Monday, November 29, 2010

It's Christmas!

We decorated the house for Christmas the weekend after Thanksgiving. Leila is doing well with not taking things off from the tree - I think it helps that the tree is pokey.
Leila has her own tree in her room that she helped to decorate.
She kept taking the ornaments back off though.

Leila is now 18 months old - I can hardly believe she is already a year and a half. So today I took it upon myself to write down all the words she says today, because trying to just remember the words she knows is practically impossible. So here is the list:

all done, all gone, apple, baby, ball, bologna, banana, barrette, bee, bite, book, bow, brr, bubble, bug, bun, bunny, burp, bus, button, bye-bye, cheerios, cheese, chicken, clock, coat, cookie, cracker, dada, dolly, down, Drew, duck, eat, eggs, elmo, eyes, grandpa, happy, hat, hay, heavy, hello, hi, hippo, hot, house, Jenna, juice, knees, Leila, light, mama, mm-hmm, Molly, money, more, nana, nice, no, nope, nuh-night, nummy, off, on, open, ouch, Paigey, papa, peas, please, pooh bear, poop, potty, pretty, Reid, Ryan, shoes, sorry, spoon, star, thank you, there, toot, train, tree, up, waffle, water
90 words!!

Plus some sounds:
(car), (monkey), arf, baa, meow, moo, neigh, quack

Monday, November 22, 2010

Our Little Reader

Leila loves books. I get out about 50 and spread them on the ground for her to choose from :)
Right now she likes this Tractor book
She looks so old in this one!
I love the banana slice that is stuck to the side of the highchair...how does that even happen?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Chicago Trip

Jer and I took a vacation to Chicago last weekend. We went to the Cheesecake Factory and Michigan Avenue, Millennium Park, and on an architecture boat tour.

Here we are in front of the Cloud Gate (aka Bean) in Millennium Park.
Jer was doing acrobatic feats with his twin...
On the boat tour we saw a lot of really cool buildings. I liked the one in the center the best - Aqua - it is supposed to look like water.
Below are the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower and 311 S Wacker.

We finished up with a deep dish pizza while watching the end of the Michigan Illinois football game.