Kay-olee Bean

Today is Oaklee's 2nd birthday!! (I seriously cannot believe that she is that old already). She pretty much has no idea what a birthday is even about - and with all the kids at school and Dad at work, me and the 3 littles (Dayton, Oaklee, Kyndi) went and got Oaks a dozen balloons, because she loves balloons - and I also treated the two girls to a tiny Ben&Jerry's of their very own. (Which Oaklee downed in roughly 4.6 seconds flat)

I blog about Oaklee so often that it is difficult to find new things to tell you today but here we go...

First off, None of my kids have ever been a terrible two... Kyndi was a bit of a crier, but nothing bad and no attitude to it - she was just a total mama's girl... Oaklee however stole all the attitude that the others never had and hoarded it all for herself. She is horrible!! She's got the words "no" and "mine" mixed with the ornery attitude voice, down to a science. She does have a HUGE attitude but she way stinkin cute too so sometimes that makes it okay!!

Oaklee has never been much for words. She used to pretty much just say "uh" no matter what word she was trying to say... then her words all started with D (DilDue (Little Dude=Dayton, Doh=Oaklee, Deedee=Kyndi, Dee=drink, dye=light, etc.) Suddenly in the past week, she can talk!! We're even up to two word sentences and double-syllable words!! Monkey, "dafftub" "Pretty" "chupchup" (ketchup) "O-lee" (Oaklee) and her other words like milk, which used to be 'muh' is now 'mill' I've gotta say, I'm pretty proud of her.

If ever I ask her, "where's daddy?" or "Where's Kyndi?" "Where's grandma?" Her answer is almost always "Uh Wur" (At work)

Oaklee is scared of bugs. Kyndi loves bugs, Okalee hates them. Her biggest bug fear? Ants. Kyndi "collects" ants almost every morning, and Oaklee refuses to go anywhere near her until she knows the ants are 100% gone. She has learned the concept of the fly swatter (Or flies-water if you're talking to Kyndi) and quite enjoys smacking it all around...

Oaklee's other fear in life: vacuums. Don't turn one on, you'll have a crier hanging onto you for the next 6 hours. I'm not sure what it is about loud noises, she is terrified of them. The blender too. It's loud and she hates it.

She loves playing outside. Her favorite activity is the trampoline I think. She always begs to go out there. In fact once she's outside there are only 2 things that will ever convince her to come back inside: 1 - food, she'll do anything for food and 2 - a bug. If she sees one, she's pretty much done with outside. Side note: the two little girls just walked in from outside with a toy pan full of potato bugs, apparently she isn't terrified of that type, but she still won't hold them or anything...Oh! Nevermind, they are suddenly moving in there and now she's freakin out!!

Oaklee loves to watch Blues Clues. She asks for it every morning, and she sings along with everything they sing. CUTE!!

When the radio is on she sings along to the music no matter what song it is, and many times she starts an all out boogie!

She's just so stinkin cute and she's growing up way too fast.

Happy Birthday Oaklee, we love you!!!