Tea Party

I have been doing a lot of blog postings this month. I think its because i realized how much she is growing and changing and cant help but think if it is shocking to me... it has to really be shocking to you! Plus at this age a good pic is hard, she has mastered her sqenched eye cheese face so i have been taking lots of pics lately......

and i got one with her eyes open!

This weekend we did another tea party. Bear loves them. This was our second one and the first thing she said was "go upstairs and get dressed". We went with hats and ties today!

Menu: tea (Gatorade)

crumpets (Cinnamon toast crunch cereal)

cranraisinscrackers (teddy grahams)

Mommy and daddy talked in our fake British accents and sipped tea with our pinkies up. We showed bear how to do it as well.

We also used words like delicious, scrumptious, delightful, and pardon me. Fun was had by all!

Daddy and bear at the tea party. Pretty sure bear was mid bite... but her eyes are open!

Cheese face
Mommy and bear in our hats

Thank you Grandma Billie and Papa

Thank you so much for the doll. She very quickly figured out how it works and decided it was a doll NOT a baby. I made the mistake of calling her a baby once and i was corrected. " NOT baby mommy, she Dollie!"

For V-day daddy got a matching set of jammies! I looked for starwars material and couldn't find any... not even online, so he got cars instead. Him loving his jammies reminds me why i love him so much. Only my husband would love a pair of homemade car pjs!!!!

Happy V-Day from the Queen of Hearts!

We made Valentines Day heart crowns for our project the other day. Bear loves her crown and was so excited to show daddy! Hope you all have a great day filled with lots of love.

I have been enjoying the mountains on the clear days. Even though they are close when it is foggy or snowing you cant see them at all. These are the evening after it snowed... just before sunset.

This is from my front porch.... other then the power lines not a bad view for living on the freeway! The mountains seem to help wash away the days that turn out to be long! Just so beautiful... i think!

Bear update

Good morning from the rooster bear!

Bear and I made cookies together the other day in our nice aprons from grandma. I thought we could do a self portrait.. this is how it turned out!

Bearisms:
On the way to work today bear wanted to sing Old McDonald. She is so grown up now that she gets to pick the animals and sometimes helps with the noises. Her first four options we as follows: Octopus, poop, horse and dog poopie! she was sooo pleased with her self laughing and giggling the whole time.

When she goes to the bathroom she now demands "privacy". So often i hear this sentence "get out mommy, i need privacy".

The other day she was sitting in the chair reading a story to baby. I was hearing things like "baby what is that... a train... point to the train baby". I look over and she is picking baby up by the arm and making her point to the train, then the clown. then they move to the abc page and she is singing her abcs to baby and making baby point to the letters.
I work with two boys that are 4 and 2, they need extra encouragement being "big boys" so i spend the day calling everything big boy and asking them to be big boys. So of course bear now thinks she is a big boy. "Im a big boy" when she puts her poop in the potty, eats lunch really good, puts her toys away or jumps really high. "Im a big boy daddy!"

What she is up to these days:
Singing her ABCs and any other song she has ever heard.
Counting to 13
Potty trained
In her big girl bed, she can get out on her own.. only after mommy or daddy comes to get her!
She likes to measure things with my sewing measuring tape. Her hand is 4.5 inches from wrist to middle finger tip and her feet are 5.5 inches long!
She loves watching Tinkerbell, Curious George and Mickey Mouse
She is very independent, loves to tell mom NO and ignores me with great defiance
Most days i can barley keep myself from cutting her shaggy hair... it is finally growing out and it just drives me crazy the mess it is... but i guess she is two, bad hair days are ok!
She loves "corn dogies," chocolate chips, and Life cereal. What do you want for breakfast bear? "Life" is always the answer now.