Flower girl!

Michaela was happy this morning so I couldn't resist getting her dressed up and taking some pictures!  She is the cutest thing!  Adah thought her sister was so pretty and wanted to have a flower on her head too!  Love both my girls so much!

I uploaded these backwards but this is a picture of Adah in the same outfit and roughly the same age!  Too cute not to post!

Girly Girl

Adah has had a very fun past two days and as my sister said she is turning into such a "girly girl" and I LOVE it!  Until recently I have had to physically restrain A in order to cut her nails...sometimes to the point of laying on her!  I tried a month or so back to see if she would let me paint her toe nails and she wanted NO part in that!  I figured she would love to have her toes painted since she always messes with and loves my toes when they are painted!  I decided to take her to the store and let her help pick out a color on her own and last night after bath she let me paint her toes!  She can't stop looking at them and saying "Adah pretty toes!"  I think they are the cutest things in the world!

Her next big "first" if you can call it that happened this morning!  I have wrestled with it for sometime now....actually her entire little life....but today we went for it...we had her EARS pierced!  Before you go judging and saying that its child CRUELTY let me just explain....

Josh and I decided early on that we would not pierce her ears as an infant bc we both felt that it was a PERMANENT thing on HER body and that SHE should get to choose if she WANTED that or not!  Over the past several MONTHS A has become even MORE interested in my ear rings than she has in the past.  She wants to touch them all the time and tries to get me to take them off so she can have them!  A few weeks ago when we were at her friend Caitlyn's house she noticed that Caitlyn and her mom had ear rings too and she REALLY started to want them.  I would talk to her about them and ask her if she wanted them when she would bring them up over the past several weeks....I even pinched her ear with my nails and tried to explain to her that it was going to hurt....like getting a shot...I told her...she HATES shots and the doctor for that matter!  She said she still wanted them!  So this morning Josh and I decided to take her to the mall and see what would happen!  We got there and let her pick out her ear rings...thank goodness they were cute!....then I went and sat in the chair and she sat in my lap...the girl got out the maker and marked her ears and A got so excited when she saw the marks on her ears in the mirror...then both ladies that work there got their "guns" and asked her if she was ready...she sat there in my lap like a big girl and let them pierce away!  You have to understand that for that is HUGE for A to sit still like that and let someone touch her!  She cried for less than 30 seconds right after they did it....as soon as she saw her ears with ear rings in them in the mirror she was "all better"!  Now she can't stop looking at her self and her ear rings in the mirror!  She is too cute!

Here are a few pictures of her ears...the best she would let me take and a picture of her pretty toes!

Of course I had to post a picture of my other little girly!  She is always so happy laying in her bed watching her mobile!

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Adah is 23 months!

I know Adah doesn't officially turn 23 months until tomorrow but I am thinking about it and have a chance to update now so I am!

My sweet little potatah you are the sweetest, funniest, sassiest, prettiest little girl!  Mommy and Daddy just can't get enough of you!  You make us proud, angry, and happy everyday!  You have grown so much lately and continue to learn more words and all sorts of things everyday!

You were pretty sick this past month...you had a fever for 6 days straight!  When we took you to the doctor you weighed 27lbs!  I am not sure how tall you are but I know you are above average bc all your little friends your age are shorter than you and mommy always gets asked how old you are and people are so surprised...it could also be that you are so stinkin smart!

You LOVE your gymboree music class!  You LOVE to sing and shake your booty!  Your favorite songs right now are ittsy bittsy spider, twinkle little star and Jesus loves me!  You know ALL the words to all three of those songs and sing them all the time!

Mommy loves to put you in dresses and you love to have them on!  Everytime we put a dress on you you start spinning in a circle singing "happy Adah...happy Adah!"  You also love to have your hair put up in a ponytail of any sorts and you HAVE to have a bow....you say "make Adah pretty" and when I put your hair up or a bow in you say "ooh Adah pretty!"  I just LOVE you to death!

You have to count EVERYTHING!  You LOVE to cook in your play kitchen.  You still LOVE to read and know the words to your favorite books and can identify the title of most of your books!

You are the BEST big sister!  You love to talk to M and make her laugh and smile!  You get so excited when M is smiling and happy...you will laugh and say "ooh sister happy!"  "sister silly"!  You love to hold, kiss and share with M!  You have to go and tell her good morning EVERY time you get up!  You want so bad for her to be able to play with you!  I can not wait til you two can really play together!

We have 1 month left in VA before we move and you have 1 month until you are 2!  It is going to be really hard on you to be away from your daddy!  You absolutely adore him more than anything!  Your daddy is your best friend!  When he is home you don't leave his side...you sit outside the bathroom door when he goes in to go to the bathroom or shower!  You just can't get enough of your daddy!  You love me too a lot...especially when it comes to going to bed....you HAVE to have mommy!

You are such a pill somedays and I just want to lock you in your room but then you will say or do something that makes me laugh so hard or you do something that just melts my heart!

You are mommy and daddies princess and we love you more than you could ever imagine!  I can't wait to celebrate your 2nd birthday next month!

We love you peanut!