Narventures

Monday, December 15, 2014

19 Months (Oct/Nov)

19 months has brought an explosion of new words and sentences. She is so expressive and funny!

Oh, and she is now saying, I LOVE YOU. Ahhhhh!!!!!

NEW WORDS

Again, Mix, Mixing, Basket, Help, Aunt Raysel (Aunt Rachel)

NEW SENTENCES

I run fast.

Where the doggy go?

There she/he is!

Oh no!

Ariel?! Where are you?

I love you.

FAVORITE TOYS

Anything related to Mickey/Minnie Mouse, Princess Sofia, Little Mermaid

DEVELOPMENTS

Counts to 10 with ease, and can count to 18 with help.

On November 9th, she sang the entire alphabet by herself. Even the ending, "now I know my abc's…"

FUNNY STORIES

10/22/14

I just gave her breakfast- I put the plate of fruit down and she looked at me and said, "fahhk??".

I stopped a moment and thought… oh no…. did she just say..???

And then I realized. Oh!! FORK!! I forgot to give her a fork.

11/2/14

She was sitting on the living room chair and started to lean over and I shouted "no no no!" since it was dangerous. She was startled and sat down and looked at me in bewilderment…and then cracked up and started mocking me, "no no no". And she just laughed and laughed and laughed. I guess I have to work on my stern tone!

Testing out her new UGG boots. Thanks Uncle Richard, Aunt Day, and Samantha!

A night out with friends- sans kids.

Loungin'

Chasing bubbles with Dash

All the other kids are done with their snack…. but she's still eating. She's a slow eater like Mama!

Halloween festive-wear

She doesn't want the "baby toothbrushes", and she doesn't want the baby toothpaste. She wants the adult size sonic electric toothbrush with Jason's peppermint paste. Just like Momma and Dadda.

Sunday at the Farmers Market

Sunday Brunch at Joan's

At MyGym with Rebeca and Hannah

Park date with Dash

That smile!

Tie Dying napkins in Mommy/Me class

First Disney Store trip. We did well.

Best buds. Dayvia Hope and Roma Bloom

Visiting The Sweeny girls. Their parents set Mike and I up.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Halloween

Halloween in our neighborhood is a BIG production! It starts on the saturday before the 31st, with a block party just on our cul de sac. The party doesn't start until 6pm so we knew we wouldn't be staying long with a tired (no nap that day) and cranky toddler. I had big plans to have a Sesame Street family costume theme with Davy in her Abby Cadabby costume, me in my Super Grover costume, and Aunt Rachel in her Cookie Monster costume. (Mike was in Atlanta for this day, so Elmo would join us for halloween night).
Davy loved her wand… but haaaaated the tutu. I got it up to her knees- and the screaming started. So I showed her her cupcake costume- no go. She then went to her closet and picked out her favorite dress, a ballet leotard hand me down from Cousin Maddie.
With all of the costume drama, I didn't have time to get dressed up. So Aunt Rachel was the only one in a Sesame Street costume, which was hilarious. (see pics below).
Bubba Zellie and Grandpa Howard were with us too, but no pictures of us all! Thank goodness they were with us too, we needed all hands on deck chasing after this toddler! She heard the music and was off and running!

Friday night we were ready for the big day! Last year Dayvia was asleep and in bed at 7pm on Halloween night. This year she was with us for all of it! We had our close friends Lia, Paul, and Roma (also 19 months) over for the festivities. We took the girls trick or treating- 3 houses- and then sat on the front porch to hand out candy. We had over 500 kids, so we were busy! I made a big pot of vegetable/bean soup, and we all took turns eating dinner and feeding the girls and handing out candy. At one time we were all outside on the front porch, passing out candy, holding the girls in our laps, talking with the kids who came up. So much fun!

I have never loved halloween as I HATE scary stuff. I hate haunted houses and scary movies. But I love halloween in our neighborhood!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!