Ali and I went to the mall with Ashley and AJ on Monday. They were playing in the Disney store, and AJ wanted to sit in “Picky Mouse’s” lap. She looked so adorable, peaceful, and innocent, so I snapped a pic:Then Ashley suggested to Ali that she go sit with AJ so that we could […]

Ali will be 22 months old at the end of this week, so here are some snapshots of what goes on in a 22 month old’s mind: Ali’s still confused about spatial issues. She was playing with Bonnie’s schoolbus at work on Monday, and kept insisting that she wanted to “sit chair”, pointing to a […]

Extremely Messy: First experience with Spaghetti – confusing, slimy, and fun, all at once. . .Extremely adorable and (sniff) grown up:AJ taught Ali how to play “Ring Around The Rosy” in the lobby after Church on Sunday:Ring around the rosy. . .Pocket full of Posies. . .AJ! Whattarya doing on the floor?!!?Ooooh!! I get it! […]

wordSurely if I look for the FIFTY-SECOND time, the candy will come out. . .maybe not.Hmmm. . . if I kiss it?Works with Mommy and Daddy, but apparently not so much with candy machines. Check out my other W.W. Post at B-Sides, and W.W. posts from others at 5 Minutes for Mom.

This cracked me up. Can you pick out which kid has two older siblings that have taught him that it’s fun to make faces as soon as you see a camera?For the record, the reason I was taking these pictures was because of my amazement of how easy it was to get six one year […]

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Ali checking out her new fall clothes this morning. . .All of the little girls lined up and watching Veggie Tales at our Sunday School party on Saturday. Of course, my child is the only one checking out everyone else and not watching.Saturday night, Pop and Gramamma came over to watch the game. I ended […]

. . .wordless Wednesday POST, of course. I’m sure I’ll have more to say later. Argh!! Now this post isn’t wordless. Oh well. One day I’ll get it right.

Ali’s first experience with wanting to carry a stuffed animal around with her all day. She begged to take “yay-ya” (Layla – a gift from JC and Lindsay when she was an itty bitty baby) to the grocery store:

Ali has a mega-crush on Thomas the Train. As Mom mentioned in her guest blog, all Ali has to do is hear a train, and she sighs and says in the most I’m-a-highschool-girl-talking-about-my-biggest-crush voice, “THOMAS. . . “ She knows about Thomas because we have a couple of Thomas books. We read them quite often. […]