Daddy!!!

Today your dad came home! He has been in Utah trying to get our Home Remodeling company off the ground, but has not had the success he wishes for! So he brought your Uncle Scott and a friend of theirs home to Colorado.

You were so excited when you had seen the van on the monitor to the front door, and you ran to the door and onto the porch....where you proceeded to look out the open gate and then falter. You looked at the three approaching and then you looked at me with fear and surprise and said "Honey?" So I picked you up.
I think that you were excited to see daddy, but with the others with him you were not so sure. Needless to say you have been a daddy's girl ALL DAY!!! You have not wanted to let daddy out of your site!

You sure love your daddy and he loves you very much!

I just wanted you to know about this.

I love you,
Love Honey!

April 2010

Well, Here it is about two months since the last time I blogged to you. But you are so funny!! Today you were all about your little tongue. You would hold it out of your mouth and between your lips while you were playing. Then when I would stick my tongue out at you then you would copy me. It was so cute!


These days your Uncle Nick drives you crazy! He wants to tease you and likes to try to scare you, but all you say is "Noooo" and wave your hand at him as to dismiss his antics. He even tried to talk to you and you tell him "nooo."






You love your Papa so much. You like to sit on his lap and just hang out with him. You will try to "play" that you are Papa and sit in his seat by his laptop and then put his oxygen hose around your neck. It really is sweet that you adore him so much.






You love to lay with Ma in her bed at night when they are getting ready for bed and watching tv. You like to lean back against the pillows and cover your little legs while watching what you call "v." When you wake up each morning, we change your diapey, then Mommy puts in a movie for you. At which point you will take over my spot on the bed and lean against my pillows and cover up so Mommy can't lie down any longer. :)



When we came back to Grandpa and Grandma's house to stay your favorite movie was Barnyard. I blogged about it earlier. But then your tastes changed to Garfield the Movie. You watched that movie forever! It was cute that you would sit so long for the entire show. We recently went to Utah and took Grandma's portable DVD player and that was the movie that kept you entertained. Now your favorite movie has changed again. In the last week and a half I put the movie Shrek 2 in for you to watch and you fell in love with it. This is usually the movie of choice in the mornings! I am not sure if you like the movie because of the music, but at this point in time I am more inclined to think that it is the cat in the movie that you like the most! If you see what I am getting at because there seems to be a theme in the last two movies that you have liked! :D


Sweetheart, Mommy just really wants you to know what your childhood is like because as the years go by we tend to forget the small things that we have done or our children have done. I want to be sure that you have all of the cute things and I am sure there will be some bad as we go so that you can reflect upon this just in case anything happens to Mommy or Daddy. Even if you are in your thirties!







Your Grandmother on my side died when I was 27. I was old enough to not need my mom for the most important part of my life, but there are still those times when it would be handy to be able to pick up the phone and just ask a stupid question about cooking, raising you, or being married. I would love to hear that you are doing the things that I used to do, but it is not possible. Every now and then your Aunt Melissa will mention that you do some of the things that I used to do.

I was complaining one day that you NEVER leave your hair intact when I make it look cute! And your Aunt Melissa told me that you were NOT like me in that department. My mother always made my hair cute and I left it in! lol, but that was a few months ago or a year, not sure. :D But you do leave your hair in for the most part. If I put a barrett in your hair you will pull it out, but a ponytail or piggy tails you leave those in until Mommy takes them out for bed.



I need to post more each day, but I don't want everyone to think that I gush over you, but they may be right! I love you LynLee with all my heart!

Smile my love,
Love Mommy

February 21, 2010

Ok, so I thought that I was a horrible mother as I was sure that I had not posted since November of last year. But I was wrong. I actually posted to you in January! :)

So this month you are quite the chatter box. You are repeating most things that are said to you. You will now mimmick a dog, cat, and a duck. You will also repeat what a cow says, but only after making your own sound! :) You have found Barney.....He is the best thing in your little tv world right now! You will spend the entire 20-25 minutes that Barney and friends are on just watching them sing and dance. Then every once in a while you try to do the dance or sing. You like the "I love you" song and every so often you will run up to me and hug me when they are singing it and then quickly give me a kiss and then be off to watch the end.

It is coming upon Easter next month and I am excited to help you find some eggs! I can't wait for it this year. Last year you were not quite one and so you were not really sure what was going on....I think Grandma and I "helped" you find the eggs and candy that was thrown on the lawn, but this year will be fun!

