Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Allie as of late

My little girl has found another love... jewelry.  The girly girl streak continues; which totally cracks me up because anyone who knows me knows I am anything but girly.  In fact Noah is always asking me to dress more girly and paint my nails etc.  Well Allie is ALL girl. 

 A couple funny stories:
First, the other night I was painting my toes and Allie wanted hers painted too so of course I painted her toes pink.  She blew on them as soon as I was done and then ran down the hall to the living room where daddy was vacuuming the floor.  She proceeded to walk behind him lifting her toes in the air for him to look and see.  Yes all she wanted was for her daddy to notice her pretty toes.

A couple of days ago I was getting ready in my bathroom while Allie ran back and forth from my room to other parts of the house.  I was keeping a relative close eye on her... I thought until I hear a little voice behind me say "Mommy pretty" and no she wasn't talking about me.  She pointed her two thumbs at me where I found my wedding band on one and engagement ring on the other.  I quickly took them thanked her for showing me and explained daddy gave those to mommy because he loves me very much and always will.  She said mine?  So I think Allie wants daddy to buy her diamonds... guess it starts early.

Tonight I got the laundry out of the dryer but got distracted so I didn't fold it right away.  While I was doing a series of other things Allie had gotten every under ware of mine in the stack and put it over her head and around her neck like a scarf or necklace.  She then got shirts and anything she could fit and put it over her shoulders... I think we are about to hit the dress up stage!





Lastly, so I really had no intention of starting potty training yet but recently Allie has gotten very interested in Noah and me going to the bathroom.  She comes running in the second she realizes what we are doing and says "OOOOOH" and then wants to flush it and say bye bye.  I am more cooperative with letting her be apart of my bathroom time than daddy :)  In his defense she put her head between his legs when he was peeing and if you know Oldham boys at all you know they are very private bathroom takers... so she just bangs on the door while he is in there.  I started asking her if she had to go poo poo when I could tell she was going to go in her diaper and set her on the toilet a few times she has gone but mostly because I got her on there at the last possible second and she had no other choice... Well  I got out her cheer for me potty and she has sat on it a couple times and nothing has really ever happened but she is getting more and more interested.  Until tonight.... she started seeming like she was going to go poop so I put her on her potty... she sat and sat and sat.. but nothing.  So I walked out of the room to get a new diaper.. as I was walking back into the bathroom I heard the music start to go off from the potty I see her jump up and start dancing.  I look in the potty and sure enough there was pee pee in there!  So I made a big deal of it told her what she did and that was it.  Not sure if she even knows what happened but I feel this was a huge step.  I am in no way trying to force her into potty training yet, but if she keeps being interested we will keep trying till she decides she wants to.  Because if you know Allie at all if its not her idea its going to be a fight and well... I am choosing my battles these days!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Our Valentine's Day Festivities

Valentine's Day I got up early before Allie could wake up and before Noah got home from the gym and made a big breakfast for my two valentines complete with heart shaped pancakes.

 This was the first time Allie had ever eaten pancakes and she was intrigued to say the least.  Though she is more of a bacon lover.  Turkey bacon at least :)
 Then mommy and daddy gave Allie her valentine's day present from us
 She got a new elmo hooded towel, an elmo potty book, some pj's and a few more animals for her noah's ark set. 
 giving me kisses for her present
 Momma and my little Valentine, she is getting more and more loving EVERY day.  She is SO stinkin sweet ALL the time

 Then we had some friends come over and play and we went to the park. Despite the snow on the ground it was in the low 60's and beautiful out.  This was the first time we have been able to play outside since October!!
 When we got home Allie helped mommy make chocolate covered strawberries for daddy ( and for Mommy and Chaim...Chaim LOVES chocolate covered strawberries)
 I had made jello early in the day so we could make jigglers...
 lets just say I need to practice my jello jiggler making skills cause it was an epic fail.  But it still tasted good!
 I quickly realized this project needed a bib
 the one and only half way decent jiggler that fell apart as soon as we picked it up.
 Happy Valentines Day!
 While I was cleaning up I had my back to Allie and didn't realize she had gotten into the fridge by herself and gotten a strawberry.  I turned around to find this...
 Being the mean mommy that I am I took it away right after this pic but gave it back to her after we ate dinner
 and we enjoyed the rest of her jello.
 We had a blast.  I am sure it will just get more and more fun in the future when Allie gets more into it all.  We put Allie to bed early and Noah and I enjoyed a relaxing night together.  Good Times!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Daddy's Girl


Ever since Noah got back from his world adventure Allie has been quite the daddy's girl.  She cry's every time he leaves and puts her hand out and says up because she thinks if he is holding her he has to take her with him, when daddy puts a hat on Allie wants a hat on, when he gets home she squeals with delight.  Yes she loves her daddy... what can I say I don't blame her I love him too.  So when Daddy needed to study last Sunday Allie decided she wanted to "study" too in her highchair with crayons.  So this is what they did for a while anyway...


 double fisting it

So ever since then Allie has gotten really into coloring with crayons...

 giving me kisses because I gave her crayons


 and then inevitably at some point they start to go in the mouth.  I tell her not to put them in her mouth and if she doesn't listen she no longer gets to color.  She is never very happy about this but maybe someday she will learn not to put them in her mouth.

 Contemplating what to draw next?

Friday, February 4, 2011

Snowpocolyps 2011

The news channels forecasted it, everyone took off work for it, we all prepared for it... but what was it?  We will never know.  On February 1st 2011 we all prepared for what was to be one of the worst snow/ice/ blizzard storms to ever hit Saint Louis.  Literally Saint Louis shut down as we were supposed to get 4 inches of ice and 20 inches of snow with blizzard conditions... scary.  What we got?  5 inches of sleet... yeah that was about it.  The roads were bad for the day but the hype made for one big let down.  However, we seized the day at home with daddy to stay in our pj's and have a blast just being us.  I made a homemade potato soup (which noah told me was the best soup he has ever had...) and daddy and allie built a fort in the living room.



Allie thought it was more fun to knock it down but daddy persevered.

 and whoa la Allie's first homemade fort complete with her daddy.







 they even created a secret passage way
 Allie was dying to get outside for a couple days following but there was no real snow and the sleet was so compact that your foot barely made a dent in it.  We went out on our snow covered porch and lasted all of 10 minutes but it was totally worth it.
 She tasted it.

 stomped on it.
 touched it.
 and loved it!





She loved it until her hands got cold because she refused to put on gloves.  Time to go inside.  Better luck next year.