23 months

This has been a busy month for all of us! We've trying to get moved back into our house and getting ready for our vacation to Disney World for the Princess Run Marathon! Elycia has been learning so much and still saying everything plus more...She started saying leave me alone, stop it! (which is even more "fun" to deal with when we are in a store and she starts yelling stop it stop it!) She says again, that fun... She is more and more sassy she knows how to fold her arms when she's mad (even when she's mad she's adorable), she will fold her hands when we pray at least she does for a little while.. I've heard her count to 3 when she covers her eyes a few times. she says I'm fine, when she wants to be held she says I hold you, sometimes if she hears something loud or a train go by or whatever it is she gives you a hug and says I got you! She just started saying no like it, No want it... She says her name more, She knows if something isn't hers and says that's Momma's or that's Daddy's or even that's Elycia's... "Elycia do it" she says when she has to do things herself, she always wants to help do things, and look at things especially if I'm cooking she says Look at... When she gets owies she says owie and shows us where it is and says kiss it and so we kiss it for her and say all better and now she say all better after we kiss her owies... She's been going to bed really good all by herself or crying or screaming sometimes she just lays there and talks to herself and rolls around for a while sometimes.. We took our first "Real" family vacation to Disney World... Elycia was so excited to see Mickey and Minnie and Rella (Cinderella) and her castle! We kept talking to her about it all the time. We met up with Chelsea and Luke at the airport and then once we got to Florida took a bus to the hotel where we met up with my Mom, Frank, Hallie and Hallie's friend Morgan. the first couple of days consisted of getting everyone ready for the Princess race. My Mom, Frank, Chelsea, Luke and Hallie ran a 5K... and Elycia did a 100 meter Dash and Gil helped her. She did so good and held his hand and ran with him...it was pretty cold the first couple of days we were there, then it started warming up the next few days which was nice (Since it was Florida after all...lol). So we did the race and hung out at the 4 parks the rest of the time we were there. Elycia was afraid of Goofy and Pluto, but she was excited to see Mickey and Minnie it was so cute seeing her reaction and yelling Hi Mickey Hi Minnie and blowing kisses to them once she was able to see them. She ended up getting sick the last night we were there, might have just been from being hot, but she was getting sick before we left for vacation a couple times, she would just throw up and be fine kind of thing (Kids right??)... We finished off her 22nd month and started her 23rd month spending a couple days in Utah over spring break visiting my Grandparents, and my Dad and his sister were there too.. It was the first time she had met them except my dad when she was like 2 months old and she adjusted very well and had lots of fun and lots attention from everyone (She's a sucker for attention, aren't we all?)...We will have to go back again to see them sometime. We stopped at a place in Wyoming on the way home called "Little America" and got some ice cream cones. It was a pretty good spring break.