Out and About in Salt Lake City

It's always so hard to keep up with our sweet girl as I think every moment with her is picture perfect! So, I try to get as many pictures as I can on here to share with you and to be able to look back on down the road. Although Utah really does have pretty mild winters, we've been trying to find other great things to do around Salt Lake City. A couple weekends ago, we took Kaylen to the Discovery Gateway, which is essentially the children's museum here. Kaylen hadn't been yet and she is about the right age to really start enjoying it, so we had LOTS of fun with her!

Heading up to put all the balls in the crazy tubes with Daddy

Some of the crazy tubes

Playing some music with Mommy

Kaylen refused to get in this car, she was NOT a fan. Gregg and I had to pay the same fee that we did for her, so someone might as well enjoy this car!

This was a GREAT house for kids where everything was their size! She loved in and it was hard getting her out to explore the rest of the place!

This was a little room called the birdhouse or something? It was just a little room with kid size couches. She excited to see Daddy on the other side of the window.

They had this really great water feature that was really quite extensive. We finally realized this one existed that was more her height. Although she refused to wear the water aprons they had, so she got pretty wet. Kaylen refuse something, you say??

A little grocery store

"Hi, Dadda!"

Gregg has had to go out of town a bit for medical school interviews and happened to leave for one on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day when I had the day off. So, Kaylen and I headed to the Aquarium! She had been there some time ago, but it had been a while and who doesn't love an Aquarium! It was pretty crowded being that it was a holiday, but she really enjoyed looking at everything.

One of my favorite parts, the penguin exhibit! She is getting SO great at talking and knew just what they were by the time we left!

Nemo?

Froggies!

We had a great time at the Aquarium. We're always excited about any place that we get also get a smoothie... and by we, I mean, I get Kaylen a smoothie and should consider myself lucky if I get any!

I also mentioned her talking and will finish up with that. She is getting SO GREAT at talking! She has really started to put words together. She decided the other night, she was done watching (she is great at saying "watch") Beauty and the Beast and wanted to change it to Elmo, so started yelling, "No Beast! No Beast! No Beast!". Tonight she wasn't interested in her dinner, so she said, "no like"... and yes, the being good at "no" phrases is not a coincidence! Tonight we were reading a book that finished with the phrase, that she actually repeated!... "deep deep snow".... !!!! She says "hi" to EVERY person that crosses paths with her and will tell anyone a story whether or not you can understand it. She wants to talk to EACH person that we talk to on the phone. She is truly remarkable. I really should make a list of the words she says, but I have a feeling that list could take me a week. She is so much fun and each and every day, Gregg and I can't help but appreciate all that God has given us. Our daughter is better than our wildest dreams could ever have imagined.