Little Miss Kimbri

Kimbri is such a beautiful little girl. Of course I am biased since I am her mother. Her mother. I love the fact that I get to be a mommy. It seems like every moment of every day I catch myself saying things like, "Let mommy put your bib on so mommy can feed you lunch.", or "Come with mommy to get the laundry from downstairs.", or "Kimbri, mommy loves you!".  It seems like no matter what I'm doing, whether it be dishes or laundry, or reading books or playing with Kimbri, I'm always referring to myself as mommy. And I love it. I'm so grateful that I get to be a mommy...Kimbri's mommy. 

I love this little girl so much. She is such a joy in my life. One thing about Kimbri is that she tends to be pretty dramatic. But even though sometimes it's dramatic with tears, she so often is dramatic with her laughs too! When you get her to laugh, it is the most hearty, deep laugh. And I love hearing it! When she gets excited about something, she really gets excited! I can't say it enough, but she really is a bright shining star in my life. I can't imagine living without Little Miss Kimbri! 

Here is a picture of Kimbri with her "new" toys from DI. She couldn't get enough of them. She had to hold the rings from one toy while sitting on the other. We had originall bought a green version of the walker/ride toy that Kimbri is sitting on in the picture below from off Craigslist. It worked great as a walker toy but the handle for when you turn it into a riding toy was missing, so when we saw this one at DI for $4 we bought it and sold the green one for $10 - what we paid for it - on Craigslist. It's perfect because now she's at the age where she'll be able to learn how to use it to ride instead of using it to walk, since she's got the walking thing down!

Her other toy we got from DI for only $1. We wiped down
 good with a Clorox wipe and now it's as good as new!

Here are a couple of Kimbri's favorite pastimes lately...

She LOVES looking at books and having me read to her,
she'll often times go to the book shelf and pull one book
off at a time and look through it, and then on to the next one!

Kimbri LOVES coloring! I think she likes using a pencil
over crayons but uses both.  Look at that grip that
she figured out all by herself! Maybe she'll be an artist:)

And of course, she LOVES helping mommy bake,
or rather, eating!! Here she's licking the batter from when
we made Tuxedo Brownie Cups.

I don't think she could get enough of it!

She loved it! Of course she would. And she cried
like it was the end of the world when it was all gone.

And here is Kimbri in her fun new snuggly fleece pj's that Grandma Haycock gave her. We could just have her wear this for Halloween and be a Zebra. Haha:) 

More of the cute pjs and of course, her new favorite thing, her stuffed animal...a monkey that we bought her for .75 at DI, because she has recently had this obsession with really soft stuffed animals. 

She literally can't hold in her excitement when you hand her a fuzzy stuffed animal. She grabs it and hugs and squeezes the day lights out of it. 

She has become best friends with this monkey.

Along with these picture updates, I should also mention that a couple days ago she hit the 14 month old mark! She also has added to her teeth collection. Two top molars broke through and a couple molars on the bottom are starting to come in, which I guess explains all the extra drooling lately:) 

Oh, and another fun thing - we finally bought this girl some shoes! As a newborn she never really needed shoes. And even when she advanced to the crawling stage she didn't really need them. But as she started to walk I thought that we would need to get her some shoes. I put it off for a while but after she got a splinter at the park last week I felt so so bad and we made it a priority to get her some shoes. It was NOT an easy task. Her feet are so fat, the tall way. So every shoe we tried on this girl would seem to be fine length wise but her foot would just not fit! We looked at tons of pairs of shoes at DI and even made a trip up to Orem to look at Ross. I even looked at the little girl shoes in Hobby Lobby but with no success, at any of the stores. Finally we found a pair of black and a pair of white shoes that fit great from Signs and Wonders, a boutique sort of store that also has a children's consignment in the back area. So we got her two pairs of shoes for $6. I thought it was a pretty good deal for some good, used shoes. Anyway, this girl hasn't really ever worn shoes so it was SO funny to see her try and walk in shoes!! It was like she had to learn to walk all over again, being very wobbly and insecure at putting one foot in front of the other. But I think she's got it down pretty good now:)

Well, that's my update for Kimbri right now. We sure love our Little Miss Kimbri!