10/27/11 A Quick Day!

This morning we went to Gymboree instead of going tomorrow (our usual class) because we have plans with Karina and Tucker tomorrow. Even though this class is the same level as her regular class, the group was on the younger side of that level and it was so apparent today. Chloe seemed SO much older than them. She ran around like she owned the place and I had to make sure she didn't crash into or knock down the smaller ones! She participates SO much  now during these classes. It's great. After we got home she ate lunch, played for a little bit and then took a 2 hour nap. Less than an hour after she woke up Daddy came home to watch the World Series game. Even though it's not like I get a break from being a Mommy when he's home, it feels like the day's work is over for some reason, so him being home at 5 (SHOCKING!) made the day feel like it went by so quickly!

At Gymboree...and with a ponytail!

Chloe loves fall as much as her mommy.

If you won't turn the TV on then I'll figure out how to!

Chloe happily playing and Daddy completely stressed out watching the game.

10/21-10/26 Been Bad About Posting!

Taking control of the parachute at Gymboree.

Testing out her new pink, big girl spoons.

Using the front facing camera and being super silly with Mommy.

Fun new toys came from Nana and Papa's Disney trip.

Mmmm Mickey cookies.

Watching her Mickey car speed down the floor for the first time.

Kissing the "baby" in the picture! haha

Feeding "the baby" with her spoon.

Tormenting her best friend, Scout.

And attempting to walk around in Mommy's shoes. She put them on herself!

I was doing such a good job at posting every night, but yesterday I realized I hadn't done it since Friday! I'm blaming it on the World Series. Frank's been coming home earlier on some nights to watch the games, and he was gone Sunday-Monday because he actually went to see a game. It's totally thrown me off of my regular routine! I've also been bad about using the real camera vs my phone and although my phone takes great pics, it's more difficult to get them uploaded to the comp. I need to go back to using the camera more...  So here are some pics from our past few days, which have mostly revolved around Daddy's baseball schedule. One thing I do have to make note of though, is one of her current obsessions. Her silver Tiffany's spoon!! It's become a security blanket/lovie for her which is just SO funny to me. Of all things!? She HAS to sleep with it during her naps and at night and she carries it around with her all day. Too funny.

10/20/11 TV Weening Day 2, and Mommy Doesn't Feel Like Doing Anything Day

My favorite pic of the day. Looking out the window with Scout.

Kissing her new bathtub faucet cover frog.

Yesterday went pretty well with the whole "no TV" thing so I was thinking that today I'd be able to get away with even less than the hour and a half that she watched yesterday. No such luck. I think she was irritated over not watching as much because she started begging for a movie and held the remote up to the TV, while pushing buttons. haha She watched a little more than yesterday, but only maybe an extra show. By 8:30 I had it off and music on and she played really well. She played with all of her stuffed animals in the play area for a while and she did a great job at stacking blocks and playing with her farm animals and puzzle pieces. She's really playing with them now, and I love watching it! I was really tired this morning for some reason so we didn't go to the farm like planned. Instead we laid around in our pjs and listened to music, played and cleaned. I ended up napping myself during her nap and was ready to go once she woke up. We went to Buy Buy Baby to get her some new cups (she's drinking milk out of normal cups now, yay!) and some "big girl" spoons since she's been using ours. She called it "Ba-Bee Sto" and big surprise, ended up leaving with a new stuffed cow (a pillow pet). She's so spoiled!!!

10/19/11 TV Weening Day 1

 Recently I've been feeling really guilty about the amount of TV time that Chloe's been getting, especially since she's obsessed with watching things on the iPad and laptop, so I've decided to start cutting back and ween her little by little. The amazing thing is that with the TV off, and especially with some music playing, she "reads" her books and plays SO much more than when it's on. This morning she watched about an hour (2 TV shows) then I turned it off. She only watched another 30 min while eating lunch (seems to be the only way to keep her at the table longer than 2 min).

I decided to try story time at the Benicia library again today. The first two times were kind of a fail. Each time she didn't want to sit and listen, loudly said, "All done." and ran out of the room. I was nervous to try again but she's a little older and closer to the actual age group which is 2-3. So we went and she did a little better. She didn't like the books, could care less (although the reader is really soft spoken and not entertaining at all) but she did participate in the dancing. She was over it by the second to last book, but at least we lasted almost the whole time. Afterwards we went to find more books and she, of course, found 2 cow puppets that she clung on to.

This afternoon we did our first ever seasonal project. I found a pre-cut, foam ghost at Michael's and had her finger paint it outside. She was a little iffy about getting her hands all dirty, but got the hang of it after I showed her it was OK. The cutest part was that I apparently made a "Swish" type sound will demonstrating so she imitated my sound every time she painted.

