Monday, February 28, 2011

16 months


Today my little sweetie turned 16 months old, I am still asking myself how that happened so fast. She's definitely a little person now, far from a baby at this point here is just some of the new things she does:


-Counts on her fingers to three or the counts cheerios and puts them into piles.

-She doesn't use her arms or legs to go down the stairs, she slides full force all the way down in like 4 seconds.

- She can now say my name "Sy-ee" is what she calls me. She doesn't call me it a lot though she usually calls me mom.

-She's really good about saying thank you when you give her something it's "dank-doo"

-You know when she makes a mess in her pants because she says "Eew poo!"

-She LOVES hugs and gives them to us all the time, she loves to hug my legs when I'm cleaning or cooking.

-As always Maggie is her favorite still.

-"Doo-doo" is still her favorite show (Oso) "Bob-bob is a close second (sponge bob)

-She knows what her potty is although she's only peed by it, hasn't made it inside yet.

-She loves to help me clean she was helping me clean the outsides of the cupboards today

-She can locate her eyes nose, mouth, ears and hair on herself and others.

-She knows a lot of animals we are still working on it but she's doing really well.
- She can shake her little booty when she dances, it's hilarious

She can do so many more new things these are just the main things that I can think of right now. I just can't wait until it gets a little warmer so we can do a fun photo shoot outside, I have so many ideas and she is such a good little model for me. I have been using her to model my bows for pictures so much lately that I don't have a lot of pics doing her crazy stuff, I need to work on that!



Monday, February 14, 2011

XOXO


Happy Valentine's Day! I just love this holiday, it is for sure a favorite of mine. I've been taking some photography classes and playing with my camera when I get a chance and was able to take the picture of Ella above. I just love when she smiles like this, it makes my heart melt. This year we had more like a Valentine weekend, we both gave each other our gifts on Saturday, we couldn't wait. Jarrett decided he wanted to go snowmobiling on Saturday and I got him some new snow pants so I gave them to him before he left, then he gave me this:


In the picture it looks a little purple but it's actually a pink Sapphire and diamond ring, he is such a sweetie.

Today I attempted to make some valentine cookies, to surprise him when he gets home for lunch, they didn't turn out as cute as I wanted them to be, oh well they still taste delicious!


Ella got a new playroom, I'm not all the way finished so I'll post pics in a few days it turned out really cute. She also got some cute outfits toys and jammies from the Grandparents, they are so thoughtful.
I've had a lot of people ask me over the year how I make all of Ella's headbands so I decided to make tutorials on Etsy that show step by step instructions. I am giving away a free custom headband here. Be sure you enter there are 8 different ways you can win! Not a lot of people have entered so your chances are really good!