Since recovering from the cold, she's been eating like crazy! At first I thought she was making up for not eating for a few days, but she's kept it up with every meal for the last 2 weeks. She must be getting ready to grow! She's getting better at using a fork and spoon on her own. I've tried to get her on video with a spoon a few times, but as usual, she always stops as soon as I get the camera out. Stinker!
She's been having a fabulous time at school too. The teachers are always telling us how social she is - constantly wanting to hug her classmates and following them around on the playground.
We finally took her for updated allergy testing recently and it appears that she has outgrown the egg allergy! Woo hoo! The doctor said all the breads she's been eating helped get her body used to eggs. We need to do a "challenge" with a little bit of cooked egg like scrambled or french toast and watch her for a reaction, but she was sick and we haven't had a good time to do that yet. But we have given her things like mayonnaise and she had some items from a salad that had hard boiled eggs on it and no reaction to those.
Kinsey's personality has continued to expand and she's finding new ways to express herself all the time. She knows how to ask for what she wants, usually by pointing and making a noise. She's been playing with her baby dolls a lot lately and I see her wrapping them in "blankets" all the time and carrying them around like that or I find them laying on the floor under a blanket. So cute. She's also been loving the warmer temperatures and being able to play outside, especially with the chickens and goats. It's fun that she can walk around outside by herself - now she can really play outside.
We watched her do something really interesting a few weeks ago - Jamie put the hamster in the bath tub and Kinsey was standing outside it watching him run around in the tub. She really wanted to get to him, but couldn't reach so she decided to try to climb in the tub. Turns out she can get one leg up on the edge of the tub, which in itself is impressive because the tub edge is pretty tall. But she still couldn't get in, so she turned around and grabbed the stool that's under the sink and we use for her to wash her hands in the sink. She pulled it out from under the sink and over to the tub, climbed up on the stool while holding onto the edge of the tub, swung one leg over the tub and then grabbed Jamie's hand to stabilize herself while swinging the other leg into the tub! We were so impressed with the thought process and problem solving skills that went into the whole thing.
Fortunately Kinsey recovered from her cold in time for us to take her to see Disney on Ice last Saturday. We'd bought front row tickets for the show so we were so glad we were still able to go. And Kinsey LOVED it! She got frustrated with us a couple of times because we wouldn't let her get down - there was no wall between our seats and the ice rink and we were afraid she's try to just walk right out there. She wanted to reach out and touch all the characters, especially Mickey and Minnie and some of the toys from Toy Story. Here are a couple of pictures and a little video. You can see how excited she was watching the show. We'll definitely take her to see a show like that again!
I think I remembered all the updates for now. . .
