Kara: The Middle Little Joy

Kara is such a sweet heart.  I think at this point, I'm figuring out that her primary love language is words of affirmation.  She's at the age that her vocabulary is just soaring.  (23 months) She says many many more things than these few, but these are some of our favorites. She also does a few hilarious things as well.

1) Sad: This is a HUGE thing for her.  She picks up on emotions so easily.  When someone is sad, she immediately says so. With a sweet concerned face, "Sad." Usually she goes over to comfort them at that point. She wants to make all bad things good.

2) Mimicking big sister.  She loves to do very similar things as Kaylee.  She'll often add her own little twist to it, but looks up to her big sis so much.  The admiration she has for Kaylee is so sweet to watch.  This has only grown since becoming a big sister.

3) The way she says, "Okay." She gets a deeper voice than she has for pretty much anything else she says.

4)  She's usually pretty compliant and does what she's asked, but when she's not--boy, is she STUBBORN! She looks over to the side out of the corner of her eyes and absolutely refuses to make eye contact with anyone.

5) "Thank you," and "You're welcome" are very common phrases in her vocabulary.  She is super consistent in using them.  "Ank you!" "You're wel'm!"  So. Stinkin'. Cute.

6)  She is a silly goofball with tons of energy.  Spinning around until she's dizzy.  Running back and forth from the couch to the kitchen trash can. Trying to jump as high as she can (2 inches off the ground).

7) Stickers. Need I say more?  Stickers on walls, blankets, desks, tables, shirts, shoes, arms, faces... oh and paper sometimes.

8) "YAY!"  She is not at all shy about hiding the fact that she is excited about something.  "YAY, yay, yay, YAY!"

9) Same thing with when she thinks something is fun. "Fun!"

10) 1...2....5...10...11...9  I love her counting skills

11) She loves to bang things.  "Bammer," and "hammer," are some words we hear quite often.

12) Walking in other people's shoes.  Yes.  All kids love doing this.  Kara makes a habit of it extremely regularly. Daddy's, Mommy's, Kaylee's.  Tennis shoes, work shoes, flats, heals, flip-flops.  Around the house, in the car, at other's houses.

13) Want some.

14) "It's fine."  If she wants it, she makes sure to let us know it's fine.

15) I do it.

16) Don wanna.

17) I.... Luh.... YOUUUUU!

18) "Dear Jesus...Amen."

19) "Nat!" I love that she gets excited about her little sister.

20) The hug tackle.  She loves to give Kaylee hug tackles.  This is where she runs up and hugs Kaylee so tightly, that they both end up crashing to the ground.

I love my Kara girl so much.