Coloring Time

In order to keep the 4 to 5 year olds in our primary class attentive and occupied we usually spend the last 20-30 minutes doing some sort of craft or coloring. Bails likes to be like the big kids and has learned to love coloring too.

She usually gets bored of coloring on the paper after a couple of minutes and starts drawing on the table, floor, or any other surface she can get to before I notice her naughty behavior.
It is also mandatory to dump every last crayon out of the box. I guess it makes it easier to see your options. And it's probably funny to watch a giant pregnant lady crawl around the floor trying to pick them all up before the wax does permanent damage. Oh brother!

Eighteen Months

Height: 32.25 in - 48.66 %

Weight: 24.3 lbs - 26.57 %
Head Circumference: 50.3 cm - 96.92 %

-Loves to make all of her animals kiss. She also enjoys sharing her water and pacifier with Mr. Bear and her little figurines.
-Is constantly putting buckets, boxes, hats, etc on her head so they cover her eyes and then walks around giggling.
-Is getting pretty good at hiding. She will go behind the blinds, a sweatshirt or in the hallway closet and then hold really still. Then she will randomly peek out and look at you laughing.
-Obsessed with fruit. She will walk around eating an apple or pear for an hour. Also, giving her a box of raisins makes her just as happy as a few M&M's. Silly girl.
-Still loves bath time.
-Loves to brush her teeth, but hates it when I brush her hair. She barely lets me comb it and getting it into pig tails is absolutely impossible. Thus she looks homely with crazy hair the majority of the time.
-Is very independent. She has to do everything herself or she will throw a temper tantrum. She has to have her own spoon to feed herself her yogurt breakfast or someone will go deaf.
-Hates her car seat. She will climb out and then sit in the normal seat next to her car seat and act like she is ready to go.
-Went to nursery for the first time and marched in like she owned the place. She was a little teary when I went to pick her up so she may have been a little surprised we left her alone. We will see how the next week goes.
-Has to be in on the action. She is always wanting me to pick her up and has to help me do everything. By help I mean dump out or ruin whatever I am working on.
-Favorite songs are: Book of Mormon Stories, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Popcorn, Hands song, and Twinkle Twinkle.
-Always remembers to say her prayers before eating and bed. She usually is the one who reminds us.
-Loves her car or helicopter and runs around the house making noises as she drives and flies them around.
-Thinks the snow is funny. She points at it and laughs as it lands on her head. Glad one of us has a good attitude about it.
-Is obsessed with anything electronic. The computer, Ipad, television, phones, etc. Always wants to watch Elmo you tube videos with Uncle Robby or watch Tangled or any of the Toy Story movies on the Ipad or TV. This is good news for long car rides because she could watch movies all day if we would let her.
-Bailey can be super bossy. She has a mind of her own, knows what she wants, and is very good at pointing and getting her way.
-She still won't talk but likes making animal sounds like monkey, dog and cat. She also knows where her nose, eyes, mouth, hair and ears are.
-Is a super sleeper. We put her down at 830 and she usually sleeps till 8 or so the next day. She also takes 2-3 hour naps each day.

Bailey is a happy and silly baby and is always making us laugh. We just love her to death and are so happy she is in our family.

Hide N Seek

I guess when you are this little you can hide behind anything.

However, a little tip for the future Bails....When you find a pretty decent hiding spot that could scare the crap out of your Dad, don't ruin it by laughing the whole time.
I think I know where all my focus and energy is going to be placed until baby #2 makes its arrival.
Stealth hiding spots and scaring Sam half to death. It may be even funnier than when I do it and he won't be able to get angry or seek revenge.
Because who can get mad at that face?

Halloween

On Halloween we waited for Sam to get out of class and then we headed over to a little strip mall by our house so she could trick or treat at the stores. We hit the tail end of it so a lot of stores had run out of candy, but it was better than having there be a million people around and she still made out pretty well.

The new aged cow doesn't moo, it roars apparently...