We will be leaving to go to Utah on Wednesday of this week, it will be the 24th of February. We are going to stay at Motel 6 in Rock Springs, WY just so that you don't have to ride the entire time of about 8-10 hours. It should be fun for you, me, and daddy to go on a trip together.

Well, my sweet, I will post more later. I love you baby girl!!!

Love,
Honey

Learning new things

So, here we are in January of 2010! I can't believe that you are going on two. But it shows! lol You currently think that it is hilarious to grab something of Grandma's and run like the wind, giggling all the while. It really is cute!

You are using all sorts of new words and NO is one of your favorites. You like to smack Daddy and Uncle Nick, especially those two. You will hand Daddy your sippy cup then when he takes a drink you will flail you little paddy at him until you connect with his face and tell him "no!" It is funny but at the same time you really pack a wallop and you can hear it resonate.

You have gotten excessively quick at and adept at getting up and down the stairs. It takes you only about a second or two to be on the next level. You love baths and really love to brush your teeth. You can show us almost all of your body parts, with the exception of chin, elbow, ankle, wrist, and knee. You are repeating the first four letters of the ABC's when prompted to. But then you will stop and repeat one of the letters that appeal to you that day.

Finally you keep your hair in the pigtails or the ponytail that I put in. You love your baby dolls and all of the stuffed animals that you have. You call them all "baby." You especially love these two dolls that your Uncle Nick got for you at Christmas from the dollar store. You have to have all FOUR of your babies in bed with you when you go to sleep. Plus Big Bear, which you call Puppy. And then any given stuffy that you deem necessary to take to bed with you has to be there for you to go to sleep.

I love you my sweet little angel.
Love,
Mommy aka Honey :)

LynLee 18 mos

New pics of LynLee.........Still so darn cute!!!!!

Halloween

So, it has been a few days.....almost two weeks since Halloween. I wanted to let you know how it went this year, you are walking and have some knowledge of what is going on.

I took you to the mall with Grandma since it may have been cold and I feel that you are still too little to be out in the night in the cold. At the mall we walked from store to store and "Trick-or-Treated." There would be a store associate handing out candy to the children there.

Several stores had candy. We would walk up to the associate and they would give you a piece of candy. You had on your Ice Princess outfit that Mommy had sewn for you and your pumpkin to collect the candy in. As the person handing out the candy would try to put the candy in your "bag" you would lean down to see what they were doing with your pumpkin and in turn the pumpkin, which was hanging by your side at arms length, would swing back away from the front of you and then the candy handler would have to lean wwwaaaayyyyyy down to get the piece of candy into the pumpkin. It was quite cute. You would look at them and study them with a blank look on your face as if you weren't sure what was going on.

We walked the entire mall and you were tired at the end. You were holding my hand and grandma's too. But you kept lifting your feet and pulling on us both, so we let go of your hands and you sat on the floor in the middle of the mall then lay down on your tummy!!! It was funny, but mommy picked you up and we went home.

When we got home all of the kids in the neighborhood were out in full swing, going from home to home Trick-or-Treating. We would take you to the door and have you help us hand out the candy. You finally caught on and when the doorbell would ring you would RUN to the door and then grab a handful of candy and put it in the children's bags. All the while looking at the faces of the children to examine and study the costumes they had on. You had a better time handing out the candy than you did collecting your candy!

This picture is of you trying to get "Ma" to come downstairs with you so you can continue to hand out candy.

All in all it was a fun day for you and for Mommy too!

Well, Honey, I love you and I will write more later.

Love,
Mommy!!

More learning....

You have recently decided that you need to walk up the stairs like a big girl rather than crawl up them. You still take the stairs step by step using your right foot to lead on each stair, but you hold onto the wall and if you get off balance you reach for the stair with your right hand and keep on going.

You are saying your name now, but it sounds like yinyee.....it is cute. You say big puppy, which is your grandma Nancy's stuffed dog that you have taken over. You will not go to sleep or nap without him.

You are such a little turd as you get into all sorts of things, mostly so you can learn about them all!

Well, my little monster,
I love you with all my heart!

Love,
Mommy!!!

Additions......

I am back again to write some additional things that you currently do in your life and learning. I forgot to tell you about your kisses and loves that you give. They are so sweet and more often than not you will make the kissy noise when you are going to give a kiss, but you also make the fishy face when you are giving a kiss sometimes. But the funniest part is when Mommy asks for a kiss you will lean toward anyone else in the room and give them kisses, no matter how many times I ask for a kiss. You also do this with Daddy, Grandma, and Nick. You always give kisses to Grandpa and you rarely tease him.

