Moving my blog

I am going to be using word press now instead of Blogger. So come on over to my "new" blog.

http://nowwhatelmo.wordpress.com/

BIL is home

On leave. He got home tonight and gets to spend two weeks with my sister. They head off to Disney World next week for some R & R and then he heads back to Iraq. Hopefully he will be back for good in about five months. I hope it isn't harder on the both of them seeing him and knowing she has to say goodbye again. Anyway, we are just excited that he made it home safe.

Easter Basket

The Easter Bunny dropped off the basket:


She found said basket:


Opening the basket and showing her goodies:

Hunting Easter Eggs

Looking Cute

She loves to pose!

Coloring Easter Eggs

We colored Easter eggs with Chayleigh the Sunday before Easter. She loved it although we wouldn't let her do much more than choose the colors. DH put the eggs in the colors, but she got to draw on them with a white crayon, so she was in heaven!

Thanks Liz

Chayleigh got a spring gift from Liz, another BIOer.

She did a great job of finding Strawberry Shortcake stuff. Chayleigh had to wear it as soon as she saw it.

New Blog Template

Thanks to Erin, I have a new blog. She did an excellent job, imo. Thanks a lot Sweetie. I really appreciate the hard work you put into it!

Potty

Chayleigh peed in the potty today! Too bad it followed an episode of pooping in the tub. LOL. I cheered her when she showed me the pee in the potty and asked her if she liked it and she said yes. She also stated she wanted to do it again. Here's to small steps!

Happy Birthday

To my DH. I just wanted to let the world know that he is celebrating a birthday. He requested not to celebrate it this year so he got some Dukes of Hazzard DVD's and a new cell phone and accessories for his gift. Not much, but he also got to download new ring tones, and that made him happier than most anything. Now when you call him, he has the Dukes of Hazzard blaring at you. Bwahaha. Anyway, Happy Birthday DH. I love you and I hope that you have a great day!

Dinner Time

I try to let Chayleigh pick what she wants for dinner. Tonight she actually made some good choices.




She is eating Mac and Cheese, Broccoli and drinking V-8 Juice (aka Red Juice). At least she is getting her veggies in.

For Thomas Fans Everywhere

Thomas is not just for boys. Chayleigh decided that she HAD to have Thomas PJ's when I was buying some for a friend's little boy. So I took a picture of her for you Barb! I hope that Tripp enjoys it. LOL.

Easter Photo Shoot

I took some pictures of Chayleigh last night for Easter. We send out pictures to the Grandparents. Normally I do Sears, but I just didn't want to deal with it this year, so I did it myself. This is one of my favorite pictures, but she wasn't looking up, so I will send out a different one.

Cleaning

Ever notice how big of a mess a 2.5 year old can make? I swear most of today was spent cleaning the living room after she ran thru it. She is good at picking up her toys and all, but it was so annoying when we would get it all cleaned up and she would go get something messier out and dump it on the floor. Seems like today went by really fast. But then again, I guess all weekends do huh?

Reading

So every night Chayleigh and I read the Going to Bed book. She loves it. It is always the last book we read, so she knows it is time to go to sleep afterwards. Last night she read it to me. It was awesome. She has the entire book memorized almost word for word. I think that she skipped about 5 words in the whole book. Either she is super smart (all moms say that though right?) or she just has a good memory. I am going with the super smart theory. LOL.

Zoo

We went to the zoo this weekend. It was a beautiful day on Sunday, so we decided to go. We get there and it is $11 for DH and Me or $53 for a season pass. We bought the season pass since we figure we will go at least 5 times this year. Of course we didn't realize we didn't have the camera until we were already looking at the birds. LOL.

Chayleigh loved it. She loved looking at the penguins and the meerkats. Although her favorite was definitely the Lemur's. At the end, we went to the gift shop and she picked out a Nemo fish and a Lemur. All the way home she kept saying, "I love you Lemur. I love you Nemo fish.". She is such a hoot.

Final Swimming Lesson

Was last night. She got a certificate of completion, which was great. I am sad that swim lessons are over. I was hoping that they would add another class for next session, but they decided to add four of the class after ours instead.

She started off hating the pool and ended up loving it. It was such a great experience, I would totally recommend it to anyone. It was great bonding time for the two of us as well. I will really miss it.

Thank Goodness for Google

Last night Chayleigh stuck a sticker up her nose. It was a big sticker and she shoved it way high in there. Of course I didn't notice it until she told me it was there. I looked up in her nose and couldn't see anything. So I went and got a flashlight to see up in there. Sure enough, there was something in there. Looked like a little spec, so I tried to remove it with the booger sucker. No luck. I freaked out and called my mom, who told me to call Ask a Nurse. While I was on hold, I googled it. Lucky for me, someone had a child who loved shoving raisins up his nose.

Her advice for removing foreign objects in a child's nose is:
1. Plug the nostril that doesn't have the object in it.
2. Blow a hard puff of air into their mouth.
3. Collect the object once it is blown out of their nose.

I did it and it shot out of her nose like a missle. Thank goodness for Google or I would have had a $300 ER visit.

Needless to say, she isn't playing with stickers again for a while.

Swim Lesson #9

Tonight was the second to last lesson. We got to do life jackets. Oh yeah, that went well. It was nice cause there were only three kids in the class, so Chayleigh got to scream to her heart's content. She absolutely hates life jackets. She kept trying to remove it. She was okay with it as long as she was jumping, but it was a no go on the floating. She is definitely a water baby now though. She absolutely loves the pool. We are going to have to come up with a substitute soon! LOL.

Reading

Chayleigh has two favorite books. The Big Hungry Bear and The Going to Bed Book. This weekend she pulled them out and decided that since I was too busy to read to her at the moment, she would read it to herself. I hear, "They go in the tub. Soap all over. Scrub scrub scrub. They hang their towels up to dry." Those are two pages from the Going to Bed Book. I start laughing and so she did it again. Then she pulled out the other book and opened it up. The first page she read almost word for word, "Hello little mouse. What are you doing?". I guess reading the same books over and over pay off huh? LOL. Of course when I got the camcorder out to record it, she just kept saying, "I don't know Mommy.". LOL.