She was even less interested in candy this time around then at the ward party much to the dismay of Sam and I. We needed her to get our candy. Good thing I am shameless and I grab stuff when she won't. Sam feels too awkward and never does. Goof head.
She did find a winner though in the balloon from Dan's. Except they give out balloons to kids every day so we pretty much have a stock pile at our house since we must get one every time we go.
She also scored a toothbrush from an orthodontist after walking through this spook house. I thought the dark would make her nervous, but nope, she was fine just cruising through by herself.
After making her way through all the stores we took her around the block to a few houses. She loved walking up to the houses, knocking on the doors, but she usually ended the visit by trying to enter people's houses. She was successful quite a few times which was super awkward. Thus her trick or treating days ended a bit early for the evening. We thought she would have a great time passing out candy too, but we didn't get a single trick or treater.
So we spent the evening sorting Bailey's candy, letting her eat her bag of cheese balls which she absolutely loved, and then sending the baby to bed while we once again polished off her candy.
Happy Halloween.

Pumpkin Carving

Sam hates being dirty and sticky more than anyone I know. It is usually quite comical trying to watch him clean Bailey up from meal time. Bailey is usually super messy and he is like a scared old man trying to clean her up while staying super clean. It usually takes him like ten minutes to get the job done (when it should take him like 30 seconds).

Watching him carve a pumpkin with Bailey while trying to not getting any goo on himself? Hilarious.
Especially because Bails is fearless when it comes to getting dirty and she was always trying to get her chubby little hands on the spoon and knife.
Unfortunately she was successful quite a bit of the time. Yes that is my one year old holding a pretty sharp knife. And yes she is quite pleased with herself.
And this is the one year old scaring her Dad half to death. Not because she is holding a sharp knife, but because she has the ability to fling a lot of goo on him and get him dirty. (You know, the guy who wants to be a doctor).
Apparently she doesn't love the idea of touching goo with her hands either.
Unless of course it involves her getting the knife the back.
Or the pumpkin lid can always be fun too.
And for the record, yes she is standing super close to the edge of the doorstep. She did attempt to sit down like three seconds after this picture was taken and yes she did land on her back in a pile of dirt and ick. There was a little bit of crying from her, some shock from Sam and a few small giggles from me. What can I say. It is funny when people fall down. (In my defense she wasn't hurt at all and I came to her rescue the quickest despite being like a thousand pounds pregnant. Sam does move that slow.)

Ward Halloween Party!

Saturday was the ward Halloween Party. We dressed Bailey up in her little cow costume which she thought was quite hilarious when we first showed her. She was running all over the house dragging it behind her.

She was also quite handy with her pumpkin. Sam trained her to always pick twix or kit kats when a bowl of candy was placed in front of her. Too bad she was also really good at dumping the candy out and sharing it with other kids.
We ate some good chili, corn bread, and pigs in a blanket and then we were off to trick or treat in the classrooms upstairs. Unfortunately we took a little too long to eat because a few of the candy bowls were empty, but Bails enjoyed climbing the stairs and watching all the kids run around.
She was also pretty intrigued with the decorations. She paid more interest to the pumpkins, cobwebs, and door hangings then she did to the candy which was just fine with us.
She was so funny. She didn't get scared of anything, she would just start laughing and pointing.
Cute little cow...
When her bucket became too heavy from all her loot we headed back downstairs to the rest of the party.
We headed down to play some games. Bails is super good at just maneuvering through crowds and taking off without us. Before we knew she had escaped to the front of the game and started the bean bag toss.
She then tried her luck at the fishing game and caught a snicker bar. Good Baby.
Our night ended with a bit of a sugar high. Bails got a bite of some licorice and then she was sent to bed while Sam and I polished off the rest of her candy.
Halloween is the best. Hopefully I don't get diabetes with all the sugar I've consumed.

Round 2...

April 4: The pee on the stick made two lines appear.

May 10: Heard the heart beat for the first time and even impressed the doctor because it had only been 9 weeks.

July 21: Found out we would be adding more estrogen to our house. Another girl!

July 26: The fluttering and moving has begun.

August 22: I look like I am about to deliver. Too bad I have about 15 weeks to go.

August 25: Realized my due date is the day before finals week. That should be awesome.

December 11 can not come quick enough. Especially because Sam is praying I stay pregnant till the evening of the 16th (the start of his two week Christmas break). Curses to hoping I am late.