A million pictures

somehow blogger on my phone erased all of the writing i'd done on my computer.  sooo, let's try to recreate it.

i've been taking way more pictures lately than what i can keep up with.  here are a few to remember and some shortcut captions that will hopefully be sufficient to jog my memory when i come back to look at these.

i told baby girl she needed to finish her last few bites of banana.  two seconds later when i turned around she exclaimed that she was "all done!"  

a quick investigation revealed that she was, in fact, not all done, but had conveniently slid her banana off of her tray and into her nifty bib catcher.  nice move baby girl.

while i was waiting for her to finish the banana, i'd told her i was going to change brady's diaper and come right back. to which she replied, "i want to come change brady's diaper too!"  so i waited for her to finish eating and when she got out of her chair she RAN to my bedroom.  by the time i got there she'd pulled out a wipe (and even closed the lid again!), a diaper, and a burp cloth (i normally use a blanket of some kind) to lay him on.  what a great helper!  i was impressed.

baby girl is our official photographer of brady's diaper changes.  this is one of the few non blurry, non x rated pictures she took.

what a precious sneaking hand.  when i'm too lazy to do a quality swaddle (i HAVE to straightjacket his arms down) then he always manages to pull this little hand up.

the ipad, the potty, the thomas undies, the pink silky pj's, the elmo potty book, those fingers ready and perched to play any game possible... there are too many things i'm loving about this picture.

i got this picture text the other day.  it was taken at one of the birthday parties baby girl went to last weekend.

back in the day, i used to worry that baby girl would need to be swaddled til she went to college. so when she told me she wanted to be wrapped up like brady, i couldn't resist.  if i thought she looked like a big kid before, that was nothing compared to how she looked swaddled.  she's HUGE!  seriously, biggest swaddle ever.

i wonder the oldest age any kid has needed to be swaddled.  she was almost too big for the blanket!

and then she insisted that i hold her.  standing up.  while she remained wrapped in her swaddle. she does this with her bunny bath towel after baths too.  "i want mommy hold you!"  "i want mommy stand up!"  ha. whatever you say, baby girl.

sometimes she'll just put a hand flat down on her plate of food or place her fist in her cup of milk. and then keep it there. like eat the whole rest of her meal like that.

1.27.13, after church

puzzles were on sale at big lots so honey got a million.  sesame street, thomas, and minnie mouse all came in four packs. most of them are put away in the closet upstairs but we surprised baby girl with four of the new puzzles.  she is in love with them.  and i expected it to take her a while to learn them but that thomas one she could do on her own that same night.  

hugs

while i was nursing brady today, baby girl decided to wear this carseat cover thing.  ps- my room is no longer a disaster like you see here.  it is spotless now.  and there is no "low hanging fruit" anymore for baby girl to make a mess of.

looks like some sort of project runway bubble dress something or other.

how do sandwiches never ever ever occur to me when i'm thinking of lunch for baby girl? i smeared some peanut butter on a slice of wheat bread and she devoured it.

while we listened to sweet baby james seven times in a row.

her shirt got messy with peanut butter so she went shirtless for a bit. luckily she had enough layers on her bottom half to keep her covered.  also, baby girl's newest phrase is "a bit" as in "i want to watch thomas a bit."  the voice intonation is the best.

honey was the last one to play play dough with baby girl.  so when i opened this green container tonight i enjoyed this pleasant surprise.  i won't lie, it freaked me out a little bit.

oh hello there!  brady is sporting the onesie honey and i picked up when we found out i was pregnant with baby girl. now someone actually gets to wear it.

this headband fell down when i grabbed something from the top shelf of baby's closet. and she insisted o n wearing it for the rest of the night.  when we had a thomas music dance party in the kitchen while making dinner, her whole outfit together made her look like she was straight out of an 80's workout video.  reminded me of jesse from saved by the bell.  y'know that "i'm so excited" caffeine overdose episode?

"it's stapped!"  or something like that.  i can't remember... but i'm pretty sure she wasn't saying "stacked" correctly. and it was cute.  also, i love that she is so precise when she cleans up her play dough.  correct colors in correct containers with the correct lids.  and i don't even have to ask her to clean up... she thinks it's part of the fun!  AND IT IS!

i made this A and she got soooo excited.  

although maybe she's had too much exposure to sesame street because she kept pointing to it and calling it "the letter A" as in "it's the letter A!  that's the letter A right there!"

and there you have it.