So, Daddy picked her up and put her in the middle of the yard... still not a frolic or a hint of playfulness...
Here I am watching from inside my toasty warm kitchen...
Kensie and Daddy pose before coming inside...
When she came inside she screamed when we tried to take off her hat. So, we left it on!
Kensie is big into bringing you a book and sitting in your lap to hear it. (This makes Daddy feel very special!!)
Kensie also likes to listen to her Elmo talk to her. She can't quite figure out how to squeeze his nose or push his buttons to make him talk, but she tries. She also likes those pull apart toys she is holding... again, she tries to make them go together and apart, but only gets it once in a while. The rest of the time we spend doing it for her... over... and over... and over again.
And finally, the thing she seems to love doing the most lately (other than play chase with Daddy) is peek-a-boo! All you have to do is say "where's Kensie??" to get a game going. The Christmas tree is an ideal hiding spot, as you can imagine. PS: Yes she is wearing mittens in the house. No, I am not that cheap that we don't have the heat on... she just likes wearing them!
Last night we decorated the Christmas Tree. Which was about time, since the tree has actually been in the house for weeks now! The good news is we had enough non-breakable ornaments to hang at Kensie-level, that the tree doesn't look too weird or bare on the lower branches. She hasn't tried to take any ornaments off, but sure does like to touch and look at what she can get her hands on! Her favorites seem to be the Hallmark Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer characters.
The whole process of getting Kensie to "sit" for professional pictures has gotten exponentially harder now that she can walk. For Easter, she basically just sat there and let us do what we wanted. Now, you have to make her want to be in the picture! And her attention span is so short, that you have to get the shot almost immediately after introducing something new... like a piano, a chair, or tree. At the end, they had to bring in a professional tickler (another associate at the store), because Chris and I just couldn't get her attention or make her smile, even with all our funny voices and jumping around. 
What better present is there than Kensie?
These last three were possible thanks to the professional tickler!!
They can do such cool things with pictures now... like turning them black and white, but then bringing back the color on just one portion. I love this last one!!
