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So this commercial is on your blog because your cousins came to Wyoming this summer.  The summer of 2013.  Each time they watch something: a movie; tv show; cartoon; a commercial, they tell each other which character they think they act like or want to be.  This commercial came on and we were in the living room and Everette so sweetly says, "Look, that girl is Autie!"  I smiled and laughed to myself.  It was one of the sweetest things my cute little nephew has said.  Especially since I can't do a whole lot because of my hip, not to mention my weight.  And God love him, I have never been able to do a cartwheel for fear of landing on my head!  :D  I just thought that you might get a kick out of this and could share it with your cousins.

The things you say....

Well my dear, you are now about 3 yrs and 5 months old. You are so silly and you absorb absolutely everything you hear. I say "damn" too much, so you have started using that word. You don't use it all the time but you do pull it out when it is appropriate.






You will watch the cats run through the house or see the dogs doing something they are not supposed to do and you will say "Uggghhh, those damn dogs" Or "those damn cats." Seriously all I can do is snicker because you say it so cute. Just yesterday though you called your dad an Asshole! That was not ok, it was sort of funny because you are so young, but we had a talk that it is not lady like to say that. Mommy has promised not to use those words as much. I usually only say Damn, but sometimes the other words come out. I am a passionate person, so sometimes they sneak up on me. :")



You told me yesterday at the store, when I said we had to get eggs, "are you kidding me?" Some lady in the aisle started laughing and asked me if that was truly what you said. I told her it was so. You also told Daddy on Halloween, when your bucket was almost full of candy, "I can't believe my bucket is almost full!" You come up with some of the funniest things, but they are always at the most appropriate time.


Today you were watching Team Umizoomi, one of your favorite shows that you like to watch, and when the commercials come on you have started the whole "I want that!" spiel. So you said you wanted something and I chuckled and told you that you wanted everything you see. You turned to me and said, "You need to be rich!" You are so silly.

You still are very loving, sweet, and you take care of the animals really well. When I ask you to feed the dogs you like to get the bowl and feed them by hand. You take care of Mutley because he gets sick if he does not eat. He is mostly the one that you feed by hand. Scruffy inhales his food too fast to put up with you trying to feed him. :D




This year for Halloween you went as a witch. You had to be scary or "mean" as you put it. So we painted your face green and I decked you out with a "mean" witch face. But most people just thought you were cute.

Just this week you also finished your Potty training. You have been going pee in the potty for a while now. But one night you ran to the bathroom and did not even have the light on, so I came to the bathroom to turn on the light and you were on the potty. I asked if you were done and you grunted out to me, "No, I am pooping." It was a very happy day for me, too! :D I have been worried about you not potty training as soon as the other children in your Sunday school class, but was also told not to worry. And I should not have worried, because you have done it in your own time.

Well, My love,
I will write more for you later.
I love you!


Love,
Mommy!

Own Personality

Hello My Love,

I am back to talk about what a wonderful child you are. You are sometimes a pest too, but for the most part I could not ask for a better child.

Of late you have decided that you like to color. You would color before, but you would only color on plain or lined paper. You would not color on any coloring book pages or pages that I would print up. But now you like the pictures as well. You don't really care for colored pencils and crayons are even worse, instead you like markers. You dislike when they break and you will bring them to me or toss them in the garbage as they are little and broken. You seem to like to color on yourself more and more. It really irks me when you do this, so I take the markers away and you don't get them for a day. Recently, since Valentines is coming up, I printed out a bunch of cute valentine pictures and hearts for us to color. We bought the little pre-made valentines too, we are going to color some and put them together to mail out to the family. It has been fun. You color a lot quicker than Mommy, so you tore through your coloring pages and Mommy dutifully colored her pages. We will continue coloring tomorrow since you got bored with it. :D

We have been going to church each Sunday. It is the highlight of your week. You absolutely love playing with the other children. I am glad that you are so well behaved. You are polite and easy to get a long with. I watch other children who are an only child and they are just rough and don't share well. When another child takes the toy you are playing with you just stare at them with a heartbroken look on your face as if to say "Why did you take my toy...that makes me sad and hurts my heart." But you never hit or grab back. It makes me happy that you have been such a well behaved and loving child.

