Rain, chalk and playdates!

Sorry its been a few days since I last blogged, its been a little hectic around here with spring fever and all. This past week has been a blast! Freyja got to REALLY play out in the rain for the first time the other day and LOVED every minute of it! After two days of rain she woke up from her nap and the look gave me the ultimatum of outside or DIE MOTHER! After about 30-45min of playing in the not so warm...yet not frigid rain I coaxed her inside with the promise of a bubble bath. Happy times!!

Wednesday I introduced her to sidewalk chalk. She likes that a lot better than just crayons...though now thinking about it I might have done a bad thing. We'll see the next time we break out the crayons...if she aims for the floor, oh boy! I drew her a star at one point and she took the blue chalk and started to draw over it, now it looks a bit like a shooting star! My baby's an artist!!!

Yesterday we had the kids over for a playdate, her kissing boyfriend Christian was there, Keaton her long time boyfriend, and Julian (he's new to the group, he's 13months but a giant!). They played in the pool for a while then played on the porch after we dried them off. Keaton decided it would be great fun to go skinny dipping and zoomed out of the porch before Christina could get clothes on him.

As always there's pictures on the website in the 20month album if you haven't checked them out already. This morning she woke up and
looked under the covers and said PUPPY! then looked at the door and said DADDY, then snuggled into my arms and said MOMMY! It's a rare but awesome thing when my child actually calls me by title!! Time to go get the lil one out of her bed, it seems naptime is ending a little early today I can hear her grumbling back there. Happy weekend to you all!

Beautiful park weather today!

First off, happy 20month b'day Miss Freyja Rose and happy 19month b'day Mister Keaton Alexander! Christina and I took the b'day kids to Perdido Kids Park today and they had a blast chasing each other around and doing their normal "thing" together. I love getting to see Keaton! He treats me like a 2nd mom and if I'm not busy with Freyja he's got me by the hand leading me off to come play with him. Of course Freyja thinks of Christina the same way since these kids have been together since 4 and 5 months old. Such cuties! We're hoping our 2nd children will turn up about the same time too so they all can be playmates together.

Bugg went on an adventure last night...we think... About 3am we heard a thump and wail, David turned on the bedside lamp and Freyja was face down on the floor. We're still not sure how she got there, she might have climbed over David and fell off or she might have missed a step getting on/off the bed (we have a set of 3 steps on the end of the bed for Star and Freyja to be able to climb up on) or aliens might have levitated her and dropped her off the side of the bed when they found out they couldn't suck her through the ceiling or wall....But no bruises or dents of any kind, just heart attacks for the parents and bruised ego for the youngen.

Yesterday I went digging through some of her baby clothes to find something and she found a pair of her baby shoes from this time last year and demanded to put them on. Needless to say you can't fit a size 7 foot in a size 3 shoe...but she gave it her best! If you need a good laugh, there's pix in the 20month album of the attempt. She walked around for a minute in them kinda like high heels then gave up and found some comfy ones that fit!

Stay tuned...I'm sure as spring and summer progress she'll be into plenty more mischeif and fun!

Christmas in February!

Gotta love consignment sales! Friday night was the opening of one of my favorite kids consignment sales, mom vh and I went over to stock up on goodies. In the pic you can see all of her new toys that she got: Lil People Castle and Farm, Cleaning Trolley (behind her) and a brand new Barbie ATV! Plus I found her a few cute new outfits for the upcoming warmer months, just need to pick her up some shorts as the need progresses.

She's tried to ride the ATV a couple of times but is not really sure about it yet. I have put it up in the garage for the time being and when it starts to get warmer we'll try it out again. I was wanting to get her a car for her birthday but this works just as well and WAY less expensive!

Saturday I took her to buy new shoes. We got a regular pair and a "squeaker" pair. If you check out the 19month album you can see the new squeakers! Sunday she got a new doll from her Papa and Gramma Stella, it coo's and turns it head and waves. She loves to carry it around and call it bb so I think we may name her BeeBee so she has an easy time saying its name. I'll post pix of her and the doll soon!

We have a couple of new words in our vocabulary this week! Gran= Graaa, Papa= Papa (imagine that...), Boo Boo, Horse, Bubbles= bubbulls or bubbies and pop corn= caw corn. She takes out the photo albums I have in our bedroom and will point at pictures of my mom and dad and can finally tell me Graaa and Papa! She got mad at David Saturday night for trying to feed her Grapes when she was telling him she wanted her Gran. Then yesterday right before nap time we were playing with bubbles and when I told her they needed a nap too I swear she screamed BUT MY BUBBLES!!! as I was picking her up to take her back to her room.

OI!! I can tell the "terrific" two's are just around the corner! She refused to eat dinner til almost 930pm last night but I couldn't let her go to bed hungry so I had to give in on that one. But if it happens again, we'll be curbing that behavior quickly!

It's too cold to play outdoors today so we've been holed up in the living room playing with all of our Little People. Now that she has the Castle and Farm we have a whole little community! I can't wait til she can really start make believe play and we can have "field trips" from her city to the farm and that kind of thing!

Time to get ready for the repair guy to come fix my ceiling fan AGAIN! Gotta wake up the tot a little early but at least she's gotten in most of her nap. Here's hoping for a warmer rest of the week!

