Memorial Day Cutie

This picture was actually taken Saturday at the Braves game (not memorial day), but Meyers was all decked out in her patriotic/Braves colors dress:) I thought she looked sooooooo cute. Oh, and her daddy looks pretty cute, too:) I've got more pictures to post about the game later.

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Numbers

Since Meyers can recognize and say all of the letters in the alphabet, I thought I would see if I could get her to recognize and say her numbers 1-10. A lot of flashcards have numbers and an animal or object on it, too. I thought that would be confusing for her; for example, I didn't want her to think a doll or apple or truck was the number one just because there was one object on the card. I bought some blank board books a while back, so I cut out numbers with my cricut and mod podged them to the book.

So here is Meyers saying and recognizing her numbers 1-10. Please ignore my voice and how excited I get when she says "6". She gets the 6 and the 9 confused sometimes:)

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What Meyers Wore Wednesday

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I'm blogging this from my phone and feeling seriously high-tech!! I wanted to keep up with my Wednesday post on what she wore, so somehow I figured out how to do it. Meyers and I are out of town right now (more posts and pictures on that later). We were supposed to go to a strawberry patch today (they ended up being closed), so Meyers had to wear her Shrimp and Grits strawberry bubble from last year. I love when she can wear an outfit two years in a row!!

No Pictures...Just Some Random Meyers Stuff

We asked Meyers where she wanted to go today.

"Ummmm......ballssss(she has a little lisp all of the sudden and that is how words with s come out)......target?"

Do you think we go to Target alot??? And do you think I say "ummm" a lot. She is such a little parrot. She loves to see the big red balls they have out in front of target. And I love to go to Target, so it's a win-win!

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We have been putting Meyers on the potty about once a day for a while now. Nothing ever happens. Well... a few days ago (to both of our surprise), something came out! She tee teed on the potty!!!! Now I don't think we are even remotely close to being potty trained, but we were super excited. I'm hoping now she understands a little bit that that is why we sit on the potty, not just because it's so very fun (she loves it!)

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When I'm looking for something or I tell Meyers to go look for something, she says "Yoo-Hoo (which comes out Ooo-Hoo), baby" or whatever it is she is looking for. She will hold one little hand up to her mouth when she does it. It's precious!

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For the longest time, she would say her name like this, "my-my". But just recently she has started saying "my-meyers" with a lisp with the s. Oh, I love that little lisp!!

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Meyers can not keep her finger out of her belly button!!! She pokes in there all day long! I know she just hates it when she is in a bubble and can't get to it! John says he used to do the same thing!

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She has been a talker, but has recently begun to communicate with us better by telling us exactly what she wants: "up, out, car, more (she used to just sign more, but now she says it, too) phish (that is how she says goldfish), and more. She is getting better at putting (tiny) sentences together: "I did, I think, there it is, more cards (her flashcards).

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Just here recently, we have been asking her to get/find things for us and then to bring them to us like her toys or different flashcards or books. She is really great at following directions and brings us exactly what we ask for.

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Meyers has to go to time out occasionally. It's usually for not listening or sometimes throwing a little hissy fit:) I warn her and tell her if she does it again that she will have to go to time out. If that doesn't work, I sit her in this one spot in our den (and one spot in our room upstairs) for about a minute. I know other kids can do this, but I am always amazed that she stays there the whole time. She just sits there quietly and looks around. It's actually really cute:)

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Meyers does not like it when John hugs or kisses me. She gets so jealous:) So we always pick her up and make a "meyers sandwich" group hug. She loves that!

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She has been able to recognize her alphabet for a little while now. She had most of her letters down at about 22 months, but now she knows them all. Hobby Lobby is the best place to practice this. They have letters EVERYWHERE at that store! So we go through and have little mini lessons (it's the teacher in me!) So now, she has gotten really good at recognizing letters everywhere like on my memphis shirts or the "E" in our den or other places that have capital letters.

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Meyers says "thank you" all the time. She used to sign thank you, but it wasn't something we pushed with her. I guess I thought we would work on those manners later. I always say thank you to her for doing things, and I guess she just picked up on it. I'll give her milk or a snack, and she immediately says "tank uuuu". Some of the time we can get her to say "you're welcome" after we tell her thank you.

