Words & Standing

Beep Beep!

Beautiful ballerina


Wearing Daddy's hat at Celebrate Fairfax

Hokie Sisters

Payton watches my lips so carefully when I'm talking to her and telling her new words she may not have heard before. Putting together the state puzzle, I told her to put the Mississippi puzzle piece on, she asked me to say it again and watched me say it, then said it herself perfectly.

The Reagameister is standing a lot by herself. She pulls up on everything all the time and lets go. Last night, she turned herself around while standing up herself. She loves to play peek a boo and will put her hands over her face to do it herself and will crawl down the hallway, come back and peek around the corner of the room and laugh. Too cute!

We've been playing outside in the pool, Payton would stay in all day and Reagan thinks it's just like taking a bath, she loves it. Payton has started dance classes and is all about being a ballerina. It was supposed to be a fun summer thing, but I don't know if she's going to like it ending at the end of the summer, we might have to sign up for the year long one!

Obama's Big Lady

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYY3rLxt8c

This morning while we were eating breakfast, Payton says “I saw Obama’s big lady on Sesame Street yesterday” I had seen that Michelle Obama was going to be on Sesame Street but I didn’t know when, evidently Payton saw her yesterday and recognized her. We asked her if his little girls Sasha and Malia were on? She said no, just his big lady, she likes to exercise! She must have done a segment about exercising! Haha. And here I found the video on YouTube of her talking about healthy lunches and exercise!

Strawberries

The day before Mother's Day we went to Mt. Olympus Farm in Ruther Glen to pick strawberries. It was a beautiful day and the strawberries were so pretty and yummy. I didn't want Reagan to eat them yet, but wanted to take her picture with them, I had to snap quick because of course she wanted to bite them all!

Vocabulary bee

Payton's vocabulary just blows me away. Last night when we were eating watermelon after dinner she says, "Mommy, this watermelon is scrumptious!" I asked where she heard scrumptious and she said Sesame Street.
Then later while brushing her teeth, she says "Mommy, you're brushing my incisors, my molars are in the back, and canine's too!" Holy cow! She said she learned the teeth from Sid the Science Kid.
She is an elephant and remembers everything!!

Payton Is So BIG!

Payton seems to grow a lot at once. All of a sudden again she seems like such a big girl to me. Today was the first day she wore her big girl underwear all day long, we went out to the restaurant supply store, she had to go while we were there, luckily there was a bathroom that was actually clean, and she went. She went at the restaurant when we at lunch and did so well all day! No accidents and she told us every time!
While in the restaurant store I was naming off all the things I saw, high chairs, trays, bowls, cups and she says yeah and machines too...in the back were fryers, freezers and big appliances. She always amazes me with the words she uses. I wish I could tape her sometimes so I could remember everything she tells me.

This afternoon I was packing some things up and giving her things to carry to the kitchen to help me out. She carried 4 cans of mandarin oranges I told her to just put them on the table. I come out to put them away and can only find one can, she had put the others away herself, one under the sink, one in the cabinet next to the stove, and two in the big cabinet. We didn't find them all at once but throughout the night as we opened things up.

She helped Tung take all the clean dishes out of the dishwasher, she carried him a pile of plates and bowls that we thought for sure would be too heavy for her but she insisted upon helping. It's so cute how much she loves to help and how good of a job she does.

She makes me crazy with her 3 year old crazies, she still doesn't like to sit in the chair and constantly worries me about falling...is she going to be in Kindergarten and stand up at the lunch table?! haha. I love her more and more the bigger she gets, she's so amazing.