Laughs

The other day Kendra called me from across the living room. She said, "Hi mommy." It totally tripped me out when I saw her eyes! She's only two and she can cross her eyes! It turns out Mark does that to her all the time so somehow she learned how to do it. I got a picture of her and every time I look at it I just crack up!



Kendra mimicks us all the time. She was playing with her bear and a plastic cow. She said, "Bear, there's cow, wanna say hi to cow?" "Wanna say hi cow?" Then she held her bear and swayed back and forth, "Oh you shy, you shy." This is usually the dialogue Mark and I use when Kendra meets someone for the first time. "Kendra, do you want to say hi to (name)?" Then she buries her face in our shoulder and we say, "Are you shy?" Kids are great.

Halloween and Other Events

Kendra is old enough now to make Halloween fun! On the 25th we had our ward trunk-or-treat. Kendra was our cow and Mark and I were the farmers. Kendra went around with a friend to each car. At first she didn't understand. She put out her hand for the candy. After two pieces her hands were full - she didn't know quite what to do when the third piece of candy was offered. When she was done Kendra excitedly came to us and said, "look at my tick or tweat!" She was in heaven with all that candy.

On Halloween we thought it would be fun for Kendra to trick-or-treat with her friend who dressed up as Snow White because Kendra has a Snow White costume too. I had so much fun watching Kendra walk without fear to each door anticipating her wonderful treat!

I haven't written for awhile so I need to backtrack a little. Kendra was re-evaluated two weeks ago. She is average to above average in each developmental area. Her lowest score is in socialization - but honestly, do we really want our kids to be socialized? Reviving Ophelia and Real Boys are two books that talk about the impact of socialization.

About a week ago at 4:30 a.m. I awoke to a loud bang, bang, bang, on our door. I jumped up and grabbed Mark. I thought for sure it was the cops. Who else would bang on our door and wake us up in the middle of the night?!?! I peered out the window - now cop cars. We could hear two voices. It sounded like our neighbor was fighting with someone (maybe his ex) and wanted us to intervene or something. He kept knocking as Mark and I sat and listened. We were not going to open the door and let an angry man in! Word to the wise - do not wake me up and more than that, don't wake my daughter!