Lots :)

I am now a BIG 23 month old. I am talking up a storm and being such a big girl! I pooped in the potty the other day, and every day I wake up saying "poo poo in the potty." I am still learning to let Mommy and Marmee know when I need to use the potty, but I'm trying my best!

I've also learned another new trick-

apparently mommy and daddy don't like this one too much...

Colin's (well, I guess he's mine too) elf Henry came back on Thanksgiving :)! He brought us both an ornament for our trees because he saw us decorating them, how sweet! I can't wait to see the mischief and fun that he brings to our house in December! I will blog about our four Christmas trees soon, maybe next time?

Thanksgiving was different this year. Since Aunt Nita is in the hospital, we only had one Thanksgiving to attend. We went to my Big Granny's house in Dayton. I had fun running about with Miss Bella and playing with everyone at Big Granny's house. Mommy didn't get a ton of pics because the house was packed!

Daddy, Colin, and I got some fresh air before lunch because it was HOT inside Granny's house~

I wasn't feeling 100% ( I went to the doctor on Monday and found out that I had croup, so I was on my third day of steroids and cranky!), and I wasn't eating super well. My first real Thanksgiving meal consisted mostly of rolls and desert :).

Colin and I went back outside to work off our feast. He climbed the big tree and brought me leaves to pay with :).

Thursday night I was soooooo excited to put on some Christmas pj's and to look at the Christmas tree and all the lights! I kept saying "ohhhhh pretty."

Thanksgiving was complete on Sunday with a Woody family Thanksgiving at Shepherd with Anita Bug. We ate some yummy food and played together :)!

Braxton and I had fun playing with his toy puppy dog. I *might* have taken it from him a few times, and it's possible that I ran away with it so no one else could play with it...

Braxton didn't care, because he was busy being the center of attention! Daddy had fun coloring with one of his favorite little guys...

We all had a great day and visit with our favorite patient :)! Aunt Peggy got a group shot, and I would REALLY like to get a copy :)

I have yet another busy week, but I'm enjoying all of my fun activities and adventures!

WHEW...

Let me wrap up my past week as quickly as I can...

Wednesday we met up with my good friend Miss Brittney for a mini photo session. Mommy said she was calling it my 2 yr. session/Christmas card pics. Whatever mom....

Here's a little sneak peak:

Mommy LOVES the pictures! She was so proud of Bubba and me that she gave us each a BIG Lolly :).

We both kind of had it ALL over us by the time we made it home, but it was worth it :).

Thursday, I had another super fun day with my cousin Braxton! I like to mother hen him (mommy says a little too much). He is fun to play with, and he thinks that I'm hilarious! I hope we keep our play dates up!  Mommy took Braxton back to his house and then headed  to Atlanta to spend the night with his mommy (Aunt Nita) Thursday night. I had a spend the night party at my Marmee & Poppy's house! 

Mommy had to leave Aunt Nita kind of early on Friday morning so she could come get me and we could head to the Wilderness Resort with my family :).

Colin and Jakob spent most of their time riding down the big water slides, in the wave pools, and shooting hoops in the pool. Jojo and I spent most of our time in the two different kiddie pools with lots of fun toys and places to play.

Mommy only took her camera one time and just took a few pics. She said it was hard to get a lot of good pics because she was busy playing with me and she stayed wet!

Jojo and I would chant "Wanna go to water park" over and over again until someone would take us :). We absolutely LOVED playing in the water (hurry up Summer!).

 My favorite things to do were playing on the swings in the water, floating on my belly in the pool, and sliding down the kiddie slide all by myself.

I would climb the stairs, sit down, and slide all by myself over and over and over again! I probably went down this slide over 100 times!

I went down some larger slides on the other kiddie playground (it was REALLY big and had a lot of big kids on it, so I didn't like it as well- plus it dumped a BIG bucket of water over the top of the playground every 5 or 10 minutes. It freaked Joli and me out!).  I didn't like the bigger slides as well because I had to ride on them with an adult. Being the independent thing that I am, I didn't care for that.

I can't wait to go back to the water park again,

but really, I just enjoyed being with my family. We had fun hanging out in the room, and playing with one another.

Joli and I had lots of fun with some Thanksgiving stickers.

We had fun decorating each other's faces....

We also had fun reading books,

and coloring just like we do at home.

