FINALLY ABC's

Mia needed some extra sleep this morning ... SO Aria and I (Matthew) were working on ABC's and we FINALLY got the whole thing on video ... took a few seconds to get started, but once she got rolling ... NEAR PERFECT ;-)

Mia said it sounds like I am bragging with the above comment ... to clarify ... I AM ;-)

Baby Pool

Click on the link below to enter a guess in the baby pool for the new baby!! ;-)

I am due 4/2/9

PINK!

Two posts in one week! Wow ;-)

Well, I just wanted to let you know that Aria officially has a favorite color ;-) It's PINK! Again yesterday, she pointed out all the pink things at the store. Then, the night before last, I went to put socks on her before bed. I got out her favorite red Hello Kitty socks. She said NO and would pull her feet away. I asked her why she didn't want her favorite socks on? She said PINK socks. So, I found some pink socks, and she stuck out her feet for me to put them on. The night after, I automatically got out pink socks - but they were pink polka dots (big dots). She wouldn't put those on, either. Again she said PINK socks, so I found socks that were completely pink, and as soon as she saw that I had them, she draped her foot over the crib for me to get the socks on. Baby!!

Another thing I forgot to mention the other day is that Aria is always pointing out Mamas and Babies. She pairs up her stuffed animals, and she'll get out two of the same color (even if they're different animals - although usually they are the same) and the bigger one is the Mama and the other is the baby. She carries them around together. She does this with everything... even stickers. She was sitting on the potty playing with a sheet of heart stickers. The big red one was the daddy, the big pink one was the mommy, and all the smaller hearts were babies. Same thing with her flower stickers. When she points out the mama, she points at me next and says "mama, too!" (which means, "you're a mama, too") It's really sweet. She also likes to take whichever object is the baby and she hugs it, and rocks it, and sings rockabye baby. She is going to be such a good big sister to her new baby!!

Fun stuff ;-)

Well, Aria has had another successful potty experience ;-) She went on the potty at Gramma's house this week! YAY Aria ;-) She still tells us every time she is about to go #2, but most times it's too late by the time we run to the potty. I have 7.5 weeks to go before new baby is here - oh dear!

Aria is doing even better with colors. Today at the store, she was pointing out all the things that were pink. Yesterday, she was looking at people's shoes at Church and saying what color they were.

Singing - she loves to sing! We listen to Norah Jones in the car, and she fills in words and tries to do some melodies - it's very cute!

Numbers - she knows them all by site now! Yay! She surprised me with that the other day.

She still loves (loves!) her sparkly shoes. She has 3 colors now ;-) and she loves all of them. The last thing she said before going to sleep last night was something to her cat, Meow Meow, about her sparkly shoes. The conversations she has with Meow Meow in her crib are so cute and funny!!

She is doing even better at talking! She is saying soooo much these days! I really think that all the babbling has just turned clear, and we can understand most of what she is saying now, and that is why she is talking with so many sentences.

Oh, and there has been a change (according to Aria) to the spelling of her name. It is now A-R-T. I don't know why she is insisting that is how you spell Aria, bc she used to do it right.


Aria has a new table! She LOVES it! Daddy surprised her with it from Ikea the other day. It's perfect - she can sit and color, and do puzzles, and her memory game (match game). She likes to eat there, now, too.

New baby update ;-) OK so the energy I said I had - I take it back! I am so tired all the time it is crazy. I'm making up for the previous energy, I guess. I'm emotional, and have a bazillion braxton hicks contractions a day. Maybe that means I'll go earlier than 40 weeks. I was hoping for an April baby, though (I'm due 4/2). Here is a picture of the new baby on the LEFT and Aria on the RIGHT. Don't they look alike?? awww!!

Ok - here is a poll. We have 2 boy names that we're not 100% on. So, we are welcoming name suggestions!! The two we have picked so far are:

Cruz Matthew which means The Cross of Christ is Gift of God (I love this meaning!!!!)

or

Elijah Matthew which means The Lord is my God, Gift of God (still a good meaning, but doesn't flow like the other).

;-)