Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving

We enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving at Grandma and Grandpa Yost's house this week. Natalie especially likes playing with her bigger cousins. We discovered that we're going to have to get her a Barbie doll because she loved playing with Chloe's. Here are a few pics from T-Day 08...

Playing Barbies with Chloe (note the fabulous new haircut Chloe gave herself!)

Chloe and Jerad teaching Natalie how to slide down the stairs!

Daddy and Natalie playing Atari video games (Nat wasn't too impressed with Daddy's skills)

Peeking outside

What we're most thankful for...



Monday, November 24, 2008

New Nat-Sized Chair

Now that Natalie is such a big girl, she's been 
getting up onto our two rocking chairs. But just like Goldilocks, they are both too big for her. However, we recently found a chair that fits her just right. She loves her new rocking chair. But she also thinks it's a fun new toy to climb and stand on and we're trying to teach her that is not what chairs are for. Try explaining that to a 1 year old! They just don't buy it. (Speaking of her age, tomorrow marks her 16-month birthday.)

The new daycare situation seems to be going well. She is a little overwhelmed by all of the action and noise with the other kids when we first arrive, but she happily joins them for breakfast and kisses me goodbye. 

In other exciting news, I think she said "pease" (aka: please) this evening two different times when I prodded her. I've been trying to teach her manners for the longest time and this was the first time she actually repeated them. 

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our friends and family. We're thankful for each and every one of you!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Pajama Time!

Here are a few new snaps of Natalie in her brand new big girl pj's her daddy picked out for her. She loves 'em! 
Showing off all her pretty teeth!

Deep in thought...

In other news, today was the Ashley's last day watching Natalie. She starts at her new daycare (a small, in-home daycare) on Thursday and will go there three days a week. She's already met and played with her new playmates, Landon and Sage. She will be the youngest so far but just by about 6 months. We hope it will be a fun change for her. Unfortunately, we'll miss Ashley (Natalie just said her name "Ash" for the first time this week.)

She's growing leaps and bounds (and yes, she leaps and bounds too!). Tonight we were practicing kicks and she'd say "kih" when she did it. She may be a soccer player some day! Her little personality cracks us up on a daily basis and we feel truly blessed she's in our lives!