Of course the boys kept me entertained the WHOLE weekend, as always. We ran around and around, and enjoyed being silly with one another.

Thank you Marmee and Poppy for our fun weekend get-a-way!

So, life has continued to be a little crazy lately. Mommy has still been having spend the night parties with Anita every week. Last week mommy went to Atlanta twice, had a cheerleading competition, a fund raiser meeting, and she watched Braxton all day so Peggy could visit with Anita on her days off. That's not to mention the day to day stuff like grocery shopping, laundry, etc... I am telling you this so you will realize that mommy hasn't had a lot of time to help me jot down my thoughts and blog. 

Mom did manage to take a few pics of some random things that we've been doing lately.... like Braxton and me playing dress up (notice my sparkly red shoes? They are a MUST when I'm having a dance party). 

I think the brown hat with the blue pjs really brings out Braxton's blue eyes. I am sooooo going to be a stylist one day.

I've managed to be silly a lot lately.....

Oh! Oh! Some exciting news.... Grandma bought me some SUPER cute Elmo slippers last week. I've slept in them a few nights because I don't want to take them off- EVER. Marmee bought me these cutie pie Elmo pj's to match my shoes- I love them! This is me yelling "E-L-M-O!"

LOVE THESE HOUSE SHOES!

Today was a super fun day. I spent the morning with Aunt Peggy and Braxton at Zach and Nita's house. Mommy got me after I played for a little while and let me come hang out with her at the car wash for Aunt Nita.  Daddy took Libby and me to get lunch and play at McDonald's. We had sooo much fun! 

I love my Praying for Anita t-shirt and green arm band. They remind me to pray for Braxton, because he misses his mommy lots. And to pray for Aunt Nita every time I look at my arm band!  You can follow Anita's journey on prayingforanita.com, or "like" praying for Anita on Facebook.  Lots of people pray for them every day...hope you do too!

Happy Halloween

My Halloween trick-or-treating extravaganza started off a little rocky. The Georgia/Florida game didn't quite turn out the way that we had hoped, so I eased my pain with a yummy pumpkin and cream cheese muffin. Mmmmmm.

I loved wearing my bumblebee costume (I basically wore it all week), but decided to share my antennas with Mr. Piggers for the night.

I had lots of friends and family come over to my house for some food and trick-or-treating.

Look at the adorable Miss Millie as a bunny and Miss Mia as Wonder Woman!

An equally cute Libby "Super Woman" Cline and Gabe come over to run around the neighborhood too.

I was sooooo excited that my little cousin Braxton and his Aunt Michelle (and family) came over. Doesn't he make the cutest duck ever?

Colin brought his friend Hayden over to hang out and tick-or-treat.

How awesome does Bryson look in his costume?

Austin's costume proves that you can make a hilarious costume out of things that are lying around your house. What a nerd! Oh, and don't forget the sassy little kitty Gracie behind him :).

The night was filled with lots of fun. I LOVED walking around the neighborhood at night. I didn't want mommy to hold me, and I didn't want to ride in my wagon. I wanted to walk.the.whole.way. I slowed mommy and me down from the group on occasion, but we made up time when they ran up to houses to trick-or-treat. You see, I didn't want to trick-or-treat, I just wanted to look at the stars and the moon and walk :).

When we got back to my house, I decided to put my antennas back on. Braxton was really into them, I wasn't so sure about him touching them.

Sunday was a fun day too! We went to church, and I was able to wear my Halloween MiMi Mouse dress! Mommy was excited because she didn't get to see me in it at Disney.

I enjoyed playing with the jack-o-lantern. The scary face that daddy carved is on the other side....I didn't like it!

Sunday evening we went over to Marm and Pops house for a little soup, grilled cheese, and goodies :). 

I was excited to see my Jakob and Joli since they were out of town Saturday night.

I just love MY Jakob. Doesn't he make a cool looking ninja turtle?

Jojo was a cute  basketball playing Monkey too!

I enjoyed cheering my mommy and daddy on to a corn toss victory over the undefeated Beth and Blake....

Love you Aunt Biffy, glad we were able to have some bonding moments Sunday :)! 

I'm thinking that mommy and daddy (maybe even Santa?) need to hook me up with some more dress up clothes. I'm a BIG fan. Hope you had a memorable and sweet Halloween :)!