24 months! she's a TWO year old folks!

It 's 8:51 on a Monday morning and toots is still sleeping! Mommy got up when daddy left for work, made coffee, worked out a little, and started editing. This is nice!

I love so much about Kinsley at this age! She is talking more and more and coming up with more of her own thoughts and not just repeating what we say. Yesterday she said "thanks for sharing with me mommy" after I gave her a bite of my food... I was like really?! she's doing really well learning manners.

Things she does/says:

- calls me "babe" (taking after Gray)- it's hilarious

- loves head and shoulders knees and toes, itsy bitsy spider, and ring around the rosy

- toddler pandora station is our new go-to music in the car... she LOVES hearing her songs

- kins: "momma, what you doin" me: "driving, what are you doing?" kins: "good"

- talks on her "phone" in the cutest voices ever... i love hearing her conversations with her phone and dolls... She almost sounds like a happy higher pitched william jung- cracks me up every time when I think of that!

-LOVES to sing- even songs she doesn't know.. she tries to sing along.. again a little william jung-ish when she doesn't know the words which again makes me laugh

- still loves baths

- sleeps in the most crowded bed... she wants every doll (even the doll carrier) and stuffed animal in her bed.

-we have finally progressed back to having "buh" for sleeping only... we have a new routine of saying goodbye to music, humidifier, nightlight, blankie and buh when she wakes up, and saying hello to all of it when we come in for naps and night night

- we read these books at night and if one is missing or skipped, you will not hear the end of it:
*Bun book (that has about 2 pages left in it)
*Night Night book
*Big sun (a counting book she used to count everything on each page, but now we search for the big bad wolf)
*Baby book (gray and I both dislike it- we try to hide it constantly and she never forgets about it-- it's SO long and she notices if we skip a page)
*Sheep Dog- touch and feel-- another book she likes to count
*Imagine me
*Izzy jog

None of those books are listed by their actual name.

-fav toys: mommy's makeup, mommy's jewelry, purses, baby dolls, and everything outside

- wants everything you are eating- i don't remember the last time i ate everything on my plate myself- which is hard since I am stingy with food-- i find myself eating ridiculously fast so that I can have it all

Here's our month in iphone pics

summer morning walks and honey suckles!

kins and ansley

summer time!

sale

memorial day

bday present (at grammy's) 

Amy's Cake Pops for kinsleys party

favors

southern gourmet cake= delish!

food and punch

play area

bday present from us

Kinsley's TWO | Cotton Candy Theme

Something New

Easter at the Beach

Lots going on at the Porter House...

MISS FOXY

Yesterday Foxy had an issue with a molar trying to come out.. making her claw herself trying to get it out and almost chewing on it.. so my dad rushed us all the way down town to our vet and my mom stayed with Kins. They had JUST gotten here from Paris and hadn't even made it home!

They gave fox some pain meds, updated her shots, and $200 later she had an appt for surgery and dental cleaning the next day to remove the tooth plus possibly some others YIKES!

She's at the vet right now and I know that she had to have some other teeth pulled.. I have no idea what to expect my poor little 8yr old pup to look like-- not to mention my BILL! Thank you Lord for PROVIDING!

OFF THE MARKET!

We decided to take our house OFF the market! Shocking since it is prime selling season, but we were only putting it up in hopes of building one house in one neighborhood with everything we wanted. We talked to the builder and the incentives were going away and even if we sold that day it wouldn't get the incentives we originally wanted and it wouldn't be done til late november... so we decided to just stay and actually LIVE again for a while.

SO we are deciding to update the kitchen! Not in the hopes of selling it, but actually what WE want. Gray and his dad went to look at appliances yesterday and they might even be here this weekend! I'll  definitely post pics along the way!

Wedding season gears up April 20th! Every Saturday til June is either a wedding I'm shooting or one we'll attend. Uncle Zac and Lindsey are getting married May 11th and I cannot WAIT to post her bridal pics!

SUMMER TIME

The first weekend of June, I think is when we are going to do Kinsley's bday party. We want to do it at our house again now that we know we will be here!

