Kelsi at 3.1...

Time is flying by and Kelsi is already 3! There are so many changes that I don't even notice until I look back at pictures from last year at this time and realize..."Where has the time gone?"

Kelsi had her party back in July (It is September now) and loved every minute of it! Here is a picture and the Thank you that I will be sending out this week....

At 3 she was already potty trained but was still in a diaper at night....Not anymore though! She has just completed her first full week of big girl underwear at night and has not had any accidents!! So happy for her!! We put this off because of her internal reflux that she was diagnosed with in Feb. 2010. She had two UTI's so we had to go to Children's Hospital in Boston to have her tested...It was a long morning of testing and catheterization but she made it through! The original thought was to put her on daily medication for the next year, but I asked if it was absolutely necessary...The doctor said that the risk if her getting another infection that would be so bad that it would damage her kidneys is extremely slim, so he agreed that we could wait to see if she gets one more....If she does get another one, then we will have to put her on the medication....but so far so good! My fingers are crossed that when we go back this February for more testing that it will show improvement. If not, then we will be back in another year and possibly end up with surgery to correct the problem....I am very hopeful though!!

Here is some more details of Kelsi at 3.1....

• Tomorrow she meets her first pre-school teacher and we don't even know her name yet! She is in the same classroom that Tyler was in last year, but Ms. Gagne has switched schools, so they are hiring a new teacher for that room!
• She is excited to go, but I think she will be a little shy and hesitant tomorrow!
• She LOVES her brother still, but also loves to hit him and push him...I think that she has learned these behaviors from him and is not just using them on him!!





• She leaves off a lot of beginning sounds of words and some endings too....Tyler is Kyla, snake is nake, etc. The screening speech pathologist noticed and so didn't Dr. Dennis...We will see if she self corrects this with out help and just being in school! Fingers crossed on that one too!





• She wakes up BEFORE Tyler now...6:30am most days...






• She isn't a big fan of breakfast...she likes to snack all day and eats a bit more at lunch and dinner (not a ton though!).




• She wipes for number one, but still needs help with number 2....




• She is FINALLY watching TV....mainly in the last week! She will sit and watch a little TV...usually not the full 25 minutes, but a chunk at least! Blues Clues was a hit yesterday, Hi-5, and our Little Tykes Video, and Barney so far!

• She watched every minute of the fireworks in July but had this look on her face during every picture that I took and of course wanted me to sit right next to her (Tyler just loved every minute of it!).

• She now asks for Dada at bedtime...she used to only want me to do everything every night, but now she wants me to do books and dada to do songs...or vice versa...It started after Noni/Nono's last trip where she would get to request who she wanted to put her to bed and she would split it up!
• She still loves her babies and playing with the kitchen/food. She also likes to build with blocks and play on the swingset...being pushed on the swing is definitely a favorite.

• She LOVES buffalo wing pretzels....not a typical kid food!!
• She had her first hair cut back in July...just a trim all around to clean it up a bit...I was afraid that we would lose her curls, but they are still there!

• She wears a size 7 shoe now (and Tyler is only an 8)!

• She still allows us to pick her clothes....once in a while she will request something but not usually! If I wear a dress, she wants one too...

• She is really in a testing phase...When we ask her to do something she will sometimes say NO. It has calmed down in the last month or so, but has transitioned into actions that are pretty much still saying NO....She will make a funny face, and dilly-dally to the spot we asked her to go OR drop to the floor and SLOWLY crawl like a baby...

• She loves Kallee and Trevor...Tyler and Kelsi went over there for a playdate/babysitting this summer and we have gotten together a few times lately too!

A few final fun pictures from June and July...