Cute #7 is 3!
(back in November)
KD is an awesome and busy little person.
After we ate the jello "cake" she helped make and opened presents, we headed to St. Louis to go to the City Museum.
There couldn't have been a better place to celebrate KD's little life.
She is a fearless climber and loves adventures.
To illustrate her endurance, over Christmas break we went to a fort for 3 hours in the FREEZING wind, drove an hour, then trekked all over the U.S. Alabama (a retired naval ship) for another 3 hours.
KD didn't whine or complain or ask to be carried the WHOLE time.
Never in my life have I witnessed a three year old do that.
She walked around the ship with her hands in her pockets and a content little smile on her face.
The key to keeping this kid happy is giving her adventures.
At the City Museum we met up with some of my Farnsworth 2nd cousins.
(I met Stan when he was serving a mission in Las Vegas - funny way to meet your cousin, eh?)
The cousins are native St. Louisans so showed us all around that crazy museum.
It's like a beautifully decorated McDonald's playground on steroids for adults.
There's no rules, a fire pit outside. . . you just climb in, around, and on everything you see.
A KD paradise.
I don't think I got around to doing a bday post for KD last year, so here come a plethura of pics summing up her year #2.
For a while there, my favorite time to look at KD was when she was sleeping.
She is a very intense little person who loves me A LOT. . .
which flatters me but made doing anything but paying her attention extremely difficult and frustrating.
I believe that our strengths are also our weaknesses unless they can learn to be controlled.
As KD is growing up, I am seeing the things that used to plague me as her weaknesses turning into some incredible strengths.
Her love for people, when given, is intense.
She sums people up in a moment and knows their intentions.
She was definitely saved for this electronic age.
The other night we were going to read scriptures. I always read them off my phone.
KD was playing a game on it at the moment and when I asked for it, she handed it to me with the chapter we were currently reading pulled up. What in the world? How did she know where to find the scriptures?
When we lived in Vegas, KD would come downstairs in the morning, stretch her arms waaaay up and sigh, "I'm so tired." (It's because you've been up all night with me, little one.)
The key to KD is to channel her energy and curiosity. She is the most pleasant, cutest, obedient, shy little lady when she's out and about discovering.
The trampoline is a huge love of hers.
She is extremely smart and there is never any tricking her.
When I thought about potty-training for the 7th time I just about cried.
But KD's strengths surfaced and she was COMPLETELY potty trained in one day.
It was a rough morning and she had accident after accident so I put a diaper back on for the afternoon.
After she filled her diaper she really did not like how it felt (perhaps being free from that all morning had it's impact) and she wanted undies back on.
From that moment on she was accident free. Amazing and Hallelujah!!!!
It's been interesting to see how a little one grows up when there are older siblings around.
Mannerisms, exposure to music, etc. are on a whole different level.
KD loves sand and the ocean.
(She has quit eating sand by the handfuls, thank goodness - see a previous ocean post.)
Her first haircut fit her personality quite well.
She is a little pixie and imp.
She used to drag these buckets around in our Vegas kitchen so she could see what was going on up on the counters and she loves to help cook any time she can.
These two blondie's couldn't be more different, but they have turned into good friends.
KD wishes she could live in a swimming pool and could swim anywhere in our pool the summer before she turned three. She would watch her siblings diving, flipping, jumping and swimming and would do her best to copy everything they did.
She is not one to be left behind.
In her three years of life, she has lived in three different houses - 2 in Vegas and now in Missouri.
She loves to be dolled up by her older sisters and she has crazy abilities in dancing and acting.
KD has a very fun sense of humor.
She got this shiner in December after she started down a sledding hill too fast before the other kids could get out of the way. Perhaps her mother should have been out there with her. . . KD is just too fast for everyone.
KD is a very flexible child (we're not sure where she got that gene).
She also loves to tell stories and has a baby named "Jon".
Whenever her tummy is full she says she's going to have a baby.
KD can color in the lines like a champion - pretty impressive for a 3 year old - and paints using a lot of colors, never mixing together with many shapes and lines.
Holy cow! we love this little lady and have decided she was saved 'til #7 to keep us young.
