20.5 MONTHS- NAP

She drug the front door rug in on the carpet to take a nap on it.....guess the carpet wasn't good enough!  LOL

20.5 MONTHS- CHATTERBOX

Little Miss Nevaeh says the cutest things:

Aunt Caitlin picked her up....Nevaeh rubbed Caite's cheek and said, "My Aunt Caitie.  I love my Aunt Caitlin." and planted a kiss on her cheek.

Yesterday, Courtney called and shared that Nevaeh was watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  Santa was sleeping and snoring, Nevaeh said, "Santa is crying"....Courtney said, "No, Santa is snoring because he is asleep."  Nevaeh corrected her and said, "No No Santa is crying! Poor Santa"   HaHa....Courtney said she followed along in the movie and would repeat many of the lines in the story!

Today, I was on the phone with Courtney and Nevaeh ran in the room crying...."I hit my head",  Mommy asked where?  and  Nevaeh said, "I hit my head right here" and she pointed to the boo boo while she cried.  To divert Nevaeh's attention away from the boo boo, Courtney asked what Daddy was doing.  Nevaeh said, "He's painting!"  Actually he was putting up the Christmas lights outside!  HaHa

Later in the day we SKYPED....the dog was barking in the background.  Nevaeh said, "I hear Chael!"  Grandpa looked over the computer (from the back) which made him look upside down on the screen.  Nevaeh said, "Crappa is upside down!"

We've noticed that Nevaeh is very good with first person and proper use of pronouns and positional words in her language.  Pretty impressive for 20 months!

20.5 MONTHS- LINGERING SNIFFLES

Downside.....Nevaeh has a lingering cold....upside...she learned how to blow her nose with a Kleenex! Pretty advanced skill....don't you think?

NEVAEH'S BEDROOM (BEFORE/AFTER REMODEL)

At one time, this house was a duplex.  Nevaeh's room used to be the kitchen in the upstairs apartment, but the owner before had already converted back to a single home.....See the stove outlet near the baseboard on the right side?  Here's the before.....

Here's the after!  The wall color is more of a mint green, not the lime green shown in the picture. 

The original stained woodwork was beautiful, but nicked up.  Courtney didn't want to paint it, so we stripped it down and started from scratch....and then back to the original dark stain color.  It was hard work, but worth it!  The floors are all original and wooden, but.....the kids wanted warmth and a sound barrier from the top floor to the first floor, so they put carpet down.  They did keep all original wood floors on the first floor (no carpet)!

 

See the spot on the ceiling?

                                                         

Someone signed the ceiling back in 1902!

We didn't keep the ceiling graffiti, but we did take a picture of it for memories.  Grandpa Baker stomped the ceiling for a cleaner look.  Since the changing table isn't needed, we decided to use it for the for stuffed animals instead!

 

I forgot to take a picture from this angle, but I did get a straight shot on the long wall to the left.

The bookshelf!

CHRISTMAS PHOTOS 2011

 This one would make a beautiful Christmas card!

Helping with the Christmas Tree.  Nevaeh was helping with the branches.  She accidentally pulled one off and immediately said "I sorry, Momma" about ten times in a row.  Mommy commented on how hard it was to get upset when she was so darn cute with her responses. 

 Mommy and Daddy putting on the garland.

 Nevaeh helping with the decorations.

 A family affair!

 Maddie had the honor of putting the tree topper on this year.

 The tree is in their front formal sitting room.

 BEAUTIFUL!

20.5 MONTHS- EATING WITH THE BIG KIDS

 Maddie and Alexis ready for dinner. 

 Nevaeh wanted to join the big kids at the dinner table.

 Waiting patiently for dinner with big brother, Jordyn!

 Acting silly with her food!

20.5 MONTHS- NEVAEH'S BEDROOM

We are slowly but surely fixing up each room in the new house.  This time, we focused on Nevaeh's room.  All of her nursery stuff was put back up, with the exception of the crib.  It was converted to a toddler bed.  Daddy did a really nice job hanging her name letters that Aunt Caitlin painted for her. 

Mommy unpacked all of the books and set up the book shelf.  Nevaeh loves books!

Nevaeh picked up a book and made herself comfortable on her bed.

She "read" the book for quite some time!

After reading, she got her jammies on and crawled into her bed.  She was ready to go to sleep even though we were still working on her room!

Night, Night!  Sweet Dreams!