New Hairstyles

E finally has hair!
Enough for a pony tail or pigtails!



I love how cute her little pigtails are.

They are just to die for when they are first done.

Then there are the other fun hairstyles I have been attempting when she sits still :)

 

Random Cuteness

E wakes up with the best bed head


I love the back of her head in the mornings.

Who couldn't resist this face in the morning?

E loves to dress up in my clothes, socks, all day long.

I just love this fashion statement :)

 

 

Always putting on my shoes, she is a clothes and shoes diva :)

Love

I made these cookies last week.  They are scrumptious.  I can't stop eating them.  In fact I just made my second batch of them today.  MMMM.

Maybe its a pregnancy craving.  Maybe its me embracing fall. Maybe they are just plain delicious.

E isms

E loves to read books.  I mean seriously read books.   

She reads all day long. While she reads she asks me, "Momma, whats this?" for every little picture she doesn't know.

She even can read certain favorite books to herself, like, Brown bear Brown bear what do you see?  It is really cute.

When I do her hair in the morning, she has to pick out her own bow.  If I give her the wrong one she flips out.  This morning she was wearing a pink shirt.  But had to have a black bow.  :)

She knows her ABC's and can count to 10.  Recently she has been learning her shapes.  She knows names but doesn't correlate them correctly all the time.  

She pretty much has her colors 90% down.  When we drive in the car she points out all the other vehicles and tells me what color they are.

We live in a place that is flat as a pancake and has virtually no trees.  E gets excited over a tree and a hill.

Her favorite movies are Hercules, Finding Nemo, Elmo, and recently Despicable Me.  She randomly starts singing and then tells me it was a "Hercules Song"

She loves playing apps on my ipod and kindle.  She thinks they are hers. Right now she is reading books and listening to music on the ipod app.

Nightmares

E has nightmares.  She has for some time now.  Not sure if I mentioned this before. But its gotten worse.

Friday night she woke up screaming at midnight.  Normally we give her a cup of water, a kiss, and say night night, and she goes back to sleep.  However, when D walked in to do that, he said she looked so scared he couldn't leave her in there.  So he brought her to bed with us.  When she laid down next to me, she was still screaming.  So I cuddled her close and sang to her until she fell asleep.  That was a restless night. She likes to push me off the bed.  Several times I got kicked in the head.  Finally at 5:30 am I picked her up and tried to put her back in her bed.  She woke up screaming bloody murder and wouldn't go back in the bed. So I passed her to D and set up camp on our couch.  

When it came time for naptime Saturday I was afraid we would have issues.  Nope. She went down without problems and slept for 3.5 hours. And then we had to wake her up.  

Saturday night she slept fine. Sunday night she had a few times she cried, but she stayed in her bed till 6.  Then last night, Monday, she woke up at 1:30 am.  I brought her water, turned her nightlight stars on again. But she was still crying./ So I sang to her while she was in her bed.  Then she got quiet.  I started to leave and she said "Hevnly Father?" It was so cute.  So I went back to her bedside and prayed that she would be comforted and be able to sleep.

  It is a truly humbling experience when your 2 year old reminds you that when you're scared we can pray for help. I love how she knows in her time of need who to turn to.  I can only hope that she can continue to be surrounded by such influences that she will continue to pray and ask to pray when she is in need.  I am grateful every day for my little girl and my little boy who will soon be here.  I know that I am far from being perfect, but I try every day to be the best mom.  I am grateful for a husband who stands by my side and helps me raise our kid(s). 

arcade games, candy machines, and coin suckers

So I am going to rant for a minute here.  I just need to vent.  Bear with me or don't read.  But understand I am still pretty upset about this.  Why do stores and movie theaters and who knows what else have all those stupid arcade games, mechanical animals, candy machines, stuffed animal machines or whatever else in their store entry??  I mean seriously.

Don't they know the behavior issues it causes with some kids??

In fact I have not 1 but 2 stories from today. Alone.

1. I go to Walmart with E this morning for milk.  E sees mechanical horse.  Throws a fit till I let her sit on it. I am not in a huge hurry so I oblige her this once and stick her on the horse and she has fun even without me putting in quarters.  As she rides it she sees the candy and stuffed animal machines.  She wants down to play with those.  I try to stick her in the cart and she goes haywire, crazy, again.  I force her in the back of the cart. Count to 10 to calm myself down and then giver her two options, ipod or food from my purse to sit buckled in the front.  She chose ipod and was content for shopping.  

2.  I noticed the dollar theater was playing Madagascar 3 last week and thought it would be fun to take E to the movies again.  We had a pretty good experience with her at The Lorax on her birthday, so thought it would be a fun family event.  We get to the mall early and E is getting cranky.  But when she saw the movie poster and realized what we were watching she was so excited it was adorable.  She kept saying over and over, Lion, Monkeys, Hippo, Giraffe...
D bought the tickets and we start to walk in, but once again she sees the arcade games and freaks out.  We had 20 minutes so we let her pretend to play on them without putting in quarters.  Then I scoop her up 5 minutes before movie starts and tell her its time to see the animals.  She watches the movie, without popcorn, soda, or candy, and loves it.  We are all in a great mood.  We walk out, through the games, and guess what?  Yeah. She flipped out again. But this time we dont stop. So she hollers. And screams. The entire way to the car. 

Guess who went straight to bed?
Guess who has lost ipod and kindle privileges for the weekend?
Guess who pouted really cute-like when daddy chastised her?
Yep.  The stink bug E.

I think we will wait a long time before going to the movies with her again.  And I might just shop at the more expensive store without stupid mechanical animals in front of it for a little while.
I hate marketing towards children. 

E's 1st quiet book

So I got a sewing machine for Christmas.  And just after New Years I found this cool pattern off of Etsy.  This lady has tons of quiet book and other crafty patterns and so I bought a few.  The first one I attempted was the number book.  It took me 8 months. 
If you are a begginer sewer, like me. Don't attempt.. haha
No I mean it took a lot more work than I anticipated. 
And when I was working I had no time to do anything, because by the time I got E into bed, I was too tired to cut out and sew tiny things.

So it isn't perfect and if you look close my stitching is horrible.  But E loves it!

When she opened it up, she said "Oh pretty"

That pretty much gave me the encouragement I needed to start making book number two, Halloween quiet book. 

Of course that one is 17 pages, this one was 12...so it might be ready by Halloween 2013 ;)

 

Regardless the time and effort, I loved working on my sewing skills, and love watching E read it.  She is my little sweet heart and I will make as many quiet books as she will read.  It will just be a slow work in progress