Miss M's activities

Miss M is a busy woman lately and at some point she started talking ALL THE TIME.  She repeats the same thing over and over until you acknowledge that she has told you something or asked you a question.  She is putting 3 words together to make short sentences. I have no idea when this happened. I think it just sort of happened. Andrew will comment that he didn't know she said "insert word/phrase" and I just look at him because I don't know if it's new or not. I can't keep up with her anymore.

She's obsessed with accessories. I do buy them for her but she loves them. She loves hats, sunglasses, necklaces, watches, and whatever else she sees that you might be wearing that she would like to wear.

We were in St. Louis visiting Aunt Jessie, Uncle Craig and baby Jack (who isn't much of a baby anymore since he's almost as big as Miss M in height and weight!).  Jessie and I went to the store to buy me shoes and maternity clothes and ended up buying only stuff for the children.  They are so much easier and more fun to buy than adults.  I ended up getting Miss M a bunch of stuff. The store was having a sales so most stuff was $1.99 and then Jessie had a coupon!

She got a new hat, sunglasses, tutu, shirt, necklace and summer shoes and she insisted on wearing them all as they came out of the bag!

The children were able to take a bath together which was cute and fun. Jessie gave them both mohawks since Miss M thought that Jack looked so funny.

We make a lot of treats around here these days because it entertains Miss M and I like cookies and stuff I shouldn't eat more now being pregnant than when not pregnant! She was doing really good at pouring the measuring cups of ingredients in the bowl until I gave her the chocolate chips. She proceeded to eat the chocolate chips until they were removed from her care.  

Aunt Nessie and Miss M go to the fish store a lot when they are together. Miss M loves going to the fish (pet) store.  She runs around like a crazy person from one fish tank to the next.  When you mention Aunt Nessie's name she will usually make a fish noise which just shows she associates Aunt Nessie with the fish store. Well with it being winter and our limited activities I have hijacked Aunt Nessie's fun activity and started taking her to the pet store when we're close to one.  She's so funny to watch run around and talk to the fish or scream about what color the fish are - well only when the fish are blue since until a day or two ago it was the only color she could say - we have advanced to saying red now.

In an attempt to find things to do with Miss M on cold days that require her to burn energy and me to sit on my rump we started putting her blocks in a line like a balance beam and she runs down them until she throws herself in the bean bag. She loves it. She throws herself into the bean bag all the time. And she does it backward too which is scary b/c there have been times when the bean bag hasn't been behind her because she doesn't look.  I saved her life which is more of a frequent occurrence than I would prefer!

In the video below she says she's hurt but she's not. She says she's hurt a lot and she's not so no fear it's a safe enough activity!