19 months!

I can't believe it's been 19 months! She's becoming more and more like a little girl and less like a baby! So sad.



Things she's saying now...
yuck
run!
go
hide
pink, red, blue, green, yellow, purple, brown, orange
1, 2, 3, 4 ,5
A, b, c, d yay!
color
towel
mess
all gone "gol gone"
heart "hawt"
art work
cleaning
fake cries like a baby "waaa, waaa"
please
thanks
ma'am
earring
cookie
walk
bath "baff"

She's starting to develop more of her own thoughts. I ask her what she wants for breakfast (without giving any options) and she says "bagel" or "juice". I ask her what her favorite animal (again, without options) and one day she'll say "cow", one day she'll say "roo" (kangaroo), and sometimes a "baaa" sheep. She has started saying some actual animal names, but mainly sticks to sounds like "woo-woof" and "baaaah."

She LOVES to color. Every day she wants to pull out the roll of paper, take her clothes off and color with markers.  She wants Gray to draw a heart and me to color wherever she points. Hopefully she'll enjoy her Christmas gift ;)

Thanksgiving with MawMaw Snider 2012:

We had a photoshoot with my friend and fellow photog Lauren Cardwell. She did our photos last year and I was so happy when she was able to do them again! You can see the sneak peek here. But here are a couple of my faves.

In the car she likes to read books and sing. Over our trip to Raleigh she liked to sing "Baby it's cold outside" over and over with Shuggy.


She was spoiled rotten during Raleigh Christmas. 2 down, 6 to go! Aunt Lauri bought her a million outfits from "Matilda Jane." Never heard of it but absolutely DIED when I saw. I am seriously doing a whole photoshoot in every outfit (the first one is below ;).  OBSESSED. On the way home Gray bought a storage box so I could empty out her closet to make room for all of it! ha!

We put our house on the market about 2 or 3 weeks ago. That is SUPER hard to keep looking perfect and clean for potential showings with a 19month old. She is very good at putting things back, though.

She is loving school. She never cries when I drop her off and when I pick her up she is always happy to show me what they were working on. She brought home a lot of "art work" and handmade ornaments.

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18 months

It's almost thanksgiving and yesterday our baby girl turned 18 months! This time last year she was just a little chunk sitting at the table in her bumbo eating a cranberry squeeze pouch for the first time.

What she's doing

-voluntarily gives kisses
- tries to count and say her abc's
- fav things to watch: bubble guppies ("bubble"), baby einsteins ("nines"), and veggie tales ("bob")
- claps and sings at the right time in songs (i feel like this is genius!)
- wants to find foxy's food and feed her one piece at a time.... and has a huge interest in carrying the water bowl from room to room
- such a helper doing laundry and dishes
- LOVES to read books- one day her teacher said they read about 40 books twice! ha
-LOVES baths (will ask for duck and bath after dinner)
- coloring 
-she'll take all the bows out of  the canister and put them back a million times and say "yay" after each time
- skipping
- definitely a momma's girl
- closes her eyes and bows her head when we say grace before dinner
- At night she will either say "bed" or point to her crib (around 7)... and we lay her down, kiss monkey, kinsley and baby monkey, then do eskimos to each, then we say bye and wave all the way out the door
- she has 10 teeth
-size 4 diaper
- 12-18m in clothes (except H&M runs big)... she can still fit in 12m but the arms and legs are getting shorter
-21.4 lbs is what Gray weighed her this morning
-long attention span
- known as the FASHIONISTA at school
- I'm a proud momma when I hear how great she is and how advanced she is at school- the teacher is always surprised at how much she can do and how well she obeys
- When I pick her up she yells "mommmmma" and then "walk!"- because she loves to walk down the hall (as all the students are looking out their classes saying "awwww" then head out to the Lion statues and give each one a kiss
- loves our phones and baby apps- especially "bees" "gaff" and "ducks"
-going to the mall and throwing pennies in the fountain
- getting a free cookie at harris teeter
-kinsley and foxy must be watched when food is around
-she finally warmed up to the grandpas and great grandpas
- sings along with songs (knock knock, little light, happy and your know it, B-I-B-L-E)
- ride a little pony on my leg while I'm editing
- SUCH a mommy's girl- daddy says I'm the shark and she's the fish that follows?
- Fav new animal "roo"... kangaroo (from the animal app on my phone)
- calls women with gray hair "maw maw" whether it is really hers or not
- now men with gray beards are "santa" ha! i laughed hysterically at harris teeter when i realized that's what she was calling this random man

What we're eating:

- i try to cook as much homemade things as i can or buy 5-ingredients or less products- the new whole foods is awesome!
- bagels and creamcheese
- roasted tomatoes
- homemade pizza with goat cheese
- organic whole milk- finally got her to drink plain instead of vanilla
- stoneyfield yogurt
- whole wheat
- justins peanut butter
- apple butter
- eggs

17 months!

