Little Things

Here are just a few of the little things Kayla does that make me smile and laugh.

She's all about sharing. Especially when we go for a walk. For some reason whenever she is out walking she has to pick up a small twig/stick for her walk. We have to have one too. She'll find one, pick it up and say "here mommy/daddy." (And don't bother trying to throw it down because she'll just give you another one.) Sometimes she's even particular about which hand you hold it in. One time I took the stick from her in my right hand and switched it to my left. She immediately took it out of my left hand and held it out to my right hand. She does the same thing with rocks. Sweet isn't it?

If I cut up some apple slices and hand her one, she'll point at the countertop and say "mommy apple!" Same thing if I give her a cracker, "mommy cracker!" So everytime she has a snack I get to have one too. Hmmm....maybe that's why I can't loose these last 10 lbs!

I don't remember when Joe and I started doing this, but it was probably around the time she started walking. You know how that stage is - lots of falling down, stumbling, tripping, bumping into things. Instead of running over to her we would wait to see her reaction (unless of course she obviously hurt herself) and then we would ask "are you ok?" We also do this when she's eating or drinking and starts coughing. She started answering us back with "kay." Sometimes if she hurt herself enough where she would cry real tears and need a snuggle we would snuggle and after a few minutes ask if she was ok. She would pause in her crying, and with a hitch in her voice say "k-k-kay" and resume crying. You just had to smile.

She beats us to the punch now. Anytime she falls etc she'll say "uhkay" before you can even ask her. After she's done coughing she'll look at us and say "uhkay."

Her latest thing is "ouch." We had been trying to teach her if she got hurt to show us where on her body it hurt. She would only sign hurt but wouldn't show us if it was her finger, toe etc. So I started saying "ouch" anytime she did something, or I did something, and show her where it hurts, then I would give her a kiss. Now every little thing, and I do mean EVERYTHING is an "ouch." She'll hold out her hand, finger, leg, foot, head for a kiss on the "ouch."

Last night I was sweeping the dining room floor and she wanted to help. (Note to grandparents - if you could find a child-size play broom that would be a great idea for her birthday! But if one of you does buy this please let me know so we don't end up with 10 of them!) She was pulling out a chair and I heard "ouch, ouch ouch." (I think she stubbed her toes.)

I turned around and there she sat on the floor bringing her foot up to her mouth to give it a kiss.

How could I not smile at that?