1. We traveled to Ozark, MO to visit my family (Amanda) for Thanksgiving. It's a 5 hour drive and the first 3 1/2 to 4 hours Taylor did fine....the last hour she did not. Needless to say, when we arrived I was not in the mood for any hugs, welcomes or chatting for quite some time!
2. We went shopping on Black Friday for the first time ever! We didn't go until early afternoon and it really wasn't too bad!
3. Taylor started walking ALL over the place the weekend of Thanksgiving! Of all places, she decides that Target (on Black Friday) would be where she would master the skill.....it's amazing how shopping can be such a motivator.....this is probably a sign for what's to come!!! At least Mommy will have a shopping partner!
4. Taylor moved into a big-girl car seat and is now facing forward and seeing the world from the car in a brand new way! She loves it!!
5. We had a late Thanksgiving with Dave's parents which ended up just being us and them. Stef, Steve and the kids couldn't make it b/c of kids being sick! So we had lots of food to eat!
6. Just this past weekend, I flew to California to get my sister started in Premier! Dave and Taylor stayed home. It was a fun trip and the best part was that I found a ticket for $235 and I get $200 from Premier to do her training show....so $35 to California and back made for a nice weekend!
7. Taylor is now into purses and loves to carry one around on her shoulder and put anything from balls, play cups and her milk or juice in it!
8. Dave has officially finished redoing the railing to our stairs and fixing part of the wood floor where we took another railing out. It must have been built before code because the spindles were far enough apart that Taylor could fit her entire body through. So we now have spindles that are the appropriate distance apart and our new wooden baby gate up. This was one of those projects that we knew needed to be done since she started crawling and is just now getting completed, just in time for #2!!!
9. One of Taylor's newest talents is her "cheesy" smile that she will do on command. All you have to do is tell her to smile and she will give you this squinty-eyed, full-out cheesy smile! Then if you laugh, she will do it more! She has already been caught doing this smile to strangers in the store and airport. We know what she's up to (even if we can't see her face) when total strangers are looking at her and laughing! So now the problem is that when we do want to get a "good" picture, we can't tell her to smile, or this is what we get (see below):
10. Lastly....during many times of the day, you will find Taylor enjoying her most favorite thing to do....read her books! She will sit on our laps and grab book after book for us to read to her. She will still grab the book and get another one if the book seems too long, but her attention span is definitely getting longer. We find her in her room LOTS just sitting and pulling out books from her basket and flipping through them! Her vocabulary has now expanded to the following words: dog (OF COURSE), blanket, ball, bath, duck, pig, cracker, cookie, dada, mama, book and she will use sign language for "all done", "milk", and "please" (this is her favorite...she uses it to get anything she wants!)
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Yes, I often find her in Ollie's room rummaging through his books, too!
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