Winter is here!

I am not sure there could be a cuter kid! All bundled up for the cold- she's laughing at the snow and the dog running around in it. This picture must have been just the right time- I don't think the gloves or hat made it more than 5 minutes on her outside.

So, I have been a very bad blogger over the last month. I realized today it has been more than a month since I updated Kelsey's blog, so I am vowing to be better at it. We'll see how that turns out. Animal crackers are one of Kelsey's favorite snacks right now. She loves to carry the whole jar of them around with her. She runs into the pantry and points to them.

The pictures here this post therefore span a bit of time, but give a flavor of what we have been doing the last month. Here is her Halloween outfit- she was a ladybug. We did not really trick-or-treat this year, we just visited different family and friends.
Kelsey starting wanting to feed herself this past month- here she is very proud of her fork that she is using by herself for the first time. Funny, it is actually much messier with her feeding herself then it is with mom being involved. The food seems to take a detour between the plate and her mouth, a lot of the time ending up on the floor for the dog.

In return for the table scraps, Quinsi has agreed to let her share his bed- sometimes at least- sometimes he gets annoyed and wanders away.

The blurry image and the surprised face say it all in this one- she had no idea that the chair was going to rock once she got in! Several days later though, she has mastered this and can climb in and out of it by herself. The little monkey can also get up and down the couch, the kitchen chairs and just about anything else lately.

Gabby came to visit at Thanksgiving. The girls had fun together, though it is funny the things that you don't realize about your own child until you see them interact with another- Kelsey is much more organized and neat than Gabby and likes to put everything away when she is done- and away where it "belongs". Gabby is much more carefree. The girls had fun stealing toys from each other and having Grandma & Grandpa dote on them all week.As for the subject of the post- this is what our backyard currently looks like! Not tons of snow, but enough to cover the ground and let Kelsey go out and play over the weekend, and it looks like this is going to stick around a while. She was not sure about why being in the tube would be fun, but I think Nick had fun pushing her around the yard.