21 months

21 months and still going strong! Ha I can't believe in 3 months she will be 2!! Seriously!! When did this happen and why so quickly!! All the good times go by the fastest! Over the past month she was still in love with her chocolate advent calendar she isn't gonna know what to do when she doesn't get her chocolate everyday once Christmas is over!(I'm sure she'll come up with something!) She grabs our fingers and says "Pull" when we are sitting down and even grabs our fingers to walk up the stairs and holds them the whole way. She started throwing herself down when she gets mad and cries, becoming more of a two year old every day! She tried tracing her own hand and even feet a couple times. She's becoming more and more independent everyday wanting to do things all by herself... Not wanting her food cut up... She had her first sleep over at Auntie Chelsea and Uncle Luke's in Nebraska with Grandma and Grandpa. It was the first time I have been away from her over night, it was strange and I quite definitely missed her, probably more than she missed me...lol... We celebrated her 2nd Christmas at Chelsea and Luke's with my Mom, Frank, and Hallie and the Puppy Cousins!... It snowed on Christmas Day so Elycia was able to play in the snow for the first time this year and she loved it and didn't want to come back in... That night we started driving to Wisconsin drove about 4 hours and stopped for the night and then drove the rest the next day... Once we got to my Mom and Franks, Sean and Tara and the kiddos were there and we did Christmas with them the next day... It was nice to spend time with them and meet our new niece that they have placement of, she just turned 1 so Elyia loved playing with her and Lexie stayed a couple extra few days with Grandma and Grandpa so Elycia loved playing with her too... Elycia is starting to play pretend with toys and she played well with the doll houses they had... She tries giving her baby or mickey her pacifier, food, and drinks it is so fun watching her... She covers them up for night night when she Plays... Becoming such a little mommy... Wisconsin was sad since there wasn't any snow so we couldnt go sledding or play in the snow like we wanted to, but it was still fun and went by too fast like usual... Everytime she sees a baby, or just a kid for that matter, she calls them baby and says "Hi Baby!!"... She started saying ready set Go!! She says papa and ahma (Grandma) and Noni.. Definitly saying Mom, momma, mommy more often like all the time... Love hearing her say it, it makes me feel good (all those warm fuzzy feelings!)... She says I want mommy... She calls Gil by his name sometimes instead of Daddy...It's pretty funny...She got her first real cough, stuffy runny nose and congested sickness, could've been the flu (everything has flu like symptoms these days, don't it?). We thought she was getting better and then she's back at it again being sick. Poor girl, I hate when there is nothing I can do to help her, just gotta let this run it's course, hopefully it will be done soon.,. She hates when her nose is running from being sick or from crying about being sick, she usually touches her nose and yells nose nose... We can usually ask her questions and she answers them back to us sometimes with yes, no and ok... lol... sometimes when we ask her something she'll say "Umm"... like she's thinking of what to say... it's so gosh-darn cute! Our last day we were in Wisconsin we were on our way to Minnesota to spend time at the Mall of America before we flew out and Gil got a call from our HOA people and they said something about water coming from our house and we were like what what!?!? So we had my cousin go check it out and it wasn't good. :-( our downstairs and crawl space had water all over and some in Elycias room, just not good... So Gil spent the whole time at the mall of America on the phone calling our insurance and people trying to figure out what to do... The insurance has been paying for us to stay in the hotel for about 2 weeks now... We got in contact with people to come do an estimate and start cleaning it up and drying it out... A week went by and all they did was take out the downstairs carpet and some of the water in the crawl space and they brought in a de-humidifier...They didn't knock down walls to help Dry it on the inside or anything... So luckily, Frank and his friend Dale who does construction on houses were able to come help us while they were on their way Gil and my Uncle went into the house and started taking out some of the wet walls... It's a lot of work that needs to be done but will be worth it in the end so excited and ready to be in our house again it's gonna look like a new house! ;-) We are so thankful and blessed to have them come fix our house and even the Random things they find that aren't good... Should be able to move back in at the end of this next week hopefully...hopefully. We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary and celebrated a little early at the Melting Pot in WI, it was our first time there... This new year has been crazy full of disasters, not only is our house a mess, but my car broke down as well so here's to hoping better things happen this year. So long as we got each other, we're still doing good! ;-)