Family Parties

For a few weeks before Ayla's birthday she would tell me "Santa coming, bringing presents for me AYA!" Now she is constantly singing "Happy Birthday" to herself or me or goofy... anybody, then at the end she says "blow out the candles" and she points to where her imaginary cake is and whomever's "birthday" it is has to blow out the imaginary candles! I love when she sings "Happy Birthday" too cause she gets so into it! She sings it at the top of her lungs!

Our Little Celebration

Here we are in the way back machine again! I just realized I didn't post any of Ayla's birthday pictures! I was really sick that week so that will be my excuse, but I'll post them now.
We had kind of a busy day on Ayla's birthday. In the afternoon we ran to the store and we bought her a little heart doughnut that we thought we would use for her cake that night during our little celebration. We came home and I went upstairs to wrap presents, Tony came up for a second and then we realized it was too quite so he ran downstairs to check on her and she had found the doughnut and was helping herself to the frosting on the top!

She wanted to unwrap her presents in the butterfly room so Tony put her and all of the presents in the room and then we were scurrying around getting the camera and cake and I said to Tony "Are you crazy? You left a 2 year old alone with all those presents?" But when we walked in the room she was sitting in front of the presents waiting for us to give her the go ahead!
We gave her little Mickey, Minnie, & Goofy figurines (Grandma Cole later gave her the Donald Duck one). She loves them, and plays with them constantly still. We also gave her a floor rug that's a princess map, which the figurines all drive on and the castles are now Minnie's house and Goofy's house. And we gave her a set of plastic food cause she loves to cook, so she is now always bringing us banana's or frenchfries to eat.

Coming Soon!!!

YEAY!!!

I remembered to get the ultrasound pictures this time! So these should be the last ultrasound pictures of Tayvie, the next pictures you see of her should actually be real pictures!

Our appointment went really well yesterday. Tayvie looked good and healthy. The doctor offered to induce me today if I wanted, he thinks that she is about 6.5 lbs right now.

I'm kind of excited to go into labor on my own this time, but because I'm driving to Ogden and because of all the snow they've been getting, we went a head and scheduled an induction for next Thursday (my due date) so maybe she'll come before, but if not that's only 6 days left!

So we'll see what happens. The doctor said it could be any time, he said "who knows maybe we'll even see you back here tonight." and actually my contractions are getting stronger and closer together at some points... so we'll see! I'm really excited to see her and hold her, these ultrasound pictures always make me so curious of what she really looks like. I'm really excited for Ayla to meet her! She talks about Tayvie all of the time, it's almost as if she already knows her. I'm excited to watch her be a big sister!

We'll keep you posted!

Innocence

Flowers & Smiles

Colors & Expressions

Interests of the Two Year Old

The other night I went back through my blog and it was so fun to look at it and remember all the fun things Ayla was doing. So I think it's time to write down some more.

Mickey Mouse! Oh, she LOVES Mickey Mouse! A few weeks ago we discovered the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show is on every morning at 9:30 on one of the Disney channels. So most mornings she watches Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck & Minnie & Goofy! It's so cute to hear her say their names! She also has a Mickey doll and a Minnie doll and she takes them all over and takes care of them. The other day she was giving Mickey a ride and kept telling him 'Don't fall off Mickey Mouse, Don't fall off!"

She also loves princesses thanks to cousin Litia. She loves to play with cousin Litia and talk to her on the phone too. She likes to read books and look for letters. She likes to count 1,2,8 is usually how it goes! She loves to sing Happy Birthday! She does a good job too! She likes to get blankets or wipes or papertowels and wrap things up and then when we open them she acts surprised!

Lately at night her favorite song for me to sing is Rock A Bye Baby and we have to alternate putting her name and Tayvie's in at the end. We tell her bedtime stories about Princess Ayla and she says "That's ME! Aya!" She also has learned the word NO really well which coordinates quite nicely with turning two and thinking she's the boss!

She's really a lot of fun right now, I wouldn't trade her!