It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

Kylie is sure getting to a fun stage!  She is so playful and curious about everything.  She is also getting to the stage where she needs some discipline.  I find this hard because what can I do that will teach her her limits?  I tell her 'no' and of course she still does it, even looking at me defiantly as she does so.  If that happens I usually try a time-out, where either I sit with her in a chair or I put her in her crib for a minute.  Sometimes though, when her time is up, she just goes straight back to doing what I told her not to!  I know kids need to test their limits and they will eventually get the clue after several times of time-outs (I hope), but sometimes it just seems that Kylie doesn't remember the lessons she learned the day before.  The biggest problem I have right now is that she loves to hit the cat.  Not good.  I suppose I just need to be consistent and persistent and hope that she will eventually get the lesson...

This is how she wears scarves and necklaces - tucked under her chin.  It's so cute!

This week we had a lot of fun.  We babysat our neighbor Brandon one morning and Kylie just loved having a friend to play with.  With other kids she just follows them around and wants to do whatever they are doing.  She thinks she is so big!  We also went swimming this week at a special 'toddler time' that the pool hosts, in hopes to find some more kids to play with, but to my dismay there was nobody. Well, there were two old ladies doing their water-walk, but other than them we were the only ones playing at the pool.  Kylie still had fun, but not as much as she would have if there had been other kids there to run around with her.  We also went and played with our friend Kennedy that used to live across from us but moved a few months ago.  I am not sure Kylie remembered her, but they had so much fun playing together.

On Saturday we went to the Main Street park in the evening.  All the trees were lit up and they had a little party going on.  Kylie loved running from tree to tree looking at all the Christmas lights.  We even introduced her to Santa Claus, or at least tried.  She wouldn't sit on his lap, but would sit on mine and look at him.  He was very friendly though!

In line for Santa.  It was cold, but I couldn't for the life of me get her to wear her hat for more than a few seconds.

There was also a carousel there that Kylie could not stop looking at, so Brandon took her on a ride.  She loved it - until it started moving.  After a few times around she wouldn't even sit on the horse anymore and Brandon ended up holding her the rest of the time!

Overall I think she really enjoyed the little outing and I loved getting a little festive!  Kylie is still too young to really get the holiday, but it's never too early to start traditions!