Kendra at play

I've commented before that Kendra makes two types of messes.  The first type is the mess she makes as she rummages through her toys, sometimes just to see what is there but often in search of a specific object (and her recall is uncanny).  The second type of mess she makes are the little piles of collections she leaves all over the house.  This is an example of the second type of mess that was out in the middle of the afternoon after she busied herself with another activity.

And this is a very, very deliberate mess here, for those of you who think it's just a few piles of toys.

The pile on far right is one we've mentioned before; her Land Before Time puppets.

This is actually the collection she's most consistent with gathering every single day.  First thing in the morning she'll ask for her dinosaurs and sometimes, she doesn't even want to play with them, she just wants to pile them somewhere she knows where to find them.

She has a large plastic tub filled with stuffed animals and fairly regularly she likes to sort out all of a certain species of animal.  The middle pile in our mess is comprised of most of our monkeys.

And Brandy, if you're reading this, yes, that one on the right is the one you gave me on my 18th birthday.

And the final pile is another collection of like animals, but this time it's all the elephants we've acquired.

And this group is actually one of the many families in our house.  The black elephant is the Daddy Elephant and the other two are the Mommy and Baby, respectively.

I love watching this kid grow up.  She's always doing something awesome.