Fall Pictures

Originally, the plan was to take Sweet P to the pumpkin patch and my best friend Dawn was going to take her fall pictures there.  Unfortunately, the weather was EXTREMELY uncooperative on the days that we had available to do this.  This past week, we were lucky enough to have a few days where the outside temperature reached nearly 70 degrees, so after work one evening we walked down to the school yard to snap a few pictures.  Getting Sweet P to stay still long enough to get a non-blurry pic was nearly impossible, and then when she started to calm down, it was completely dark.   But we did manage to get a few good ones!  Thanks to Dawn for being such a wonderful photographer and an even better friend!

 

 

 

Halloween!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beach pics and more!

The last couple of weeks have been super-duper busy!  My mom came over to the Portland area for 5 or 6 days because my grandmother was in the hospital.  Luckily, grandma was released and mom was able to spend some time with Sweet P and I.  We took a day trip down to Seaside, which is always fun!  P and I had not been since January, so it was the first time she was able to walk on the beach by herself! 

J and I attended the Governor's Gold Awards on the 9th.  This was our 2nd year attending this event; tickets are very expensive, but we are able to go because of J's involvement with Special Olympics Oregon.  It is a very fancy-shmancy gala with a silent auction, dinner and an awards ceremony.  The current and past 3 governors were all in attendance as well as Chris Dudley, who is running for gov. currently.  Mr. Dudley is the tallest person I have ever seen in person; I'm thinking he must be near 7 feet tall.  When we walked into the silent auction, he was chatting with Amy Roloff, the mom from the reality show Little People, Big World.  Let me tell you, that was a sight to see such a tall man conversing with such a short woman!  We ended up standing behind Mrs. Roloff at the bar, and we were able to shake her hand and schmooze with her a bit! 

Well, that is the current happenings.  Sweet P will be 18 months next week and we will have her check-up, so hopefully I will find time to post how big she is now and in what percentile she is in.  We also have H’s birthday this weekend, so there will be some pictures from his party to show off too!  Yes, I know the post looks weird, but blogger is acting up and I can't get it fixed!

Time, it is a flying!

I can't seem to keep up with blogging lately.  It seems like I just wrote last week, but I see that it really has been more than a month!  Between working and spending all of my off time with Sweet P, the time just gets away from me!

Sweet P turned 17 months old this week!  It's so strange that she is no longer in the "baby" stage, but she is still very much my little baby.  She continues to be a little daredevil, and I won't be surprised if she doesn't get through her toddler years without a broken bone.  She climbed the ladder all the way to the top of H's bed not too long ago, and she rarely will ride her rocking horse the way she should ~ she instead likes to stand on the seat to rock!  She has figured out how to climb on top of a stool or chair to get to things she shouldn't, hence her burning her finger yesterday on my hair straightener while I was getting dressed (quick reflexes though, so not too bad).  She doesn't want help going up and down the stairs; she wants to do it herself, and not crawling either.  She is so proud of herself when she does something new and we praise her as being a "big girl"!

Sweet P is also quite the chatter box; everyday she says something new that astounds me.  Here are some of the words/phrases/sentences that we have heard: "whatcha doing", "thank you", "I'm done now", "don't bite", "no way ", "momma", "dadda", "whoa", "wow", "NO", "hooray", "hi", "buh-bye", "dog", "kitty", "meow", "nose", "eye".  I am also almost positive that I have heard her say her name as well as her babysitter Stacys name!  I'm sure there are more words that I am forgetting as well!  Right now, I am really working with her to say "please".  She is so good with her thank you's, she just needs to get her pleases down!

Sweet P also has an obsession with shoes!  She wears my shoes all over the house, and sometimes daddys shoes too!  Poor Auntie Dawn can barely walk in without Presley pulling her shoes off of her to wear!

Sweet P is slowly starting to bond with Uncle Zachary.  He is temporarily staying with us, so she is becoming accustomed to seeing him everyday.  I think that when he is no longer here everyday, she will miss him.

Teething continues to be an ongoing source of discomfort.  Most children get all 4 of their front teeth before their molars come in, but not my Sweet P.  She got her 2 lower teeth in the spring, then in August, J discovered that her upper left molar was in!  About a week later, her upper front left tooth came through, and just today I noticed that her lower left molar is now in.  We are still waiting for the upper front right tooth which seems to move up and down.  Sweet P is becoming a good little eater, well at least when her teeth aren't bothering her.  She will usually try just about anything, as long as it is not on her plate!  She likes to be a "big girl" and eat the same food as mommy and daddy.  We are working on using utensils, but she typically makes a really big mess instead of eating when we try.  Potty training is a slow go.  She was really into going potty on her big girl chair for a while there, but she now refuses to.  I think it is just a phase and that she will be eager to start up again soon (or at least I hope).

The fall JBF sale was last weekend, and I walked away with some smoking deals on clothes and shoes for P, including an adorable halloween costume that was just $6!  I spent exactly $100 and I sold just over $255!  I'm excited for the spring sale

Alright, I think that should catch y'all up on Sweet P.  Hopefully I will post again before halloween, but if not, I certainly will right after that.