Not just smart but clever too

I've been blogging about cleaning and organizing so much lately that I thought I'd take the time to write a little something about Malea.  Every day she surprises me with the things that she says.  Today she looked down at her fishy crackers and said, "We're missing one mommy."  (Parker had eaten one when she wasn't looking).  What, when did she learn to conjugate words, say proper sentences and count well enough to know that something was missing?!

So today I have two stories to share because they are so funny and anyone that knows my husband, Matt, will laugh and know where she gets it from (especially Matt's poor mom).

Story 1:

Malea and I love to build towers.  Mostly I build them and then she knocks them down, or should I say crashes them.  She loves to say, "crash mommy's tower!"  We play this game where I build it and she tries to sneak in an knock it over but usually I can push/tickle her away until I feel like it's tall enough and then I allow her to crash it.

Last week though we were playing this game and in the middle of me building a "biiiiig tower" (as she calls it) and pushing/tickling her away she suddenly stopped and said, "Mala build tower too."  I stopped and said, "okay, you can build a tower" and let her walk over to the blocks to start building her own tower.  However she had something else in mind... she knew that if she said she was going to build a tower that I would let her come over, because I didn't know that she had learned the art of trickery!  She walked right over, and without even hesitating, she totally crashed my tower!  I couldn't believe that I had fallen for it!  When did my little, innocent girl learn to trick me?  Totally awesome, funny and clever, but kind of scary too.  :)


Story 2:

The next story goes with a picture.  I had to take one because I just couldn't believe my eyes, it was SO Matt!!!

Last week Malea was enjoying a tea party at her "big girl table" when I walked over and noticed that she was putting water from her sippy cup into her tea cup.  I asked her to stop and explained to her that I didn't want her to put water in the tea cup because it needed to stay in her sippy cup.  The tea cups are for pretend, and for play, and the sippy cup is for drinking.  I walked away and when I came back this is what I found:

She decided that if she couldn't put her water in to the tea cup that she would put the sippy cup into the tea cup so that she could still "drink" out of the tea cup.  Very clever...  Where does she come up with this stuff, and when did she become so clever?

She obviously gets this cleverness from her daddy which means, if she's starting this early, I'm in BIG trouble!  Oh the joys of parenting... :)

"Where's da sunshine mommy?"

Malea's is talking so much these days. It's as if every day she wakes up with new words and a new understanding for how to put them together. It can be frustrating when she's using her words to talk back to me but for the most part it's pretty fun. This morning we were jumping on my bed when suddenly she stopped, looked out the window and asked me, "Where's da sunshine mommy?" So cute I can hardly stand it.
Last night it was pretty funny too because Matt had a headache (that's not the funny part) so he was laying down resting when I put her to bed. Before I put her down though I took her in to see him and he coughed really loudly; without even hesitating she said, "Shhh, be really quiet." I guess she got it that daddy was hurting and we needed to be quiet. I can't believe that my--not even--2 year old has such a great understanding for language! Now if we could only get her to say the entire alphabet, not just half of it... :)

Cruisin'

I just had to post this because I think it's so cute. It's Parker and Malea cruisin' around the backyard in Malea's Jeep. I just love that Parker is driving a pink Jeep.

Tea for three please

Malea got a tea set for Christmas and she loves it. For some reason she also loves to have tea parties on the floor in the laundry room. I don't really get it but it's pretty cute. She says, "mommy, daddy in room now please." Then we have to sit on the floor while she serves us tea, coffee or whatever is on the menu for that day. This is a picture of Kathy and Auntie Heather enjoying a tea party last night, it was a girls only party. :)

I officially hate New Years

It's official, I now hate New Years. Last year on New Years Eve Malea stopped sucking on her fingers, due to a finger injury. She screamed and cried when she was trying to fall asleep because she had no way of comforting herself. It was a week of hell but eventually it resolved itself and she started to be comforted by her Teddy and Bee (her blanket). This New Years Malea is sick and she is miserable and impossible. It's 9:20pm and we "put her to bed" 2 hours ago. She has screamed and cried off and on for two hours. This is enough to make me want to run away and never come home. I'm seriously at my wits end and I don't know what to do. We have given her milk, we have rocked her, we have prayed again and again, we have tried everything to no avail.

So it's official, I hate New Years because both New Years, since we've had Malea have started off really crappy. I actually said to Matt today, "I'm ready to take a nap and wake up in 2012." Sad, I'm already ready for next year and this year hasn't even started yet.

I'm back!

It's been over a year since I blogged last; wow how did time fly by so quickly? I've had so many random thoughts running through my mind lately that I've decided to pick it back up. Most of my blogs are probably not going to be interesting, most will probably be short/random thoughts, but who knows maybe I will say something interesting some of the days. I guess we'll all have to wait and see (including myself). But for now I'm not really sure where to begin but I know I have to start somewhere...

