday evening getting ready to go into surgery to have her and now she is turning two.  I guess like every parent, I wonder where time went, but I think people are right when they say the days can sometimes feel like they are going on forever, but the years fly by.  I look back at her pictures though from her first birthday and she seems like such a baby to me then.  She is turning into such a big girl.  She is funny and smart and keeps me on my toes.  I love her so much and can't imagine my world without her.  I am so blessed to be her mom.  Much more Kiley to come this week as we celebrate her big birthday week!!!!

Don't mind the bad picture.  This was the best I can find that's somewhat recent and this I believe is from December.  That is how behind I am on keeping up to date on things these days.

Now back to cleaning.  Two showings today--please someone love this house, fingers crossed.

Blogger Break

Wow--it has been a while since I blogged.  Over a month to be exact--well, to be exact, over a month and a few days.  But, I do have an excuse. I was busy--and when I say busy I mean buying a house busy.  Yes, remember when I said we were looking at houses, and then I said we were staying put, and then we decided to just look, and then we found a house we love, and then we bought it, and then we now have to sell our house.  So yes, all of that in one month, which is why I have not blogged.  I have been busy getting my house ready to sell and while I can't wait to move and I really, really hope that we sell ours so that we can move to our forever home, moving is also a little bittersweet.  This is the house that I moved into with my boyfriend, got my dogs, got married, had one kid, had two kids, went from working to staying home and WORKING!!!!  This house has a lot of memories for me and I have loved it, but it is time to move on.

But before moving on, I will share my one memory of this house that stands out the most for me.  It was the day I came home from the hospital after having Kiley.  Now, as most know, my girls were both preemies which meant they didn't come home with me.  Not something that you really envision when you think of bringing your baby home from the hospital. Yes, she was healthy and I was grateful for that, but I was also really sad that she didn't get to come home with me when I came home.  So I remember distinctly coming home from the hospital, without my baby, and feeling so sad.  I had just had a c-section so I really wasn't feeling great and wasn't supposed to do stairs, but I remember coming home getting up the stairs and just sitting on the couch in the family room--and I started crying.  Of course, things were good in life.  Kiley was healthy, I was healthy, family was good, but I wanted my baby home with me.  The one thing that really sticks out though is sitting on the couch, crying, with my husband and dogs beside me.  You  never know what a house is going to bring you.  This house brought me my family.  I am really grateful for this house and I know that it will bring someone else some pretty profound memories-so hopefully we will be able to sell it and I can make new memories in a new house.  But until then, here we are, on a Friday night, watching tv in the comforts of our home with my two babies fast asleep, and my two other babies (dogs) asleep on the couch.  People may say my kitchen is too small or the master bath doesn't have two vanities but it's been good to me. 

Hopefully now that we are on the market and things are ready to go, I will have more time to blog again.  I have though become a master cleaner--one of these days I will share some favorite cleaning tools (oh don't you go getting too excited!)