Silly 2 Year Old

Ryleigh loves to play with my tape measure while I am being crafty.  This time she wanted to use it to measure Bailey.

She soon got bored with that and decided to chase Lizzie around the house trying to measure her.  Bailey liked that a whole lot more than Ryleigh measuring her.

And for some reason, Ryleigh was calling her a bad dog.  Not sure where that came from.  After I took the video, Lizzie had had enough and went downstairs.  Ryleigh got mad and I told her she didn't want to play any more because she kept calling her a bad dog.  Then Ryleigh stood at the top of the stairs and yelled down to Lizzie numerous times, "I just kidding Liz, you not a bad dog!"

Cartoons

Ryleigh wakes up every morning, comes into our room and asks to watch "Mouse."  The other morning she wanted to hold Bailey while they both watched "Mouse."

Jumping Fun!

Over Christmas break my sister-in-law and I took the kids to Jumpin' Jungle, and indoor play place with 5 or 6 different blow up jump toys.  They had so much fun we stayed for a long time!

Devin took Ryleigh here about a year ago and all she was interested in doing was riding in these little cars the whole time.  Thankfully this time she only rode them every once in awhile.

Ryleigh was having fun running around in the arena with Madison and Zach 

until...

she got whacked in the head by one of the rods!

Look at the height of that jump!

Hitting the floating baseball

Devin reminded me that Ryleigh did go down this slide by herself numerous times last time.  We all went down with her a few times until she was brave enough to do it on her own.  After she discovered she could climb the ladder and go down by herself there was no stopping her.  I am pretty sure I stood at the bottom of this slide for a good 45 minutes straight while she went down over and over and over again.  It ended when some bigger kids decided to go down at the same time and another right behind her and smacked into the back of her head.  Stinkin' kids!

We can't wait to take Blake and Ashlyn here this Spring Break! 

Christmas

We opted to stay in town this Christmas and start our family traditions.  We went to my brother's house for Christmas Eve and played The Night Before Christmas game.

Then the kids got to open their Christmas Eve gift.  If you know Ryleigh, you know how much she loves jammies!  Hence the look on her face.

Bailey didn't care what they were, as long as they could go in her mouth.

Oldest to youngest sporting their new pjs.

After we left, Devin and I both got sick and were up all night.  He blamed it on the "dog barf" cookies but he didn't eat any of them.  However, it didn't stop Christmas from coming. The girls were both up by 6:15.  Ryleigh was so excited and was ready to head down the stairs to see what Santa brought.  I asked her to wait so I could get the camera ready.  No such luck.  She was headed down the stairs before me because she saw her kitchen! 

Bailey was awake long enough to see what Santa brought her (and apparently I didn't get a picture of it) and then went back to bed.  So we opened gifts in shifts this year.  Devin and I laid on the couch and watched Ryleigh take her time opening the gifts.  After she opened each one she wanted to sit a play with it before moving onto the next one.

When we would pass this kitchen in the store, she would stop and pretend to wash her hands in the sink.  When she came downstairs to see it she asked where the soap was so we showed her the pretend soap on the wall.  I guess that wasn't good enough because with each gift she opened she would say, "Maybe there's soap in here!"  Then she would see that no there wasn't and would say, "Nope, no soap!"  It was pretty funny.

When Bailey started opening her gifts, Ryleigh was ready for round two.  She wanted to open them for Bailey.  

The girls got big sister and little sister babies.  Ryleigh was so excited to show Bailey how to play dolls.

Ryleigh entertained herself very well the rest of the morning making us wonderful meals with her kitchen, playing with her new doll and golf set.  Later, Devin felt well enough to get out the moon dough popcorn, ice cream and pretzel maker with her.

 My brother and sister-in-law were thoughtful and postponed our Christmas tamale dinner to Monday night so we could enjoy it.  Thanks guys!  But we sure did miss being able to go to church on Christmas and hear the wonderful program about the birth of our Savior. 

Merry Christmas!

Cookies!

I decided at 7:30 this morning to go ahead and make my great grandmother's ginger cookies that we made every year growing up even though my husband doesn't like them.  Ryleigh helped out with every part of them.

Her favorite part was adding the sprinkles to her cookies.  I had to teach her to sprinkle from above, that she didn't need to put the bottle of sprinkles on the cookie.

All ten of her masterpieces.! There wasn't even any sprinkle mishaps.  Her favorite ones were the trees.

 

After all that hard work she thought she deserved to eat one.  She loved every bite of it!  That's my girl!

Go Aggies!

Last weekend Devin's parents, brother and one of his friends came to visit to go cheer on Utah State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on the blue turf.  Grandma was kind enough to stay home with the girls so I could go too.  We had a fun time even though the Aggies lost in the final seconds of the game and it got a little cold in the last quarter.

Ryleigh had a good time playing a game over and over with Grandma that she brought.