An Interview with a 3 Year Old!

It is crazy that Chloe has been 3 now for a few months. Every where we go she likes to tell people she is three and hold up her three fingers. I wonder if this will last the whole year! Right around her third birthday I asked her a few questions:

 Chloe: Age 3
*My favorite thing to say is: Livia
*My favorite song is: Brother John
*My favorite color is: blue
*My favorite drink is: juice
*My favorite food is: peanut butter sandwhich!
*I like to go eat at: Friendlys
*My favorite store is: Aldi’s
*My favorite thing to sleep with is: bear
*The coolest person I know is: Payton
*The funniest person I know is: Olivia
*The sweetest person I know is: Christopher
*When I'm outside I love to: swing on the swings
*When I'm inside I love to: paint
*If I could go anywhere in the world I'd go to: the library
*I like to watch: Chuggington
*My favorite toy is: her play food
*My friends are: Christopher and Olivia
*My favorite thing to do with Daddy is: go to the park
*My favorite thing to do with Mommy is: bake and mix things
*My favorite thing to do with Payton is: play dough
*My teacher is:
 *I like when we read: library books
*When I am three I hope to: go to school
*I know that Jesus: loves me
*When I grow up I hope to: sing Chloe loves to sing and dance.

 She can go to the potty all by herself now and loves to be a mommy to her babies! She loves to play outside and would swing the whole entire time if I let her. She sometime does well sharing with Payton and continues to work hard at it. She is learning how to obey the first time and loves to sleep in her big girl bed now (twin). She likes to ask if we are happy and says “I love you Mommy” which melts my heart! She is looking forward to going to school although she wants Mommy and Payton to come with her. She loves to swim and always asks when we can go to the beach again. She has grown up so much this past year!

 I'm sure if I asked her these questions again they would be totally different! She changes her favorite color every day! Ha ha! I love this sweet precious girl so much!

Weekly Recap

Payton is 7 1/2 months old and has been crawling for about two weeks. Shortly after she began to pull herself up to stand! I am not ready for what comes next! Yikes! She also has been reaching out for us to hold her and earlier this week said "Da da da" when Jeremy came home from work. She loves chasing after her big sister and playing with the cookies in the toy kitchen.

Chloe is very talkative! We definitely need to watch what we say around her! A few days ago she was playing and all of a sudden I heard her say "Holy Gosh!" She loves to go shopping and gets excited when we drive into the Target parking lot. She cheers and says "Yeah shopping!" We were driving home from Target last week and I went a different way home and as we were passing Walgreen's she said "Ask for Nancy Wood". I was so shocked because she remembered what I say when I pick up my mom's prescriptions. I think she has only been with me twice when I have done that though. She is so cute! She is having a hard time sharing with Patyon though, especially since Payton can crawl and go after whatever she wants. Chloe loves to color and swing. She could swing all day long if I had the patience to keep pushing her!

Here is a picture of the girls in their Easter dresses

Overheard at my house

Chloe enjoys singing just as much as her Momma does! They are both so precious to me! Enjoy!

What A Year It Has Been

So every time I check in and read my friend Dawn's blog I see the last post I have posted on her side bar and today realized it has been a year! This year has been crazy! Last December my mom ended up getting very sick and needed emergency surgery right before we were supposed to drive down to Texas to see Jeremy's family for Christmas. She came through the surgery and we decided we could still drive down to TX. It was a fun trip! On the long drive though we talked about my mom and how we should probably some day move to NJ to be closer to her. Well when we arrived back home around New Years we were surprised to discover I was expecting again! Payton was born August 22nd. =) We just love her and Chloe loves being a big sister! She always wants Payton to play with her. Well in January we found out my mom needed someone to live with her full time so Chloe and I made the move to NJ. Jeremy did not move down here until Payton was born. 2011 flew by for me! During that time Chloe turned 1 in Feb, then we moved to NJ, came back to Syracuse to finish teaching so I could keep the health insurance for a little longer at the end of April, right after school ended in June I was in extreme pain and had to have emergency surgery while pregnant to remove a cyst, my sister was married 2 weeks later, and Payton arrived a little over a month later!

Chloe went from just walking to running in a few months time. Saying a few words to talking in full sentences. I will never forget her first time telling me what animals say when she was only 14 months old. =) Earlier this week she called me into her room because she had garbage. When I walked in there she had taken off her socks and was cleaning the lint between her toes!

Payton is now 5 months old and is rolling over and has just begun eating cereal. She smiles all the time and loves to laugh, which I make her do often!

Walker

Chloe loves her walker from Grandma!

Pulling herself up

Chloe has now pretty much mastered crawling, but has decided she would rather walk by holding our hands. Everytime I try to have her sit down on the floor she will not bend her legs and I feel like I am telling her to "sit" like I tell our dog Annie. This past week she began to pull herself to a standing position. I will try to get a video of it sometime this week if I remember when I am home from work.

It has been an adjustment going back to work. I miss my little girl so much! Each day gets easier (meaning I am no longer crying) but I am counting the weeks until I have a day off (4 weeks). =) At least I know I pretty much have at least one day off a month except for March to spend with my little angel. It is amazing being a mom...I love her so much!

Just Wondering

I really only know of 1 person who reads this because she is the only one who posts comments (Hi Dawn!). I have the live traffic feed and it is interesting to see all the different places people are from who are reading this blog. So I guess I am kind of wondering who you are and if I know you. =) Please leave a comment if you feel like it. Otherwise I will just keep wondering...