Proud of my girl!!

Guess who has gone poo poo in the potty the past three days? Yes, that would be Perri!!! What the heck you think? Yeah, I know. She's only 14 months old, but the girl isn't exactly discreet when she needs to go, and I would really like her to be fully trained by 2. My friend Jennifer told me her niece was potty trained at 18 months so this gives me hope!!

So, Saturday when she started making her face, I thought, I'll just sit her on the toilet and see what she does. Well, it didn't scare her at all and she was mainly interested in unrolling all the toilet paper. After removing the toilet paper so she couldn't unroll it all, I let her hold one piece and then said, "Perri, can you go poo poo on the potty?" She then, as if on cue, did her thing. OH MY GOODNESS!!! I went crazy!! And yelled at Craig to grab the camera haha.

She looked at us like we were fools and this was nothing new, but she got an animal cracker for it. Then again yesterday, same thing. So today we went to Target and got a little seat that fits on the big toilet so she can sit herself on there and not feel like she's going to fall in. So then after lunch, once again. I am loving just wiping her little booty and not dealing with the smashed poop on her and the dirty diaper!!


Halfway smiling at the camera, not sure why we are so excited.


Her first poo poo on the potty!!

14 Months!

Guess who turned 14 months yesterday? This little girl!

Perri, what have you been up to lately?

•Walking everywhere and have quickly picked up the pace! Started at around 13 months. You are VERY happy walking and will just walk circles around our downstairs, laughing and clapping.

•Still in size 3 diapers

•Wear 6-12 month clothes

•Wear size 3 shoes (these are a bit large on her but for walking shoes, we've had to just get them a bit big)

•Have 6 teeth! 4 up and 2 down and it seems that you're working on more on top. The drooling is getting out of control!

•LOVE to read and constantly bring me books and then put your arms up so I'll sit you in my lap to read.

•Obsessed with drinking water. Sign "water" to me all the time. The ladies at the gym just learned what that meant and said you sign it all the time in there and they had no clue what you were doing! haha

• Sign the words water, dog, cat, fish, eat, drink, water, milk, please, thank you, more, all through, bath

•Love to share your food and milk.

•Still sleep from 7:30pm to 8:30 or 9 AM. On mornings we go to the gym or church we have to wake you up early at 8:30. Other days I go wake you around 9 or so.

•Nap 3 1/2 hours in the afternoon (Yes, the girl is a SLEEPER)

•Completely act out in public and will squeal and do this weird, embarrassing noise that sounds like gasping and sucking in your breath, when people make eye contact with you. This is followed by waving and "HIIIII" until they give you attention. Which in turn is more of the weird noise and throwing yourself around in the cart and lots of arm waving up and down and being goofy. This draws lots of attention to us, daily.

•Have the goofiest personality and will often throw yourself in the floor and become silent until I look at you. At that point you begin cracking up and throwing yourself around. Then you will get up, run off, and then repeat. You LOVE attention and definitely do things to get people to laugh at you.

•Find it funny to throw things off your high chair or out of the cart and then look down and gasp "UH!!" (her "uh oh") and look at me like "How on earth did that happen?" Then start laughing. This gets really old.

•Have FINALLY started snuggling and hugging us. We have said since you were born how you weren't a snuggler or loved on us and have always pushed us away when we try to hold you tight or snuggle. These past few days you've begun to hug us tight and nuzzle your little head up under our chins. You have no idea how much we love this!

• An over all, happy, hilarious little girl who never ceases to crack me up and bring a huge smile to my face

I could go on and on about what Perri is up to and how much joy she brings us but that would be a forever long post!!

And to end, here is a picture of Perri at 7 months in Tahoe for my brother and sister-in-law's wedding!

Perri's Piggy Tails

I realize I haven't blogged in quite some time and haven't posted Christmas pics, and may at some point, but wanted to do a quick post on pics of Perri's first pig tails!! She doesn't have a lot of hair to work with, but what she does have, is in the back. Yes, my daughter is rockin' quite the mullet. But I thought I'd try to pull it into little pig tails and while it looks kindof funny because of the lack of hair in the front, it makes her look more like a little girl and makes me sad!!





I realize in the pics from the back her head looks red? I edited the pics and tried to take that away but couldn't figure it out. And rest assured, in person it was not!! There was no baby harmed in the making of the piggy tails!!

P.S. Still on the search for shoes! UGH. We finally found some that we thought would work and ordered them and while they fit right now, if she grows at all, they won't last. I don't like to buy cheapy shoes that aren't comfy for her so they aren't the cheapest things and we don't want to have to buy new ones every month. So anyhow, we have to return them and hope the next size works better!

