Elf Yourself!

ive been seeing these all over everyones blogs so decided to make one. Ive done some before but never the Elf Yourself one.

i mainly picked this one because of Tom's dance moves.. click HERE to watch it... cause i don't know how to put it on here.

fun with cousin Elsa

before i download all my pictures from this past week with my family in Pennsylvania, i have to share this video before i forget. My sis put it up and i had to steal it.

Dulany LOVES her cousin Elsa. They played a little together last summer at the beach but now that they're older and both running around like crazy they were obsessed with eachother. Well maybe Dulany was more obsessed with E ... Dulany would wake up and say "elthsa" and then when we would come down the stairs or E would come downstairs to us... Dulany would SCREAM (and i mean scream) ELTHSA!!! HIIIIIIIIII!!! she is too funny. THey would run around chasing eachother (sometimes Dulany giving E a little push saying 'go') and playing (sometimes fighting over a toy.. what kid doesnt do that) and their favorite - Peek-a-boo..

here is the video - it doesnt get good until around 50 seconds in - Enjoy!


i really don't know what Dulany will do with out her cousin. Poor girl. we have adam over and then he goes home after 2 weeks and then we're with Elsa and then we leave her after a week.

and I have pictures. I just need to edit some and put them up.

sick girl

of course, right before we fly out to Pennsylvania, Dulany gets sick.(last time we flew, she got a fever of 102.4 the night before flying). Yesterday she started to get a fever and it just got worse and worse. Last night she had a temp of 102. All day yesterday she wouldn't eat anything and was very cuddly/clingy. Poor girl. as of right now she's feeling better thanks to chidrens tylanol. hopefully she's all the way better by saturday when we fly! we can't wait to see my family and especially have cousin Elsa play with Dulany.




and she had to give a sort of smile to say "cheese"


PS... MORE POSTS BELOW!!! so make sure to look at them!

The Polar Express

she loves this book! and she usually has to read it on her own - pointing out santa and making choo choo noises at the trail. ALl in her "cranberry necklace" and in her 'big girl chair'




oh and then she got herself stuck in a pot... silly girl!

oh chrismtas tree..

Dulany loves the christmas tree. although she has already shattered one of the bulbs. she likes to yank two off and bang them against each other. in the end resulting in time-outs. She LOVES santa claus. there is a santa coat hanger we have in the living room near the tree and she learned within seconds how to say santa...and can find him anywhere. (ie. in winco the other day they had santa stockings and bam she starts pointing and saying santa santa).

here are a few pictures of her with the tree

one jealous baby

Dulany gets a little jealous of Ayla....

Ayla is using some of Dulany's old toys (toy mat/bouncer seat) and i dont think she knows it.. but she is very protective of them. She has also gained a love for the infant swing. She never had one but when ayla comes over (when i watch her) she has the swing here and Dulany wants to be in it all the time. she can climb in it herself and everything..

this is the result of me putting Ayla in the swing....





here are other pictures of Dulany playing nice with her cousin:






then a cute picture of her watching "elmos world" - she is obsessed. everything elmo. she can see him a mile away (aka in walmart, she saw elmo pinatas in the party section.. we cant see it but all we hear is ELMO!)

Love, Santa

Santa has a message for Dulany! i wanted to do this last year but obviously she didn't really get it, hopefully this year she'll like it. She DID say santa yesterday! This is possibly the neatest thing ive seen so far and will def. use it every year.


Click HERE to listen to it!

A Day for Posting

there are like 4-5 new posts below.. so check them all out!

23

Today I turned 23. Yesterday we had a celebration since tom's parents will be gone tonight. We just had my favorite chocolate cupakes with strawberry frosting. I tried to get Dulany to blow the candles but she wasn't having it. i also didnt want to be in pictures since i had a sinus headache all day and looked disgusting. enough said.


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at least Dulany liked the cupcake!

thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

peek-a-boo

Dulany loves putting buckets over her head to play peek a boo. she also loves to run around the corner and scream at everyone. Even last night we got her to play peek a boo with Ayla. it was cute.
Ta-Da!!


this is her showing off her pink nails. first time we did her fingernails since her fingers always used to be in her mouth. so now she has matching fingers and toes!

