Sooo Big!

Ainsley continues to get farther and farther away from "baby" and closer and closer to "kid". She has such a fun personality and always seems to laugh and be silly. The only time she really gets upset is when she wants to eat. She loves to "jump", clap and dance. Her newest trick is to roll her arms while doing patty cake. She has started Kindermusick this fall and seems to enjoy that as well. Brad has a "tool" type cube that you can plug things into while working on construction type projects and it also has a radio/CD player/MP3 connector. It has been inside while the renovations have been going on and almost every night, after dinner, she gets down from the table and turns it on and begins to dance. She also enjoys bringing dress-up clothes and things to me to put on her. She also likes to give me hair things, but as soon as those go in she takes them out, then it becomes a game. Every time she sees a cat, real or not, she says Meow, and seems to pick more words up each day. She will say "Mommy" and I will say "what" and then she will babble in a way that she is telling me something. She will do this to Brad do, we think this is because she hears Kaylee do this a lot. It also tends to happen often in the car where Kaylee is talking away. So I'm sure it's Ainsley's way of participating and reminding us she is there too. I wanted to post some random photos that are recent of Ainsley. Enjoy!
We were sitting in the chair together and I had to get up for something. So I quickly took this because I knew she wouldn't stay there for long!
Ainsley now sits with us at the table instead of her high chair. She's been doing this since August. With Kaylee I seemed to do a long transition from her high chair to a booster. Looking back it seemed silly so we just went straight to the booster. She does so well and seems to really enjoy being at the same level with us. Dinner time with us all together at the table is definitely one of my favorites!

These two photos are typical looks Ainsley likes to give when she's being mischievous. It's like she's saying how could I do something wrong, look how cute I am.

I took this because I was taking "after" photos of the remodeling (to be posted soon...we have paint and new counter tops for kitchen then we are done, it will be done by the bonfire, but the pictures may not be posted :)) She was following me around saying "Cheese", so I took a picture of her, she then likes to see them on the camera.

A few weeks ago our subdivision had it's annual fall garage sale. So trying to sell my baby stuff I participated in it. Ainsley enjoyed climbing in all of the old things that she is too big for now. I will have to find some old photos of her in the swing when she was small enough to do so, although with her weight it may have still swung her because it goes up to 20 or 22 pounds. However it sold so we won't be able to try it.

The same day she was continuously climbing into the walker. Neither of my girls really liked the walker that much, they always preferred the Jumperoo, but now that they don't need it they both seem to like to try to get in it. She would get in, play around for a bit, then I would have to get her out. This went on and on and on and on!

Just to show that the little cutie can find some mischief to get into. She unrolled the toilet paper from the downstairs bathroom all the way to the french doors in the kitchen. She really enjoys unrolling toilet paper and I have to be careful to either close the bathroom doors or keep an eye on her. Kaylee never really got "into" a lot of things she shouldn't or if she did you could usually correct her a couple times and she would stop. Ainsley however is a little more free spirited when it comes to these things. In fact last night I found some bath toys that she had put in their toilet upstairs. Kaylee was going potty and left the door open when left the bathroom and Ainsley seized the moment!

We go in this Friday for her "weigh-in" and Brad and I are confident that all will be just fine. She is always on the go and that makes it difficult to keep weight on! We will keep you posted on the outcome.....