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Here lately, we can not go anywhere near the dairy section without Meyers having a meltdown over the cheese. She thinks she needs it right then. At first, I fought it, but I figured is it really worth .40 or .50 cents to deal with the meltdown. So now, Meyers gets a snack thing of cheese when we are in that section, and I hand the wrapper to the check-out person for them to ring up. Never say never!!!!!

Flashcards

Meyers LOVES her flashcards. We got her some about a year ago. At first, we would just let her play with them. We would also go through them and tell her what each one was. It didn't take long for her to start saying and identifying all of the cards. She can sit and do these forever. When we are going somewhere we may be for awhile like the doctor's office or getting my oil changed, I bring these cards. People probably think I'm that crazy mom trying to force my child to learn, but it's the only thing that will keep her occupied for a long period of time.


Can you see how excited she is?


They come in this nice little box (that she loves also....who knows?), but we keep them in this basket. I'm not going to lie. On more than one occasion, I've thought about hiding this basket for a few days....or months:) It's kind of like when your child wants you to read the same book 4,000 times in a row. It gets kind of old.


Sometimes we can get her to do them by herself, but she still wants confirmation from us that she is right:) Sweet girl!

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

We didn't do a whole lot today. I had some things that I needed to get done like going to Cellular South. Now, hopefully, I can reply to emails on my phone. We'll see how long that works! I was planning on stopping by a friend's house after Cellular South, but she told me to bring Meyers over there first so I wouldn't have to take her in....in case it took forever. It took two minutes, but it was still nice not to have to take her:)

We are kind of bummy today. Meyers is wearing pants that I made her and a white t-shirt from old navy. I'm having to get some of her winter clothes out since it's been cold lately, and a lot of her pants are finally too short. These are pretty border line. I had to pull them down a little so they didn't look like high-waters! Don't you like how she is posing for me to grab this picture above?


Just when I think she is getting skinny, I take a picture and she looks chunky again! Oh, how I love the chunks!!!

Friday Night

These cute kids (and their parents) came over for dinner on Friday night. Meyers loves "A -E" and you can tell that already she knows that she is "so cool" because she is older than her. "A-E" is so good with her. I think she likes having another girly girl around:)


Hugging on "A-E".


They all play so well together. It's really cute. At some point during the evening, Meyers decided to start picking up the goldfish that got spilled on the floor:)


Boyfriend/girlfriend????


I think I took this picture right after Charlie started licking John's head:) Avery's laughter is how we were all laughing after that happened. It was so funny!



I think Meyers is like "what is going on? this is my daddy!" ha!


Good times!

My Big Backyard

We went to My Big Backyard with some friends from MOPS on Wednesday. It was 1000 degrees, but we still had fun!


Here is Meyers telling the dog statue "no, no!" She thinks that is what you are supposed to say to dogs.






Meyers really loved playing in this little house.


There was sand and water for her to play in, but she didn't want anything to do with that....which is good because I didn't bring her an extra set of dry clothes.



She would look through the little window and wave to everyone.






This is the first time (under my supervision) that she has gone down the slide without me holding onto her.


She thought she was a big girl, and did really well by herself.....



...until the last time and she fell off the end. She had already stopped and everything, but fell getting off. It was at that point that she started to get a little cranky:)



But this boy can sure make her smile! How cute is this picture??? This is totally going in the wedding slideshow one day! Ha! They look like a little old married couple!! Meyers LOVES Hayes. This was about the best smile I got all day from her!


We laughed at this and said that Spencer was the "third wheel".


Hayes got tired of the swing so Meyers and Spencer got to swing by themselves:)



Sweet girl!


Tired, hot mess, cranky girl! I think she is like her mama who gets a little cranky, too, when she is tired, hot, or hungry:)

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

Okay, so this post disappeared somehow, so I'm reposting it. We went to My Big Backyard on Wednesday (more on that in another post) and this is what Meyers wore. I love her in these whales!!



The back is so cute. It ties at the neck and then is open the rest of the way down.


The top is from Bloom, but I got it at Second Blessings Consignment Sale. They had new trunk show samples there. I saw this in the catalog, but didn't really notice it. I guess that's a good thing because I got it way cheaper at the sale. It didn't have bloomers with it, so I made these. I already had some pink gingham at home that matched perfectly, so it worked out well!