She is turning into such a little girl! Not a baby anymore :(  She is trying to say new words every day!

Her cutest words of the moment are:
"linade" (lemonade)
"arm"
"peasss" (peace accompanied by a couple of fingers)
"moobee moobe" (movie)
"mamano" (marshmallow)
"ghosts" (referring to white chocolate chips)
"snack"

She said "luh do dada" (love you dada)

We hold hands and say the blessing as a family every night before dinner, followed by a smooch. Sometimes she wants to say it more than once. It was so cute, last night Gray was out of town and we were in a rush to eat and I forgot to say it out loud so before she ate she said "ble ble ble" and reached out her hand... i said oh my goodness! thanks kins for reminding mommy! Then she started closing her eyes recently. It is really all too precious!

She likes to get her little pink Bible and dance trying to get me to sing "B-I-B-L-E yes that's the book for me..."

she can point out Bob from veggie tales.

She gives the lion statues at school kisses when we leave.

she's into pronouncing things that have a "k" on the end... like "bike" sounds like "bi-KUH"

This month consisted of a jammy party at Bryleigh's house with "moobes" and "snacks", mall trips, cupcake splurge, and a trip to the punkin patch!

I had two weddings in 2 weeks and it was the longest time I had been away from Kins! She was asleep when I got home... I almost snuck in there and woke her up just to cuddle! But I was nervous she might not go back to sleep ha!

We've had a couple early mornings this month with 5am wake up calls... I contribute it to teething. She got one molar on the top that came through and a bottom front one. I think a bottom molar is about to poke through too!

We are heading to the mountains this weekend with Bryleigh and Ansley! We will definitely be taking some pics! They are going to put on some costumes and go get candy in downtown blowing rock! So fun! I love doing the annual alternative-halloween mountain trip!

16 months!

16 months and a whole lot of fun!

Activities:
-blowing bubbles "bubble, bubble"
- coloring! she colors every day at school and our fridge is being taken over! I love it! She will find her crayons from cowfish, and get a piece of artwork from the fridge and continue to color it
-making music (she loves to play with this little piano i got and her teacher says she likes the tambourine). She also loves to sing. She definitely has that in her genes!
- dancing
-slides
-baths
-watching bubble guppies
-singing this little light of mine (holding up and swaying 1 finger) and happy and you know it (raising her hands to shout amen!)

New Words-
-shuggy (sounds like duh-gey)
-jesus( sounds like "dezus"
-pap (papa)
-kinsley (sounds like: densdee)
-uh-oh
-nah nah (no)
- duh duh with arms and hands swiping in the air (done)
-bowl
-straw (sounds like stah)
-thank you (sounds like dan-du)
- love you (sounds like lud-dew)
-puffs (sounds like puts)
-amen
*there's probably more that i'm forgetting

Funny Things:
-dada tries to "get her nose" and the other night at dinner she was trying to get her own
- she likes to take every condiment out of the bottom self on the fridge door and sit them on the floor. Sometimes i find hot sauce in the cabinet and dressing in her chair. Thank goodness i'm watching her do it, otherwise we'd be missing things for a while

- sometimes when Gray and I greet each other we say "hi's" -- it's like our own special kinsley talk/language ha!

-we started hanging her artwork in the guest bathroom.. we showed her it to her when she woke up from her nap. Later that evening, she was coloring and then I couldn't find her and she was trying to hang up her art work in the bathroom! ha! so smart!

-such a copy cat!
-she knows we pray holding hands before each meal, and she says amen at the end of prayers

Food:
-not into veggies.. but then again, who is?
- smoothies and naked drinks for our veggie intake
- turkey sausage
-eggs
- goat cheese
- cheese sticks
-raisins
-puffs


Other Notes:
-you can ask her where she put something (like her bow or the dustpan, etc) and she can go find it (even if we have no idea where she put it)
- size 4 diaper
-size 4 shoe
- fits in things 12+ months, mostly 18m pants due to length
- 6 teeth- 4 on top, 2 on bottom ( i keep thinking a molar is coming!)
- "ba" or paci only when sleeping or if fussy in the car
- fav thing to sleep with- green blankie
-naps about 2-3hrs after school (12-2ish)-- not always at the same time each day


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