Right now me and Kensley have escaped the horrible heat of Arizona to visit Grandma in Utah for a couple of weeks. We have been here for a few days now and Kensley has been having a great time. She loves playing outside all day long and her favorite thing to do is play in the water and the little kiddy pool and to water flowers. The only problem with that, is once she gets her clothes wet she immediately strips them off and runs around with no clothes on for the rest of the day. No clothes on has contributed to the mishaps she had today or at least to the injuries. I was sitting in the house when I heard her start screaming hysterically and knew something was wrong so I went running to find her. It took a little while, but I followed the screams and finally found her at the bottom of the deck in the background laying in the dirt, mostly naked and crying. What I have guessed had happened was that she was on the deck and saw some toys on the ground
and was leaning through the posts to try and reach them and then fell head first to the ground. She was covered in scrapes all over her body, mostly her stomach and face. She even had a splinter in her lip. I finally got her calmed down and when she was recovered, she went out to play again. All was well until she started playing a chasing game with her cousin, Braden. She, of course, couldn't run as fast as him and ended up face first on the concrete. This time with a scraped arm and hip bone and various other places. This incident was much more traumatic than the first and she screamed for quite some time and was shaking all over. An hour or so later and she is now outside playing again. She does come in and check in with me every little while to let me know that her arm still hurts, though. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
My mom has a garden in her yard with all sorts of yummy vegetables like tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers and even potatoes. She took the kids out the other day to help her pick some and they all loved it. Afterwards, we brought the veggies in and washed them and cut some up so they could try them. Kensley loved the cucumbers and ate them all hardly sharing with anyone else.
My little girl turned three years old today! Since we are visiting my mom in Utah and Stephen isn't here, we just had a birthday cake and will have a present party for her when we are back in Mesa. I have no skills in the cake decorating department and found an idea for a cute piano cake that I thought I would try. It turned out pretty lame, but my mom was able to help me salvage it a little and put her name on the bottom. While my mom was writing her name, Kensley was watching and before she was even done she started yelling, "Mom!! Grandma wrote my name on the cake!" She was so excited.
A satisfied customer! She didn't mind the lame decorating skills. :o)
and was leaning through the posts to try and reach them and then fell head first to the ground. She was covered in scrapes all over her body, mostly her stomach and face. She even had a splinter in her lip. I finally got her calmed down and when she was recovered, she went out to play again. All was well until she started playing a chasing game with her cousin, Braden. She, of course, couldn't run as fast as him and ended up face first on the concrete. This time with a scraped arm and hip bone and various other places. This incident was much more traumatic than the first and she screamed for quite some time and was shaking all over. An hour or so later and she is now outside playing again. She does come in and check in with me every little while to let me know that her arm still hurts, though. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
Kensley and her cousins Presly and Ava playing on the beach. I know, I know, immodest swimsuit....deal with it!
