FIve On Friday!

It's Friday and it's November! How did it get to be November people? It's going to be Thanksgiving before we know it!

1. I have been a lover of the Boston Red Sox since I went to a game at Fenway Park on a high school choir trip in 2000. I can still remember where I was on the day they won their first World Series since 1918 in 2004. And now..they have won 3 titles in the last 10 years. That makes my heart happy!

2. We dressed E up in her costume last night and took her to two of our neighbors' houses. We didn't really want candy but just wanted others to see her in her cute costume. Is she not the cutest bee ever? She even can do the sound effect of a bee.

3. So I read the book Allegiant that I talked about two weeks ago and well, I was so MAD about the ending!!! I almost threw the book across the room. I won't spoil it but it was not how I expected it to be and 4 days after finishing it, I'm still upset about it!

4. So now that Halloween is over, it's time for Christmas music!! I love Christmas music and would listen to it all year if people wouldn't look at me so weird. Anyways, I always like to get one or two Christmas CDs to add to my collection every year. Does anyone have any good suggestions? I was thinking maybe the Duck the Halls album or Kelly Clarkson's album. Thoughts?!

5. We have no plans this weekend!! We haven't had a weekend in awhile that we didn't have at least one thing on the agenda, and I think sometimes having nothing to do is a good thing. I think I will use this time to clean the house, hang some pictures on the wall, and spend time with my family! 

Hope you have a good weekend!

14 months!

Another month come and gone. Oh my sweet precious little girl - you are so much fun.

Here's what you are doing this month:

- So many new words this month. You want to repeat everything I say and are alway pointing to stuff. Now some of these new words may not be understood by others outside of me or dad but we definitely now that is what you mean by them. New words: moon, bye, milk, puffs, plane, clothes, light, knees

- Will now wave bye and say bye at the same time. This has awakened your love for this saying all the time. You say bye to your toys, to cars, to strangers, to everything and everyone!

- Know where your knees and hands are and we are working on knowing where your back is

- You love to walk in mommy and daddy's shoes. You can put them on and then you will walk around in the kitchen/hallway and are so proud of yourself. It is so cute.

- You recognize the plane sound and when you hear it, you start saying "pa, pa" (plane) and look at me for confirmation

- You love to look at pictures of yourself. One of your favorite activities.

- When we have music on and we start to dance, you will run up to our legs and want to be picked up. Then you will lay your head on our shoulder and we will dance around to the music. Melts my heart every time.

- You make a raspberry sound (pttt) when we ask you what a bee says. You can point to bees in pictures too as with many other animals.

- You are starting to blow kisses but don't have the blowing part perfected just yet. It's still the cutest thing.

- You are so busy. You are always on the move. Never stopping for more than a minute.

- We are having to teach you what soft and gentle hands mean. It's a work in progress.

- Love the Overcomer song by Mandisa. We dance to it together and you love to listen to it. You can be throwing a tantrum and I can turn that song on and 75% of the time you will stop, smile and listen to the music.

- You will hold your hands together or put your hands on top of mine when we say our prayers before meals. You then get this huge grin on your face when we say amen because you know its time to eat =).

- You will sometimes say "mmm" when you eat certain foods.

- Like to pull up mommy and daddy's shirt to find our belly button

- Continue to point at everything especially in your books. You will now take my finger and with your hand will use my finger to point at things.

*We were at Target one time with my mom and we were looking at clothes for you. We kept saying "this is so cute" and you looked at one of the outfits and said "cu!" The cutest thing ever*

You are wearing size 3 diapers when using disposables and size 4 at night. You weigh probably about 23-24 pounds. You still take 2 naps ranging from 45-70 minutes long. You go to bed at 7:30 and wake up at 6. You usually wake up between 3-5 times a night. I wish we knew how to make you sleep better but we have just decided that it's just you and hopefully it will get better as you get older (believe me, we have tried everything!)

We are so thankful for you sweet girl. Love you!!

Elyanah's actual birthday

Don't worry I'm just now posting this 2 months later. (Oh well better late than never) 

On E's actual birthday, Jason and I both went into her room when she woke up and sang her Happy Birthday and then brought her into our bed for a bit to play. Then after she nursed we fed her breakfast. She had pancakes for the first time and she loved them. 

