Tulip Festival

On saturday, while BJ was working, Kenley and I piled into a car with my dad, step-mom, brotha Evan and step-grandma and drove down to the tulip festival at Thanksgiving point.

The weather was perfect and we are all sporting funny little tan lines today.

The waterfalls were gorgeous! They are the largest man-made waterfalls in the US.

 Kenley had to stop and smell the flowers several times after spotting another little girl doing it. She even kept making "Mmmm" noises. She had a great time "riding" with grandpa in his wheelchair.

 It was kind of a big deal, there were food tents, dancers, booths, fountains, ponds with fish and, of course, gorgeous plants and flowers everywhere.

 Blowing kisses at the fake turtle

It was a lot of fun, I highly recommend going!

Zzoooo!!

Earlier this week it snowed... snowed!! And I panicked that I wasn't going to be able to go to the zoo this year.

So we packed up the car with coats and blankets, put on our warm hats and went to see the chilly animals.

Uncle Evan had his own stroller to push.

And yes. We played chicken.

Kenley ran all over that place and was amazed with the giraffes.

(See above right face for said amazement)

There was an exhibit of paintings done by the monkeys at the zoo.

Kenley ran her little self into exhaustion! She slept sweetly through all the noise, and transitions from stroller-to-car and carseat-to-crib.

On a side note......

I had thought that having my own baby would lessen some of my baby crazies.

But it has, in fact, gotten much worse.

Having my own sweet baby (especially such a healthy, lovey, giggling, cuteness smuggler) has turned me into mush.

I swoon over squishy babies.

I squeal in a high pitched baby voice over amazing stunts, like.... rolling over.

It's actually very annoying. My friend Shmeg even makes fun of me... which, if you know her, means i'm pretty ridiculous.

Also, Kenley is in the "Baby loving" phase. She sweetly says "Baby!" and wants to touch every baby she sees, everywhere we go.

Which of course I love, (because how cute can she get?!) and makes my baby-craze soooo much worse.......

Please forgive me when i tell you for the tenth time how adorable/sweet/smart your baby is..... I think it's a sickness, really.

Plus, your baby is really cute.

Walking

We live exactly 2 seconds from an elementary school, so when it was sunny we decided to go play on the playground.

What does a tiny girl do when she's mastered walking and its the best thing ever? A whole lot of this!

With all these fun things to play on all K wanted to do was walk back and forth from the concrete to the squichy playground ground.

She did, however, venture once or twice over to the slide.

Climbing out was a trick she hasn't mastered yet, but it was so funny to watch! She grunted and panted and did some pretty impressive yoga poses getting on/off that yellow slide.

She couldn't quite master the grass either.

When BJ was done with his run he joined us to walk us home. K loves her dad and giggled while riding on his shoulders.

I love her!