Talking a lot!

Libby is starting to try to initiate conversations. It goes something like this:

Libby: Hi
Us: Hi Libby
Libby: Hi
Us: Hi
Libby: Hello (said with an Australian accent)
Us: Hello Libby
This can go on for several minutes.

And that's the end of it. We keep trying to tell her that she needs to add more meat to her conversations to keep people interested. But still very very cute.

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M-I-Z-Z-O-U

Mizzou is currently the number 1 football team in the country (in case you've missed it). Libby is happy and cheering for them to win the National Championship game.




Libby playing dress up over Thanksgiving weekend.


Playing peek-a-boo while we're out to eat.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Libby made this last week at daycare. We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Little Miss Personality

Libby really is full of personality. She is so charismatic - people love her everywhere we go. I've decided that her bit of a temper is part of this charming little girl's personality and I wouldn't trade that for anything! I'd much rather her have a meltdown here or there with a great personality then be calm with no spark whatsoever.

Having said all of that, she definitely marches to her own drum. Last night we were putting her to bed and the little cutie walked over to Daddy so sweetly like she was going to sit with him and then slapped him on the forehead. We were both so surprised that all we could do was laugh. She also has very strong opinions about what things are called. She calls me Mimi and will not be told any different. She is the same was with bananas - she calls them apples and is quite sure of herself when you tell her that it's not quite right.

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Libby at Daycare

I'm pretty much just going to post some pictures of Libby at Daycare. They're mostly from September but we just got them in digital format this week. All of these pictures are from the same day in early September.

I love this picture because even though Libby is actually sitting on a concrete patio, it looks like a beach to me. It was a wet day and Libby loves to play in water so they took off her shorts and she plopped down and sat in her diaper to play with the water on the ground.

You can't really tell from the picture but she's yet again playing with water. You can see how happy it makes her!

Libby also LOVES this car. There are actually 2 cars to play with but she only likes the green one. The green one has doors on both sides that open (as you can see) while the orange one only has 1 door and that irritates my opinionated little girl!

As you can see, Libby has lots of fun at daycare!

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All Girls Love Shoes

We all love shoes. Even if they're Daddy's size 13's!

Mean Girls

It has recently come to our attention that Libby is Regina George. For those of you who've seen Mean Girls you know who I'm talking about. I'm not proud to admit that, but it's true. For the longest time, there have been three girls at daycare - Libby, Lexi, and Sophia. Sophia is the oldest by 9 months. Lexi and Libby are almost exactly the same age - Libby being older by 3 days. Libby is also the physically smallest child there except for the 3 month old baby, but she is the ring leader, or so I'm told. Whenever Libby goes to play with something, the other girls will follow her. Libby even lead a jail break out of the basement the other day because she has figured out how to open the baby gate, although I'm not positive that she ACTUALLY opened it herself - she may have had another kid to the dirty work. Recently, Lexi has started blaming stuff on Sophia - I think because she knows that if she blames Libby that she will be out of the "club". For example, the sitters will ask Lexi is she's poopy and she will point to Sophia and say, "Phia." Or if Lexi has gotten into a snack she will again point and say "Phia." Libby has also started instigating chat time at nap time. What do we do about this little girl!?

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New favorite phrase

I forgot to mention in yesterday's post that Libby's new favorite phrase is "I did it!" Except it comes out more like "Idit!" She gets really excited when she can do something on her own and squeals this. It's so very cute.

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Yea! New camera!

Libby's language has really started to explode this past 2 weeks. She will answer yes/no questions, make animal sounds, and really just talk up a storm and we can actually understand her a good majority of the time.

We bought a new camera earlier in the week so here are a few new pictures. It's so hard to get good pictures of Libby these days because she doesn't want to sit still long enough to look cute.

Here's the little climber! She's very good at climbing things. One day when I dropped her off at daycare, I was talking to another child there and turned around to find her walking across the dining room table! She had climbed the chair and then onto the table! Notice that she also has my cell phone - I have visions of her in about 12-15 years with phones....

These are Libby's boy pj's that we thought were really cute but more importantly, very much on sale!

This is a new bedtime ritual - she wants both of these hats on before bedtime. She will walk over with a hat in her hands trying to put it on. If she can't get it on she will hand me the hat. I will ask her, "Libby do you want this hat on?" and she will answer "YES!" Very very cute!

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Box Tops

If your kids don't use box tops for their school (or if you don't have kids!), please send your box tops my way. My school uses them to buy playground equipment - balls, jump ropes, bats, etc. You'd be amazed how quickly those things wear out and need to be replaced when they're used by over 300 children every day. You can find them on boxes of cereal, cake mix, Ziploc bags, Kleenex boxes, etc. Since 2002 we've earned $4,677 from box tops! That's amazing considering many of the box tops are only worth 10 cents.

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No more pictures

It's official, our camera is dead. It can't hold a charge for more than 2 pictures even with brand new batteries. So, until we buy a new one we won't have any pictures to post. Hopefully, it won't take us long to find one we like. Our sitter has some really cute pictures of Libby that she is supposed to email to me and if she does that then I will post those!

Speaking of our sitter, EVERYONE there has come down with bronchitis or walking pneumonia. Libby had a cough a few weeks ago that seemed bad at night but didn't slow her down any during the day. I never took her to the doctor because she seemed to shake it herself. But I do have bronchitis now. I have been feeling okay and then not-okay all week and today I finally went home from work early. I really hate to do that because my school district does not pay for maternity leave and if we ever have another baby I want to have some sick days saved up to use instead. But I really just couldn't work, I felt so bad. Mike's going out of town again in about 2 weeks, hopefully, I won't get sick then too!

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