Watch Me Grow Class

On Tuesday's mommy takes me to a class at Oak Marr called Watch Me Grow. I usually hang out with Ms. Arria and the teacher because mommy can't do all the activities with me. I like Ms. Arria's lap better anyways! We start the class with free play on all these different stations. Then we get into a circle and follow the directions in a song. We play another activity, which changes weekly and then we go the parachute. This past week it was basketball week! Uncle Eric would have been so proud of me! :) I love to lay on the parachute, it's a lot of fun.


My teacher set up a tunnel for us to crawl through, so I was waiting my turn.


I get on the trampoline as soon as I walk in the door. It's fun.


I am about to throw the basketball in the hoop!


Look I made it!


Here I am on the parachute while the moms pull us around in a circle!

KidFest/Mommy's birthday

Last weekend on mommy's birthday we went to KidsFest at the Government Center. We met Ellie and her parents there too. Daddy pushed mommy in her "stroller" and Ellie and I shared a stroller. I got to make a Halloween craft and I put bats on it. I like to say the word bat recently.


Here is a picture of mommy and daddy with Mr. Ryan and Ellie and I.


Ellie and I pointing at something exciting!


Here is Ellie and I working on our craft.

After our craft, we went to look at animals in the petting zoo. I went in with daddy, but I was too scared to touch the animals. I did use my words though and tell daddy what the animals were!
Thanks to Ms. Arria who took pictures for us!

There were chickens in here!


I wanted nothing to do with this guy!

After that mommy and daddy ran into people they knew, I hung with daddy as he talked and mommy was stranded in the grass! We sat down for some food and I watched some dancers clog on stage. Then the reptile person came on and daddy took me to look at snakes and lizards. It was cool. I have to wait to see if Ms. Arria took some pictures of that too. We were going to ride the hay ride with the big horses, but as soon as it was our turn the horses needed a break. :( Then mommy and daddy took me to look at some more dancers inside and we left soon after that so I could get a nap.

I fell asleep in the car and then when we got to grandma and grandpa's house for me to sleep, I woke up and didn't want to sleep after that! Mommy and daddy left me there while they went to celebrate mommy's birthday. Grandpa and grandma took me to the Greek Festival to eat some gyros and see Ms. Andrea. They even bought me toys and took me on the moon bounce! I had a blast and then slept in my new cot for the first time. It was great until I fell off at night. Grandpa came to save me and put me back into bed.

Sleepover

Last Friday, mommy and daddy dropped me off at Ellie's house to spend the night. They went to an event for free food with grandpa and grandma. We played for a while before it was time for bed.

I love to play on Ellie's slide. I go up and down at least 30 times while I am at her house!


Here I am watching Ellie brush all that hair she has. I'm jealous!


Ellie tried to brush my hair for me too.

Then it was night night time and I showed Ms. Arria and Mr. Ryan how I can be such a drama queen when I don't want to go to bed! I think I even taught Ellie how to get out of bed and knock on the door! Oops.

Photography

I love taking mommy and daddy's cameras!! I just love to play with it and take pictures. I spent one morning just taking pictures with both cameras until mommy took them away. It was so much fun. Here are some of my better pictures.


Here is a picture I took of daddy and my finger got in the way!


One of the ceiling fan that daddy put in their bedroom.


Half of me!


This is my favorite one. And yes I took it upside down! I found it easier to press the button holding the camera upside down.

My crib

One weekend mommy and daddy moved my crib out of my room. It was very sad to see it go. They had to take a side off of it to get it out the door, as soon as they did, I jumped in it. It was fun. They made me get out of it though so they could move it into what used to be my playroom. My room has so much space in it now for me to play though! I don't need it anyways since I am in the big girl bed, sometimes! I prefer the floor some days.

When daddy moved the crib to the other room, I helped him put it back together by tightening the screws. Here are some pictures.







I'm such a good helper!

Another wedding...

Yesterday, we had another wedding to go to. But this time it was local. It was one of daddys co-workers. I loved listening to the choir singing when we got there. Then once the ceremony started I started to get antsy and daddy had to have me walk around to let my energy out. But at least I wasn't the one who was screaming during the ceremony! I had a good time, but there wasn't music for me to dance to, so I had to play with the fountain and have daddy chase after me the whole time! I ate a lot of yummy food again too. I got to meet all of daddy's co workers, they were really nice. But we didn't get out of there until way past my nap time. I fell asleep on the way home while reading a book.


Sitting on mommys lap in church.



Very into the music that the choir was singing.


One of the things that daddy has taught me to do with a champagne glass.



Some of daddys co workers.

How cute am I? I love to read so much, but just couldn't keep my eyes open on the way home to finish the book.

Big girl bed updates

Mommy writing in.

This past week on Tuesday, I put Haley to bed while LT went to the dentist. She was really tired that day from not really having a good nap. She went right down, or so I thought. I went downstairs to watch some of the good shows that are now back on. I kept hearing noises, but I wasn't sure what it was as the cats were still at my parents house. So I just ignored it. At about 7:15 I hear Haley coming down the stairs giggling at me. I get up to go check out the situtation. She climbed out of her crib, opened the door and down the stairs. She was so proud of herself for doing this too. Quickly, I made her get into her big girl bed, had to find sheets for the bed first because I never put new ones on after her athletes foot cream incident and change the sheets. I knew I couldn't put her back in her crib or she would hurt herself. Luckily, she was smart enough to climb from the crib to the big girl bed, which was less of a way down! After I changed the sheets, I had to go looking for a screwdriver, so I could quickly change the doorknob around, so we could lock her in her room. I change the doorknob around, kiss her goodnight and walk out.

As soon as I walk out, LT comes in the door! Of course. She cried at the door for a few minutes and then we heard nothing. We continued to watch TV and then around 8:45 we went to check on her to see where she was. We couldn't get the door open more than a foot because her head was right infront of the door. The first thing LT does is get the camera and takes pictures! Nice father! I tried to wake her up by lifting her head, but she just moved it to face the other way. LT finally had to lift her up enough to wake her up, so she would move enough to get the door open. Her cow was right there next to her on the floor too! It was cute. I moved her to the bed and we were good the rest of the night.

Since that night she has been napping and sleeping at night in her big girl bed! We even moved the crib out of the room this morning! We are very proud of her!

She has also learned to take her pjs off when she wakes up in the morning! Also very proud of herself for doing so!