After crawling out of her crib on Tuesday morning and again at nap time, Kenleigh got her "new bed" on Tuesday night. She slept in it all night the last 2 nights and is being such a big girl. She really loves the bed and keeps saying, "Daddy fixed it!" She watched Shawn convert it from the crib to the toddler bed and all the while had a toy hammer and was "helping" him. Cole of course spent that time in his room with his boom box on dancing and singing to Lady Gaga. Hmm...so many things wrong with that story.
Here are both the kids in her bed trying it out!
As the kids get older their sibling love gets stronger! That's not to say we don't have drama moments, but for the most part they are buddies and want to be together. We've started to do combined book reading at night instead of the divide and conquer approach we've used for almost 2 years. It's going okay...when Sis actually sits still and listens to the book. Most nights she just takes whatever book you are reading out of your hands...so we read about 2 pages from multiple books. Here are the kids snuggled up with Dad reading. Our special family friend Clifford also pictured. We are huge Clifford fans! 
It's hard to believe our baby girl Kenleigh is going to be 2 in just a few weeks. She has grown up so fast and the past few weeks make us feel like she is even more of a big girl. I have carried around a secret about her for almost a year now. Kenleigh obsessively loves her pacifier. Cole loved his too...until about 13 months and then he moved on. Not Sis. She turned 1 and I thought, oh we'll get rid of it in the next month or so. Then 15 months and I still thought, ah she's fine! 18 months passed and she still was so attached to it. With her 2nd birthday approaching we knew it was time to get serious. Thank the lord for Miss Emily, the kids nanny. Emily decided one day she was getting K off the binky and almost just like that it was gone. We've had a successful couple of weeks and Sis only asks for it now and then to which we say, "no more binky" and she says, "no more...Grammy took them!" Not sure how Grammy got the bad wrap for the no binky policy, but it's working! Additionally she is working on potty training. She is so cute in her pink princess pull ups...so different than with a boy! She had a great week of doing big girl things in the ladies room so we celebrated with a giant cookie! Cole got one as well when he had success in that area. Here is her "potty" "train" cookie. Picture below shows that I think she loved it!
Speaking of growing up, I almost cannot stand how grown up both Cole and Kenleigh look in this photo. They look equally as unphotogenic. Sheesh!