Wow...it's been a while since my last post and we have done so much fun stuff. To start off it is great being ONE! I have had so much fun and I got to turn my car seat around to face forward...it's amazing everything I have been missing staring backwards this whole time! Needless to say, I like riding in the car much more now that I can see where we are going!
After my awesome first birthday party, we kind of took it easy for a little while. We have spent some fun weekends at home trying new things like play-dough, baking and coloring. I LOVE the play dough containers...not so much the actual dough...but Daddy got very into it! I love to color with my crayons also!
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| Fun with Play-Dough |
I have also been trying lots of new foods. Mommy and Daddy let me try some sweets for the first time and as you can see...I was loving the brownies! I really like all food except carrots. I absolutely will not eat them...at school I eat everything and leave those on my plate...even if they are mixed into something like a pot pie...my teachers say it is quite impressive how I can do it. I have been officially weaned off the bottle for almost a month now (I did really well and it only took about two weeks). I am on nothing but sippy cups and cups with straws and I like them. They make me feel like such a big girl. New foods that I have tried and really liked are: all kinds of beans, all rice, bar-b-que, green bean casserole, grapes, pineapple (really all fruit), cheese (even spicy horseradish flavor), scrambled eggs, pancakes, Uncle Pace's home-ade chicken fingers and I really LOVE peas! Seriously, I eat them like candy!
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| I love brownies |
Our first big adventure after my birthday was a visit to Bowling Green to visit Grandma and Grandpa Frericks. We had a good time. I got to play with them and Miss Pam and we even went to this big apple orchard! I went down a huge slide with Mommy and got to run around. They had two doggies that looked like Makers so I had fun petting them.
After that, we headed to Atlanta for Thanksgiving and Cousin Reed's third birthday party! Thanksgiving was, as always, a blast. I did a good job eating my Thanksgiving lunch (which was delicious thanks to SueSue and MamMam) and really had fun playing with my cousins. After we ate, we went outside and rode big wheels and threw the football. They are all so sweet to me and pushed me around on the big wheels since my legs weren't long enough and then even let me carry the football around too. PJ let me help him draw with sidewalk chalk also!
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we headed over to Uncle Pace and Auntie Leens' house for football watching and a birthday party. It was so fun to play in the backyard and swing on the swings. I got to sit at the kids table instead of a high chair which made me feel so grown up. We had a great meal (I cleaned my plate and then walked around the kids table and cleaned everyone else's plate...). Reed got some great presents and overall it was a great day!
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| Reed's Third Birthday |
When we got home from Atlanta, we had about a week of the "norm" and then we starting decorating for Christmas. Mommy, Daddy and I went to the tree lot and picked out our tree. It is mine and daddy's first Real tree so we are both very excited. I think we got a very pretty one. I was such a good helper putting ornaments on. I made sure to be very gentle with all of them.
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| Decorating our tree |
SueSue gave me my very own Elf on the Shelf so Daddy read me the story and we put our Elf out. We didn't name him yet b/c I get to do that next year when I can talk a little better. But I loved the story and everyday we make sure to find the Elf's new hiding place! I think I have been a very good girl so hopefully he has all good reports back to Santa.
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| Daddy told me all about my Elf |
As you can see our finished tree looks so beautiful. I love pointing at it and saying "tree".
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| Our beautiful tree |
Speaking of Santa....NOT A FAN! We spent a few weeks talking about Santa, looking at pictures of him, etc, etc. Well nobody told me I had to go sit in his lap! As you can tell, I didn't love it! I did however tell him bye-bye after it was all over and still love seeing his picture...just not sitting in his lap.
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| Someone save me... |
This past weekend we started our new family tradition of going to Opryland, seeing the ICE exhibit and walking through the hotel to see the pretty lights. The hotel was CRAZY crowded but I got to show off my walking skills and loved looking at all the lights they have up. ICE was so fun! Ok so it was 10 degrees in there but they gave us huge parkas and I loved seeing all the fun Madagascar characters made out of ice. Afterward, I got to meet these two guys and I loved them. I gave them both a hug and didn't want to leave...
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| These penguins were funny! |
I think that is about all of our adventures. Let's see what other updates I have:
- I graduated up the Transition class at school which is all 12-18 month olds. I have a blast in there b/c we get to nap on mats and not cribs and we eat our meals in a chair at a table...instead of high chairs. It's a lot of fun.
- I am a super speedy walker and hate to be carried these days. I can even get up and down stairs by myself...although sometimes I climb the stairs when I am not supposed to...oh well.
- I can say so many words. I still say "more" and "please" in sign language but I can also actually say: more, dog, see, no (which is always accompanied by a good head shake), ball, all done, down, mamma, dada, outside (which just sounds like 'side'), and some more.
- Mommy and Daddy say that I can understand so many words and know what to do with so many things like: I can pick my basketball out of a pile of balls, I like to try to put my socks and shoes on, I am very good at putting things "back where they go", I know what "hot" means, etc.
- I still love to dance!
I guess that is all for now. Here are some fun pictures from the past month or so. I guess the next time you hear from me it will be after Christmas, so I hope Santa is good to everyone!!
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