Sugar Top Suzies

Basically its toast, sugar, and cinnamon all thrown together by butter and it is delicious. I always called it Sugar Toast, but Chad has always called it Sugar Top Suzies…kinda corny for a 30 year old to say that, but I will keep with the tradition and let Chloe know that one of her favorite snack items are “Sugar Top Suzies”!! (wonder where the rolls in her legs come from...)

18 Month Check Up

We had Chloe’s 18 month check up last week. She is weighing in at 29 lbs 7.5 oz. and it 34 inches long. She is still in the 95% in her height and weight. She got 2 shots and a finger prick. They put a band-aid on her middle finger from the prick and she was shooting the bird the entire visit. Chad thought it was hilarious. Needless to say she thinks band-aids are way cool on her finger, she had to show everyone! Dr. Eley was very impressed with her vocabulary and said that she was way advanced and can talk very clearly for her age(not that it matters). She is putting 3 words together now and can point out and say almost every animal in her books. Every day she amazes me on what she picks up from us. This morning she was in the bathroom with me while I was getting ready and said “heavy towel” as she was handing a towel to me! So random since I never taught her what a towel was! I told Chad he has to be very careful on game days when football games are on, and he needs to use his “dammit doll” if he feels like he needs to vent! I also asked the doctor if she was concerned with her weight since everywhere we go , someone always talks about how chunky she is, (more so for Chad to be relieved not me, I know she is just fine, but he thinks she needs to get on the treadmill) Dr. Eley said she is perfectly healthy and to keep shoveling in the food, especially since she is not picky and loves to eat. She said that for how active she is, she needs to eat, this was on lap 72 Chloe was doing around the tiny room. She is also adjusting well to her fruit now, I thought it was giving her diaper rashes but I now have narrowed it down to the Capri Sun they give them in the church nursery. I don’t give her juice, just water and milk so it makes more since now . I’m so happy because she LOVES fruit! Plus Dr. Eley said that it’s great not to give juice anyway since it is just empty calories, especially if she would rather have water. The best part of the visit was that her ears looked PERFECT, and the tubes were still in place. I am pretty sure this is the first time that she has been without something starting to brew in her ears. THANK YOU GOD! My baby is no longer a baby anymore !

Oktoberfest

Chad and I met my brother and sister in law at Octoberfest in McKinney. It was really hot and basically people just stood around and drank beer and wore really weird outfits. It actually was pretty lame, we ate dinner at Apparichios and left in time for Chad to get back to watch the Tech game. Chloe had a great time on the train and looking at the animals though…

Old Time Saturday

Chloe and Presley after the parade..

Look at those baby blues!!! Dasha's twin nephews, Chloe , and Presley!

So I met my friend Dasha and her daughter Presley at Old Time Saturday in Farmersville. It’s an all day thing with a parade, vendor booths, bounce houses, and a dance at night J Chloe loved the fire trucks and police cars and all the horses in the parade she waved at EVERY one that went by. I would have taken pics of the actual parade, but anyone that knows Farmersville and Princeton , all it is is trailers with about 10 streamers hanging from them, definitely no Macy’s day parade!!!! Oh well, got us out of the house for a little bit!

Her favorite thing

Some kids have a blankie or woobie, not Chloe, she has a chair that she HAS to have before bedtime!!!

Fashionista!

Decisions, Decisions

Her pick was Scary Movie 4 ....LOL! I went ahead a just put on Strawberry Shortcake.

Zoo

This was the first animal she saw, she belly laughed the whole time at it..

Chad said she coiuld only have her picture taken with the longhorn if she did the "horns down" sign.

Kid play area, watching how to make butter.

Longest ever recorded rattle snake.

Speaking of snakes, this one was in a pond right under our feet. A few minutes later a couple baby snakes followed!!! Dont think it was part of the zoo. YUCK!

Chad's wingspan almost as big as a bald eagle.

These animals are just weird. I do not like them. He stared the whole time, and kept regurgitating his food.

A long day a the zoo=a tired princess.

We decided to celebrate our holiday at the zoo. We had a great time and Chloe loved it. Her favorite part was the penguins. They were going crazy since it was feeding time. Im sure we will be going back soon.

Where's Chloe??

Chloe’s new game is to hide from everyone like she is doing in the picture. It cracks her up to think that no one can see her. Also check out the Christmas headband she has on…. She wants to wear it with EVERYTHING! I need to find one of those button that says “I dressed myself today” . I also downloaded some new apps on my iphone. One turns everything black and white and you can pick what part of the picture you want to still have color..it called ColorSplash. Another app I got is Photogene, it lets me crop and add images to it. Somehow I flipped her shirt around, you can tell the words are backwards.

Heard Museum

Chloe had a blast visiting the Heard Museam, I had never been either, and I thought it was pretty cool. It was a day of cheap fun. Chloe's favorite part was probably the snakes, sooo gross. She loves bugs of any kind. Her new word this weekend besides "poot" was "grasshopper" pronounced "hoppa", she chased that poor thing all over the backyard.

After looking at all the animals, we took the the BlueStem trail through the woods, but veered off on a gravel road that took us to the lake. Chad threatened to leave my jogging stroller in the forest, the trails are stair step for the entire 1.84 miles. He said we could just go get another on on the way home, but I made him push it back while I carried Chloe. We were give out by the time we got back at 10:30, Chloe fell asleep on the way home. After he woke up from her nap we waited for Chad to get home from work and we sat in the backyard for a good 2 hours enjoying the nice weather and having good conversation while Chloe swam in her pool. She ended up going to bed at 6:30 that night. I was going to clean the house but Chad insisted we watch a movie instead, he even turned the Cowboy game off! We decided on SlumDog Millionaire, everyone said it was a great movie, but Chad and I didn't like it very much, I could barely understand them through their heavy accent. All in all it was a great weekend!

Catching some rays...

We spent a couple hours at our favorite splashpark :) Sh ehadmore fun this time playing in the mulch than in the water!