Odds and Ends...

We've been busy since our last post... It is hard to update when your time is consumed chasing around a little girl. :) We are loving this stage. She is so active and curious and is starting to pretend and it is just too much fun to play with her! :) She is talking more and more and is acting so big and grown up! I haven't done monthly updates for a couple months now, but she is still changing and growing. She has all of her teeth but her four eye teeth. She chews on her hands a lot and acts like she's working on them.

She is getting over a sinus infection and the start of a double ear infection. We just finished her antibiotics. She doesn't take bottles anymore. We stopped the night bottles cold turkey on Dec. 21st. We were nervous, but she did well. She has been sleeping through the night more and more, and it is rare to get up with her. :) Yay! (Hopefully she keeps this trend.... we are all much happier with sleep! :) :) ) She eats so much more since she isn't taking bottles! Sometimes we wonder where she puts it all.

She is wearing size 24 month/2T clothes now, and has been since before Christmas! She is so tall!!! She weighs 25 pounds and is 32 inches tall!

Here are some pictures... enjoy!

She loves to be pushed in her car around and around the circle in our house.... :)

She does her sign language sign for more and please when we are done. Of course

it is so adorable we HAVE to keep going! :)

She loves the kitchen we got her for Christmas. She loves to pretend in it. She plays

with the microwave and mixes things on her stove. She loves to feed us too. :) Too precious! :)

Allie and Cousin A got to play together for the Rose Bowl! :) Of course they had to

wear their Ohio State stuff!!!! :)

Allie kept saying "Buckeye!"

Allie got a baby doll (Her name is Bailey, but she calls her Allie) for Christmas from Nana and Papa. We got her cradle (that used to be mommy's for her dolls- made by mommy's grandpa) down and put blankets in and every night we put Bailey to bed with her puppy before we put Allie to bed. It is too cute to watch her put her in her bed and kiss her good night!! !:)

We've been playing with blocks a lot too. Gramps and Grammie got her a set and so did Great Grandpa. One day, daddy built a tower that touched the ceiling! :) Sometimes I think we have more fun building stuff than Allie does! :) Hee! Hee! :)

We welcomed a new cousin into the family. Little L was born a few days after Christmas. We went to visit, and Allie just looked at him and patted his head and then was done. I'm sure she'll love playing with him someday! :)

We had a play-date with cousin K too. They had a blast playing in the kitchen together! :) They are such good friends! :) I'm so glad they are close in age and love to play together! :)

Such a little ham! :)

Reading Lots of Books !!! This girl LOVES books!!!!!!!!!

This little girl is still a magnet to this fridge. As soon as the door

opens, VROOM! She's there. You almost can never open the door and get

something out without having to put at least one dressing container back on the

shelf! :) This time, I just let her go! :) Pretty funny!