We then headed to the Fort Worth Zoo!!! I was so glad Jason could take off work for the day and come with us!

She's ready to go! Doesn't she look so cute?!

In her wagon that my parents got her for her birthday. It was great for the zoo trip. We were her personal chauffeurs. Ha!

My little beauty

Checking out some of the animals

Getting a closer look with Daddy

Giving each other the stare down...hehe

The zoo had two new baby elephants that were finally out. They were so cute!

In front of the elephants

Looking at the penguins

We ate lunch in our wagon and we had a special guest come visit 

We had so much fun at the zoo and will definitely do it again. E certainly enjoyed it. We came home after lunch and played around the house and had a walk outside.

I said "say cheese" and this was the face that I got.

Family picture in front of the decorations from the party from the weekend before

Celebrating E's 1st birthday was a day I will always remember. I am so thankful that she is my little girl. She brings me so much joy and I'm so thankful that I am her mom. Even on our not so happy days, I will always celebrate her. She made me a mom.  I'm looking forward to this next year and watching her grow into her personality even more.

Pumpkin Patch 2013

Yesterday, Jason had the day off from work so we took E to the Flower Mound Pumpkin Patch. It was so much fun and definitely worth the drive! We took her to this patch last year when she was just 2 months old, and it was so fun to watch her run around this year to all the different cut outs, pumpkins, and play vehicles.

Before I had kids, I would always dream of the days that I could take my kids to the pumpkin patch. Kelly from Kellys Korner talked about it the other day, and I couldn't agree more with her. It was something that I always wanted and didn't know if my day would ever come. Now instead of looking at the pumpkin patch with longing, I look at it and thank God above that He has blessed me with my beautiful daughter. I am so so thankful.

They had wooden figures of the Duck Dynasty people and I thought that I got a picture of all of them but I must have been too busy chasing a certain 13 month old =). Here she is with Miss Kay.

Jake and the Neverland Pirates

Riding in the plane 

Standing in front of the ruler - the best picture I got

Fire truck

On the train

Riding the tractor with daddy

More train time with mommy

Sitting in the hay with the pumpkins

This one is a framer. Might be my favorite of the day

 Checking out the pumpkins

Picking out her pumpkin for herself

And just for fun here she was last year: 

That's it she can't grow up anymore. 

Five on Friday!

Thank goodness it's Friday! Can I get an amen?! I'm linking up with Darci, Christina, Natasha, and April for Five on Friday.

*Sorry for the total random that is the five things, but that is the way my brain is working right now*

1) I'm back into drinking coffee now that the weather is cooler. I say drinking coffee loosely because its decaf and I doctor it up with some coconut milk creamer. Nonetheless, it's really fun to drink coffee from my fun Harry Potter mug I got a few years back. The Marauder's Map shows up when something hot is in it and slowly goes away as you drink it. Awesomeness? I think so.

2. The weather has been so great lately that we have been able to take walks in our wagon after our afternoon nap. We look at ducks and point at all the dogs. We have such a blast and I look forward to them. It bums me out when its too hot to take one. 

3. The last book in the Divergent series, Allegiant, comes out on Tuesday. I am so excited. I love this book series,  and love that they are doing a movie for the first book that comes out in March 2014. I can hardly wait

4. So I may have found a new show that I like. It's called Reign, and it came on the CW last night. I find it intriguing. Please don't make fun of me if you think its ridiculous. 

Happy Friday!

Rainy Days

The past few days have been nothing but glorious in the weather department in the Dallas area. It's rained, been cloudy, and the temperature even dropped into the 40s last night! I have enjoyed every minute of it but with a very busy toddler (I might have cried just typing that word) being in the house all day is not an option. So we make the most of it and when the rain stopped and the clouds parted for a just a few minutes we made a beeline for the door. 

The next fifteen minutes were filled with pure joy as E ran up and down the driveway and looked at all the water on the ground left by the rain.

It started to rain again so we headed back inside but I loved watching the joy on E's face as we did the littlest thing of playing in the driveway. It was a good reminder for me to rejoice in the smallest of things and to find joy even in the midst of the rain. =)