Then the second weekend Gray and I have planned our FIRST getaway without the babe! We are heading to Santa Monica, CA! I can't wait to take him back to some of my favorite places I grew up going to. He's never been past Texas! We are just going for a long weekend so I hope I can detach from Kins enough to enjoy it! It's all booked so no turning back now! We might do the TMZ tour bus lol, a braves/dodgers game, the coffee bean, 3rd street promenade shopping, santa monica pier and SUR tops our list of things to do so far. Let me know if you have a good suggestion! This will be my first time going without the 'rents! I HAVE to recreate this pic my sis took when she went out there.. this was a step with both sat on outside our home in Redondo Beach!

Then in July we are going for the Porter family beach trip down to Surfside for over a week! Kins always loves playing at the water's edge and in a little pool. I think she'll love it even more this year!

Only 4 more weeks of school, then graduation, then SUMMER! Yay! It's going to be busy and great!

22 months

We are getting so close to having a 2 year old! so sad!

Our typical Day:
-Mommy wakes up before everyone and gets her makeup done, breakfast, quiet time and starts packing lunch.

-Then Daddy gets Kinsley up and brings her down for breakfast.
-I love kissing her sleepy cheeks!

-Whirlwind of a morning getting everyone dressed, lunches packed, and school things together- thank goodness for daddy!

- Go to school in her "big girl seat" and listen to her "own songs"

- Rush in to school and drop her off in the room down the hall

- After the bell rings I rush down the hall to hear her say "mommy" and want me to come inside and play- she doesn't want to leave!

- She falls asleep on the way home (about 10 min) and doesn't want to go back down for a nap (boo!)

- I miss her during the day but I would like just a little time to get the house together

- Instead we read all of her books, dump out the change jar and sort all the change over and over, then we watch bubble guppies, we color, then push "Anna" and "Abby" and "Emily" in the baby stroller

- We hide under the kitchen table and call foxy to come find us

- Mommy tries to clean the kitchen but Miss Kinsley says "mommy hold you" and mommy does as much as she can with one hand

- Kinsley wants to play with the water and the sink and "wash the spoons" so mommy stands her on a chair so she can get a few things done

- Then we play kitchen.. Kinsley brings me coffee, toast and butter. She sets the oven for a "couple minutes" while we sit in her pottery barn chair and sing "we're two best friends, we're two best friends" in a song i made up

- sometimes we run errands if I know she's sleepy and being fussy

- Then daddy gets home!

- Daddy plays with kinsley and mommy gets dinner ready

-sometimes they watch golf and "tiger. hit. boom!" and play with her little tikes golf set

- We sit at the table- often eating 3 separate meals because we are all so picky and say our blessing

- "dear deedus danku mamen"

- After dinner we either play or take a bath- she loves the bubbles and keeping a little trickle of water running to fill up her cups and wash off her letters

-Before bed, around 7pm, we turn on the humidifier, the night light, her night time music and
we read "all of om" -- all the books.. even a warranty book for our security system she got out of the file cabinet lol We also read "bunn", "big sun", "night night book," "giraffe," "babies," "owl book," and sometimes others get traded in and out.

- Then I tell her the story of our day- as many details as I can remember and she loves it! she always says "again"

- then I lay her down and we say prayers again.. I love praying over her

- sometimes she will get up and cry.. and I let her for a minute but when she says "mommy where are you" I can't help but rush in. I want her to know mommy is always there. Then I kiss her and put her down and tell her I will be watching her in the monitor ha

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Fav foods:
trader joes' chicken nuggets
annie's bunnies (fruit and crackers)
turkey sausage
cottage cheese
yogurt
brown rice
candy
corn
strawberries
frozen bananas
turkey sandwich
anything mommy and daddy have- gotta be a good example :)

I get lots of ideas off 100 Days of Real Food


I think we are going to head to the beach this easter weekend! It's my last free weekend before wedding season! I have spring break next week too so I'm excited! We might go to discovery place, shopping, the park if it's nice, visit family and run errands.

I took some pics of Kinsley and Bryleigh for Easter with a little black lamb we named oreo. They can be seen here.