Wednesday, April 24, 2013

22 Months!

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So I just realized that I completely skipped Maisy’s 21 Month post!  Oops, guess that just means I’ll have lots to talk about this month!  Here is what our girl is up to…only 2 months away from being TWO YEARS OLD!

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  • She weighs 25 pounds, wears size 5 pull on diapers, 18-24 month clothes (some 2T), and size 5 shoes.
  • She loves to use the potty throughout the day and gets so proud of herself when she goes!  I feel like any day she’s going to start refusing to go, but so far she is doing great.  She says “I go pa-paaa” and off to the potty we run!
  • She knows how to go in the freezer now and get her own popsicle out, that’s her favorite snack for sure!  She also loves cereal, juice boxes, mac & cheese, apples, and oranges.
  • She loves to put on a show, she will dance or hop around all crazy then look at you with a big cheese grin and fling her arms wide open and say “Ta-Daaaaa!”  Always looking for a reaction!
  • She also has a fake cry that she tries hard to get a reaction from.  Unfortunately Daddy gets more wrapped around her finger each day so he totally falls for this cry.  Me, not so much!  Momma’s got your number little miss.
  • Her & Brother love to chase each other around, they make each other laugh SO hard.  It’s the cutest thing.  But I’ve learned to just prepare myself for scream because sure enough someone is about to make someone else mad!
  • She is talking SO much more now, I feel like she went straight into making sentences!  “It’s May-May’s turn!” (she calls herself May-May!) “Shhh Brova go night-night”, “I take May-May’s shoes off!”, “I watch Bubble, petty peaaasssse” She has such good manners, always saying “Dank You Mama!”.  She can be quite bossy, if we’re in the car she’s always saying “No, Go Dat Way Momma!!”  And she is soooooooo territorial over her Daddy!!!  When we say hi to each other when we get home she will hear us kiss from where she is at and you can hear those feet come running across the hard wood floors to get in between us and push me off as hard as she can saying “No MY Da-da!!!”  One day I gave her the evil eye and said “he was mine first!” So now when she comes running she says “MY DA-DA FIIIIIIRST!!!!”  whatever girlfriend.
  • She is very independent and is quick to tell you “No help, May-May do it!!”  Then when she falls because she refused any help, she turns on the fake cry so that Daddy or Brother will come to her rescue.  Her knees are already both scraped up and we’ve only been in shorts for a week!
  • She seriously gives the best hugs.  She wraps her arms around you so tight and squeezes as hard as she can.  Such a sweet girl!

I can’t believe that she will be turning 2 in just 2 months…but then again I can believe it because I see all of those terrible two signs fast approaching!  I want to run and hide, but instead I’m just going to embrace these times.  Yes, they can be challenging, but all of the laughs and moments where you sit in awe of this being you created (as stubborn and hard-headed as can be) are SO worth it!  I honestly cannot imagine life without all of this cute spunkiness running around!

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Easter Fun!

We started our Easter festivities with a huge Easter egg hunt at our Church.  We always have a blast at this Easter egg hunt, but this year was extra fun because our friends Nicki, Mikayla, and Jax joined us and we went together!  We didn’t plan these coordinating outfits, but it sure did make for some cute photos of these little friends together!

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Love these kids, and their Momma too!!

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Somehow our name got drawn and we won this HUGE family Easter basket at the Egg Hunt!  Cool, huh?!

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The next morning was Easter so we got up bright & early before the sun so that we could go to the sunrise service our Church does!

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It’s such a pretty service right on the water and is my favorite way to start our Easter morning.  We went home and…guess who left each kid a basket on the kitchen counter?!  No, not the Easter Bunny!  Mommy & Daddy!

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We told Ryder that the Easter bunny had left those baskets for them and it only took him 2 minutes to break that code. The conversation went a little something like this:

Ryder: Why did I get an Easter egg Pez and Maisy got a Easter Bunny pez??

Mommy: Because I just figured that you would like the egg and she would like the bunny.

Ryder: I knewwwwwwww YOU filled these baskets!  Silly Mommy, there’s not really an Easter bunny!

Daddy:  Good job Mommy!

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Either way, the baskets were enjoyed!  After that we headed over to Poppy’s house to have breakfast with him, Nana, Uncle G, and Catherine.  The kids got more Easter goodies of course!

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Next stop was to my Mom’s to have Easter lunch with Yaya and the rest of my family :)  The rain didn’t stop us from still having our Easter egg hunt, we just moved it inside.

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The kids found so many eggs and then Yaya added even more goodies to their baskets! 

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The weather finally cleared up so we got to go outside for some pics and playtime with Paw-Paw! (Daddy snuck off for a nap, not fair!)

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Oh yeah, then we woke Daddy up to get some pics with him in it!  This next sequence of pictures cracks me up.  Alan is about to take a picture with Ryder:

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Maisy doesn’t like this idea, so she sneaks in pretending to give brother a hug:

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Then does the spin move onto Alan’s lap and starts pushing brother away saying “No, My Dada!!”

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That girl is crazy for her Daddy!  And no matter how crazy they all are, I’m crazy for every single one of them! 

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Happy Easter! 

Living He love me;

Dying He saved me,

Buried He carried my sins far away;

Rising He justified, freely forever;

One day He’s coming, Oh Glorious Day!

We can get through this crazy life with the Hope and Strength we find through Jesus alone, trying hard to live in remembrance of that this Easter season!