Singing with Peanut

So, Peanut loves to sing. However, she can be very particular about what songs should be sung and who should be singing them. For example, she has an order that songs are sung. She loves "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and if you ask her if she wants to sing, we always have to start with this one. If you try singing another one first, she gets mad and says, "No! Twinkle Star". Sometimes even, she wants to be the only one singing them! So her order of songs right now is: Twinkle Little Star, Wheels on the Bus, Old MacDonald, The Wise Man and the Foolish Man, I am a Child of God. So funny story, Today we were driving in the car and a Jack Johnson song came on the radio. You may be asking, Who is Jack Johnson? Well if you have seen Curious George (the movie) he is the guy that does all the songs for it. So anyway, this song came on that was on Curious George and Peanut gets all excited and says, "Monkey George!" Brad starts singing along and Peanut says, "No Thank you, No Thank you Daddy!" He was shot down by a 2 year old! :) It was very funny!

A trip to the city........

Brad's cousin Ryan and his wife, Megan were in town and so we met them at the Rose Garden and walked around seeing and smelling the wonderful roses! They were so pretty!



Peanut was entertained by picking up all the rose petals on the ground that she could find!


So my camera's battery died while we were there, so Ryan and Megan bailed us out and took some pictures for us! Thanks guys, cause now we have a family picture!

After the Rose Garden, we parked our cars at the max stop and rode in to downtown Portland and we ended up eating at this Italian restaraunt. It was very yummy food! We decided afterwards to walk around and find dessert! We walked down to the waterfront and then we didn't see anything, so we walked and walked and walked to this cool place called St CupcakeThey have about 15 different cupcakes to choose from, so we all got a couple and dug in! (Well, I guess Peanut dug in!)

Don't they look yummy?
This is what Peanut looked like afterwards! You can tell she just likes the frosting!
Here is the victim! Poor little cupcake! After that, we took the train back and drove back home! It was a ton of fun! Thanks guys for the wonderful night and I'd just like to say that "I'd rather die this way than that way!"

Play Park

Every Friday at this park, they have different activities for kids to do. This past Friday, they had some zoo animals at the park and different games for the kids to do, so we decided to go and check it out with some of our friends. Peanut looks like a tennis player in the picture above. She has the stance and the cute skirt! :)

While playing, she found a pine cone and got really excited and came and showed me, and then it was back to playing "tennis" again!

So then we went to see the animals. They had a chicken, a turtle, a snake (which I decided not to post on the blog for Oma's sake!) a big lizard,
and a ferret! They made you put hand sanitizer on after each animal thank goodness! :) After we went and played at the playground and then we got a free lunch! It was a lot of fun!

County Fair

So yesterday, we went to the County Fair. Peanut was so excited to go see the animals. She told me that we were going to see a donkey, camel, cow, pig, chicken, rooster, and a horse. I kept telling her that there weren't going to be donkeys and camels but she wouldn't listen!

Our first stop when we got there was this kid area where you could do animal puzzles, play in a corn kernel pit, "milk" a fake cow, do a duck race, make a dirt baby and see"Mother Goose". Peanut got to sit on mother goose's lap and pet her bunny. She loved it!
After we did that, we made a dirt baby. This is a picture of the finished result. It is just some grass seed and dirt in a nylon and then you decorate it and after a few days, hair (grass) grows!

Then we went and saw all the animals. We saw cows and chickens and roosters and rabbits and ducks and pigs and goats and sheep and horses. Peanut was disappointed there weren't donkeys! Then we went and ate dinner. They had a steak fry going on so we got a yummy cheap steak dinner! We did manage to save room for dessert: an elephant ear and deep fried oreos. We made a consensus though and decided that regular oreos are way better!

Peanut got to pick 1 ride to go on (she is tall enough for a lot of rides!) and of course she picked the carousel! She loved riding the horsies! We had a fun day at the fair!

Potty Training...................

So, I have started the wonderful process of Potty training! So far so good! I have been giving Peanut lots of capri suns and chocolate milk so she can have plenty of moments to try the potty and it is working! Every time she goes she gets a sticker and she gets to put it on her potty chart. Also, after she has gotten 5 stickers, she gets a potty prize (dollar store junk)! She only had 1 accident on Thursday, and then Friday we had to put her in a pull up and of course that's where she went #2 (I know, TMI). She has at least 14 stickers on her chart though! Good job Peanut!

2 1/2 Already?

Where did the time go? I can't believe Peanut is already this old. She is such a joy in my life and I am so grateful to have her. I love her so much. Some of my favorite things about her are:

• Every time I sneeze, she says, "You alright? You okay?"
• She is so excited to see me every morning. After I get her she always says, "Mommy, I wake up!" I love that she is so happy in the morning!
• She loves to sing. Even in Church. Her favorite songs right now are these: Twinkle Star, Wheels on the Bus, Patty Cake, Little Bunny Foo Foo, I am a Child of God, Old MacDonald, Popcorn Popping. Sometimes if I sing with her she gets mad because SHE wants to sing them!
  
• She gives me super kisses on my cheek
• She loves getting ready with me in the morning. She brought her step stool in from the other bathroom into my bathroom so she can see herself in the mirror and she combs her hair and pretends like she is putting on makeup
• She likes to "lay down with mommy" before nap time and bedtime. It's just a ploy to delay going to sleep, but its so cute how she just cuddles up to me.
• She counts to 14 in English and to 5 in Spanish! Thank you Dora!
  
• She loves reading books. We did a summer reading program with the public library and I had to read her 20 books and I had 6 weeks to do it. We read the 20 books in half a day at least!
• She fake sleeps especially when its diaper time. She runs to the rug in front of the front door and fake snores while her eyes are open!
  
• She loves to sit on the counter and help me cook and help me empty the dishwasher.
• She loves to play at "play park" and loves swinging on the swings.
• She loves her stuffed animals
• She loves to color with markers
• Every time Brad comes home, she runs up to him and says "Daddy, Daddy" and gives him a big hug.
• She loves saying prayers. In fact, she wants to always say the prayer. It is so cute!
• I love that she is saying so many things and putting words in sentences and just communicating! I love that I am her mommy!
  

Blue Balloon

We treated ourselves to Red Robin the other night and Peanut was a good girl and got a balloon afterwards. Her favorite color is blue (she pronounces it Blewr) and for the rest of the night and the next day until it popped, she was playing non stop with it. She even wanted to take it to bed with her. The simple things in life.....