Bye Bye "Baba"

Its official, the bottles are gone!  Yes, I know kids are way done with those by now, but you don't understand, Alli has had a hard transition to sippy's.  She has only started drinking from them really well the last couple months or so.  Alli has loved her "baba's," she always gets the biggest grin when you hand it to her.  When she is drinking it about half way through, she pulls it out of her mouth, looks at it, grins and then whispers "baba" to herself, so if you were wondering why the heck I was holding out so long, that's why-she loves the dang thing(and I was worried about her fluid intake), but according to the Doc, it had to go.

Now, she was only getting one right before bed so its not like I was cheating and giving her bottles through the day.  I was nervous about this big step, however, because Alli has her nightly routine: bath, bottle then bed AND she doesn't like to drink milk out of a sippy cup-believe me I have been trying- so I was hanging on to that bottle because I was nervous about her calcium intake as well.  After her bath, coming down the stairs she always excitedly says "baba."  So of course I was stressed that if she didn't get her "routine" bottle that she was not going to fall asleep.  So last night was the first night without her "baba", I gave her a sippy straw cup instead; while I held my breath I gave Alli the sippy, she just looked at it, then me without her expression changing and just started taking a few sips-not a big deal at all.  She didn't drink much out of her new "sippy", but she fell asleep fine! What a relief!  I was thinking we were going to have a screaming toddler on our hands, but she was a sweetie and was nice to her mama and dada!  I think she is officially a "big/little" girl now:)

Tubby

Baba-Sippy now though:)

"Night Nights"

Ahhh....

One year older and...Valentine's too!

I love this time of year! Not only is it Valentine's, but my birthday too:) Sugar cookies, candy, pink and red colors everywhere, fun presents and Valentine's cards and of course LOVE is in the air. Although I am no longer in my younger years (yes, I turned 25+1) it is still fun to have a birthday. I didn't get to decorate sugar cookies with all my friends like in the old days, but I was lucky to spend the day with one of my favorite little people- Alli J.-she even told me Happy B-day(in her own way of course-by taking a good nap:)). We played together, and then we kept it kinda low key with Brian and I going out to dinner together without our little munchkin runnin' around and I had my favorite dish-filet mignon! Yum! I got some fun things in the mail thanks to my lovely families and some nice stuff from Alli & Brian. Oh, yeah, and our good buds Steph and Dave surprised me with my favorite dessert-a Culver's Chocolate Snickers Concrete Mixer that I got to have all to myself AND a nice gift card to my favorite place to eat out-OUTBACK!What! I guess it wasn't so bad turning 26 after all:) Boo ya!

 

 Yes, Alli likes to wear Brian's basketball shoes too!

Alli turned 15 months old this Feb. and is FULL of it, I mean, life!:) She is still short at a whoppin' 29.25 in.-15th%tile, and 23.5 lbs 55th%tile, but we L-O-V-E her:)

 

Oh and in case you didn't hear, we have LOADS and LOADS of snow right now and this is what Alli thinks of it ...

I think I agree with her!  Here is our pitiful attempt at making a snow man-mind you we are from Southern "sunny" Utah:)

and we were only able to be out there for a max of 5 minutes with our little one who sunk all the way down with that short stature of hers:)

Valentines was fun-Alli got some sweet sunglasses to help her with the blinding reflection that comes off of the snow(not the sun cause their ain't none:( Don't mind her runny nose, chocolate on her face and slobber on her chest-she has come down with one yucky cold, bummer...

 

and she loves to draw and color(on)everything, so an etch-a-sketch thingy was her choice of toys at the store:)

Brian got me this delicious piece of heaven

Chocolate and Reese's from Cold Stone anyone? Yummy in my tummy! How did he know what I wanted? What a wonderful week of events, even though there is snow:)