Trip to the Zoo

The above pic is from our zoo trip when you were 9 months old. It was 100 degrees, you were to little and none of the animals were out. Basically it was miserable. This weeks trip to the zoo was way better! You were so excited about all of the animals and had to the best time making animal sounds and checking everything out.  You were so excited about the giraffes and told us your favorite animal was the elephants.

Update on B

You are 2 years 7 months old and you personality if funnier than ever! We just cannot get over the new stuff you come up with everyday.

Here are some things you say/do that crack us up.

-your response to any answer you like "hot dog" complete with a swinging arm (learned this from Mickey Mouse, such a goober)
-when you wake up in the morning "mommy where is you?"
-"I'm going to poot on you" followed by a poot noise with your mouth
-you get super excited when we go to the bathroom in the potty. I am talking your face lights up and you say "good job!!!" and run to bring us 2 m&m's which is what you get when you potty. If we don't eat them you get mad
-at bedtime we say your prayers then you run through every song request that you know and make us sing for you. The more songs you learn the longer the process is. If we don't hold up our diamond in the sky during "twinkle twinkle" you make us start over. Same with itsy bitsy. It has to be complete with all hand motions

My very favorite thing that you say now is your response to when we say "I love you more" you say "I love you most". MELTS MY HEART

Milestone
-officially potty trained!!!! You have been in underwear for almost 3 weeks now, day and night.

Fun Times

 Trying out Pops burgers. This pic cracks me up!

 Our new fav place is Pit Stop BBQ. Wide open space, a bull, a stage (where you did the chicken dance by yourself), a sandbox and amazing bbq! We were all in heaven!

Memorial Day Cookout

 By Monday you were feeling much better so we enjoyed the day playing outside and cooking out.

Still took a few rests throughout the day. I think you liked all the extra "sick" attention:)

Polka Fest 2014

Polka Fest 2014 was a hit! Well at least until you came down with the tummy bug:(
You still got to participate in the dance Friday night, the parade on Saturday and lunch/dancing at the hall and the polka mass. You have a new found love for the accordion and spent your time at the halls standing right by the stage watching the accordion player. When you play the accordion for us at home you start out by saying "y'all ready? Everybody ready?"  So funny!

 Ready for the dance contest on Friday night!

  Being silly with mommy.

 Waiting patiently for the parade to start.

 Fun with your cousins!

 Chowing down on a kolache

 Dinner at Don Jose's. This is where it all went downhill. You started running fever at the restaurant and threw up when we got home. We spent the next two days cuddling you and getting you healthy again. This mommy is definitely not complaining about the extra cuddles:)

Resting on the couch but you still wanted your accordian.

Haircut and Jorts

Nana usually takes you to get your haircut but with my new part-time schedule I was finally able to take you. When I told you you were going to see Nancy the first thing you asked was "with Nana?". When I said no, with mommy you then followed up with "you gots m&m's in your purse?" I made sure to bring m&m's so your experience would be the exact same as when Nana takes you:)

Yaya ordered a bunch of clothes for you and I had to share the pic of your new jorts. You look so cute in them!

Library Time

With my new part-time schedule at work I now have plenty of time to do fun things with you like take you to the library. At first you said you didn't want to go but once we got there you loved it! You picked out books and we sat on the floor and read. You were so excited that you got to take two books home with you and couldn't wait to show Daddy your library books. We read them to you at least 10 times.

After we put you to bed that evening we went to check on you and you had fallen asleep with one of your books on your chest. I love that you love to read and hope that we keep that up by taking weekly visits to the library.