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Monday, August 17, 2015

Our First Week with an 18 month old!

Ok, Ok  so I’m a bit dramatic…

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What’s wrong with that?  The girlfriend turned 18 months on Monday so I claimed the weekend before her birthday a depressing celebration of “Our last weekend with a 17 month old”. Yes, we’re that ridiculous.  IMG_0981

You better believe when people asked me “Oh how old is she” I proudly replied “ONLY 17 months”! IMG_0986  I swear the square was lit up with a party in her honor!      IMG_1006   With balloons and all!IMG_1009IMG_1019

Saturday we ACTUALLY tried to prove to ourselves that after almost 18 months with you we were “good enough” to accomplish task at home while you awake!

That was short lived before we abandoned ship and headed out for shopping and margaritas to drown our sorrows…

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Did I mention another fun fact about 17 months… we no longer even ask for high chairs when we go out to eat with you. Literally, we  ask for a booth instead and you just stand (usually on top of me) the entire time…. Yes, really.IMG_1037

Sunday was crunch time!  IMG_1040 IMG_1042 Daddy taught you how to drink from a hose and it was pretty much hilarious! 

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Milly has been EVERYWHERE with us lately…. She even has gotten so good about sitting outside off of her leash lately!IMG_1061 IMG_1066Daddy insisted we do our Sunday square trip even though this mama was exhausted so I agreed only if we bring my Milly girl!  IMG_1101

Your welcome Mildred ;)

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As soon as she gets there she runs to the steering wheel and screams from the top of her lungs!

IMG_1079 IMG_1081 IMG_1087 IMG_1088 Look at these two, I don’t know who is more proud of who :) IMG_1095 IMG_1100Love these sisters  IMG_1107 IMG_1111 IMG_1113

Fairy foot print spotting below!! IMG_1116 IMG_1117  Daddy Lou, what have we done and how did we get here? Our baby girl is turning 18 months old in the morning!IMG_1129 The next morning came and we spent it in the most glorious places….

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The car dealership to get my car fixed… yes pretty glorious i know! At least we got a new car out of it for a few days! Lola and I like to ride in style ya know! IMG_1140 IMG_1141 IMG_1143

That afternoon we met daddy Lou and Lolas grampa Bob and Uncle Sean at one of my all time favorites, The cheesecake Factory to celebrate (well for me and Lou at least, his dad was in town for work and may or may not have known this was “Lola’s 18 month birthday dinner) ;)IMG_1145

We’re here! IMG_1201We took her to the mal afterwards to ride in the choo choo train!!IMG_1146 Daddy Lou thought the train was a “great” idea until he realized he actually had to get in the train too! IMG_1147  She was SO excite and a bit cautious.. IMG_1149 IMG_1150 IMG_1157 IMG_1164 IMG_1166 IMG_1169 IMG_1171 IMG_1178Alex thinks I am such a “cheer leader” as he calls it… He says I “cheered” the whole time in the train and you better believe when it was done the conductor had to wait for us check out each section of the train, test out the steering wheel, bell and horn!  IMG_1182Then we found the cutest toy shop!  IMG_1188

Lola walked right up and kissed the penguin and the store clerk and i instantly said “Omg you are the sweetest”! IMG_1189 IMG_1190 We are SO into pretend these days! IMG_1196 IMG_1199It’s after 6:37 pm making her an offical 18 month old!  IMG_1204

The last few days she has been SO into dressing up and putting things on… we got home SO late and I thought she would be exhausted… Girlfriend was wound up and ready to play! IMG_1210 IMG_1212

 

Lets just say we laid together for a VERY long time that night!IMG_1220

In other exciting grown baby news!

Lola had started gymnastics again (after 2 weeks off from her summer session)! She loves it and I do too even more now because it’s in the evening so Daddy Lou gets to join us after work!

IMG_0869 This was actually just before her first class and she had not seen Ms. Brittany for TWO whole weeks so she started kicking and screaming before we even got in the parking lot!

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She was so excited to have her daddy there and be with Ms. Brittany! IMG_0871

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Lola was a pro and did i menton I was getting my hair CHOPPED off so daddy Lou was in charge of getting her dressed and ready for gymanstics  IMG_0890 IMG_0892He did pretty good and of course had to have her in her professional leotards!        IMG_0905 IMG_0910

The best part about evening gymnastics is we got to meet Ms Brittany (and her new boyfriend) at Mexican afterwards- Lola was in heaven!! IMG_0916

The very next week Lola had already improved SO much! She actually walked on the balance beam by herself multiple times and HUNG from the bars with NO help!!

IMG_1248  “It’s Ok Lou, let go!”IMG_1252 IMG_1255 Lined up for stamps!  IMG_1261

Lola was spoiled again on her “birthday week” with TWO play dates with baby Jadyn!  She could could not be more infatuated with everything baby now!!

IMG_0928 IMG_0931 IMG_0934I am quickly realizing 18 months apart is NOT for me so my mom must have been an octopus with 8 arms because she did it twice!IMG_0940But oh do we love our baby Jadyn time!  IMG_1228IMG_1224

We even got to have Charisa (Lolas first nanny) over to see GROWING baby Ethan! It’s official, he is the cutest baby boy i have ever seen!! IMG_1225Charisa always says she wishes she could attend our tea parties and be girly so we threw one just for her! IMG_0947

I think Lola has prepared both of them for the toddler days ahead….. One if FUN huh Lola :) IMG_0950We’re always into something and we have lots of opinions about what we do…. including wearing our slippers at all times. I will say that although she has won the fight about wearing them outside of the house… We have not been in “public” (yet) so I consider myself winning the war. 

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