Kalena's 3-year update

Sorry for the delay with Kalena's 3-year update, but as most of you know I was working on her 3 movies.. "Kalena's life 2008, 2009, and 2010"
We hope everyone that got the movies in the mail is enjoying them.


Kalena and her parents have been busy since her 3-year checkup. Kalena is great at communicating, but when it comes to communicating with words she's a little limited. We had decided to have her tested after she turned 3 in case she was just being shy. In order to have her evaluated for speech she first had to pass a hearing test. This took a couple different visits, because hearing tests on young children is not easy. Once we got set up with a pediatric audiologist she passed the hearing test with no problem.
Then we moved on the the speech evaluation. We learned that's not necessarily her speech has much as its weak mouth muscles. The weak muscles making saying certain sounds and words difficult. Her word knowledge was 98% for her age group ( :) ). We now go to therapy sessions once a week to strengthen these muscles and work on speech. She has only gone a few times and there is already a big improvement.

Kalena is very close to being potty trained. She has #1 down, but is having difficulty with #2. Hopefully by summer she'll have this worked out.

She is up to 32 pounds and around 37 inches tall.

Kalena is understanding more each day about her baby sister on the way. She understands that Baby Kenzy is in mommy's belly (and only mommy's belly). We just moved her to her new bedroom that she is going to share with Kenzy and she seems excited about the change.