You have been putting your sentences together very well lately. You tell me all sorts of things
like: "I wake up." or "Baby puppy is hungry" of course your hungry comes out sounding like: hungy. For the most part you enunciate your words fairly well for a toddler, but some words I am just not sure about. Yesterday you wanted "motters" but I could not see that your little mouth was making the "M" I thought you wanted brother, or booger, or anything but markers. Daddy came to tell me that was what you wanted and we solved the dilemma.

Well, My sweet girl, You are currently watching Tom and Jerry (your current favorite cartoon) and then supposed to be napping, but you keep yelling at me: "momma, momma, I wake up!" LOL, too much!

I love you babydoll,
Love,
Your Mommy!!!

November 2010

I have sent you away this past week to your Grandmother's house for five days prior to Thanksgiving so I could over haul the house and get some much needed cleaning done that I could not do with you here. It was bittersweet to have you gone from home. I missed you so much I thought my heart would break. I had no snotty little girl to snuggle in the afternoons. No sweet little girl to kiss goodnight before bed. And no laughing little girl to "eat" or to tickle so I could hear the sweet laugh of my baby!

I am not sure I will do that again. It did, however, make me happy when you came home and did not want to leave me again. When Nana and Papa left to go home you would not even kiss Nana goodbye as you were afraid that she would take you home with her and away from Mommy! Sweet bliss, my daughter loves me! lol, not that I don't already know this, but it makes my heart feel that much better when you show me.

You are talking much more and you put words together more and more each day. Just recently you have told your father to "get back!" when he came into your room to tease you. You held up your little hand and yelled this at him so he would leave your room and leave you to watch your movie that was on. It was really cute.

Tonight Nov 27th, 2010 we went to the Christmas Parade. It was really cold out but you enjoyed it until about 15 mins to the end. You got cold, but we were at home afterward, we had eaten dinner and you were on the couch looking at the birds. I grabbed this flashy badge you have and yelled "Get away from the birds, FBI" you looked at me and said, "hey, no, give me that" and snatched your badge away from me as we laughed. It was adorable. I love the words that you say.

I love you my Sweet Turkey,
Love Mommy!
xoxoxoxo

New Stuff

Hello My Booga,

I wanted to write to you to let you know the antics that you have gotten into these past few months. You are so funny right now. You are talking more and more each day. You like to mimic Mommy and Daddy. You especially like to be Mommy's echo! One day when Scruffy and Mutley got out we had to walk up and down the neighborhood to find them. Daddy and Ryan went one way and called for Mutley and you and I went the other way and called for Scruffy. I would call "Scruffy" and then you would call "Fuffy" I would say "Scruffy come to Momma" and you would say "Fuffy, Momma." You also like to boss them around. I caught you giving them grapes one day and telling them "sit" "sit." It was funny. When we take them out to go potty I will tell them "Go potty" and you will yell at them "Potty-go, potty-go!"

You also like to tell us mm-hmmm when we ask you a question. You call ice cream, keem. You love "keem" more than almost anything else.... well I guess you like popsicles as much as Keem!

One day we were helping some friends move for the most part of the day and then we went to Cheyenne Frontier Days for the evening. It was late when we got back to their house and we were supposed to take our friend to the airport in Denver and she was to be there at 4am. So she decided that we would just stay at her house until about 2am and then we would take her there. There were so many people in the house that we were staying in the van on an air mattress and we fell asleep. I told Daddy that we should just leave you asleep, since you are a bear-cat when you are tired or woken before you are ready, and Daddy said we should just make sure you were in your car seat. I told him that he had to make you mad and put you in the car seat. I went into the house to get you some milk and when I left you two you looked at me whining and said "why, why Mommy?" It was so cute and broke my heart at the same time.

You say more and more stuff each day. I love listening to you talk, but there are some things that you say that I am not sure of. You say "kee-go, kee-go, kee-go, kee-go" I am not sure what it means but is funny and if I say it to you then you will repeat it over and over again. I think it is funny and cute.

