Some cute movies of Kenley

Here is one that I wish was better. It's so hard to get video of Kenley because she always wants to watch it instead. Anyway, she was prancing around listening to a little Jungle Book CD and singing "Bear Necessities" and it was so precious. I got a very little bit of it, and it's pretty cute.


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Then, here is a video I took today. Sometimes my kids' milestones just jump out of nowhere and it hits me that they are growing up. A few weeks ago I was switching some wash, and I noticed some lip gloss in the washer that Kenley had put in her pocket, and I realized I was going to have to start checking her pockets, and seriously guys, it made me SO SAD! Like, what a big girl, you know? So today was another one of those mini-milestones. I go into her room and she has this whole little "event" set up with her Cinderella figurines and her trains, and it's the first time she's really set up her toys like this, other than a tea party or something. And it just seemed like suddenly she was older, like a real little girl. At the end of this video, she is telling me she set it up for a party, but the movie cuts off. Argh...


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Finally, a sort of sober story to end the post, but just a little reminder. One of the interesting things about being a parent is feeling that God is using me and helping me to protect these sweet little people. I constantly feel these promptings about my kids, and they're just so little. And usually I realize them in retrospect, like right after Kenley has puked and I think, "You know, I was looking right at that extra pair of shoes thinking I should throw them in the car for some reason and I didn't, and I should have." But then every once in a while I'll feel something, and I'll do it, and then later it is just clear to me that I had that feeling for a reason. So tonight we went to In N Out with a friend of mine. Before we went in, I debated about bringing my diaper bag. I thought to myself, "I don't really need it, the car is right here if I need to change a diaper...." But then I just felt like I should, so I did. So we ordered and sat down outside, and Kenley spilled her drink so I went to get napkins. When I came back outside she was standing on the bench and walked toward me, and I don't even know what happened, I guess she just didn't see it end or maybe she tripped, but she went tumbling headfirst from standing on a bench, right onto the concrete. And you know what? She landed with her head right on that bulky, pesky diaper bag. She was so shaken up and so was I. I was so glad that we had averted a much more painful and scary experience. So the moral of the story? Pay attention to those promptings, especially when they involve your kids. I'm so glad she's safe.