Weekend Visitors!

We had some visitors over the weekend and Ashlyn enjoyed all of the time she got to spend with her 2 cousins! We did some shopping Saturday afternoon (made it about 3 hours without anyone getting fussy!) and then just hung out and relaxed the rest of the weekend. Little Izzy is getting big and changing so much, and sweet Mya is looking more grown up and it quite the little lover just like Ashlyn. They got along really well and played together great. It was great to see them and Stacy and Kayla again.

How many blankets can I carry?

Boy do I love my blankies....I need to carry them all at once! But it's a little hard to carry them all.... But I sure do try!!!

Say Cheese...

Cheesy.... Not as cheesy... :)

18 months old

Ashlyn turned 18 months old this week. Her updated stats from her doctor appointment this week are: 27 lbs (80th percentile) and 32.5 inches (75th percentile). So still above average - a pretty big girl! She is starting to become a little repeater recently and has started to say more and more words each week. Her newest favorite word has become banana or "nana" and "night night". She has also learned to help feed shotzy every day. She enjoys bringing her dish over to the closet where we keep her food, scoop it into the dish, and she even takes it back to where it belongs without dumping it all on the kitchen floor (most of the time!). She is a great little helper and a busy little bee. Right now she is cooking up a storm in her kitchen...don't know what she's making but hopefully it's good :)

17 months old!

Well, Ashlyn is 17 months old now and this past month was an exciting one for her. With Christmas and all of our visits with family and friends it was a nice and busy month. Now we get to settle into winter and wait for spring to arrive! Is it too early to be thinking of spring :) One big accomplishment we had last month was ditching the pacifier for good!!! She has only had it for nap time and at night for bed for several months now, but we were down to 1 pacifier (the rest were MIA somehow) that we were taking back and forth to daycare for naps and forgetting half the time. So she wasn't getting one for some naps during the week so one Friday night we decided to give it a go and took it away for good cold turkey. Surprisingly she did really well! She cries a little when she goes to bed now sometimes, but that has been getting better and sometimes we don't hear a peep out of her! Now the only struggle is those darn eye teeth that we believe are coming in and the cold she has picked up! 'Tis the season for that I guess!

Christmas at home!

After our travels to Phillips and Colby celebrating Christmas 4 different times, we made it back home and got to celebrate Christmas yet again with just our little family. Ashlyn enjoyed opening more presents and playing with the wrapping paper. She got a kitchen set from Santa that we finally got all set up last night. She also checked out her new Dora "play hut" but wouldn't go inside it. She even had mommy inside the hut trying to coax her to come in and check it out, but she stayed outside and just shook her head "no"! Boy was that a site...

Christmas with Damien's Family...