Playdate

Today we had a playdate our house. Just a few kids close to Freyja's age that I know she gets along well enough with to have fun. The kids had an absolute blast digging for treasure in the brick flower bed, playing kitchen and snacking all sorts of goodies. Oddly enough none of these moms had met eachother yet but everyone meshed PERFECTLY!! My child is dead zonked in her bed already, she lasted 5minutes after they left. We kept it to the porch and back yard so my house is still "clean". After a quick pick up on the porch and yard everything looks normal again. I think I may have to have these more often!


Left to Right- Logan and Kat (Deidra's kids), Freyja, Keaton (Christina's son and Freyja's good friend), and Owen (Kristy's son and the one Freyja tackled a few months ago with a hug and kiss)

There's more pix online of course. Time to go relax for a bit while my babe is down and the dog is at the office with David! Ahh...quiet :)

Another day

My child has the same complex Star does, the bigger the toy the better she seems to like it. In her MAMMOTH collection she has a dog (seen in picture), dragon, river otter and a manatee. All of which are just shy of being bigger than her yet she loves to lug the huge things around and make pillows out of them or dance or ride them. You've probably seen the Huggies commercial where the little black baby in just a diaper is wrestling a HUGE teddy bear, yup...that's my kiddo!

We have added a new "word" to our vocabulary. On the "Wiggles" they do a nursery rhyme segment, this week they did one on the "Three Little Kittens" and now she goes around and MEOW's. Its precious! She's also working hard on the word SNEEZY, David says it everytime he sneezes so when she hears a sneeze you can hear her start and try to say a "sn" word. In the yard today I was praising her hard work and told her "good job" and she turned around and said JOB!! They weren't joking in those parenting books when they say after 18months its a new word almost every day! I just can't wait for "I love you" or whatever it comes out as :)

Today I had an early AM meeting and tried to slip out of the house unnoticed but I guess her mommy radar went off anyway. So she got David up at 730am this morning (he's rarely up before 9am on weekdays and 11am on weekends), I got home by 830am and unlike last week the tyke was still up. Though she did pass out in my arms about 1030am and slept til close to 1230pm when the maintenance guy came to fix our leaky bathroom roof. He said squirrels were chewing on our ventilation cover which caused the leak.

We just came in from working out in the yard this afternoon. We have a playdate on Friday and I finally got around to clearing out the piles or pinestraw I raked up a month ago. Freyja took her little wagon and collected pinecones for me and would bring it to me to dump them. Then she would go fill it up again with more pinecones and pine straw. I can definitely tell she's gonna have a green thumb when she gets older. She doesn't mind getting dirty and she loves gardening tools. I slightly worry about her digging into the muck like that with her little hands because of bugs, but at the same time she shows no interest in bugs...so maybe I'll luck out on the bug eating and finding them in pockets stage. Just need to find her some little gardening gloves...

Now my tot is in there watching her daily dose of Doodlebops, giving me a moment to rest after the yard work! Time to go start figuring out dinner and get the rest of the laundry done.

Cute! Plain and Simple

For once I got a good shot of her front on with just a nice little smile on her face! She's had a doozy of a day and Lord help me but I wish I could gently knock the little sucker out and let her sleep for the rest of the day! Last night she went to bed around 11ish, came to bed with me about 130am, then around 5am she was up and playing in bed. After fighting with her til about 645am I finally gave up and got my shower and got dressed for my 9am meeting. She played and watched cartoons and had breakfast with me, then about 815ish she started to look a little dozy so I took her back to bed where David was still sleeping and I tucked her in next to him so I could leave and I will be doggoned if the little ape slept the ENTIRE time I was gone! Dad vh had to come watch her here instead of David taking her over there because she was too zonked to move out of our bed. As I walked in from my meeting and grocery shopping she was just making her way down the hallway at 1030am! No love for mama...

She stole my Route 44 for Sonic today TWICE! Luckily she didn't spill it either time, plus the second time she stole it, it was very well watered down and not so caffinated! Pix are online of my lil thief gulping down my cherry Dr. Pepper.

We went out and blew bubbles in the back yard today. I'm sure some neighbor somewhere thought it was wierd having bubbles fly over head in such mass quantities but it was the only way I could wear her out for her nap this afternoon...which I need to go wake her from... If she doesn't sleep tonight, me v-day gift better be being allowed to sleep in this weekend!

Happy Valentines Day weekend to you all! We love you :)

Friends!

I can't help but giggle everytime I look at this picture! Last night we had some friends over, first time really since being back in Pensacola. David's friend Adam has a daughter (Sarina) thats 14months older than Freyja, we tried once before to get the kids together but Sarina was going through the LOUD phase and everytime she would laugh it would make Freyja cry. Well now Freyja is in that LOUD phase and Sarina is in that "oooo! its another girl, I MUST play with her!" stage so last night was awesome! This particular picture was taken around 10pm right before everyone left and the girls were running hand in hand through the house laughing and "talking". Of course Heather
(Sarina's mom) and I both tear up at this and David has to grab the camera while everyone else is laughing at us crazy mom's. Over all it was a good night, I fixed a HUGE pot of chili and had a condiment buffet you wouldn't believe! (hotdogs, fritos, crackers...if it goes with chili it was there!) We watched Wall-E and sent everyone home about 1030pm. I can definitely see us doing this again soon! Especially now that the kids are at the age that they can/will play together!