Watching Cousin Ayla

since Kaylee has to go back to work, Dulany and I watch Ayla a few days of the week. Dulany has gotten so much better with being soft with baby Ayla and she's such a good big cousin. Seriously, she tried to snuggle with her, cover her up with a blanket, but her binki in, push her in the swing, give her kisses, tries to dress her, put her (dulany's) shoes on ayla, and even tries to dress her! when someone else is holding Ayla, Dulany will get her own baby doll and take care of her. Its pretty cute. Im glad cause this will give her practice for when we do have another baby around.


Dulany snuggling with Ayla..while watching Einstein. (i was surprised she didn't put all her weight on her)
giving baby Ayla kisses!


"trying to pick her up"


Ayla in her swing! she's getting so chunky! i love it!



I was trying to get a picture of Dulany pushing her in the swing. i swear Ayla is yawning and not screaming! she was such a great baby for us.

then that night Kaylee and Jon watched Dulany so Tom and I could go out for my 'birthday dinner' and she decided shew anted a try in the swing. she's never been in one before. haha i think she's a little too big for it now!

Full size piggy tails

Finally was able to fit Dulany's hair into full size piggy tails... well for at least 5 minutes when her hair was wet!

here are a few cute pics

ps. can you tell she's now obsessed with tractors since cousin Adam has been here? (he LOVES tractors!) and she can even say "tractor".. well. for the most part she can say it.

Five

this girl can count to 5.... i think i really owe it to starfall though.. "five fingers"... and she's been wanting to count to 5 since and we've been practicing and now she does it on her own. she tries to put up her fingers one at a time but is obviously stuck at 1 haha. here is a video of her counting!

oh and please excuse my 'singing' in the beginning, we were singing starfall haha.

is she?

ready to be a big sister?? she loves her baby doll and loves to 'take care' of cousin Ayla (yesterday she tried to pick her up) and gives her kisses (and the doll look below) Well, im sure she will be a great big sister when the time comes. (no im not giving any hints of any pregnancy, def. not pregnant - i just took a test after my 'dizzy spell' the other night.. big fat negative!







on a side note, This girl is 17 months going on 17.... talking on the phone with grandma waving her hands and has to have her necklace on... and she's picky about her cell phones... how ridiculous.




this girl is TOO big! - seriously, look at her. Today tom came over to me and was like "look at her! she looks like shes 5 years old!" she is getting to big, even today she started to count to 5 with me.



she's my big cheese ball!




grandma and grandpa just came home from their trip to Ukiah and they agree, she grew in the past few days. Just tonight we were watching videos of Dulany when she was little and she saw her 'baby' that she sleeps with and wanted it and saw pictures of grandma with a 'baby' and it was funny to see her watch herself. it makes me miss her being so little.

ok.. so maybe this is just a post of how im kinda baby hungry..... just a little.

she loves herself

lately when Dulany is being a pain in the you know what because she gets bored being inside (thank you oregon rain..) i pull out the computer and do photobooth with the video so she can watch herself. she makes faces at herself and laughs and talks. its too cute! here is a video of her today when she found uncle jason's "waldo glasses" (from his halloween costume).. she carried them around ALL day.






also we finally got Dulany to see a doctor here in town. Holy cow it was difficult. She's on the Oregon Health Plan (like medicaid) and there are not a lot of doctors who accept new patients who are on that plan... and even if they do it takes at least a month to get in to see a new doctor. its insane. Plus they make you call all the pediatricians in town to see if they accept that insurance, which took forever. this is when i miss rexburg where all the doctors accept medicaid because well... a lot of people have it. and theres a wide variety of doctors to chose from. For us, we have to stick with this one because she's the only one there!

so we get there, the doctors office is in the hospital.. which is kinda weird, and the place feels like a prison with plastic windows that seperate you from the office, not a very welcoming place if you ask me. Her doctor wasn't so bad... although she almost attacked Dulany when her pretzel fell on the floor and she almost put it in her mouth... wow.. haha i must be a terrible mom cause im like eh 5 second rule!

but Dulany is 23 lbs (roughly, it was an awful old school scale and Dulany didnt want to stand on it very long.. on grandma's scale shes 24.2 lbs) and shes 30 1/4 inches long.. roughly... again. haha. she did NOT want to be checked out by the doctor what so ever. luckily i had a tootsie pop in my bag so she could calm down. They also said she probably wont need shots till shes 4.. im like say WHAT? i thought she would ahve to get more next month.

anywho, she's doing well and growing like a weed and repeating like crazy. Like last night when we went on a drive, she learned to say "i love you!" but she says "iiiiii luuuuhh YOUUUUU!" and then starts cracking up. She's funny. And i can't get enough of her!