You love to go bye-bye and if you don't get to go you will throw a fit. I have to bribe you to behave sometimes. Oh, and you love to get into mommy's purse and wear her Bonne Bell lips. You love to get into the DVD's and try to play with them and bring them to me so we can watch it. But on the down side you get your little fingerprints on them and then they don't play. It really annoys Mommy when you don't listen and you don't leave them alone, but I am trying not to be so bugged by it. It is all a learning experience for me and for you, but we do pretty good.

Mommy seems to be your favorite parent, but that is only because I am at home with you all the time while Daddy works. When we go somewhere you won't let anyone buckle your seatbelt for you. Actually you do up the chest piece and then you tell everyone else..."no, mommy!" Then when we get to where we are going you say the same thing. I try to get you to let Daddy take you out of the car, but you tell him "no, Mommy!" You are a pill when you want to be.

We have met some new friends, Ken & Betty. They are really nice and good people too! You really like them and when I tell you we are going to Ken & Betty's you will say "Kehn and Beh-yee" over and over again. It is really cute.

Of course I think that everything you do is cute, well.....almost anything you do is cute. You love to help out. And if you use the word "help" you will almost try to do anything. It's not funny when you dump the water out of the tub onto the floor...or when you get into the paint while we are trying to paint the house....or when you unpacked the boxes in the back room onto the floor in a big pile, but you are just so curious. I think that is going to be the key to my undoing. I am not sure, but I have always been curious and I wonder now if I gave my parents hell trying to learn all that I could.

Well, My Little Monkey....I will tell you more about yourself later.
I love you with all my heart and soul,
Love Mommy!

Pictures of Booga!

Updates.....

Hello My Sweet Little girl,

I am truly saddened that I cannot call you a baby any longer. You are such a little girl that it is blatant you aren't babyish any more. But that is ok. Sometimes, even though you are not two even, I get a little fearful that you will grow up too quickly. I thought about this at Easter, you are almost two now, but next year you will be almost THREE!!! Then it just snowballs from there! Soon you will be four, but then I remember that is still two more years away and I take a deep breath and enjoy you as you are! :D
I wanted to update you one some more of the things you are saying and doing now. You are so sweet sometimes, lol, but other times you are such a pill. And with Mommy's and Daddy's tempers you have one of your own!! You will swat at whomever has annoyed you or my favorite...you will put your head down and then put your little hands on your face as if you are crying. It is really cute and a bit dramatic (which you get from your father! Lol) He is a drama king and now so are you, er, only a drama Princess! :D
Some of your words that you have started saying is "too" when you are told "I Love You!" You will call a butterfly a "tuh-ty". You will tell me yes or no, depending on your mood. You say "food" and "eat" when you are hungry, also "bite" when you want a bite. You tell us when you want a drink and you say "dink" or "joos" or "milk." You love "canny," of course what little kid doesn't! :) You love "noo-noes" which are ramen Noodles! I love to ask you if you want noodles, just to hear you say it!

You will say your colors when you are pre-empted. If you are not then everything is "purpel" Mommy was letting you carry some of Uncle Nick's playing cards around with you and then I got an inspirational idea. I would take the pile from you and flip them out to make a noise and when you looked at it I would tell you the number or the letter of the face card so you can learn them. We also count and say our ABC's until you get tired of it. So, we bought you some wooden blocks, which you also love, and you would hand them to Daddy and as you did you would count them from 1-10, but after that you would get lost! I guess we should have counted higher! But you will say your ABC's one at a time right after us, well for the most part. You have your own little ideas and sometimes you will just look at us or shake your head and say "no" in that cute little voice of yours.

You still love cats, I think more than any dog. You love your doggies, Mutley and Scruffy, but you love the kitties! I pulled up cats on Google one day and let you look at the pictures of kitties and you squealed and squealed about those darn cats! You found one that looked like Casper and you went wild!

You often squeal when you are excited! That is all that I can pull from my little brain right now. You do so many cute and wonderful things that sometimes it is hard to remember them all! But as they come to me or I see you do them again I will blog about them for you to see!

I love you Mommy's sweet little princess!!!

Kisses and Hugs,
love,
Honey!

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