Keeping up with Ainsley

Ainsley continues to learn new things every day and continues to amaze us with the things she comes up with. 

There's her tongue...it's been MIA from pictures for awhile!

She started saying "cookie" about three weeks ago.  She walked around saying "cookie" over and over for an entire day.  We couldn't figure out where she learned the word, because it's not one we say often.  I finally figured it had to be from Lisa's, so I asked the next day and sure enough, Blaine says cookie all the time and that's where she got it from. 

When she wants to know where someone or something is, she'll put her hands out to her sides and look at you and say "um um um um".  I have no idea where she got this from, but it's adorable.  If we're home and Joel isn't, she'll look at me and say "Trista-Joel" and then put her hands out and say "um um um um".  She's wanting to know where her Daddy is. 

Ainsley and Daddy

Joel and I both have noticed several times over the last few weeks where Ainsley knows something that neither one of us can figure out where she's learned it from.  We've never really went over what a frog is with her, but in a book in the bathtub, there is a little girl holding a frog on one page.  I asked her where the frog was (thinking she had no idea what it even was) and she pointed right to it!  Even though she's still not saying many new words, or very many words at all, she does know what things are and can point to them if asked.

One thing she's really interested in right now is a clock.  She's found a clock in two or three of her books (that I never noticed) and will point to it until I tell her that, yes, that's a clock.  If she sees a clock on the wall, she has to point it out.  Again, we have no clue where the interest in clocks came from.

She's found her chair again!  She hasn't paid much attention to it for a few months.

She loves to talk on the phone.  If anyone calls, she's right next to me the whole time until I let her talk, and then she doesn't want to give the phone up!  She'll give kisses over the phone to tell whoever she's talking to "bye", and let me tell you, they're some of the best kisses.  You can hear the "smack" of her lips when she gives them!

Another new thing she started to do this week is read her books out loud to herself.  She'll be sitting somewhere looking at a book, just jabbering away as she turns the pages.

I was vacuuming the other day and found her in her room reading in her rocking chair

Makes my heart smile. :)

Her favorite song to sing continues to be "Old McDonald had a farm".  Ainsley can only sing two parts of the song, and she enjoys singing them over and over and over and over!  This is Ainsley's version of the song:  "e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof.....e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof.....e-i-e-i-e-i-e-i-o, woof woof".  She thinks Old McDonald only has a dog on his farm, and puts a few too many "e-i's" in there, but it's all good!

During the last few days her favorite word has become "poop".  She'll say it and point to her butt, and at first, she did it when she really had pooped, but yesterday and today she'll say it every hour or so and didn't really poop. 

The holiday toy book came from Toys R Us this week and Ainsley loves to look through it. 

Christmas shopping

She found the Disney Jr. page!

We went over to Jeremy and Kathleen's a few weeks ago and Lani loved playing with Ainsley.

I don't think a house could ever be quiet with both of these girls in the same house...check out this video of Lani and Ainsley!

She loves to get on her horse and bounce.  I was cracking up at her the other morning because she had pigtails and her hair was flying all over!

There's one of those dirty looks I've been referring to...

Next minute, she's smiling at you. Crazy girl!

Ainsley still loves to dance (which definitely didn't come from her Mommy).  Here's a video of her dancing the other weekend.

We got some stickers in the mail the other day and Ainsley thought she'd struck gold!   She was in heaven!

Check out all those stickers!

I was at bunco a few weeks ago, and Ainsley was home with Daddy.  I got a text from Joel with the picture below.  Ainsley was playing with her baby's hair while drinking her milk before bed, since Mommy's hair wasn't available.  I cracked up when I got the picture!  Of course, she had mis-matched pajamas also.  I swear, all her pajamas are together in sets in her drawer, but Joel still manages to mess them up.

I caught her trying to climb into her baby's stroller the other day...

Someone loves her cottage cheese!