When we got home, we only had a weekend and then we traveled to PA for two weeks for Ashlan's 3rd birthday. She had a wonderful time playing with her cousins, grandparents, and definitely in the snow! It was her first time playing in it, and two snowmen were dedicated to this special event, lol. I'm glad she got to see snow, because she had been talking about it for weeks.
A few weeks ago, we decided to go see Santa on a weekday that Dan had off. Afterwards, we were in the car, pulling out of an area where you had a hard time seeing if anyone was coming around the corner. Dan pulled out slowly but gunned it when he saw a car coming faster than he liked, and turned the wheel sharply to get into the right lane. Ashlan looked up at me, and said, "Daddy's trying to kill us", with a completely straight face. I have jokingly said that before when we were all in the car and I guess she picked up on it. We were all laughing so hard after that.
A couple of days ago, we wanted to go out and told Ashlan we needed to get her shoes and jacket on. Dan grabbed her shoes and brought them to her (she usually does this by herself) and I was on the floor in front of her, helping her zip her jacket up. She patted my head, looked at both of us and said, "You guys are such good helpers". Lol. She's too funny.
A few days before Christmas we decided to get an iPad mini. Both Ashlan and I have been splitting time using it, but we got it primarily so she could do certain apps on it. She loves ABC Mouse and she was getting good at using our laptop's mouse, but we wanted the iPad for when we're out and about. She is mainly using that now so the laptop has reverted back to being used for Netflix only, haha. She is doing very well with counting and matching. She will listen to alphabet videos and do a few games of those, but she loves the counting ones and I'd say spends about 90% of her time doing that. I never would have thought she'd go for those instead, but maybe she is a numbers person. I'm just glad we didn't waste money on the iPad, but then again, she's been stealing our phones for months, lol.
Ashlan decided she had enough of naps about two weeks ago. I have to say, she's doing better than I thought without many meltdowns, and truthfully, she sometimes still has them anyway with naps, lol. She's been usually going down around 8pm and stays down until 6:30/7am. That's not too bad, but still shorter than what she was getting most days with naps. So far, so good though. We take her to the potty in the middle of the night when we get up, to cut down on accidents. Hopefully we won't have to do that much longer!
A few nights ago, Dan and I had just put Ashlan down and we were watching a funny show in our room and waiting for her to fall asleep. It was kinda chilly that night and she didn't want her fan turned on, but that means she can hear more house noise. She was just softly talking to herself and we thought she'd knock off soon so we started watching the show. Something funny happened on the show and I started laughing really hard. Apparently she heard me and thought we were laughing at her because she shouted, "No! It's not funny!"
One day around noon Dan and I were in the front room, and Ashlan was running around the house. She flies into the room and states, "Mommy, I want mac'n'cheese for lunch, but not the white kind, the yellow kind. I'll just play for a little bit while you go make it." Lol.
We gave her a bath a few days ago and I put her hair up afterwards in sort of a low bun. It was dark out when she got out and as she walked into the living room and saw herself in the sliding glass door (which acts like a mirror when it's dark out), she stated, "I look like a teacher." Lol. First, how she knows what a teacher looks like is beyond me, and second, how does she even know what a teacher is anyway? Maybe abc mouse? I don't know, but we all got a good laugh out of that.
Onto the pics...
Insisted on wearing her new sweatshirt even when it was warm outside.
Seeing Rapunzel for our Thanksgiving trip.
Just a normal day in this princess's life- she wanted to dress up. :)
Happened once right after she quit naps, lol. Hasn't happened again.
Magic Kingdom at night.
Pretty cold for Disney weather! We dealt with it, haha.
New hat and boots for PA trip.
New iPad. Playing ABC mouse and loving it!
Electronic books from Nana and Papa. She loves them.
Her and daddy playing with her doctor stuff.
And now using ABC mouse on the laptop. Every once in awhile she prefers the laptop.
Relaxing at Nana and Papa's.
Playing in the snow.
With Aunt Katie at her party.
Pretty excited that we sung happy birthday to her...or maybe just for the cupcake, haha.
Princess Aurora dress from Grammy and Grandpa- another dress up favorite!
Snowman #2.
Playing with all of Aunt Katie's old stuffed animals. :)
And throwing them all out of the container so she could sit in it.
She is a fantastic traveler! This was coming back from PA. Does get a little carsick though when she does something like reading. Wish she took after me in that sense. :(
Meeting Santa for the first time. She wanted to go back, lol.
Painting, a favorite hobby of hers.
We had family pics taken for our Christmas card and this was one.
Seeing Snow White...
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