15 reasons why we need a yard

Okay not 15 but it sounded better than any other number. 

November 30th was a really great Sunday, but it was one of those days where we were reminded over and over and over that we need a yard. 

Kels didn't nap but these days thats not that rare. She probably naps 3 out of 7 days now excluding falling asleep in the car which she does a lot because she is so tired and wont nap. Regardless of the lack of sleep she was super happy and hyper the whole day including at church. 

When we got home, she decided to help herself to her own snacks. She ate half of two pears which is I guess is a good thing because why would you eat one whole pear when you can have two whole halves! 

Knocked all the magnets off the fridge like 19 times. She'd knock them off to put them on to knock them off to put them on. I think this entertainer her for about 15 minutes.

We put on 4 different dresses and if you include jammies, we wore a totally of 6 outfits on Sunday! Three cheers for being able to undress ourselves right?! 

She wanted to help Ethan read and climbed up on his shoulders to do so. Now that I'm looking at these pictures she looks super calm, but I'll just have to believe myself that she wasn't!

Naturally climbing on dad turned into wrestle time which she loved!

After wrestle time I thought making cookies would calm her down, but oh how wrong I was. The cookies were great by the way and she didn't eat a single one. She was too busy playing in her room or on her dad. 

The Harrison's stopped by to say hello and got to witness Kelsey running laps around her "Special Stable" while singing all of her favorite songs with a few new ones:
Twinkle Little Star
See the Temple
Child of God
ABCs
Jingle Bells
See the Light
Baby Beluga
Turtle Tiny Time
and the new one she added which went something like this " I love Jed. I love Andrea. I love Jed. I love Hannah. I love Jed. I love Gramma. I love Jed. I love Grandpa" and so on. You get the idea!

*Since Sunday I have taught her Two Front Teeth and We Wish you a Merry Christmas and those make the line up every so often.

After her laps (which, not joking lasted like 30 minutes!) we spent a big chunk of the evening making a Kelsey wrap which was quiet possible the funniest thing we have done all month.

We have this giant felt Christmas tree that hangs on the wall to measure heights but it kept falling down. Kelsey grabbed it and started to roll herself in it and everything else just sort of happened from there.

I just absolutely love when we get a genuine laugh from this girl. She gives us a lot of fake half laughs so a true gut wrenching laugh just makes my whole job worth it!

And from there we ran around with just our diaper for like 20 minutes. Would you believe me if I told you that she CRASHED at bed time?

 In a lot of ways I want a yard, but right now as I'm typing and Kelsey sleeps, I kind of don't want life to ever change. A yard would mean that she laughs outside and not in and that her time would be spent with siblings and friends and not me. I'm going to struggle watching my kids grow up I think.