a few things i have learned this past week!

If you tell O that princess's and/or Elmo eats, plays, dresses in a certain way, she will too!

No matter what situation you are in, if O is not listening to me all I have to say is "princess," and all of a sudden I have her attention.

IF you tell her she is too little for something, it will only make her that much more determined to do it :) 

a quick post!

So, I'm pretty sure that not many people read this blog, but for those of you who do, this is a great way to keep in touch with out of town family, but it is also a great way to record O's life as I am not so good at writing things in the baby book.  So, some posts may seem uninteresting, that would be b/c not much is going on in our life, but I felt the need to write something down b4 i forget :)

This past weekend we were going to have our FIRST family vaca, just the three of us.  BUT, as usual nothing goes as planned in our life....The forcast for the night that we were going to be spending in a tent was severe thunderstorms....so we ditched that plan.  We did have a fun weekend though!

My favorite word that O says right now is mommydomiter (thermometer) I do make her say it several times a day for my own enjoyment :)

I have also been trying to prepair her for a very important day coming up!  Her BIRTHDAY!  I keep on asking her, "how old will you be on your birthday?"  Her response is mostly an excited arms in the air as to say soooooo big!  This was cute when she first learned it, but ya it is still pretty cute!  Then, when I coach her say two, then she will say two and try very hard to put two fingers up, but mostly it is her entire tiny hand of fingers out spread as widely as she possibly can.

Just lately she has learned to say, "I LOVE YOU," OMG it breaks my heart everytime!  She has been saying luv u, but man it is just not the same.

She also says, "please mommy," oh so cute....I learn more and more everyday how much my heart can expand.

I have had the enjoyment of being O's sidekick for 22mos and mostly her go to lady, but lately her daddy has become a more and more go to guy.  I have to admit sometimes I am a little jealous, but oh do I love seeing thier reliationship grow too!  O's fav's with Daddy would def be having him paint her toe nails :), swinging, rough housing (which mommy will not watch, cause it makes me too darn nervous), and suggles.

She is also learning emotions and thinks it is funny to say no to kisses or hugs for me and then will excitedly say, "mommy sad?" with a big smile....Not sure what that means ;)  But, then she will give me a kiss and/or hug and then say "mommy happy!"

Well, that is enough of my randomness for tonight....AS always pictures!

All this playing makes a little girl thirsty ;)

Close up

Not the best pic of her, but look at that sky!

I'm on a mission!

So we went to this great splash pad, she was too scared to go in it, but the puddles...well they are FUN!

BFF's

Love ya!

Just a few things :)

OK so O has been a talking machine!  She is also a reapeating machine!  I can not believe how much she has developed just in the past month!  It is so cute to hear her say so much!  It is also so awesome to communicate with her more!  It has definitly cut down on a lot of meltdowns, can you imagine not being able to communicate....

She is as usual still anti anything baby....which makes it a bit difficult at times.  She will not go in her booster seat at the table, she has to sit like we do.  She dosen't like her car seat, she will tell me buckles hurt. I know that the are not too tight so she will just have to do with that one.

O's likes and dislikes at 22mos old!

Ok first we will do a list of her likes in no particular order:

Mommy (well who wouldn't)
Rocko and Noodles (well all dogs really but they are her favorite)
ELMO!
Princesses (just starting to)
Water
noonie (I don't think that this one will ever go away)
blankets (no particular just any old blankie)
cheese
well, she pretty much loves a lot of things

Dislikes:

VEGETABLES (any tips I would appriciate)
getting her hair brushed (unless she is the one brushing it and in that case, it is more of messing it)
poopie
bugs
getting her teeth brushed (unless she is doing it and by doing it we mean sucking the toothpaste off the brush and calling it a day)


Well, on to the pics!

Fourth of July (cont.)

 

So there is not much special about this picture, but I just LOVE it!  My little girl in the large sea of people.  Oh not to mention the ice cream dripping down her leg :)

Happy 4th of July!

AND happy 1st ice cream cones!

when letting a toddler choose what to wear...:)

This is what you will get :)