A year and a half!

Our sweet little peanut turned 18 mths old today...thats a whole year and a half! I can't believe how much she has grown! I was thinking back to last Thanksgiving that we spent in Tahoe and how little she was and how she wasn't even crawling much less eating solid foods! Now she is running and eating cereal with a spoon and no mess all by herself! She amazes me everyday! Just yesterday Josh mentioned how sad he was because he is actually having to work A LOT lately and goes several days without seeing her and he can't believe how much she had changed in just 2 short days! She is definitely the boss of the house and such a little princess! That girl has her daddy wrapped around his little finger!

Stats and what you are up to now:

• 26lbs
• size 4 diapers
• size 18mth clothes
• size 6 shoe
• LOVE cereal and anytime we ask if you are ready for dinner or lunch you run into the kitchen yelling cereal!
• You can feed yourself with a spoon and fork
• Love to shut doors and can open some
• love to say bye anytime you leave the room....when your food is gone.....when you leave something...you just love to say bye
• you are OBSESSED with Dora the Explorer...but will only watch the parts of the show when there is music playing! You squeal with delight and dance and sing Dora when it comes on
• you HATE shoes and socks and take them off any chance you get
• you are afraid of ALOT...you run and say no and start to cry if there is a large stuffed animal or anything that moves
• you like to say mama and tap where you want me to sit.....you also like to call me "the mama"
• you like to give squeezes
• you dropped your morning nap recently and only take 1 nap a day that is usually 2 hours long
• you got your 4th canine tooth so now all you have left are your 4 two year molars to come in
• you love to chase the cats and will call them both by their names now instead of calling them both ollie
• you like to give your baby sister kisses on mommies belly
• you love the phone and to see videos of yourself
• your most favorite thing to do is read
• you say a lot of words that I can't even begin to name them all....sad, bye, clap, dora, izzy, ollie, mama, dadee, josh, baby, book, dora, boots, map, girl, hi, bye, squeeze, knock knock, nose, eye, bobo(butt), oops I dropped it, uh oh, cereal, please, thank you(you usually say thank you mama to everyone)......

Adah potatah you are growing so fast! I can't believe how much you know and have changed! You make your dadee and me so happy and we just love you to death! God has blessed us with such a sweet and beautiful little girl and we can't wait to watch you grow and learn more! You are going to be such a great big sister next month! We love you peanut!

Here are few pics from my phone...not the best but better than nothing:

Adah noticed today that her toe was peeling and was seriously concerned about it....I swear every time I turned around she was sitting down inspecting her toe! Silly girl!

When Adah and I went to target the other day I found this "painting" book that all you have to do is dip the brush in water and touch the picture on the page and it turns to color!
Adah eating "Cer-al" all by herself....such a big girl!
Adah playing on her Auntie Rachel's computer while we were on a mini vacation with them in DC!
Standing in the back of the car talking into the speakers like they are a megaphone! Haha so funny....where she got that or what made her do it is beyond me! She is so funny!

mmm..mmm...good

Since Josh started back to work this week on a submarine and works A LOT (leaves around 5am and doesn't get home until 8:30pm at the earliest) I have a little bit of time to play on the internet after I clean up from putting Adah down and dinner! I have really been trying to find some new things to cook...I absolutely love to cook but when you have a picky husband and a daughter that is following in his footsteps it makes it hard to find new things...but I found 3 new recipes that I am beyond excited about! I have also been trying to make sure that they are easy to reheat and more importantly good reheated since Adah and I eat before Josh gets home! I made the first one tonight and it was SOOO good! It was a super easy lasagna....I usually make one that you don't have to cook the noodles first but this one has a lot more flavor and some different ingredients! I had to hide from Josh what was in it bc if he knew then he wouldn't even try it! He ate it and LOVED it! I thought I would share the recipe with the ya'll incase you wanted to try it too!

Easy Lasagna

(I found the recipe on this fun blog; click HERE to see!)

Ingredients:

• no cook lasagna noodles
• 28-32 oz jar of spaghetti sauce
• 1 lb of ground turkey
• 1 8oz cream cheese
• 1 cup chicken stalk
• 1 tsp dried basil
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 1-2 garlic gloves-minced
• 3 cups mozzarella cheese shredded
• 1 cup parmesan cheese shredded
• 2 tbs red wine (optional)
• 2 tbs white wine (optional)

Preheat oven to 400

lightly grease a baking dish

Brown ground turkey and add in the basil oregano and garlic.

Cook until meat is no longer pink and garlic is fragrant.

Add in spaghetti sauce and let simmer for about 5 min. Add red wine here if you are using it( I didn't and it was amazing but can't wait to try it with). Add salt and pepper to taste.

While meat sauce is simmering, bring chicken stock to a boil and add in the cream cheese.

Reduce heat to low and whisk cream cheese as it starts to melt and it will turn into a liquid/paste. Add white wine if using(again I didn't use it but I'm want to try it). Add salt and pepper to taste.

Put 1/2 of the meat sauce mixture in the baking dish. Sprinkle with 1 cup of mozzarella cheese. Cover with a layer of noodles.

Pour white sauce over noodles. Sprinkle with next cup of mozzarella. Add another layer of noodles over top.

Put remaining meat sauce over noodles and Sprinkle the last cup of mozzarella on top and top with parmesan cheese.

Bake 35 mins until brown and bubbly.

Let sit 10-15 mins.

Hope you enjoy as much as we did!

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