We almost have a TWO year old!!

SOOOO this month is going to be CRAZY w/ Sam graduating, Maylee turning two, family vacation, and moving to SLC I doubt I will find time to write a blog post for her 2nd birthday so we will do it a little early!

Maylee has been the greatest blessing in both mine and Sam's life. Terrible twos have not started yet and honestly I don't see it happening in the near future either. She is such a sweet little girl. Yes she does throw an occasional tantrum when she is tired or doesn't get what she wants but what kid doesn't! She is so much fun and gets funner every day! She is talking up a storm now and can say just about anything... Here is a list of her favorite things now/ fun stories:

• Playing hide N seek. We usually hide from Jimmer under a blanket and let him find us. 
• Changing her baby dolls diapers and putting them to sleep. (she even sings them the ABC's (her version anyway) or reads them a book before she lays them down.) 
• Going to the park. She loves the swings and always wants to go high! too bad mom will only let her go so high...
  
• Watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! OOOHHH TTTOOOODDDLLEEESS!! Our trip to Utah last week to go to Kritis wedding and find an apartment Nana decided to throw May an early Minnie Mouse birthday party and it was a huge hit with this girl! She loved the attention and got to blow out her first candle!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Singing Let it go and playing with her princess Anna and Elsa dolls
• She loves to color and do puzzles! She is getting a lot better at both it is so fun to watch all her little improvements everyday! 
• Dancing (at her Aunt Kristi's wedding she danced the majority of the time with a little boy a few years older than her and asked everyone in the family to dance) My favorite part was when she asked Grandpa Great to dance with her. He is one of her favorite people and lights up every time she sees him!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Her favorite movies are Monsters Inc. and Frozen, she loves to sing the songs in Frozen and pretend to be a Monster! "MayMay a Monster RARRR!"
• She loves playing sleeping animals while in the car... This one she got from nursery but all you do is pick different animals to be and then I will say "baby cow go to sleep" she will snore for a minute, then I say "baby cow wake up!" and she will yell AWAKE! So simple but whatever keeps her entertained :)
• She loved going Easter egg hunting this year. We practiced the morning before the hunt and she knew exactly what to do during the hunt! She had so much fun running around with different kids from our ward! 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• She loves to boss Jimmer around! Lately he has had a few accidents in the house while we were away at work and so I would get after him about pooping in the house... well Maylee is definitely the Jimmer poop police now and no matter where he goes (even if it is outside) she will let him have it! "JIMMER NO, NO POOP!" Good thing Jimmer hasn't really caught on that she is getting after him! 
• She also got after me the other day. I accidentally marked the carpet with some marker while coloring with her... I even got a spanking! (I promise she doesn't get spanked very often, at all!)
• She loves to repeat what we say and will say the same sentence ten times over before we move on to something else. For example, right now she is telling daddy that it is raining.... over and over and over
• We have started working on the ABCs, shapes and colors but she can only make it to E on her own but it's a start and we haven't made too much progress on colors quite yet. She knows a few of her shapes like circle, square, heart, and star.
• Her favorite letters are E and O those are the only two she recognizes so far and if we walk past a sign that has an E on it she will yell "E Momma E!!"

This little girl has basically grown up over night I feel like! She is no longer a baby that is for sure! She is getting so smart and she has so much excitement for life it makes every day an adventure! She brings so much joy to everyone around her and we are so blessed to be her parents! 

As most of you know we are moving to SLC this month, Sam will be graduating the 17th and we will take a family trip to Gatlinburg and then off to Utah the next week for him to start work on the 28th! We are so excited/ anxious for our new adventure but definitely going to miss Nashville. We LOVE the people we have met here and LOVE the city so it will be hard to leave but so nice to be closer to family! 

21 month update!

I have skipped a few months so I don't think I will be able to catch up on everything Maylee has been up to but I will do an update on what this little girl is doing now!

• She is an amazing chef! She absolutely LOVES to help us cook! and she is very cautious in the kitchen always telling us the stove is hot! She also comes up with some really tasty looking dishes!
  
  

•  She is a really good mommy! She is still so in love with babies and loves to feed them, take them for walks in her stroller, sing songs to them, read books to them, but mostly she loves to change their diapers!

I heard her gagging in her room and I came in to the room to see her changing her babies diaper gagging and saying... "baby stinky!" 

•  She is very independent and likes to do things herself. She likes to carry all of her own things when we go somewhere... she peels her own oranges... she wishes she could change her own diaper... she likes to pick out her own snacks (even if it is exactly what you got out for her)...  she also wants to be able to dress herself (She doesn't quite have this down yet)

• Her best friend is still Cam! and now when she hears someone at the door she yells Cam and runs to the window. She is still going over to his house 2x a week while I work and he usually comes over to our house once a week.

•  She loves to pretend to sleep! She likes me to cover her with a blanket and then she will lay there and snore!

• She loves to play hide and seek.

•  She loves to take care of her daddy.

• and her toys... (even if that means throwing them first so she can take care of them later) "you okay dada??"

 

• She loves snuggling and watching movies now... which I don't mind at all!

• Her favorite movies are probably Despicable Me and Tangled
• Her favorite shows are Sesame Street and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• She went to her first movie in the theaters and it was Frozen which she absolutely LOVED! She almost made it through the whole movie but towards the end we had to climb around while we watched the show. Now she has to watch the music video of Let It Go daily on YouTube. 
  

That is all for our 21 month update on Maylee and will hopefully be updating again soon with updates on where we will be heading in May after Sam is done with school!! The anticipation is killing me so hopefully we know soon :)

Christmas 2013.... better late than never! :)

I am a little behind in my posts but here is a post about our Christmas!

We got to spend two weeks in Utah/ Nevada and was able to get the whole family together on both sides! It was GREAT! We even got to take family pictures with my family and with Sam's family! And they turned out better than expected! Maylee was not very cooperative and by the time we were taking family pictures with my family she had already made up her mind that she didn't like getting family pictures taken! :)

This was Maylee's 2nd Christmas and this year we spent it with the Leatham side of the family! This was also Maylee's first time getting the flu... and it was sadly not just her that got it but basically the entire Leatham family (and then we passed it along to a few people in my family too!) All of the babies got sick at the same time and all of the daddy's got sick a few nights later! It was really sad seeing her that sick and it took her a good 4 days to recover and able to keep anything down! But besides being sick it was really nice to all be together! Maylee loved being with her cousins and it was fun to see them getting to an age where they can actually play together!

After our visit to Logandale we went to St. George to visit with my family! and again it was nice because we were all able to get together! And we finally got to meet little miss Zoey! Maylee was so in love with her! She kissed on her a lot! and after we went home every baby was baby Zoey! : ) And another person she was quite in love with was Grandpa Great! She would get so excited every morning when he got up... so sweet!

After St. George we spent New Year's Eve in Vegas at Logan and Lindsey's new house and then the next day had to fly back to Tennessee! The trip of course went by WAY too quickly but the family time was definitely overdue!