We need your help!!

We are having a dilemma. A shoe dilemma that is. Perri is at a very in between time right now in shoe sizes and it doesn't help that her feet are TINY. She's also walking and I have always loved her Pedipeds and she's been in the 0-6 month size of those but they are getting too small, and her pair of 6-12 month size are still huge!! My mom bought her some Squeaker shoes in hopes that she could somehow wear a size 3 in them but they are about double the size of her little foot and they seem to all start at size 3.

So, my question is, does anyone know of some good shoes for walking that start in a size 2 or that the 3's run extra small? The girl needs shoes, badly, but right now it seems its either walking around with her big toe jammed at the end of shoes or walking in clunkers that are twice the size of her foot!!

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help us out!

Ball pit fun!!

For Perri's birthday, her Me Me, Craig's mom, got her a ball pit. She is in LOVE and and spends A LOT of time in here. When we got it we didnt realize how big it would be and that it would need more balls, so we do plan on buying a big pack of balls to fill it up. But, Perri doesn't care and just brings all her other toys in there to play with too!




Looking at me through the ball hole


Smash face hahaha.


Just lounging and chewing on one of the kings from her Little People Nativity.


HUGE but she loves it!!


What the ball pit does to her hair every time. Cracks me up!

Attempt at family pictures

Last Saturday we headed up to The Woodlands to get some family pictures done and new pics of Perri, but little girl had different plans for us. In her defense, the pictures were at 3pm an hour away, in the middle of her nap, and it had been 50 degrees, then dropped even lower and was FREEZING. We had planned on them originally being done 2 weeks ago in the morning, but it kept raining and then SNOWING (it NEVER snows down here!) every time we tried to reschedule. We got her up early on Saturday morning in efforts of getting her to nap early so she'd be okay for pictures during her naptime. That all worked and I let her sleep two hours then had to wake her to go get pictures. She normally naps for 3.5 to 4 hours in the afternoon so yes, two hours is a good nap for some but that's only half a nap for her. (The girl is a SLEEPER!)

We got there and all was going okay for a little bit and then she was DONE. Totally over it and wasn't having it. Screaming every time we would sit somewhere, and when she saw the camera, she'd lose it. Thankfully, Krissy is wonderful and got a few pictures before we had to call it quits. We are going to try and meet up again next week and try again. Anyhow, here are the few shots she got. Perri isnt smiling in any of them, mostly crying, so this straight face makes me happy. Atleast we got one of her not screaming!!

Birthday Fun!! Party #2

Last week we loaded up the car, dog and all (left Amos home though) and hit the road for Arkansas. Perri isn't exactly the most fun to travel with so long car rides are always interesting, but the trip wasn't too bad. The ride up she slept 20 minutes and was pretty fussy but the drive home she was silent and just sat quietly, sucking her thumb. I even got to sit and finish a book!! Amazing!! Now that she is weaned and we don't have to stop and nurse, we've gotten to trip down to about 8 hours. Our first ride up took over 10. Whew, don't miss that!!

Anyhow, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving with all the family, and then celebrated Perri's birthday on Saturday night. My mom has been a HUGE help with her birthday and did pretty much everything for it, which we appreciated SO very much!! We had planned on just buying everything but mom wanted to make it all so she made loads of chili, cheesedip, all the cupcakes and even Perri's adorable sock monkey smash cake!! The cupcake toppers we did order from etsy (my favorite web site ever!!) and I made the birthday banner but most other things were made!! Thanks mom and dad for hosting the party, we had a wonderful time!!

Get ready for picture overload...


The table




Sock monkey smash cake (made by my mom!!)


Cupakes


Birthday banner


Dressed and ready!!




Booty shot


Not so sure about this...


Trying out the monkey's ear


Tearing off the mouth.


Done with it.


After this pic, she started throwing cake in the floor.


Pretty chocolate mustache.

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Opening presents


Playing peek-a-boo with her new dress from cousin Caroline.


My sweet grandparents, watching the Arkansas-LSU game. Don't they look great?? They're 93!!!


Checking out some new toys.


A cute one of Craig, watching the game.


Craig with my Aunt Tori and cousins Charlotte and Madi, watching the game.


Cousin Daniel with my Uncle Joel, Aunt Kri and Aunt Carolyn, hanging out outside by the new chiminea.

Thanks everyone for coming to Perri's birthday party and for making it so special for her!!