Kallee and tears

Kallee and tears Those two words are synonymous right now in her life. Kallee is crying going to school getting picked up, when she is told to eat her veggies, when she is told to put on her PJ’s, or go to bed.. Tears start falling. Kallee and laughing and happy is also synonymous as she can still light up the room. But for the past two weeks she has been overly sensitive. Alison has noticed that Kallee is not yet accustomed to the new classroom yet and is a tearful mess when she is dropped off in the morning. She is also very angry at me when I am picking her up in the afternoon if I arrive before she wants me too. So she starts crying. Alison knows that Kallee truly is scared of her new classroom, but that is not the only place Kallee is still crying. She is insta tears all the time over the littlest things. I think that she has been coddled too much because she has learned to cry to get her way, so we have been butting heads pretty much every day for the past month. I need her to understand that she can still show her frustration with life without crying. She is a stubborn and tough individual that really thinks that she has the world down and wants her way all the time… or tears…… She has now successful gone #2 at school but is in a holding pattern everywhere else. I think in her mind the potty is losing some of its scariness. I really does frustrate and scare me on how fearful of the new my daughter is… she HATES being surprised or if things change without her permission. Kallee will miss out on so many things if she keeps up this fear of life, water, environment, or school, but one place she is not afraid to try new things is food… she is so willing to eat new things off her mother’s plate and that is very cool. (Side note, notice lack of daddy because his taste are weak and embarrassing). Kallee loves humus and sauces and dips and veggies and just having different things. She does not like eating foods more that once a week. So for that I am grateful. I am also grateful for Jayden because he is her interpreter and hero. If it was not for JJ, Kallee would not be as happy as she is today. Mommy thinks that part of Kallee’s loss of love for her school is the fact that JJ is not there, and I do agree. She is more comfortable in everything with her big brother around and he is so awesome to her. I know that Kallee will sometime, take to adapting quicker to what life has to offer… but until then the sounds you will hear in our house will be daddy ram butting heads with baby ram.

Pics of the Summer

These pics were taken by Alison's phone... it was a good summer

Kallee and the end of the summer into the new school year.

Kallee and the end of the summer into the new school year.

Kallee has grown and yet still remained a little girl. Kallee was in 2T’s comfortably at the beginning of the summer, but by the time summer was over, she was almost too big for 3T clothes… So we are going out and getting some more 4T stuff.

She has gotten a bit better at her speech as Grandma Gebers can understand her part of the time on the phone. It is amazing how we as parents can understand our children yet when we listen to other children the same age… total foreign language.

Kallee loves to eat sugar so we have had to surb all candy and snacks. Alison really believes that Kallee will become a vegetarian by the time she grows up. She still loves all dips including ranch and ketchup and bar-b-que sauce and salsa and beans and hummus. She likes to try new foods and does not like to have the same thing more than once a week.

Her clothing style is still comfortable and gets mad at us if we try to use anything but cotton on her. She loves the summer because you can wear dresses all day long. Her shoes style include flops and mary jane’s. Though truth be told she likes to wear her Flip Flops on the wrong foot… somehow she finds it more confortable.

As school starts Kallee is nowhere near trained on the poopy part of toilet training… In fact she is still serious about not always going on the toilet. Kallee is fine with the potties but the other is a struggle… she is cleaning herself up better so that is good.

I think this could have been one of the best summers ever as I got to spend a lot of time with the family. We are so excited about Hawaii next summer because of what happened this summer. Kallee and Jayden made it fun and exciting and happy and yes a little tiring. Kallee has an infectious laugh and a great personality… she has her times of crying for no reason and throwing the good ole fake fit, but she is a confident little girl who does not let many people take advantage of her. She is a strong and happy girl who makes everyday a wonderful yet challenging 24 hours.

Kallee started in apple tree room this year and we are interested in seeing who she takes to a controlled room in which there are very strict boundaries. I think it will be good for her. We tried to do school in the month of August and she is gotten a lot better at her colors, but much to the dismay and disappointment of her brother and I, who worked for her all the time in pure frustration, she is still avoiding counting to 10… arrghhh.

Like I said,,, very stubborn,,., very…

Okay,

So we just came back from the allergist and sure enough… Kallee has nut allergies and an egg allergy… Walnuts and Pecans are really bad and other tree nuts are not so good either. She has a small reaction to peanuts. The egg reaction was very big, but the doctor said that since she has been eating baked goods already to continue eating them. So the egg one is not a scary,, ,but once again we have to have more epi pins… yeah..

Oh and Kallee is 32 pounds and 38 and a half inches tall.