If she had been left alone for another 15 minutes, there would have been twice the damage to clean up.
Positive note: I used this opportunity to help her grasp clean up time a little more.
Anyways, I love the fall here. Since there are so many trees everywhere, this means there are so many leaves that are changing colors and falling. I love walking or driving down the road and seeing all of the many different colors. There are definitely going to be things that I am going to miss about the east, and Virginia in particular when Kurt graduates and we move from here.
(These pictures were taken during one of our dog walks. Just could not help stopping and taking a picture before the leaves had all fallen off.)
Kurt likes to call this his pile of glory. He states that if he has to deal with my horse, I get to deal with this pile of glory. When we got married though, I already had the horse so he knew the packaged deal he was getting himself into. The pile of glory had not existed, so I had no idea that I was not only marrying Kurt, but a 3 month in the making, pile of clothing.
I will state at the beginning, (Kurt made me), that I have helped in maintaining this pile by adding new clothes after I do laundry. To my defense, Kurt first created this pile back in August when he returned from Idaho. I place clean clothes there instead of having to sleep with them at the end of the bed for weeks at a time, until Kurt has finally worn everything in the pile.
As Kylee and I were leaving the bank, I walked through the door first and held it open for her. I looked away, and the next think I heard was a loud bang and then a screaming cry. What did I find? One Kylee knocked to the ground, crying. Everyone in the bank was looking at me and I could not help but smile and laugh because I realized what Kylee had done.
Last weekend our ward had a trunk-or-treat where all the kids played carnival games, had a costume parade, and then went from car to car to receive treats. This is where Kylee learned how to pick out her treat and put it into her bucket.
This weekend we took her around one of my client’s neighborhoods to do a little trick-or-treating. She was dressed up as a little 50’s gal with her poodle skirt and pigtails. She loved going to all of the different houses, meeting new people, and picking out her treats. She really loved when she was greeted by a dog at the front door. (Imagine that.)
After that, we stopped at a friend’s house for some homemade donuts, cider, and some chit chat. Kylee enjoyed playing with all of her friends and sneaking a donut here and there.
She did not understand the idea at first and kept walking back to the road, but quickly caught on.
After she caught on Kylee was all over the place. One of the volunteers mentioned how it seemed the two of us were always going opposite directions from one another.
After we checked out all of the pumpkins several times and she chose a favorite. She seemed to choose it because she enjoyed poking all of the bumps on the pumpkin.
We took our pumpkin home and enjoyed a pumpkin muffin on the ride home. (Kylee ate most of it, pumpkin muffin thief.)
Kylee was somewhat excited about the horses, but her favorite thing was to walk right in the middle of private parties and to have random strangers hold her. Weird girl. She also loved showing off her cowgirl boots. She would tromp back and forth between everybody.
It was amazing to watch how much power those Thoroughbreds have and how fast they run.
Kurt made his first horse race bet (right before the gambling talk at Conference) and lost $10. He should have picked #7.
2) She laps up water from a watering dish. Her father is not too happy about this one.
3) She throws and fetches her own balls. She is self-entertaining.
4) She chews on and carries dog toys in her mouth. Another gross, but funny thing.
5) She pants like a dog. Especially when she sees a dog.
6) She eats leaves and flowers.
7) She chases cats. Poor Sadie, she always has to keep an eye out.
She will start to cry if you do not put her shoes on her once she sees them. She will get upset if you do not get them on fast enough. She will get upset if she brings you shoes and you do not put them on. (Even if she brings you three or four shoes and you only have two feet). Lately she has been trying on our shoes and trying to walk around the apartment in them. This can lead to some tears as well if she can't get them on right or walk without falling.
(I think we have a perfectionist on our hands who does not have much patience.)
Of course, what kid would not love playing with tons of different toys and running around with other kids.
It was cute watching her trying to figure out how to get this fire engine to go all over the park.
It was her favorite toy to play with while we were there. When we left, tears came streaming down the face when she realized it would not be coming home with us.
Sorry Kylee, we will visit the park more often.
It would be thanks to these companies who have towed my car twice now just this week: Monday and today. The best part is with all the cars they tow, you think they would have a pretty nice setup. Nope, the towing places are always out in the middle of nowhere and they always have little trailers where they look like they are on their last leg and you have to stand outside and talk to someone through this little tiny window.
