Ben & Danielle come to visit

Now that I know Ben visits the blog on occassion I figured I'd make one of his pictures the first of this post. Last weekend our friends Ben and Danielle paid us a little visit.
Naturally we didn't remember to take pictures until it was time for them to go home...but we grabbed a few good ones anyway. You can tell Ben is great with kids, and that ours have a special little place for him.

Danielle was a big hit too. Kaylee loved playing games with her favorite pretend "Auntie."

And even though Danielle protested having her picture taken, with a co-star like Kaylee, she couldn't refuse.

We tried to get Kaylee to take a picture with both of our friends, but by that time she was tired of the camera and not feeling as cooperative.

And if you think Kaylee wasn't in the mood anymore...check out Ro's opinion of the extended photo-shoot.

These pictures have nothing to do with Ben and Danielle...but I wanted to include them.

Great Uncles Chuck and Buddy sent Kaylee a magnet block set for Christmas which she loves.

Of late, she has decided that she likes color-coordinating her creations...

And she likes to make her 'towers' as big as she can...

which apparently is about as big as she is.

She is super smart. How many two year olds do you know that can identify trapezoids, hexagons and octogons (and yes she knows the difference between those last 2!) Not only that, but the upper case alphabet is old hat, and the lower case alphabet is on its way to being mastered as well. She impressed the librarian at story hour this week, by spelling out the "Wet Floor" sign. I better brush up my skills, because I have a feeling I will be working on reading with her in a year or so.

OK, enough braggin...