I've been compiling a list now for like a month of new, funny or cute things Annie is up to and it's time to share!
1.She's been in her big girl Dora bed for a couple months now and I STILL can't get used to how funny/weird it is to have her just come walking out of her room. She always turns off her shell before she leaves her room, grabs the stuffed animals, blankie and passies she slept with that night, and waddles to my bedside or wherever I am and says Hi Mommy!
2. Randomly throughout the day, Annie goes in her room, lays out all of her babies and sometimes stuffed animals on the floor and covers each of them with blankies...yes, all of them...turns off the lights, turns on her shell, shuts the door and tells me Shhh! Babies are sleeping! She also periodically goes back in her room quietly to check on them till she decides it's time for them to wake up!
3. She loves to pretend to make food and drinks at her kitchen and then feed them to her babies and make this Num Num Num sound effect like they're really eating.
4. She loves to play doctor on me. She grabs her doctor kit and tells me to sit and uses each item on me. Then says ok Mommy do it to Annie. It's so cute.
5. If you tell her to count for you, she willingly does so. She loves to count and can count all the way to 16! At first, she used to have a hard time saying seven so she would always skip it, it was so funny but she's got it now. She even knows some of the numbers in spanish! She also knows all her colors and most her shapes, it's really amazing to listen to.
6. She's in the Annie do it stage! She'll even tell me, Mommy go away, stop Mommy, or mommy out if I'm around when she's trying to do something herself!
7. Anaston's favorite thing to do is read. So many times throughout the day, she goes in her room, pulls her chair up next to her bookcase or sits on the groung and pulls out books to read. She could stay in there all day. She reads to herself and will call me in there and point next to her and say, "Mommy, sit...read it please." She carries her books with her everywhere around the house and anytime we leave the house she picks a few to bring to read on the road. I love it. She learns alot from her books.
8. She runs to her window in awe whenever she hears the garbage man. She loves how big the truck is and loves to watch it in action. She calls him the "fro-dee man". I think she gets that from whenever I tell her to throw something away in the garbage she says,"Ok, put it in the Fro-dee." it's so funny. I think she's trying to say throw it away but this just seems easier.
9. Anytime she spills, she goes and grabs a kitchen towel and wipes it up and sings"Peen Up, Peen Up." She likes to clean so much sometimes she spills on purpose just so she can clean it. We just got her a little broom and vacuum for her age so she can help me and whenever she see's me grab my broom or vacuum, she runs and grabs hers and says Annie help!
10.I love how she says broken...more like "bwo-keen" Anytime somethings not working right, she says, uh oh, it's bwo-keen!
11. She'll tell me when she wants to eat and says I want eat! She knows the difference in the meals and my favorite is how she says lunch...it's "hunch."
12. She is very aware of her surroundings. Whener we are out and about, she knows just where we're headed long before we get there according to streets, signs, stores or landmarks. It's insane! I'm horrible with directions, she must get it from her Dad! Even if it's a place we've only been once and a long time ago! She loves to point out any park and each of her Grandparents houses especially!
13. She runs from me whenever I'm coming to change her diaper or brush her teeth and says,"Mommy comin!" and buries herself in whoever is around to save her, or I'll find her hiding on the other side of my bed in a head stand, with her little booty straight up in the air so "I can't see her." The only place she likes me to change her anymore is on her bed, as long as she can read a book while I do it.
14. She is still progressing on potty training. She had all the signs around Christmad and we started trying, though a little young and she did great for a week or two. But she regressed a little once we were talking about the baby. I got great advice from my doc and have just decided to let her decide when she wants to use the potty. I'm in no hurry right now. Every day atleast once she's uses the potty but it's not a full itme thing yet.
15. She loves to tell stories about things that happened to her and get's very animated and uses her hands alot. I love it. Also, when you tell her something she's looking foward to or somewhere we're going, she'll repeat it back to you just how you told her for confirmation.
