Kenzie loves this phone. She lost it a week later and we haven't seen it since (this isn't a bad thing because it's loud and really obnoxious. I had nothing to do with its disappearance. Really). 

I don't know if you can make it out, but Kenzie is holding a toy cell phone. Good God, it's begun. Heaven help us. 

Kenzie looks genuinely excited about this present. So does Joey. 

Joey helping Kenzie with another present. 

Kenzie's Uncle Joey showing off his pretty new Princess sweater. 

A Pla-Doh table. Just what the Doctor ordered. Of course, he couldn't have known that she wouldn't touch the thing after the first couple times she played with it. Look at her expression: Pure joy. 

Finally, her Uncle Joey stepped in and intervened. He got Kenzie to admit that she had a problem and that she needed help. This is the result: a perfectly opened present. 

We tried to persuade her to open the darn thing, but she insisted on just lying there. I ended up knocking her off with a broom and tearing the present open myself, which I then put in the trash because it wasn't what I asked for. Just kidding. 

I'm not sure why she feels she needed to lay down on this present with Elmo. Maybe she was trying to protect her territory from other 22 month-old children with stuffed Elmos? Your guess is as good as mine. 

Kenzie on the hunt for her next present. 

A nice dress. I should have cropped more of my sister out of the picture, though. 

I like this sweater. 

Kenzie trying to open another present. See? Do you see what I mean about her being a camera-hog? 

Not a good picture; bad timing on my part, really. 

Kenzie opening a present. Of course, my sister is present...no big surprise there. 

I tried to cut out my sister as much as possible while preserving as much of my daughter as I could. I could have tried harder. 

Christmas '04. My sister and my daughter. My sister is a camera hog. This statement will be supported with subsequent pictures...