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Kaylee has been in to taking showers lately and then playing in the tub with her toys once the water has been turned off. She was in there the other night by herself playing. Then we heard her get a drink from the sink. Then again. Then she came out with her towel on and was covering her mouth. "Why are you covering your mouth" asks Kristina. "I ate some grass today at school and it tastes bad". That was like 5 hours ago. I don't think you can still taste that. "What did you eat in the tub?" Nothing. Kristina asks a couple more times and lets her know she's not in trouble. "I drank my pee." What? How did you even pull that off? She has stackable cups in her toy box and she took one and filled it and drank it. She had just been to the doctor and had to fill a cup for them so that's where we think she got the idea. "So how did taste?" "Not good." Duh.

Kaylee's School Play

Kaylee's school had a play for all 3 pre-school classes the other day. Kaylee played a lamb. It was a song where the kids had to progressively remember all the animals. The cow had a calf. The sheep had a lamb. The pig had a piglet. Etc. There were like 10 animals when it was all done. Kaylee was one of the few kids to remember all of them. Oh, and did I mention we were outside while the kids were under a shelter and it was pouring rain. Kaylee is standing just to the right of the tall girl in the middle of the photo.

Bark Bark Bark

Wow. It's been 4 months since my last post. Time flies!

Kristina's mom Sandy takes Kaylee overnight pretty often. When she does we usually meet up with her at the Starbucks near the Super Mall. On one recent occassion, Sandy brought some pictures with her from our trip to Hawaii plus some other ones. Kaylee was a little hyper and was starting to get on my nerves. I was about to put her in timeout when she took a picture of Tucker (Sandy's dog) and held it up in front of her face and said Bark Bark Bark. She was pretending to be Tucker and make him bark. This made all of us laugh hysterically. It's hard to punish your kid when your laughing your butt off.

We're going to have to rename this blog to Kaylee and Charlie pretty soon.

Ikea

Kaylee loves the play area at Ikea. I also love it very much. I took her there after school one day this week so I could get some work done. You get a free hour. They give you a pager in case they freak out. Pretty cool check in / out procedure. Kaylee loves it because there's a ball pit, a movie theater and a coloring station. She usually does all three. I took her for an ice cream cone afterward at the cafeteria. The lady asked me if I wanted it kid sized. I said the smaller the better. Kaylee said it needed to be small because "It makes me crazy!"

Christmas

Wow it has been busy this week.

Kaylee's school has been out since Monday and they'll be out this week too. This is a first for us. When she was in daycare, it might close for a day or two but not two weeks. So we've been winging it. Monday, Kristina took her to Little Gym. She hung out there half the day until Pam came to watch her. Pam watched her on Tuesday. Sandy watched her on Wednesday. I took her with me to work on Christmas Eve. She did a bunch of coloring and ran around from desk to desk handing out her drawings.

Christmas Eve - we found a neighborhood near Redondo Beach in Federal Way to go look at lights. Sandy and Marty joined us. It reminded me of when I was a kid and my folks would take my sister and I to East Bremerton to Candy Cane Lane to look at the lights. Kaylee liked all the inflatables especially the penguins. It amazed me that you could live in this neighborhood and not put up anything. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, might be wise to put up something just to keep the peace. After the lights we went out for Chinese food near Southcenter. We discovered that Kaylee likes Won Ton Soup. We also discovered that I liked it too! Kaylee also really liked the two big fish tanks in the lobby.

Christmas day, we started at our house. Kaylee is getting real good at opening presents. I was impressed this year because she easily put down one to open another. It used to be, she'd open the first one and want to play with it and ignore the others. We then headed over to Kristina's Dad's (Randy) house for breakfast. Kaylee was hungry but didn't want a cinamon roll. Instead she had string cheese. Weird. She did have bacon and eggs. After breakfast it was time for presents. Kaylee did a good job of keeping herself together for two hours before opening. She went right after the big one first. There was a box about as tall as her. It turned out to be a beauty station. After presents we came home to prepare to have over Kristina's Mom's (Sandy) family.

At home, Kristina started to cook and clean to get ready. I started to put together the beauty station because Kaylee wanted to play with it. I knew I was in trouble the moment I openend the box. Two and a half hours later it was done. I can hear my dad laughing. You're dead to me Robinsons. Special thanks to Marty for putting the seat together. Dinner was great. Kaylee and her cousin Peyton played all night long. They especially loved all the new beauty stuff that Kaylee got. It was now present time and Kaylee got a bunch more cool things to play with.

The day after Christmas we went over to the Campbells and had left overs. Just as good the next day. We then went over to Zoo Lights at Point Defiance. It was CRAZY. Every spot was taken in the lot. I dropped the family off and Marty and I went in search of an elusive spot. We found a family leaving after about 10 minutes of searching so we sat and waited. When Marty and I got down to the ticket stand, the ladies had made their way to the front so that worked out nice. We then started to walk around and look at the lights. They have a pretty cool setup. Kaylee was excited to go look at the petting zoo. Goats! She sees goats everyday at school but I guess you can't get too many goats. We then headed around the zoo. The coolest light display is near the entrance. A million lights of different colors and in the center a good sized model of the two Narrows bridges. Kaylee got to go to the aquarium and see the sharks and then Marty took her on the carousel.

After Zoo Lights, we took our time heading back to the Campbells. Kaylee decided she wanted to stay over night. So Kristina and I headed for home. We're getting ready right now to go over to her Aunt Peggy's for Peggy's birthday. We'll swing by and pick up Kaylee afterwards. Kaylee gets to go to a classmate's birthday party tomorrow afternoon.

Shew.

God and Squiggles

I was taking Kaylee to Little Gym the other day and she asked why their were squiggles in the road. I said I didn't know what she was talking about. On the way home she got real excited and said Dad Dad Dad, there, look! There were some patches in the road. I told her that the road had an owie and the construction workers fixed it but that left a squiggle in the road. She asked, "What are their names?" I said I didn't know the construction workers' names and she asked who did. I had nothing so I said God. She said God with the angels? I said yes. She said so then does Puppy know the construction workers' names? I asked her why and she said because Puppy had gone up to heaven to be with God and the angels. I told her yes and almost balled my eyes out. Puppy was Sandy's dog for a long long time and he passed the other day. Kaylee wasn't sad, just matter of fact about the whole thing. I could learn a lot from that little girl.

Flag

Kaylee asks me every time I drop her off at school if I can stay for Flag. Today I did. Everyone gathers around the flag. One big kid and one little kid hook it up to the pole and raise it. Everyone then says the pledge of allegiance and sings This Land is My Land. She sang Grand Old Flag over the summer. It's pretty darn cute seeing all the kids with their hands on their hearts and their little voices singing.