This blog is going to be about Malea. Because I'm a mom, and moms talk about there kids, this is the easiest place for me to start. Don't worry Billy they won't all be about Malea. :)

I love my little girl. She is so freakin' adorable and funny. It has been an adventure to see her little personality start to take shape. I love that she can yell from the other room, "mommy come here peese!" and that walks around the house carrying her raggedy teddy bear that she loves SO much (best WinCo purchase ever!). I love that she speaks better than any 1 1/2 year old I've ever know, except for maybe Ava Edwardson, and that she knows how to count from 1-11 but thinks it's funny to say, "1, 2, 7, 10" instead. She's starting to pick up on humor and so now she has started to make her own "jokes", like counting wrong.

Christmas has been SO much more fun this year now that she's at an age where she can really enjoy it. I have been jumping out of my skin and so excited for Christmas morning for months now! I love that everywhere we go Malea points and yells at all the "Chris lights!" I think she's obsessed with seeing "Santa Tause" and snowmen, the other night she kept saying "more Santa Tause peese, more Santa Tause peese, more Santa peese." It doesn't help to try and explain to a 21 month old that you have to drive to each next house and you have to be patient in between because it takes time to drive there. Yeah, that was pretty much a joke. She also loves all the Christmas trees and garland in the house. Every morning she comes out and points to a tree or garland and says, "turn dis tree on" and once I turn that one on she turns to the next one and says, "turn dat tree on", and on and on until our whole house has all of the Christmas lights lit up. I can't wait to see what our bill is going to be this month since pretty much every day is spent will all the Christmas lights on!

I also love that Malea loves to help me bake. She runs over to her step stool and says "dis peese, get dis mommy." So I set up her stool and then she runs over to where the aprons are hung and says, "dis too peese." I taught her how I smell things when I cook to make sure I have enough of the seasonings I want so it's funny when we bake because she tries to smell each thing and she usually ends up with flour on her face. :) She doesn't quite understand that cooking and baking are different. Putting things in the oven is always exciting. I say, "okay now we are going to put them in the oven to cook" and her immediate response is always, "reeeeally hot", then I say, "yes you are right the oven is 'reeeeealllly hot." She's a smart one.

I love her new (as in the last month) obsession with "Baby Jesus". I swear I have read the Christmas story, in her Bible, to her at least 100 times, probably more. She loves Baby Jesus. Her Nana Mimi bought her a little Nativity set this year and she carries the little Baby Jesus around with her sometimes. Apparently Baby Jesus loves to jump on the couch, read stories, drink from Malea's sippy cup and go to "seep" in the ottoman.

I could probably go on all night about all the cute things that I love that Malea does, but it's late and I have to get up with that cute little girl in the morning.

So I've done it, I've officially completed my first blog in over a year, yay me!
Look forward to:
1. 5 days of Christmas
2. A fun craft (I did steal the idea of posting a craft from Amy Culp)
3. My pet peeves
4. A mother terrified of public restrooms so how am I ever going to be able to potty train
5. And who knows what else!

(Emily this picture is for you!) :)

Pig tales

This afternoon I bought some little rubber bands at Target and decided to put Malea's hair in pig tales for the first time.  I can't believe how long her hair is!  I think she looks pretty cute with her new hair-do. :)

Big week

Life is good.  Malea and I are enjoying life in town these days and this has been a really big week for us.  This week I turned 28 on Monday and my mom discovered that Malea is getting her first tooth!  Malea also got her second round of shots on Tuesday and the same day she discovered that she can grab her feet.  It's pretty cute.  She's getting bigger every day.  The doctor said that she is now 14 pounds (60%), 25.5 inches long (90%) and her head is in the 25th percentile.  So she's pretty well proportioned and Matt is stoked that she is in the 90th percentile for her height. :)

We feel very blessed and I have been so encouraged lately.  I am loving living in town and it's so nice being only minutes away from everything.  I feel like God has blessed me so much and I can't wait to see what the near future holds for all of us!

Pictures, FINALLY!

Okay Billy just gave me the rundown on how to do pictures on my mac so here are a few pictures of Malea.

This is her new thing, sucking on the first two fingers on her right hand.

This is Malea's crazy hair after my mom blow dried it!!!  This is her "what the heck did grandma do to my hair?" look.

This is one of the first pictures we her able to catch of her smiling.  Isn't she beautiful?

She's a big girl now, she can sit up in the bumbo chair all by herself.

I love this picture of her and Matt; I am a lucky girl. :)

Malea is 2 months today!!!

I know that I have been really bad about posting pictures--well blogs in general--so here are a few pictures for all of my friends that live far away and never get to see her. :) We went to the doctor on Monday and she is 10lbs 12oz and 23 1/4" long! She's getting so big so quickly!

Malea hanging out with my mom and Daisy the giraffe

Hunting for eggs on her first Easter
Hanging out in her swing

Hanging out with Daddy and watching the cars at Kool April Nights

2 month picture!