One other thing that I was thinking of was the way that you go up and down the stairs. Since you are so independent you like to try to 'walk' up the stairs just like the big people in your life, but since you legs are so short it is quite a stretch to get to the next stair. But when mommy holds your hand you try so hard and one by one you will use your right leg to get up to the next stair. The sweetest thing is that mommy has a bad hip, which by now you should know. But it is hard at the end of the day for me to get up the stairs so I go up them one by one using my good leg which is my right leg. So, together we will slowly go up the stairs one by one using our right legs. You are the only one that is slow enough to walk up the stairs with me and it makes me happy!

So there are some more little things that you do right now. You are 16 months old now and you are so headstrong and confident that I hope you never lose that trait.

I love you baby girl,
Love Mommy!

New things you do....

Well it has been months since I have blogged about the things you have learned and the funny little things you do.

You have mastered walking. You run now and it is really cute too. You bounce more than you actually run, but its adorable.

You talk all the time. You say everything you possibly can: shoe or shu; duck or du--; bite; kitty or ki-i; puppy; mut-mut or mu-mu; scruffy or fuffy. You try so hard to say the things you do. You are so independent and have been for a few months. You like to eat like a big girl, none of the things I cut up for you are good enough. You have to have your food BIG so you can hold it or try to get it with your fork.

You have taken to saying mommy over and over when I have been gone from you and come home. It is so sweet. You also have been calling me Audie! Which your Aunt Misti nick-named me so it would be easier for children to say, but never did I think it would come back to haunt me!! lol You also call me honey or hun-ee. I call you honey and I call daddy honey all the time. So it was inevitable that you start using it too. It makes my heart melt.

You also make sure no one is using my cell phone or even has a hold of it! If daddy has my cell phone in his hand you fuss and whine and will cry eventually if he does not give it to you so you can bring it back to me. You will then carry it to me either calling me Mommy or Honey the whole way until you give it to me. Same with the remote! I am not sure why you think that mommy gets the remote, but daddy is not allowed to have it as it is mine. You do, however, make sure that daddy has his cell phone. If he leaves it anywhere you will grab it and call daddy until you give his phone back to him.

You like to help out around the house too. If there is a little piece of anything on the ground in the house, or outside for that matter, you will bring it to me or daddy to throw it away. You like to carry dishes if they are left out to the kitchen and then be picked up so you can put them in the sink. Then you will clap your hands as we tell you what a big girl you are. You are my sweet little helper.

One day daddy took the garbage can out of our bedroom and forgot to bring it back in. I had changed you before bed, then in the middle of the night, then when you got up. When we were done I got in the shower and afterwards while I was doing my hair you came into the bathroom and picked up the garbage can in the bathroom and carried it to the bedroom, I was not sure what you were doing but daddy brought the can back in and was chuckling at you. You had put the diapers in the trash can and picked up any trash you thought went in the can and threw it away. I only hope that this cleanliness will last through out your life.

Well, My sweet little honey, I will write more later and post some pictures of you as well as get some video of you running and such.

I love you always and forever my Booga!
Love Mommy Honey

Favorites

So it has come to my attention that you have some favorites in your life. Now I am not talking favorite parent or favorite person, we don't favor someone over another, its cruel. I am talking about colors, movies, etc.

I only state this because it is colors and movies that I have observed..... :)

Currently we have Nemo, Barnyard, and Valiant. You have chosen Barnyard as your favorite. The others can be one while you play and you will somewhat look at it every now and then. But when Barnyard is on you will walk up to the TV and you will watch the movie. You will take your bottle with you sometimes and hold it with one hand and watch the movie. It really is cute. I think that the movie has lots of music and songs in it so you prefer that one.



Your favorite color is PINK.....big surprise, huh? Most of your clothes right now are pink. But I often let you choose between two outfits to wear and majority of the time you will pick the pink one. We bought you some cute little sandals for your birthday and they were pink and you absolutely adored them. All of the clothes that you opened went straight over your shoulder onto the floor, but you loved your shoes. You are so funny!

You are walking now and you get all over the house. You walk like a little grandma with your arms bent at the elbow and your little hands in fists, you walk so slowly and take little wobbly steps. They get slower the more tired you are.

Well, my sweet baby girl, I love you and I will write more later.

Love,
your mommy!