Our Model

Recently, my friend Kyla has gone into the dress-making business for little girls and asked Kelsey to come over and try on a few of her dresses. Kelsey was thrilled to help out and enjoyed acting as her model as Kyla snapped photos. This is a great photo of Kelsey and I'm so proud of Kyla for her creativeness and ingenuity!

You can see more of Kyla's dresses at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kylarichdale.

Ice-Skating on Nov 11

This week Kelsey had her first ice-skating experience and loved it. Obviously, she couldn't stand on her own, but enjoyed being "dragged" around by mommy and daddy. She also loved it when Daddy picked her up and skated around really fast! We went to a parent & tot skate and the rink was set up with little cars, play houses, hockey sticks and pucks. It was great. Kelsey called her ice-skates her skating shoes. She's been talking about the experience daily ever since. I guess we'll have to go again!

Wee!

Playing in the house.

Taking her skates off.

Halloween 2009

Halloween at our house was so much fun this year. Kelsey understood the concept of Halloween and couldn't wait to dress up and get outside. Our friends Dennis & Kyla and their kids Rowan and Colin, and Lhesa and the girls came over to join us. Kelsey dressed up as a horse, and excitedly ran from house to house. She opened her bag for candy, said Trick or Treat, please and thank you and Happy Halloween when she was leaving. It was great. We were surprised at how few people in our complex were celebrating, but the houses that were participating were really great. Overall, we hit about 12 houses, but that was good enough for the toddlers!

Jim and Eunice

Sophie & Kelsey on the go!

Kelsey, Sophie, Hannah, Rowan, & Colin

Mommy & Kelsey

October

October brought lots of fall adventures! Thanksgiving, a trip to the pumpkin patch at Richmond Country Farms (no pictures), a trip on the train at Art & Knaps, a dress up party at Stay & Play, pumpkin carving at home and of course Halloween!

Dressed up as a ladybug for Stay & Play. The red dress was mommy's when she was Kelsey's age. Grandma had saved it.

Kelsey carving her first pumpkin. She didn't like to put her hands in because it was too cold, but she certainly enjoyed the whole experience.

Kelsey and her first pumpkin.

A family trip to Art & Knaps and a ride on the Thomas Train to the pumpkin patch.

Daddy & Kelsey

Smelling the fall flowers

The dress Kelsey is wearing was made by Kyla for Kelsey as a Birthday gift. It fits perfectly and she looks great in it! Thanks so much Kyla!

It also brought 2 family thanksgiving dinners - one at Nana's and one at Grandma's with Aunty Karen and cousin Jake.

Farm Day in Ladner

Yesterday our little family went to enjoy a beautiful September Saturday at the Farm. I found this "Day at the Farm" event on Kids Vancouver and knew it would be perfect for Kelsey, who like most 2 year olds, love farms! Kelsey rode a tractor, ate corn on the cob, watched a cow being milked, and looked at all sorts of other farm animals!

A beautiful display of pumpkins!

Kelsey loved being on the tractor (until a man honked a very loud horn on an old car beside her).

Eating her corn on the cob sitting on a hay bale

Big Girl Bed

Kelsey has successfully been sleeping in her big-girl bed now for about a week. The transition was mush easier than I thought it would be. She goes straight to sleep, stays in her bed all night and still calls Mommy when it's time to get up in the morning. We're pretty lucky because I know many parents struggle with this.

Kelsey in her toddler bed

A new addition to the family!

And no, it's not of the human variety. A couple weeks ago (Aug 29) we become the lucky new owners of a 4 1/2 year old yellow lab named Eunice. She was a seeing eye dog that wasn't getting along with her current owner and was looking for a new home. We couldn't have had better luck - she's fully trained, very well behaved and very loving. Overall, she's just a great dog. Kelsey loves her - calls her Nunice! She's still learning when enough is enough when it comes to touch, hugging and following Eunice everywhere! But Eunice is a trooper and puts up with all Kelsey's "love"!

Welcome Eunice!

Daddy taking his 2 girls for a walk at Crescent Beach

Eunice enjoying her first "off-leash" doggy experience

Kelsey and Eunice

Kelsey was playing "copy-cat" with Eunice