Thanks Poppi

Thank you so much for serving our country! Thank you for the last year spent in Afghanistan! We love you! This picture was taken last year when poppi left for Afghanistan.

Happy Birthday papaw!

Taking my papaw to breakfast on his Birthday. Happy Birthday, we love you!

Target

What kid does not love Target! Soley found this hat and started trying it on in the mirror. So sweet!

Trying to catch up...

I'm working on catching up on all my posting! We have missed so much over the last few months. To start Soley got a swing set for Christmas from both sets of grandparents.  They both asked what Soley what she would want so I thought if I could get a really good deal on a playset (which I did) then we should get that! Well we made it work I got one on sale and a coupon and here it is! She just loves it! She spends most of her time on the swings but on her belly, she also likes to stand on the outside of the Glider and look upside down, she is a little bit of a dare devil! Her favorite thing to do is to go around to the stools on the side and order through the window, you can kind of see it in the first picture to the left.  She always is the customer and I have to go inside the clubhouse and she always orders brown rice with soy sauce and water in a Minnie cup! SO FUNNY!  But then her game is when you ask her to pay for the food she runs away and pretends to not pay and wants you to chase her! So much fun! I love this little girl, she is too smart!

Happy Birthday Olivia!

What a fun day!

Just a quick hello!

Happy Friday night! Enjoy the pictures!

What can Soley do?

I can't believe how much Soley can do these days, I like to say that she is much smarter then the average 22 moth old but I guess I am byes, I will let you decide!

* Speaks in 3-5 word sentences
* Knows her basic shapes ( square, circle, rectangle, heart, star, triangle, oval)
* knows her colors
* Can count to ten
* Knows her full name
* Knows all her family and close extended family's real names ( usually calls Daddy Jon, pretty fun) ( the other day I heard her say, Jon can you hurry up?) LOL too cute!
* Loves gymnastics, knows, pike, seat drop, lunge, tuck jump, straddle, apart together)
* Can jump with two feet
* Loves doing forward and backward rolls

I'm sure there is more but gives you an idea... She really is a sweet little girl, I can't tell you how many times a day she says thank you! She has such good manners, always says please and thank you, or no thank you.  (very good at that :)  She prays before dinner each night, her normal prayer is "thank you god for this food, thank you god for this day, AMEN!" If you ask her how she got so tall, pretty, nice, anything she will say God and Jesus.  She truly is a gift from god, and I am thankful for her everyday!  We are doing preschool right now and working on our days of the week, months of the year, creation circles ( order in which God created the earth) and much more! Will keep you updated!  Enjoy the pictures!

 Soley Playing with her best friend Olivia in the bath tub! These two are like sister, they love each other so much!

 Soley really loves basketball! For Eater we got her a basketball net and ball! She is tall enough, so we will see!

 Soley sitting with Pawpal eating breakfast, she just loves her Memaw and Pawpal!

 Soley and her Cousin Lilly Kate at the Disney store, Soley LOVES playing with Lilly Kate, she calls her Cake, it's pretty cute!

 Riding a tricycle!

 Painting a pretty picture! Soley loves doing crafts!

 Playing with all her Mickey mouse clubhouse stuffed animals!  She is Obsessed with Mickey Mouse clubhouse!

 Soley and Livy always watch bubble guppies after taking a bath at Livy's house, then Livy goes to bed around 8 and we head home to play until 11! Then Soley goes down! LOL

 The park, what kid does not love the Park!

 Soley's trampoline, it has a net around it, we ha just got this part set up and she had to ju on it right away, but Papa (Jon's dad, put the net up very shortly after, we love this!)

 Play-dough! A favorite in this house! My mom did not allow it when we were little so I enjoy doing it with her!  She really loves making a snake and putting eyes on it!

 Getting her ribbon in gymnastics class!

 Sand and Water, what a hit, got this for her first birthday, boy what a good toy! All the kids in the neighbor hood love the sand! I'm the only mom that allows sand!

On your mark, get set, GO!

Easter

I know I'm behind so here it goes... Easter was So So much fun this year. I remember as a little girl loving Easter and all the Holidays! All of you out there who have children k ow what I'm talking about, getting to experience things through your children is SO much more fun then you ever had as a child! I just live being Soley's mom! Here are some pictures from Easter and a video of Soley looking for her eggs. This year we did the Easter bunny but Soley kept saying that it was Jon who was doing it, guess she is too smart! I also spent a ton of time teaching her to memorize that Jesus died on the cross for us! Take a look! Just figured out can only to pics on the iPhone app. Will load video later. This is soley at church and her and Jon that afternoon at the park.

Catching up...

I have added a App to my phone to maybe start trying to blog again! I really do miss it! Have a good Derby Day!

Christmas Morning..

Hey I can't say how sorry that I am that I have not been a good blogger! Things have been kinda crazy around here! I am still working on putting a password on the blog. should have it up and running soon, but until then I wanted to make a quick post on Christmas. This video will just melt your heart of Soley on her second Christmas! I thought that Christmas was so much fun as a kid and adult, but nothing is like seeing your child enjoy Christmas. She makes everything better!

TINK, TINK

Soley update....

Favorite Color- This one is easy... Can you guess? That's right, PINK! But when she says it, it sounds like tink. I just love to hear her say it, it could be one of the cutest things! Two stories that come to mind when we talk about the color pink. First, we went to a open gym at a soccer field. It's for children walking to age 4. We get there and we walk on to the field and I run and go get Soley a ball and kick it to her and she say's no, TINK (pink) and runs across the field to a pink soccer ball! I might add at the only one in the whole place! I said to her "Soley that just melted mamma's heart!"

Second, every night before she falls asleep I put her in her crib and she asks for her blanket to be put over top of her, and she looks at me and says "TINK TINK." and I reply "yes Soley it's pink." TOO CUTE!

One last thing... I know we are not supposed to lie to our children but I was in a pickle the other day, Soley wants everything to be pink and we were going to a funeral and I brought a sucker as treat to keep her busy, and she will only take them if they are pink, so even know it was orange I told her that it was pink! She was so happy, hope it doesn't come back to bit me in the but when she learns the rest of her colors!

Blog Password

Hey everyone I am going to put a password on Soley's blog, we have had a ton if visitors from people that we do not know. I have created a new email just for this purpose. Please email me your email address that you would like the info sent to. I will add everyone's email that I have but I know there are a ton of people who view the blog that I don't have their address. If you know my current address you can email me your email address there. If not Please email me at:

Soleysblog@gmail.com

Thanks!

My first Jeep Ride!

A Few fun pics!

Hopefully this will hold everyone over until after the big turkey day!

A few things I forgot...

I keep meaning to upload this video but I just keep forgetting! Let me know what you think. This is from the beach in October.

Halloween 2011

Halloween 2011

You can't see all of this pictures that well in the video so I figured I would post them too! We had so much fun this year with Soley at Halloween, I can't wait for next year. For those of you that know Soley she never stops! So this night was perfect for her, I think we did 15-20 houses! Yes she is only one! I can't wait for next year!

Brayden what a CUTIE!

Olivia's bottem, too CUTE!

Best Friends in the making! These two are like twins, they just love eachother! Soley is so lucky to have Olivia as her BFF! And Mommy is so lucky to have Ilana!

How cute is her hair! I have to admit I am a little, actually a lot jealous! It's going to be years before Soley's hair gets this long!

This was my favorite picture of the night, I can't tell you how much Soley adores her Daddy!