Brothers

This week two of my brothers came to visit. They just finished a semester of school at BYU Hawaii so they made the rest of us look like albinos! I love my brothers, they are so great and we had such an awesome week together. The only problem was how fast it went by. Aside from Clarkland Farm (see my previous post) we did lots of other fun things like Chuck E Cheese, the D.C. Zoo, the Inner Harbor in Baltimore and New York City (which I will do a separate post about).

The D.C. Zoo was really fun. It was perfect weather outside and we saw lots of animals.

These lemurs were really cool and loud. They were making the funniest noises.
Chuck E Cheese is Laneah's favorite place in the world. She asks to go there about ten times a day. So she was thrilled to go with her Uncles.


Laneah found this crown and kept putting in on everyone.


The Baltimore Inner Harbor was also fun. Once again, the weather was amazing.
Laneah kept trying to get into the water so I was glad we brought her monkey harness.

We didn't really have a plan of what we wanted to do and ended up taking a water taxi around the Harbor.




After the water taxi we ate at Unos (yum!) and Laneah entertained us while we waited.

Brooklyn had a bottle and was happliy sitting on daddy's lap.
Laneah really enjoyed her ice cream
I loved having my brothers here. I miss them like crazy already!

Clarkland Farm

While my brothers were here we went to Clarkland Farm. We had never been, but went on a recommendation from a friend. We all loved this place! It was great. You enter inside this big castle to get inside the farm. We started our adventure in the Enchanted Forest. They had these huge houses and statues from nursery rhymes.
Laneah loved the Dish and the Spoon.
The Crooked Old Man and his house.
I stepped off the path on accident when I was trying to take a picture and stepped into a mud pit. When I lifted my foot up, the mud sucked the sole of my shoe right off! It was so funny, we all couldn't stop laughing. I didn't care because luckily I wore old tennis shoes to the farm and there was still a covering on the bottom of the shoe so I wasn't walking barefoot or anything.
Laneah giving Papa Bear a high five.


This one was really cool. It was the Old Woman and the Shoe house and you could climb in it and there was a giant slide in it.
They also had this really cool rainbow slide.

They had a big park with a wooden boat and train and slides. They also had a giant play area full of fun toys for kids to play with.
After the Enchanted Forest and the park, Laneah went on a pony ride. She completely surprised me because her last pony ride in October did not go well. But she went right up to the pony, pet him and then climbed up the stairs and got right on. She waved good bye to me and went on her own with the guide leading the horse. But I didn't even have to walk beside her. I was a little nervous, but she did great.
Then we went on a hayride and that was really fun.
Then we went to the petting farm. They had rabbits, chicken, ducks, donkeys, horses, pigs and tons of other animals. They had a giant pen you could go into to pet most of the animals and the other ones you could pet if the came up to the fence.
The last thing we did there was the Enchanted Maze. They have a cute little maze full of more houses and statues.
Laneah in the house Sleeping Beauty grew up in.

Hanzel and Gretel House.

This place was so much fun and we will be going back for sure. There was lots more to see too. Laneah had a blast and it was really fun having my brothers there.

Laneah at 2 years and 4 months

A Few Funny sayings:
-She calls toilet paper "paper wipes"
-"Shake your bootie"
-"macon" bacon
-"Chill out"
-"amamals"- animals
-"Fam ah ee" Family
-"memomade" lemonade

Dora-isms:
-"Did it!" Whenever she does something she is proud of she will yell "Did it. Did it Dora!"

-"Siper, oh no" Swiper is a fox that takes things from Dora and Boots. Laneah pretends that she sees him and that he is going to take her things too. This is where is also got the saying "oh man!"

-Laneah really interacts while she is watching Dora. Dora will tell the kids "say map" and Laneah will yell "say map!"

-She can also count to ten in Spanish now

-She pretend plays with Dora, Boots and their friends.

-She is constantly singing the Dora theme song, back pack and the map song.






What's Happening:

-Laneah has started the "mine" phase. She even will say "share", but really she means that she won't share. She also likes taking turns when she wants you to play with her or do something. Like when she gets out her hula hoop, she will say "Neah's turn" and then when she is done she will say "mommy's turn", and so on.

She wants to know the color of everyone's eyes. She will point to her own and say "blue ones" and then ask what color eyes you have.

-She has a favorite color now. If you ask her what her favorite color is she will say blue. And she usually asks for everything in blue.

- She has started eating cereal in a bowl with milk and loves it. She asks for cereal almost every morning for breakfast.

-Laneah had her face painted for the first time. She did really well holding still and the artist was great with her. The artist asked what she wanted and Laneah told her a butterfly and when the artist asked her what color she wanted it to be, Laneah said blue.

Laneah has had a complete relapse on her potty training. This has been very frustrating to me because it is hard when she is having accidents all the time and I have to clean up and take care of Brooklyn too. I am going to make her a new potty chart and try to start over again. Any suggestions?

She is a social butterfly. She loves to entertain and make people laugh. She loves being the center of attention and likes having everyone she cares about together. If someone isn't there she wants to know where they are. All day long she asks me what is "(insert the name of every person she knows) doing?"

She is very stubborn and very rarely lets me take pictures of her. Getting her to smile for a picture takes a lot of bribing and even then sometimes nothing works. But I snapped a few candid pictures that I think look like model poses. She is so pretty!

Laneah was saying her prayers really well, but now is tries to shortcut. She will say "Dear Heavenly Father, Name of Jesus Christ, Amen" lol. So then we say no, repeat after me and then have her repeat the prayer. Sometimes she will add to the middle section by listing people's names she cares about, which is really sweet.

-She is still very interested in learning. She will go into a room and point to every object and ask "what's that?" until she is satisfied. She also does it with books and movies.

-She wants to do everything Brooklyn does; if Brooklyn has tummy time, Laneah wants to have tummy time, etc.
-My parents bought us a webcam so that we could talk to them on skype and Laneah loves it. She will say "Nana skype" when she wants to get on. But she gets confused as to why she can see people and talk to them, but they can't come out of the screen and play with her. Lately she has been asking me to talk to Barney on skype.


- She is such a little artist. She used to be very creative by using her poop to make pictures on the walls, or my entire bottle of moisturizer to paint the mirror, but as much as I loved these "pictures" I decided to get her some art supplies anyway. I bought her a nice easel made for children with a side for painting and a side with a chalk board and she LOVES it. She has so much fun painting and drawing on it. And hopefully it will fulfill her need and she will no longer use anything BUT paint.

Laneah is really into princesses right now. She has watched The Princess and The Frog multiple times since it came out. She also has lots of princess jewelry, books and toys and is always asking what the princesses names are.

We love our little fireball and can't wait for more adventures!