Sunday, September 30, 2012

21 Months

Blair,

You are such a light in our lives.  Your personality cannot be larger and you are not afraid to show it... well maybe you can be a little shy!

Some things I want to remember:

  • You love your babies so much.  You will spend so much time sitting them in chairs, laying them down and putting blankets on them, and changing their diapers.  You are obsessed with saying they need their diaper changed!
  • You like to play with your little people a lot.  You especially like the parrot for some reason, we aren't sure why it is your favorite. 

  • You can be pretty shy and clingy to Mommy (or whoever is with you) acting like an ostrich around new people but then surprise me by saying "Bye Bye" loudly to them when we leave.
  • You love to go to the park and play and daddy takes you there a lot.  You just want to swing all the time but you also go on the slide like a big girl.

  • You talk so much!  You can pretty much tell us whatever you need to say and you say lots of words together.  Your vocabulary is amazing!
  • You can count to 6 if you feel like it.  You refuse to identify your numbers much to your math teacher mommy's dismay.  You are still a shape and color champ! 
  • You love to read and know the names of all your favorite books.  You especially like "Caps for Sale," "Sam who Never Forgets," and "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," "Elmo flys a Kite"
  • I can't even believe how smart you are.  We tell you things one time and you will remember them forever.  Daddy and are constantly telling each other stories, "Can you believe what she did today!"
  • You are fighting your naps like crazy.  You take between 1-2 hours to go down but once you do you still sleep for 2 hours so we know you need them.  You sleep about 11 hours at night and rarely wake up.
  • You wear size 2T clothes and size 6-7 shoes.
  • You LOVE your music still.  You ask for "Crinkle Crinkle Star" every night.  You also sing little things in the car "ba ba ba."  What amazes us is your ability to know the songs even before we do.  You hear the first note and you say, "BUS!" or "Happy Know It"! 
  • You love your Mimi and Papa so much.  Mommy is getting a complex about how you would rather be there but I guess I better get used to it.  That is what they are for.
  • You favorite foods are Mac and Cheese,  burritos "Ritos" and Pizza "Potty." We don't know why you call pizza potty but you know it isn't right because when we tell you to say it right you say, "Pi.........ZA!"  You aren't a great eater and I think you survive on yogurt sometimes just to get you something healthy. 
  • You go to daycare 3 days a week but not all day.  You play with Hunter and Arya there and you always ask to go and have fun but when I pick you up you cry to go home.  It is strange and I am told if someone knocks on the door and it isn't me or dad you have a little meltdown.  You do lots of arts and crafts there and you tell me a lot that you play with cars.




  • You love to play "Running Game" with Daddy.  He runs down the hall, you chase him, he picks you up, throws you and runs you back to spin you around before he throws you on the couch.  You laugh so much with him because he is always throwing you and playing such fun games with you.
You truly are an amazing child and I love you to pieces.  Your smile and laughter are the highlight of my day. 

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Blair has some news!

 
So far when we tell her there is a baby in mommy's tummy she lifts my shirt up and says "see!"  She will have a whole new world come March but hopefully she will learn that siblings are a blessing, I know I couldn't live without mine! 
 
So the blog will now become about Blair and the new pregnancy and baby, it should be interesting but I want to track everything for this next baby too! It is a lot of pressure after what I have kept up on for Blair but I will just have to do my best.  My plan is to keep doing posts about each of them individually that will go only in their books but then posts about things we do all together I can put in both.

Family Pictures

Back in June we took Family pictures of the new gang now that Graham had arrived.  We aren't thrilled with them but they are still nice to have of such a wonderful time in our family's lives that is filled with a lot of love and joy!

I just love these people!









Friday, September 28, 2012

18 month pictures

I am posting these really late but they were actually taken when she was 18 months.  We had them done at XSight in Folsom again.  I am very happy with them!










 She is such a little cheeser!  I just love all her different faces... girl has got personality!



Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Family Night 9/2/12

I know, so many family night posts.  We do family night almost every Sunday and sometimes when the camera is there we just get crazy capturing all our fun.







 Super Mimi!


 Peeping Tom!


 
 Graham was getting his picture taken and Blair couldn't stand it so she climbed in behind him!  She looks all innocent like, "oh hey, sorry did I get in the shot... oops!"


Taking a picture of Graham

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Family park time

Just another weekend afternoon at the park.  Blair loves the park and asks to go everyday.  If we say we can't, its too hot, she says "mall?"  because she likes the play place there.  Smart kid!





She then noticed there was a birthday party going on and took off running for this bouncehouse.  I had to run after her and she was not too happy about my saying we couldn't crash their party!
 She settled for dads swings and hugging a tree(one of her favorite past times)

 Happy Family!

Later that night we took a too late walk to get dog food (hence the dark picture on the way home) and Penny road with Blair when she started to get cranky.  Blair just gave her hugs... Penny loved it! haha




Sunday, September 2, 2012

Cookies with Mommy

Blair made cookies with me for the first time!  I was so excited, its just one of those things you dream of doing with your daughter.  I found a recipe for a oatmeal breakfast cookie on pinterest.  The main ingredients are banana, apple sauce, peanut butter and oatmeal.  There is no flour, butter, or sugar.  I figured it was worth a shot.

Here she is standing on her chair and with one of my aprons tied on!
 mashing bananas

 and the first taste goes.  I told her no but then wanted a picture so I *may* have encouraged it!

It turns out it was a really good thing this was a healthy recipe because she ended up double fisting an applesauce and peanut butter spoon!

 Just us girls!
 Our cookies... oh yes, you put a few chocolate chips on the top after.
 and this look is exactly how they tasted... not gross but pretty much tasteless :(
oh well we tried!