2 years old

Wow 2 years have come and go so fast I can't believe our little girl is 2 years old already!!! She's been such a blessing and joy in our life I can't imagine our life without her and we are enjoying watching her grow everyday...She's no longer a baby but a toddler now...Crazy... Her Dr. Appointment went great... she got one shot and was 26.2 pounds and she was I think 34 inches tall

We celebrated her birthday in Wisconsin with a birthday party before her birthday. We did an owl theme party and made up some last minute decorations and it turned out so cute... Back in CO on her birthday we went out to lunch with Chelsea and then went shopping with Chelsea to buy her bday gift from her and Luke...It was so cute watching her shop and carry things through the store. When Gil got home we went to dinner at Applebee's with my Aunt Uncle and Reagan and some friends of ours showed up to...Then Gil and I took her to build-a-bear for the first time and she helped make a pink monkey and named her Zuzu after a monkey on her learning app...It was a long busy and fun day...She knows how to count to 10 sometimes skips a few numbers and can count almost to 20 still skipping a few numbers here and there...She's doing better with colors and shapes. Her and Gil love to share fruit snacks together, it's quickly becoming an after-work tradition for them. We got Elycia a Minnie Mouse potty chair and she's making progress. We try not to fight her to go on it, we'll usually ask her and if she says no then we say ok maybe later. She went potty for the first time on there while her and Gil were singing some silly songs they invented to sing on the potty...She has only had her Paci for nap time and bed time for a while now and sometimes she likes to reach in her crib and grab her Paci and say I are you being sneaky. And then she'll say "I Sneaky"...Lol So sometimes we have to hide them from her so she can't be sneaky. She copies just about everything we say now (it's almost as much fun as it sounds)...We tell her good night princess or sweetheart or Night-night Elycia and she repeats it back. She's called Gil a princess a couple times lol...She's so smart and getting smarter everyday...she loves Cinderella and the Cinderella movie...She likes to laugh at herself sometimes. She has started singing some songs to herself now. Lots of songs from Frozen and her bible songs CD and even shake it off by Taylor Swift...

And now for our BIG news (drumroll please......) and NO I'm NOT pregnant!! ;-) ha ha...Where to start...well Gil and I since before Christmas have been talking about moving from CO to be closer to family and friends now that Elycia is getting bigger we want her to be able to hang out with family (she does have a few cousins after all)...Once we got back from Christmas to our house getting flooded we let go of that idea for a little while...Then Gil brought it back up and looked into schools and found one that he wanted to apply to. He put in an application just to see what would happen...After a couple weeks of going through the application process we finally got the acceptance email we've been waiting for...With that being said we will be moving to Minnesota Twin Cities area within the next month!!! Fast I know but we are gonna need to find jobs and a place to live and all that fun stuff so until that happens we will be living with my family across the border in Wisconsin...He will be attending Augsburg college in Minneapolis, it is a smaller fine arts university with a biblical foundation and they are offering Gil some nice scholarships. So hopefully he will be able to attend school full-time now and finish up school faster!! So...yeah...that's what's new with us... :-)