Praying

We say the same prayer with Meyers before she eats. It's cute because she wants to pray when she has a snack in the cart at Target or just random times when she is about to eat. And she even reminds us to pray when we forget:) Normally John or I will say the words and she repeats each one after we do. We keep it simple so that she will be able to do it. It goes like this "Thank you. Jesus. Love you. Amen."

I gave Meyers a snack this morning and she put her hands up (I have no clue why she puts her hands like this!) and prayed ALL BY HERSELF!!!! It was so precious, and just absolutely warmed my heart. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about my sweet girl praying on her own. It's just such a huge reminder that she is listening and watching us and taking it all in. I know we mess up and we are not perfect, but I want so badly for her to see Jesus in her momma and daddy, and I want to chase her heart to HIM.

I didn't catch it on camera then, but I tried to get her to do it by herself during lunch. I had to prompt her a little, but that's okay. It's still pretty cute:)

Saturday

Meyers had another birthday party to go to this weekend. Although the pictures don't show it (I can hardly get a smile these days!!), she had fun swinging, playing with the ball, and seeing balloons.

We've been working on kicking the ball!

Meyers and the birthday boy!

Look how sweet his face is!


And this face is pretty sweet, too:)



She loved the balloons they had on the deck.


She was very friendly at the party. She has always been pretty friendly, but lately, she waves at EVERYBODY that comes in her line of vision. It's kind of sad because sometimes people don't see her, but she just keeps on waving!


The life....being pushed in a swing eating a tortilla chip!

This is why the laundry is piled up.....

Our MOPS group had an auction at our last meeting on Wednesday. We were fundraising for an event in August to outreach to possible new members. They asked if anybody could donate anything. I always have extra fabric laying around, so I said I would make some pillowcase dresses. I think they turned out cute. I am always so unsure of my fabric choices and combinations, but they "sold". **We had to bid on things with what we would need for the event such as hotdog buns, napkins, drinks, etc. It was so funny to hear people bid "2 hot dog buns, 2 bags of chips, and a bottle of ketchup" for things. I can't remember what the dresses went for, but they got a lot of items needed with them:)**



After I finished the dresses, I feel like I should have bought a little gift for the ladies that take care of Meyers every other Wednesday. They are so very sweet and just love on her. So I made them some thank you cards with a little note from Meyers.



Then since I was in card-making mode, I made two sets for the auction, too.


My favorite part was wrapping them up pretty. It just made everything cuter!! And I'm obsessed with this gray grosgrain ribbon I found at the Dollar Store. It had 4 yards on it for $1!!! I think I need to go pick up some more before they run out.

So now that I'm done making things (for a few days), I need to go do the laundry! But I'd much rather be making something:)

What Meyers Wore Wednesday

A lot of blogs I read participate in this girl's blog for "What I Wore Wednesday". This girl and those that participate take pictures of themselves each day of the week and detail where everything they are wearing came from. I have no desire to try to take or have John take pictures of ME on Wednesdays (actually that sounds like the worst thing ever!!), but I thought it would be fun to do it for Meyers....just on Wednesdays, not everyday of the week. I mean....I'm always taking pictures of her anyway. And anybody that knows me, knows that dressing her is kind of like a hobby for me. Don't judge:) I'm hoping I will keep it up, but who knows. Some days she might be dressed up, some days she might be looking like a mess:) We'll see.....


Shrimp and Grits Kids, Flying Pigs Pantset (from the fall). I have this in the bubble, too. I bought this for next fall and spring on sale, but I wanted to see her in it. I hemmed the pants up because they are soooooo long. She has 2t booty with 12-18m height:)


Julius Berger sweater from Cottontails. This is her old one. I bought the exact same one in the next size up from Orient Expressed. I just love how sweet and simple it is. That is hard to find these days!!

Saturday

We went to a friend's birthday party on Saturday. I grabbed some pictures of Meyers before we left.



Lately she has been giving me this blank look. Who knows?



I mean....is there anything cuter than ruffles on the booty??? And red shoes to go with it??? I wanted to eat her all day!


By the way, she is standing pretty much where the snake slithered on by last week. I figured we were safe since the neighbors next door were making lots of noise working in the yard. But I was still a little panicky!!



She was pretty intrigued by the monkey grass!


I only got a few pictures before the party got going. Meyers and the birthday boy sharing blocks.


They look pretty serious here! Oh, and by the way, this was his first birthday! They are a whole year apart and pretty much the same size:)