Fun Times

It's been too long and I have so much to post and just hope I can remember it all! Phia does something funny and I think to myself that I need to blog about it and pretty soon days have gone by and she has done other funny things!

Earlier this month we made clay and I thought she would enjoy playing with it on the table. You can clearly see she wasn't impressed in the first picture and didn't like it at all. She did warm up to it however and was soon smashing it with the fork and cutting heart shapes with cookie cutters. We rolled it into balls and rolled it across the table and she would stab it with a fork and swing it around.

This was the picture on the valentines we made this year!

She is a girl who loves lip gloss! She loves to have it put on her lips but the she just wants more and more! She likes to eat it and lick it off her lips!

She absolutely adores marshmallows! She calls them "mannus". She can gobble them down faster than anything. I give her some so I can get dinner ready some nights and before I have gotten anything done she's ready for more! She likes to carry them in the bowl around the house and empty them out of the bowl and then put them all back in.

She is my lotion lover also! We have two things of pump lotion and a jar in the bedroom and every day she brings them to me wanting lotion. I give her some of each and put it on top of the bed just for her to go grab more lotion and put her chubby little hands out wanting more!

Shane and I were trying to get a picture of her and every time we would say 3 she would sqat and smile! She loves to sit like this and actually sits like that while I sweep and gets really low to the floor like she is making sure I am getting all the crumbs up off the floor. She usually squats by the rug by the sink and just stays there til I am done sweeping.

She loves her Aquadoodle. I can ask her if she wants a toy and usually she comes out holding her mat and pen saying doodle. The other day she got it out and I put water in the pen and went to get ready and next thing I knew she was sucking all of the water out of the tip of the pen. She didn't want water out of a cup when I offered it to her but kept on sucking it out of the pen tip.

She has her own little routine whenevere I am in the kitchen cleaning or baking. She opens the pan cupboard and pulls out the same pots and lids and pretends to cook with them. She is usually pretty good about putting them away when it's time to clean up!

What a mess mealtimes have become! She loved her jello on the night and basically had it everywhere on the table, her bib and her hands and then decided that she wanted to play peek-a-boo. Breakfast and lunch are never quite as messy but I think she gets busy having fun with Shane at dinner and gets a little more wild!

Shane and I had bought Turbo Tax at Costco and set it in the scrapbook room. We finally got all our tax stuff and went to do our taxes one night and couldn't find Turbo Tax anywhere! We tore the house apart and looked everywhere we sould think of. We had only had it for like 7 days. We had seen it around but couldn't remember where. When it had gone missing we didn't even notice! Finally Shane said that maybe Phia threw it in the garbage because she was going through a garbage phase at the time. He checked the inside trash and it wasn't there so he checked outside and pulled a bag out and there it was! Luckily Shane had forgotten to take the garbage to the curb earlier the prior week! The funny part is that we asked Phia if she knew where Turbo Tax was and if she took it and she said yup but couldn't tell us where it was!

She loves to sit on the counter especially when we are cooking and getting meals ready. It's not a big deal when there are 2 of us in the kitchen but it's really hard when it's just me!

Playing with boxes that were headed for the garbage!

She loves to play on the stairs with Shane! They throw balls down and up and then back down and she just giggles and giggles. It seems however that all the fun stops the second I check on them and as soon as I leave the fun times start up again!

Bathtime! She loves bubbles and digs in them with her shovel trying to get to the bottom. She also loves to play in the water while it is running!

She loves books and lately Dora or Dor-Dor is a favorite! She likes Dora cookies, shoes, cups and books! She isn't much into TV unless it is Elmo on Sesame Street and then she only likes Elmo's World. She will sit intently the whole time it's on and the second it's over she has other things to do.

She lucked out when Elaine and Justin offered to let her take the Sit n' Spin home. She loves it especially now that Shane put batteries in it and it plays music. She sits on it and says spin, spin. She has trouble actually getting into sitting position on it but once she is she is all set!

She has the word no down pat and pretty much everything you ask her gets the response of no. She actually didn't say no to everything in this video like she normally does but she definitely didn't want a nap!

Right after her nap she has the rosiest cheeks! She loves her two bears and naps with them and sleeps with them at night. Most mornings I wake up to hear her talking to her bears and she always insists at least one gets out of bed with her in the morning. One morning I didn't bring one out into my room and she laid in my bed saying, "bear, bear" and wouldn't go back to sleep! I learned my lesson!

She loves to play on the piano but she usually insists that she has sheet music in front of her!

This is what happens when you leave her at the table alone. Shane was cleaning dinner up one night and turned his back thinking she was fine. Next thing he knew her whole juice box was on the floor. He took it from her and continued cleaning when all of the sudden her whole plate was on the floor. He took that and figured there was no other trouble she could get into but when he turned around again she had pulled his placemat towards herself and was drinking out of his cup of Crystal Light.

We took her to the park last Wednesday and she had a ball! She sat in the snow a couple times and her pants got wet so then she slid down the slides really slowly! Shane brought his remote control car and they had fun driving that around! She did have a slight injury when she flew down the slide and I went to catch her and jabbed her in the gum with my fingernail because the sun was in my eyes!

She got to wear a new dress on Sunday and she looked so grown up! She was also 18 months that day and was hamming it up for the camera! She would standd up and on 3 she would sit so it was quite tricky getting pictures!

One day I asked her for a kiss and she would pretend she was going to kiss me and then turn away. She did this 4-5 times and I asked her where she learned that and she looked at me and said, "Dad."

She had to go get x-rays the other day on her legs and didn't like the tech at all but when Dr. Stevens came in she was a ham! Dr Stevens was telling us about the surgery and the was laughing. We looked at her and she was looking at him through her goldfish bag. He wanted a before picture so we could compare it with after she had surgery. He had her stand on a little bench and she was just cheesing it up for the camera and then wanted to see her picture. We scheduled her surgery for March 10th. Dr Stevens asked when we wanted to do it and we told him as soon as possible and he said, "What about tomorrow?" Shane has to get time off though so that wouldn't work.