10/18/11 Fun Morning AND Afternoon!

We usually one do one big activity per day, most of the time in the morning, but today we did our Music Together class and spent almost two hours at the park on the water. I finally took some pics of her during music class and she was really participating today. She laughed at the teacher and tapped and clapped her hands to the beat of the music with everyone else. It was really cute, until she didn't get one of the drums she wanted and that was it. Participation was over. Last night she had a really rough night. Refused to go to sleep until over an hour of crying and then woke up screaming at 3am. Today she did the same for her nap. It took an hour of crying for her to fall asleep :(  and then she woke up after only 40 min. She was pretty hysterical when she woke up and it was not a good moment for either of us. I decided we needed to get out of the house ASAP so we went to the park and that did the trick. She had a BLAST and she went up and down the big kid slide on her own a million times! I planned on being there for like 30 min but she didn't want to leave and when I finally got her to go she waved bye-bye and blew the park kisses. :)

10/17/11 Clean-Up

Today was spent cleaning house, doing laundry and grocery shopping. All of the not fun, but necessary stuff after a super busy weekend. Chloe was really great at playing on her own today which helped. She played games on the iPad for a long time and then ran around the house with her toy goat. She decided to take her goat and bunny into "Dora's house" to go "night night". It was pretty cute.

10/14/11 Hip Hip Horray! It's a Gymboree Day!

After being sick the previous week we were finally able to make it out to Gymboree. Yay! Chloe was soooo happy to be able to run around and play, she especially loved going up and down the slide a million times. The rest of the day was spent finishing up projects for Michelle's baby shower the next day.

10/13/11 Davis Day! (and Dada's bday!)

Today Chloe decided to wake us up at 4:30am and officially get up around 5:15...UGH! Luckily we had something planned that was a 45 min drive away so Chloe managed to get a little snooze in the car before doing something fun. We drove over to Karina and Tucker's house and had breakfast, played with toys and went for a walk around town. We ended up going to the park after doing some shopping and Karina got some cute pics on her new camera so I'm hoping to get those from her soon!

10/12/11 Mama's Not Feeling So Hot

So I officially caught Chloe's cold and am not feeling like doing much other than laying around the house, unfortunately for me that's not really an option with this little busy body! I was kind of a "lame" mom today and let Chloe play on the iPad and watch way too much TV (or streaming Netflix on the laptop to be exact). She loved it though. I got this pic of her after her nap with her crazy bed head! A big moment today, Chloe and I took a hot shower together to try to make our stuffy heads feel better and she picked up two cans of shaving cream in the shower and said, "two!". She's a genius! One year's old and counting! :)

10/11/10 Present Day for Scout

I'm so mad at myself, I forgot to take pictures during Music Together again! Chloe was so cute this time. Even though she wasn't feeling well she still danced and participated more than she ever has and she even hummed along to the lullaby at the end. After the music class we went to the pet store next door and bought Scout a new bed. Chloe had fun trying to get Scout in it at home. Her new thing is that she no longer wants Daddy or I to read her books before naps or bed, she has to read them herself. I got a few pics of her sitting in her pile of books just chatting and chatting along. 

10/10/11 Sickies

Chloe's cold has gotten worse and now I'm starting to get one, despite all of my Airborne!! We ran some errands this morning and then spent the afternoon coloring in Chloe's new Halloween coloring book from Nono. She held up a couple of pink crayons and said, "pink!" today! Finally starting to get her colors (up until now every color has been yellow).

10/7/11 Noni and Nono's House!

Sharing her apple with the duck before we left for Noni and Nono's.

Running through Nono's house and checking out all of the rooms.

This morning Chloe woke up with a runny nose, so we couldn't go to Gymboree. :(  Luckily Daddy came home early (Cardinals are in the playoffs!) and we headed to Noni and Nono's house because we are going to Apple Hill with them tomorrow. Chloe has been on a kick with looking at Nono's picture and saying his name, so on the long drive over I kept telling her we were going to "Nono's house". As soon as we got there she went running through the house shouting, "Nono house, Nono house!" It was so cute and so fun to see her excited to be somewhere new instead of stuck to me like glue.

10/6/11 Nana and Papa Presents Day!

Today was our first real big storm (pouring rain and thunder!) and even though I had planned for us to go to Studio Grow since it's indoors, I just couldn't bring myself to leave the house! Luckily for both of us TWO packages arrived in the morning, both from Nana and Papa. Chloe received the Fisher Price Little People Barn, and a cute apron, owl hair clip and cow book for the bath. The barn kept her busy for most of the day so that helped. I went to a concert in the evening so Daddy was the one to give Chloe her bath, but of course he forgot to give her the new bath book, so she'll get another surprise tomorrow night.