March 2012

Well peeps we made it!!! I finish this post and we are all caught up! Whew!! I can't believe how much Dani has changed and grown in the last few months. We finally got a booster seat for the table. She will not sit in her high chair anymore. She eats her own cereal for breakfast and sometimes snack. She knows what kind she wants. She has a vocabulary of about 60 signs and I don't even know how many words. A lot of them still need to be translated for others but she tries really hard to communicate and her pernunciation is getting lots better! She likes to be the one to say the prayer even though she still needs help.
It is so amazing to see her little personality come through. She LOVES Tangled, Elmo and Winnie the Pooh (Grandma Todd is just cringing at that I bet.) ;-) She tells me what she wants to watch, positions my hands around her waist when she wants to cuddle. She teases Travis and I all the time by sitting in "our spots." She counts to 5 and sometimes 10 all by herself. She recognizes about 10 letters all on her own. Just amazing what a little sponge she is!

I always forget to take belly pics! This is 28 1/2 weeks. I can't believe how fast it has gone this time. It started slowing down as we hit the third trimester because the insomnia and aches amplified but we've still been able to deal and Travis has been a HUGE help with things around the house.

Dani's first purse. She LOVES this thing. She was so funny walking all around the store with it on her wrist. Trying to figure out if she should fold her arms or hold it in her hand. She was showing it to everyone. It was hilarious!
When we were down in St. George for our Costco trip this month I had the opportunity to have lunch with an old friend from High School that just moved there, Becky Stewart. It was so fun to see her and catch up!
We went into town and had dinner with our friends the Judd's. We even got away with having a decent double date when the kids played downstairs and watched a movie while we played a game. It was good to get out of the house and hang out with some friends. Things are going to be crazy in a couple months and we won't have as many opportunities for things like that.
Travis had a couple of different farm related meetings. He always enjoys going to them and meeting new people. Gives him a chance to get off the farm and run around town a little bit without his "nagging wife" on his arm. ;-)

This is one of the pictures that I took of Dani for the Style n Sass blog. See what I mean about her being my little model? She is so funny. I never know what I am going to get when I pull out the camera!

She has also developed quite a fondness for balloons over the last few months. She likes to play the "keep it in the air as long as you can" game. Her record is about 5 bumps. She has so much fun.

She likes to help me when I crochet. She holds the hook and then I put my hand over hers and she lets me move her hand around. The other morning I was getting everything ready to make a blanket and she jumped in my spot when I went to grab something else and I came back to this! She had grabbed the yarn and the hook and was wrapping it around the yarn and moving the needle trying to pick up more with the hook. It was so so cute!
We also had our 30 week ultrasound this month. I can't believe we're getting so close! I still have a million things to do... Well I'm sure she'll get here whether we're ready or not. I just have a few busy weeks a head. :-)

February 2012

These are mostly just some fun pictures from February. Dani figured out that Daddy makes a good horsie! I have no idea who taught her to ham up for pictures like this. They came over and she was already smiling cause she was having fun of course. I told her to look at me and smile and this is what I got! I could not stop laughing!! It was hilarious!!!

These next couple are from Valentine's Day. We had a fun family day together. Dani joined Mommy and Daddy on our date. ;-) She's a good third wheel. She was having so much fun playing in the snow before we left. This is one of the 2 big storms that we got this winter. She didn't really get much opportunity to explore snow this year. She loves it! Every time is snows she gets so excited watching it fall. Just wish more of it would have stuck around so she could play more.
We spent the day running errands and getting things we needed for the house and then went out to dinner at Denny's which has become our tradition. It was a great day! Good to have a family day. :-)

We have a little tradition that we started when we were pregnant with Dani. Whomever is right in guessing the baby's sex gets to pick out the first outfit. Since Dani was the one that was right she got to pick the first outfit for Charleene. She happened to pick a dress that had one in her size too so we got matching ones. I'm going to be one of those crazy moms that makes her girls dress matchy matchy on occasion. ;-) 
Jacque and Justin came down for a weekend in February. It is so fun to see the girls together and what is better is we'll both be having girls again! It'll be so fun to watch this next set grow up together too.

I had the camera out taking some pictures of a pattern I was working on and before I could put it way, Dani stopped me and asked me to take a picture of her. Look at that face! How could you refuse? ;-)

Dani's 2nd Birthday

Happy Happy birthday to our sweet Little Miss! Who can believe you've been in our lives for 2 years now! I can't believe all that you've learned how to do and what a big help you are to Mommy and Daddy!! You are so obedient and kind. We are so happy to have your special spirit in our home and we hope you always know how much we love you!

She got a few things, shoes, books, outfits from Grandma and Grandpa Todd and Laub. Aunt Lauren and Uncle Ben sent her a book. She went through everything so fast it was hard to get pictures of it all. At the end though, Daddy went out of the room and came back with this -

She had played with her cousin Jaycee's a couple weeks earlier when we were up visiting and we were so excited to see how much she enjoyed it because we already had it in the closet. ;-) When Travis wheeled it out she squealed and ran right over and hopped on. It was so cute! She knows that she should be able to peddle it and gets frustrated when her feet are where they are supposed to be and she can't make it work. I think the carpet is too thick in our front room but it is too cold still for us to take it outside. She does walk around on it or give her teddy bear rides. ;-) Which is really, really cute. Hopefully when Spring finally shows up she'll get some good practice outside. :-)

Eh, I don't know, maybe we should have gotten her something else... ;-) What do you think?