21 Months

You love to pray before bed. This month we started asking you who you want to pray for after we get done with our Daddy, Mommy, Caroline, Rollie list and sometimes you will give Daddy and I extra blessings but sometimes its for other people or Mickey characters...regardless it is really sweet to see who you add every night.

You are starting to yell out the names of the Mickey characters during the intro to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse show as well as "Oh Toodles" and "Miska Mooska Mouska Tools"

You also follow all the directions for "If you're happy and you know it" ie. clap your hands, stomp your feet (your favorite) and shout hurray. With hurray you usually pump your fist in the air too.

You have been associating the books we read with your stuffed animals now. If we read about a polar bear you go get your stuffed polar bear to read with us, or your bunny or cow or whichever other animal we happen to have.

You have been bringing me my purse and shoes to tell me you want to go somewhere.

You can recognize Home Depot even when we are in a new city. When we pass the sign you always get really excited and want to "drive, drive, drive". They have the carts with the kids steering wheels and you love them.

You also shout out "Target" when we pass by one. Guess we go there a little too often. One time a few months ago I let you get a snack while we were there and you still ask for one as soon as we walk in the doors. AND do not get me started on HEB, you are absolutely obsessed with the HEB Buddy Game! You were even an Instant Winner this month. Free Sunglasses... whoo hoo!

This month you got to take a trip to Wichita Falls to see your cousin, Jay, be baptized.

We also had to replace our air conditioning unit and you got to sleep with Mommy for a week while we were waiting on our install appointment. As much fun as it was to have our own portable ac unit keeping us cool at night, we are both glad to be back in our separate beds.We spent a lot of our time in bed and coloring in the living room directly in front of the temporary ac units.

You got to visit with another couple of babies this month including Edith and Jay! You loved trying to give them their pacis and giving them toys to play with. You are such a good little mommy :)

This July we have made several trips to the park, spent several hours on the back porch, baked cookies (you really like to mix the ingredients and "tap tap tap" them on the side of bowl to get them out of the measuring cups) We have also played with your water table using bubbles and taken midday cool baths to beat the heat.

And I just couldn't help it, I had to add a picture of these two: