A look in the life of Kelsi!

Hi! My name is Kelsi. I am 14 1/2 months old. I love to play on the playground, read books, eat, and play with my sister.
This is my friend Jack. This particular day I said my 5th word- "Je je" for Jack, and later that day for Jessica. Jack and I are 2 weeks apart and moved in within a week of each other. We will also live in the Village about the same amount of time and our moms are friends as well as our older sisters.
Jack is such a gentleman. He always signs "please" and even opened my door for me.

Just checking if you were still paying attention to me. I like attention. :) Although I am very easy going and very good natured and I put up with quite a bit from my sister. I am actually a different baby when my sister is not around. I love to have mommy read me books and have full reign of the toys.

I love to run. I learned to walk the week I turned 1. I took steps before then, but decided that One was a good age to master the walking thing. A week later I had mastered running. ha ha mom :)

My all time favorite thing to do is climb up the stairs of the slide onto a platform that has 3 open edges. I lean over the edge and smile at my mom, who is sitting wanting to visit with friends, but has to dash to my rescue so I don't plummet 3 1/2 feet down to the wood chips below. I think mom finally caught my mishievious grin, well, almost.

When mom does come to my rescue, I run to her with open arms. I like to give hugs.

As you can tell, I LOVE stairs and the harder and more dangerous, the better! Thankfully there is no shortage of stairs and stairwells to play in. As soon as mom shuts one door to a stairwell, there are about 11 others to choose from. Jack and I love to plague our moms by running to the stairwells, and if that is not enough, my sister Jessica's favorite thing to do it to open doors mom has just shut. I also LOVE to climb on the step stool in the kitchen. If it is out, I am on it and playing with the stuff on the counter. I haven't figured out how to climb down yet, and seeming as our kitchen floor is industrial tile, mom doesn't let me do that very often.

All in all, I am a very very good kid. :) I love my Mom, Sister and Daddy so much and they LOVE me!!!

Salt Lake Temple

Last week my mom and I went to Temple Square in Salt Lake to visit my Aunt Karen and Uncle Roger. They are serving a mission for our church in the Church History Center. My Aunt was able to find my Great Grandmother's jouranl in the archives and she is planning to write it up for our family. It was really neat to see what they do and feel the strong spirit that is present on temple square and even in the lunchroom where the missionaries eat. On our way back to the car we took the opportunity to take some pictures. Jessica is just over 3 years old and Kelsi is 14 1/2 months.

This is a beautiful mural in the lobby of the church office building.

For perspective, you can see Jessica in the bottom right corner. This is the Salt Lake Temple where we were married.

Grandma and Kelsi

The flowers on Temple Square are gorgeous! We had a good time taking pictures.

Preschool!

This week was Jessica's first week of preschool. We are doing a co-op preschool in our court. There are 8 moms involved and 9 kids (1 set of twins). We meet twice a week and the moms have teamed up to take a week- so you teach 1 week out of 4. So far its been a little crazy, but good. The kids seem to really enjoy it. Here is Jessica's "First day of Preschool" picture. She told DJ that she went to "Pre-swork"

We were excited that the weather has cooled off and we got to try out a few of the new clothes my sister found for the girls. We are a huge fan of Kid to Kid at our house and my sister Brittany scored on tights! I obviously need to make some more bows for Kelsi, though. :)

This is from a few weeks ago, but I'll still post it here. I went down to hang out with Brittany, my sister, before school started for her. Her boys decided to have a lemonade stand the day I got there. They charged 25 cents for a small and 50 cents for a large and each ended up making $5 after helping to pay for supplies. The lemonade was SO good since Britt had bought a block of ice to go in it. The girls enjoyed their fair share.

Here they are with a customer. They had a lot of fun.

Dance Class

As many know, Jessica is a very active little girl. This fall, a dance class started in our community that was a reasonable price and within close walking distance so we decided to try it out. Tonight was Jessica's second class and here are some highlights. The little girl in the pictures with her is her friend Noel.

She had a delightful time and I had great fun watching her.