Cookies

Thursday we helped Mommy make some cookies!

Frosting sure was fun! I (Alayna) enjoyed the frosting :)

This was a FUN idea!

A little bit more frosting on Grant's. They did great! After frosting - came the sprinkles!

LIFE as IS

Just some random pics of what has been going on around here lately :)

We've been playing a lot of hide and seek lately. Daddy helped Alayna hide in the laundry basket. Grant is getting really good at being quiet once he is in his hidding spot...however doesn't really understand yet about NOT telling me where he's going to hide :)
You may not be able to see great - BUT - Grant is working on dressing himself too. Rather than picking out his outfits though (like Alayna wants to do) we are working on him getting all the clothes on and off himself. Well - some things happen to go on backwards, etc (Undies are typically on backwards :))

Lana came to visit last week. Her Mommy is going back to work part time again tomorrow - we hope she has a really good day! And Lana too - playing with all her new friends at her daycare!

"Hold me" - often what is spoken after getting out of the tub :)

SNOW

We got some more snow.......it was super fun! Daddy burried me in it :)

Yup - Daddy and I have fun when we're outside!

Basketball

A couple weekends ago, Mommy and Daddy really did some cleaning in the basement. We were finally able to get my basketball hoop set up that I got for Christmas. Daddy put it together Sunday afernoon.

While we put the hoop together, Alayna rode in her grocery cart

And we all know that the box is WAY more fun to play with than the actual toy itself. SO - we fought over this one for a while...both had tears.

More Nail Painting

Grandma painted my nails! Thanks Grandma!

No More Nukie

Feb 16 was the first night of no nukie for Alayna. The teeth are now in and this is the next step to potty training...so Daddy cut the tip off so it no longer "worked". She still held it and took it to bed with her. The first night we bye-o-byed for an extra long time, she cried once - I went back and we rocked a bit longer and then when I laid her down (not yet sleeping) she went right to sleep.
The second night on the other hand...didn't quite go like that. I went back once - we rocked again, but when she went back down this time - she wasn't happy about it. She didn't really want anything to do with the broken nuk. I did see her a few times within the first couple days or so with it in her mouth again, but other times when going in to get her in the morning - found it on the floor. Anyway, the second night she cried for about an hour before going to sleep. I would go in and try to at least calm her down - without taking her out of her bed - but she was ticked. Then the third night was about 40 mins of crying.
About a week and a half after the nuk "broke" I didn't put it in her bed with her at night and since then it's just been gone. Now if Alayna asks about her nuk I just have to say "remember it broke" and she says "yeah - its broke".
It was sort of (I can say this now after the fact) funny that first week b/c while getting ready for bed at night she would tell me she was going to cry. When we rocked she'd say "bye-o-bye 2 minutes Mommy". So I would and then she'd cry...what she meant was - I needed to come back in and bye-o-bye again for 2 mins.
Well - we're finally past it all. About 10 days or so and it was all gone. WAY TO GO LAYNA! Proud of you!

Outside

Mommy forgot to post pics from a few weeks ago when it was so warm outside and a lot of the snow melted around here. It was Feb 16 and 40some degrees.

We played outside one afternoon - shoveled snow onto the driveway and then we SPLASHED in the PUDDLES!

We had A LOT of fun!