This will go down in history....

Well ok our little history....as one of my favorite pictures of Tigger up til now!

Water play

What 2 years old looks like!

Good morning sunshine....Happy Birthday

Dressed for Birthday Breakfast

hmmmm eating or presents?

oooooh  cake...or rather bite size cupcakes

I know what to do

I love eating frosting too!

opening first gift

Oh yay, I feel chalk taking over  the cement on the porch

Big present

BABIES!!!!!!!

Hugs

Happy Birthday Tigger.  Mami loves you and had fun this morning

Tomorrow....

Tomorrow my child will officially be 2 years old.  She is an amazing child.....a very typical child that is in the world of testing boundaries....but amazing nonetheless.

I love having my parents live down the street.  It provides grandparents frequently (I lived far away from both sets of grandparents growing up so didn't see them often enough) and they get to celebrate everything with us.

However, sometimes it's hard because they want to celebrate EVERYTHING together.  That is not bad, I just need to carve out some time for important events like Christmas and Birthday where it's just her and I with a tradition.  Thinking about Tigger's birthday I've been pondering what tradition to have between us....after all her birthday is smack dab in the middle of summer where people are off on vacation and there's no school to whisk her away from to play hooky and do something fun which is something many kids look forward to if their birthday is during the school year....so I decided on something simple.  Tigger loved her cake at her b-day party so much she's been yapping about cake all week long.  I'm sure the leftovers have been eaten up already (Grandma!) so went out and bought little cupcakes.

Yes tomorrow when we wake up, I'm going to do the whole Happy Birthday thing, give her the present from me, and let her eat a cupcake for her birthday breakfast (along with some other stuff too....I'm not THAT bad of a mom ha!).  It's simple moments like these or like tonight when she asked me to read about 6 books OY! while she melts and puts her head on top of me that I truly love.

A look back:  From last year to now!

*First haircut
*Walked at 15 months
*First Halloween dressed as Tigger (oddly, the day she started walking)
*First word other than mama
*Changing rooms at daycare to the toddler room and all that drama
*FINALIZATION
*Teething....Lord the teething

It's been a great year.  Hey Tigger.....it's you and me kid....love you bunches!

Gotta love the search terms....

Do most of you go and look up the search words or phrases that lead people to your blog?  I do occasionally and there have been a couple of interesting one.

'happiness'


'only God can judge me now'


'I'm having troubles with my morals'


'birth month birds'


'falsified adoption documents'


'dannie blog'


Ok first of all, I get the 'dannie blog'....Dannie is my online name and I have a blog.....

Happiness....ok don't know how that led you to my blog but cool....I am happy and daily life for me is happy most of the time so that's cool.

'only God can judge me now'.....you would think Tupoc would have already been clicked and that would be the end of that.....

'birth month birds'....I just have no clue

I'M HAVING TROUBLES WITH MY MORALS......dude, maybe you need to see a priest or a counselor or someone, but my blog is not going to help you with that.

'falsified adoption documents.....um I hope it's not because you think it's ok......

anyways just thought I'd share.  Sometimes a wacky one comes up here and there but tonight we had all these goodies!

The Poop-Up

So Tigger was telling me all day that she wants a poopup....I'm like what???? I don't understand what you are trying to say to me.  Of course my child is easily frustrated when she is not understood (which is why I dedicate at least 20 min a day to vocab building/repetition) and keeps wailing 'poopup, poopup'.  Finally I asked her to show me what she wants.....Ladies and Gents....I bring you Poopups

yes my friends....apparently the word of the day for pull-ups is poop-ups.  My house is never boring!

Swimming Lessons started!

Tigger couldn't wait to get into the pool.  I was a bit hesitant as the pool my parents have has a cover so the water is warmer than the average pool.  It didn't matter, in went the Tigger happy as a clam.  Of course there were some skills we tried to help our kids with as our instructor gave them to us.

1.  sitting on the ledge and jumping into the pool
2.  standing on the ledge and jumping into the pool
3.  the "choo-choo" which is having the kiddies learn to hold onto the inner ledge of the pool and creep down the side without the parent holding them (mini-heart attack)
4.  kicking with the paddle board
5.  tilting head back to put it in the water
6.  blow bubbles
7.  kick while on their backs

yes this is a parent-child swim class....introduction to swimming....and we did all that, all 7 of the kids along with the parents were in the pool, and all 7 were between 1 and 2 years old.....after age 2 1/2 they like for them to go into the tiny tots division where they do a lot.  I'm actually happy with the lessons I signed up and paid for.  Seems to be exposing the kids early to what swimming mechanics are all about.

problem is, my Tigger wanted to keep on jumping from off the ledge into the pool....by far her favorite part.  Oy vey....maybe she should go into diving.  Hopefully next week when my mom accompanies on since she will have a week off, I may be able to get some pictures.

Chuck E Cheese

Well we had Tigger's birthday party!  It was a blast and while serious at times, she was very excited about 1) CAKE and 2) CHUCK E  as I've been indoctrinating her so she wouldn't spazz out too much.  She did get startled by Chuck E once, but all in all, she was happy going in and happy leaving the place.  She ate a whole slice of Cuban cake and was pretty much bouncing off the walls after dinner and cake.

I, the mama, was very happy and put this down as a success.  Enjoy!

Gotta love the cake....special ordered!  

You'd think a couple of girls would be happy while eating ha!

My girl!

There were about ten million cameras all flashing in her eyes so this look is one of  "please stop the madness"

Ticket blaster....we got a lot of tickets

That's the way to attack Pizza

Do you see how fast she's eating her slice of cake...it was gone in about 2 minutes

opening presents back at home