Rainy Days

Hi Boo!

You're upstairs sleeping right now, and I'm kind of hoping that the rainy day will translate to a nice long nap for you, since I am enjoying the downtime on the sofa. We had an awfully nice morning with Josie and Bob and their girls Vivienne and Beatrice - Vivi and Bee - playing in their big playroom (look at ALL these NEW TOYS, woo hoo!), and then walking in the rain up to the Kingston farmers market and noshing on chocolate croissants, apples, and cheese. They were kind enough to lend you boots and a raincoat, although you still got wet, of course, and to feed you before we headed home.

It's not everyday that you tell me you're sleepy and that you want a nap now! But crawling back into bed sounds pretty good to me too right now.

You keep growing like a weed - and although you've gotten tall enough for 3Ts they're still a little tight on your tummy - though you're losing that baby fat pretty quickly. And TALKING! My goodness. You learn new words every day and honestly at this point I would have a hard time estimating all of the words that you know. In addition to knowing the name of just about every "noun" in the house that I can think of, you've picked up lots of verbs and adjectives as well - running, jumping, playing, talking, walking, climbing, sitting, standing, you name it - and today you asked me to "drive faster" as I was coming up the driveway (you're not always a daredevil, the other day you told me "mommy drive fast. . .be careful Mommy.")

It's really fun to have conversations with you, and you're developing a cute sense of humor - you like it when you feed me dog food (yuck) and I spit it out saying "pitoey, pitoey." We haven't figured out the potty thing quite yet, although it's coming along. Funny - today while we were at the market I heard you fart a couple of times and so I said "Kaia, come on, let's go sit on the potty." "No thank you," you replied. I insisted, got you on the potty, and then you sat and said "I can't." We waited a few minutes and I gave up. Then, as you are running down the sidewalk, i hear "poot, poot, poot, poot" and realize it's your BOOTS that are making the fart noises. Sorry - should have believed you when you said no!

Anyway, love, I need to get daddy a new camera so we can take more pictures and I can post them, but for now, this post will have to be pictureless. I love you, Kaia-boo.

Mommy