16. Anaston loves to dance and sing. She's a natural! A good voice and good dance moves! She catches on very quick to lyrics. We started realizing a couple months back that she knows alot of the words to many different songs on the radio that we tend to listen to and will sing slong. She now knows every word to too many of them, we can hardly believe it listening to her. She mostly likes to sing with the songs but she will sing the I Love You song from Barney word for word on her own. Its' adorable. We have great video's of it of course. Our favorite song on the radio she sings is Akon "Right Now."She'll also sing Rihanna "Disturbia", Rihanna "Live Your Life", Brittney Spears"Womanizer", Beyonce "Single Ladies","Kanye West "heartless", TI "Whatever You Like", Josh Gracin "Unbelievable" and a few more. And everytime any one of the songs she knows and likes comes on, she yells,"This is Mommy, Annie's song!" and gets all excited and sings and dances.
17. Says O-een for open.
18. She'll hand me her pink passies every now and then and tell me, no I want green P! She prefers the green ones cuz they're softer but I'm proud to say she is down to just using it for when she falls asleep! (Or when she sneakingly finds one..ha ha)
19. She's very good at using her please and thank you's, it's really sweet.
20. She does the mambo form Dora. Our favorite is when she does the "wiggle your hips"...she looks so cute doing it.
21. She walks around the house singing the Happy Birthday song perfectly and at the end acts like she's blowing out the candle. She'll even use things for props like it's the candle.
22. She sings twinkle twinkle along with us while we sing to her at night. She picks who she wants to put her to bed each night and it's pretty 50/50!
23. She loves to re-inact the suprise for Boot's suprise party on Dora and invites you to do it with her, crouches down in a ball and jumps up and yells suprise!
24. Some funny little things she has picked up on..."Oh gosh" "Oh sup fweak(freak)" "Hey Dude" "Hi hunny" "Shake ya booty!" "Yes-ie" in response to anything she answers in yes. "Oh sick...stinks like poop"(her reaction to a stinky smell)
25.She loves to pretend dial someone on her phone and counts to ten like it's their phone number and then will go off on a make believe conversation with whoever sh is calling at the moment. She's usually calling "wa-ma", Nae Nae, Dad, Jade, Jaymee, Brooklyn and London, Gavin or Ellee. She'll carry around her camera too and have people pose for her and say cheese so she can take a picture of you.
26.She can be a little crazy. She tries to climb on everything and jump off of everything!
27.She'll copy an entire prayer now. She loves to say prayer and will say everything you tell her to. It's so sweet.
28. She loves listening to the Primary songbook on CD in the car. It's her favorite. She finds comfort in it. She sings I Am A Child Of God. She calls it the babies! "I want to hear the babies"
29. She tells me she has a baby in her belly too and loves to talk with me and tell me the thngs she's going to do to help with baby like diapers, wipes, bottle, etc.
30. Daddy taught her one day and now She loves to blow on our bellies and does it really good and really loud! She'll even do it to her babies and tickle them.
31. She loves to make believe with her dol house, kitchen, babies and barbies.
32. She dances and says "Shake ya Booty" and shakes it. It's so cute.
33. Anaston has learned that if she hides and says she's going poop then we'll leave her alone. So now she uses that to her advantage and when there's something she wants to get into, she'll shut the door and hide in that room andtell you she's going poop but really just wants you to leave her alone so she can get into whatever...usually my purse or gum or "lipies"(chapstick). I figured that one out pretty quick.
34. My mom will laugh sometimes when we're over there cuz Anaston just turns into a nervous wreck. She loves to be there and there's so much to do and see and she just goes wild so my mom would say, Annie is a nervous wreck! Pretty soon Annie started saying it with her and now my mom will just say "Annie is a..." and she chimes in and says "nervous wreck!" It's really funny!
35. Anaston likes to sing along with the theme songs of the shows she likes. And then when the shows over or we have to turn it off for the day, she kisses everybody goodbye and says all their names. ha ha
When we moved out of our Queen Creek house, Brian was taking a load over to my parents and Anaston's high chair seat blew out of the back of his truck! I looked so hard to try and find it but I guess someone else got lucky! Brian's parents had a high chair so that held us over for a while but ever since we've been here, she just sits on her picnic table to eat and it's not working so well. She gets distracted and walks around and soesn't eat as good...and she's spilling on the carpet and floors, making it so hard to keep clean all the time. My mom suprised me with another high chair seat, even nicer than the one we had before and it saved me! Annie loves her new chair and will just sit in it so good and eat, play with toys, watch a show..whatever, just like she used to. It even converts into a booster and will last a LONG time! So thoughtful..thanks mom, you're the best!:)
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