HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM NEVAEH!

Nevaeh is up and ringing in  2012!

UPSTAIRS BATHROOM REMODEL!

 The before pictures!  Grandpa Baker and Daddy worked hard on rearranging and repluming this upstairs bathroom.  The old was torn out and the new put in.....Below are the after pictures! 

It is very unusual for a 100 year old home to have two bathrooms.  This bathroom is smaller than the downstairs bathroom.  Grandpa seems to think that this bathroom was used by the servants because it was located near the servants quarters and also near the 2nd staircase that the servants would have used to access the kitchen downstairs.  One day, I hope to have the time to research the history of this home.  If only the walls could talk!

21.5 MONTHS- LEARNING EVERY DAY!

Here are some of the things that Nevaeh has learned:
1. Counts to 29!
2. Tells us she is 20 months old (even though she is 21 months old).
3.  LOVES the iPad.  I will search for youtube nursery rhymes and she does the rest.  She knows how to pick the videos and play them. She can stop the video and pick another one on her own!  She will do this for hours if I let her!  She loves videos with numbers, colors, shapes and so on!  I have to watch her carefully because some of the videos can turn a little ugly........Why do people have to remake and post such trash?
4.  The other day, Nevaeh spilled drops of milk from her sippy cup onto Grammy's floor.  Nevaeh said, "Uh oh, I need a napkin, pease". Grammy gave her a dish towel.  Nevaeh said, "Thank you"....put the towel on the floor and stood on it to soak up the small spill.....She gave the towel back and said, "It's all cleaned up!"
5. This morning on the phone Mommy called me and Nevaeh.  Mommy asked Nevaeh what she was doing....Nevaeh said, " Ummmm, I had pancakes, and Ummmm I took a bath, and Ummm I played with my toys......" This conversation went on for some time with Nevaeh saying "Ummm" & "And" while retelling the whole morning of activities!  Pretty impressive!
6. Today, she picked up something off the floor and said, "Here, it's mine, I mean yours"......she actually corrected herself :-)

CHRISTMAS NIGHT 2011

We had another gift giving at our home Christmas Night.  Here are a few pictures that made us laugh ohhh soooo hard!

Nevaeh insisted on putting her BIG GIRL DORA PANTIES on over her diaper and wearing the head bands that we got her.  She even put her ELMO jammies on when she opened that gift!  She refused to open the next gift until she put on each of these items!

Speaking of big girl panties........She now tells us every time she has to pee but she does it in her diaper. She asks to sit on the potty each time, but we can't catch it in time........So she knows what she is doing and that she should ask to go to the potty, but hasn't made the connection to wait and use the potty rather than go in her diaper.  But I guess that is still progress.  I think the big girl panties are still in the distance future!

CHRISTMAS 2011-GIFTS FROM SANTA!

This time, Nevaeh got the hang of opening gifts.  She loved her toys....so much in fact, we must remind Santa next year to mark which gifts have clothes in them, so they get opened first.  Once the first toy was opened, she wanted to play!

 Uncle Joey

 Grandma Dason

 Aunt Caitlin and Uncle Andrew

 Great Grandma and Grandpa Richards

 Grandma and Grandpa Dason

 Grandma and Grandpa Baker

Great Grandma Martin

CHRISTMAS EVE 2011

 

Nevaeh was a big helper getting the food ready for the Christmas Eve party at Great Grandma and Grandpa Richard's house. 

 A change of clothes and ready for the party! Love this silly face!

Unwrapping the gifts was hilarious....she would tear a piece of paper off and run to the trash can to throw it away....This happened several times until we got smart and move the trash can close to her! 

 Sitting on the gift!

Standing on the gift......but never really cared to see what was inside the box.  She would rather unwrap the gift and throw it away in the trash can!  HA!

21 MONTHS- TRICK OR TREAT?

Today Mommy asked Nevaeh what she wanted to eat for lunch. Nevaeh danced around the room repeating Mac and cheese....then she started saying " Trick or treat smell my feet, give me something good to eat!"....The older kids taught her this two months ago for Halloween and she remembered it word for word....She has a great memory!

BATHROOM REMODEL

 

Many of you know that Courtney and Mike bought a foreclosed home last April and are fixing it up thanks to her dad's hard work and Mike's labor! ....Here's the latest update.  The before picture of the downstairs bathroom......  And the after!!!!  I enjoyed helping Courtney decorate! Turned out BEAUTIFUL!

21 MONTHS- BIG GIRL PANTIES

Nevaeh called me (with the help of Mommy) and proceeded to tell me that she wanted big girl panties for Christmas, just like Abby (her cousin) has!  I reminded her that she has to use the big girl potty first!  ......So under the tree she will find some Dora pull up training pants and Dora big girl panties!  We'll see if these Dora items are incentive enough!

21 MONTHS-DINNER OUT WITH GREAT GRANDPARENTS

3rd ANNUAL CHRISTMAS DINNER

 

Christmas Dinner out this year was interesting.  Nevaeh had NO interest in sitting in one spot.  There were tooooo many people's laps to sit on.  Whenever she wanted to move to someone else's lap, she would say "Get off of me" rather than "Let me go".  We got a laugh out of that.  Then of course, since we all laughed about it, she thought she was cute and said it several more times.  Another "funny" thing she did to get my attention was call out for "Shelly" instead of Grandma!  Wow, she sure is observant when it comes to other people calling out for me by name! 

21 MONTHS- COOKIE BAKING 2011

 

 

This cookie baking is hard work!  Time for a nap!