What Annabelle has been up to...
1. You have a memory of gold. You always remember things I tell you that we are going to do and keep asking about them until we do it. You also have a good memory for houses, when we go to a certain place you make yourself right at home and know what to touch and what not to touch. You have an amazing memory for names too, you like to look at pictures and point out who everyone is.
2. You are very polite and well mannered and always say, "Thank you, you're welcome, sure Mom, I'm fine, excuse me, I'm ok!"
3. You absolutely love singing primary songs and learn them quickly.
4. You carry your little pink chair everywhere around the house to reach things you are not supposed to touch. You especially like to turn the lights and fans on and off.
5. You are so dramatic sometimes and it's funny! You love to talk like you are so sad. When we were in Sierra Vista visiting Grandpa and Grandma their little dog Rocky had a pretty bad red eye and so now whenever I bring that up to talk about you say in your saddest voice, "Rocky...red eye..."
6. You still are talking so well and can repeat any word that we tell you. One of your new things to say is, "That's my faborite..."
7. You are so sweet about your prayers. At night when we pray as a family you always ask to say a prayer on your own afterwards and you like to say, "I love Jesus."
8. One of your favorite things to do is to come to our bed early in the morning and play "Tato" which is Potato Head.
9. You're doing so well at pedaling on your bike and can do it all in your own now. You also learned how to steer your handle bars and how to turn them.
10. Every noise you hear outside you associate with the trash man.
11. We were driving home from Vegas and you were in the back and said, "Hi Mom! Hi Dad! Hi guys!"
12. We finally were able to break you of your habit of drinking milk while falling asleep at night. But in return I had to go back to sitting in the room til you fell asleep. It's funny bc when I just sit here in the chair you always whisper things while just laying in your crib and you make sure to say hi to me at least 10x before you fall asleep.
13. You are getting to be quite the boss around the house. If I tell Dad to do something you always repeat what I say and keep telling him to do it over and over again until he does.
14. Sept. 13, 2013 I finally took the dive and told myself I had to be 100% committed and potty train you again. You have just been showing so much interest that I couldn't miss this window of opportunity. I had your underwear ready and you did so well today. We hung out in the bathroom most of the day bc I didn't want you to have accidents on the carpet. By the end of the night you were saying, "I go pee!" and I'd rush you to the toilet and you would go in there. We were so proud of you and I'm hoping you'll continue to catch on. Now your pooping is another story, you've been holding it again and we are having a hard time with you going.
15. You were in my room and got my nail clippers and said, "I need to cut my fingers off!"
16. You were playing with dads hair and you asked him about his trademark mole on the back of his head and what it was. After he told you, you said, "I lubb your mole!" Haha!
17. You are so considerate and will just randomly come up to me and Dad and tell us you love us. Today you came up and hugged my leg and said, "I lubb you Mommy!"
18. At night when you are in your crib trying to fall asleep you'll always go through a list of people and say you miss them, "Mommy, I miss Jammer. I miss Grammy. I miss Rocky and Zoey."
For your 2nd birthday Rachael got you a pass to the kids museum in Vegas! They had just recently remodeled it, so Rach and I decided to take you girls for a day of fun. They had lots of hands on exhibits and you girls loved it. They had so many interactive displays for kids that we could have spent all day there! It was a bit challenging because I was still in the process of potty training you so every couple of hours I had to take you to the bathroom, but you did great and had no accidents while we were there.
We also took you girls to the Lake Havasu Aquatic Center. You are fearless in the water and loved to just splash around. It was such a nice facility too. You especially loved going underneath the mushroom that was a waterfall and also down the water slide, I couldn't keep up with you. Afterward we went to grab lunch at Schlotzsky's, you girls shared pizza, chips and a cookie and I had their roasted turkey sandwich on sourdough bread…everything was so yummy!! Everyone there thought that you two were the cutest things!
: This is you at your first dentist appointment, their office was so kid friendly and had lots of things for you to play with while we waited to see the dentist.
: You still love to play in your little froggy pool outside on the back porch.
: One day while I was babysitting you and Charlotte it started to rain so I just had to let you girls go out and play in it! You both were so entertained by just splashing your hands in the mud puddles.
: You and your friend Swayde Marzley sitting on the bench at his house and sippin' your water bottles.
: You and Charlotte loved to ride double style on your pink bike that you got for your birthday. You both would take turns sitting on the back and pushing, it was so funny!
: We took the Adams to our favorite hamburger place in Laughlin and you and Char Char had fun walking around looking at the water. You two girls make the cutest KBF's! (Kingman Best Friends)
: You had made a big improvement with your potty training so I told you that you could get a book bag. We found this one at Cracker Barrel. You always called it your "pack pack!"
