Cute Face

In case you were interested...this cute face

is now 2.  She weighs 25 lbs 3.5 oz (30th %tile) and is some height that is 60th percentile.  Her BMI is 15.  Apparently they start measuring that when you are two.  We were told that her BMI is nothing to worry about, which was totally a relief to me because I've been worried about it for so long (no, not really).  She's fairly normal and doing all the things they think she should.  That's good.  I like it when doctors tell me something is normal.  I've never been worried about her though.  This girl exceeds all the expectations I have for her.  She's been doing some really darling things too.  She says lots of words and I understand most.  She also pretends to babble and I think it's hilarious.

This is a conversation we have all the time.

V - Daddy's at work.

Me - Daddy's at work?

V - No, home.

(Or any sort of variation on work, home, church, school or the individual.)

She's obsessed with possession.  She likes to walk around and exclaim who owns each thing.

- Daddy's boots.

- Vidalia's boots.

- Mama's jacket.

- My book.

- etc.

She's been singing for a very long time, but more recently has started trying to remember words of songs.  She likes to play her foam violin and sing her version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.  Today we sang Are You Sleeping.  She walked around afterward singing, "Brother John, Brother John."  That's the only part she would sing.  She would randomly sing it and then go about whatever she was doing.  A few minutes later she would sing it again.  

I like having a two year old.

Temple Square

In December we took the Front Runner from my parent's house to Temple Square.  (For all of you very literal people, we drove our car to the Front Runner station closest to my parent's house, took the Front Runner to Salt Lake, and rode the Trax to Temple Square.  You're welcome for the clarification.)  We went there to meet up with some good friends of mine.  It was really good to see them all.

Since all of my pictures look like this, I'm stealing some from facebook.  (Thanks Annie!)

Watching Cousins

Not our cousins.  Our nieces and nephews.  Vidalia's cousins.  We spent a couple of days watching the Arnold children in December.  We had a good time and I hope they did too.  We also watched them in October, but all of these (unfortunately terrible) pictures are from December.

Vidalia slept forever on the couch like this while her cousins poked and prodded her.  She must have been really tired.

Once Sam realized I was taking pictures on my phone he kept saying, "Aunt Melissa!  Take a picture of me doing this."  Each time he would do something different.  Too bad my phone isn't faster at taking pictures.

These kids are fun and creative.  Both times we watched them we went on "flights".  In October we went to Paris and in December we went to Hawaii.  I was impressed with their stamina for really long flights.  I thought a flight would last 15 minutes, maybe 30.  I don't think either of our flights were shorter than 2 hours!  When we went to Hawaii, the flight was the only part that actually happened.  We didn't do or see anything in Hawaii.  I guess it's fun to fly a plane and be stewardess and such.

Sundance

One Saturday in November (due to fortunately marvelous weather) we decided to take a drive through the Provo Canyon.  We drove up to the Sundance Resort and walked around.  We were surprised by how much there wasn't.  We had never been there and have heard of it tons...I think primarily because of the Sundance Film Festival.  We still had fun and Vidalia loved the little stream that runs through the area.

Halloween

Trying on Costumes

Look really closely and you'll see that this is Eliza.

If you show Vidalia these pictures she'll point and say, "My bike!"

She was a good sport letting us squish her face like that.

Actual Halloween

All the kids excited to go trick-or-treating.

Vidalia and Eliza were really good sports.  They lasted longer than the older kids.

Short Story: I made our costumes last year (the ones we used again this year, bee keepers and a bee).  I didn't have a pattern for the pants and was paranoid of not making them big enough.  That being said, our pants are ginormous.  To remedy that problem, I put drawstrings (unfortunately not real ones, just a piece of cloth I cut to be the right size).  Mine broke this Halloween.  I walked around the whole night trying to keep my pants up.  One time I touched my side and I was realized my pants were not so much on.  I don't think anybody besides me noticed, but I don't like the feeling of not wearing pants in public.  I'm so glad it was dark.

Swing Set

When we moved to Utah, we stayed with Ryan's sister Bonnie and her family.  Shortly after we got there they bought an awesome swing set.  All the kids that visit love it.  I only have pictures of Vidalia playing on it though.  I think because it was just me and her the one day I took pictures.  She still had a blast though.