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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to Shelby's family and friends! May your Christmas be full of magic and wonder!
Merry Christmas Pictures!
21 Months
- She can say multiple three-syllable words like dinosaur, ladybug and "bee night night." She has a book about a bee and she's obsessed with the last page, where the bee goes home and goes to bed. She always wants to flip to the back of the book and says "bee night night."
- She loves her pink blanket. We recently bought a second one that she could take to daycare, and even after washing it, she rubbed it against her face and rejected it - she knew it wasn't the same!
- She loves to point to things and get us to say what they are. She's very curious!
- She is very into choo choos and dogs lately. She loves books and shows about trains and was very into this Georgia mascot ornament we had until she dropped it and broke it! You could tell she was sad it broke and kept pointing to his broken off foot and saying "shoe?"
- Her cute new thing is to say "hi?" The other night I had just put her down and walked past her room a few minutes later. I thought she was asleep. The floor creaked and I heard a "hi?" from the door. I said hi back and she went back and forth for a few minutes. It was so cute!
- She is very into looking at pictures and videos of herself on the iPad. She will wake up in the morning and request "baby?" which means - look at pictures of herself as a small baby! I think she understands that it's her.
- We have a small space heater in our den and she points at it and says "hot." Even though it does not get hot to the touch, she remembers that it's not for touching!
- She is very into saying "bye bye" to people and objects. If we are in a store and I point out something in passing (like say, a picture of a dog) she will say "bye bye dog" when we move on. It's so cute!
- She has all of her front teeth except for this one on the bottom left. I am beginning to be worried that it's not there!
- Scott taught her to poke our belly buttons and now whenever she does it she laughs SO hard!
- She loves this cat puppet that we have and likes for us to put it on our hands and meow for her. She thinks it's hilarious!
- She is really into her shoes and putting on shoes. We put all of her shoes in a basket by the door and when we ask her to go get her shoes (and boots - she knows the difference) she can pull out the shoes she wants to wear and bring them to us.
- I cannot believe it but she has been well since early September! Knock on wood, but this winter has been SO much better than the last one. We are so thankful. We were driving around last week looking at Christmas lights and Scott and I were reminiscing about driving down the very same road last year, only we were driving around trying to get Shelby to fall asleep upright in her car seat when she had a cold! I remember even driving around one night at 1:00 a.m! What a difference a year makes!
Potty Party!
Shelby has been telling us for a while about her poops. After she poops, she comes over to one of us, points to her bottom and says "boo boo." We've been encouraging to tell us when she is wet, too, but so far it hasn't caught on. For a couple of weeks now, every night before we put her in the bath, we sit her on the toilet in her bathroom and encourage her to pee. Tonight, just one day shy of 22 months, she finally did! Hooray! We were so proud of her. One step closer to a diaper-free household! She sat on the toilet for about a minute, and then finally did it! We cheered for her and after she peed, she even pointed to the flush lever. OK, enough potty talk for now. I promise not to be one of those parents who post potty pictures online for all to see!
Box House
"Snow" At Atlantic Station
In our continuing quest to do everything Christmas-related in the city, we went to Atlantic Station tonight for their holiday lights and "snow." For those who don't live here, Atlantic Station is an outdoor shopping area that looks like a mini city. When it's all lit up at Christmas time, you can almost imagine you're in some kind of Disney-fied fake New York (but warm). We rode the little train ride around the block - Shelby has never met a train ride she didn't like! At 6:00, they promised "snow" which turned out to be tiny foam bubble snowflakes that shot out of these machines rigged in the trees. It was pretty impressive for fake snow! Shelby loved it and it even stuck in your hair and on your jacket like real snow, but it lasted longer. Shelby had fun running around on the green space and checking out the giant Christmas tree and lights. Overall, a pretty quality free holiday attraction.
Shelby Visits Mimi
On Saturday we drove up north of Atlanta to visit Mimi and Bobby in their new house. Shelby enjoyed playing with the toys! This rocking horse was Scott's when he was little.
Christmas Program Video
Here's a video from Shelby's preschool Christmas program. Each toddler "plays" a xylophone with Jingle Bells in the background. You can see Shelby front and center - she's wearing a red bow, a black top and a red skirt. Enjoy!
Santa, Take Two
Today we went to Lenox Mall to ride the Pink Pig, but the line was really long. We checked out the line for Santa instead and since it was short, we thought we'd try to get another Santa picture. This time was no different than the first visit ... she wanted NOTHING to do with him! We ended up all taking a picture together with Scott and I smiling and Shelby screaming! That poor Santa!
I started a month 21 gallery with some Christmas pictures and pictures from her preschool Christmas program. Click on the right side of the page or click here.
A Christmas Tradition
Christmas at Stone Mountain
I'll try to remember to post all the random phone pictures we collect throughout the week. This picture was from last weekend at Stone Mountain. We're sitting on a fence waiting for their Christmas parade to start. The village is really pretty at night - everything is covered in lights. They even had this lighted walkway/tunnel that blinked in time with music. Of course Shelby LOVED it and kept saying "lights!" over and over and she ran up and down the tunnel. It almost made up for not being able to ride the train!
Christmas with a Toddler
I haven't downloaded our pictures yet, so this picture of Ralphie from A Christmas Story will have to stand in for how Shelby felt about Santa.
We spent the past weekend doing a bunch of Christmassy things with Shelby. I don't think she fully understands the concept of Christmas yet, but we are having fun anyway!
On Saturday morning, we went to a Christmas kid's festival at a local church. There were things like crafts, cookie decorating and a bouncy house, which she was a little scared of at first. So of course I had to go in the bounce house with her! She warmed up after a few minutes although Scott said she was going to be like Reese Witherspoon in the movie Four Christmases and have a lifelong fear of bounce houses. I hope we're not traumatizing her! :)
After her nap, we went to get our Christmas tree. Every year we go to this local produce stand because they are super helpful and folksy (ie country). This year, perhaps a little too folksy! We picked out the perfect tree and when they leaned it over to put a fresh cut on the bottom, the (female) proprietor of the place declared there was a knot on the bottom of the tree that needed to be taken off. The person that usually operates the chain saw was not there, so she took it upon herself to use the chain saw anyway (she wasn't even sure how to crank it up) and when all was said and done, she had hacked about a foot off the tree! It was now a little too short for our tastes, so we picked another tree. We werent' that upset about it, but the other worker seemed apologetic so he gave Shelby some free grapes, which she was super excited about. So that's this year's tree story: a chainsaw-wielding woman and some unwashed grapes.
Shelby was excited about the tree and hasn't seemed too into pulling ornaments off yet. We emphasized to just look and point - not to pull - and she seems to be getting it so far. However, just to play it safe, I still hung most of the ornaments on the upper half of the tree, so it's not the most attractively decorated tree I have ever done, but it's still very festive. Her favorite ornament is a Georgia mascot that plays the fight song VERY loudly when you push a button on the back, so we spent the afternoon decorating the tree not to Christmas carols, but to Glory Glory to Old Georgia! I hung all of our photo ornaments on the lower branches and she enjoys looking at them and naming everyone in the pictures - mama, daddy, cat and baby.
On Sunday, we went to the mall to ride the little train and visit Santa. We worked up to the Santa visit, walking by him several times and pointing out that other babies were visiting him, too. She seemed a little apprehensive at first, but still curious. I even went up there first and sat next to him and she was OK for about two seconds and then wanted none of it! She freaked out and started crying and wanted out of there, immediately! We might try again, but it's looking like there will be no Santa picture this year. Although, I always think the crying baby Santa pictures are pretty funny! But it is definitely not funny at the time!
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