El Porche

We saw a couple porcelain duckies in the thrift store Thanksgiving weekend.  Kinsley became immediately attached “Duckies Kinsley’s house?” — He was talking TO the duckies at this point.

I distracted him with something else, then bought them, intending to wrap them up for Christmas.  With getting sick, I forgot.  While Cal was in Atlanta, I was starting to clean up Christmas stuff.  Kinsley came in and saw them.  After a second he gave this smile like he’d just found out a fun joke “Mommy hide doosies!!” The rest of the time I was cleaning, he was feeding them, giving them water, etc.  The next morning, he was delighted to do a photo shoot.

Arranging them first:

So excited:

 

One evening he wanted to give them a bath.

Lots of times they had to “see Kinlsey do”.  Just like the way Kinsley wants to “see Daddy do, see Mommy do” (see what we’re doing).  One morning they wanted to come to breakfast with us.

So we took pictures and then they sat on another piece of furniture and watched us eat breakfast 🙂

On the snow day, they had to sit with Kinsley and keep warm:

Other times, he’d kiss them, or cradle them in his arms, or have them kiss each other.  Or “Mommy say hi duckies”.  One time one of them was for Mommy to hold and one for Kinsley to hold.  I was doing laundry, so I asked the ducky if it wanted to fold laundry with me.  It did.  🙂  Pretty soon the other ducky wanted to fold laundry too, and Kinsley was taking the folded laundry to the basket in his little red wagon.

This post was started, oh, almost 2 full months ago, before I got sick.

Our November weekend in the woods.  The cabin.

 

 

The best feature. 

 

Driving to the trail is so cool, man.  At least with Uncle Bryan’s sunglasses on.  (B is Cal’s brother)

Better try Mommy’s too

 

 

 

Tiya Monika was Kinlsley’s first connection en Español.  Monika was our Spanish teacher, and Kinsley got to go to her Spanish class with us when he was one week old!! It’s been awhile since we were in class, but Kinsley got to hike Chimney Tops trail with Tiya Monika and her husband, Tiyo Ramon

 

hicha imoshi Jason hicha sashki achaffa Rebecca (and Uncle Jason and Aunt Rebecca)

 

A favorite conversation shot of Tiya Monika and Uncle Bryan

 

hicha imoshi Joshua (and uncle Joshua) (on left)

Bonus: laughing at okla imoshi – Joshua hicha Jason

Uncle Bryan is pretty funny too.  From the way Kinsley is standing, I know he thinks something is REALLY funny.